Google Wave Gets Email Notifications

Google Wave has finally turned on email notifications as a feature for users who want to see immediate, hourly, or daily email notifications for new and updated waves.
Email updates can be turned on via the Inbox dropdown menu. Once on, Google Wave will notify you with a summary of updates to your waves [...]

Getting started with CouchDB: a beginner’s guide

Getting started with CouchDB
Apache CouchDB is one of a new breed of database management systems. These new systems are known as NoSQL. NoSQL is a buzz word term first popularized in early 2009 to describe a database that is non-SQL… NoSQL is a term for a loosely defined class of non-relational data stores that break [...]

WordPress plugin: Protect your blog from malicious URL Requests

Paste the following code into a text file, and save it as blockbadqueries.php. Once done, upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it like any other plugins. That’s all!

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Block Bad Queries
Plugin URI: http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/12/22/protect-wordpress-against-malicious-url-requests/
Description: Protect WordPress Against Malicious URL Requests
Author URI: http://perishablepress.com/
Author: Perishable Press
Version: 1.0
*/
global $user_ID; if($user_ID) {
if(!current_user_can(’level_10′)) {
[...]

Google Kansas II: Duluth Strikes Back [VIDEO]

Ever since Google announced that it intends to build an ultra-high speed fiber optic network capable of delivering web content at 100x the speeds of typical U.S. connections, city after city has made a pitch to become ground zero for Google’s experimental network. Ann Arbor (Michigan), Palm Bay (Florida), Chapel Hill (North Carolina), [...]

Google Kansas II: Duluth Strikes Back [VIDEO]

Ever since Google announced that it intends to build an ultra-high speed fiber optic network capable of delivering web content at 100x the speeds of typical U.S. connections, city after city has made a pitch to become ground zero for Google’s experimental network. Ann Arbor (Michigan), Palm Bay (Florida), Chapel Hill (North Carolina), [...]

Google Releases Gesture Search for Android

Google has just released Gesture Search, a new and experimental feature for phones running the Google Android 2.0 software or above.
Gesture Search is pretty straightforward: you open it up and then draw letters. Draw a M and you’ll get contacts, bookmarks, and apps that start with M. Draw an o and you’ll [...]

Google Releases Gesture Search for Android

Google has just released Gesture Search, a new and experimental feature for phones running the Google Android 2.0 software or above.
Gesture Search is pretty straightforward: you open it up and then draw letters. Draw a M and you’ll get contacts, bookmarks, and apps that start with M. Draw an o and you’ll [...]

Valve to Bring Steam, Half-Life, and More to the Mac?

Valve Software, creators of seminal video games Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2 and more, also owns and operates Steam, one of the most popular PC gaming digital distribution networks. For now that service remains accessible from Windows operating systems only, relegating would-be Mac gamers to dual-booting using Boot Camp or dealing with unsupported access [...]

Valve to Bring Steam, Half-Life, and More to the Mac?

Valve Software, creators of seminal video games Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2 and more, also owns and operates Steam, one of the most popular PC gaming digital distribution networks. For now that service remains accessible from Windows operating systems only, relegating would-be Mac gamers to dual-booting using Boot Camp or dealing with unsupported access [...]

Adobe Demos Flash 10.1 for Android on the Nexus One [VIDEO]

Yesterday, we brought you an exclusive interview with Aaron Filner, group product manager of Flash, in which we discussed the fuss around Apple, HTML5 and Adobe’s multimedia platform. We learned that Adobe’s belief that HTML5 is at odds with Flash is a misperception, and we learned what to expect from Flash in the [...]