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Download Squad Week in Review
Have you been so busy sending angry letters to Saturday Night Live about their choice of actors to portray Barack Obama that you've fallen behind on your Download Squad reading? Not to worry. Here's a roundup of some of the stories you might have missed this week:Download Squad at Future of Web Apps
Download Squad's Grant Robertson hit up the Future of Web Apps 2008 conference in Miami this week. And he's been kind of busy. Here are just a few of the topics he's covered or live-blogged:
- Scaling Web Applications
- Google's Kevin Marks and the future of APIs
- Bringing a Web App to the masses
- Adding new features to existing applications
- Leah Culver of Pownce on the future of web services
- Launch an app in 40 minutes
- How to grow a community in the future
DivX shuts down Stage6 online video site
This week DivX shut down the online video sharing site Stage6. The web service never got as much attention as YouTube, DailyMotion. But it was a favorite among online video connaisseurs for its excellent video quality. DivX is now directing users to check out online video site Veoh.
TotalEdit 4.1: Text editor for programmers
TotalEdit is an advanced text editor with programs that could come in handy for coders, including syntax-coloring, code-folding, and line-numbering. There's also a portable version you can run from a USB drive. But one of the best things about this article is the fact that a bunch of readers weighed in with their favorite text editors in the comments.
Flipping the Linux Switch: The distribution maze
So you want to try out this thing called Linux. But what version to try. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of different Linux distributions. While we can't tell you which distro is right for you, we do have some advice that might help you get started.
The Joy and Sorrow of IMAP - Emailers Anonymous
IMAP is for email users who want it all. They want to download their email to a desktop or mobile client, respond, or reorganize their email, and have those changes reflected on a server. But is there a downside? That depends. Has your desktop email client ever started deleting messages for no good reason?
And here are a few more of our favorite stories from the week that was:
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
