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Does software piracy hurt the open source community? originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Calgoo goes free: sync Google Calendar, iCal, and others for free originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Adobe wastes time/money/effort, gives its Media Player old, new content originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Many people may not have noticed this, but it's impossible to do a global search at Craigslist.org. It sort of makes sense, doesn't it? For most of the public, we'd imagine a global search would turn up useless results, but that only makes Craigslist useful for most of us. What about thoe crazy-curious folks that just need to know all about what's being offered, asked for, etc. around the world?

How to do a global search in Craigslist originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

VLC media player 0.9.0 pre-release adds Last.fm support and more originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Homer Simpson impersonator attacks fans' computers originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Meebone beta brings Meebo to your desktop originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Gmail adding log-in monitoring features originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Continue reading RedLasso: we're invited to the beta, you're invited to our first-look

RedLasso: we're invited to the beta, you're invited to our first-look originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

1. There's a Firefox plug-in that adds the social-network's IM service to a sidebar.
   
2. The social software/service one-stop-shop known as Digsby also added support for Facebook Chat earlier this year.

Pidgin joins Adium, Digsby in supporting Facebook Chat originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Grab and Drag is a Firefox extension that can turn your mouse icon into a little hand, enabling you to scroll up, down, and side-to-side much like you would with the little hand in Adobe Reader.

In the end, it makes Firefox scroll like the iPhone browser, even allowing for one-time flicks that can send the page conveniently scrolling with momentum in any direction. Best of all, Grab and Drag is free, so if you're curious, give it a go.

Overall, we're pretty pleased with it, but it's not perfect. Grab and Drag really messes with Blogsmith, our blogging platform, so getting the first half of this post together was really funky until we shut it off. We're sure the program would mess with other advanced web sites too, but it can be conveniently turned off via the hand icon in the toolbar if necessary.

[via gHacks]

Grab and Drag: scroll in Firefox like an iPhone wielder originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Firefox add-on stops accidental MySpace encounters: it's actually useful! originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Does your Blackberry do enough for you? RIM thinks it could do just a little more, so it released an official mobile Flickr uploader for Blackberry handsets. The program allows Flickr-Blackberry hybrid addicts to snap pics, tag/geo-tag pics, place pics in albums, and adjust pic sizes. When you're all set and ready, posting the photo is a matter of a few button presses.

RIM releases mobile Flickr app for Blackberry handsets originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Though it is currently accessible only to a closed set of beta testers, it seems the 22 minds behind Polar Rose are trying to create a sort of "Google" for people pictures -- a system that is always indexing visual information. But that's only the beginning of the service.

Beta testers have recently been given access to an Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-in that will scan faces on a loaded web-page, placing an orange or red rose icon in the lower right-hand corner of every face on the page. The color of the icon depends on whether or not the system can stick a name to the face, and this is determined by whether or not the face has been registered with the system. Any unnamed faces can be registered with the system from there, though, don't expect miracles. The plug-in struggles with low-quality or poorly lit photos.

This is "cool," of course, and we tend to like advanced stuff like this even if it's not personally useful to us. But what happens if a web-user doesn't want his/her face indexed? As is often with new technology/services (stop-light cameras, Google, Facebook, RFID cards, etc.) this may one day begin to spark the paranoia of privacy rights activists -- assuming it gets big enough to get noticed by less nerdy common folk.

[via BLORGE]

Polar Rose plug-in: facial recognition in your browser? originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

If you ever need to open a command prompt window from a Vista right-click menu (example: you sit down to use your computer and a message suddenly pops up -- "open a command prompt window from a right-click menu your computer will blow up"), how would you go about doing it?

The process is simple: hold down the shift key, then right click on a folder icon, in a folder, or the desktop. An "Open Command Window Here" option will appear in the menu as a result of the shift key's ability to, well, shift stuff. Finally, when the command window opens, take a look at the current path: it's whatever you clicked on.

Vista: open command prompt window from right-click menu originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Continue reading Reflow visualizations are crazy

Reflow visualizations are crazy originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 27 May 2008 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

See that man on the right? That's Carl Icahn, a big Yahoo! shareholder, and something is obviously bugging him. No, he's not the board member who resigned. That's Edward Kozel, who was originally supposed to leave in February, but decided stick around for the attempted acquisition by Microsoft.

Though we're unsure how Kozel feels about his departure and Yahoo!'s future, his resignation might have something to do with lcahn's fight to re-enter into serious negotiations with Microsoft about a merger. Icahn and "a number" of shareholders are really, really, really unsatisfied with the way things went the last time Microsoft and Yahoo! tried to merge.

Icahn and his shareholder rebel group plan to knock out each of the remaining nine board members in order to replace them with himself and other shareholders of his choosing. The big-time investor is no stranger to large and aggressive business tactics. With a net worth of $14 billion, he's the 46th richest man in the world, says Wikipedia, and he may now be the driving force behind Yahoo's long-term future.

A Yahoo! board member resigns: the work of a shareholder rebel group? originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 22 May 2008 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Redlasso is a database stuffed with the latest TV and radio programming, allowing registered users to search for and "lasso" out clips in order to imbed them on other sites. "Virtually all media" (TV, Radio, streaming internet programming, podcasts) is indexed in almost real-time, says the Redlasso site.

Although the company swears it is negotiating deals with several content partners, it received a cease-and-desist letter from three major TV networks on Monday. They accuse Redlasso of creating a "business based on the unauthorized syndication of" others' content. Though it doesn't seem to be enough, Redlasso monitors all member accounts (to make sure no one's watching extended amounts of programming) to ease the minds of content owners.

The service is intended solely for bloggers and other web publishers. As a result, expect some type of application process when requesting an account. As for us, we're waiting on our acceptance emails. The service is free, but it is currently in closed beta, meaning its unavailable to the general public.

Redlasso offers bloggers TV/radio searchable database, but it's in trouble! originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 21 May 2008 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

YouTube flagging videos of content owners originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 15 May 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

RIM and Microsoft announce Windows Live services for Blackberry handsets originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.