∞ Going to BlackBerry DevCon Europe
This afternoon I shall be flying to Amsterdam for 2-3 days in order to attend the BlackBerry DevCon summit. Lots of great stuff should be presented to developers and journalists especially concerning Playbook OS 2.0.
Sounds pretty fun to me :)
∞ Man Arrested For Stealing a Glacier
Something is rotten in Patagonia!
From Gizmodo:
Stop! Thief! That man has my glacier! Well, five tons of it, anyway. Police have arrested a man in Patagonia who was stealing a massive chunk of ice to sell as designer cubes for cocktails. How the hell do you steal a glacier, anyway?
∞ Google : let's be more evasive !!!
Answering US senators about the new privacy policy. Concerning data retention
Retention periods for archived data vary depending on data source, technology type, and business requirements. Retention can be for a set period (such as 60 days) or for the life of the storage medium.
I hope they got cheap, breakable hard drive or SSD then.
∞ Google : several accounts makes it simpler
Google trying to back up they new confidential privacy policy. This is simply hilarious :
We’re making things simpler and we’re trying to be upfront about it. Period.
You can use as much or as little of Google as you want. For example, you can have a Google Account and choose to use Gmail, but not use Google . Or you could keep your data separate with different accounts — for example, one for YouTube and another for Gmail.
Now managing several accounts, that’s an idea to make everything simpler !!!!! Yay!
∞ Apple : iTunes can't be use for nuclear weapons
From iTunes terms and conditions
You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons.
But then don’t worry, they don’t mention anything about C4….
∞ Google : Social Media enhances Privacy
Stay sit because, as incredible as it may sound, in a study Google researcher says :
In this position paper, we argue that social media provides valuable support for the perception of one’s self and others, and in doing so, supports privacy. In addition we suggest that engagement, which reflects a certain degree of trust, can be facilitated by social information. We support our arguments with results from a recent privacy survey and a study of social annotations in search
∞ Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak
Maybe we’ll get to try this out someday before we die. Would be fun
From Eurekalert.org
Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.
Whilst previous studies have either been theoretical in nature or limited to the cloaking of two-dimensional objects, this study shows how ordinary objects can be cloaked in their natural environment in all directions and from all of an observer’s positions.
∞ jQuery Clean and Simple Tooltips
At least you now know where to find those!
From EGrappler:
There are a number of very simple techniques that you can incorporate in your design to make your products easy. For instance, you can use tool tips to instruct your users without deviating them away from the application. Today’s freebie is a simple jQuery plugin for tooltips that can be embedded in any web design. We call it Gips.
