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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style="">OPLIN 4Cast #116: <br>
Google is at it again, IE8, Mozilla news, Who gets
spam?<br>
</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">September 3, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>1. Google is really showing off some productivity this week, the
highlight being their new open-source browser, Chrome. </p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html"
target="_blank">A fresh take on the browser</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080829-googles-android-market-cathedral-or-bazaar.html"
target="_blank">Google's Android Market: cathedral or bazaar?</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080902-google-white-space-petition-13000-signatures-and-counting.html"
target="_blank">Google white space petition: 13,000 signatures and
counting</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2008/09/02/google-apps-video-2/"
target="_blank">Google Apps: Now With Video Sharing</a></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Slashdot notes that "Internet Explorer 8 has
been
released for public beta. New features include accelerators, which
provide instant context menu access for a number of common tasks;
automatic
crash recovery, which prevents a single page's failures from taking
down your
entire browser; and browser privacy...it's a definite improvement over
previous
versions, and brings a lot to the table."</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080827-surfing-on-the-sly-ie8s-inprivate-internet.html"
target="_blank">Surfing on the sly with IE8's new "InPrivate" Internet</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5042941/internet-explorer-8-beta-2s-familiar-new-features"
target="_blank">Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2's (Familiar) New Features</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2008/09/ie_8_consumes_m.html"
target="_blank">IE 8 consumes more RAM than Windows XP</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://searchengineland.com/080827-224003.php" target="_blank">Search
& Internet Explorer 8</a></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Mozilla developers have been playing around
with
JavaScript performance. The result is TraceMonkey, which appears to
improve
Firefox performance. It should show up in version 3.1 of the browser.
Also, try
playing with Ubiquity, a new prototype which is the natural-language,
command-based shell for Firefox.</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080822-firefox-to-get-massive-javascript-performance-boost.html"
target="_blank">Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10023723-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware%20"
target="_blank">Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080827-ubiquity-prototype-lets-users-take-command-of-firefox.html"
target="_blank">Ubiquity prototype lets users take command of Firefox</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5042312/ubiquity-prototype-offers-a-natural-language-web-command-line%20"
target="_blank">Ubiquity Prototype Offers a Natural Language Web
Command Line</a></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. I just saw a <a
href="http://mashable.com/2008/08/27/spammers-ascii-art/"
target="_blank">warning
about ASCII spam</a>, and that got me wondering...<br>
Why do some people get more spam than others? It's all in a name...</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/31/1721211&from=rss"
target="_blank">Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080829-study-spammers-mind-their-ps-forget-about-the-qs.html"
target="_blank">Study: spammers mind their Ps, forget about the Qs</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/150464/Spam.html?tk=rss_news"
target="_blank">Alphabet Decides Who Gets Most Spam</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/08/why-adam-gets-more-spam-than-eve.html"
target="_blank">Why Adam gets more spam than Eve</a><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></li>
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