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Insurance and taxes take a back seat this session ... There are no rocks to drop or banners hanging
in the Capitols rotunda proclaiming Floridas Largest ...
Join us now for our weekly review of Web Technology news. This week was dominated by
the launch of Google's new open source browser Chrome. As the Ed tweeted during the week: how
often does a major Internet company launch a brand new browser? Check out our extensive coverage
and analysis below.
This week we also reported on another major announcement from Google: a YouTube-like app for
Google Apps. Finally, check out our poll - it asked our readers what word processing tool they
mostly use. The results may surprise you...
In what may be the story of the year in Web tech, this week Google launched Chrome, its open source
app browser. Can Chrome kill IE? Will it kill Firefox? Or will it go the way of Google Base,
Google Sites and other Google Flops? The browser became available for Windows users in 100
countries and 43 languages this week. It's Live now at google.com/chrome.
As mentioned, we at ReadWriteWeb extensively analyzed this big news. Here is our coverage...
The news first leaked on Monday morning via Google watchdog Phillipp Lessen, who scanned and posted a printed comic he
received in the mail from Google. You can view it here.
In the comic, Chrome was framed as a browser for applications instead of just web pages.
As soon as Chrome was made available as a download, the ReadWriteWeb team took the new browser
for a spin. We walked through it live and shared our screen as soon as the browser became
available. The video of our session is posted below. Thanks to DimDim for help with this.
You can also see the slideshow from the press conference here:
Our coverage of
Chrome initially touched on issues like browser
performance and business implications for Firefox - but one thing we picked up on shortly after
was a curious section of the
Chrome Terms of Service.
The terms include a section giving Google "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and
non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly
display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the
Services." That seems pretty extreme for a browser, doesn't it?
Later in the week Google
removed the offending section of the Terms of Service. It seems that the default Google
service TOS includes these kinds of claims, even though they may not be as appropriate in some
circumstances as in others. We're not sure when such claims would be justified but we're glad
they've been removed from Chrome. Here's the original version
of the End User Licensing Agreement.
It wasn't all good news for Google. Ryan Narraine, a security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab,
reported that Chrome also
inherited a potentially serious security flaw from the old version of WebKit it is based on. An
attacker could easily trick users into launching an executable Java file by combining a flaw in
WebKit with a known Java bug and some smart social engineering. Security expert Aviv Raff, who first discovered this flaw, set up a
demo of the
exploit here. (Note: This page will automatically download a Java file onto your
desktop). You can safely click on the download, as it only opens up a notepad application written
in Java.
This week Google
launched a new product for the enterprise market, Google Video for business. It's a new
application in the Google Apps office suite, enabling workers to upload and share videos inside
their organizations. Videos can be shared on an individual, group or company-wide basis. Google
sees it being used for such things as executive communications, product training, trip reports,
"social videos" for the company intranet.
We think this has the potential to break open the Web Office market, because up till now nobody
has done rich media for the enterprise as an easy to use browser-based package. Google Video for
Business manages to do this, mostly because of YouTube's influence.
We ran a
poll a year
ago asking which word processing tool you used the most. What we
were really driving at was: how many of you are using an online word processing
service (Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, etc) as your main tool, instead of a traditional
desktop one (MS Word, OpenOffice, etc). We ran the same poll this year:
The best of the online word processers was still, you guessed it, Google with their Docs program
at 17% at time of writing. But Microsoft still dominates this market, polling at 48% of our
readers using it as their main tool.
With only two weeks to go until the 2008 Goodwood Revival meeting gets underway
(19-21 September), the nostalgic appeal of that most British of authentic historic motor race meetings is set to get a
distinctive continental flavour, courtesy of German prestige car and motorcycle manufacturer BMW
AG.
Part of the Revival motorcycle paddock area is being turned into a traditional Bavarian Oktoberfest
bar – known as the BMW Revivalfest – serving authentic German
beer and hearty fare, such as white pork sausages, pretzels and mustard. Historic BMW
vehicles, sourced from the BMW Museum in Munich, will also be on site to add to the
Bavarian flavour.
Oktoberfest has its origins in the Bavarian capital Munich, home to Revival sponsor and Oktoberfest
host BMW. This event is traditionally held for 16 days from late September until early October in
Munich. As the timing of this year’s Revival coincides precisely with the beginning of the
Oktoberfest session, BMW suggested bringing this taste of Germany to Goodwood, with the food and
beer presented in an authentic Oktoberfest environment.
The Munich Oktoberfest attracts around 6.2 million visitors who on average chomp and slurp their
way through 142,500 pairs of sausages and 69.406 hl of beer. The Goodwood visitors at the Revival
are expected to have a rather more modest appetite, especially as more traditional 1950s and 1960s
English fare, including cups of tea and newspaper-wrapped fish and chips, are also available in
abundance around the unspoiled Goodwood motor circuit site.
Continue reading "2008 Goodwood Revival meeting gets underway"
La garde des sceaux, Rachida Dati, a défendu à Royan le RSA et son mode de
financement, un projet controversé dans les rangs de la majorité, qui sera soumis au
Parlement lors de la session extraordinaire qui débute le 22 septembre...
That's right, folks, this
week we've gone recursive. Who says we can't be our own special edition? Here's what we'll be
playing this weekend. Be sure to let us know what games will be occupying your time!
Alexander
Sliwinski: With my upgraded PC, I've been checking out some higher end games from
the last three years. FEAR, not so bad. Black and White 2, gorgeous but
flawed. The big plan for this weekend is Spore ... now I just need to get a copy
somewhere.
Andrew Yoon:Braid. Second ending.
Christopher Grant: I've returned from a brief respite in the woods, but I
wasn't alone. Something else came back with me. Specifically, my appreciation of the
very portable Professor Layton & The Curious Village. I've got 30-some puzzles
left and an intense desire to crush them using little more than my carefully honed intellect
and a plastic stylus. Also: I've been winding my way through an advance copy of Star Wars:
The Force Unleashed - I should be able to wrangle a couple hours this weekend to polish
that one off. Still in various stages of completion, waiting to return to favor: Castle
Crashers, Siren, Fable 1.
Griffin
McElroy: My new roomie recently hooked up his slimline PS2 to our big screen,
so I've been playing some classics as of late -- Shadow of the Colossus, Tony
Hawk's Underground (you know, the last good one), and a copy of Chrono Cross I
recently found at this awesome used game store in Chicago. Also trying to hit the level cap
with Mr. Orange in Castle Crashers, and anxiously waiting for GameFly to deliver me
into pure pinata pleasure. ... Also, for the theme: perhaps something football related, as the
season just started? Or perhaps, the inaugural use of the Large Hadron Collider
in Geneva, which could ostensibly create a micro black hole, instantly destroying our world on
Sept. 10? WRUP: The World Ends with Large Hadron Collider Edition?
Kevin
Kelly: I will be playing this thing called "finish your damn PAX posts while
doing interviews and watching movies at the Toronto Film Festival." By the way I highly
recommend The Brothers Bloom. Great movie. If they made a game out of that, I would
die happy.
Kyle
Orland: I'm also looking for a copy of Spore to see whether it's a new
paradigm in gaming or, as the meta-review seems to indicate, a disappointment. Also hoping to
get some more time with The Last Guy and maybe finally take a look at Castle
Crashers.
James
Ransom-Wiley: Goin' down the shore for one last weekend. Friends are asking
me to bring that thing the kids are doing these days ... Wii.
Justin
McElroy: If I can bring myself to ignore the title, I'm going to be playing
some Infinite Undiscovery in between checking on my new and improved pinata garden.
Ludwig
Kietzmann: I hope to double my efforts in stopping the evil Count Waltz in
Eternal Sonata, provided I can even manage to switch on my Xbox 360 without instantly
firing up Geometry Wars 2. I also plan to feign struggle against and almost
immediately succumb to the desire to play through the post-Trophy Uncharted. Again.
Randy
Nelson: Like several of my fellow Joystiqers, I'll be tracking down a copy of
Spore (no, my attendance at last night's launch party hosted by Mr. Wright did not come with
"perks"). I also plan to brush up on my SOCOM skills thanks to the
Confrontation beta, although I won't be playing it with the benefit of Sony's nifty new
Bluetooth headset. Also: Castle Crashers (go orange!) and The Last Guy
(go Himalayan zombie hero!).
Ross
Miller: I've got a tough choice to make. I've finally caught up on school
work (thanks, PAX!) and PAX articles (thanks, school!), and my copy of Too Human came
in early this week - a bit late, yes, but now I get to play it without all the controversy and
anger and hype. So I'll finally be trying it out. In between hours-long sessions of
Spore, that is.
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(about Joystiq)
That's right, folks, this week we've gone recursive. Who says we can't be our own special edition?
Here's what we'll be playing this weekend. Be sure to let us know what games will be occupying your
time!
Alexander Sliwinski: With my upgraded PC, I've been checking out
some higher end games from the last three years. FEAR, not so bad. Black and White
2, gorgeous but flawed. The big plan for this weekend is Spore ... now I just
need to get a copy somewhere.
Andrew Yoon:Braid. Second ending.
Christopher Grant: I've returned from a brief respite in the woods, but I
wasn't alone. Something else came back with me. Specifically, my appreciation of the
very portable Professor Layton & The Curious Village. I've got 30-some puzzles
left and an intense desire to crush them using little more than my carefully honed intellect
and a plastic stylus. Also: I've been winding my way through an advance copy of Star Wars:
The Force Unleashed - I should be able to wrangle a couple hours this weekend to polish
that one off. Still in various stages of completion, waiting to return to favor: Castle
Crashers, Siren, Fable 1.
Griffin McElroy: My new roomie recently hooked up his slimline PS2
to our big screen, so I've been playing some classics as of late -- Shadow of the
Colossus, Tony Hawk's Underground (you know, the last good one), and a copy of
Chrono Cross I recently found at this awesome used game store in Chicago. Also trying
to hit the level cap with Mr. Orange in Castle Crashers, and anxiously waiting for
GameFly to deliver me into pure pinata pleasure. ... Also, for the theme: perhaps something
football related, as the season just started? Or perhaps, the inaugural use of the Large Hadron Collider
in Geneva, which could ostensibly create a micro black hole, instantly destroying our world on
Sept. 10? WRUP: The World Ends with Large Hadron Collider Edition?
Kevin Kelly: I will be playing this thing called "finish your damn
PAX posts while doing interviews and watching movies at the Toronto Film Festival." By the way
I highly recommend The Brothers Bloom. Great movie. If they made a game out of that, I
would die happy.
Kyle Orland: I'm also looking for a copy of Spore to see whether
it's a new paradigm in gaming or, as the meta-review seems to indicate, a disappointment. Also
hoping to get some more time with The Last Guy and maybe finally take a look at
Castle Crashers.
James Ransom-Wiley: Goin' down the shore for one last
weekend. Friends are asking me to bring that thing the kids are doing these days ... Wii.
Justin McElroy: If I can bring myself to ignore the title,
I'm going to be playing some Infinite Undiscovery in between checking on my new and
improved pinata garden.
Ludwig Kietzmann: I hope to double my efforts in stopping the evil
Count Waltz in Eternal Sonata, provided I can even manage to switch on my Xbox 360
without instantly firing up Geometry Wars 2. I also plan to feign struggle against and
almost immediately succumb to the desire to play through the post-Trophy Uncharted.
Again.
Randy Nelson: Like several of my fellow Joystiqers, I'll be tracking
down a copy of Spore (no, my attendance at last night's launch party hosted by Mr. Wright did
not come with "perks"). I also plan to brush up on my SOCOM skills thanks to the
Confrontation beta, although I won't be playing it with the benefit of Sony's nifty new Bluetooth headset. Also: Castle Crashers (go orange!) and
The Last Guy (go Himalayan zombie hero!).
Ross Miller: I've got a tough choice to make. I've finally
caught up on school work (thanks, PAX!) and PAX articles (thanks, school!), and my copy of
Too Human came in early this week - a bit late, yes, but now I get to play it without
all the controversy and anger and hype. So I'll finally be trying it out. In between hours-long
sessions of Spore, that is.
Michigan-based hard rock quartet TAPROOT has issued the following update: "We'll be performing
acoustically and signing at the Borders in our hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 18!
Everyone is welcome to come join us for the celebration of the release of our new album, 'Our Long
Road Home'! We're looking forward to seeing all of our hometown fans there to celebrate with us!"
The
ProteMac has launched of ProteMac Meter 1.0, an application that allows users to monitor and log
all network traffic. Real-time usage details can be displayed for each application running,
including connections, timestamps, host availability, remote host names, the amount and speed of
incoming/outgoing data, and more. If a session is logged, the average speed and total amount of
data transferred ...
"There's never been a shortage of thirty and fortysomethings reminiscing about the 'Mats," Mark
Richardson observes in his review of the first four Replacements albums' Rhino reissues. Much to my eternal non-cred, I'm not
a part of that indiest of generations. That means I heard "Can't Hardly Wait" over the credits of
a movie starring Ethan Embry (who?) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (who?), got obsessed with
"Alex Chilton" thanks to streaming internet radio, and fell in love with "Kiss Me on the Bus"
after the same profanity demon hellride to Des Moines that prompted me to download "Hell
Greyhound Bus Ride" by Wesley Willis. It also means I knew the underachieving, beer-soaked
Minnesota band's legend from books like Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life
before I'd heard big chunks of their discography.
Doesn't matter. If these demos from Rhino's next set of Replacements reissues tell us anything
about this band, it's that their songs were sharp and tuneful enough to withstand not just the
indignities of studio production, but also their own underdog mystique. Tim's "Kiss Me
on the Bus" is considerably faster and rougher on this demo, cut in the summer of 1985 to see how
well the band got along with ex-Ramone (and eventual Tim producer) Tommy Erdelyi, but
the bittersweet modern kicks that made the song great were already there.
"Photo" could be familiar to some diehards as "P.O. Box (Empty as Your Heart)"; this work in
progress comes from the band's first demo session without guitarist Bob Stinson, in summer 1986
ahead of Pleased to Meet Me, and despite thematic similarities to Let It Be's
"Answering Machine" it sounds like it should've been on an album.
"Talent Show", stripped of the overproduction and ringing acoustic guitars of Don't Tell a
Soul, takes on a renewed vitality. All of which makes even a person of my non-McCain age
wonder whether that's just indigestion, or if the music is making me actually feel something.
Better buy some beer just in case.
[the deluxe reissues of Tim, Pleased to Meet Me, Don't Tell a Soul,
and All Shook Down are due 09/23/08 from Rhino]
Following the download of the latest firmware, my iPhone went crazy!
Many problems after and a gazillion of forum posts later, I am about to give up and send this
glossy, fingerprints-friendly thing back to Apple...
---
Here are the symptoms:
1. After having been restored to 2.0.2 (DFU mode, yes, I am sure) via iTunes (either using the log
or by downloading the .ipsw directly through Internet), I got the following error (roughly
translated from french):
Quote: The iPhone "iPhone" cannot be used with iTunes because the information required for
activation cannot be obtained from your iPhone.
Please check that your SIM card is properly inserted in your iPhone and that it is not locked by a
PIN code. Here, my iPhone is showing the iTunes logo along with a white USB cable. Urgent call
slider is also present.
If I disconnect the phone and plug it back: same error again and again...
2. QuickPwnGui 120 (also tested with WinPwn 2.5 BETA): I can reach the interface of my iPhone, can
use it normally (sound, photo, game, Internet etc…) but cannot catch the network (the
official carrier in France is Orange, same as AT&T) even if it shows 1/5 signal strength. Too
bad for a phone...
3. Reset the network preferences directly on the iPhone.
4. Tested with my sister's SIM card (locked by a PIN). Same than with my own card (unlocked).
---
Let me underline that:
1. I have opened a new Windows XP session especially for the manipulations.
2. I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes 27 times.
3. I have unlocked my SIM card using another phone. When I insert it, the iPhone doesn't ask for a
code whereas it does with my sister's.
4. My SIM card works perfectly with another phone.
---
Can anybody help me on this one before I officially declare Apple my number one enemy? Which will
probably take less time than joining them over the phone...
ProteMac has launched of ProteMac Meter 1.0, an application that allows users to monitor and log
all network traffic. Real-time usage details can be displayed for each application running,
including connections, timestamps, host availability, remote host names, the amount and speed of
incoming/outgoing data, and more. If a session is logged, the average speed and total amount of
data transferred ...
I have an asp
page that I am working on in which the menu has some links that are only visible to certain
users (currently based on a session variable). I'm curious though how to improve the loading time
as it seems a bit slow. One solution I thought might come from structuring my navigation
differently. Currently, I have something like this:
Code: <li>item</li>
<%
if (Session("Variable ") <> "") then
%>
<!-- Logged in users only -->
<li>item</li>
<% end if %> That happens about 8-10 times as the different sections of the menu each have
items appearing for different sets of users. Is this where my lag is coming from, and is there a
better method handling such a problem?
wKiosk Browser 5.1.1wKiosk is the ideal way for Mac OS X
to present web-based content (HTML, Flash, PDF, videos, etc.) and applications in a safe and stable
way in public access terminals with or without access to the Internet. You can use wKiosk to
individually restrict access to Web sites, the operating system, system settings, and applications.
Your computer will be protected against any manipulation from the time you boot up until you shut
it down.
Since wKiosk is built with the Apple Safari Engine, you will benefit from all the features that
this modern browser has to offer (Flash, QuickTime, Real Audio, multimedia formats, etc). We
developed wKiosk with the intention to create a browser that would provide the same functionality
and ease of use as Safari, while adding maximum security and protection from user interference.
wKiosk is completely customizable, you can make it fit the individual requirements of your public
access terminals.
The program was created entirely within Apple Cocoa Frameworks, ensuring maximum performance and
stability. The program also features an easy-to-use aqua interface and streamlined window for
easy navigation.
wKiosk will automatically return to the initial screen after each session.It will also close all
windows, delete temporary internet files and cookies. The kiosk will then be reset to its initial
state. In addition, you can limit web access to certain URLs like your company website. No
programming skills are necessary to setup wKiosk. Configuring it is very simple and can be
accomplished within a couple of minutes. More information
Zoom is a low-overhead graphical and command line profiler for Linux. A Zoom profile is
system-wide, precise down to the instruction level, and captures backtraces. This lets you see
exactly what was running, where time was spent, and how that code was called. Drill down into
critical code to get detailed performance data. Zoom analyzes and annotates your code with specific
tuning advice for many compilers and processors. Share what you find with colleagues or archive it
for later review. Zoom saves profiles as a single, self-contained session file that can be emailed
or attached to bug reports. It also supports remote network profiling and scripting.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes:
Smart text truncation of symbol names. Improved source file path mapping and search. Improved
sorting and selection in code browser. Maximize/restore widgets for source and assembly views.
Quick sample and address display change via double-click. Improved memory handling for samples with
large backtraces. The ability to hide symbols below a specified sample weight. New config (+) and
delete config (-) buttons. Stability and performance fixes.
Zoom is a low-overhead graphical and command line profiler for Linux. A Zoom profile is
system-wide, precise down to the instruction level, and captures backtraces. This lets you see
exactly what was running, where time was spent, and how that code was called. Drill down into
critical code to get detailed performance data. Zoom analyzes and annotates your code with specific
tuning advice for many compilers and processors. Share what you find with colleagues or archive it
for later review. Zoom saves profiles as a single, self-contained session file that can be emailed
or attached to bug reports. It also supports remote network profiling and scripting.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes:
Smart text truncation of symbol names. Improved source file path mapping and search. Improved
sorting and selection in code browser. Maximize/restore widgets for source and assembly views.
Quick sample and address display change via double-click. Improved memory handling for samples with
large backtraces. The ability to hide symbols below a specified sample weight. New config (+) and
delete config (-) buttons. Stability and performance fixes.
Les pilotes McLaren Mercedes, Heikki Kovalainen et Lewis Hamilton, ont conclus ce vendredi la
seconde séance d'essais libres (EL2) du GP de Belgique à Spa-Francorchamps
respectivement en 3ème et 4ème positions. Lors d'une session qui a été
interrompue une demi-heure avant la fin par un drapeau rouge, Heikki a parcouru 19 tours,
crédité d'un meilleur temps de 1' 19" 840.
Belgique : Toro Rosso Ferrari - 1ère journée
Sébastien Bourdais a réussi un bon septième temps dans une première
session libre épargnée par les intempéries, juste devant son coéquipier
Sebastian Vettel...
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Join us now for our weekly review of Web Technology news. This week was dominated by
the launch of Google's new open source browser Chrome. As the Ed tweeted during the week: how
often does a major Internet company launch a brand new browser? Check out our extensive coverage
and analysis below.
This week Google
launched a new product for the enterprise market, Google Video for business. It's a new
application in the Google Apps office suite, enabling workers to upload and share videos inside
their organizations. Videos can be shared on an individual, group or company-wide basis. Google
sees it being used for such things as executive communications, product training, trip reports,
"social videos" for the company intranet.
We ran a
poll 
That's right, folks, this
week we've gone recursive. Who says we can't be our own special edition? Here's what we'll be
playing this weekend. Be sure to let us know what games will be occupying your time!
