As reported on Techcrunch

The founders of Israeli Ajax spreadsheet iRows have confirmed what we wrote yesterday, they have been hired by Google and iRows will be shut down. The service is no longer accepting new accounts and will shut down completely at the end of this year. The company is providing instructions for its users to move their data to Google Documents. Financial details haven’t been disclosed.

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By Brian Krebs

The newly released Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Web browsers both include new technology to help flag and block phishing sites — those authentic-looking Web sites set up by scammers to trick users into entering personal financial information.

So how do the browsers stack up against one another in a no-holds-barred, anti-phishing slugfest? One third-party test that pitted the browsers against two week’s worth of phishing sites concluded that Firefox’s phish net may have fewer holes than IE’s.

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Akamaru is a simple, but fun, physics engine prototype. It is amazing to use, and easy to install. One more reason to forget Windows Vista, embrace Open Source, and use Ubuntu or Fedora (among other non-Micro$u$e distros).

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A very cool ajax based online photo editor. Allows basic operations like resizing, cropping, rotating, flipping as well as color adjustments and special filters.

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“This plugin syndicates all kinds of stories from digg.com and lists them in your blog. Various options allow you to fetch stories from specific users, friends, topics, the digg search, and the Popular/Upcoming sections of digg.”

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Add javascript as a scripting language to your own program. This is SpiderMonkey, a open source implementation of JS from Mozilla written in Pure C. Link it against what ever you want. In type and Yahoo Widget Engine (former Konfabulator) already did…

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In Web 2.0 registration and feedback forms can be found everywhere. Every start-up tries to attract visitors’ attention, so web-forms are becoming more and more important for the success of еру company. In the end, exactly those web-forms are responsible for the first contact with potential customers. Let’s take a look, which modern solutions a web-developer can use, designing his/her next css-based form.

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“Resistance: Fall of Man has everything that a flagship launch title should. It looks great and runs well, it has a compelling single-player campaign and its multiplayer aspect is not only fantastic fun but it shows off the PlayStation 3’s online capabilities. This is the PlayStation 3’s showpiece game through and through…”

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Nice tutorial on how to use eBay’s API to return real-time auctions to your web site. Another hook to possibly monetize, blogs, etc. The tutorial is using PHP to talk to the eBay web service.

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Ah, the marriage of two of my favorite programs, uTorrent and Firefox. Over at TorrentFreak they’ve got an add-on for Firefox that integrates the two, putting uTorrent’s WebUI (which you must download separately) in Firefox’s sidebar and reporting you download and upload speeds in the status bar.

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