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That won’t work for us – Jim Prentice ducks questions about Bill C-61
Wow, just finished listening to an interview with Industry Minister Jim Prentice on the CBC Search Engine podcast. Apparently Minister Prentice did stick around for his promised 10 whole minutes, but no longer, as he hung up on the host of the show rather than take any additional questions. During the interview Minister Prentice contradicted…
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This one’s for Walt C. – Create PDFs from RSS feeds
As reported on Lifehacker, Feedbooks will create a nice PDF of an RSS feed. I found it a little convoluted once I signed up for an account, but figured out I needed to choose to create a newspaper, then click the RSS tab. I was then able to create a custom PDF with one of…
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Screencast.com v. 1.0
I’d forgotten that all this time Techsmith’s screencast-hosting service, Screencast.com, has been a beta product. I just received the following email indicating that they’re going official with version 1.0: Say hello to Screencast.com 1.0! Our hosting service is all grown up. And we’re making it official by moving Screencast.com out of beta and into version…
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Canadian Library Association Disappointed with New Copyright Legislation
Press Release (Ottawa, June 12, 2008) – Today, the Canadian Library Association (CLA) expressed disappointment with the government’s newly announced copyright legislation, Bill C-61. Bill C-61 is a missed opportunity and demonstrates that the government did not consult adequately with the user community, and did not listen to the concerns of Canadians. Overall, the Bill…
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Firefox 3 Coming Tuesday, June 17th
As noted at the Mozilla Developer Center, Firefox 3 will be officially released on Tuesday. They’re hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours – will you be helping? Here’s a long list of what’s new in this release.
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