Pandora One Gets an Update to Desktop App 2.0
Pandora got a large number of votes in our recent lunchtime poll for favorite music streaming service. And if you’re one of the proud subscribers to the Pandora One service, you’ve got some good news today: the Pandora Desktop App was updated to version 2.0. Some relatively simple interface tweaks to the Pandora One AIR app add some nice new functionality, including a track progress bar and access to your song history. Both are accessible by simply clicking the album cover, which insets the album art and makes room for the other two controls. You can navigate backwards through the last hour of your listening, thumbs up or down anything in the playlist, and/or purchase any of the tracks from the list.
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Pandora One Gets an Update to Desktop App 2.0
02 Sep 09 | LOST: Regional Networks Removed from Facebook
Last month, we picked up on a small change to the FacebookFacebook interface – the removal of regional networks when browsing groups of friends. We were of the belief that it was a precursor to the removal of regional networks on Facebook, something they launched in 2006 to expand Facebook beyond its college roots. Now regional networks are gone. We first noticed the change when I was trying to search for my Facebook friends in New York City to plan for an upcoming trip. Friend after friend had their college or work networks, but no regional network. So I checked my own. Sure enough, “Silicon Valley” was gone, and so were the local networks for all of the MashableMashable editorial staff.
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LOST: Regional Networks Removed from Facebook
Imprisoned Journalists: We Were Violently Dragged to North Korea
“AFTER WE WERE detained, the two of us made every effort to limit the repercussions of our arrest. In the early days of our confinement, before we were taken to Pyongyang, we were left for a very brief time with our belongings. With guards right outside the room, we furtively destroyed evidence in our possession by swallowing notes and damaging videotapes.” This is a small part of a lengthy statement released a few hours ago by Laura Ling and Euna Lee since they were released from North Korea prison. It’s their first statement since their ordeal, and although they leave out many details, it’s still gut-wrenching.
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Imprisoned Journalists: We Were Violently Dragged to North Korea
The latest Stargate Universe trailer clearly shows someone watched BSG
Oh man, Stargate Universe launches on October 2nd. I can’t wait even though the latest trailer shows that the show has clearly taken a more edgy stance, which in my mind at least, isn’t what a Stargate show be. But that’s not new info. The creators have stated that SGU will be different for a while, but this trailer confirms it. The show is going to be darker, full of mystery, and shot to look like Battlestar Galactica. But the simple Star Wars reference at the end of the trailer shows some hope that the show might actually maintain some of its Stargate identity. Hopefully.
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The latest Stargate Universe trailer clearly shows someone watched BSG
Hackermouse is equipped with Time Distortion Field
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Hackermouse is equipped with Time Distortion Field
Some hard hardware reading for your slow Monday afternoon
You’re just waiting for that clock to tick over to 5:00, right (well, you West-coasters anyway)? When I was a 9-to-5er, I had the same compulsive time-checking starting a little after 4, especially on Mondays and Fridays. Well, here’s something to tide you over until it’s safe to leave — something you might have to pick back up at home, since it’s a bit technical and lengthy. The SSD revolution is moving along as we speak, a sort of slow revolution that will take many years to replace our trusty mechanical hard drives. Cost is one issue, but that’s changing, and the other is the idea of SSD wear and tear. You may have heard that consumer SSD drives have memory cells (which hold the 1s and 0s in SSDs) that wear out after 10,000 discharges. This leads to a sort of data fragmentation which can be damaging to both capacity and speed. In practice, that can be many years, but how the cells wear down, when, and how to minimize it is a serious area of research. Configuring the drive controller differently can lead to huge increases in performance, major lengthening of mean time before failure, and all that. Anand covers a lot of these issues in detail in this monster of a post.
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Some hard hardware reading for your slow Monday afternoon
Archos 5 Android tablet pictured and priced
It’s… almost exactly what I would expect from an Archos-branded Android tablet. We saw it before via the FCC, but this is a much clearer picture. The device will be coming in four (if not more) flavors: two flash-based at 16GB and 32GB, and two HDD-based at 160GB and 500GB. It looks like a decent little device, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand the draw of this sort of device. If a nice Android-based phone does 85% of what this tablet does, what’s the point of this? A slightly bigger screen? More storage?
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Archos 5 Android tablet pictured and priced
If you buy this $30,000 85-inch plasma, I will come to your house and watch it
I know plasma is on the way out — or rather, I hear, since I’m not a big TV guy. But man, it’s got solid picture and they can make ‘em nice and big. For some people that’s all that matters. And by some people I mean rich people.
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If you buy this $30,000 85-inch plasma, I will come to your house and watch it
Federal Judge Promotes Civics Education on Twitter
We see TwitterTwitter being used for many different purposes, some of them less frivolous and actively positive. Enter another positive development, this time from federal judge and current First Lady of Pennsylvania, Marjorie O. Rendell. She’s launched the @CivicsFirst account on Twitter expressly for the purpose of creating community around civics education. She explained the initiative to Reuters:
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Federal Judge Promotes Civics Education on Twitter
Gmail Outage Causes a Google Frenzy
Like most bloggers and news watchers, we like to keep our eyes on Google Trends to see what the world is currently searching for. As we all know by now, Gmail went down earlier today and inconvenienced a majority of GmailGmail users for an extended period time. In a somewhat ironic twist of fate, the world was turning to GoogleGoogle for answers about the downtime — so much so that for a window of time, 18 of the top 20 US searches on Google were queries related to Gmail being down.
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Gmail Outage Causes a Google Frenzy
