MyProps.org - Links for Nerds

Home

Public Channels

Channel Contents

Channel Contents: Newest

Post Link to this Channel

Public Channel Information

5
Props

Give Props

Links for Nerds (103 Links)

Created by ian 1 year 271 days ago in Technology.
Views: 575. Link Views: 9,469

Computer or science related links for nerds, geeks, scientists, or engineers.

Comments: 0 | Bookmark | Subscribe

Inappropriate | Post

RSS

Links in this Channel

1
Prop

Give Props

Does Firefox stop playing flash videos after 2-3 seconds? Here's the fix.

Posted by ian 88 days ago (www.jeroenwijering.com). Views: 32
Tags: firefox

Does Firefox randomly stop playing flash movies a few seconds after they start? If so, here's the fix: Copy NPSWF32.dll from C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin.

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

1
Prop

Give Props

New facebook design sucks

Posted by JackThompson 120 days ago (www.facebook.com). Views: 35
Tags: facebook
Related Tags: microsoft web 2.0 google social networks digg celebrity music photos

Facebook execs had good intentions when they told commissioned their staff to redesign the site to focus more on your friends' activity and less on applications. But the new design simply does not feel intuitive to me. I find myself wondering where to [More...]

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

2
Props

Give Props

Techcrunch readers love the new Cuil search engine ... not ... by the way how can you spend $33 million and launch your site with tons of broken links?

Posted by ian 161 days ago (www.techcrunch.com).  Views: 1,495
Tags: cui  google  search engines
Related Tags: wall street  yahoo  apple  facebook  search  microsoft  baidu  hacking

Cuil execs are likely less than thrilled over the blogsphere response to their $33,000,000 search engine. Here's the Techcrunch reader response: sd - July 28th, 2008 at 8:30 am PDT: Michael, what did Cuil do/pay for getting 2000 posts a night? [More...]

Comments: 2 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

1
Prop

Give Props

Cuil sucks?

Posted by ian 161 days ago (dinkandflika.blogspot.com).  Views: 153
Tags: cuil  google  search engines
Related Tags: wall street  yahoo  apple  facebook  search  microsoft  baidu  hacking

In what can only be described as some of the most boring yet highly profitable news, there's a new search engine out there. For the not at all fascinating story of how a software engineer somehow raised over $30 million in venture capital (I guess the dot [More...]

Comments: 1 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

1
Prop

Give Props

Is iPhone The New Gaming Platform?

Posted by ian 168 days ago (gigaom.com).  Views: 51
Tags: apple  iphone
Related Tags: steve jobs  wall street  macintosh  microsoft  at&t  cell  phone  ipod  itunes

Last July, at the time of the launch of the new iPhone, we asked the question, where are the iPhone games? Looks like we have an answer: they are coming, and in a big way. Of course, you can already buy Tetris and grab Tap Tap Revenge, the No. 1 free app, [More...]

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

1
Prop

Give Props

Apple may soon be free from AT&T- Let's hope so!!!

Posted by JackThompson 208 days ago (news.cnet.com).  Views: 76
Tags: apple  iphone  at&t
Related Tags: steve jobs  wall street  macintosh  microsoft  cell  phone  ipod  itunes  mac

While everyone else was calling the iPhone the greatest device of all time and putting Steve Jobs on that pedestal he enjoys so much yesterday, AT&T quietly told its investors that the revenue sharing deal it had with Apple for the past year has [More...]

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

1
Prop

Give Props

German researchers breach Microsoft's CardSpace ID technology

Posted by ian 218 days ago (www.scmagazineus.com).  Views: 63
Tags: windows  vista  microsoft
Related Tags: yahoo  apple  steve ballmer  facebook  macintosh  wall street  xbox 360

Three security researchers in Germany have reportedly broken Microsoft's CardSpace, which was designed to beef up the security of users' personal information while browsing the internet. The technique essentially co-opts part of the CardSpace [More...]

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

1
Prop

Give Props

Understanding Amazon Web Services

Posted by ian 219 days ago (www.roughtype.com).  Views: 66
Tags: cloud computing  amazon  google
Related Tags: wall street  yahoo  apple  search  microsoft  facebook  search engines

"On the surface, superficially, [cloud computing] appears to be very different [from our retailing business]," Bezos sums up. "But the fact is we've been running a web-scale application for a long time, and we needed to build this set of [More...]

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

2
Props

Give Props

Inside Craigslist's Increasingly Complicated Battle Against Spammers

Posted by ian 226 days ago (techdirt.com). Views: 118
Tags: craigslist spam

"Spam on Craigslist has been a minor nuisance for years. Not any more. This year, the spammers started winning and are taking over Craigslist. Here's how they did it. Craigslist tries to stop spamming by checking for duplicate submissions. They check [More...]

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

1
Prop

Give Props

Windows Doesn't Know When to Shut Up

Posted by JackThompson 233 days ago (www.flickr.com).  Views: 60
Tags: microsoft  windows  steve ballmer
Related Tags: vista  yahoo  apple  facebook  macintosh  wall street  google  xbox 360

Hey Steve Ballmer - FIX THIS!!! We are tired of "There are unused icons on your desktop." This is another topic - but Ballmer will be gone in 6-12 months.

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

2
Props

Give Props

Where does Google go next?

Posted by ian 238 days ago (money.cnn.com). Views: 106
Tags: google
Related Tags: wall street yahoo apple facebook search microsoft baidu search engines

Sean Knapp had it made. As a young computer scientist, he couldn't have had a better gig: working at Google, the engineer's paradise. He had all the usual perks - a massage every other week, onsite laundry, free all-you-can-eat haute cuisine. Even better, [More...]

Comments: 0 | Bookmark

Mark Inappropriate

1
Prop

Give Props

Harsh comment by a Techcrunch reader