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why Twitter doesn't improve their 140-character algorithm so that it does not add the characters inside a web URL and any username preceded by @ or a hashtag preceded by a #. - huixing

For those unfamiliar with Kogan, it's an online-only enterprise that has wares built specifically to its dimensions in China, and so far as we can tell, it's as legit as they come. - huixing

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这些黑名单中包括了《南方都市报》的主管江艺平女士，江女士是中国最有名的编辑，她负责《南方都市报》的评论版面。中宣部已于近日下密令，要求撤换江艺平。这是继今年中宣部下令对付《南都周刊》副主编长平后，再一次对中国最敢言的媒体南方报业所下的毒手。 - huixing

Thunderbird extension Google Contacts automatically syncs contacts between your Google and Thunderbird address books. The sync is bi-directional, and the extension is smart enough to detect Gmail accounts you've already set up in Thunderbird, so setup is a breeze. - huixing

For a site that wants to be more attentive to its developers and users, Twitter seems to be dropping the ball in this case, repeatedly ignoring requests by the community to help in the efforts of developing the OpenMicroblogging spec. - huixing

URL-shortening service Bit.ly now offers a Gmail gadget that helps you make sure the long web site addresses you send out via email don't get wrapped and become unclickable. - huixing

Google is confirming that Gears is critically important to both its web apps and its mobile strategy, and that the delay is simply because deploying Gears on the scale that Google operates is a tough engineering challenge. - huixing

FileZilla是一个免费开源的适合Windows、Mac和Linux的FTP客户端软件，因为其实免费跨平台和易用性，因此它是很多FTP用户的最初选择，FileZilla下载速度非常快，功能齐全，如果你是Windows用户，你甚至还能利用它搭建一个家庭FTP服务器。 - huixing

一年前，网址缩写服务商TinyURL 经常宕机，我们曾撰文认为这会带来风险。一年之后，情况依然没有好转。从搜索引擎里一搜，唉声遍地。别再使用TinyURL了！我们介绍几个更好的网址缩写服务商。 - huixing

从1992年的旧金山发端，“Critical Mass”最近几年在欧美城市遍地开花，每个月的最后一个星期五，城市中的人用自行车，轮滑或者滑板等人力通勤工具汇聚在街头，浩浩荡荡地穿越城市，因为 “Critical Mass”是一种自发行为，没有组织者和领导者，所以也没有通知当地警察维护秩序。虽然是自发行为，但近来“Critical Mass”越来越被看作是一种抗议性质的社会运动，用自发的规模效应对抗城市汽车化的趋势。 - huixing

The software, called ILOVESketch, appears to be experimental, but I would imagine that the folks producing special effects would be the first to pick it up when it goes commercial. Also industrial designers. With quick strokes of the pen you can build a complex curvy shape faster than you could sculpt it in clay or in CAD. - huixing

It is believed that the first use of kinetic type on a screen was in the Hitchcock film North by Northwest; Saul Bass designed the opening credit sequence. Watch the opening below. The credits do not just convey information but also express emotion and set the mood for the film. - huixing

There are two ways to have video with GTalk though: one unofficial plugin, and one new solution cooked up by Google. - huixing

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has said it will stop selling its handsets in Japan after struggling to grow its market share in the country. - huixing

未來，倉頡等輸入法的比重會輕了很多，因為我們越來越多使用流動裝置，如手機、PDA甚至Tablet PC之類。在這些裝置上，最方便的輸入法，大概就是手寫。我看身邊玩iPhone的朋友，甚至用Tablet PC的ClubEddy等，都是用手寫的。手機上打英文字還算可以，但打字輸入中文那就辛苦多了。 - huixing

One is the use of time-lapse, which makes you lose frames and gives motion a jerking quality that helps fooling the brain into thinking that you are watching miniatures. - huixing

One of the top headlines today on CNN.com is titled "Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai." The opening sentence of the piece is even more to the point, "It was the day social media appeared to come of age and signaled itself as a news gathering force to be reckoned with." - huixing

Back in June, I talked about Helvetireader, a new approach I was taking to skinning Google Reader. Instead of making it look like an OS X app, this time I was going for minimal, inspired partly by Times, a newspaper style RSS reader, and the postcards that came with the Helvetica Film DVD. - huixing