Vimium – the hacker’s browser
Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor.
via Vimium – the hacker’s browser.
Safari Gets More Web Inspector Updates
A number of exciting new features have been added to the Web Inspector since our last update. This time, we’ve got three new panels to present: a Timeline, Audits and Dedicated Console.
via Surfin’ Safari – Blog Archive » More Web Inspector Updates.
Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video
The company [Google] is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said. And with that release, Mozilla — maker of the Firefox browser — and Google Chrome are expected to also announce support for HTML5 video playback using the new open codec.
via Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video.
EFF Posts Apple’s “Top Secret” iPhone Developer License Agreement
So today we're posting the “iPhone Developer Program License Agreement”—the contract that every developer who writes software for the iTunes App Store must “sign.” Though more than 100,000 app developers have clicked “I agree,” public copies of the agreement are scarce, perhaps thanks to the prohibition on making any “public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple's express prior written approval.” But when we saw the NASA App for iPhone, we used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ask NASA for a copy, so that the general public could see what rules conrolled the technology they could use with their phones. NASA responded with the Rev. 3-17-09 version of the agreement
http://www.eff.org/files/20100302_iphone_dev_agr.pdf
FFmpeg 0.5 Released
It is codenamed “half-way to world domination A.K.A. the belligerent blue bike shed” to give an idea where we stand in the grand scheme of things and to commemorate the many fruitful discussions we had during its development.
Link: FFmpeg 0.5 Released
Facebook patents News Feed; sets stage for fight against social peers | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
I’m not sure if I like the sound of this…
Google’s Experimental Fiber Network – Google ISP Coming?
I sure hope Google can change the sad state of internet acces speed and connectivity here in the US. Our current regime of ISPs just aint getting the job done (IMHO).
Official Google Blog: Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network.
Google’s Undocumented Text-To-Speech API
Check out this example in a new window. Its a basic REST api using GET parameters, so the URL looks like this:
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=hello+there,+I+am+an+example+of+the+google+text+to+speech+service
Sounds like translation text is limited to 100 charters. Can’t wait until google officially supports this.
The Unofficial Google Text-To-Speech API .
