This just might be the next big thing to have happened in tech for the home users since Android/iphone stuff.
you have to watch it to understand what is coming at us in your digital future…WOW! just….
WOW
and now I see its only a April Fools Joke!
They had me going…oooooooh.feel burned!
I just saw some paradoxical postings over on Facebook.
The wonders of our English Language never ceases to amuse me and befuddle those trying to learn it.
Why is an Alarm Clock going “off” when it actually turns on?
Why do we drive on a Parkway and Park in a Driveway?
Why are packages sent by ground called shipping and sent by boat called cargo?
I’m sure there are more out there. Share them if you know them please.
This seems to show how ready the world is for quick and useful tools that can be sent and used from your Mobile Phone.
Wait! this Tool is only providing information…it’s not like you get a Geiger Counter ported to your iPhone….
And I bet you thought that at first….
Article Below: Click for Original Source
iPhone users can now download a free iPhone app to tell them what local radiation levels are, in case they’ve not got enough to worry about.
The new application is available worldwide, though you’d have to take paranoia to a new level to worry about spreading radiation from Japan if you weren’t actually nearby: even then you should probably worry about rebuilding the country’s infrastructure more than media-hyped threats of radiation poisoning.
The data for the app, called Radiation Information and published by Qnuouo, comes from the Japanese Ministry of Education, scraped from the ATMC site which already provides charts based on government feeds.
Those disinclined to trust the government can see how safe they are from the crowd-sourced Failed Robot, which mashes network-connected Geiger counters into Google Maps, but there’s no iPhone app for that yet.
We’re sure it won’t be long – the mobile app developers aren’t quite as quick as the Trojan-writing scammers to take advantage of people’s credulity and fear, but they aren’t far behind. ®
I upgraded My FireFox today. Sad not all my addon are ready for 4, but ready to ride the speed and 3D this version offers.
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 4, the latest version of its popular open-source browser, after nearly a year of development.
Available for download on Windows, Linux, and Mac, Firefox 4 offers added JavaScript performance through a new extension to Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey engine, hardware acceleration on all platforms, new tools for organizing and navigating browser tabs, a service for syncing browser settings across multiple machines, and a revamped interface. “We focused a lot on speed,” Mozilla vice presidents of products Jay Sullivan tells The Register.
“But beyond raw speed, we’re speeding up the way users flow through the internet. We’re speeding up your real online life, improving startup time, tab switching, and scrolling – stuff beyond the benchmarks.”
Sullivan also emphasizes that unlike Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9, which made its official debut last week, Firefox 4 runs on Windows XP. “This is really important for so many people,” he says, citing studies indicating that between 40 and 50 per cent of the web users are still on this aging Microsoft OS. “We need to provide updates to security, privacy, and innovations to those folks as well.”
Microsoft is (overly) quick to provide a counter argument. On Monday evening, in anticipation of the release of Firefox 4, Redmond sent a canned statement to journalists defending it decision to offer Internet Explorer 9 only on Windows Vista and Windows 7. “The developer community has been vocal that they want to push the web forward,” the statement read.
“The browser is only as good as the operating system it runs on and a browser running on a ten year old operating system tethers the web to the past. The time has come to stop focusing on lowest common denominator, and to really push what’s possible with innovations like full hardware acceleration. Customers can tell the difference when they see it.”
Firefox 4 does offer hardware acceleration on Windows XP, but it’s limited. Compositing is accelerated through Direct3D, but web content is not accelerated. On Windows Vista and Windows 7, Firefox 4 accelerates content through Direct2D. It should also be pointed out that unlike IE, Firefox 4 supports WebGL, which provides hardware accelerated 3D inside the browser, mapping JavaScript to the OpenGL desktop graphics interface.
Mozilla also provides hardware acceleration on Linux and Mac. Content acceleration is handled through XRender on Linux and through Quartz on Mac, while compositing is handled via OpenGL on both platforms. Mozilla acknowledges that Quartz uses the CPU rather than the GPU. QuartzGL, which provides GPU acceleration through Quartz 2D API, is not supported). But Quzrtz GL isn’t supported by any browser, and no, you can’t get IE9 on a Mac. Or Linux.
[ How cool is this! ] On Monday, Mozilla also unfurled a release candidate for an Android incarnation of Firefox 4. And Sullivan says this version is slated to officially arrive “in the next couple of weeks”. Like the desktop incarnations of the browser, Firefox 4 for Android offers the Mozilla’s Firefox Sync service, which lets you synchronize your browser setting across multiple devices.
Originally known as Firefox Weave, Sync has long been available as a Firefox plug-in, and it’s the basis for Firefox Home, the Mozilla iPhone application that lets you access your Firefox data on Apple’s holy handheld (which will run Firefox itself). On Firefox 4, it lets you synchronize bookmarks, history, “Awesome Bar” data, passwords, form-fill data, and open tabs.
On the desktop, Mozilla’s new browser also offers Panorama, a means of better organizing your browser tabs. letting you sort tabs like playing cards on a table. And it includes what Mozilla calls “App Tabs”, letting you create compact icons on the browser toolbar for frequently used web applications, such as Twitter or Gmail.
At the heart of the browser, Mozilla offers a new extension to its JavaScript engine known as JaegerMonkey (aka JagerMonkey). This operates in tandem with the TraceMonkey extension that debuted with Firefox 3.5 in June 2009. TraceMonkey speeds JavaScript performance by detecting code loops and converting them to assembly language. With Firefox 4, TraceMonkey still looks to convert loops, but when it can’t, JaegerMonkey converts entire methods into assembly. This new method JIT (just in time) compiler uses the Nitro assembler from Apple’s open source WebKit project.
Mozilla is claiming better performance than its competitors – including IE9, Chrome, and Safari – on its own Kracken benchmark (naturally) as well as Facebook’s JSGameBench.
Firefox went through 12 betas and two release candidates, and this is the last incarnation of the popular open source browser to receive such as an extended development and test period. In response to Google, which now delivers a new version of its Chrome browser every six to eight weeks, Mozilla is moving Firefox to a quarterly release schedule, planning to offer three more new versions of the browser before the end of the year.
“The motivation here is that as we build stuff, we want to get it to people as fast as possible,” Sullivan says. “If you look at Firefox 4, all of its tools have been done for a while. But we created this relatively large unit to ship with. Now, when we get stuff done, we need to get it in people’s hands.”
It’s yet to be seen whether Mozilla can actually deliver new browsers at this pace. Working on a year to two-year release schedule, it has a history of delays, including a roughly three month delay on Firefox 4. But the move to quarterly release schedule is welcome. And Firefox 4 is here. ®
It is a remarkable turnaround. Microsoft, the company that more than any other was responsible for freezing web standards by first killing the browser competition and then failing to update its browser for five years, has come out with a browser that is – at the very least – decent.
It is not unequivocally the best browser on Windows. It does not win
every performance test, nor is its HTML 5 support as extensive as that
in some other browsers. Integration with Windows is strong though, as
you would expect, and its privacy controls are excellent.
I am still a FireFox Supporter and will not use IE9 for anything more than testing when developing on the web.
Get FireFox Here
In addition to that revelation, another piece of critical data came via yesterday’s announcement:
Danny Sullivan: If an article is retweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal outside of finding any non-nofollowed links that may naturally result from it?
Read more at the source: Randfish
Pre-Paid Legal Services, which underwrites and sells legal service plans through a network of law firms, said on Monday that it had agreed to be bought out for $650 million by MidOcean Partners, a private equity firm based in New York.
MidOcean is acquiring all the outstanding shares of Pre-Paid for $66.50 a share, a premium of more than 10 percent over Pre-Paid’s closing price on Friday.
People are asking me all the time if Social network Links help SEO. Well Do they?
Here is brief video (Under 3 mins) of Matt Cutts (the face of google Search/Spam team)
Basically if you are not spamming the engines and you have a good reputation in Social it will have some affect.
Many people know about Groupon….but did you know Google has tried to buy Groupon?
Groupon did NOT sell. Even if it was 6 BILLION dollars.
Google said, oh well so much for the easy way to get into this market space.
The Hard way, sort of, is to build and market their own deals website/network.
Enter Google OFFERS….surely to be tied into their maps and places.
Here come the competition Groupon and Living Social.
Read up on what is coming to an internet connection near you.
Sent via an email chain letter of sorts….it’s worth the read.
How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician-Republican or Democrat, no difference- use the
Word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about
Whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
But one advertising agency did a good job of
Putting that figure into some perspective in
One of it’s releases.
A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were Living in the Stone Age.
D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E.
A billion dollars ago was only
8 hours and 20 minutes,
At the rate our government
Is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain…
let’s take a look at New Orleans …
It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator,
Mary Landrieu (D)
Is presently asking Congress for
250 BILLION DOLLARS
To rebuild New Orleans .. Interesting number…
What does it mean?
A.
Well … If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
You each get $516,528.
B..
Or… If you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787..
C.
Or… If you are a family of four….
Your family gets $2,066,012.
Washington , D. C
HELLO!
Are all your calculators broken??
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties(tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
(And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes)
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago……
And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt….
We had the largest middle class in the world…..
And Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened?
Can you spell:
‘POLITICIANS!’
And I still have to
Press ‘1’
For English.
I hope this goes around
the U < /b>S A
At least 100 times
What the hell happened???
