“Mozilla released an add-on for Firefox 1.5 today that allows users to theme the browser with national team colors, track World Cup scores and headlines, view videos, chat with other soccer fans, and receive up-to-the-minute match and goal notifications.”
webpronews.com via Juha
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Author: Jani
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Firefox Debuts In World Cup
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Companies sue Sweden over Pirate Bay raid
“Ten companies which had their servers confiscated during the police’s raids against file-sharing site The Pirate Bay plan to demand compensation from the Swedish state. […]
Police spokespeople and prosecutor Håkan Roswall have refused to say why they confiscated the other servers.”
The Local via Juha
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Kuluttajavirasto jyrähtää digisovitinkauppiaille
“Digisovittimen vikojen korjaamiseen ja myyjän vastuuseen liittyy edelleen runsaasti väärinkäsityksiä. Tyypillistä on esimerkiksi se, että myyjä ei ota mitään vastuuta laitteen vioista sen jälkeen, kun takuuaika on päättynyt tai sanoutuu irti tekstitykseen liittyvistä ongelmista. […]
Kuluttajavirasto korostaa, että myyjä vastaa laitteen ominaisuuksiin liittyvistä vioista. Hänen on korjattava laite tai hyvitettävä virhe muulla tavalla. Tämä periaate koskee myös sovittimia, joille ei ole annettu takuuta tai joiden takuu on päättynyt sekä sovittimia, jotka on saatu jonkun muun tuotteen kylkiäisenä.
[Myyjä] vastaa esimerkiksi tekstityksen puuttumisesta […]. Myyjän on myös varmistettava, että sovittimelle voidaan tehdä sen käyttökelpoisuuden kannalta olennaiset peruspäivitykset koko laitteen käyttöiän ajan. Päivitys ei saa maksaa kuluttajalle mitään. Jos myyjä ei ole järjestänyt päivitystä, asiakas saa purkaa kaupan.”
Kuluttajavirasto via YLE24
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Funny: How to Break Windows Notepad
“Here’s a really funny way to break Notepad that a coworker showed me this morning. […] It will not crash your computer, it just breaks Notepad in that it causes it to display very oddly. No perm damage comes of the following steps.”
WinCustomize via Juha
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Separating Pingbacks/Trackbacks from comments in WordPress 2.0
“Here’s some code below to enable you to separate pingbacks/trackbacks from comments in WordPress 2.0. Pingbacks/trackbacks are listed first, followed by comments in this example. It will also not show the excerpt for pingbacks/trackbacks and just show the link for these.”
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Akismet Spam Count Plugin For WordPress
“Akismet Spam Count retrieves the number of spam messages Akismet has caught.”
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Qunu – live help when you need it most
“Qunu is a next-generation expertise matching service. We use instant messaging to connect — in real time — people who have software or tech-related questions with experts who are passionate and willing to help.”
Qunu via Juha
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Police raid doubles Pirate Bay's popularity
“The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days, according to an Internet monitoring site, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter said on Sunday.”
The Local via Juha
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Firefox To Drop Support For Windows 98, Me
“Mozilla will drop support for the nearly obsolete operating systems when it releases Firefox 3.0 in 2007. Some users criticized the decision [and a counter bug has been filed].”
Information Week via Digg
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Pixar's Hardware Boost for Cars
“[Pixar’s BVP of technology, Greg] Brandeau explained that Cars […] has put more strain on his internal systems than any other movie […]
“We realized that our rendering time was taking too long. Frames were taking 10 hours [to render] that should have taken one hour. […] A gigabyte of memory on our file server heads was nowhere near good enough,” he said, adding that Pixar needed something in the region of 32 Gbytes.
Light Reading via Juha
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