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If everyone’s not exactly wild about YouTube’s interface and instead opting for Vimeo, here’s good news for all: YouTube bumped uploads to 2GB today, and HD videos can now be embed. Good news for all!
Upload Size Doubles + HD Tips [from Lifehacker]
Google Updates Design, Adds Padding
Google adds padding to the search results of each page. It improves the aesthetics by a small amount. Users accustomed with the old design (like me) will suddenly feel that something is out of place.
Firefox 3.5 Has Been Released
Firefox 3.5 has been released to the public. Mozilla’s newest browser is up to two times faster than the previous version.
Some of the best features include TraceMonkey, the new JavaScript engine, as well as better speeds and a greater overall.
Maybe now is the time for speed crazers to come back to Firefox and see if it’s better than Chrome?
What do you think?
Windows 7 Prices Are Set, Finds Me Crying
The prices for Windows 7, Microsoft’s next operating system, have been released, and once again, I find the prices annoying.
The quality of the OS has been directly affected by the price, it seems, and Brandon LeBlanc from the Windows Team can say Home Premium is twenty dollars cheaper than Vista’s version, but still, it’s awfully expensive.
… estimated retail prices for upgrade … product of Windows 7 … are:
- Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99
- Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99
- Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99
… estimated retail prices for full … product of Windows 7 … are:
- Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99
- Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99
- Windows 7 Ultimate (Full): $319.99
… Windows 7 Home Premium full retail product is $40.00 less than Windows Vista Home Premium today.
The Windows Team Blog (truncated)
Many users are complaining that the upgrade prices from XP and Vista are the same; while this is maddening for people who went through the burdens of purchasing Vista, it will help migrate XP users to 7 when they think of the price benefits.
Here’s something that makes me want to cry: my aunt purchased a laptop not a month ago. Today she found it unable to get a free upgrade to Windows 7. Why can’t Microsoft release a tiered price for upgrades system so she get’s a cheaper upgrade?
8 Things You Shouldn’t Do In A PowerPoint
written by Brandon Wang.
Incredibly, even with technology so advanced and the population of the world so incredibly knowledgeable, people still insist on doing the most spastic and annoying things in a PowerPoint.
Of course, we are talking about students here, we are talking about salesman who really just want to make a point, and for people who don’t exactly spend hours in Photoshop perfecting a design.
Of course, there are 8 things you can do to avoid the craze and make your PowerPoint stand out. We’re going to show you how to do that.
Windows 7: Second Impressions
I’ve been doing a lot of examining on Windows 7 lately. It’s extremely popular, it seems to be the talk of everyone these days, and everyone seems to be offering first impressions (I did as well).
It seems as if Windows 7 is perfect, or at least as perfect as Microsoft can possibly make it. It is a definite improvement over the previous versions of Windows: better than Vista, and better than XP, in my opinion.
However, it isn’t perfect, and in order to find these imperfections, you must use it for a while. Installing it on my test machine wasn’t enough, so soon I backed up my files and put it on my main computer, something I didn’t think I had enough willpower to do.
Now that I am using it, however, I can really appreciate the OS fully. It’s definitely, in my personal opinion, extremely close to production status.
The Basics of PHP
This is a guide that intends you teach you the basics of PHP coding language, and with a knowledge so thorough that you will be able to immediately start to code a major project.
Persevere, learn it, understand.
How To Process 15+ Feeds in 10 Minutes
Every single day, I sit down and I read 15 blog feeds, ranging from Engadget to Lifehacker to Zen Habits. I get around 150 posts in every single day.
For most people, this can drive them nuts. Yet I can comfortably read all of them, stay up to date in the technological world, and maybe delve into a few of the articles I find really interesting.
And I do this all in 10 minutes. Here’s how I do it.
Windows 7 Roundup
Windows 7 is currently under beta, and I recently gave it a go on a virtual environment on my computer. Here’s a quick roundup of Windows 7 so far.
First of all, chaotic tech has a screencast on Windows 7, actually, found in the screencast section. I encourage you to take a look. I do a visual demonstration of much new stuff.
In this article, I’m writing about new things from Windows 7. These are in no particular order.
Michael Bayard and Belkin: What’s the Big Deal
If you’ve been reading large blogs like Engadget lately, you probably noticed that they are doing a lot of coverage on Belkin, Michael Bayard, and Amazon.
Basically, for those of you that haven’t been reading it, the whole hype is this: a Belkin employee (Michael Bayard) recently went on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk system and told people that he would pay them 65 cents per positive review.
He also told prospective fake-writers to down-rate any reviews that said that the product was bad. Now, here’s the thing: this product (a router) has a long history of bad performance. So Bayard was basically destroying the honesty of Amazon reviews.
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