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1 days ago
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alt="eliot spitzer happy.jpg" title="eliot spitzer happy.jpg" width="300" height="297" /Five years
ago, after a previously-little-known Attorney General named Eliot Spitzer got me kicked out of the
securities industry, during a period when I was sure that, among other things, no one would ever be
caught dead professionally associating with me again, an editor named Jacob Weisberg at emSlate/em
reached out a helping hand. With a big smile, Jacob said he liked the idea of my launching my
"comeback" (his word) by covering the Martha Stewart trial for the magazine./p pI've never stopped
being grateful to Jacob and his emSlate/em colleagues for that, and over the years, I've had the
privilege writing several series and more than a hundred columns for the magazine. Those
assignments opened the door to others (including a book on how not to get screwed by Wall Street),
and ultimately led me to emSilicon Alley Insider/em. /p pIronically enough, it was also through
emSlate/em that I actually got to meet Eliot Spitzer for the first time (I had been near his office
before, in 2001, when his prosecutors spent five days grilling me, but I had never actually met the
man). A year or so after the Martha Stewart affair, Eliot dropped by a emSlate/em event before
launching his run for governor. I met him in the buffet line:/p p style="padding-left:
30px;"strongME/strong: Hi, Eliot, Henry Blodget, good to meet you. You made my life a bit rough
there for a while!/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"strongELIOT /strong(3,000-watt smile): That's my
job!/p p(Yes, he was charming. I even voted for the bastard.)/p pAnd now I see that a
href="http://www.slate.com/id/2205995/"emSlate/em has a new columnist/a: a very well-known
ex-Governor named Eliot Spitzer, who has recently had a rough patch of his own. I can imagine Jacob
Weisberg's huge grin as he signed up his newest reputationally-challenged charge, and I can imagine
Eliot's smile in return. And now that several bizarrely connected twists of fate have placed all
three of us on the same team, I can't wait to shake both of their hands./p pI amem definitely
/emgoing to the emSlate/em Christmas party this year./p p /p pa
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Guardian Unlimited -
1 days and 12 hours ago
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width="1" height="1" //divpThe Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, today insisted he did not authorise
a police search of Damian Green's Commons office, nor was he told that they did not have a
warrant./ppMartin made today's statement to explain why the Metropolitan police were allowed to
search the shadow immigration minister's parliamentary office following a string of high-profile
leaks/pp"I was not told that the police did not have a warrant," Martin told MPs. I regret that a
consent form was then signed by the serjeant at arms without consulting the clerk."/ppHe added: "I
was not asked whether consent should be given."/ppMartin said the events surrounding Green's arrest
were of "grave concern" to all MPs and announced that he would set up a committee of seven senior
MPs, nominated by him, to investigate the case and make recommendations./ppThe police raid on
Green's offices last Thursday prompted outrage among MPs on all sides, who considered it a breach
of parliamentary privilege./ppHowever, Martin reminded MPs that chapter seven of Erskine May
– an authoritative text on the working of parliament –
states that parliamentary privilege has never "prevented the operation of the criminal law"./ppThe
Speaker said police contacted the serjeant at arms, Jill Pay, to request access to search Green's
office./pp"I have been told that police did not explain, as they are required to do, that the
serjeant was not obliged to consent or that a warrant could have been insisted upon."/ppMartin said
he "regretted" that the serjeant then signed a consent form without consulting the clerk of the
house./ppThe Speaker said he wanted to make "very clear" that he was not asked the question of
whether consent should be given or whether a warrant should be insisted upon./ppIn points of order
that followed the statement, Green thanked MPs for their support but said he wanted to make it
clear that MPs were not above the law./ppHowever, he added "releasing information that is merely
embarrassing to the government is not against the law"./ppMichael Howard, former Tory party leader,
said Green's arrest and the search of his offices had been "a deplorable affair"./ppDavid Winnick,
Labour MP for Walsall North, said Martin's statement showed the raid was "totally without
justification" and he demanded the officers involved to be called to the bar of the house to
explain their conduct./pp"We need an explanation and we need it promptly," he said./ppJacqui Smith,
the home secretary, is expected to make a statement to the Commons tomorrow regarding Green's
arrest./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia
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freshmeat.net announcements (Unix) -
1 days and 15 hours ago
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hspace="10" vspace="10" WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business
users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent.
It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content
management taking up the time of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of features including
shopping cart, subscriptions, forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs, SQL reports, a Web
services interface, and a very configurable user privilege and profiling system. hr /
strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License (GPL) hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / A number of
issues with the new Account system, some international character issues, a few Thingy bugs, and
other issues were fixed. pa
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1 days and 15 hours ago
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hspace="10" vspace="10" WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business
users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent.
It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content
management taking up the time of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of features including
shopping cart, subscriptions, forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs, SQL reports, a Web
services interface, and a very configurable user privilege and profiling system. hr /
strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License (GPL) hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / A number of
issues with the new Account system, some international character issues, a few Thingy bugs, and
other issues were fixed. pa
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Lifehacker -
1 days and 22 hours ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/bestof2008_01.png" width="494"
height="290" Mobile phone operating systems and a reheated web browser war: that's how we'll recall
the year 2008 when it comes to software. From brand new to revamped browsers and mobile platforms
and apps, 2008's been good to technophiles who like their data in the cloud and accessible wherever
they are. Let's take a look back at this year in software, and some of the best new and improved
applications, web services, and mobile platforms that were born in 2008. Looking back at the last
12 months, these are the apps that get a gold foil-wrapped chocolate coin from us this year. iPhoto
by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/1947414336/"Gaetan Lee/a./i/p pbr clear="all"/p
h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"Firefox 3/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/firefox3-sq-thumb_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Not only did you swoon over the release of Firefox 3
because of a href="http://lifehacker.com/392160/top-10-firefox-3-features"the "AwesomeBar" and the
rest of the "Had no idea I needed this but now I love it!" features/a it offers, but because the
launch itself was a grass-roots community-driven effort towards making software history. Indeed, on
June 17th of this year, the makers of Firefox a
href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-07-02.html"set a new Guinness World Record
for most software downloads in a given day/a, at more than eight million downloads of the new
browser iteration in 24 hours. If you haven't dug into the advanced functionality Firefox has to
offer, check out our a href="http://lifehacker.com/396312/power-users-guide-to-firefox-3"power
user's guide to Firefox 3/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"Google
Chrome/h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/thumb160x_gchrome.png"
width="135" height="135"While Mozillians and Firefox users celebrated across the globe over the
summer, no one knew that search powerhouse Google was in the software development lab cooking up
their own lean, mean browsing machine that would forsake all of the fox's bells and whistles (and
extensibility) to run Javascript-based applications lightening-fast. On September 2nd, Google
released the first beta of a href="http://google.com/chrome/"Chrome/a, their new web browser which
they hope you'll make your window to the web and all its apps. Our own in-house a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5055406/browser-speed-tests-the-compiled-up+to+date-results"browser
speed tests show that Chrome is indeed speedy/a, and we're seeing a significant uptake on Chrome
usage by Lifehacker readers. (Last month's browser breakdown for Lifehacker readers was 62%
Firefox, 22% IE, 8% Safari, and 6% Chrome. Not bad for a browser that's been out only a few
months.) For more Chrome goodness, see our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5045904/the-power-users-guide-to-google-chrome"power user's guide to
Google Chrome/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"iPhone 2.0 and the
App Store/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/iphone20-sq-thumb_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Yeah, yeah, the iPhone launched in 2007, but this year the
iPhone 2.0 software and the new iPhone 3G model with a faster data plan and GPS came out to hype
almost as big as the original iPhone launch. The combination of an operating system that finally
ran third-party apps officially plus pinpointy GPS goodness set the bar for what users can expect
to get from the next generation of smartphone with a fast internet connection, full-on browser, and
spot-on location-awareness. Plus, dozens of the apps available for the phone are free. At first, we
were a href="http://lifehacker.com/395171/how-your-location+aware-iphone-will-change-your-life"in/a
a href="http://lifehacker.com/398338/iphone-20-gets-you-laid-and-more"love/a. Later, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/398658/why-youre-better-off-avoiding-the-iphone"we had our doubts/a.
The iPhone 2.0 launch did start to show some of the cracks in the Apple armormdash;several of the
earliest versions of the software were crash and freeze-prone, requiring many users to uninstall
apps and reset their phone software to fix maddening keyboard delays and application crashes.
Meanwhile, Apple's approval-only App Store left a few applications out in the cold. Still, the
iPhone 2.0 software created a compelling mobile platform and app marketing campaign that made Aunt
Bertha really want to try that Neil Diamond song out on Shazam.br clear="all"/p h3
style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak Utilities and Apps/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/cydia-thumb.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" What with the App Store limitations and Apple's insistence
on ruling over what you can and cannot do on your phone, it's not surprising the enthusiastic
"jailbreak" community soldiered on this year, continuing to offer installers and non-Apple-approved
applications for your iPhone even in the face of the mainstream iTunes App Store. We take our hats
off to these intrepid hackers, who offer such lovely functionality as the ability to SSH into,
theme, and download video clips to your phone; if you haven't jailbroken your iPhone or iPod touch,
here are a few of our picks of best a
href="http://lifehacker.com/400148/iphone-20-jailbreak-apps-you-cant-find-in-the-itunes-store"iPhone
2.0 jailbreak apps you can't find in the iTunes Store/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%;
margin-top: 20px;"Google Android/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/android-logo-sq.png" width="135"
height="135" Google's answer to Apple's proprietary iPhone hardware and software came in the form
of their very own touch mobile phone operating system, Android, which launched this past October.
Unlike the iPhone, this new mobile platform is open source and will run on various handsets going
forward. Right now Android's first release is only available on the HTC G1 handset; you can see our
a href="http://lifehacker.com/5064117/a-hands+on-first-look-at-google-android"hands-on first look
at Google Android running on the G1 here/a. As an iPhone user frustrated by limited apps,
crashiness, and lack of copy and paste, Android is like a breath of fresh air. Even though the
mobile OS is still very new, its open-source nature has led to hundreds of new apps. See our pick
of a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5075332/best-android-apps-to-boost-your-mobile-productivity-so-far"best
Android apps to boost your mobile productivity/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%;
margin-top: 20px;"Digsby/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/digsby-logo_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" One of the few software apps on this list that's not open
source or made by a ginormous company, new instant messenger client Digsby took chatters by storm
with its ability to a
href="http://lifehacker.com/354345/consolidate-im-email-and-social-networking-with-digsby"consolidate
your IM, email, and social networking in one place/a. Even though the Digsby beta only went public
in February, by April it was already a
href="http://lifehacker.com/375391/five-best-instant-messengers"one of our readers' top five
favorite instant messaging tools/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"XBMC and Forks/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/xbmc-logo-sq_01.png" width="135"
height="135" We were really late to the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) party when we showed up last year
and a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/transform-your-classic-xbox-into-a-killer-media-center-299809.php"installed
it on our old classic Xbox/a, but since then we've been hooked on this rich, open-source media
center. Luckily, just because those old black boxes are becoming obselete doesn't mean the XBMC
software project has died off. Just the opposite: XBMC has forked into several neat branches that
run on various hardware platforms so you can enjoy the same media center goodness without hacking
an old Xbox. Check out a few launches from various factions of XBMC developers this past year that
have warmed our hearts:/p ul lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/5051874/xbmc-atlantis-beta-1-released-for-all-platforms"XBMC 'Atlantis'
Beta 1 Released for All Platforms/a/li lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/5095241/plex-7-adds-itunes-and-iphoto-support-and-more"Plex 7 for Mac
Adds iTunes and iPhoto Support and More/a/li lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/396382/boxee-is-xbmc-with-newer-look-and-social-flair"Boxee Is XBMC
with Newer Look and Social Flair/a/li /ul br clear="all" h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Ubuntu Hardy Heron/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/hardyheron-logo.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Another year, another Ubuntu release, and they just keep
getting better. Seriously, you have to love the free, open source operating system that manages a
new major release on a yearly basismdash;something Apple and Microsoft, companies you pay hundreds
of dollars to for the privilege of using their software, don't pull off. If you've tried Linux on
your desktop before and killed the partition in frustration, only to slink back to Windows, it's
time to give it another go. This year's flavor, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/383769/hardy-heron-makes-linux-worth-another-look"version 8.04 Hardy
Heron makes Linux worth another look/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Gmail Labs, Gadgets, and Themes/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/thumb160x_thumb160x_thumb160x_thumb160x_smallish_smallish_smallish_smallish_gmailenvelope.png"
width="135" height="135" Our favorite web application on the internet, Gmail, continues to burn
down barns and rip up the competition with continual iteration and feature adds. This year, Gmail
added a "Labs" section to your account, a safe way for power users to enable "experimental" power
features to their email while keeping everyone else's safe from harm. Truthfully, when I a
href="http://lifehacker.com/395211/gmail-gets-13-experimental-new-features"attended the Google
press event announcing Gmail Labs/a back in June, I had my doubts about whether or not the
featureset would ever expand beyond the initial 13, and if it would go beyond eye-candy games like
Snakey to, you know, actually useful stuff. Turns out it did. Six months later, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5052060/what-gmail-labs-features-do-you-have-enabled"ten more Gmail
Labs features/a are available in your account, including a super-useful Gadgets feature that lets
third parties embed their apps into your inbox. (Like a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5101139/bitly-offers-in+gmail-url-shortening-gadget"Bit.ly/a or a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5084502/add-your-basecamp-projects-to-gmail"Basecamp/a.) Later, Gmail
launched a href="http://lifehacker.com/5093536/gmail-updates-its-look-adds-themes"themes/a as well
as a href="http://lifehacker.com/5100649/gmail-google-desktop-gadget-now-available"a Google Desktop
gadget/a. In the midst of all this, the Gmail security team took the time a
href="http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/gmail-security-and-recent-phishing.html"to
respond to a breach/a that several users had experienced and blogged about online. Clearly there's
someone home at Gmail; this is a rapidly-evolving product that any webapp developer should use as
an example on how to iterate quickly.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Honorable Mentions/h3 pMaking best-of-year lists is always difficult because you risk leaving
off really deserving items. At least two that go in our honorable mentions bin are the a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5042312/ubiquity-prototype-offers-a-natural-language-web-command-line"Firefox
keyboard interface prototype Ubiquity/a, and photo-sharing site a
href="http://lifehacker.com/377598/flickr-adds-video"Flickr's launch of short video clips/a in
April./p pNow, you tell us which one of these apps impressed you the most in the year two thousand
and eight./p pscript type="text/javascript" language="javascript"
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pIf you can't get enough of best-of lists, hop into the time machine and see our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-new-and-improved-apps-of-2007-332617.php"top
10 new and improved apps of 2007/a, and our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/best-of-2006/geek-to-live--the-best-apps-of-2006-221920.php"best
apps of 2006/a and of a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-best-apps-of-2005-144388.php"2005/a./p
pAnything you would have included on this list that we left out? Tell us about it in the
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align="right" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"/iframe Mobile phone operating
systems and a reheated web browser war: that's how we'll recall the year 2008 when it comes to
software. From brand new to revamped browsers and mobile platforms and apps, 2008's been good to
technophiles who like their data in the cloud and accessible wherever they are. Let's take a look
back at this year in software, and some of the best new and improved applications, web services,
and mobile platforms that were born in 2008. Looking back at the last 12 months, these are the apps
that get a gold foil-wrapped chocolate coin from us this year. iPhoto by a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/1947414336/"Gaetan Lee/a./i/p pbr clear="all"/p h3
style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"Firefox 3/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/firefox3-sq-thumb_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Not only did you swoon over the release of Firefox 3
because of a href="http://lifehacker.com/392160/top-10-firefox-3-features"the "AwesomeBar" and the
rest of the "Had no idea I needed this but now I love it!" features/a it offers, but because the
launch itself was a grass-roots community-driven effort towards making software history. Indeed, on
June 17th of this year, the makers of Firefox a
href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-07-02.html"set a new Guinness World Record
for most software downloads in a given day/a, at more than eight million downloads of the new
browser iteration in 24 hours. If you haven't dug into the advanced functionality Firefox has to
offer, check out our a href="http://lifehacker.com/396312/power-users-guide-to-firefox-3"power
user's guide to Firefox 3/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"Google
Chrome/h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/thumb160x_gchrome.png"
width="135" height="135"While Mozillians and Firefox users celebrated across the globe over the
summer, no one knew that search powerhouse Google was in the software development lab cooking up
their own lean, mean browsing machine that would forsake all of the fox's bells and whistles (and
extensibility) to run Javascript-based applications lightening-fast. On September 2nd, Google
released the first beta of a href="http://google.com/chrome/"Chrome/a, their new web browser which
they hope you'll make your window to the web and all its apps. Our own in-house a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5055406/browser-speed-tests-the-compiled-up+to+date-results"browser
speed tests show that Chrome is indeed speedy/a, and we're seeing a significant uptake on Chrome
usage by Lifehacker readers. (Last month's browser breakdown for Lifehacker readers was 62%
Firefox, 22% IE, 8% Safari, and 6% Chrome. Not bad for a browser that's been out only a few
months.) For more Chrome goodness, see our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5045904/the-power-users-guide-to-google-chrome"power user's guide to
Google Chrome/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"iPhone 2.0 and the
App Store/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/iphone20-sq-thumb_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Yeah, yeah, the iPhone launched in 2007, but this year the
iPhone 2.0 software and the new iPhone 3G model with a faster data plan and GPS came out to hype
almost as big as the original iPhone launch. The combination of an operating system that finally
ran third-party apps officially plus pinpointy GPS goodness set the bar for what users can expect
to get from the next generation of smartphone with a fast internet connection, full-on browser, and
spot-on location-awareness. Plus, dozens of the apps available for the phone are free. At first, we
were a href="http://lifehacker.com/395171/how-your-location+aware-iphone-will-change-your-life"in/a
a href="http://lifehacker.com/398338/iphone-20-gets-you-laid-and-more"love/a. Later, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/398658/why-youre-better-off-avoiding-the-iphone"we had our doubts/a.
The iPhone 2.0 launch did start to show some of the cracks in the Apple armormdash;several of the
earliest versions of the software were crash and freeze-prone, requiring many users to uninstall
apps and reset their phone software to fix maddening keyboard delays and application crashes.
Meanwhile, Apple's approval-only App Store left a few applications out in the cold. Still, the
iPhone 2.0 software created a compelling mobile platform and app marketing campaign that made Aunt
Bertha really want to try that Neil Diamond song out on Shazam.br clear="all"/p h3
style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak Utilities and Apps/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/cydia-thumb.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" What with the App Store limitations and Apple's insistence
on ruling over what you can and cannot do on your phone, it's not surprising the enthusiastic
"jailbreak" community soldiered on this year, continuing to offer installers and non-Apple-approved
applications for your iPhone even in the face of the mainstream iTunes App Store. We take our hats
off to these intrepid hackers, who offer such lovely functionality as the ability to SSH into,
theme, and download video clips to your phone; if you haven't jailbroken your iPhone or iPod touch,
here are a few of our picks of best a
href="http://lifehacker.com/400148/iphone-20-jailbreak-apps-you-cant-find-in-the-itunes-store"iPhone
2.0 jailbreak apps you can't find in the iTunes Store/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%;
margin-top: 20px;"Google Android/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/android-logo-sq.png" width="135"
height="135" Google's answer to Apple's proprietary iPhone hardware and software came in the form
of their very own touch mobile phone operating system, Android, which launched this past October.
Unlike the iPhone, this new mobile platform is open source and will run on various handsets going
forward. Right now Android's first release is only available on the HTC G1 handset; you can see our
a href="http://lifehacker.com/5064117/a-hands+on-first-look-at-google-android"hands-on first look
at Google Android running on the G1 here/a. As an iPhone user frustrated by limited apps,
crashiness, and lack of copy and paste, Android is like a breath of fresh air. Even though the
mobile OS is still very new, its open-source nature has led to hundreds of new apps. See our pick
of a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5075332/best-android-apps-to-boost-your-mobile-productivity-so-far"best
Android apps to boost your mobile productivity/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%;
margin-top: 20px;"Digsby/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/digsby-logo_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" One of the few software apps on this list that's not open
source or made by a ginormous company, new instant messenger client Digsby took chatters by storm
with its ability to a
href="http://lifehacker.com/354345/consolidate-im-email-and-social-networking-with-digsby"consolidate
your IM, email, and social networking in one place/a. Even though the Digsby beta only went public
in February, by April it was already a
href="http://lifehacker.com/375391/five-best-instant-messengers"one of our readers' top five
favorite instant messaging tools/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"XBMC and Forks/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/xbmc-logo-sq_01.png" width="135"
height="135" We were really late to the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) party when we showed up last year
and a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/transform-your-classic-xbox-into-a-killer-media-center-299809.php"installed
it on our old classic Xbox/a, but since then we've been hooked on this rich, open-source media
center. Luckily, just because those old black boxes are becoming obselete doesn't mean the XBMC
software project has died off. Just the opposite: XBMC has forked into several neat branches that
run on various hardware platforms so you can enjoy the same media center goodness without hacking
an old Xbox. Check out a few launches from various factions of XBMC developers this past year that
have warmed our hearts:/p ul lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/5051874/xbmc-atlantis-beta-1-released-for-all-platforms"XBMC 'Atlantis'
Beta 1 Released for All Platforms/a/li lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/5095241/plex-7-adds-itunes-and-iphoto-support-and-more"Plex 7 for Mac
Adds iTunes and iPhoto Support and More/a/li lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/396382/boxee-is-xbmc-with-newer-look-and-social-flair"Boxee Is XBMC
with Newer Look and Social Flair/a/li /ul br clear="all" h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Ubuntu Hardy Heron/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/hardyheron-logo.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Another year, another Ubuntu release, and they just keep
getting better. Seriously, you have to love the free, open source operating system that manages a
new major release on a yearly basismdash;something Apple and Microsoft, companies you pay hundreds
of dollars to for the privilege of using their software, don't pull off. If you've tried Linux on
your desktop before and killed the partition in frustration, only to slink back to Windows, it's
time to give it another go. This year's flavor, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/383769/hardy-heron-makes-linux-worth-another-look"version 8.04 Hardy
Heron makes Linux worth another look/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Gmail Labs, Gadgets, and Themes/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/thumb160x_thumb160x_thumb160x_thumb160x_smallish_smallish_smallish_smallish_gmailenvelope.png"
width="135" height="135" Our favorite web application on the internet, Gmail, continues to burn
down barns and rip up the competition with continual iteration and feature adds. This year, Gmail
added a "Labs" section to your account, a safe way for power users to enable "experimental" power
features to their email while keeping everyone else's safe from harm. Truthfully, when I a
href="http://lifehacker.com/395211/gmail-gets-13-experimental-new-features"attended the Google
press event announcing Gmail Labs/a back in June, I had my doubts about whether or not the
featureset would ever expand beyond the initial 13, and if it would go beyond eye-candy games like
Snakey to, you know, actually useful stuff. Turns out it did. Six months later, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5052060/what-gmail-labs-features-do-you-have-enabled"ten more Gmail
Labs features/a are available in your account, including a super-useful Gadgets feature that lets
third parties embed their apps into your inbox. (Like a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5101139/bitly-offers-in+gmail-url-shortening-gadget"Bit.ly/a or a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5084502/add-your-basecamp-projects-to-gmail"Basecamp/a.) Later, Gmail
launched a href="http://lifehacker.com/5093536/gmail-updates-its-look-adds-themes"themes/a as well
as a href="http://lifehacker.com/5100649/gmail-google-desktop-gadget-now-available"a Google Desktop
gadget/a. In the midst of all this, the Gmail security team took the time a
href="http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/gmail-security-and-recent-phishing.html"to
respond to a breach/a that several users had experienced and blogged about online. Clearly there's
someone home at Gmail; this is a rapidly-evolving product that any webapp developer should use as
an example on how to iterate quickly.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Honorable Mentions/h3 pMaking best-of-year lists is always difficult because you risk leaving
off really deserving items. At least two that go in our honorable mentions bin are the a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5042312/ubiquity-prototype-offers-a-natural-language-web-command-line"Firefox
keyboard interface prototype Ubiquity/a, and photo-sharing site a
href="http://lifehacker.com/377598/flickr-adds-video"Flickr's launch of short video clips/a in
April./p pNow, you tell us which one of these apps impressed you the most in the year two thousand
and eight./p pscript type="text/javascript" language="javascript"
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pIf you can't get enough of best-of lists, hop into the time machine and see our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-new-and-improved-apps-of-2007-332617.php"top
10 new and improved apps of 2007/a, and our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/best-of-2006/geek-to-live--the-best-apps-of-2006-221920.php"best
apps of 2006/a and of a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-best-apps-of-2005-144388.php"2005/a./p
pAnything you would have included on this list that we left out? Tell us about it in the
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Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business and culture of disruption -
1 days and 23 hours ago
You might have heard of Doug Engelbart, and you might know him as the inventor of the computer
mouse. But you probably don't know that he is one of the most influential computer visionaries of
all time.
In the 1960s he and his colleagues were playing with concepts and designing systems that today we
take for granted: visual interfaces, spreadsheets, email, and much, much more.
I had the great privilege of interviewing Mr Engelbart more than 3 years ago. I was at an event
at Xerox PARC, a promotion for a book by New York Times journalist John Markoff "What the
Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry."
The event featured a lot of early computer pioneers and many of them spoke about how they got
inspired to work on computer design and systems development. Each one spoke about seeing a
seminal demo by Doug Engelbart and how it changed their lives!
Some hadn't been at the demo but heard about it from others, and it still changed their lives! I
was amazed at these stories, amazed that a demo could change people's lives, and amazed at the
man behind the stories.
I didn't realize at the time that Doug Engelbart is still alive and was sitting just behind me.
After the event I was invited to a local restaurant where there were a few dozen people
celebrating the publication of Mr Markoff's book. I was a little late in arriving and most people
were crowded around Mr Markoff's table. Amazingly, the table with Mr Engelbart was half empty. I
couldn't believe my luck and soon was sitting right next to him, and had an amazing conversation.
You can read the rest here...
A tribute
to one of Silicon Valley's most influential and forgotten researchers
On Monday and Tuesday there is a celebration of Mr Engelbart's ground breaking "mother of
all demos" at the Program for the Future
Conference
It will feature:
- Professor Thomas Malone, Founding Director, MIT Center for
Collective Intelligence
- Professor Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director, MIT Media Laboratory
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Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google
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Andries van Dam, Professor, Brown University
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Alan Kay, President, Viewpoints Research Institute
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Steve Wozniak, co-founder, Apple Computer, Inc.
December 8
- Speakers and Workshops on collective intelligence
at The Tech Museum of Innovation,
201 South Market Street, San José (map).
In keeping with Engelbart's vision of mass collaboration, this event brings together many
communities -- education, business, nonprofit, social, political and technology. The day will end
with a special tour, led by Peter Friess, President of The Tech Museum, through Leonardo: 500 Years into the
Future, the largest exhibition of da Vinci's engineering, anatomical studies and art ever to
visit the United States.
December 9- The morning program at Stanford University's
Wallenberg Hall (map)
is a Call to Action to organize ourselves to move forward to harness the collective intelligence
of our community.
In the afternoon, SRI is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Engelbart's
legendary "mother of all demos" at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium (map).
We hope you will join us for that event as well.
Here is the demo!
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Currently Banned on YouTube UK's Stats Lists! Please do our free speech a big favour right now
and go to the comment box below the video and post the following line: "SAY NO TO YOUTUBE
CENSORSHIP". Or just type anything you wish. We need to let YouTube know that we won't put up
with their censorship. And the best way to do that is to comment and rate so that truth videos
reach the most-discussed pages. This is what YouTube doesn't like. They don't mind you uploading
truth vids as long as they don't become too popular. I've seen enough censorship from YouTube to
last a lifetime. YouTube has been sussed once and for all and there's absolutely no justification
for the blatant and crude censorship that they are now engaging in. All I tried to do was tell
people the truth but YouTube wouldn't even allow me that small privilege. I hope YouTube enjoys
whatever pleasure they receive from the people who force them to censor the truth. Google bought
YouTube for $1.6 billion so that they could censor us, and the results are clear for anyone to
see. If you agree with me about YouTube's crude and shameless censorship policy, please comment
on this video. Please also express your view on this issue by adding the line "Say No To YouTube
Censorship" in all videos you upload, and to your channel profile. We cannot let Google get away
with censoring our free speech like this. And why has YouTube got rid of all the honors on my
last video and on my channel? This channel is at No'16 Most Subscribed UK (ALL TIME), and No'13
Most Viewed UK (ALL TIME) but now YouTube has removed this channel from these lists. Why? On my
last video they removed all 55 honors in one go, even though it had only been uploaded for 18
hours and it was at No'1 in a lot of the lists. Here are just a few of the main censorship
methods used by YouTube: * Fiddling the View Counters by not displaying the true number of views
on videos. This keeps the videos out of the most-viewed lists to stop them from going viral. *
Removing honors from videos to prevent the video being displayed in any of the lists. * Removing
pages of comments from the video to prevent it from reaching the most-discussed lists. * Removing
the video for no reason, and displaying the message "This video has been removed by the user" on
the page where the video used to be. * Preventing the video from playing properly, if at all
(sometimes accompanied by the message: "This video is no longer available"). * Failing to display
a thumbnail image for your video. * Displaying completely irrelevant videos in the "Related
Videos" section on the video page. Unless we protest about these crude methods of censorship, the
problem of censorship will not go away. Please help me out folks, we can't let YouTube get away
with this so blatantly. We have to send them the message that we won't put up with this kind of
censorship. One way to do that is to get this video to the No'1 position in the most-discussed
list (global), just like my last video did. All you need to do is post lots of comments on this
video. Make each comment different so that it doesn't get automatically marked as spam. Also post
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