Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - May 16 2008 | china earthquake
Some of my friends are doing this today.
Quoted: MSN China began asking users Tuesday to show their concern by putting rainbows, created with a (R) symbol, before their MSN handles. Called the "Rainbow Petition," the action is not seeking a given number of users, but instead wants to remind people of the earthquake's victims and their plight, and encourage them to donate money or supplies to relief efforts.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 39 minutes ago | development, .net, c#
var in c#
Quoted: Variables that are declared at method scope can have an implicit type var. An implicitly typed local variable is strongly typed just as if you had declared the type yourself, but the compiler determines the type.
...
// Example #2: var is required because
// the select clause specifies an anonymous type
...
var custQuery = from cust in customers
where cust.City == "Phoenix"
select new { cust.Name, cust.Phone };
...
// var must be used because each item
// in the sequence is an anonymous type
foreach (var item in custQuery)
{
Console.WriteLine("Name={0}, Phone={1}", item.Name, item.Phone);
} - Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 12 hours ago | wishpot, wishlisting.com
Quoted: For Max Ciccotosto, it's a wish come true. His Seattle online gift registry startup, Wishpot, has acquired Seattle's Wishlisting.com.
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Terms weren't disclosed, but combining two competing services -- especially ones that were started in the same town -- makes a lot of sense. After all, is there really enough room in the market -- especially one dominated by Amazon -- for two online gift list services? - Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 15 hours ago | From Google Reader
Quoted: In USA TODAY, The Associated Press reports, "no more bronze medals for LeBron James. This time he's coming home with gold - and that's a guarantee. So he says, anyway. James made his guarantee in a Time magazine story that hits newsstands Friday. The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar is featured on one of the covers of the Olympic preview issue. After comparing
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 21 hours ago | From Google Reader
Quoted: Looking oh so casual in a red T-shirt, jeans and tennis shoes, Rob Glaser today described why RealNetworks is spinning off its games business, the role that Facebook is having on the game industry and whether he would buy the popular online word game Scrabulous.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 22 hours ago | From Google Reader
Quoted: Yahoo’s communication software company Zimbra is making the Zimbra Desktop beta version 3 available for download today, continuing to push against Microsoft’s Outlook by offering to be your all-in-one email client. I set up the open-source Zimbra Desktop on a laptop running Windows XP. The install requires a smidge under 160 MB of disk space to install,
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | From Google Reader
Quoted: Last week, Facebook filed a lawsuit against German social network studiVZ, claiming that the site copied its “look, feel, features, and services.” Today, Multiply is alleging that Facebook did much of the same in launching its new re-design, and illustrating what they believe is a pattern of Facebook copying their site’s ideas. Here’s a look at
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | From Google Reader, urbanspoon, startups
Quoted: Urbanspoon, the Seattle online restaurant guide, notes that its iPhone application has been installed on 300,000 iPhones, with about six million shakes in the past 10 days. (People shake their iPhones in order to find a nearby restaurant.)
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | From Google Reader
Quoted: Rumors have been propagating through several popular Mac blogs that Apple will be releasing a red iPhone 3G model for the holiday season. The release will be well-timed, considering the initial iPhone hype will start to slow, and people will be opening up their wallets more for the holiday season. (Photo via MacBlogz) The red iPhone will presumably
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | facebook, .NET, development
New .NET Facebook API on CodePlex.
Quoted: Recent changes to the Facebook API are being evaluated and a Toolkit update will be released at the end of this week as a point release (version 1.7). We are planning to address the changes to the platform that specifically cover the new user profile design and session changes to many of the existing methods.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 2 days ago | From Google Reader
Quoted: Thought this might be interesting for the jet-setters in the Web 2.0 world. Monster Cable, the makers of cable, just sent us the new Beats by Dr. Dre, a pair of noise-canceling “studio” headphones aimed at the mid-range audio consumer. At $349, these are priced at exactly the same point as the Bose QuietComfort 3 which I’ve used for over a year now.
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