Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers
Google Open Source Blog
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.
10 November 2010
Tech News
by Aldo ArmientoJelmer Vernooij: Mumble and bluetooth
Planet Ubuntu
Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat application that we're using at Canonical, and which Samba has recently also adopted. After I busted the cable of my cabled headset and inspired by Matt's post about Mumble and Bluetooth I…
7 November 2010HandlerSocket on SSD
MySQL Performance Blog
We all enjoyed Yoshinori announcement of HandlerSocket, the plugin to MySQL which open NOSQL way to access data stored in InnoDB. The published results are impressive, but I want to understand some, that’s why I run couple more experiments. In blog post…
3 November 2010OS X Dock built using CSS 3, new iTunes style app icons
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Web developer Michael Hüneburg has been experimenting recently with the new capabilities enabled by the latest version of the cascading style sheets standard, CSS3. Among other things, CSS3 now offers the ability to create animations triggered by a mouse…
3 November 201010.6: Flip around (invert) the Magic Trackpad
MacOSXHints.com
The Magic Trackpad normally slants up to match the keyboard angle. Some may prefer to use it slanted down in their lap, on the couch, or on low desks with a gel palm rest. With this hidden pref, the trackpad auto-detects hand orientation from 5 resting…
1 November 2010Android piles on its U.S. smartphone market share lead
Macworld
Popularity of the Google Android mobile operating system is showing no signs of slowing down, with the OS being found in 44 percent of smartphones purchased during the third quarter.
1 November 2010Review: Incipio Edge Polycarbonate Slider Case for iPhone 4
Macworld
Incipio's Edge for iPhone 4 is a hardshell case with a straightforward design and a detachable bottom, perfect for docking your iPhone.
1 November 20102010-11-01: Monday.
Planet GNOME
This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit Collabora Productivity a subsidiary of Collabora focusing on LibreOffice support and services for whom I work. Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten yourself by…
1 November 2010<div><h3>XHTML Is Dead, Long Live XML-Valid HTML5</h3></div>
Planet Mozilla
Four years and two days ago, wrote where he infamously admitted: "It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally. The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags and namespaces all at once…
30 October 2010X-Content-Type-Options, NoScript and Browserscope
Planet Mozilla
NoScript 2.0.4 has been released yesterday, with some bug fixes and one main addition: strict X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff enforcement. NoScript, for a long time, had already being enforcing content type checks on cross-site Javascript and CSS…
30 October 2010