Samsung is betting on new transparent liquid crystal display technology to strengthen its top position in the world’s display market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Windows only: Your scanner probably came with OCR software. Chances are, though, it’s both awkward and space-hogging. FreeOCR is an slim, efficient app that has just four main buttons, and performs well at converting scanned images and PDFs into edit-ready text — via lifehacker
The Microsoft Office Blog details how a combination of the TRIM, CLEAN and Convert to Number
functions in Excel can take numbers that are surrounded by extraneous data and make them usable again. Getting badly-formatted spreadsheets isn’t uncommon, so it’s good to know about these options even if you’ll still need to double-check the results afterwards — via lifehacker
Just yesterday, we mentioned that new consumer laws meant that items sold on a contract should be covered by a warranty for the life of that contract. Proving the point, the ACCC has negotiated a court-enforceable undertaking with Optus that means phones sold on a 24-month deal will be under warranty for that entire period — even for iPhone owners — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I really don’t understand why Google didn’t add a feature that lets you upload a bookmarks file exported by your browser to Google Bookmarks. Google still recommends to install Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer or Firefox to upload bookmarks, but this shouldn’t be necessary. That’s like installing Picasa to upload your photos to Picasa Web Albums.
Fortunately, Mihai Parparita built a tool for exporting your Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks and it can be used to upload any bookmarks file to Google Bookmarks — via Google Operating System
Suppose that just after you finish reading this article, you keel over, dead. Perhaps you’re ready for such an eventuality, in that you have prepared a will or made some sort of arrangement for the fate of the worldly goods you leave behind: financial assets, personal effects, belongings likely to have sentimental value to others and artifacts of your life like photographs, journals, letters. Even if you haven’t made such arrangements, all of this will get sorted one way or another, maybe in line with what you would have wanted, and maybe not.
But many of us, in these worst of circumstances, would also leave behind things that exist outside of those familiar categories. Suppose you blogged or tweeted about this article, or dashed off a Facebook status update, or uploaded a few snapshots from your iPhone to Flickr, and then logged off this mortal coil. It’s now taken for granted that the things we do online are reflections of who we are or announcements of who we wish to be. So what happens to this version of you that you’ve built with bits? Who will have access to which parts of it, and for how long? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the first set of cables leaked by WikiLeaks that originate from the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, Japan asked the US to take action against an anti-whaling activist group for harassing Japanese whalers, including taking away the group’s tax-exempt status — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The California Supreme Court allowed police Monday to search arrestees’ cell phones without a warrant, saying defendants lose their privacy rights for any items they’re carrying when taken into custody — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There is, in the words of Jeff Atwood, trouble in the house of Google
. It’s not unrest within the company that he’s talking about, though; it’s externally among users who are beginning to find that when they try to do searches to evaluate or buy consumer items – such as dishwashers, or iPhone 4 cases – or to find a site that will give them some useful answers, that Google’s results are awash with spam.
In fact, the problem that plagued the first generation of search engines such as Altavista now seems to be gaining traction on Google, which outdistanced those earlier rivals precisely because it dumped the spam so effectively — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dell announced Tuesday it is purchasing security services vendor SecureWorks, expanding its range of IT management offerings. Terms were not disclosed.
SecureWorks handles more than 13 billion security events
and spots some 30,000 varieties of malware each day, according to a statement. Its customer base of about 2,900 clients includes more than 1,500 financial institutions and more than 15 percent of the Fortune 500 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We’ve looked at other disposable email services, like MeltMail and SpamBox, but TrashMail provides a huge amount of control over your disposable addresses and you can create them quickly, without visiting Trashmail, using a Firefox or Chrome browser extension.
Trashmail offers several features, but most notably you can customize your own disposable email address, specify the number of times that address can forward to you, and set an expiration date for the address as well. Trashmail also provides a browser extension for easier disposable address creation — via lifehacker
Is a bonafide universal storage cartridge finally at hand? It is if the Serial ATA International Organization and its partnership with 200 some-odd consumer electronics and computer companies can successfully implement the Universal Storage Module spec announced Tuesday.
This isn’t the first attempt at creating a universal storage cartridge. We’ve seen previous efforts fizzle; proprietary efforts with limited mass market appeal; and kludgy efforts that use standard 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hard drives — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In Google’s self-prescribed mission to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful
, it has encountered a stumbling block: language — via redwolf.newsvine.com
That status bar was removed in Firefox 4.0. Status-4-Evar is a collection toolbar widgets and settings to provide replacements for what was previously in the status bar
Researchers are creating a new type of solar cell designed to self-repair like natural photosynthetic systems in plants by using carbon nanotubes and DNA, an approach aimed at increasing service life and reducing cost — via desertjeeper49.newsvine.com
Vodafone has set up a number of taskforce teams
to try to fix network problems following a class action legal threat in which about 9000 customers have expressed an interest in joining.
Sydney law firm PiperAlderman last month sought disgruntled Vodafone customers to press a class action over dropped calls, bad reception and poor data performance — via The Sydney Morning Herald
Mozilla’s Firefox has replaced Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the most widely-used web browser in Europe — via michaelsautter.newsvine.com
HTML emails are a great way to keep clients posted on the latest updates related to your business or product, but they’re a bit tricky. CSS support in email clients is inconsistent. As a result, we must resort to ancient techniques, such as using tables, and inline CSS. Today, I’m going to walk you through the process of creating simple HTML emails — via Nettuts+
Australian music fans are forging foreign iTunes accounts to make big savings on their purchases.
The practice, which is a direct breach to iTunes terms and conditions, has exposed the inflated price that Australians pay to access songs off the popular music and entertainment site.
By creating an American iTunes account through the use of a US credit card or gift card, users are saving up to 80c per song and $7 per album.
The recently released Beatles box set collection can be bought with a saving of more than $A100.
Deals offered on the internet also include $US50 vouchers on sale for $US40, increasing the savings further for music buyers — via vanessa-wilson73.newsvine.com
Spam volumes appear to have dropped to averages last seen in 2008 after an expected surge in bogus email over the Christmas period failed to materialise.
Estimating real spam volumes is a notoriously difficult exercise thanks to a tendency of spam to naturally ebb and flow over time and the fact that no agency has a single view on the phenomenon. However, figures revealed in recent weeks by a number of companies that have compiled stats make curious reading – every vendor’s figures show a fall of some sort — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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