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Chrome Extension Warns You When You Browse A SOPA-Supporter’s Website
Jan 5th
Worried about whether or not your favorite Web site is supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act? A new Chrome extension seeks to lift those fears.
After installing No SOPA, users get a warning message reading “SOPA Supporter! This company is a known supporter of the dangerous ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’,” every time they visit a SOPA-supporting Web site.
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Congress could resume debate on SOPA as early as Jan. 17, and the Senate could vote on the measure as early as Jan. 24. SOPA would block access to sites accused of violating U.S. copyright laws. The measure has been called Draconian by opponents who say it would fundamentally change the free-flow of information across the Internet. Proponents, ranging from the NBA to Universal, say the measure is needed to block sites which flagrantly flaunt copyright laws and make content available for free without paying copyright owners.
“Boycott? Nasty letter time? You decide,” Andy Baird and Tony Webster, the extension’s creators, wrote on the extension Web site.
Hackers have already been working on other fixes to use if the law passes, including a satellite network and a Firefox add-on that directs the browser directly to a blocked site’s IP address. Such extensions are being created in part to show the regulations, if passed, will be ineffective in stopping traffic to blacklisted sites.
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Chrome Extension Warns You When You Browse A SOPA-Supporter’s Web Site
Jan 4th
Worried about whether or not your favorite Web site is supporting the Stop Online Privacy Act? A new Chrome extension seeks to lift those fears.
After installing No SOPA, users get a warning message reading “SOPA Supporter! This company is a known supporter of the dangerous ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’,” every time they visit a SOPA-supporting Web site.
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Congress could resume debate on SOPA as early as Jan. 17, and the Senate could vote on the measure as early as Jan. 24. SOPA would block access to sites accused of violating U.S. copyright laws. The measure has been called Draconian by opponents who say it would fundamentally change the free-flow of information across the Internet. Proponents, ranging from the NBA to Universal, say the measure is needed to block sites which flagrantly flaunt copyright laws and make content available for free without paying copyright owners.
“Boycott? Nasty letter time? You decide,” Andy Baird and Tony Webster, the extension’s creators, wrote on the extension Web site.
Hackers have already been working on other fixes to use if the law passes, including a satellite network and a Firefox add-on that directs the browser directly to a blocked site’s IP address. Such extensions are being created in part to show the regulations, if passed, will be ineffective in stopping traffic to blacklisted sites.
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Evernote’s ‘Clearly’ Clean-Reading Extension Comes to Firefox
Dec 22nd
Evernote has expanded its read-later browser extension, Clearly, to Firefox. The extension first launched on Chrome in November. Clearly slides in a cleaned-up view of Web articles without ads or navigation, making content more pleasant to read. It automatically turns multi-page articles to single pages.
It’s also a content shifting tool. Clicking the Evernote elephant icon in the sidebar saves the cleaned up version to your Evernote account so it can be read on all devices. The article viewer also comes with three themes, and beyond that, all the fonts, colors and alignments can be customized.
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Evernote thinks big, which is why it made our top 10 consumer Web products of the year. It wants to be a 100-year company, a cloud-based desk drawer for all our little files. It has recently shipped some interesting, unusual applications, including a food scrapbook called Evernote Food and a name remembering app called Hello.
Clearly brings Evernote into an increasingly crowded market dominated by dedicated read-later services like Instapaper and Read It Later. Like Clearly, Read It Later turns all articles into single-page views, but Instapaper intentionally doesn’t, in order to respect the revenue decisions of publishers.
Evernote Clearly could gain significant traction if users find they enjoy having all their cloud-synced stuff in one place, instead of having a separate app for reading. Content shifting is a new trend, and Evernote, whose basic service is free, is well positioned to introduce the behavior to new users.
Chrome and Firefox are the next biggest browsers after Internet Explorer, so Evernote Clearly is now available to a sizable chunk of the market. Chrome actually surpassed Firefox for the first time this month, only three years after launching, but Firefox renewed its search deal with Google yesterday, giving it a new lease on life.
You can install Clearly for Chrome or Firefox.
Do you use a clean-reading service? Which one do you use?
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Google’s China ICP License Gets 1-Year Extension
Sep 8th
Despite a contentious relationship, Google recently received their Internet Content Provider permit from the Chinese government. Google wouldn’t comment beyond confirming that the license has been renewed in China, a search market Baidu dominates….
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New Google Browser Extension Helps You Find Related Web Content
Aug 21st
Google has added a new free tool that lets you find related web content when you browse to select pages. The recommended links appear in a thin bar at the bottom of your browser.
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Google has added a few extensions over the l…
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New Google Browser Extension Suggests Related Content
Aug 16th
Google has announced a new Chrome Extension and Google Toolbar feature called Google Related, which suggests new content relevant to the page you’re currently viewing. The extension offers many kinds of suggestions, including Web pages, shopping, maps and Google Places results. Google Related displays a toolbar at the bottom of the browser window, and the suggestions pop up when the mouse hovers over them. If you like a suggestion, there’s a built in +1 button.
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In order to provide these suggestions, Google obviously has to track your browser history. The Google Related and Google Toolbar privacy notices describe how the information is used and stored. Installing browser extensions or plug-ins is voluntary, of course, and they can be disabled or uninstalled anytime.
The Chrome Extension can be found in the Chrome Web Store, and the feature has been added as an option in Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer.
What do you think of Google Related’s recommendations?
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Your URL File Extension Won’t Affect Your SEO – Hit Search
Aug 2nd
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Your URL File Extension Won’t Affect Your SEO
Hit Search There are plenty of ways to improve your website’s Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, and the purpose of this series of articles is to illuminate the many ways that this is possible. … Internet Marketing SEO – It's Easy When You Know How WebiMax Ranks #1 in SEO Companies by topseos.com for August 2011 SEO Cheat Sheet, Ultra-Geek Style |
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TameJs: A JavaScript Extension for Making Event Programming Easier
Jul 18th
TameJs is an extension to JavaScript created by the OK Cupid team. Its purpose is to make event programming “easier to write, read, and edit.” It can be used with Node.js or other V8 projects. According to the site: “Tame is not an attempt to dumb down async programming. It’s just a cleaner way to write it.”
You can find it in GitHub, licensed under the MIT license.
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TameJs is actually based on a similar technology created by OK Cupid but designed for C++:
OkCupid serves externally over 100 million dynamic HTTP requests every day (over 1,000/second on average), each of which fires off calls to all kinds of other services, literally billions of async calls daily. Everything is Tamed, and we’ll never look back.
We’ve been watching the Node community for a while now, and here are our favorite sites/projects: HowToNode, debuggable, and Nodejitsu, and also the framework & middleware Express and Connect. The programmers at those sites have gotten us to turn our interest to Node. But async programming can fail in language scalability, if not performance scalability. JavaScript is missing native support for this kind of control-flow. (It’s worth noting C# just added an await primitive! They’re onto us.) We have the experience to see what it does to large-scale projects.
The C++ version is also available, however “it requires committing to certain other libraries you might not want (sfslite, libasync).”
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