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Google is providing the web development community with an intriguing glimpse under the hood at some of the fundamental building blocks of the company’s most popular web applications. The search giant has opened the source code of its comprehensive JavaScript library collection and is making it available to third-party developers for widespread adoption. Google also opened the source code of its own JavaScript compression tools.

The library, called Closure, includes an extraordinarily diverse assortment of capabilities with functionality ranging from JSON serialization to standard user interface widgets. All of the features are cross-browser compatible and can be readily adopted without marginalizing any users. The library consists primarily of helper functions and user interface widgets, many of which are recognizable from popular Google applications.

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via news.bbc.co.uk

This is one of the greatest achievements of open source.
And yes, they are extremely profitable.

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Some applications like TweetDeck don’t respect gnome preferred applications settings and continue to use the older Firefox 3.1 instead of the new one 3.5 when opening links.

This is because

/usr/bin/firefox is currently pointing (like a shortcut) to

/usr/bin/firefox-3.0

To change this to 3.5 enter the following on the command line

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

If you want to change it back:

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 /usr/bin/firefox

This will work for Firefox 3.5 as well as Shiretoko 3.5
This will also fix same issues with other Adobe Air applications

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So this is where half of my digital life resides. Cool stuff.

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Tags:Etiquetas: Google.

In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is its antipodal point; that is, the region on the Earth’s surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points which are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line through the centre of the Earth. Full article at Wikipedia.

To dig out a whole and come out in china you would have to be somewhere in Argentina or Chile

http://www.antipodemap.com/

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Tags:Etiquetas: Google Maps.

Google Apps POP3 server requires SSL in order to work. If your webserver was built with SSL support, you can simply do the following in the wordpress “Post via e-mail” configuration:

1. Enter ssl://pop.gmail.com as the mail server
2. Enter 995 as the port.

Done!

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Tags:Etiquetas: gmail, SSL, WordPress.

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Tags:Etiquetas: Facebook.

When will Microsoft learn? They are simple light years behind google in search technology. No matter what they do they will never catch up, they are simply to far away.

They are getting ready (for the fifth time, i think) to relaunch their search engine.  After the all failed, msn.com, start.com, live.com this time it will be Kumo.com.  From the screenshot below we can see they have done everything possible to copy google’s layout. (yes, Microsoft is really good at copying, never at innovating).

Kumo, Kumo? Steve, how about buying the search.com domain? It should be a bargain for you.

No need for a crystal ball here, this is Microsoft’s next failure. What do you think?

kumo

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Tags:Etiquetas: Microsoft, Search Engine.