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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Sure, the iTouch is pretty cool. But who wants such a locked down device?
Microtouch - a handheld AVR touch screen demo board
Early this month, Microsoft dropped something of a bombshell on Windows developers: the new Windows 8 touch-friendly immersive style would use a developer platform not based on .NET, which Microsoft has been championing for the past decade. Instead, it would use HTML5 and JavaScript.
Windows 8 for software developers: the Longhorn dream reborn?
Solid discussions of this piece on BoingBoing.net , Hacker News , Slashdot and Reddit . Rob Tercek has a follow up to this piece here .
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Online Activists Tap Tools to Escape Censorship - PCWorld
Internet activists in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia are increasingly using collaborative Internet sites as well as circumvention and anonymity tools to avoid censorship, according to participants at the international "Internet at Liberty" conference sponsored by Google . Countries including Iran, China, Tunisia, Thailand, and Syria have, for example, blocked access to certain sites that allow sharing of user-generated content.
This week Viral Views takes a look at advice-giving animals, letters between friends, and a rendition of Star Wars that would make George Lucas jealous.
Viral Views: Lego Star Wars Trilogy in Under Three Minutes - PCWorld
On TermKit | Steven Wittens - Acko.net
I've been administering Unix machines for many years now, and frankly, it kinda sucks. It makes me wonder, when sitting in front of a crisp, 2 .3 million pixel display (i.e. a laptop) why I'm telling those pixels to draw me a computer terminal from the 80s . And yet, that's what us tech nerds do every day.