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January 2012

Tracking the Trackers: Self-Help Tools | Stanford Center for Internet and Society

by karlcow

A number of technologies have been touted to offer consumers control over third-party web tracking. This post reviews the tools that are available and presents empirical evidence on their effectiveness.

OneSwarm

by m.meixide
Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications offer no user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor user behavior. As a result, using a P2P network means that your online activities become public knowledge. OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.

December 2011

Context Aware DoNotTrack -

by karlcow

Context-Aware DoNotTrack is a particular implementation of Do Not Track initiative, a movement aimed at stemming the widespread use of user tracking by third party ad-networks as users surf through the web.

November 2011

Rocketbox

by karlcow & 3 others

Over time the Mac App Store will become the primary way Mac users purchase their software. Unfortunately this is a marketplace that Rocketbox will not be allowed into. Rocketbox is a Mail plugin which is unsupported by Apple and not allowed in the Mac App Store. As more software moves to the Mac App Store it will become increasingly difficult to sell Rocketbox through a third party website.

This... is... SPARTIFY!

by Spone
Host a Party and let guests choose what songs to play on Spotify. No more huddling in front of one computer or messing up the queue! What if they're all drunk? Don't worry, We'll fill it up for ya!

October 2011

DESTINATION TOKYO TRAILER 1943 CARY GRANT - YouTube

by karlcow

Theatrical trailer for the Delmar Daves' WWII adventure, DESTINATION TOKYO, starring Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hales and Dane Clark. In this patriotic, fictional submarine saga, the USS Copperfin is scertely ordered to put landing party onshore in Tokyo Bay to assist with the forthcoming Doolittle bombing raid. A box-office hit, the film also garnered an Oscar nomination for Besrt Original Story.

Prinz Muenchen

by 84GHz
München Party, Konzerte, Kino, Kultur - Cityguide: Restaurants, Bars, Clubs, Shopping - Prinz

munig.com

by 84GHz
- Stadtmagazin München - Kino, Party, Konzert, Musical, Singles, Immobilien, Hotels, Jobs

munichx - Stadtmagazin

by 84GHz
München: Oktoberfest, Wiesn, Kino, Party, Konzert, Tickets, Singles, Flirten

September 2011

Hacker News | Your point was, and I quote:"Javascript itself was developed by a company (Netsc...

by karlcow

The "free market" is a bogus political phrase. I'm in favor of markets: real ones that self-regulate by preventing fraud (a central clearing/blinding counter-party, bid/offer/open-interest/size transparency) and abuse of power (market winners capture governments -- this has happened throughout history, it's a big problem right now, see the Global Financial Crisis).

August 2011

Geoffrey Sneddon - Google+

by karlcow

Carakan was originally developed in Linköping, with one guy in Göteborg. With people moving and other people joining the team, we're now pretty much one in Linköping, one in Göteborg, one in Oslo, and myself somewhat around in Glasgow. So, uh, yeah… CARAKAN-1024 (Release Party) still being unresolved shows how often we're actually physically all in one place. :)

4 persons working on Carakan.

July 2011

250 Cameras, A Day Of Soldering, Zero CGI: Party's Mind-Bending, Strobe-Animated Music Video | Fast Company

by karlcow

Inspired by the song's lyrics, "not to make it a memory," Party created the video using 250 Canon still cameras; their flashes were controlled via a potent DIY cocktail of arduino, openFrameworks, and Flash. The effect is a “light animation” produced with no CGI at all.

June 2011

How to Improve the Memory Performance of Your Windows7 PC | Windows 7 News

by decembre
Getting the best performance out of your Windows7 OS can involve bringing in many 3rd party tools. But before you do that, try some in house tools first. Step 1: Go to the Control Panel Step 2: Select System and Security Step 3: Select System Step 4: Select Advanced System Settings Step 5: Select Performance – Settings Step 6: On the Visual Effects Tab, select Adjust for Best Performance. This will clear any selections that may be present.t Step 7. On the Advanced tab select programs. Step 8. Select the Change button. Step 9: Customize the size of the cache Click Custom size Enter the initial size (the recommended amount) Enter the maximum size (add 100 to the initial size or some other number so you have a range, minimum to maximum). Click Set Click OK You may have to reboot your system.

May 2011

Skype partner update leads to worm fears

by alamat & 1 other (via)
Skype has been forced to disable a third-party “update” pushed out to users late last week after it sparked fears the popular VoIP service was propagating a worm.

April 2011

Cheap Dresses for Under $20

by skytide2
We just added several little black dresses. These short dresses can be wornd at a cocktail party or when you go out clubbing. The little black dress has been fashionable for many years, and they will continue to be in style. The black cocktail dress is simple, yet sophisticated. All eyes will be turning your way when you wear these sexy dresses.

Windows7 Backup not doing incremental

by night.kame

To me, the only solution has been to assume that Windows 7 x64 does not have backup tools, and go with free third party solutions that are absolutely reliable, waste none of my time, and cause none of this pain (see my earlier post).

Enlever un choix donné à l'utilisateur n'est pas une bonne solution, si la décision automatiquement prise derrière n'est pas la bonne.

Rwanda Mapping Party

by karlcow

A mapping party is an event in which a group of people get together to map their world. It is often focuses on a specific area such as a town or city and avid cartographers use Google Map Maker to add and edit roads, streams, schools, and more. Following a review for accuracy, new additions and edits are incorporated in Google Maps for millions of other people around the world to see and use.

Plex for OS X

by sbrothier
Plex Media Center bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats without having to install any third party video plugins and can stream online audio and video content served by Plex Media Server. Your media library has never looked this good!

March 2011

Thousand of APIs Paint a Bright Future for the Web | Webmonkey | Wired.com

by oseres
Once a novel idea that seemed limited to Flickr, the web-based API is now everywhere you turn — Twitter, Foursquare, Google Maps and thousands of other sites offer up their data in the form of an API. APIs mean that third-party developers can build their own tools and mashups, which in turn helps to fuel the popularity of the web service. It’s hard to imagine where sites like Flickr and Twitter would be today without APIs. In fact, these days some web services don’t even bother launching websites to go with their APIs — the API is the service. The SimpleGeo API, for example, doesn’t really have a corresponding website, it’s just an API that can be used anywhere, including inside mobile apps.

February 2011

MultiSystem - How To Boot 10 Different Live CDs From 1 USB Flash Drive - How-To Geek

by decembre
Ever get the urge to try out a bunch of Linux distros at once? Maybe you’re hosting a Linux installation party. Here’s an easy way to get a bunch of Live CDs working from a single thumb drive. 10 Distributions, You Say? MultiSystem is a really easy tool made to run on Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros that you can use to play with various LiveCDs at once, or to create the ultimate recovery device. If you don’t use Ubuntu, you can use an Ubuntu Live CD to install MultiSystem so that you can create your super live USB drive without having to run Linux as your main OS. It’s best to download your ISOs ahead of time, and select a USB drive large enough to house them all. I actually went with an 8 GB SD card (used via a USB adapter). Here are some of the popular and interesting distros I used.

Google Ultimate Interface et Soople : Other Search Forms - Google Guide

by decembre
Google Ultimate Interface: If you want to specify what you’re looking for with more precision than Google’s Advanced Search form offers, try the , a third-party application available at www.faganfinder.com/google.html. With the Ultimate Interface you can: * Search with any of Google’s search engines, i.e., Web Search or some of the tools in the Part named Services. * Find pages that have been updated between any two specific dates * Select letters with practically every different kind of diacritical marking, such as umlauts or accent marks, from the keyboard near the bottom of the page. Soople: If you’re not sure of all the types of information that you can search for with Google, check out Soople, www.soople.com/soople_int.php. I describe many of the capabilities included in Soople in the Parts Understanding Results and Search Tools.tags (keywords): advanced search, narrowing search, queries, soople, ultimate interface

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