Vittorio Pasteris

I prini test di Chrome: via Google Operating System

Google Chrome borrowed many features from other browsers: Opera’s speed dial used to show thumbnails of the most frequently visited pages, Safari’s inline find feature, Internet Explorer’s private browsing mode, Firefox’s spell checker. Google hopes that other browsers will borrow features or even code from Chrome. Sergey Brin said that what Google truly wants is a diverse and vibrant ecosystem of browsers and Chrome is just another option.

Google’s browser might never become popular, even if it’s fast, stable and more secure than other browsers. The most important thing is that Google Chrome will certainly have an impact on the next versions of IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari. Even if you don’t have a Gmail account and you use Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, you benefited indirectly from Gmail’s breakthroughs. If Gmail is the invisible feature of Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, Google Chrome could be the signal that browsers need to become platforms for web applications.

Via Cnet

Ricaldone è un meraviglioso paesello nel Monferrato. A Ricaldone è cresciuto ed è stato seppellito Luigi Tenco. A Ricaldone è nato un museo a lui dedicato. A Ricaldone il bloggante è piovuto per caso dato che è la terra dell’amata moglie. E di Ricaldone si è innamorato da subito.

Anche quest’anno a Ricaldone si svolge la diciassettesima edizione dell‘Isola in Collina Tributo a Luigi Tenco”. L’Isola in collina 2008 partirà giovedì 17 luglio con “Le vie del sale”, di Max Manfredi. La serata di venerdì 18 sarà dedicata a Afterhours, Deimos e Rosa Tatuata. Sabato 19 gran finale con gli Avion Travel, preceduti da Ettore Giuradei e da L’Aura, Nel pomeriggio di sabato ci sarà anche un incontro dedicato a Luigi Tenco e Paolo Conte con video e contributi musicali.
Negli anni della storia della rassegna hanno suonato a Ricaldone: Francesco De Gregori, Vinicio Capossela, Ivano Fossati, Gino Paoli, Gianna Nannini, Edoardo Bennato, Carmen Consoli, Enzo Jannacci, Enrico Ruggeri, Daniele Silvestri, la PFM, Samuele Bersani, i Tiromancino, gli Yoyomundi.
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Paolo Attivissimo smonta la bufala del momento: gli Mp3 con effetto allucinogeno

Si trovano nei circuiti P2P file audio di questo genere. Ma sono davvero droganti? Ne ho scaricati alcuni tramite amici e li ho ascoltati in cuffia. Non hanno prodotto alcun effetto, se non quello di una notevole irritazione (in gergo tecnico, orchiclastia), perché non è musica: è rumore fastidiosissimo. Ma qualcuno di coloro che ne parlano li ha provati ed ha verificato che danno sballo, ha della letteratura medica a supporto, oppure si tratta dell’ennesima stupidata inventata da chi non capisce granché di tecnologia e usa queste cose per vendere fumo o per criminalizzare chi usa il peer to peer?

Già vedo le orde di madri angosciate che staccano la connessione a Internet ai loro preziosi fiocchi di neve “perché dall’Internet ci passa la droga”. Mi sa che se c’è qualcosa che manda in pappa il cervello, non è la droga via MP3, ma la disseminazione incauta di notizie come questa.

Via itmanagement.earthweb.com:

You’re probably using a mouse today, but you may never buy one again. All the planets are aligning against this humble pointing device. The computer mouse has long been associated with the PC, but in fact it was invented during the Kennedy administration (in 1963) by Silicon Valley engineers Douglas Engelbart and Bill English.

The mouse was nothing but a lab rat until the Xerox Star shipped in 1981. Though it was the first time anyone could buy a mouse, few did. The Star was overpriced ($16,000) and poorly marketed. The IBM PC came out that year, too — without a mouse. But when the Apple Macintosh hit in January of 1984, the mouse went mainstream and has been with us ever since.

Now, Gartner analyst Steve Prentice says the mouse’s dominance as the leading pointing devices may be over within 2 to 4 years. And I tend to agree.

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Resta la domanda: ma a che serve ad Apple un negozio su SL ?

Via MacNN

On April 17, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s patent application titled Enhancing Online Shopping Atmosphere . Apple’s patent generally relates to improving the experiences that online-shoppers may have at an online Apple Store, sometime in the future. While Apple points to the obvious advantages of shopping online, such as being continuously open for business 24/7, allowing consumers to quickly use search functions to find multiple items and of course the best of all, never having to leave the house to shop. However, Apple acknowledges that they have a long way to go before delivering a more interactive experience that could match that found in the real world. Apple’s patent points out that “one drawback of online shopping is that the experience can feel sterile and isolating. Customers in such an environment may be less likely to have positive feelings about the online shopping experience, may be less inclined to engage in the online equivalent of window shopping (e.g., will not linger in front of a display), and may ultimately spend less money than their counterparts who shop in physical stores.”

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Via NYT

Mr. Arrington might be tempted to purge his inbox and start afresh — the phrase “e-mail bankruptcy” has been with us since at least 2002. But he declares e-mail bankruptcy regularly, to no avail. New messages swiftly replace those that are deleted unread.

For most of us who are not prominent bloggers, our inbox, thankfully, will never become quite so crowded, at least with nonspam messages. But it doesn’t take all that many to seem overwhelming — for me, the sight of two dozen messages awaiting individual responses makes me perspire.

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The world’s 50 most powerful blogs. From Prince Harry in Afghanistan to Tom Cruise ranting about Scientology and footage from the Burmese uprising, blogging has never been bigger. It can help elect presidents and take down attorney generals while simultaneously celebrating the minutiae of our everyday obsessions. Here are the 50 best reasons to log on

Al non(o) posto Beppe Grillo

Vista l’esperienza francese e americana …
Cercasi giovane avvocato meglio se di origine famigliare non italiana per srisollevare le sorti della classe politica italiana per le prossime elezioni. Astenersi perditempo e candidati con precedenti esperienze politiche, peggio se in partiti centristi o della provincia di Benevento.

Amnesty International deplores acts of terrorism and acknowledges the right of governments to protect their citizens when they face such hostile challenges and threats. We all value our safety and that of our loved ones after all.

For too long the ‘war on terror’ has been used to justify acts of torture, ‘rendition’, discrimination and unlawful detention. Amnesty acknowledges that the perpetrators of terrorism must be brought to justice but believes this should be achieved without eroding the very values we are fighting to defend.

Governments, including the UK’s, have manipulated public fears, exploiting them to excuse actions that under normal circumstances would never be thought of as acceptable.

Actions that include the rendition and detention of terror suspects without adequate legal representation or fair trial in prisons like Guantanamo Bay. Prisons where guards are ordered to use torture to break the will of detainees in order to obtain information.

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Via Wired

A detail from the “Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures” manual shows a camp layout at the Guantánamo Bay military detention facility.
Image: Wikileaks.org

A never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military’s Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002.

The 238-page document, “Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures,” is dated March 28, 2003. It is unclassified, but designated “For Official Use Only.” It hit the web last Wednesday on Wikileaks.org.