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We are about to engage in a massive purging of our belongings. Hopefully, it will result in some space to move around and a small deduction on our (surely misery-inducing) taxes this year.
If you've ever thought about moving during December, I have one contraction for you: don't. I was stupid enough to do so this year, taking the stress of hauling my belongings to a new apartment, finding a storage unit, and trying to remember how my bed frame fits together and adding it to an already busy schedule of shopping, baking, and holiday parties.
There is, however, one great thing about moving during December: It forced me to go through my belongings and make a substantial goods donation to my local Goodwill store. Since Goodwill is a registered 501(c)(3) charity organization, I can deduct the value of what I donated to them when I submit my taxes in April (er, did I say April? March. I'll definitely get them in by March this year).
If you're thinking of donating gently used clothing, furniture, or other items before the end of 2010, here's what you need to know:
Not every thrift store is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Before you donate your goods, call the store to make sure that donations to them are indeed tax deductible, and read more about qualified organizations on the IRS website.
Just in case you fall under the watchful, auditing eye of the IRS, always keep a detailed list of what you've donated so you can back up any deduction claims.
When you're figuring out how much to claim as a deduction, you need to estimate what the IRS refers to as the "fair market value" of each item. For example, if you're donating a used pair of jeans that you bought for $40, their fair market value isn't going to be $40 — more likely $3-$10. If you need help estimating the fair market value of your goods, take a walk around a thrift store and see how items are priced.
Charities like Goodwill have to go through a lot of stuff, and it makes their job even more difficult if you bring in your broken printer and pass it off as working just because you want to claim it as a tax deduction. If something is broken and unrepairable, don't give it to a charity to deal with.
Always, always, always get a receipt from the charity you're donating to. You can't claim your deduction without it.
According to the IRS, "If your total deduction for all noncash contributions for the year is over $500, you must complete section A of Form 8238" (PDF). If you are deducting one item that is worth over $5,000, you must complete Section B of the same form.
So take a day to clear out your closets, and make sure to get your donations in by December 31. It'll help you have a happy new year with less taxes — and less clutter.
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We are about to engage in a massive purging of our belongings. Hopefully, it will result in some space to move around and a small deduction on our (surely misery-inducing) taxes this year.
Turbo Tax actually has an itemized form for clothing that you've donated, complete with the fair market value. The items have to be "high" or "medium" in value. I had about six bags of clothing to go through, but when I was done I had an itemized list. The clothing was worth almost 600 bucks! Granted, most of the stuff was high value but I'd say this system is well worth the trouble. Gotta love Turbo Tax!
Almost forgot-I donated to the Salvation Army and keep my receipt with the list. That way if the IRS does come calling, no worries!
Great Article. Thanks for the info. Does anyone know where I can find a blank "2014 IRS Instruction 8283" to fill out?


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, April 22, 2013, 10:44 PM
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Palo Alto lands airport manager
Original post made on Apr 23, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, April 22, 2013, 10:44 PM
Comments (20)
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 23, 2013 at 9:29 am
This is good news. It is a real jewel.
a resident of another community
on Apr 23, 2013 at 11:44 am
Palo Alto can't pay its current employees but can hire a manager for an airport that serves residents of everyplace but Palo Alto. As a former San Mateo airports manager he'll be quite familiar with his customers.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Apr 23, 2013 at 12:04 pm
I'm a resident and use KPAO (as a lowly Cessna renter).
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 23, 2013 at 2:13 pm
An unnecessary position for a totally unnecessary airport and a chronic and perpetual money loser, where the Palo Alto tax payers are subsidizing a pastime activity for mostly rich hobbyists, mostly non-resident.
If you want to explain to a young kid the meaning of "White Elephant", just point them toward the Palo Alto airport.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 23, 2013 at 4:16 pm
Why start paying anyone until 2017, when the county lease expires?
The airport is never going to be a moneymaker in reality, only in the fevered imaginations of the city council and their pied piper, Mr. Keene.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 23, 2013 at 5:04 pm
....so in the past two weeks the city has hired two unemployed "friends" of the current city manager into two new management positions costing resident taxpayers in excess of $400,000 in annual combined salary and benefit packages. So while the new management position "Airport Manager" has no official duties and the County has said they do not intend to renew the lease after 2017, what will this new manager do for the next 4 years that requires taxpayers to subsidize his salary of $128,000 (plus benefits)? Continuing to subsidize "friends of friends" newly created management positions is unsustainable and is a slap in the face to resident taxpayers. What a pity!
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 23, 2013 at 5:21 pm
This airport has ZERO chance of ever being profitable, even with the $1 per year lease which the Palo Alto tax payers have gifted it for so many decades, mindlessly, I might add. It has been a perpetual money loser and will continue to be one. So this salary is just an act of dumping more money down a bottomless drain, aka as Socialism for the rich and Capitalism for all others.
a resident of Barron Park
on Apr 23, 2013 at 6:31 pm
Haters gonna hate... This is a great move for the city -- it can proceed to take over the airport early from the county, and prevent it from further deterioration due to neglect.
The airport has been a "money loser" according to the county, because the county was required by the lease to keep all profits in Palo Alto. If the airport "lost" money (for example by subsidizing the other county airports), the the county needed less money for them. In reality (according to a city audit and an airport consultant study), the Palo Alto airport pays for itself.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Apr 23, 2013 at 6:32 pm
Web Link
"The daily operations of the County Airports are funded entirely by airport users fees and budgeted using the Airport Enterprise Fund. The airport department is completely self-sufficient; it does not use any General Fund tax dollars. Some special projects receive additional funding from the FAA and Caltrans."
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 23, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Santa Clara County has a lease that extends through 2017 and has not stated that it intends to relinquish control of airport activities prior to the end of their contract with the city. So what does a Airport Manager that has no authority on any matters concerning Palo Alto Airport do for four years at a cost of over a $500,000 to taxpayers? Great move.....right!
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 23, 2013 at 7:24 pm
We are lucky his salary is "only" $128K unlike other hires who are paid something north of $16o or $170K.
A few good questions above that should be answered - including a spread sheet of the operations debits and credits. All in the interest of "transparent" government which Keene espouses.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Apr 23, 2013 at 10:44 pm
Think of all the money that could be save and the land that could be dedicated for the use of ALL Palo Altans out by the Baylands ... not to mention all the noise in the Baylands and over Palo Alto, and the risk of crashes that could be completely eliminated if we could get rid of this airport and replace it with a park or for any other use. This is prime waterfront property that the Palo Alto Airport makes unusable by its existence and ruins most of the rest of the recreational area in the Baylands because of all the noise.
Go out there and try to have a conversation with someone within half a mile of the airport. It's miserable.
Let's have some quiet and some democracy and figure out what we can do about getting rid of this airport, not creating expensive jobs that do nothing for over 99% of Palo Alto.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 24, 2013 at 6:45 am
Kane, the airport is getting the land lease-free from the Palo Alto the tax payers who own the land. If it had to pay lease at current market rates is would suffer much heavier loses that even its supporters wouldn't be able to conceal. Additionally, this land is highly valuable and Palo Alto could use it for the benefit of its residents, instead of giving it away for free for the benefit of a few, mostly non-residents.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Apr 24, 2013 at 7:48 am
boscoli, go ahead and argue the use, but the airport land is claimed by the city and if our city airport paid a lease at market rate, we would be paying ourselves.
I'm not clear on how the city originally appropriated that section of tidal marshland, from the state, or from San Mateo County? Somebody moved the boundary a century ago by rerouting San Francisquito Creek.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 24, 2013 at 1:54 pm
musical, the airport has been managed for may years by Santa Clara county and if we charged them lease at market rate they would have have been even deeper in the red, or more likely would have abandoned managing the airport many a very long time ago.
Since the pilots have resisted any real increases in their user fees and hanger fees, threatening each time to go to court, the notion of raising the fees in order to make it profitable are a fantasy. This will continue to be a simple case of flushing money down the drain, and this time the loses will probably have to be made up out of the general fund.
a resident of another community
on Apr 24, 2013 at 4:08 pm
Excellent, in less than a week the City Manager and City Council have added two new positions and two new managers to the City payroll? Last week it was a new "Chief Information Officer" and this week a new Airport Manager.
Again I find it real interesting that none of the local media has taken a moment to or taken a break from patting itself on the back for "being the champion of providing the public it's right to information" to actually do some reporting and dig below the surface and report on who and what departments in the City the last 10-20 years have grown and added positions/managers and percentage of growth of the same relative to dept size?
I"m sorry but a $175,000 a year plus benefits for a Chief Information Officer would pay for a lot of school crossing guards, police program, fire station 8, bicycle safety program, etc.
The City Manager is building himself quite the little empire it appears and keeping the KoolAid bowl on a free re fills mode for the City Council (and local media apparantly).
Starting to look and feel like the Bush administration is alive and well in PA of all places. Next look for Karl Rove being named senior advisor to the City Manager
a resident of Meadow Park
on Apr 25, 2013 at 2:14 pm
Yeah, let's make Palo Alto less interesting, it should be covered with housing, and have there be absolutely nothing to do.
The airport is beautiful, and could be even more so, naturally all the people that want to use it for something else have never used the airport, so it's "obvious" to them it's a waste.
Honestly, I'm pretty sure when you moved to Palo Alto you knew there was an airport, and if you didn't that's on you. So either take advantage of such a jewel, expand your capabilities, or stop complaining.
Honestly some of the complaints are along the lines of:
"I moved into my house, but the neighbors house is so ugly, I should force them to remodel it"
*sigh* Some people just don't understand life. But that's nothing new.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Apr 25, 2013 at 3:16 pm
When HSR comes through we'll have to take down that tall redwood tree at San Francisquito Creek. City can probably get some good money for the lumber and make tax-payers happy.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 26, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Jake: you make an excellent point about Mr. Keene's constant invention of new managerial positions,and I hope that Dave Price of the Daily Post reads your message and follows up on it. The Palo Alto Weekly probably won't; it never sustained its investigation of the Arrillaga Towers project at 27 University, and the city manager's secrecy about that.
Fyi, the next appointment to the public-paid trough is going to be a sustainability manager, according to a city source I saw last week. One might ask, sustainability of what, exactly? Council-developer cronyism, city-"management" self-proliferation, invention of spurious needs and denial of real needs???
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 27, 2013 at 4:15 pm
The city had a sustainability manager until June 2012, Debra van Duynhoven. The job description was something like this: Manage multidisciplinary groups in developing projects, programs and policies to further the city's sustainability strategy. Develop and report key metrics for green building programs, internal employee engagement program, zero waste, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Jim Rice's icy glare melted into a wide smile. Brash, flamboyant Rickey Henderson was humbled by it all.
The former left fielders were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday along with the late Joe Gordon, and Henderson, baseball's all-time leading base stealer, was briefly overcome before evoking some hearty laughs.
"My journey as a player is complete," Henderson said. "I am now in the class of the greatest players of all time, and at this moment I am very humbled."
Born in Chicago on Christmas Day 1958, Henderson moved with his family to California when he was 7 years old and became a three-sport star at Oakland Technical High School. Football was his forte and he received numerous scholarships. He was persuaded to turn them down for a shot at baseball.
"My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders," Henderson said. "But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best."
Henderson led the AL in steals 12 times and holds the record for steals with 1,406, runs scored with 2,295, unintentional walks with 2,129, and homers leading off a game with 81.
He said he owed much of that to a trick played by his former Babe Ruth coach, Hank Thomasson.
"He tricked me into playing by coming to pick me up with a glazed donut and a cup of hot chocolate," said Henderson, who played for nine teams during his 25-year career. "That was the way he would get me up and out of bed."
Henderson said a high school counselor who needed players for the baseball team provided even more spark.
"She would pay me a quarter every time I would get a hit, when I would score or stole a base," he said. "After my first 10 games, I had 30 hits, 25 runs scored and 33 steals. Not bad money for a kid."
Henderson was drafted by the Oakland Athletics on the fourth round in 1976 and made his major league debut with Oakland in late June 1979. It was a day Henderson said he would never forget.
"That was the most thrilling time of my life," Henderson said, remembering former A's owner Charlie Finley. "Charlie, wherever you're at, and that donkey, I want to say thank you for that opportunity."
When Finley hired Billy Martin as manager in 1980, Henderson had the perfect partner in crime. "Billyball" -- the aggressive attack Martin relished -- helped catapult Henderson to stardom.
Just the thought of that time forced Henderson to halt briefly in his speech when remembering Martin, who was killed in a car crash on Christmas 1989.
"Billy always got the most out of me," he said. "Billy, I miss you so much and I wish you were here today."
In 1980, Henderson became the first AL player to steal 100 or more bases in a single season with 100 to break Ty Cobb's record of 96 steals in 1915. Two years later he set the modern major league record for stolen bases with 130, breaking former Cardinals star Lou Brock's mark of 118.
While Henderson, now 50, was just the 44th player elected to the Hall in his first year of eligibility, Rice had to wait until his final year of eligibility to be selected.
"It doesn't matter that the call came 15 years later," Rice said. "What matters is that I got it.
"It's hard to comprehend. I am in awe to be in this elite company and humbled to be accepting this honor. I cannot think of anywhere I'd rather be than to be right here, right now, with you and you," Rice said, pointing at the 50 Hall of Famers on stage behind him and then at the fans. "Thank you."
Playing at a time when offensive numbers paled in comparison to the past two decades, the so-called steroid era, Rice batted .298 with 382 home runs and 1,451 RBIs from 1974-89. He drove in 100 or more runs eight times, batted over .300 seven times, and topped 200 hits four times. And he's the only player in major league history with at least 35 homers and 200 hits in three consecutive seasons (1977-79).
And he's known for a long time the reason he had to wait so long.
"The media often asked me about my players [teammates]," Rice, now 56, said. "I refused to be the media's mouthpiece. I came to Boston to play professional baseball, and that's what I did. And I did it well."
The day's most poignant moment came at the end of the acceptance speech given by Gordon's daughter, Judy. Gordon died in 1978 at age 63 and requested that he not have a funeral.
"We consider Cooperstown and the National Baseball Hall of Fame as his final resting place, a place he'll be honored forever," Judy Gordon said, tears welling in her eyes. "
Gordon won the 1942 AL MVP, beating out Triple Crown winner Ted Williams, and was an All-Star nine times in 11 seasons, leading the league in assists four times and in double plays three times. Nicknamed "Flash" because of his quick feet, Gordon was the first AL second baseman to hit 20 home runs in a season -- he did it seven times -- and still holds the league mark for career homers by a second baseman (246).


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Day 3 of the Alex Caviglia Bluewater Classic brought challenging conditions to the 30+ formula sailors lining up for the final races of the 2009 North American Championship.
thanks to Miami windsurfing for the photos
With a 10:00 am first possible start I left the dock at 9:30 with plenty of time to spare. I did my usual pre-race warm up, checking both sides of the course, the starting line and any weather patterns moving in. So far, it all looked tame with a 8-12k breeze from the SW. Port tack was favored but I got buried as I ducked a few starboard tackers and was in the lee of Gonzolo up the first beat. I tried to sail to the right side of the course, sparing with Fernando Martinez 42 and Steve Sylvester S3. It seemed whomever got further right and to the inside, got lifted and had the advantage among us as we advanced up the first beat. Sherman, Gonzo and Diaz rounded well ahead with Fernando on the F2 Z following. I knew I had an advantage downwind with the 12.0 as we lined up before the races and I was deeper and faster than Fernando on his 11.0. Slowly I reduced the distance between us and at the bottom gate split tacks with Fernando to go back to the right side up wind. Unfortunately there were plety of holes and Sylvester caught up with Fernando digging for gold in the opposite corner. Sylvester and I battled it out but I let him take advantageous of the inside lift and he got ahead as I had to double tack the top marc. Off the wind, there wasn't enough time to catch up but made sure I covered 42 and finished 5th.
Missing from the action was nearly half the fleet as they left the dock late but amazingly got redress at the end of the day as the dock master stated the AP flag would be up until they arrived but somehow the race started on time without them. Technicalities are always part of the game and not to be taken lightly!
Thanks to the Shakealeg flicker feed!
Race 2 heated up with more wind on the water but the 11.8 north was still the call as the holes were still big enough to need plenty of power. I got off the line well on starboard fighting with Sylvester the whole race just edging him and Kern out on the last leg. Again it was the pros in the top 3 conditions with lots of separation between them and the rest of the fleet.
Finally by the time race 3 got around the wind had increased to 18-22k but was gusting up to 28k. Gonzo was the only one able to sail in and rig down while the rest of the fleet was stuck on the 11,0 and 12.0 rigs. I thought this was never going to work as I struggled with the sail and control of the board. During the countdown, nearly half the fleet was knocked down, trying up uphaul their sails in the pre-start moments. Somhow we managed to start on port with a group of 10 sailors making their way up the first beat. Suddenly, I heard my harness lines stretch and then snap... I was in the water looking down at a broken harness line! Game over.
Well at least it was the last race but I was pretty frustrated knowing that these were the conditions that favored me so much. I hastily made my way back upwind with out a port harness line back to the harbor. (That's the last time I never sail with out spare line in my harness!)
Without a doubt, this was a great regatta that let me realize my light air skills that Ive developed all season racing in Europe had finally made some difference.
I also got the chance to see and tune some of the new gear for 2009. Despite not being able to race with either the Maui Sails or the new North 2009 sails, I was impressed by both during the sessions I took before the regatta as well as seeing them and speaking with the sailors on them. The big changes in then north program include a shorter boom and higher aspect rig- giving a good advantage upwind. The draft is a bit further back and might be a more technical sail than previous years but still plenty of potential once powered. The Maui Sails have jut the opposite feeling with a softer feel and longer boom length. They power up quickly and provide more low end grunt. I think both sails will require plenty of rider input to make them go fast.
Also new in my program was the gaastra vapor board- an all around comfortable design making it easy to sail both upwind and downwind. There were no marketing gimmicks such as removable plates or air tubes to complicate the design- just plane and simple fast! I was equally impressed by the guys who had the Mikes Lab L8- a much improved well rounded version of the 2007 L7. You wont hear anybody complaining about this board and its a shame more people dont take advantage of the wonderful design and craftsmanship Mike Z provides.
Finally, there was the fins. Some of the top sailors are using more powerful 78 cut down fins to provide more lift while others rely on 72 cut down fins for better balance of speed. With the wider tails on the boards, its becoming evident a bigger fin is needed for lighter conditions to keep the board powered. Kashy is still the fin of choice for most but the Ifju fins show some real potential with a few of the sailors going very impressive on Peters design.
Thanks again to the organization as well as the rest of the Formula sailors...without you, it would just be a reach back and forth. Thanks for the challenges- especially from the strong Miami fleet of Formula sailors who have been pushing hard all winter long!


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- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2006 at 4:42 PM
Awesome...seems to work great on my Nok9300. We've owned VeriChat for a couple of years now, so you'd think I'd be able to get a license key for it...but no. I tend to only talk to people on GTalk anyway, so this is great.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2007 at 8:48 PM
can we use this MGTalk for talking to another user on the gtalk? If so is it charged or free?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 4, 2007 at 4:45 AM
I have found an app called Skittle Google Mobile Instant Message, you can use it to chat to gmail contacts from your mobile phone. Its good cool features like preset messages, group messaging, etc.ReplyDelete
Its works from all phones... you may emulate it on the PC using mpowerplayer or J2ME wireless toolkit.
Google MUC, Google IRC is antoher application also from the mobile phone called Skittle Group Chat, you may use it to chat to multiple friends all from your mobile phone.
Visit http://wap064.tripod.com for this application
can we use Gtalk throug mobile to talk to other person on computer. If so can u tell me how it is done and also let me know which handset support this featureReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 14, 2007 at 9:20 AM
i just added Fring to my E61 and it seems to work great..... i called a frend on google talk and it seemed just like a cell phone call.... it also has skype.... its free and in beta mode.........ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2007 at 11:44 AM
hey, that other http enabled gtalk link is dead. can anyone update it please?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2007 at 5:20 AM
Seems both links are down now. MGTalk comes up with 404 and the other does not load.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2007 at 6:55 AM
Does it mean that we can make calls from Google Talk installed in our mobile phone? I mean without using the service provider, say Vodafone, can we make calls from gTalk in mobile and not get charged for the calls we make anywhere in the world (just as we do from our notebooks).ReplyDelete
No. You can't make phone calls with it. It's a Jabber client, not a full port of the Google Talk client, and anyway, Phone Service Providers tend to block any traffic which could be a phone conversation on their data connections.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Try this link , i didn't try it but someone says it works !ReplyDelete
try it it's free http://www.fring.com/
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2008 at 3:34 AM
Thanks RandomCake,ReplyDelete
I really wonder when will this kind of imagined application be available in our phones. May be some day when Google gets into business of what Vodafone does. Well thanks for your response.
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2008 at 2:04 PM
this is what i found when i clicked on mgtalk http://www.cnomy.com/?dn=mobileoss.org&pid=1PONU28HS what do i do once i get there?ReplyDelete
I've been using Octrotalk which even saves my chats into my gmail account.ReplyDelete
al above links are not working it seems. And FRING works fine with good speed of internet connection.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 12, 2008 at 11:11 PM
can we use Gtalk throug mobile to talk to other person on computer. If so can u tell me how it is done and also let me know which handset support this featureReplyDelete
al above links are not working it seems. And FRING works fine with good speed of internet connection.ReplyDelete
But,who can talk me where to download?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2009 at 9:16 AM
I used octrotalk.It works grat but have to buy it for 29.95 dollars......thats not fare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 10, 2009 at 7:17 PM
I want to text a friend in India on her mobile number from G talk can this be done ? T mobile charges .20 a text and this builds up .Help if any ideas I have a blackberry pearlReplyDelete
i want google talk for my moblieReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2009 at 10:12 PM
where do i download it...on my phone or on my computer and then transfer it to my phone...and btw, do u need internet plan to use this and you need to download it via your mobile browser?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 3, 2009 at 9:08 PM
what is the link to download gtalk in my mob.. which mob supports this featureReplyDelete
I'm using minifring (www.fring.com) on my Sony Ericsson K610i (and my girlfriend's K770i) and it works super with Google Talk!ReplyDelete
I can use my computer or mobile phone interchangeably and be logged on at both the computer and handset at the same time. Very easy to use.
Is is so much easier than SMS, a lot cheaper, and more flexible, as you can switch between phone and computer - and have a log of the conversations automatically stored in Gmail.
It can also connect to Skype, MSN, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo and AIM. And Facebook also, with an addon.
And it's completely free.
A more direct link to Fring or Minifring is http://www.fring.com/download/ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Fring is the best!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2009 at 3:39 AM
i found fring very nice its jst like talking on mobileReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 12, 2009 at 2:04 PM
fring is great i using it on nokia N70ReplyDelete
but on the SONY K610I
there is not fring call on it ...just CHAT
1 _how can i do fring call on K610i ,
& 2 _what is the typs of mobails can we use fring call on it ?
i need help & thanks
u can make fring calls from allReplyDelete
s60 symbian based phones and iphone.
you cannot do fring call with ur k610i.
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2009 at 4:41 AM
can this software used in samsung S3500ReplyDelete
Is this software will function in Nokia 3500 classic?ReplyDelete
is this wok in nokia N95? I just added in my mobile.Now how I can operate this in my mobile?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 9, 2009 at 8:05 PM
hi i am loking for a gtalk application for Nokia 3110 classic phone in Asia.... Can anyone tell me how can i make it...ReplyDelete
Rahul - 9808236067
i just need a gtalk for my n72 please suggest something .ReplyDelete
Hl i am jayaram looking for gtalk for my n73.anybody suggest me how to operate?ReplyDelete
Is it ready to function in nokia N72ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2010 at 3:38 AM
Is it ready to function in sony ericsion j105 naiteReplyDelete
I have Nokia 5233 and have GPRS connection. I downloaded Fring but it is not able to connect(No access point WAP is working for it) Can any one suggest.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM
how to get G talk on my phone ??????????????ReplyDelete
you can try nimbuzz or ebuddy for mobile. Both are goodReplyDelete
fring not working of all networkReplyDelete
is galk enought for copuls? I think no need other type of soceiol networking.ReplyDelete
i want to talk googletalk to mobile phoneReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Fring is the best and works fine. i have been using since long. voice quality is as good as cellular perator provides. it works on almost all network and S60 series mobile. you can make fring as well video call(wi-fi only)ReplyDelete
- Rohit Singh'RAJPUT'August 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Hey frnds does this mgtalk works in nokia 2700c.anybody know then pls make a missed call on my no.07250288300.plsReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2010 at 8:04 PM
M having prob with starting up with gtalk (rebel) from my spice phone. shud i change d versionReplyDelete
I have downloaded Fring and Gtalk on my samsung i5801 but I am not able to do voice chat can anyone help plzz....ReplyDelete
- ShubhamOctober 9, 2010 at 5:21 AM
Does it works in NOKIA 5130ReplyDelete
I'm using a LG GT505. I have access to gmail, google maps and youtube on my phone. But i cannot use gtalk :(
Anyone knows which app to use to chat on Gtalk or yahoo, please let me know.
I would really appreciate!!!
Thank you :)
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM
i am using nokia 5233 ,can i use Gtalk from my mobile to pc voice connect ,,plz suggest meReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2010 at 11:27 PM
hai i am using nokia 3600 is it support to this mobileReplyDelete
hello.. i am using nokia 6630 is it support to this mobilReplyDelete
I have downloaded Fring and Gtalk on my sonyericsson vivaz pro. but I am not able to do voice chat can anyone help plzz....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2010 at 7:45 AM
does this support nokia 5233 plz tell meReplyDelete
will it work on LG GT505?ReplyDelete
It should be in the View Network Connections only. Look around and make your way out simlilarly as described in case of Win XP.ReplyDelete
i want to know that can I call on a mobile phone with this facility from my computer?ReplyDelete
i have nokia-x2 mobile. wheather google talk is access for this mobile.if it is possible means how i access that?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Can I use a straight talk cell phone to receive calls on google talkReplyDelete
i have nokia-c3 mobile. wheather google talk is access for this mobile.if it is possible means how i access that?ReplyDelete
hello.. i am using nokia 6500s is it support to this mobileReplyDelete
hai iam use to nokia E5 is it support to this mobileReplyDelete
I want to download Gtalk for my Nokia C3ReplyDelete
i want to instal gtalk on my mobile nokia6630
it is possible
if yes ?
then telle me how it is possible
Please can i download a google talk app for my nokia 2700c-2 and where can i download it.ReplyDelete
- tricygalApril 10, 2012 at 1:00 PM
i am using nokia c7-00 how can i download mobile google talkReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 14, 2012 at 5:52 AM
im have nokia E5 can i use gtalk in my mobile?ReplyDelete
how i can download mgtalk on my c7 ?ReplyDelete
i think gtalk is the best i have nokia n70 i want to use yahoo messenger or google talk it is support my handset, any body can help me???ReplyDelete
im have samsung gt sk3770k can i use gtalk in my mibile ?????ReplyDelete
I have Symphony mobile D21.ReplyDelete
I want call to any Bangladesh mobile phone.
I want to download Gtalk from my phone samsung SplusReplyDelete
i have nokia-c3 mobile. wheather google talk is access for this mobile.if it is possible means how i access that?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2012 at 1:33 PM
I want to know ,how i can instaled this application in my mobile. please were is link of this applicReplyDelete
Can I use a straight talk cell phone to receive calls on google talkReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 8, 2012 at 1:32 AM
Android phones is the way to go for free calls world wide with a phone. Black Berry and Iphone block you from this option. Android can Skype!! For now samsung S3 is a good bet. Kill tellecomunication and move forward to WIFI comunication.ReplyDelete


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I risk my life each day when I travel through the London Borough of Lambeth on my journey to work. Brixton is genuinely one of the scariest places on earth (gasp).
To be completely honest, although I adore driving my gleaming luxurious Audi Q7 to the City of Westminster, and take great pleasure in the fact that I can afford to pay the congestion charge to reach my personal parking space (this super toll has substantially reduced the volume of traffic in my way), occasionally I become concerned about the environment (sigh)... Sometimes I actually catch the number 3 bus to work,as I did this morning (OHMYGOD).
I remained downstairs for the duration of the journey, surrounded by beer swigging Russians, dangerous dogs, harassed mothers wearing uncomfortable acrylic thongs and unsanctioned exuberant young children, leaping off the seats like fleas... I noticed a couple of Danish tourists (obviously campers from the frightful site at Crystal Palace) sporting great tufts of orange underarm hair, sprouting out above the arm holes of their flimsy cotton vest tops! I feared I might inhale my own vomit...
The bus stopped for a moment to allow passengers to alight outside a vile kebab shop on Brixton Road. There was a yellow tinged Metropolitan Police sign stuck to the inside of the window printed with the words "Safe Haven, if you feel threatened, come inside."
You do realise that this fast food establishment did not sell free range or organic fayre? Yet, I felt so traumatised that I actually perceived the vile establishment to be a comparative a place of safety!
Why would anyone who wears their underarm hair as a badge of honour choose to holiday in this civilised city? There is nothing for them here. Despite our binge drinking culture, potentially murderous pets, uncomfortable underwear and poorly disciplined progeny, everyone depilates appropriately. We are a civilised nation...
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's muscular performance with working-class whites overwhelmed the national trend toward a more diverse population that tends to favour Democrats. That dynamic was amplified by the peculiar mathematics of the Electoral College, which gave a megaphone to less-educated voters in the Midwest.
A look at the building blocks of Trump's win over Hillary Clinton:
These voters spoke with a shout, particularly in Rust Belt states that have mostly favoured Democrats in recent elections. Noncollege-educated whites made up about a third of the electorate nationally, but they accounted for more than 4 in 10 voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio and made up fully half of all voters in Iowa. In all four states, and nationally too, the margin by which Trump won noncollege whites surpassed Mitt Romney's margins in 2012. Nationwide, some 67 per cent of these working-class voters backed Trump, attracted to his insurgent's pledge to upend the status quo.
Trump's strong support among those with less than a college education is at least partly a reflection of how little the economic recovery since the Great Recession has benefited them. Their job opportunities have dwindled and their incomes have fallen, even as broader measures of the nation's job market show improvement. Middle-aged white men with only high school degrees — the core of Trump's support — saw their inflation-adjusted incomes plummet 9 per cent from 1996 through 2014, according to Sentier Research, a data analytics firm founded by former Census Bureau officials.
Democratic candidates have long worked to stockpile votes in urban centres to offset the more conservative electorate in America's small towns and rural areas. A colour-coded map of the 2016 results — a sea of Republican red in the country's midsection with blue states largely arrayed along the two coasts — amply illustrates the rural/urban divide. Clinton won about 6 out of 10 votes in cities with more than 50,000 residents; Trump won about 60 per cent of votes in small towns and rural areas. Voters in the suburbs largely split their votes between Clinton and Trump.
But Trump made some crucial inroads. He won Pennsylvania, for example, by toppling a 20-year-old Democratic maxim to build an insurmountable lead in Philadelphia and its suburbs. Clinton did build an impressive lead in Philadelphia and its suburbs, surpassing Barack Obama's showing there in 2012, but Trump swamped Clinton in the rest of the state. The last time Pennsylvania voted for a Republican for president was 1988.
The white vote has shrunk in recent years — from about 80 per cent in 1996 to 70 per cent of Tuesday's vote — but that's still a powerful number. Trump dominated with whites no matter how you dice their votes — among men and women, young and old, college-educated and noncollege-educated. That diluted the potency of Clinton's strong performance with Hispanics and blacks.
In North Carolina, where Trump won by a 4-point margin, the race was decided less on Clinton's failure than on Trump's unanticipated success. Clinton's campaign had hoped African Americans would make up 20 per cent of the electorate, and they did. Nine in 10 blacks supported the Democrat. But Trump's strength with white, rural and small-town voters overwhelmed her support among blacks.
Likewise, in Florida, where Trump won by just over 1 percentage point, Hispanics favoured Clinton by almost a 2-to-1 margin and nearly 9 in 10 blacks backed her. But their outsized support for her was swamped by Trump's 2-to-1 lead among white voters, who made up more than 60 per cent of the electorate.
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In the end, it didn't matter that Clinton was on track to win more popular votes than Trump nationally: Her voters were too geographically concentrated to save her where it mattered most, in battleground states that tipped to Trump by small margins to produce a lopsided victory in electoral votes.
With three states too close to call, Trump led Clinton 279-228 in electoral votes. In the popular vote, Clinton was leading 47.7 per cent to 47.5 per cent, or by about 236,000 votes.
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Samsung looks to leverage JavaScript as a mechanism for IoT (Internet of things) development with its IoT.js project.
The recently unveiled IoT.js serves as a lightweight version of Node.js. "IoT.js aims to provide interoperable service platform in the world of IoT, based on Web technology," the IoT.js website states. "The target of IoT.js is to run in resource-constrained devices [having] only few kilobytes of RAM available device. Thus it will supports very wide range of 'Things.'"
Underpinning IoT.js is Jerryscript, which serves as a JavaScript engine for devices like microcontrollers. It supports on-device compilation and execution, and it offers JavaScript access to peripherals. Also key is the Libuv multiplatform support library, which focuses on asynchronous I/O event handling.
"JavaScript is a script language on the Web, and Node.js is a platform that builds with the JavaScript engine. IoT.js platform makes JavaScript and Node.js lightweight, thereby increasing interoperability among devices," the SamsungTomorrow blog says.
Samsung is not alone in tying Node.js, the popular server-side implementation of JavaScript, to the IoT. Microsoft has detailed plans to use its Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10, for use in IoT application development. The intent is to get Node.js supported on Windows on ARM devices.
IoT.js is one of many activities Samsung is undertaking to make all devices interoperable in IoT, the company said. IoT.js enables more devices to work with each other, ranging from complex and sophisticated devices like home appliances, mobile devices, and televisions to small devices like lamps, thermometers, switches, and sensors. "Ultimately, the interoperability of all of these devices will allow people to enjoy a smarter, more convenient lifestyle," the blog says.


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EPA Chief Defends Power Plant Rule Against GOP Charges Of Overreach
By Chris Adams, McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday strongly defended the approach and legitimacy of an Obama administration power plant rule that Republicans attacked as regulatory overreach and Democrats said was vital.
In a hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said the rule proposed last month will remove hundreds of millions of tons of carbon and hundreds of thousands of tons of other harmful air pollutants from the emissions of existing power plants that now taint the nation's skies, boosting the health of American citizens and of the planet in general.
"The science is clear. The risks are clear. And the high costs of climate inaction are clear," McCarthy told the panel in what was her first time testifying on the power plant rule. "We must act."
But the rule is contentious, tied up in coal-country politics and the ongoing debate over climate change. In coal-heavy states such as Wyoming, West Virginia and Kentucky, citizens, politicians and industry groups have attacked the rule as a major disruption to their economies — part of what they say is President Barack Obama's "war on coal."
Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), a committee member, said that the concerns of coal states _ as well as others _ have been ignored as the EPA barrels ahead with its proposal.
"In fact, the administrator refuses to listen to the thousands of Americans who will be impacted by this rule," he said. "The EPA administrator has refused to go out and visit folks in coal country whose lives the agency is upending. The EPA administrator won't hold a public hearing in Wyoming — won't hold a public hearing in Kentucky."
In general, Republicans pushed McCarthy and the administration hard, saying that the EPA didn't take enough input before releasing the rule and that it overstepped its legal authority in doing so. Beyond that, they said the whole rationale for the rule was flawed — that the science on climate change and global warming was unsettled and often contradictory.
Democrats responded that the rule-making process was elaborate and ongoing. As it stands, the rule is still in process, with a public comment period that runs through October and public hearings next week in Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh and Washington. They said that the legal authority for the proposal was well-established and that the overwhelming number of experts on climate change said it was time to act.
The rule at issue was released last month by the Obama administration and is designed to substantially reduce carbon pollution in the nation — a process that could shutter older coal-fired power plants and spur development of more wind and other alternative energy sources. It requires that states develop plans to lower carbon pollution by specified amounts.
The testimony from the current head of the EPA also came a month after four former administrators of the agency — all of them appointed by Republican presidents — appeared before a Senate panel and said that climate change is real and that the federal government has the responsibility and the legal authority to combat it.
While that session was somewhat out of the ordinary, most of Wednesday's session fell along traditional party lines. Republican senators bashed the proposal as unnecessary and burdensome and Democratic ones said it was both vital and legitimate.
During opening statements, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) bluntly laid out his objections.
"The proposed rule is a breathtaking regulatory overreach," he said. "It is a job-killer. It is based on questionable science. It is of dubious legality under the Clean Air Act. It amounts to an end run against Congress. It is inflexible. It would have no effect on the climate and is therefore pointless, and it is punitive."
Responded Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat and the committee's chairwoman: "Well outside of that, you love it?"
And joked Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont: "So you're leaning yes, it that right, Roger?"
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Ordering Your Meal
It's important to understand what's on the menu when you eat out. The good news: You can eat heart-healthy if you know what to look for.
Many restaurants offer delicious meals that are low in saturated fats, trans fats and cholesterol, or will prepare your food to order. With a little bit of effort, you can ensure that the meals you eat away from home are part of a healthy diet.
Follow these tips when ordering your meal:
- Avoid ordering before-the-meal "extras" like cocktails, appetizers, bread and butter because these are often sources of extra fat, sodium and calories.
- Ask for butter, cream cheese, salad dressings, sauces and gravies to be served on the side, so you can control the quantity you consume.
- Choose boiled, baked or grilled fish or chicken, instead of fried.
- Steer clear of high-sodium foods – including any food that's served pickled, in cocktail sauce, smoked, in broth or au jus, or in soy or teriyaki sauce. Avoid dishes with lots of cheese, sour cream and mayonnaise.
- Be selective at salad bars. Choose fresh greens, raw vegetables, fresh fruits, garbanzo beans and reduced-fat, low-fat, light or fat-free dressings. Avoid cheeses, marinated salads, pasta salads and fruit salads with whipped cream.
- Choose desserts carefully. Fresh fruit, fruit ice, sherbet, gelatin and angel food cake are good alternatives to more traditional fat- and cream-laden desserts. Use fat-free or 1% milk in coffee instead of cream or half-and-half.
- Don't be hesitant to ask your server how particular foods are prepared or what ingredients they contain.
- Ask what kinds of oils foods are prepared with or cooked in. The most desirable oils are monounsaturated oils (olive oil, canola oil and peanut oil) and polyunsaturated oils (soybean oil, corn oil, safflower oil and sunflower oil).
- Ask whether the restaurant can prepare your food to order – for example, by leaving off or going very light on dressings, butter, cheese or other high-fat items. Ask the chef to prepare the food with very little butter or oil or none at all.
- Ask if smaller portions are available or whether you can share entrees with a companion. If smaller portions aren't available, ask for a to-go box when you order and place half the entrée in the box to eat later.
- Ask whether healthy substitutions are possible. For example, if a dish comes with French fries or onion rings, ask whether you can get a baked potato with vegetables, and low-fat or fat-free sour cream or soft margarine on the side. Instead of mayonnaise-laden coleslaw, ask if you can get a small salad, fruit or vegetables instead. Although some substitutions may cost a little extra, the health benefits are well worth it.
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Pioneering ornithologist Dr. Eagle Clark (1912) refers to a statement in Baikie and Hedle's Historia Naturis Orcadensis (1848) that one was seen off Fair Isle in June 1798. The Great Auk was still known to breed at Papa Westray, about 40 miles away at the time. I can not find this book but would like to see if it has any other Fair Isle bird info?
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Conference Overview & Goals
ACM/FaCE Conference on the Intentional Integration of Academic and Athletic Programs
November 6-7, 2009 at Coe College
Nearly 50 people from 11 ACM colleges and the consortial office participated in the conference. The conference was structured with a keynote address and a series of panels, breakout discussions, and reporting-back sessions to engage faculty, senior athletic staff, and academic and student life leaders in identifying strategies that ACM colleges and the consortium can adopt to:
- Strengthen ties and understanding between faculty and coaches;
- Find and strengthen the areas of student learning where overlap occurs in both the classroom and through participation in sports; and
- Create new and innovative ways to increase the overlap between academics and athletics both in and out of the classroom, in support of the liberal arts mission.
In the conference proposal, the planning committee identified two distinct, but related elements of collaboration that will lead to innovation:
- At the institutional level, to create a collaboration among faculty, coaches, and students to craft ways through which:
- Student learning can be intentionally built into athletic programs, and
- Athletic contexts can be intentionally built into academic offerings.
- At the ACM level, using the work developed at the 14 member institutions:
- Choose two or three strategies that can and will be developed by all ACM schools so it can be published as an "ACM" initiative, by ACM and the member institutions.
- Create a list of possible strategies schools could use to strengthen the bond between academics and athletics.
The most important outcome of the conference and overall collaboration will be strategies for integration between athletics and academics that are embraced by faculty and coaches at all ACM member institutions, both academically and athletically, for implementation.
Next Steps: Solutions by Theme
In the final Breakout Session, participants split up into four groups to discuss four thematic areas (or "Big Ideas") to maximize the educational value of a liberal arts education, focusing first on the integration of academics and athletics:
- Theme A: Determining how to define an integrative institutional mission, with divisional missions, including explicit missions for athletics, aligned with institutional mission, embraced by all, and assessed.
- Theme B: Creating informal and formal communication methods and models that include all constituencies, and assessed.
- Theme C: Creating orientation programs — broadly defined — for new hires, for students, ongoing, and assessed.
- Theme D: Come up with tactics to bring the athletic strengths to the classroom and to bring the academic strengths to athletics — best practices.
Each group drew up a list of next steps or action items in its thematic area and reported back to the entire conference with a summary of the group's discussion and next steps.See the Conference Proceedings for more information.


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Security blogger Brian Krebs is used to helping journalists explain the latest hack attack, and there have been plenty lately affecting the likes of Evernote, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. He isn't used to being the story himself.
Such was the case this week when a denial of service attack shut down his website while at the same time police showed up at his door, pointed guns at him and threw him into handcuffs.
In a post titled "The World Has No Room For Cowards," Krebs details what happened Thursday.
The story actually starts last August when Krebs filed a police report after receiving threats following a post he wrote about a service now located at booter.tw that can be hired to knock websites offline.
"One of the reasons that I opted to file the report was because I knew some of the young hackers who frequented the forum on which this service was advertised had discussed SWATting someone as a way of exacting revenge or merely having fun at the target's expense," Krebs wrote.
Swatting is when someone tricks authorities into dispatching units based on a false report. In Krebs' case this week, someone spoofed his cell phone number to report that Russians had broken into his home and shot his wife — hence, the firearms pointed at him when he opened his front door.
Earlier in the day, Prolexic, a company that protects websites from DoS attacks, forwarded to Krebs a bogus letter it had received supposedly from the FBI that said his site should be shut down, accusing him of hosting illegal content and profiting from cybercriminal activity. The letter also included several references to a story Krebs had published regarding sssdob.ru, a site that sells access to Social Security numbers and credit reports.
After being cleared by police and later investigating the attack on his website, Krebs says he found evidence that booter.tw, the site that prompted his police report last year, may have been involved.
"For some bone-headed reason, the entire customer database file for booter.tw appears to be available for download if you happen to know the link to the archive. A search through that record shows that on Thursday afternoon Eastern Time, someone paid booter.tw to launch a series of denial-of-service attacks against my website," Krebs wrote.
The story doesn't end there.
After granting Ars Technica an interview about the incident, the tech website was also briefly knocked offline by what looks to be the same person who harassed Krebs.
Krebs, who has helped dismantle massive bot nets, tracked cyber criminals in person and made public volumes of criminal evidence against them, is used to getting attention, just not this dramatic.
He has been described by InfoWorld as "one of the best cyber crime journalists of his generation" who displays "a deeper understanding of organized cyber criminal gangs than most cyber cops."


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Timothy Olyphant: Laying Down 'Justified' Laws
This interview was originally broadcast on March 28, 2011. Justified begins its third season next week.
Timothy Olyphant plays Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens on the FX series Justified.
In the first season's opening episode, Givens was based in Miami. But after forcing a drug dealer into a showdown — and then shooting him — the loose-cannon lawman was transferred back to his backwoods Kentucky hometown, where his job puts him on the trail of childhood friends who are now on the other side of the law.
"The thing that's very attractive about the character is the moral code of it all," Olyphant tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I always go back to that scene in the first episode, where Raylan told a guy that you don't walk into someone's house unless you're invited — and at the same time, he gave somebody 24 hours to get out of town or he'd kill him. That to me says everything you'd need to know about the guy."
Olyphant also starred in the HBO series Deadwoodas Western sheriff Seth Bullock. His film credits include Gone in 60 Seconds, The Broken Hearts Club and A Life Less Ordinary.
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When the U.S. Department of Justice shut down MegaUpload and sued its operators for copyright infringement last week, users who were storing files legally on the site became collateral damage. Now, some of them are looking to sue the government over lost data, TorrentFreak reports.
The counterattack is being led by the Pirates of Catalonia in collaboration with Pirate Parties International–overseas political groups who oppose harsh laws against copyright infringement.
"The widespread damage caused by the sudden closure of Megaupload is unjustified and completely disproportionate to the aim intended," a posting on the Pirates of Catalonia Website says. The group has created a form where users can register their complaints, and plans to "facilitate submission of complaints against the US authorities in as many countries as possible, to ensure a positive and just result."
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Furthermore, Megaupload's terms of service stated that users who stored data on the site did so at their own risk, so users may have a tough time arguing that the U.S. government is liable for lost data. (Most online file sharing sites cover themselves in this manner, which is why putting all your eggs in one online basket isn't a great idea.) Filing complaints may be comforting for MegaUpload's former users, but doing so isn't likely to help return what was lost.
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Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks. The red, orange, and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views. Bryce sits at a higher elevation varying from 8,000 to 9,000 feet (2,400 to 2,700 m).
The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874. The area around Bryce Canyon became a National Monument in 1923 and was designated as a National Park in 1928. The park covers 35,835 acres (55.992 sq mi; 14,502 ha; 145.02 km2) and receives relatively few visitors compared to Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, largely due to its remote location.
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Smartphones and tablets were supposed to be different from what we think of as "computers." They were supposed to turn us into mindless consumers, concerned only with ingesting the output of "professional" creators rather than empowered to make things ourselves, the way we did with computers.
However, there are holes in that argument. In the music world, for example, we've seen a crazy variety of not only instruments and even music teachers, but advanced studio functionality.
Apple iOS as a music platform took a big leap forward when non-Apple developers cobbled together Audio Copy/Paste for Apple iOS devices, sop that people could move a sound from one app to another, the same way you would on a normal computer. Now we've caught a glimpse of the next step in the evolution of smartphones and tablets as musical tools: Audiobus.
This technology, from some of the same people who brought us Loopy, could quickly become an industry standard. Not only will it function like an invisible audio cable, allowing music in one app to stream to another app running on the same device in real time, but it will also let people "jam" together on different iOS devices, while recording the whole jam session - you know, just like "real" musicians do.
Audiobus will let you play the drum sounds you like in one app and record them in another app, all while keeping the drums in time. Or it could let you play your actual guitar through one app to apply an effect and output it in the sampler of another app.
But really, we're most excited about the real-time group music playing feature. This is basically the same thing Apple recently announced for its own Garageband apps - however, that only lets people play music together inside Garageband. Audiobus could potentially work with any music app on iOS, not just the ones created by Apple. We know which one we'd rather use.
Michael ("don't call him 'Mike'") Tyson of A Tasty Pixel, who's working on the Audiobus project, told Evolver.fm that it's ready for alpha. The company plans to send an SDK to certain app developers within the week, so they can start building it into their apps (interested developers can register here).
"Audiobus is analogous to audio cables," said Tyson. "It lets you stream audio between two apps, on the same device or between multiple devices over WiFi. Users will be able to stream the output of audio apps straight into other apps, e.g. live-loopers or DAWs [digital audio workstations], playing along in sync with tracks."
According to Audiobus developer Sebastian Dittmann, his creation will offer much more (i.e. anything at all) to developers, as compared to Apple's real-time Garageband jamming feature.
"Apple has done something similar to Audiobus with the latest version of Garageband," he told Evolver.fm, "but it only works for Garageband, isn't documented at all and not open to iOS developers. Also there's copperLan but that's not really adjusted to the needs of developers of iOS music apps."
To fill this gap by encouraging developers to use Audiobus to create an open ecosystem of apps that can play music together, the Audiobus team will not charge developers a cent to use it. However, users who wish to take full advantage of the system will have to buy an app from Audiobus to handle routing between apps.
"This is our way of solving that [routing] problem, since we know that musicians on iOS are willing to pay for good music apps," said Dittmann. "Many of them have spent hundreds of dollars for different controllers, synths, DAWs, etc. We think it will be an easy decision for them to pay for one more app that will - eventually - improve all of their previously purchased music apps."
"It's the best solution we were able to come up with, not just from a financial standpoint but also from from a UI [user interface] perspective," he added. "The current problem with music apps is that each one of them has their own implementation of a preferences pane. This is not optimal, since users have to figure out how to do things like adjusting volume, MIDI channels, enabling background audio and such things for every app they own. Audiobus will be the place to set up connections between apps. Developers will not have to change the menus inside of their own apps for Audiobus, [and] users won't have to search for the 'connect to Audiobus' button. It's going to be a clean and simple to use design."
And just like that, the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch will have evolved two more important features for musicians who want to create music with the devices, in addition to everything it already does for those who want to hear it.
Evolver.fm observes, tracks and analyzes the music apps scene, with the belief that it's crucial to how humans experience music, and how that experience is evolving.


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