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Redmondmag.com[^]:

Windows 8 hasn't exactly lit the world on fire so far since its release in late October. It's so different from the traditional Windows. Lots of PC fans are struggling with, or fearful of, the transition. In part, that's because Windows 8 is two OSes in one.... But even if you've avoided this new split personality, most new PCs come with Windows 8. And if Microsoft is correct about the world moving to touchscreen PCs, sooner or later you'll find a Windows 8 machine under your fingertips. In that case, you'll want to learn your way around as quickly as possible.... To motivate you, here are 20 tips and tricks for Windows 8 -- some useful, some quirky and some just great features nobody talks about.

TrenchBroom[^]:

TrenchBroom is a cross-platform level editor for the Quake engine. It has a different slightly philosophy than other editors. I believe that the traditional approach, where you work primarily in 2D views, forces you to think in 2D rather than in 3D. That is why this editor does not have 2D views at all - you do all work in one single 3D view.

Securelist[^]:

On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware “ItaDuke” because it reminded us of Duqu and because of the ancient Italian comments in the shellcode copied from Dante Aligheri’s “Divine Comedy”.... Together with our partner CrySyS Lab, we’ve performed a detailed analysis of these unusual incidents which suggest a new, previously unknown threat actor. For the CrySyS Lab analysis, please read [here]. For our analysis, please read below.

destructuring.net:

Name.com has created a system where any wildcarded third-level domain name that fails a real DNS query is treated like a real domain… a real domain that I don't control, but instead they do, and are trying to monetize.

Feross Aboukhadijeh[^]

The HTML5 Web Storage standard was developed to allow sites to store larger amounts of data (like 5-10 MB) than was previously allowed by cookies (like 4KB). localStorage is awesome because it’s supported in all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, IE 8+, etc.).

The standard anticipated that sites might abuse this feature and advised that browsers limit the total amount of storage space that each origin could use.

Quote: pcmag[^]

The most easily repairable tablet iFixit has reviewed is the Dell XPS 10 running Windows RT, a 10.1-incher that PCMag's Joel Santo Domingo rated as having perhaps the longest-lasting battery of any tablet currently out there. The iFixit team gave the XPS 10 a score of "9" on its repairability scale, one better than four "8's" the site has reviewed—the Amazon Kindle Fire (7-inch), Dell Streak, Motorola Xoom, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0.

Jeffrey Palermo (.com)[^]:

We keep looking for the common runtime that can run everywhere. We yearn (remember Java) for the platform that allows us the promise of “write once, run everywhere”. This, in the global sense, is a pipe dream. My comments here are targeted for custom software that businesses rely on. These are commonly referred to as business applications, or line of business applications. The days of writing a business application for the web and expecting it to serve all users is over. Only in a world where 99% of your users are using pretty much the same type of computer is this possible.

Developer.com[^]:

Since TypeScript generates plain JavaScript code you can use it with any browser. Additionally, TypeScript is an open source project. TypeScript offers many features of object oriented programming languages such as classes, interfaces, inheritance, overloading and modules, some of which are proposed features of ECMA Script 6. Overall TypeScript is a promising language that can certainly help you neatly write and organize your JavaScript code base making it more maintainable and extensible.