Yes; of course I upgraded to OSX Lion on day one. To quote myself from twitter: I am happy in the warm cozi­ness and stark white­ness of Steve Jobs’ monoculture. Regard­less of that though, I had very few hic­cups with Lion itself — but a few things you need to deal with going in: Be on [...]

Erik Hellsborn, sverigedemokraternas politiker i Varberg, uppmärksammas av New York Times, efter sitt uttalande om att i ”ett norskt Norge hade tragedin aldrig inträffat”. NYT citerar Hallands Nyheter, som skrivit om det inträffade och om Hellsborns uppdrag som nämndeman i Migrationsdomstolen i Göteborg. HT skriver också om hur samme Hellsborn uppträtt i Varbergs kommunfullmäktige i [...]

The Hangouts group video chat platform on Google+ now lets video-chatting groups of up to ten people watch live streaming videos together on YouTube. The ability to watch recorded YouTube videos together has been possible in Hangouts from the start, but now, YouTube Live product manager Brandon Badger told GigaOM that Google‘s been quietly rolling [...]

Behöver jag säga mer? Här är alla länder de erbjuder samma till: Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Andorra, Finland, Gibraltar, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Vatican city, Poland. Vill du veta mer, klicka här. Orginalpost: Amazon skyltar med fri frakt till Sverige

Shared by Doktor Spinn Ouch. No rainmakers, just rain. It seems that our profession shoots itself in the foot at least a once a week. Take this recent example, a small item published in London’s Evening Standard. I get the sense it would take more than a good umbrella to “stop the Rain.” Apparently, several [...]

Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s most popular sites are using a tracking service that can’t be evaded — even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ “incognito” functions. The service, called KISSmetrics, is used by sites to track the number of visitors, what the [...]

I decided to skip writing about these patents because gesture patents don’t really excite me since I don’t think they should be granted. However, now that Tom at Winrumors has taken the trouble of sharing the information, I thought I’d share some details. Gesture patents having cloud in their descriptions get my attention. Last time [...]

Appropriate Uses For SQLite SQLite is different from most other SQL database engines in that its primary design goal is to be simple: Simple to administer Simple to operate Simple to embed in a larger program Simple to maintain and customize Many people like SQLite because it is small and fast. But those qualities are [...]

Shared by wille stay class jajja… Sökoptimeringsbolaget Jajja Communications använde domänen massmördare.se för att länka till sina betalande kunder. Men efter hård kritik i de sociala medierna valde bolaget att släcka domänen. Registreringen i sin tur beskrivs som “ett misstag”. Orginalpost: Sökbolag låg bakom domänen "massmördare.se"

Quick note: The first panel is taken from the Denver Post, not the New York Times. I didn’t notice the byline in there. The story’s author actually does a very good job of linking out to other sites Orginalpost: This is why your newspaper is dying

Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg has vowed not to let the terrorist attacks on his country be used as an excuse for taking away fundamental freedoms. He’s treating the attacks as a policing matter (a crime), not as a military matter (that is, something requiring a “war on terror” with concomitant war-footing). He acknowledges that his country [...]

Mobile Payments: Despite the sizzle, not much steak We decided to test some of the prominent mobile payments solutions currently in the market as part of ongoing research in the mobile payments space (check out this previous post for more info), and the short answer is that mobile payments have a long way to go [...]

Google has today launched Hotel Finder, a new search tool to help you find a hotel. The tool includes an interesting Google Maps interface that allows you to search for hotels by location. When you enter a location into the Hotel Finder the map shows an initial shape based on the most popular area for [...]