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It's a great idea (well, a great extension of Growl's concept), but the infrastructure isn't there — not entirely. For real-time notifications to happen (and be reasonably lightweight), you need to have hooks into your monitored services. G
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Why is that a fail? Porn doesn't go on Facebook, and it could be quite cool to build some epic nudity detection system. It's not an evil job!
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Yep: http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/nell/photo... Every orientation you could want, even left-handed!
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The Kindle does support limited annotation — highlighting, bookmarks, and text notes.
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In other words, the attack was nothing new or special: if you use the same password in many places, they're all in the same "pool". If one is compromised, they're all compromised. It's ironic (and stupid) that Jeff Attwood's OpenID — which
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I have a better idea (from a usability standpoint): Remove the "I'm at work" button entirely. It serves no purpose (other than being cute the first time it's clicked) so it will never be used. If I'm at work, I'll just close the page or go
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I dig the clearly-visible 2600 shirt up front. Nicely done.
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A commercial solution to the IRS's problem? Existing tax preparation software takes past returns into account and just asks the user to enter new information. How would Mint's system be better (aside from having access to your banking histo
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I loved The Lives of Others, enjoy photography and the smell of skunks, and toy with technology as well. Am I going to wake up as a curly-haired artist some day? That'd be interesting. All that aside, this is a great article and I Want You
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I would go with Tomato unless you want customizability. Last time I checked, DD-WRT was just a set of packages on top of OpenWRT, so going with straight OpenWRT lets you add only the functionality you need and customize everything to your h