LinXs 2010-02-22
Posted by delicious | Posted in linxs | Posted on 22-02-2010
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.NET software development
Android
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WikiPock is a mobile phone application that allows you to search and read Wikipedia without an internet connection (offline). All the articles are stored in your mobile phone’s memory so there is no need to download anything from the network. It’s the world’s largest encyclopedia with over 3.1 million articles in English. The cost for Android is 10 Euro
Mobile devices
News
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Joseph Stack III, 53, an Austin resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service, set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a Piper Cherokee PA-28 into the building, which houses an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, federal officials said.
Other
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Orewell’s telescreens become a reality. Webcam built in into laptops given to kids could be activated remotely by school stuff and monitor what kids are doing at home.
Software
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Works on Windows/Mac/Linux
Software development
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Shortcomings of Microsoft’s TFS and ClearCase. Reasons for not using SourceSafe. Subversion compared to Distriuted Versioning Systems such as Git and Mercurial.
Web
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Location-based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Google Buzz are currently among the fastest growing new mobile services. All of these apps have one thing in common: they encourage you to share your current location with the rest of the world. By doing this, though, you are also telling people where you are not: at home. A new site, PleaseRobMe, plays on this theme and displays real-time updates from Foursquare users who broadcast their check-ins on Twitter.
