From Around the Web
11 Tiny and Useful Free Menubar Applications for Mac – Not every application needs to always shows itself to be functional. Some just do their job quietly in the background while some hide themselves until they are needed. These are the perfect explanation on what menubar application do.
101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress – The first part of a four-part series, “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress“. This article focuses on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
Google on How to Change the Internet: You Should Own Your Broadband Pipes – Google policy analyst Derek Slater explains how to reshape broadband in the US. Step one: Own the actual pipes that run to your house.
The Netbook Conundrum – Are netbooks good or bad for the PC industry? The three m’s—the message, Microsoft, and money—will be the ultimate deciding factors.
Pixel City – A video of a completely procedurally drawn city and fly through. If you’re interested in how it was done, you can get all the details at the designer’s website.
See Location of all your Facebook Friends on a Google Map – If you are travelling to another city (or country) and need to know about Facebook friends who may be located in that region, here’s help.
The Star Trek Failure Generator – This random phrase generator poke fun at the Star Trek technobable that the franchise is so famous for.
Miscellaneous
Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage
Firefox Could Be the Real Facebook Challenger
Gizmodo dreams of the day Apple releases its own Netbook
Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an Hour
Ten Things Twitter is Not
Tesla Founder Elon Musk Dreams Of Electric Airplanes
What went wrong and what’s next at the Large Hadron Collider
Why Comcast Has To Worry About Hulu
Tech News
Hollywood battling ‘DVD copying’ – The six big film studios say a program called RealDVD violates copyright. This week a San Francisco court could decide if DVD users can make personal backups the way people do with audio.
House P2P bill to regulate browsers, FTP clients – The Informed P2P User Act bill introduced in March by California Republican Mary Bono Back will be the focus of the hearing. The wording in the Act, which would require P2P software to allow file sharing only if two rules are met, could also apply to web browsers, FTP applications, IM programs and any other applications that send and receive files.
Student’s Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries – A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world. The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the end of March. It was posted on the online encyclopedia shortly after his death and later appeared in obituaries published in the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine website and in Indian and Australian newspapers.
Stymied by Wolverine’s success, the MPA announces that Piracy funds terrorism.
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