notnamed

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TechCrunch now a sister site of Download Squad (Download Squad)

Sep 29th 2010 3:33PM Good news, everyone! Maybe AOL will fire Arrington, and he'll be out on his ass without his new media empire to terrorize other new media empires with. Hey DLS, remember the last.fm fiasco? Glad to be a sister site with TechCrunch?

I Write Like tells you which famous author you write like (Download Squad)

Jul 27th 2010 8:15PM This post is probably like Dan Brown because it contains the word "ego."

Mac gamers have faster computers, fatter Internet connections... and more microphones... than Windows users (Download Squad)

Jun 10th 2010 7:15PM University campuses are somewhere you're going to see a high concentration of Mac users. With my graduating class from high school (and, if the trend wasn't bucked too much by the credit crash, subsequent graduating classes), it was pretty common to get a Mac laptop from someone as a graduation present. The higher concentration of Mac users at universities compared to general demographics would help account for those faster internet speeds - dorm room connections are, as a whole, orders of magnitude faster than standard home connections.

Unamerican.com is one of the best sources for snarky slogans (Download Squad)

May 8th 2010 8:33PM Oh no! Some people think differently than you do, thus their opinions are worthless, hippy crap!

Stay classy, DLS readers.

Enthusiast posts source code for 13 Atari classics...legally? (Download Squad)

Jul 8th 2009 9:49AM Throwing something away does -not- make it public property. Dumpster diving is illegal. I've had to dodge cops doing it multiple times in the past.

New Firefox extension makes YouTube comments almost bearable (Download Squad)

Aug 26th 2008 12:30PM Actually, something like it has been applied to the general internet:

http://stupidfilter.org/main/

Firefox 3 download day made possible by Windows (Download Squad)

Jun 29th 2008 8:59AM "I think this whole thing was a business ploy to distract from Opera's new launch of the next major version upgrade on the desktop, Opera 9.50, which launched about a week before Fx."

And your point would be? Mozilla is a business, and their business is creating more market share. They're also really good at creating a great browser, IMO. Is Opera any different? They used to charge for the full version of their browser. I don't understand why Opera users are so bitter about their browser not being #1. Firefox users aren't bitter than IE is #1 over Firefox in market share in most markets - a little exasperated perhaps, but I don't think as bitter as Opera users are that Firefox is above Opera in market share. So what if Download Day is a gimmick to get more attention and possibly more market share? What do you want them to do, quietly announce the next major revision of their software and say "eh, you can come get it if you want, I guess. It's not really all that great"? What would be the point of releasing anything at all?

Web site fights Adblock by blocking Firefox (Download Squad)

Aug 25th 2007 10:03AM His logic amuses me. The majority of internet users don't use Firefox, so it's economically viable to block Firefox. But if the majority of internet viewers don't use Firefox, what's the point in blocking it? You're only blocking a minority - and you don't get the ad revenue either way.

Tailgate is helping the banner ad make a fresh new comeback (Download Squad)

Jul 13th 2007 1:04AM Yeah, but how can you add "Sock the monkey and WIN!!!" to a shopping cart?

Internet in China gets even less fun (Download Squad)

Apr 25th 2007 5:08PM Or, perhaps more accurately, some people do not know how to convey sarcasm on the Internet. Not to be overly-critical of an otherwise great news source, but the transition in the same paragraph from the passing on of news to sarcastic editorializing was rather abrupt, and I didn't "get it" either (until enlightened by the comments, of course).