April 2010

sacca Facebook’s new default privacy settings are the biggest, longest, proudest middle finger a site’s ever given me.

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counternotions If you want to see what Steve Jobs does to dead technologies then just watch this video. The year is 2002. http://bit.ly/9wPTpJ

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‘Juggernaut’ origin: Jagannath.

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@lut4rp call vodafone and ask for the iPhone settings.

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Apple return policies valid in India too. Did not know that.

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So Airtel reps do issue microsims on special request. Or they don’t know what I am talking about.

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@achitnis The iPad optimization probably won’t come till Twitter.app.

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zeldman Steve Jobs and me on Flash. http://bit.ly/ctaOru

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@ankurb Of course they can be. Once upon a time, @shivaas got his HP’s display replaced for some some 10000 INR.

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@rashmiswamy See, even you want to write more. 140 characters are enough for posting a link to a place that’s not so limiting. :)

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@siddhantgoel undersea cable maintenance. It’s in the papers.

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@rungta Just saw that you already use that.

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@rungta On your webmarks, 2.page will match the x.webmark linking structure.

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@rungta Where are you planning to add page splits?

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iPad camera connection kit isn’t just for cameras - All kinds of cameras sync with the iPad, including the… http://tumblr.com/xpk915…

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iPad book format support - plain text, PDF, ePub, HTML, MobiPocket, FictionBook, eReader, Kindle, Tome Raider and Open eBook.

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Mike_FTW Weird, just logged onto facebook and the logo says SKYNET.

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Bad Facebook! I now need a new way to reciprocate. http://yfrog.com/0sbcgp

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@umadamle Your photos look excellent. Why not make a Tumblr out of them so that people keep hitting the heart shaped buttons next to them.

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Ooh la la. Where’s the Like page option for Comic Sans on Facebook?

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Facebook discarded the unclutterer: Lite mode. That thread @rungta talked about is being clung onto by more people than it can handle.

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An interesting portion from the Golden Notebook about school education. Still valid in 2010. http://bit.ly/cFDjYH

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Tumblr Reblogs are so much more satisfying than Twitter retweets.

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If you’re paying McAfee to crash your computers then you’d be better off getting the services they provide for free. http://bit.ly/bOkt8T

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I’d really like Y! to release some stats about the number of people still glued to classic vs. those who switched to the new Y! Mail.

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@plagiarismtoday the problem with such acts is that clauses are so vague.

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@kbhargava Simplenote is actually a cloud service that supports third-party clients, just like Twitter.

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Switching off cores on Snow Leopard - You could find the CPUpalette app on earlier versions of OS X along… http://tumblr.com/xpk8xi…

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RescueTime Productivity Meter - Linked above is an interesting extension for Google Chrome that tracks the… http://tumblr.com/xpk8xh…

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Video: Why Chrome is Awesome #4 There are a lot of things that Google Chrome already does to make the Mac… http://tumblr.com/xpk8xc…

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patrickrhone I wonder if Gizmodo will release the name and picture of whoever released the latest McAfee update.

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@konarkmodi Download Joomla. Start playing with the templates that are built in. You’ll have your own theme in no time.

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@ajuonline now I don’t use them since my blogs are hosted for free but @lut4rp and @rungta recommend the two.

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rosa Aww… RT @jonathanive This isn’t good.

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yuvipanda Sometimes I wonder if fucking my marks would cause me problems. Then I look at the class ‘toppers’ and realize that I’m pretty safe :)

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Why Chrome is Awesome #3 - While finding text on a page, Chrome on Windows not only highlights the text, but… http://tumblr.com/xpk8q7…

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UN: More telephones than toilets in India. http://j.mp/cYl633

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@ap00rv yeah she times her visits to London and DC so that it coincides with interesting product launches.

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I wish my grandma, who handles the logistics for all my tech, would arrive sooner.

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zeldman i <3 this so much. @simplebits http://j.mp/c6Al4y

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rungta “Space in typography is like time in music.” —Robert Bringhurst

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I’m convinced that entrepreneurship is as much of a glorified buzzword as cloud computing is.

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@ap00rv good, expensive for fast food. Also food is heavy, so be sure not to order too much at the first go.

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Ubuntu really needs to work on its themes. It’s impossible to create the replica that Shuttleworth wants, so why not do something original.

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So Opera mini does have a feature that a I miss on MobileSafari: Find on page. http://yfrog.com/em8r9j

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I think you can stretch the time you use your older MBPs on battery by switching off one core.

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thomasfuchs Correction: Opera mini for iPhone is an image viewer for screenshots of websites.

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Palm is up for sale - Palm bought Handspring, a maker of devices powered by Palm OS, and it feels like that… http://tumblr.com/xpk8ii…

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@mandark_g I dislike having to change themes in browsers. But yes, I decided to http://takebacktheweb.org the moment I installed Firefox.

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Here’s what the proposed Firefox theme refresh might look like on Mac OS X. http://bit.ly/peUSK

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20 more fonts in iPhone 3.2! I was growing tired of the paltry selection of fonts & font-face support limited to SVG. http://bit.ly/a0qgfB

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@ap00rv you expect Mac OS X point updates to have the same bug fixes as the Windows point update?

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nzkoz @gruber I still don’t get why they’re not opposed to chrome OS, no native apps there. Just as open as the iPad for web stuff…

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@kanduri I don’t think Apple had ever given game devs importance on OS X. iPhone OS is a whole different story.

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diskopo RT @Gizmodo: iPhone OS 4 Event April 8 http://gizmodo.com/55098… #top #iphone

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I wish the web browser ballot screen made its way to Windows in other countries too. Only Europe has been lucky enough to see it so far.

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@ManishSinha Chetan Bhagat ought to read a few books then, if he’d actually like to do a good job next time.

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@ManishSinha You mean sticking everything into a web browser. Or using the gorgeous display to display ads in a native app?

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Oh, and did you know that epub piracy is the next big thing?

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[iPad App] Adobe Ideas - I don’t have my iPad yet, but this is the first app I downloaded for it. http://tumblr.com/xpk879…

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$399 Wacom or $499 iPad? Easy choice.

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@kanduri People want work done. Don’t expect Apple to make its computers into a commodity like everybody else. Your gaming rig is not a MBP.

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@ManishSinha it’s about your time. Forget about how the app is advertised. WSJ has to pay its journalists.

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@ManishSinha I’d willingly pay that much for a J2ME app that makes reading the Economist easier on my phone. Free fails to deliver.

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@sidnangia Have your shipping dates been delayed by a month?

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Tell me why we use paper, again?

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