http://www.eckersteins.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:35:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Netscape founder is currently at the helm of his own social-networking site, Ning, which lets Web users create their own branded community sites without technical expertise. Because of its focus on niche communities rather than mass communication, it's not a direct Facebook competitor. Facebook has asked tech veteran Marc Andreessen ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/31/report-facebook-wants-marc-andreessen-on-its-boar/ Though pricing may change, on Friday afternoon, TheNerds.net listed more than 1,000 Phenom X3 8750 (2.4GHz) processors in stock at a price of $218.99. Newegg listed the same processor at $195. Currently, AMD offers the X3 8400, 8600, and 8700. These are so-called "B2" versions of the processor that contain an extremely ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/31/amd-set-to-update-phenom-x3-chips/ Despite that, not even that many Mac users find the service valuable. Apple's installed base was estimated at around 23 million users last October. If all those users were paying $99 a year for .Mac (which is impossible, since some percentage of those users are still on Mac OS ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/30/apple-missing-golden-mac-opportunity/ Facebook representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Just when you thought the landscape of social-networking developer APIs couldn't get any more complicated, here comes another curveball. Facebook announced earlier this month that it would be evolving its developer API into "Facebook Connect," a way to sync ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/30/facebook-heading-for-the-open-source-road/ Most navigation systems with traffic-monitoring capabilities make you pay an extra $60 or so per year for the service. Not so the Navigon 5100: Its real-time traffic features are included subscription-free. Right now, Buy.com has the Navigon 5100 (refurbished) for just $129.99 shipped. Find more deals, coupon codes, and bargains on ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/30/a-gps-with-free-real-time-traffic-for-130/ Canonical had to do a difficult balancing act, but I think Mark Shuttleworth and crew chose the right path. Offering a safe, legal way to include proprietary media codecs is the right thing to do in the short term for Ubuntu. Perhaps those codecs can be opened up in the ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/30/canonical-chooses-convenience-in-codecs-and-right/ Applications that can be downloaded to the phone, such as maps, have helped drive the growth in using mobile devices to access news and information, Donovan noted in the report. And text-based searches have also contributed to the rise in popularity of accessing news and information via a phone. (Credit: comScore ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/30/mobile-internet-usage-more-than-doubles-in-january/ If you've got several Gmail accounts and are frequently having to juggle signatures for each of them, worth downloading is Blank Canvas' Gmail Signatures. This experimental Firefox extension will drop in one of four custom HTML signatures based on whichever account you're sending the message from. If you're like me and ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/30/how-to-get-multiple-custom-signatures-in-gmail/ Microsoft details app store plans 'Silent Drum' makes noise at music competition Google crowdsources maps directions, too AMD: MacBook issues giving graphics bad rap Selected Flickr images now sold through Getty Apple shrinks its iPod Shuffle Download today's podcast Today's stories: Nokia tunes up new music phones Listen now: Apple overhauls the iPod Shuffle with ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/30/cnet-news-daily-podcast-the-skinny-on-the-new-shu/ "Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees' same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person's fundamental rights--including the right to marry--should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just ... http://www.eckersteins.com/2010/07/30/apple-to-oppose-anti-gay-marriage-ballot-question/