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LiveJournal in Firefox

LiveJournal users will want to take a look at LiveJournal AddOns, a free extension that provides access to LiveJournal services from the Firefox interface. It notifies you when you've got a new message or comment, when friends update their pages, or even when friends' birthdays approach. It also adds extras like built-in forms, style management, quick access to last entries, and quick text inserts. You need a LiveJournal account to use it, but they're free, though premium services are available, too.

We installed LiveJournal AddOns and restarted Firefox. LiveJournal AddOns placed a series of icons in the add-ons … Read more

Vegetative man not communicating after all

It was horrible to imagine. A Belgian man, uncommunicative since a car accident left him paralyzed in 1983, suddenly seemed to have a message to convey last November with the help of a speech therapist. He was not unconscious, he indicated. He was trapped.

Now, neurologist Steven Laureys, one of Rom Houben's doctors who diagnosed the patient as conscious based on bedside tests performed four years ago, is telling reporters the speech therapist got it wrong. While recent brain scans of Houben do show brain activity and even consciousness, Houben is not communicating, Laureys says.

"We did not … Read more

JVC's stalker cam

I have to admit, Engadget's comment on the 34x zoom JVC GR-D750 camcorder is the best thing about it: "For moms and creepy men." With a 1,496mm-equivalent maximum zoom lens, you have to wonder where the specsmanship will end. I mean, to take a close-up shot of the moon, you really need only an 800mm lens. And image-stabilization technologies in consumer camcorders can usually handle up to only about 20x zoom, so clearly you'd need a tripod to get decent video. So we're talking about a camcorder optimized for shooting from a fixed position … Read more