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justinlon Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event

HTTP Live Streaming is intended to be part of the VLC 1.2 release, it's available in the current nightly builds right I believe.

justinlon Bing is now powering Yahoo in US & Canada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#General

justinlon A DSL in 5 Languages: Ruby, Python, PHP, C#, Java

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

justinlon Readable Guardian

It’s made using the Guardian’s Content API: http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform

justinlon Apple should make MobileMe free

Actually, iTools was free. As costs rose, most particularly due to iDisk storage space and increasing support needs, iTools was renamed .Mac as a subscription-based service.

justinlon Why isn't the scale on Google Maps detachable?

There's a gadget to measure the distance between two points in the Google Maps Directory. Works as advertised, and is also more precise than the bar scale.

http://maps.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=mpl&url=ht...

justinlon VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help out

VLC is also used by other programs (such as Handbrake) to perform decryption of protected DVDs.