Tag Archives: for what it's worth

Remains of the Day: 100 Million Facebook Users’ Info on BitTorrent [For What It's Worth]

Microsoft shows us what's new in Office for Mac and IE9's typography, Android developers get some anti-piracy options, Verizon smartphones eat more data on average than iPhones, and millions of low-privacy Facebook users are combined into a 2.8 GB directory. More
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Remains of the Day: Google Touches Nearly Every Corner of Your Browsing [For What It's Worth]

A Firefox-extension-as-art-project demonstrates how deeply Google services are embedded in most web sites, Ask.com returns to its roots, and maybe cellphones at the dinner table are an inevitable part of our future. More
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Remains of the Day: Firefox 4 Add-On Developers Should Get Cracking [For What It's Worth]

Google Editions fills the world's e-readers sometime this year, the nation's mood is read through its tweets, the end of privacy might also be the end of shame, and it's time to move on IP address shortages and Firefox 4 add-ons. More
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Remains of the Day: Chrome Gives Ad Blockers More Power [For What It's Worth]

We learn about useful questions versus the right question, see a creative example of tablet-powered note-taking, glimpse into a future without anyone using terrible passwords, and wait until 2011 for a Windows 7 service pack. More
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Remains of the Day: URLs Replace MP3s Replace CDs and So On [For What It's Worth]

Roughly 90 percent of network shows are available for free online at some point, the co-founder of music application Spotify thinks the URL will overshadow the MP3, and has Google gotten too big? More
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Remains of the Day: Windows XP Still Available Through 2014 [For What It's Worth]

Microsoft announces that Windows 7 buyers could still downgrade to Windows XP through 2020, but only really through 2014, Outlook gets social with Facebook, Vimeo offers Creative Commons rights, and clever Roku hackers get Google Voice onto their televisions. More
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Remains of the Day: Get Used to the Paywall [For What It's Worth]

The Pirate Bay gets hacked, Bing continues playing catchup with Google, and is the decade of piracy over? More
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Remains of the Day: Desktop Music Streaming to Android in 2010 [For What It's Worth]

We're all putting lots of thought into our profile pics, Google's adding desktop music streaming to Android this year, video games actually help with some eyesight issues, and Safari gets a userscript-to-extension conversion tool. More
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Remains of the Day: Wireless iTunes Syncing and Streaming [For What It's Worth]

Firefox becomes the default web browser at IBM, Google buys a flight information service, and wireless syncing and streaming may finally be on its way to iTunes. More
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Remains of the Day: Wireless iTunes Syncing and Streaming [For What It's Worth]

Firefox becomes the default web browser at IBM, Google buys a flight information service, and wireless syncing and streaming may finally be on its way to iTunes. More
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