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Monday, August 9, 2010

Weekly Ten (8-09-2010)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:22 AM PDT

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead
For three years, Matthew Burton has been trying to get a simple, useful software tool into the hands of analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency. For three years, haggling over the code's intellectual property rights has kept the software from going anywhere near Langley. So now, Burton's releasing it — free to the public, and under an open source license.
More @ Wired

2. The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World
They may have been dubbed the "Internet generation," but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. In fact, many of them don't even know how to google properly.
More @ SpiegelOnline

3. Build a Linux Media Center PC
Media Center PCs have been around for almost a decade—even longer if you count earlier forays like Gateway's Destination PC lineup from the mid-1990s. It's not just about PCs, either.
More @ ExtremeTech

4. Open graphing calculator: Beagleboard + R

More @ HackaDay

5. Poetry of code

In my last article, I wrote about safety in the emerging computer languages presented at OSCON — how some languages focus on reducing failures by tightening up a language, restricting or regulating how code interfaces with other code, with data, and with system and network resources.
More @ OreillyRadar

6. Android phones selling faster than iPhone, closing in on RIM
Two separate mobile marketshare reports that emerged this week—one from NPD and one from Nielsen—show that adoption of Google's Android mobile operating system is growing rapidly and has outpaced sales of Apple's iPhone in the United States.
More @ ArsTechnica

7. Yoko Ono: 'Don't hold your breath' for Beatles on Apple's iTunes
The on-again, off-again rumors of the Beatles' music catalog coming to iTunes continue, this time with John Lennon's widow saying she doesn't expect it to happen anytime soon.
More @ AppleInsider

8. Robot arm takes engineers for a virtual reality Formula 1 ride

More @ Engadget

9. This Is Your Brain on Linux Desktop
Take Linux Desktop for a spin. Find an old computer around your house. Don't have an old computer? Bet you have friends who do. Wipe the Windows clean. Install Ubuntu, or Mandriva, or any of a gazillion more distros. Put your brain on Linux Desktop. It will thank you for clearing the clutter.
More @ LinuxInsider

10. 11 Mobile Web Annoyances (And How to Fix Them)
Fitting the Web onto your smartphone can be frustrating when ads, video, and 'back' buttons don't cooperate. Here are 11 mobile Web annoyances and how to fix them.
More @ PCWorld