New Media + IT

The week ahead | The coming news | Economist.com
Tony Blair's exit date may be set, Daimler hopes to sell Chrysler, the UN reports on the climate and France gets a leader
(tags: news economist theeconomist)

Digg – New York Times Confirms Google Phone
[...] Google has gone so far as to build a prototype phone with its own [...]

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[ categorized as: Link posts ]

WordPress Planet
[...] an aggregation of blogs talking about WordPress from around the world [...]
(tags: wordpress cms opensource)

Xplorer2 file manager (Windows)
The Xplorer2 lite file manager is a superior alternative to Windows' built-in file Explorer.
Xplorer2 sports a tabbed, 3-paned interface
(tags: windows software microsoft explorer)

Wordpress Blogging Goes Mobile with AdMob
[...] a free mobile plug-in blogging tool for the [...]

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[ categorized as: Link posts ]

PC World: Search Engine Shoot-Out
Whether you're searching for text, video, images, news, or local information, you have lots of options beyond Google. We tried dozens of search engines and found some worthy challengers to the king.
(tags: search searches SearchEngine)

Firefox Extension: Smart Digg Button
The Smart Digg Button extension for Firefox places a button in your status [...]

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[ categorized as: Link posts ]

Okay, so I knew that a lot of the blogs in the blogosphere are spam blogs, but I hadn't imagined that the number is 64 percent of all blogs in English!
This is the conclusion in a count of the pings done by the ebiquity research group at University of Maryland:
53% of all pings is [...]

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[ categorized as: Blogs, Spam ]

Is Ubuntu (Linux) ready for the desktop?
I haven't read it yet, but InformationWeek has done a comparison between Ubuntu and Windows Vista.
It's quite a long article, but you can skip right to the conclusion. :-)
Found via Digg.
Update 1:
Ubuntu News also has a take on the comparison.

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[ categorized as: Linux, Microsoft, Open source, Windows ]

What is Scribd?
Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. We make use of a custom Flash document viewer that lets you display documents right in your Web browser. There are all sorts of other features that make it easy and fun to publish, [...]

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[ categorized as: Social web, Web 2.0 ]

Today when I launched my Firefox I got a notification that there was an update available to my del.icio.us bookmarks extension.
Normally I never really get to see what has actually been updated in an extension — usually it's just a design or stability issue.
But this time the good folks at del.icio.us/Yahoo! have added a very [...]

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[ categorized as: Social web ]

This is so sweet! My favourite piece of software for writing CD/DVD's, Nero, is available for Linux as a beta.
Found at Norway's digi.no.
Update 1:
I just grabbed and uploaded a screenshot of Nero Linux Beta taken on my Ubuntu 7.04.

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[ categorized as: Linux, Open source, Software ]

I don't own an iPod so I can't really use this Handbrake — previously known as MediaFork — tool, but others might. So here's a link:
Rip you DVD's to your iPod with Handbrake.

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[ categorized as: Entertainment ]

This worked like a charm for me.
Type the following in your terminal and hit the enter key:
sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
I'm on Feisty right now, and JRE is working as it's supposed to.

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[ categorized as: Linux, Open source ]