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These Websites Are Going Dark to Protest SOPA Wednesday |
| Mashable | Zachary Sniderman |
Much has been made of Wikipedia’s promise to “go dark,” or shut down the site, for the day as a way of warning what might happen if SOPA became law. The tech protesters say that SOPA would render any site that included links, even if they were user-submitted, practically unoperable and liable to government take-down. Going dark is a dramatic but not entirely unrealistic warning of what the Internet could look like in a SOPA world. |
Twitter, Facebook say no to Internet blackout over SOPA |
| FirstPost Technology |
San Fransisco: A blackout scheduled for Wednesday to protest against proposed legislation on online piracy has failed to get the support of the biggest Internet players. Despite calls for the participation of sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other big names, the biggest participants are the online dictionary Wikipedia and the social-news website Reddit. |
Lawmakers seem intent on approving SOPA, PIPA |
| By Grant Gross, IDG News Service Jan 5, 2012 | MacWorld |
Early this year, the U.S. Congress appears likely to move forward with two controversial copyright enforcement bills, despite the vocal and widespread opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the Internet community. The two bills, SOPA and PIPA for short, appear headed toward approval this year, unless opponents can change the minds of many lawmakers. Dozens of legislators have voiced support for the bills, despite reports from digital rights group Fight for the Future that more than 1 million people have sent email messages to Congress in opposition. |
Protect your professional reputation on Facebook Timeline |
| by David Daw, PCWorld Jan 3, 2012 |
| Facebook's new Timeline layout isn't available yet for businesses and Facebook hasn't announced plans to move pages over to the new layout, but that doesn't mean it doesn't affect you or your business. |
PopClip brings iOS-like text-editing options to Mac OS X |
| By Dan Frakes, Macworld.com - January 4, 2012 |
ver since Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) was released, there's been controversy over the obvious influence of Apple's iOS. From gestures to scrolling to the overall interface, a good number of Mac users have complained that the Mac OS has become too similar to iOS. At the same time, there are people who wish OS X was more like iOS—or at least the good parts of it. |
SugarSync updates Android and iOS apps, brings auto sync technology to videos |
| By Zachary Lutz posted Jan 4th 2012 | EngadgetMobile |
| If you're jonesing to get your photos and movies from your smartphone back to the home computer without futzing around with cables, the folks at SugarSync have a new spoonful of sweetness for Android and iOS devices -- and with its free price, it should be easy to swallow. |
TouchFire: The Screen-Top Keyboard for iPad |
| KickStarter, the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. |
TouchFire makes your iPad feel like a normal keyboard! TouchFire puts the "touch" back into typing on an iPad. You can now feel where the keys are and rest your fingers on the home row, so you can type as fast and accurately as you can on a laptop. You can even type without looking at the screen. TouchFire cushions your fingers as you type, something both touch-typists and two-finger typists really appreciate. Typing on an iPad is no longer a pain! |
Kickstarter find: Keep your MacBook cool and your fingers flying |
| gigaom.com | Darrell Etherington |
Kickstarter continues to impress as a go-to resource for gadget accessories that tread somewhat off the beaten path. Two recent discoveries fit that description, and offer smart solutions for folks For more information visit The TILT: The Coolest Cooling Stand for the MacBook Pro, A Product Design project in Los Angeles, CA by madMINDS |
Go Daddy Supports E-PARASITE Legislation Even Though Its Own Site Is Dedicated To Theft Of Property Under Terms Of The Bill |
| techdirt.com | from the find-a-new-gc,-folks dept |
| The supporters of the new E-PARASITE Act (the even worse version of the already dreadful PROTECT IP) have been pretty desperate trying to find any "tech" companies to support these bills. It's kind of amusing that the only ones they've been able to turn up so far have been some of the most hated companies around among techies. |
Database Of U.S. Internet Pirates Will Be Decentralized |
| TorrentFreak | September 6, 2011 |
| Starting in a few months, millions of online ‘pirates’ will be monitored as part of an agreement between the MPAA, RIAA and all major U.S. Internet providers. Alleged infringers will be notified about their misbehavior, and repeat offenders will eventually be punished. Thus far the details on the operation have been very slim, but TorrentFreak has learned that unlike in France, the U.S. database of Internet pirates will be decentralized. |
Upgrading Documents to the New Google Docs Editor |
from Google Operating System, by Alex Chitu
Last year's update of the Google Docs word processor had an important flaw: no backwards compatibility. You couldn't open your old documents in the new editor and you couldn't even upgrade your existing documents to the new format. Even if it's not obvious, Google Docs has two word processors that handle two incompatible native formats. |
Google's Guide to the Webfrom Google Operating System by Alex Chitu Google Chrome's comic book was a great way to introduce to the world a new browser, but not everyone knew what's an URL or a web app. "20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web" is a guidebook created by the Google Chrome team that tries to address this issue by explaining complicated terms like "Internet", "cloud computing", "JavaScript", "HTML5", "cookies", "URL", "IP address" using illustrations and real life analogies. |
Social Media Revolution 2011 |
Part of the world's most watched Social Media video series; "Social Media Revolution" by Erik Qualman. Based on #1 International Best Selling Book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman. This is a shorter version that includes new social media statistics for 2011.
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Tech companies are getting ready to black out on Jan. 18 to protest the 
looking to shore up commonly cited iPad and MacBook Pro deficiencies.