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Have a great Australia day and welcome to the (Chinese) New Year.
Turns out we are one in a billion. The global number of internet users has surpassed one billion with China accounting for the largest population of Web surfers, digital research firm comScore reported on Friday. "The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will arrive even faster than that," he said.
Apparently, the new Windows taskbar is better than the OSX dock. Yeah, I said it. The Windows 7 taskbar is the most important Windows UI change since Windows 95, and it will dramatically change the way you use Windows. And it's better than the Mac's Dock. That's because the "superbar"—as the taskbar is known by developers—jerks taskbar functionality in a new direction. It's no longer merely a window manager—just a place to manage open windows and by proxy, open applications. It's now a bona fide application launcher
WIndows 7 might be split into different versions. These pictures supposedly come from a new build of the Windows 7 beta, 7025. It goes without saying that while we knew this was a possibility, we've been seriously wishing against it. We hope these are fake (and they very well could be), but seriously Microsoft... don't even think about this.
Google has reported an increase in Q4 revenue. Bankruptcy’s, layoff’s , and dismal financial reports have been headline news for the tech industry recently, but Google as always likes to reminds us that advertising is the place to be. The search giant reported a revenue increase of 18 percent over Q4 2007, and a 3 percent bump compared to Q3 2008.
Dan is warning us not to trust our perceptions. "Oh yeah. That's faster," said Andrew, the Editor. I, the Assistant Editor, did not disagree. We didn't, you see, at that point know that the new baby Amiga was actually clocked at exactly the same 7MHz as the previous Amiga 500, and every other Motorola-68000-powered Amiga for that matter. We thought it could very easily be faster. It'd pretty much have to be faster, wouldn't it? It certainly wasn't any cheaper than an A500, so if it wasn't faster then it'd probably be a huge commercial failure. So we thought it was faster.
The Pope is now on Youtube. Video and audio footage of his speeches as well as news of the Holy See will be posted on the site, the Vatican says. Although the Vatican has its own website, the YouTube venture represents its biggest reach into cyberspace, says the BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Rome. Give us today our holy video...
Finally, check out these cool packing tape designs.
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