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January 2012

iPhone 4S is worth buying to look fashionable but not for Siri feature -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New

One of the most touted features of the iPhone 4S is the web-based voice recognition assistant Siri. It's interesting and sometimes powerful, but not always in China. First, it doesn't support Mandarin and China-based map and location services, which makes it somewhat less appealing than Apple's US-based advertising would have you believe. The good news is that Apple has said it will launch a Chinese-language version of Siri this year. Second, it can't always recognize words spoken in English. I tried it 10 times, and it recognized my words only 5 times. A Canadian native speaker who also tried found it worked seven out of 10 times. Still, it will give you results sometimes if it manages to catch only keywords.

Siri, c'est la personne qui vous répondra toujours au téléphone.

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How NASA kept astronauts from swearing on the Moon

by bouilloire

Four days, four hours, and forty-four minutes after launch... ça fait beaucoup de 4 ça !

December 2011

John Lewis launches private accelerator DojoBoost | The Rude Baguette

by oseres (via)

Earlier this month at LeWeb, I ran into entrepreneur, professor and startup mentor John Lewis. Having been funded at least 6 times by my count, John Lewis has been living in Paris for quite some time, helping startups at LeCamping, mentoring at StartupWeekend events, and as a professor of finance at both HEC and IAE Gustave Eiffel. Using his experience launching and running software startups, John Lewis has announced the launch of DojoBoost, a new startup accelerator which may receive its first class of startups as early as March 2012.

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Pastmapper - San Francisco 1853

by karlcow

This is the alpha (prototype) launch of Pastmapper, a new platform for describing the world of the past.

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November 2011

Cannot browse bluetooth device (Page 1) / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums

by sylvainulg (via)

forget about bluetooth-applet ... install blueman and launch blueman-applet.

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October 2011

Elements Of A Viral Launch Page - Smashing Magazine

by oseres & 1 other (via)

s Of A Viral Launch Page

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How to launch in a month, scale to a million users :: Joseph Perla

by oseres (via)

I will talk about my last two startups where I used a lot of techniques to build them quickly and scale them up. Here I explore different techniques I used to architect them to scale which are quite simple, but someone who is not familiar with building systems may be interested in learning how to build his or her own scalable site.

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September 2011

99ROOMS.COM

by gregg & 15 others

99Rooms is an unique internet art project that mixes wall painting, photography, animation and sound. Shortly after its launch in June 2004, more than 5 million individuals throughout the world have already visited this interdisciplinary composite work of art. 99Rooms stemmed from the mystical, often apocalyptically charming pictures created by Berlin artist Kim Köster within the countless vacated premises of East Berlin‘s industrial sector.

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August 2011

Spice Girls launch Channel 5 (UK) - YouTube

by karlcow

Easter Weekend 1997 and the Spice Girls launch Channel 5 in the UK with their song "Power of Five"

Now we know where the whatwg got his inspiration…

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Official Google Blog: Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

by holyver (via)

Since its launch in November 2007, Android has not only dramatically increased consumer choice but also improved the entire mobile experience for users. Today, more than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide—with over 550,000 devices now lit up every day—through a network of about 39 manufacturers and 231 carriers in 123 countries. Given Android’s phenomenal success, we are always looking for new ways to supercharge the Android ecosystem. That is why I am so excited today to announce that we have agreed to acquire Motorola.

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July 2011

Launch like Steve Jobs: 7 Ways to Build Buzz for Your Next Product Launch

by 4004

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May 2011

Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt MacBook Airs coming in June or July

by alamat & 1 other (via)

A new report claims that Apple’s supply chain will begin shipments of new MacBook Air models upgraded to include Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect later this month in preparation for a June or July launch.

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How Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg Create Their Animated GIFs - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic

by sbrothier

New York City-based photographer Jamie Beck, in collaboration with Kevin Burg, a web designer with a background in video and motion graphics, has elevated the art of animated GIFs. In a post yesterday, we showcased some of Beck's collaborations with supermodel Coco Rocha. After the post was published, Beck sent us a detailed message explaining her work process, which we've reproduced in part below. You can view all of Beck and Burg's GIFs on Beck's From Me To You tumblr. They hope to launch a separate portfolio website in the next week or so.

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Coming Soon Page | Launching Soon Script | Coming Soon Website

by oseres

Got your domain name but haven't built a website yet? No problem. The Launch Soon script will allow you to easily create a professional coming soon page enabling you to start generating buzz for your business, within minutes! It will automatically collect emails from potential clients, leaving you to get on and build your website. Fully plug and play, a total breeze to set up...

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OpenProj | Serena Open Source and Hosted Project Management Software

by cascamorto & 5 others

OpenProj is a free, open source project management solution. OpenProj is a replacement of Microsoft Project and other commercial project solutions. The OpenProj solution has been download more than 1,250,000 times in the few months since launch and is being used in over 142 countries. A free download of OpenProj is Click to enlarge in a new windowavailable here and is distributed under the CPAL license. OpenProj is ideal for desktop project management and is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows. It even opens existing Microsoft or Primavera files. OpenProj shares the industry's most advanced scheduling engine with Project-ON-Demand and provides Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing and more. There is literally no time or effort involved in switching to OpenProj, and your teams can manage projects on any platform for free.

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April 2011

Android Apps: Ninja Camera

by alamat & 1 other (via)

★Widget Mode: User can quickly take a picture or record a video as a Widget and there is no need to launch the Camera application. Because many beautiful view is fleeting. Support silent mode. It is completely silence under Widget Mode.

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Jdrop – JSON in the cloud | High Performance Web Sites

by karlcow

The motivation for Jdrop came from my recent focus on mobile and subsequent launch of bookmarklets for mobile devices (Mobile Perf and Page Resources, followed by Docsource). I like using bookmarklets because they run on all mobile browsers that support JavaScript.

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Free Virus Scan - Kaspersky Lab

by cascamorto & 3 others

Free Virus Scan

* Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 2010 : Is your computer behaving strangely? It might be infected by viruses or other malicious programs which affect its operation. The free Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool will help you to find and neutralize them.

* Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 : Is your PC so seriously infected that it is impossible to launch the operating system? Don’t panic! The free Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 will help you to treat and restore your system.

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February 2011

Shuttle launch witnessed from above

by astrochoupe

Le décollage de la navette spatiale filmé depuis un avion de ligne

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LAUNCH Conference - Blog - LAUNCH002: What I Learned from Zuckerberg's Mistakes

by karlcow

Then it really hit me: Developer-driven startups always produce product faster.This stands to reason: our nontechnical people are having discussions and debates while Zuckerberg is coding his next feature. This is why no one has been able to keep up with Facebook!

The cost of social glue. Accepting mistakes will happen and take care of them when they happen or avoiding as much as possible the mistakes by a requirement document in advance.

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January 2011

Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Don’t Follow

by mozkart (via)

1. Don’t use the admin account – The default user account that is created with every installation of WordPress is the admin account. Unfortunately the entire world knows this, including hackers, and can easily launch a dictionary attack on your website to try and guess your password. If a hacker already knows your username that’s half the battle. It’s highly recommended to delete or change the admin account username. 2. Move your wp-config.php file – Did you know since WordPress 2.6 you can move your wp-config.php file outside of your root WordPress directory? Most users don’t know this and the ones that do don’t do it. To do this simply move your wp-config.php file up one directory from your WordPress root. WordPress will automatically look for your config file there if it can’t find it in your root directory. 3. Change the WordPress table prefix – The WordPress table prefix is wp_ by default. You can change this prior to installing WordPress by changing the $table_prefix value in your wp-config.php file. If a hacker is able to exploit your website using SQL Injection, this will make it harder for them to guess your table names and quite possibly keep them from doing SQL Injection at all. If you want to change the table prefix after you have installed WordPress you can use the WP Security Scan plugin to do so. Make sure you take a good backup before doing this though. 4. Use Secret Keys – This is probably the most followed security tip on the list, but still I’m amazed at how many people don’t do this. A secret key is a hashing salt that is used against your password to make it even stronger. Secret keys are set in your wp-config.php file. Simply visit https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1 to have a set of randomly generated secret keys created for you. Copy the 4 secret keys to your wp-config.php file and save. You can add/change these keys at any time, the only thing that will happen is all current WordPress cookies will be invalidated and your users will have to log in again. 5. htaccess lockdown – This is actually my favorite tip from my presentation. Using a .htaccess file you can lockdown your wp-admin directory by IP address. This means only IP addresses you specify can access your admin dashboard URLs. This makes it impossible for anyone else to try and hack your WordPress backend. To do this simply create a file called .htaccess and add the following code to your file, replacing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your IP address:

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Seth's Blog: A culture of testing

by François Hodierne

Netflix tests everything. They're very proud that they A/B test interactions, offerings, pricing, everything. It's almost enough to get you to believe that rigorous testing is the key to success.

Except they didn't test the model of renting DVDs by mail for a monthly fee.

And they didn't test the model of having an innovative corporate culture.

And they didn't test the idea of betting the company on a switch to online delivery.

The three biggest assets of the company weren't tested, because they couldn't be.

Sure, go ahead and test what's testable. But the real victories come when you have the guts to launch the untestable.

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