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Water Cooler / Re: British Library Maps Evolution of English
« on: December 21, 2010, 12:32:46 PM »
>>Mid West Accent is closer to old old English

I've heard this too.

It's amazing to me how many accents there are in the UK alone - like with every fold in the Earth there is a new accent.

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Water Cooler / Stop the Presses: Dalek iPhone App Invented
« on: December 21, 2010, 12:25:49 PM »
It's called iExterminate (heh):
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2010/12/21/birmingham-man-invents-dalek-iphone-app-97319-27859021/?

/geek

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Traffic / Re: AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me
« on: December 21, 2010, 11:36:33 AM »
>>Is AOL purchasing this property a good thing?

Probably not, if history is a judge.  These startups that get gobbled by the big portals: Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Google seem to languish and atrophy after being borged.   

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Hardware & Technology / Wireless carriers considering charging per service
« on: December 20, 2010, 12:28:34 PM »
Wireless carriers are considering charging customers per service: they want to charge  for Facebook use, YouTube, Skype etc.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/19/wireless-carriers-openly-considering-charging-per-service/

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Water Cooler / British Library Maps Evolution of English
« on: December 20, 2010, 12:17:27 PM »
And Mr. Tickle is involved too:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/british_library_maps_evolution_of_english_contribu.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29

Kinda cool you can contribute to the project.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Your smartphone apps are tracking you.
« on: December 19, 2010, 12:42:14 PM »
Another reason why I prefer a touch screen optimized web page over an app unless the app is clearly superior to use.

It's all spooky tho.

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Traffic / Re: Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs - Maybe Delicious & AltaVista
« on: December 18, 2010, 08:33:14 PM »
Was it just link bait?   :P

Yahoo backs off killing Delicious:

http://www.macworld.com/article/156512/2010/12/yahoodelicious.html?lsrc=rss_news

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Traffic / Re: Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs - Maybe Delicious & AltaVista
« on: December 18, 2010, 03:57:39 AM »
Not that they would ever do it, but it is a pity they don't sell the AV and ATW domains to some new aspiring search engine that is serious about search. 

I feel bad that those names have to be part of Yahoo's slow death march.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« on: December 15, 2010, 12:59:00 PM »
>>SRware Iron

Trying it. Mac version. So far so good. I'll give it a test.  Not sure it will replace Opera but it's early days.  I think I already like it better than Safari.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« on: December 15, 2010, 02:37:31 AM »
Quote from: grnidone on December 15, 2010, 02:25:32 AM
I've been avoiding Chrome simply because I knew it would probably phone home.  Now I'm actually keen on trying it.

Same here.  Still using Opera and not interested in Chrome.  But I would like extensions that will do this stuff for next version of Opera.

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Traffic / Re: Google Product Search
« on: December 14, 2010, 07:17:11 PM »
>>They are being muscled out of their previous cosy spots by the search engine which makes all the rules.

And is the only game in town.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Dvorak: Rethinking the Mobile Internet
« on: December 14, 2010, 12:23:32 PM »
Quote from: rcjordan on December 14, 2010, 02:27:35 AM
>>Ditto on the Virgin Mifi

OK, Brad, I'm on here via my craptop and virgin mifi.  It's slow but the location inside the condo may be part of that problem.   But, hey, slow is better than nothing.

Thanks RC.  I see you got the last one.  ;)  The info is useful since I've got people asking me, the resident geek genius, for advice about buying ATT iPads, Verizon Mifi plus iPad, Virgin Mobile + iPad, etc.  At least I know Virgin works.

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Water Cooler / Re: best driveway transformation
« on: December 13, 2010, 06:06:42 PM »
Geothermal is popular in some of the surrounding area.  Looked at it for use here in the "green" subdivision, but they said the clay was not conducive to vertical drilling or something.

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Water Cooler / Re: WikiLeaks Founder Added To The Interpol Wanted List
« on: December 11, 2010, 12:22:22 PM »
>>information sharing with our allies

That worked!   :D

Seriously, I think the Australian Foreign Minister nailed it when he said the real persons at fault are those in Washington who did not make sure the information was secure.

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Water Cooler / Re: best driveway transformation
« on: December 10, 2010, 09:49:32 PM »
That driveway had to have cost a small fortune. 

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