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Amazon Kindle Fire
Without 3G, a microphone, or a camera, its poised more to replace the original Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook Color... but it is an Android powered tablet at two hundred bucks.Firefox 7
For those still paying attention to its version numbers (which, i think, we're not suppose to be anymore?), Firefox has been updated to version 7 with a slimmer memory footprint thanks to Mozilla's MemShrink project.The Deleted City
The Deleted City is a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century. 650 gigabyte archive of the once popular Geocities user-contributed sites, accessible through an interactive installation thanks to the Archive Team.
Silk
Ars Technica discusses the Kindle Fire's new browser, called "Silk"; how it works, its split-architecture that uses could servers for loading webpages, and how this might affect your privacy.Daily Links
Micrasoft IE virtual machines on Mac and Linux using Virtual Box
Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system. Unfortunately, setting these virtual machines up without Microsoft's VirtualPC can be extremely difficult. The ievms scripts aim to facilitate that process using VirtualBox on Linux or OS X. With a single command, you can have IE7, IE8 and IE9 running in separate virtual machines.The New Delicious
Off of Yahoo and now in the hands of AVOS, the new Delicious now features "stack", collections of links that you can share.Things Could Be Worse
Such as turncoat parrots. Or not having monocle insurance.Earth from the ISS
Wow. I'm back to wishing I had tried harder in astronaut school now. Stunning.Daily Links
Gmail's Multiple Sign-in
Just like on your desktop, you can now to sign into the web app with multiple accounts simultaneously. Also, they've snuck in mobile-specific signatures and vacation auto-responders.Closed Disney Rides
Man, some of these sound pretty cool. I would love to go to a retro theme park theme park! :)A Showcase of Beautiful Icon Sets for Web Developers
Bitbox has selected a collection of beautifully designed icons for your next web project, all freely available to download and created by some of the most talented web designers out there.SEO for non-dicks
"I fully acknowledge the value of, and need for, actual SEO; I just think that in many cases, the tactics employed under that title would better be described as Search Engine Manipulation or even Abuse."Daily Links
Video of the Aurora Borealis from the ISS
Another reason to hope that we mere mortals might someday get to travel among the stars too!Tom Selleck's Moustache Improves All
As if you needed a reason to super impose a moustache on something?Daily Links
Ten jQuery Plugins to Enhance User Interfaces
So really nifty stuff here that we and our partners should look at. :)Lion Password Vulnerability
Given physical access to your computer, malicious users can change your OS X Lion password without needing to know your current one. Oops.Instagram v2.0
My favourite camera app for the iPhone. Not because of all the filters and tilt shifts and such, but because it makes it easy to point my camera at something interesting and get it up onto Twitter.How to Revert Safari 5.1 to Single-Process Mode
The sluggishness and auto-reloading of the new Safari has been driving me nuts. Assuming it doesn't kill the one or two extensions I use regularly, I'm definitely setting it back.Google+ Now Open To Everyone
Google drops the invite-only model, opening its social network to anyone who's interested.Samuel L. Lipsum
This is now my favourite lipsum site by far. Fun to play "name that movie" too!Daily Links
CRTC Tells Rogers To Knock It Off
CRTC writes a letter *gasp* to Rogers giving them a week to stop throttling online gaming in violation of the Commission's Internet traffic management practices.Talk Like A Pirate Day
September 19th every year is international Talk Like A Pirate Day. Why? I dunno, but the official website might!Netflix and Qwikster
Netflix splits off its DVD-rental service as a separate unit running under the name Qwikster, and will add video games to its library. All of which doesn't mean much to Canadians.How Many Photos Have Ever Been Taken?
Facebook's photo collection has a staggering 140 billion photos, that's over 10,000 times larger than the Library of Congress! O_ODaily Links
Next verision of IE will run without plug-ins on tablets.
Microsoft engineers pleased with the news: Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 by default will run with disabled plugins in the "Metro" mode , in particular, without Flash and ActiveX. Metro mode - is a separate interface layer that is intended for the use on tablets. This is done to conserve battery life, safety, and in the name of HTML5.Daily Links
Schools Kill Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson makes some amazing points. Watch it. I'm also not ashamed to say that I hated school the older I got. I wanted to do things with computers, with art, with sport, that had no value in the school system and I gave up by the end of junior high. Of course I finished school and did a bit of university, because you are supposed to right? That is the system. Luckily enough for me, I was able to find computers, art and creativity in programming. How lucky did I get? Very.
My job now is to make sure my daughters never loose their creative spirits.
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Wacom has anounced new interactive display.
The Cintiq 24HD combines the best in high-definition LCD performance with the ability to work with Wacom's most advanced pen technology directly on the surface of the screen. ($2,499.00)301 Permanent Redirect
Visual Lizard is moving to it's new offices on Princess Street, right in the heart of the Exchange District! Unfortunately, we may not be able to answer the phones as quickly as we like as we'll have our hands full hauling boxes and computers and furniture. We apologize in advance, but remind you that you can still contact us through email.
Things should be returning to a more normal state early next week.