Keep Up With Dean Koontz
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/26/keep-up-with-dean-koontz/
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/26/keep-up-with-dean-koontz/

A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

DownThemAll 2 download manager released, now supports Firefox 4 originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
APPLIED MATERIALS ARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ARROW ELECTRONICS
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/24/roocase-leather-cover-and-stand-for-samsung-galaxy-tab/
A 20-line patch looks set to cut Firefox's start-up time in half. The fix, which works by preloading Firefox's XUL library, could land in nightly builds as early as tonight. Unfortunately, the speed-up will only affect Windows users. To be honest, it's a little odd that preloading DLLs hadn't been tried before. Prior to this fix, the XUL DLL was slowly loaded in 32KB bits, which really ground on slower-seeking hard drives. With a little trickery, the patch submitter managed to get Windows to load the DLL in juicier, faster 2MB chunks. The fix should improve load times on every computer, but it will definitely benefit slower computers more. As far as we can tell, the fix hasn't landed in nightly builds yet. It should be soon, though: Mozilla's VP of Engineering, Mike Shaver, wants to "land this bad boy for Monday's nightlies" -- so keep an eye on Mozilla's public FTP dump tonight. Incidentally, if you're not using the beta 10 nightly build yet, you should give it a go!20-line Firefox fix will half start-up time, hopefully coming to nightly builds tonight originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/23/a-sleep-system-for-your-ipad-theres-a-bed-for-that/
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/c4N2QWBmsEw/heres-the-chair-of-my-1960s-sci+fi-dreams
Created by a computer scientist at Adobe, Facebook Desktop does exactly what it says on the tin, for both Windows and Mac PCs. It links into your Facebook account and notifies you of every change to your account -- pokes, messages, friend requests, event invites, etc. -- with a little pop-up toast window on your desktop. The notifications appear in the bottom right of your screen whether you like it or not -- you can't change it to another corner, and you can't change their appearance. Still, Facebook Desktop works. Beyond notifications, it also lets you publish status updates -- but as you have to go via a tiny system tray icon, and there's no way to set a global hotkey, it's probably easier to just pop open a browser window and update your status normally. The only problem -- for some people, anyway -- is that Facebook Desktop is an Adobe AIR app. It's advertised as "lightweight", but a 45MB memory footprint for an app that pops up toast windows seems a little on the chunky side. By default it loads on computer start-up, too, which is a bit obnoxious -- you can disable that in the settings, though. Oh, it also requests a truly insane number of permissions when connecting to your Facebook account (picture after the break). Understandably, it needs to check a lot of things, but it doesn't need permission to publish check-ins, or insight data for my Pages. Heck, why does it even need my name, profile picture and gender?Continue reading Facebook Desktop brings every notification to Windows and Mac and Linux!
Facebook Desktop brings every notification to Windows and Mac and Linux! originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.