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by 51Cards 15y ago
In most cases there are alternatives to every social platform, and frequently better ones than the popular 'standard'... but if there is no one there you want to talk to, it's not too useful.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Agreed, Microsoft didn't over pay for the software, they over paid for the user-base. The user base is what you want.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
I have the new results coming up in my searches and I strongly dislike it. Very poorly spaced, hard to perceive header / detail groups, colours are MUCH too faded, skinny fonts, spacing requires _much_ more scrolling, uneven spacing betwee
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by 51Cards 15y ago
Slightly off topic but I liked the word play in the last line (paraphrased): "It's not easy to be a start-up when you're viewed as an up-start."
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by 51Cards 15y ago
This is how you do a security alert. Notify the manufacturer of the software, notify the press so it is made public and thus people will install updates, and keep the details secret until it's fixed. Kudos to the discoverer.
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by 51Cards 15y ago
"Of course, Apple slammed Microsoft many times with the "Get A Mac" campaign, but at least the ads were funny and generally grounded in truth..." Baloney on the 'truth' comment. Advertising spin is advertising spin. I used to (and still d
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by 51Cards 15y ago
What's funniest is that if you look closely at the Speedtest.Net image, Google only gets a 3 1/2 star rating. No one is ever happy I guess.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
What's more amazing is no matter what happens the conspiracy theorists will always pop up preferring to believe they are perpetually being duped. As I said to someone else earlier today the proof they got him will come in the next few week
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Ok that is cool, I had to try with my Nexus One and presto, puzzle solved. Brilliant.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
If so then Flatland was a story not so much of mathematics, but of evolution.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
What happened to the term 'Alpha' ? Congrats to the Mozilla team though for their ramp up in production speed. Nice to see.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Trust me, I do understand that well too. My girlfriend has very poor vision, borderline legally blind for driving. When we purchased a notebook for her we went with a 17" screen but also very high resolution. I then used Windows DPI scal
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I see a lot of talk in the main post about screen size but nothing about what actually matters which is screen resolution. I just picked up a new Vaio Z series with a 13.1 inch screen for when I am on the road. While it only has a 13.1" s
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by 51Cards 16y ago
"The Windows explorer has also got a lot of new stuffs - mainly the inclusion of ribbons. Ribbons was first introduced in Microsoft Office 2007 and in Windows 7, it was used in other applications such as Paint, WordPad etc. The Ribbons UI m
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by 51Cards 16y ago
That is what this did this morning... Googling 'Comic Sans' gave you all your results in Comic Sans. Looks like they have pulled it now.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
The lunch image loads almost instantly for me as well... only 67k. Someone seems to have taken some time to tweak the compression of the images to maintain very good quality.
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Microsoft offers two free eBooks if you download IE9(microsoft.com)
4 points by 51Cards 16y ago|2 comments
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Oddly the password function is called only when you click on lower black image. If you click on the defined Area (which happens to cover right where the "Password-ed Area" text is, then it bypasses the function call all together and just l
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I'm quite curious about the file reading code. With a simple directory browse from the user couldn't you start to walk the file tree and read whatever you liked? Nothing I see to stop something like this then firing off Ajax calls to send
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by 51Cards 16y ago
This is a little off topic but is anyone else mildly annoyed when they see article titles that claim to know you're doing something "wrong"?
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I thought the video was sped up for much of it. The person inside the Android suit has had wayyy too much caffeine. (which of course makes it even more fitting on a developer site error page)
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by 51Cards 16y ago
So have been watching this on and off today and it's neat to watch the main concentration of downloads move with the morning hours across the map. Right now it's in Europe as everyone goes through their morning "Oh look! FF 4 released!"
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Me-thinks that IE9's much touted 2.35 million downloads on day one is not going to seem so impressive by the end of today.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Most customization points is the big win for me. I REALLY like to alter my browsers to fit my preferred layout and FF has done quite well at maintaining that capability for me. I get into Chrome and I find myself constantly going "Oh, the
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I alter FF to put the close button at the end of the tab bar in one fixed location. (it's an about:config option) I like that it doesn't move, mimics the OS Window-close mouse movement (in Windows) but MOST importantly, I think it's a comp
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I like having a title bar, I park collapsed Trillian chat windows up there and I HATE that Chrome doesn't give me space to do that. It's a UI deal breaker for Chrome for me.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
Meh, I understand their intent behind it but honestly it's too little way too late. When Giuliani cleaned up NYC's Times Square (if I remember this correctly) he enacted a law that said adult establishments had to be X meters from main stre
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by 51Cards 16y ago
With respect to CNN's loss of respectable brand image I have only two words to say: Nancy Grace.
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by 51Cards 16y ago
From the paper itself: "We used iPhone 4 for the iPhone measurements, and Google Nexus S for Android 2.3 measurements. For our Android 2.2 measurements we chose the Samsung Galaxy S, since it has almost identical hardware to the Nexus S, ma
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by 51Cards 16y ago
I think this article is perfectly valid. What everyone here is forgetting is that we are a pretty focused demographic of technical people. If you ask the average CNN user what Dropbox is you'll probably get a blank stare. The fact that a

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