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1.About having a research agenda: 1.1."It is a list of questions to focus on, the organizing principle around which you work" 1.2.Benefits from having a personal research agenda: Keeps the track of meaning like following a thread while your thought mules over those questions. 2. Sharing of personal research questions: They turn around the future web - The Editable Web: finding "a web browser that deeply embeds collaboration and editing." 3. The fabulous "Web-utopia": "people, collaboration and usability are first class citizens; ... seamless community as a major component of the browser...unifying editing and community (Tim Berner)...collaborative hypertext... 4."How can we create communication technologies that provide ever greater levels of interpersonal connection...? 5. "How can we create information technologies of focus and minimal distraction...?" ("The law of conservation of attention") 6. On search systems 7. On transforming how we link and talk about information and docs 8. Lightening the handling of events 9. On effectiveness at creating ideas 10. On creating technologies as important as writing

"Changes in PowerArchiver 2010: New Zip Engine: * Multicore compression support - 4x faster than single threaded engines. Support for dual core, quad core and i7 computers for nearly up to 4x speed improvement over competing utilities that do not have multicore zip support (WinZip, WinRar). Multicore compression is supported for deflate and LZMA methods. * Support for WinZip 11 and 12 formats. Full support for LZMA, PPMd, WavPack and BZIP2 compression methods for full compatibility with WinZip 11 and partial compatibility with WinZip 12. * Unicode support. PowerArchiver 2010 supports Unicode zip standards, compatible with all major archivers that support unicode. Windows 7 support: * Full Windows 7 support. First on the market with support for latest operating system from Microsoft. PowerArchiver supports jump lists, taskbar progress and taskbar icon overlays. Check for more info at PowerArchiver Blog entry.. * Skinning support with DirectSkin 6.0. First application with latest DirectSkin 6.0 engine for skinning support of Windows 7 (32bit only). PA Shell Extensions 2.0: * Added Extract MRU shell extensions. * Added Compress to MRU zip shell extensions. * Added FTP profiles in shell extension, directly ftp from shell. Backup Improvements: * Moved backup to standalone application for easier handling, faster load times. * You can add multiple folders in backup file list. * Considerably faster zip backup when handling 10,000+ files. * Better info on files/folders in file list (number/size). * Fixed major issue with 7-Zip backups and larger number of files. And much more... * Interface improvements in Modern interface - faster and better looking. * Interface improvements in Classic interface - more MRU's, more usable. * New Add window in main PowerArchiver, most usable options are now shown on first screen. * You can now select multiple folders in all folder selection windows (backup, tools, etc). * Optimized 7-Zip's Optimized compression - Ultra and Max feature stronge

"Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open source software including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox) to cater for the changing needs of users and acknowledging that today most web sites aren't web pages but web applications. Design goals include stability, speed, security and a clean, simple and efficient user interface. * Sandboxing. Every tab in Chrome is sandboxed, so that a tab can display contents of a web page and accept user input, but it will not be able to read the user's desktop or personal files. Google say they have "taken the existing process boundary and made it into a jail".yabroudonline.com There is an exception to this rule; browser plugins such as Adobe Flash Player do not run within the boundaries of the tab jail, and so users will still be vulnerable to cross-browser exploits based on plugins, until plugins have been updated to work with the new Chrome security. Google has also developed a new phishing blacklist, which will be built into Chrome, as well as made available via a separate public API. * Privacy Google announces a so-called incognito mode claiming that it "lets you browse the web in complete privacy because it doesn't record any of your activity". No features of this, and no implications of the default mode with respect to Google's database are given. * Speed Speed improvements are a primary design goal. Stability * Multiprocessing The Gears team were considering a multithreaded browser (noting that a problem with existing web browser implementations was that they ar

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