Stockart.com sent artist Jon Engle a bill for ,000. Other than the price, the unusual thing was that the bill was for images from several of his own designed logos.Now, the company is threatening to sue and even destroying the artists reputation by contacting his clients and informing them their logo may be stolen work.
An anonymous reader writes “Recently, I decided to try out Google Chrome. With my usual mistrust of Google, I decided to carefully read the EULA before installing the software. I paused when I stumbled upon this section: ‘7.3 Google reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or all Content from any Service. For some of the Services, Google may provide tools to filter out explicit sexual content. These tools include the SafeSearch preference settings (see google.com/help/customize.html#safe). In addition, there are commercially available services and software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable.’ Does this mean that Google reserves the right to filter my web browsing experience in Chrome (without my consent to boot)? Is this a carry-over from the EULAs of Google’s other services (gmail, blogger etc), or is this something more significant? One would think that after the previous EULA affair with Chrome, Google would try to sound a little less draconian.”
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WordPress – the popular open source publishing platform – allows you to easily customize your installation with WordPress themes. In this collection, you’ll find 40 high-quality and free WordPress themes handpicked from the vast amount of free themes out there on the web.
“I don’t know how many of you actually got sacrificed out there, but condolences to you,” said Matt Walsh, head of the Interaction Design department at ad agency CP&B, as he surveyed the audience at his Friday morning talk at the Web 2.0 ExpoCP&B, after all, was the creator of the “Whopper Sacrifice” phenomenon, a Burger King
Everybody uses email as one of its primary communication means; Free Software desktop users are no exception. In this regard, email clients play a central role in the way we work and generally live in the Internet. These last years have seen some relative decline in the usage of email clients. The use of standard, more mature web technologies such
Image editing software has become ubiquitous in this digital age. Whether you’re creating a web interface or simply cropping and enhancing your family photos – you’ll need your favorite image editor to do it. In this article, you’ll find the top image editing applications currently out in the market.
MojoKid writes “Just one day after announcing plans to subsidize netbooks, AT&T wised up to the fact that those netbooks and connections could be used to download movies and enjoy other bandwidth-intensive applications. Apparently trying to avoid bogging down their network, the company revised its data plan service terms to single out and prohibit ‘downloading movies using P2P file-sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, and web broadcasting…’ The license agreement further prohibits tethering the device to PCs or other equipment. That’s a pretty strict set of rules. After all, the new terms of service seems to limit applications such as SlingPlayer, Qik, Skype, and Jaikuspot, which many AT&T customers are currently using without issue.” Update — April 4, 02:50 GMT by SS: Reader evn points out an Engadget report that AT&T quickly retracted the changes.
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An anonymous reader writes “As part of the International Year of Astronomy, the live video webcast Around the World in 80 Telescopes is taking place now, with fascinating live linkups with the world’s leading observatories. The schedule for the webcast is available as a PDF and the recorded videos are available via the 100 hours of astronomy page”
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Engadget is reporting that Envizions, maker of the EVO Linux game console, has finally announced final specs and opened the doors to pre-orders. All bets are off till users actually see the hardware, but it would be nice to see a new player in the market. Of course this assumes they put some time into a little polish that is usually expected from the gaming community (that website, yikes) and some effort into a killer game library. “Envizions say that the console will run a modified, quick-boot distro of Fedora called Mirrors (which can be upgraded to a beefier build named Mirrors Evolution X), and will feature a “cloud” service stacked with Amiga (!) games and an Akimbo-based video service. Beyond that, proper titles will be sold online and on SD cards for around .” I’m sure they wont forget to send Slashdot a beta review copy with a couple of games.
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Today we’re beginning to roll out a new product called DiggBar, which is an easier way to Digg stories across the web. Check out this short video to see it in action. – Kevin
