If you happen to use the Netflix Watch Now service and love it, the way I do, it has been frustrating to see only a handful of new DVD releases actually make it onto the Internet streaming movie service. Watch Now has made mailing in DVDs to get new ones seems as old-fashioned as the mail-in service once made driving to the video store seem. Now, Netflix has cut a…
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A Preview of KDE 4.5
KDE 4.5 should be released this week. This is my preview of the latest software compilation of the free and open source desktop environment. When KDE 4.0 was released, it was clear that it was not finished and not ready for production. By version 4.2, the completely redesigned and recoded desktop environment was starting to regain the stability and depth that many loved about KDE 3, while also adding new…
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When Wikipedia Displays the FBI Seal…
…the terrorists win. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation has demanded that Wikipedia stop using the FBI seal in articles on the online encyclopedia, or face possible legal action. According to a letter dated July 28, FBI lawyer David C. Larson said the site is using the seal without permission from the director of the agency, as required by law. Larson sent the letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns the…
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Basket – A Multi-Purpose Note Pad For KDE
Basket Note Pads is a multipurpose note-taking application for KDE. Business people can use it to keep track of important tasks and notes. Writers can use it to organize their thoughts. Students can use it for note taking. And generally anyone can use it as a virtual paste bin or clip drawer. Basket was one of the last KDE 3 programs to be ported to KDE 4. While the development…
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Dell Streak Tablet to Hit Stores This Week
If swirling online rumors are correct, Dell’s new Android-based tablet could be released as early as Wednesday, while some blogs claim the release will be Friday or later. The tablet is a 5″ computer that will run Android 1.6 upon release, with updates to 2.2 (codenamed Froyo) expected later in the year. It will reportedly run a 1Ghz Snapdragon ARM processor, 5-inch multi-touch WVGA screen (800×480), 5 MP camera with LED flash,…
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Study: Only 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Are Legal
A new study by the University of Ballarat in Australia has confirmed what the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have been telling us all along, that nearly all of the content being shared through the BitTorrent protocol is illegal copyrighted material. The study looked at 23 torrent trackers (services that provide torrent clients with the information necessary to connect to peers and download chunks…
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Microsoft Security Credentials Revoked
I was writing an article that had a section about Windows Media Center, and I came across this error when searching their site on Google: “This means that the security credentials of the server presented absolutely should not be trusted.” I don’t know if this is Google Chrome’s way of saying the SSL certificate has expired or not. “Revoked” seems rather harsh, unless the issuer truly snatched the certificate from…