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Emacs Identica-mode microblogging client v1.0 release

I’m very happy to announce the release 1.0 of the Emacs identica-mode microblogging client. Its been a while since the last release, and its been for a good reason! The main improvements are: – HTTP backend rewrite The backend that makes the HTTP connections has been completely rewritten to use url.el mode instead of the […]

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More ugly stories about depending on cloud computing

Depending on “the cloud” to provide all software has increasingly shown some of its issues. What’s strange is that not many people are concerned about it. Google marking all sites as unsafe Google marked all search results as unsafe websites, and when you clicked on the link, it warned you again and you had to […]

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Make Emacs yasnippet work with html-helper-mode

Yasnippet is a great emacs minor mode that lets you have lots of code snippets easily at hand. Also you can create your own snippets in a very easy way without needing to write them in emacs lisp. Basically, like textmate shortcuts for emacs. I use html-helper-mode to edit all my html code, but yasnippet […]

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Soviet-like antipiracy campaign targeted at kids in Mexico

The mexican newspaper El Universal published a contest for kids sponsored by IMPI (the organization that in charge of “intelectual property” and patents in Mexico) which invites kids to report to the IMPI for any “piracy” acts their parents, teachers and friends do. Gunnar Wolf sent an open letter (in spanish) to the newspaper and […]

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Chrome license makes Google more than the new Big Brother

Yesterday’s big news was that Google released their own “open source” browser called Google Chrome. They released only the binaries for Windows, and even thought they claim to be open source, I don’t see where I can get the source code yet. But what really bothers me is the license agreements for Chrome: 11. Content […]

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Firefox to support OGG in

Open source browser Firefox is going to support Ogg Theora video natively without installing plugins and will support the new HTML 5 tag to embed the videos on web pages. Will be ready on 3.1 release. This is great news since there has been a long debate about the HTML 5 tag on the mailing […]