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June 18, 2008

Help get Firefox to support Digg’s APML service

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Digg supports Attention Profiling Markup Language (http://digg.com/about-rss#apml), but Firefox doesn’t have a way to view it. Use the “vote” option on Mozilla’s bug tracker to show your support for APML, so that you can further integrate Firefox with Digg!

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December 30, 2005

Permanent solution for new windows WMF flaw found

Filed under: Uncategorized

Once I saw this story, I knew it made sense. The answer had been under my nose, our noses, all along. I fully reccomend this digg.

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December 18, 2005

Filesystem 2.0 - Tag files and folders for easier sorting

Filed under: Uncategorized

Filesystem 2.0, a take on the tagging of web 2.0, is a filesystem with tag metadata. The idea is to allow something similar to virtual folders, but multiple tags can be used. Just categorize something with multiple keywords (comedy, action, drama), and later easily find what you were looking for and didn\’t even know it.

read more | digg story

September 21, 2005

The 28 Hour Day

Filed under: Uncategorized

I\’m going to try my best to get this idea heard by congress. One option is to get it done in Wyoming, where they\’ll try anything to get people to move there. Hey, Arizona and Indiana (I think?) don\’t do Daylight Savings Time, Wyoming can have a 28 hour day.

read more | digg story

July 22, 2005

Hollywood may demand DRM for larger harddrives

Filed under: Uncategorized

\”Hollywood studios still believe their opinion carries weight. News at 11.\”

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June 27, 2005

p2p software can’t advertise the availability of copyrighted content

Filed under: Uncategorized

However, for some reason, isp ads across the country still say that you can “download movies, music and games faster” by switching to their service.

I have some scans of a cableone ad for just this thing, and will post them later.

in response to /. and digg

June 6, 2005

isnoop.net gmail invite spooler closing

Filed under: Uncategorized

I just got the word from the Gmail Product Manager via the telly that my service is no longer appreciated by the Gmail community.

Not being one to piss off a company I respect, I’ll comply with their request by pulling down my site at midnight PDT tonight.

read more | digg story

June 2, 2005

Jesse Ruderman - Banks and https

Filed under: Uncategorized

A comparison of banks and how secure their weblogin forms really are, with some forcing users to use http and not providing https, which causes online banking with them to be insecure. See how your bank fared!

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Firefox Wins PC World’s Product of the Year Award

Filed under: Mozilla

Mozilla Firefox is definitely an award winning product. Firefox received c|Net’s Editor’s Choice Award. It also received PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award.

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What’s New in XHTML2 ?

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According to the W3C the next version of XHTML - is going to “last call real soon now”. Steven Pemberton the Chair of the W3C Working Group has posted a presentation on XHTML2 on the W3C web site. The presentation shows some cool new features in XHTML 2…

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