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Firefox Creative Lead Aza Raskin Leaves Mozilla To Found Startup Massive Health
17/12/2010 12:05
Almost two years to the day that Mozilla acq-hired him, Firefox Creative Lead Aza Raskin will be leaving Mozilla on January 1 to found a new startup called Massive Health. Raskin started out as head of user experience at Mozilla Labs where he spearheaded projects such as Tab Candy, Ubiquity,...
Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman
17/12/2010 12:02
New cloud computing OS released by Google is plan to push people into 'careless computing', warns free software advocate
Richard Stallman. Photo by jeanbaptisteparis on Flickr. Some rights reserved
Google's new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan "to push people into careless...
20 reasons you should switch to Linux
08/12/2010 16:15
There are hundreds of compelling reasons why Linux is better than all the rival operating systems. Here are just 20.
1. Linux is free
No matter how many computers you install it on, the cost of Linux remains the same: zero.
In these days of multi-computer households, this can be a...
Google Announces mod_pagespeed for Quicker Web Sites
10/11/2010 22:46
mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this by rewriting the resources using filters that implement web performance best practices. Webmasters and web developers can use mod_pagespeed to improve the performance of...
A Qwiki Snapshot Of AOL
07/11/2010 23:28
This is too funny not to post. The screen grab above comes fromQwiki, the visual search engine which came away with the top prize at our last TechCrunch Disrupt. Qwiki is still in private alpha , but it essentially assembles a visual narrative for millions of topics by...
Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
07/11/2010 23:26
Yesterday, we saw horrible latency issues many Gmail users have been experiencing over the past couple of weeks. When I reached out to Google about the issue a few days ago, they told me that they weren’t aware of anything wrong, but would look into it. Well, those of us who noticed...
Meet WebP, Google’s New Image Format
07/11/2010 22:53
As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format.
It’s called WebP, and it’s based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative Thursday night with a post on its Chromium blog.
WebP has much in common with JPEG, the...
Google Releases New Image Fomat
17/10/2010 18:14
WebP format could replace JPEG.
Google, in an effort to increase overall speed of the entire Internet, has developed a new image format called WebP.
Based on the VP8 codec, which Google open sourced in May, WebP is a lossy image format that offers an average of 39% reduction in...
Netbooks: Facts, Figures, Options and Opinion
30/09/2010 21:11
It has been a long while since the first laptop made its way on to store shelves. What led to the invention of a laptop was the necessity of a portable computer that could be lugged around and also worked on, in the absence of direct power supply. All went well until mobile phones with Internet...
Website Vulnerabilities and Nikto
30/09/2010 21:04
Nikto is an open source Web server vulnerability scanner that performs comprehensive tests for over 6,100 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 950 servers, and for version-specific problems on over 260 servers. This article outlines a scenario where Nikto is...