Thursday, May 24, 2007

Byte Into It 23rd May 2007



35 of the Best Thunderbird Addons - lifehack.org
MakeUseOf.com have a nice list of their best 10 ‘must-have’ Thunderbird Addons, appended with 25 more that you ‘might-want’.

How to Optimize Your Desktop - lifehack.org
How to Optimize Your Desktop

Direct2Dell - Dell's Blog
Ubuntu 7.04 Offering—Technical Details


Slashdot | Small Webcasters Offered a Rate Break, Reject It
Music royalty collection group SoundExchange has offered an olive branch to small webcasters. They are willing to delay the exorbitant new rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board until 2010 for small webcasters in hopes that they can keep Congress from passing the Internet Radio Equality Act. Larger outfits, like Live365 and Pandora would not be affected and would have to pay the new rates.

Google launches security blog - Security - www.itnews.com.au
In a continuation of its year-old effort to make the Web more secure, Google today launched a new online security blog to keep Internet users informed about security threats.

Aussie's still being scammed - Security - www.itnews.com.au
Queenslanders are forking out around $500,000 a month to Nigerian email scammers.

Hoax email costs Apple US$4bn in six minutes - Internet - www.itnews.com.au
An email published on a blog knocked US$4 billion off Apple's stock market valuation on Friday before it was exposed as a hoax.

Mac Rumors: Internal Investigation on Fake Apple Email
In the wake of the fake iPhone and Leopard delay rumor that hit the web on May 16th, there's been a number of stories and claims regarding the events.

Michigan man arrested for using cafe's free WiFi from his car
Michigan man arrested for using cafe's free WiFi from his car

Digg - NVIDIA 100.14.06 Linux Driver Released
NVIDIA 100.14.06 Linux Driver Released

Digg - Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB
Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google to list top 100 searches
A feature listing the day's 100 fastest-rising search requests has been unveiled by Google.


Analysis: HDMI spec good for producers, not consumers

Microsoft trademarks logo for on-demand IPTV service

Digg - Latest AACS revision defeated a week before release

Slashdot | RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio

Download of the Day: Colibri (not quite yet) Quicksilver for Windows - Lifehacker

Microsoft says 'EU version' of Windows Vista a dud - Operating Systems - www.itnews.com.au

Digg - Did you know these basic Firefox Tips?

Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Microsoft is not the real threat
Microsoft themselves will be strong advocates against software patents.



Microsoft puts a figure on open source 'patent infringements' | The Register

Linux vouchers, Microsoft, and GPL3: separating the signal from the noise
Free Software Foundation (FSF) lawyer Eben Moglen claims that the
absence of an expiration date on SUSE vouchers distributed by Microsoft
will make Microsoft subject to terms of the GPL3

Digg - The Music Industry Wants to Kill LimeWire

Google to target ISPs with Google Apps package

Open Source product gets a facelift - Applications - www.itnews.com.au
allocPSA - an open source professional service automation product – gets an upgrade.

Digg - LinuxMCE Beta 1.1 Now Available!


BBC NEWS | Business | Google wins adult photos appeal

http://www.cgsecurity.org  - testdisk - open source disk utilities

http://www.opensourceforensics.org

 

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