Stephen Shankland
Senior Writer, CNet News
Author of Deep Tech blog at CNET News. I cover computing technology, browsers, photography, and more.
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My plaudits to steadily increasing utility of Jeffrey Friedl's Lightroom plug-ins, now w/ warning about overlarge JPEG http://bit.ly/aOe29a
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Lost history rediscovered: $45 garage sale negatives turn out to be by Ansel Adams. Yosemite shots no less, worth $200M http://bit.ly/b7LH2u
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It's been years now, and I *still* don't like FIrefox's separate drop-down for going back & forth in history. I want drop-down w/arrows
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Budapest in 71 gigapixels http://bit.ly/9cNRTx shot with Sony A900 & 400mm lens http://bit.ly/9cNRTx #cnet
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Widgets--got it. Gadgets--OK, fine, whatever. Now I have to remember phidgets too? (Acutally sounds pretty cool) http://bit.ly/9TCB6b
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And now the CNET story on the new iMac & Magic Trackpad: http://bit.ly/afTJ8V SDXC card support is nice, but no USB 3.0 and no Blu-ray
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Authorities don't like it when public gets the all-seeing eye. ACLU defense of guy who videotaped police traffic stop http://bit.ly/bLCFKn
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Also from Apple: new CPUs & GPUs in 12-core Westemere Mac Pro http://bit.ly/cWCBVw & iMac http://bit.ly/aZedbi #cnet
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Apple add-ons galore: Magic Trackpad http://bit.ly/bKvLAA 27" LED display http://bit.ly/9inZkZ battery charger http://bit.ly/9i5wMS #cnet
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Apple unbundles its trackpad from laptops with Magic Trackpad http://bit.ly/bKvLAA #cnet
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Sorry, couldn't resist more Farnborough airshow fun. Video of Airbus A380, lumbering but still flown with some vigor http://bit.ly/9R96Kj
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Google search fail in Chrome: "f/a-18f" can't use slashes. Works in regular Google search.
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.@ppk concludes Samsung's Dolfin is the third-best mobile browser on the market today after Safari & Androidhttp://bit.ly/9vSydt #cnet
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Google patches 7 Chrome vulnerabilities & seeks "responsible disclosure" reform w/ 60-day deadline to fix holes. http://bit.ly/a5RkBu
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AMD will ship drivers for OpenGL ES 2.0. This is a big boost for WebGL 3D Web technology adoption. http://bit.ly/9Lt72l #cnet
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Yahoo Japan (owned more by Softbank than Yahoo) switches to Google Search, spurning Bing. http://bit.ly/clHW4S
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Just in time for Black Hat! Google releases Chrome 5 to plug 7 security holes. http://bit.ly/aBKUNU #cnet
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Mozilla proposes feature list for Jetpack 1.0, the new extension framework coming w/ Firefox 4 http://bit.ly/9mn1V1 #cnet
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I have to say, that Dell BIOS upgrade lit this machine on fire! Lightroom latencies plunged. I'm astounded--never saw anything like it b4
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I've gotten BIOS update notices before--but never w/ free new power supply. Dell offers to replace 90W w/ 130W: http://bit.ly/9fj9zt #cnet
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The new American Airlines iPhone app has Sudoku built in. Fitting given how much time you have to squander to fly anywhere.
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I like the Canary icon better than regular Chrome icon. Or than all-blue Chromium icon. How come nobody ever invites me to focus groups?
