Google Groups receives an almighty restyle and rebirth

With nary a muffled fanfare and eclipsed by Google's other massive releases over the past two days, Google Groups has been significantly revamped. In true, modern-day Google style, it now looks almost... pretty. It's only the first step of an overhaul, too -- there's more to come, including improved spam control, moderation and search features.

Google has focused on the discussions aspect of Groups first -- so while finding new groups and creating new topics has a shiny new UI, you will have to return to the old interface to perform administrative tasks. Check the New Groups vs. Old Groups page for more info.

As TechCrunch's Siegler mentions, the new style feels more than a little like Wave. With Wave's retirement, the redistribution of its team members, and Google's re-use of JavaScript libraries (and thus UI elements), it's safe to assume that some of Wave might have ended up in Groups. Still, who cares -- Groups looks so much better now.

Google Groups receives an almighty restyle and rebirth originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Facebook Portrait Contest Results Coming Next Week! [Promotion]

With all 14 winners of the Facebook portrait contest chosen, we have locked our artist Sam Spratt in a small room with an endless supply of energy drinks, Sour Patch Kids, and a Wham! CD on repeat until he paints his heart out. Look for the finished paintings early next week. More »

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IE9 Tracking Protection to bring better privacy controls to users

The FTC wants to fight cookies with cookies in their "do not track" scheme, but the folks at Microsoft have some ideas of their own. Today, they unveiled a new privacy measure for Internet Explorer 9 called Tracking Protection.

Microsoft believes Tracking Protection will "enable consumers to control what third-party site content can track them when they're online." The feature will work in conjunction with Tracking Protection Lists, which allows users to maintain a list of sites with which they want to share their data.

Tracking Protection will be opt-in, so it's entirely likely that the vast majority of Internet users will never even notice the option exists. The official IE blog post also notes that there's no clear-cut definition of what tracking is, so the feature will be a bit of a moving target.

Still, kudos to Microsoft for making strides towards providing users with greater control over their privacy. If you recall, the company tried to do something similar with Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate feature, but backed down due to external pressure.

IE9 Tracking Protection to bring better privacy controls to users originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola's new logo: it's red

Been wondering about what impact Motorola's January split into two distinct entities will have on your humble consumption of consumer electronics? Well, after attending Moto's big Christmas do in London, we seem to have uncovered one of the biggies: the Droid maker is switching to a crimson new brand identity from the start of the new year. They won't tell us much more than that, but we can only surmise that the slight chromatic deviation will be in an effort to distinguish between the Mobility arm, which will make all the pocketable things we know and love, and the Solutions group in charge of the less glamorous business hardware. We're sure there'll be some reshuffling of middle management and other structural reorganizations taking place, but we've got the big story right here: the stationery, it is a-changing.

Motorola's new logo: it's red originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/10/motorolas-new-logo-its-red/

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These Plants Vs. Zombies Toys Are Going Right On My Lawn [Toys]

All I want for Christmas are some zombies and sentient, weaponized plants to protect me from said zombies. Failing that? These adorable clay figurines that look just like them. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/eimHsLhObBY/plants-vs-zombies-figurines-are-going-right-on-my-lawn

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Ubuntu 11 alpha now available, features new Unity desktop, Firefox 4

The first alpha release of Ubuntu 11, dubbed Natty Narwhal, has just been released. It is classed as a "developer snapshot," and is provided more as a sneak preview of what's to come in Ubuntu 11. Regular users of Ubuntu 10 should not upgrade.

Along with the usual package updates and an updated kernel (2.6.37), Ubuntu 11 will also ship with Firefox 4. The alpha build includes Firefox 4 beta 7, and it will be upgraded with newer builds as they become available. The other big change is that the Unity desktop environment now enabled by default, replacing GNOME. You can still switch back to another desktop environment, if you don't like Unity (but looking at the screenshot above, how can you not like it?)

There are various changes and notes for the other Ubuntu releases -- Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Netbook Edition -- but mostly, this alpha is focused on the standard Desktop Edition of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 11 alpha now available, features new Unity desktop, Firefox 4 originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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IE9 to Let Privacy-Minded Web Users Leave No Tracks

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will add a "do not track" option to the next version of Internet Explorer 9 when it is released in 2011. The Tracking Protection feature is a privacy tool designed to help keep third-party websites from monitoring users' Web behavior by letting users filter content on a page that may have an impact on privacy.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71412.html

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My Personal iPad App Wishlist

There’s quite an abundance of apps available for the iPad but there’s a couple more I’d personally like to see in the near future. Maybe with a little luck the wait won’t be for much longer. So here’s my current iPad app wishlist, not too much to ask for don’t you agree? BBC Radio iPad [...]

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How #FollowFriday Is SUPPOSED To Work [Ff]

Every Friday, many of us will watch our Twitter streams fill up with lists of users and variations of #ff and #followfriday hashtags. Is this really how that whole thing is supposed to work? What would be better? More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/IlpL3F1c0G8/how-followfriday-is-supposed-to-work

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US Military Bans All Physical Media on Its Internal Network [Wikileaks]

The military doesn't want to be the source of the next WikiLeak shit-storm, and is going to extreme means to ensure this—prohibiting the use of all disks and drives on its secret network, under penalty of court martial. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/zWvyWxpkGBA/us-military-bans-all-physical-media-on-its-internal-network

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