Weekly Ten (05-12-2008)

Monday, May 12, 2008

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:


1. Political Loyalties in Web Frameworks
There are at least two distinct forms of web framework styles: "right-leaning" and "left-leaning" (in the political sense).
More @ plope.com

2. 3G settings discovered in latest beta of iPhone firmware
As if there were any doubt that Apple's next-generation iPhone would include support for 3G wireless networks, an inactive preference dialog extracted from the most recent beta of iPhone Software v2.0 may offer the most concrete evidence yet to that end.
More @ AppleInsider

3. Investing in the future of the open Internet
As you may have read, Google, Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have entered into an agreement to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless broadband company.
More @ Googleblog

4. Kernel driver for the PIC18F4550 microcontroller
More @ HackaDay


5. IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
Together with the charity Childnet, IFPI recently launched a campaign to educate kids, teachers and parents about the dangers of filesharing. Ironically, the legal alternatives they suggest direct the kids to LimeWire, Kazaa and sites that sell hardcore adult movies.
More @ TorrentFreak

6. Sync Your iPhone Wirelessly in Linux
Linux users, let's take a look at how to set up your iPhone or iPod touch for any-time wireless access after the jump.
More @ Lifehacker

7. Microsoft shares more IE8 security details
When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release.
More @ ZDNetBlogs

8. Terrafugia hopes to showcase drivable airplane this summer
More @ Engadget


9. DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 252
It's a Fedora week here at DistroWatch. A new version of the popular distribution will be released later this week, complete with the usual cutting edge features, such as KDE 4, dramatic speed improvements, support for the ext4 file system and many others.
More @ Distrowatch

10. Random Favorites (Philippine Tech News and Blogs)

*Is Linux Really Free from Virus? -UbuntuSite

*Tip: Simple SSL Certificate Scanner -Pinoy Tux

*Adobe Flex: Specifying Remote Object Endpoint at Runtime - Me and the Computer

*GIMP 2.6 - coming very soon! - Ang Pilipino Gimp

*Wordpress 2.5 - Simply Wow! - Techsier

*Don't Complain! - Bo Sanchez

*iPhone In Philippines, Will Consumers get It ? - Tech at Hand

*Episode 14: Learning Robotics -You Got Tech


There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 comments:

Dexter said...

Thanks for the link..