FeedsbyTopic

Filed under: Desktops, Media PCs, Storage

Remember that tiny little Windows Home Server glitch that was causing files to become corrupt for no apparent reason? Well, Microsoft has stepped up to bat with a fix... for June! That's right, all you have to do is hang on to your data-shredders for a few more months and the boys in Redmond will have this one sealed up tighter than a drum. The company has changed this issue's Knowledge Base article to reflect the new target, and suggests that users can avoid problems for the time being by using a command-line tool to move files, setting shared folders on WHS to read-only, and not using things like WMP to import to a home server -- certainly not the solutions most people are after. The company has also posted a note about the KB article on its WHS Team Blog, which we wouldn't call a straight-up apology, though it definitely has apologetic overtones. On the bright side, Microsoft says only a small number of users are having this issue, so in all likelihood, you don't even know what we're talking about! Lucky you.

[Thanks, Brian]

Read - Knowledge Base article
Read - An update on KB #946676

 

Permalink | Email this | Comments

---

A

EU Press Room:
Mergers: Commission clears proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google  —  Mergers: Commission clears proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google … Google operates an Internet search engine that offers search capabilities for end users free of charge and provides online advertising space on its own websites.

Gezocht: nieuwe locatie voor de presentatie van een film. De presentatie ervan in Nieuwspoort kan namelijk wegens financiële redenen geen doorgaan vinden. Het INTERNATIONALE perscentrum heeft Wilders een offerte gedaan van zo'n 250.000 euro voor een persconferentie van een uur....

Filed under: Displays

No consumers products have been announced yet, but we have a feeling AU Optronics could be on to something with its new "world first" LCD panel size -- which seems to at least be a first of its kind for consumer applications. Instead of the traditional 1920 x 1200 resolution and aspect ratio of normal "widescreen" 24-inch LCDs, the new 1080p MoniTV display is true 16:9 and 1920 x 1080, for perfectly matching that HD signal coming from the likes of your PS3, Xbox 360 or Blu-ray player. AU Optronics is banking on the trend of people watching TV and movies at their desks, and with a mere 14mm of thickness to the panel (pictured on the left), we're guessing this'll be a pretty attractive offering once it gets into the hands of manufacturers. AUO is building a range of MoniTV 16:9 panels to go along with, starting at 15-inch and running on up to 32-inches. Most will be available Q2 this year.

 

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

---

Anil Dash / Movable Type:
A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide  —  As you might know, WordPress 2.5 is about to be released, and we wanted to encourage WordPress users to upgrade.  To Movable Type.  —  The truth is, there are lots of good blogging tools out there, and they're all good at different things.

As you might have noticed I’m writing a lot about search these days. In another post, I gave an explanation for that: people want to find similar people. Yet after a few days of reading about search and talking to search experts, I think I can broaden the reason somewhat: People are looking for two sorts of experts.

First of all, those with similar interest can be considered experts, since they know a little what you’re like and therefor can help you find the right stuff on the web. So that’s why a search engine like andUnite - that matches search terms - makes sense.

Second, we want professionals to scan whether the information we find is correct or not. Andrew Keen already warned us in his book ‘The Cult of the Amateur‘ for the damaging effect false information - caused by the wisdom of crowds - can have. And let’s face it: the web is still really cluttered. Try finding a decent hotel with Google, I wish you all the best.

Newsweek published an excellent article about this last point this week. Jason Calacanis, founder of the human-powered search engine Mahalo - that will make finding that hotel easier with a Top 7 list - told Newsweek: “The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we’ve built in Web 2.0—the wisdom of the crowds—and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.”

So no wonder that many new start-ups focus on this new trend. One is Topicle, a search community with a pool of small search engines. When I asked Topicle founder and ex-Googler Steffen Mueller whether experts become more important on the web, he replied: “I do think experts are getting more important on the Web. Why? When I started using the Internet in 1993, I didn’t know anyone in my hometown who had an email address. The Web consisted of static pages with hardly any images. Today, browsers can interact with servers in an unprecedented way - and now over one billion users are online. Experts can leverage this infrastructure to share their knowledge instantly, with anyone. And in many cases they will be better at what they’re doing than algorithms are, especially when experts team up.”

So the idea behind Topicle is that it combines human intelligence with an algorithm to generate more precise search results. Mueller: “I realized that only using human power will obviously not be enough to sort through billions of URLs, so I thought combining human intelligence with scalable algorithms is an interesting option, and a one topic is covered much more quickly than “anything you can think of”.

So far, Topicle’s pool of small search engines contain good and bad ones - Mueller told me: “Some of these engines will be useless, others I saw yesterday - just after we launched - are excellent. The system will push the great ones and drop the bad ones. So the beauty of Topicle is that even with a few URLs you can build a very useful search engine. I really like Jimmy’s idea of Wikia in general, but he may have to wait years until he has *one* competitive search engine - not sure if he ever will, as Google and others won’t be sleeping either.

Ah there he is again: Jimmy Wales. He was the first guy to tell me about social search. He believes quality search to be a commodity. Does Mueller agree on that? “I believe there is still a lot of potential in a) understanding what the user is really looking for, b) serving the most relevant information and c) letting users know what sources they can trust. Look at what Google has built over the last years - they have integrated many of their products, so maps and product or book results are mixed with what used to be only links to HTML pages, among many other visual and quality improvements. Other large search engines haven’t been able to create the same level of user experience, in my opinion.”

So as long as quality search isn’t a commodity, chances are high that new social search engines keep popping up. So don’t expect this to be the last post about a new way of searching.

Marque Já (portuguese)

o compromisso de amanhã, agora em suas mãos

(channel for scheduling commitments with customers)

Blog

These two updates aren't terribly exciting, but they might spell relief for some users.

Read More...

BRUSSEL - De Europese Comissie heeft Google dinsdag toestemming gegeven voor de overname van het online advertentiebedrijf Doubleclick.

Brian Moschel has created a new event delegation library called Controller, that aims to help logically organize your event handlers.

• Like other event delegation libraries, it lets you define event handlers that never have to be reattached, even if the HTML is modified.
• Unlike other libraries, controllers group event handlers for a specific set of HTML elements. This links the DOM to your JavaScript in an easy to understand way.
  [html]
  1. Laundry
  2. Dishes
  3. Walk Dog

  [html]

  PLAIN TEXT
  JAVASCRIPT:
  

  1.  
  2. // event handlers for "todo" elements
  3. $MVC.Controller("todos",{
  4.   // the onclick event handler
  5.   click: function(){
  6.     alert("clicked todo");
  7.   }
  8. });
  9.  
• You can put CSS queries in the function names and the handler is assigned to any matching element.
  
  PLAIN TEXT
  JAVASCRIPT:
  

  1.  
  2. // attach to input elements inside ul elements with class "foo"
  3. "ul.foo input focus": function(params){
  4.   params.element.style.class = 'clicked';
  5. }
  6.  
• AJAX callbacks are simplified.
  
  PLAIN TEXT
  JAVASCRIPT:
  

  1.  
  2. }, click: function(){
  3.    new Ajax.Request('url', {onComplete: this.continue_to('deleted')});
  4. }, deleted: function(){
  5.    alert('item deleted');
  6.  

You can check out a detailed demo, and the full API.

GermanCowboys (german)

Weblog über interaktives Marketing

(a blog in beta)

De rechter oordeelt dat RealHosting een pakket ip-adressen tijdelijk beschikbaar moet stellen aan Fiberworld-klanten, maar acht de eigendomsclaim van Fiberworld niet bewezen.

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Remember that Sansa Fuze from yesterday? Well, we've gotten some sweet PR on it with a few more details we didn't hear about yesterday. The device will come in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB configurations, feature playback of MP3, WAV, Audible, WMA, MPEG-4, and JPEG files, and will be compatible with subscription services like Rhapsody To Go, Napster, and eMusic. As we mentioned in the previous post, the 4GB model will be available in black, red, pink, or blue, while the 2GB version only comes in black, and the 8GB is only available in silver. The models are priced at $79.99, $99.99, and $129.99, and will be available sometime in April.

 

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

---