During their annual summit meeting in Japan, the G8 members agreed to get the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) ready for implementation by the end of the year. The agreement, pushed by multimillion dollar companies, will open the doors to a digital police state, much to the pleasure of the MPAA and RIAA.

Thirdly and relatedly, the secrecy around ACTA is a potential pitfall. A mandate should have been obtained from the Commission to negotiate the Treaty, but if it exists it has been declared too secret, or at least…

Diggs long awaited recommendation engine is now live for some users, which luckily includes me. Its time to take a look at what this new feature brings to the individual user as well as Digg community as a whole.

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Olympus in Japan today unveiled a prototype of what’s claimed as the world’s first-ever true 360-degree camera and matching lens. The sensor can not only capture the entire

Enterprise Desktop Alliance aims to help Macs in IT…

This screenshot displays a HUD display running in front of iTunes, seemingly pulling music videos down from YouTube, one of Apple’s major partners. Can’t wait for the next version of iTunes!

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3892/picture1jk2.pngBigger: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3433/screenjb4.jpgThis is really running, and it's so awesome. But it makes me want to buy so much more music on ITMS Sweet! Someone dugg it

Firefox can be extended to do just about anything you want, so why not have it help you with your web development and design? Weve got a dozen suggestions to get you started down the road of turning Firefox into a powerful design and development tool in your arsenal.

SEOforFriefox - Adds information to your Yahoo and Google searches giving you instant knowledge of the site’s standings with various ranking services for easy reference as you check out your competition.

I finally figured out a business model for Twitter. It's advertising based and it only works if Twitter doesn't solve their scaling problems.

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Microsoft today broke from its tradition of primarily endorsing in-house formats by revealing that it will add support to Office for a number of universal standards outside of its own. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the Open Document Format (ODF) touted by OpenOffice, Sun’s StarOffice, and other third-party tools

Analyst: 1 in 4 postponing iPhone buy for new tech…

Word on the street is that Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice is about to try to shove the Canadian version of the US’s failed Digital Millennium Copyright Act through Parliament very soon, and very fast. He made plans to do this before, and the overwhelming public outcry caused him to shelve them.

I wish they'd stop jumping the gun with these appeals based on the “word on the street” saying it's gonna be Real Bad(tm) and come out Real Soon Now(tm). When I wrote my MP when this all started I got a polite…

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network and professional technical support from Canonical Ltd and hundreds of other companies around the world.

This is a discussion on Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' Release Schedule within the Open Source forums, part of the Software Zone category; Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular…

Its rare that we would want to lock up our website with a password. However, there might be few occasions when we need to protect a few pages of our site (or whole) from the general public and made accessible to a selected group of users. For such times, here are 5 neat free tools that will help you get started.

PoppyDog Passsword Protector is a neat free online tool to password protect your web pages. In order to use the tool, you need to log in as a member at the PoppyDog site and access your member dashboard. You can add the password protector tool to…

A Digg iPhone theme by Louie Mantia

feels… meh. Agua is still the only theme in my eyes. *goes back to his honey*

While mainstream DDR2 memory has reached almost ridiculously low price level you can get two 2 GB DDR2-800 DIMMs for less than $80 - DDR3 memory at 1600 speed or faster easily costs 5x as much, without delivering even 2x the performance. In fact, for the vast majority of users, the difference between mainstream and high-end memory is quite small.

The importance of Random Access Memory (RAM) has changed a lot over time. There were noticeable performance differences between CL2 and CL3 timings back at the turn of the millennium, when first generation SDRAM at PC100 or PC133 speeds…

Google is saving the rain forest.

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In spite of fears that Apple may impose tight restrictions on third-party iPhone applications developed with its upcoming SDK, the company may loosen those restrictions for free programs, Electronista has learned. Connected to the same sources which reported early access for select developers, the contact notes free apps won’t need a review stage.

Freeloader charges iPod, others, through solar power…