原文链接：7 Ways to Build the Exercise Habit 原文作者：Mehdi @ Zenhabits 你可能已经尝试过好几次了. 你对你的瘦小的外形或是超重的身体不满意. 终于, 你决定做些什么改变它. 然后你去健身俱乐部办了...

有朋友要，很早以前从DRL收藏下来了两个，挺好用的，笔记本电脑用户用起来更爽！

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另外，HotkeyP更为强大，也能实现同样功能，并且还是免费软件。

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深受网民喜爱的 Flickr 这两天被封掉了，不少网友愤怒之余，不知道是否有人产生这样的疑问:雅虎中国会不会把 Flickr 移植到国内来? Flickr 是个好产品，但想到 del.icio.us 的在国内的正宗克隆版: Yahoo! 收藏+ 的发展状况，几乎可以断言，Flickr 进入国内怕也不能有多大作为。

抛开其他的原因不谈，个人觉得雅虎中国(中国雅虎)现在的产品状况有些陷入"焦油坑"，尤其是在技术上，很难真正的施展拳脚。所作的一些产品还是依赖于美国的技术架构，尤其是底层的基础架构，举例来说，对于很多 Web 页面，用户发起的 URL 请求都必须要和美国的服务器发生 IO 交互。有这样的问题存在，无论 UE 工程师怎么在本地改进，都是无济于事的。近日有传言谷歌打算把服务器放到国内一部分，而雅虎中国可是早在 2005 年就把 2000余台服务器搬到了国内。这么久还藕断丝连，只能说已经太过于纠缠，没办法大刀阔斧的调整了。

在另一方面，域名的混乱程度我认为也导致了很多问题。域名是：yahoo.com.cn (跳转到 cn.yahoo.com , 服务大多是三级域名,相册是: gallery.i.cn.yahoo.com, 这么复杂的域名 100个人有 99 不能正确输入，四级域名的服务也有，'博客', blog.i.cn.yahoo.com...), 搜索 yahoo.cn ...... 我一直很好奇 Alexa 怎么正确统计雅虎中国的访问量 :)

雅虎最近的动作不可谓不多，比如新推出的 Omni-Search ，的确让人眼前一亮，可是看业界的反应，总有些怪怪的，对，就是不够轰动，没有神秘感。试想，如果是 Google 发布这样的产品，业界的反响会是怎样的?

对于一些除搜索外的其他老牌产品，比如电子邮件，现在越来越不够重视。我觉得电子邮件是一个很好的突破口，如果可以做到市场第一，为什么偏偏要跑到第二去呢? 电子邮件本身或许不赚钱，但是带来的相关收益可绝对不容忽视。远的不说，腾讯不也是 QQ 一个产品带活了一大片麽 ? 而现在，埋头做社区、SNS 那一套玩意儿，胜算不知几何。

BTW: Blog 首页最下方有文责声明.

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Outlook Connector是微软今天新推出的一个Outlook的插件程序，功能非常诱人：让你的Outlook可以管理你的Windows Live Mail或者是Office Live Mail帐户！

通过这个插件，Outlook 2003及2007的用户可以方便的使用他们的Outlook客户端来收发多个Live Mail帐户中的邮件、管理Live Mail中的联系人。而这些功能都是完全免费的！如果你支付一定的费用，还可以把Live Mail中的日历及记事功能同步到Outlook中来进行管理和分享。

此次推出的Microsoft Office Outlook Connector除了英文版以外，还包括了繁简体中文以及日文和韩文的版本。

Outlook曾经免费支持Hotmail邮件的收发，但是在2004年的时候Microsoft把这项功能变为了收费服务。目前再次免费开放这样的功能，对用户来说还是不小的吸引。

  新造型的原型据说是雅虎One Search和YiSou新Web UI的设计者之一杨家宁：一个喜欢Linux，喜欢WebUI的Web工程师。 雅虎很多产品都有系列人物造型，最著名就是免费邮箱的Liam系列：他的名字就是mail倒过来写，听说One Search的造型还没起名： 有什么建议请留言。

Posted by Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel

Over the years we’ve taken many steps to protect our users' data and privacy. For example, we have resisted overly-broad government subpoenas; we've designed our services to give users a choice between personalized services and general services; and we've engineered our services to allow users to see and control how much data they wish to share with us. Recently, we took another important step to improve our privacy practices by announcing a new policy to anonymize our server logs after 18 to 24 months, becoming the first leading search company to publish a data retention policy. We also posted here to explain the factors that guided our decision to retain server log data for 18 to 24 months.

The Article 29 Working Party, an advisory panel composed of representatives from all of the E.U.'s national data protection authorities, has sent us a letter in response to our commitment to anonymize server logs. In it, they're asking us to provide further information about our new policy, and to explain why we feel that the time period of 18 to 24 months is “proportionate” under European data protection principles. For some time, we've discussed many things with the Working Party, ranging from issues raised by Google products like Gmail and Google Desktop to industry-wide concerns, such as the challenges of protecting privacy in the Web 2.0 era. We’re pleased that this most recent letter from the Working Party acknowledges our ongoing engagement with the data protection community and, in particular, our "readiness to consult with it [the Working Party] in contrast with a relative lack of engagement by some of the other leading players in the search engine community”.

In the spirit of transparency, we're publishing our response to the Working Party's letter. The Internet is a global medium, and the principles at stake -- privacy, security, innovation and legal obligations to retain data -- have an impact beyond Europe, and outside of the realm of privacy. These principles sometimes conflict: while shorter retention periods are good for privacy, longer retention periods are needed for security, innovation and compliance reasons. We believe we’ve struck a reasonable balance between these various factors. Our policies are consistent with EU data protection laws, which acknowledge the need to set data retention periods that are proportionate and that enable companies like Google to comply with legal requirements.

We have a legitimate interest in retaining search server logs for a number of reasons:

• to improve our search algorithms for the benefit of users
• to defend our systems from malicious access and exploitation attempts
• to maintain the integrity of our systems by fighting click fraud and web spam
• to protect our users from threats like spam and phishing
• to respond to valid legal orders from law enforcement as they investigate and prosecute serious crimes like child exploitation; and
• to comply with data retention legal obligations.

After considering the Working Party's concerns, we are announcing a new policy: to anonymize our search server logs after 18 months, rather than the previously-established period of 18 to 24 months. We believe that we can still address our legitimate interests in security, innovation and anti-fraud efforts with this shorter period. However, we must point out that future data retention laws may obligate us to raise the retention period to 24 months. We also firmly reject any suggestions that we could meet our legitimate interests in security, innovation and anti-fraud efforts with any retention period shorter than 18 months. We are considering the Working Party's concerns regarding cookie expiration periods, and we are exploring ways to redesign cookies and to reduce their expiration without artificially forcing users to re-enter basic preferences such as language preference. We plan to make an announcement about privacy improvements for our cookies in the coming months.

As we build new products and services, we look forward to continuing our discussion with the Article 29 Working Party and with privacy stakeholders around the world. Our common goal is to improve privacy protections for our users.

Posted by Alex Mkindi, Tanzania Deputy Country Director, TechnoServe

Google.org supports efforts to promote economic development in developing countries. From time to time we invite guest bloggers from grantee organizations to tell us about their work.

Today in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, TechnoServe and Google.org launched a national business plan competition called "Believe, Begin, Become". The program is designed to help Tanzanian entrepreneurs develop skills, obtain seed or expansion capital and establish the networks that help transform their business ideas into successful enterprises that create jobs and other income sources that transform the lives of all Tanzanians.

We know, from our experience in Latin America and other African countries, what this kind of program can provide to entrepreneurs, who gain not only immediate benefits but a crucial business network that carries on long after the competition ends.

Our Organizing Committee colleague David Bulengo puts it this way: “The network of professionals and business leaders involved with Believe Begin Become will allow a new generation of young entrepreneurs the chance to learn from their experience and to create wonderful business opportunities.”

If you would like to get involved, please get in touch.

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你有多少新闻、租房打折美食信息，以及关于某某人的小道消息，是通过别人IM上的状态得知的？
譬如，从别人的状态中：
我知道今天加勒比3首映；
我知道林妹妹去了；
我知道谁在杭州谁在家；
我还知道谁摔了，谁忙，谁生气了，谁生病了，谁生孩子了；
这些重要的信息，对我的工作和生活极具指导意义。

越不起眼的功能往往提供最强大的力量！
平时不易察觉，一旦取消，就会在用户心里产生不可忽视的价值。

雅虎员工：内部免费FlickR Pro帐号

an infographical movie explaining an upcoming website that will act as an Encyclopidia of Life, collecting & documenting the 1.8 million living species known to man today. should be on a website near you around mid 2008.

the shown snippets of several interactive data visualizations, as well as the movie itself, which acts as an visually engaging & explanatory tool, seem quite interesting.

[link: eol.org (hi-rez version)]

Safari是苹果电脑操作系统MacOS中的默认浏览器。与Internet Explorer在Windows系统中一样，Safari的地位在MacOS中是垄断性的。今天Safari公布了一个for Windows的Beta版，让我感觉多少有些意外。


在竞争的另一面，Microsoft早在2003年就停止了Internet Explorer for Mac的开发，因为微软知道在自己熟悉的环境下，专心发展自己本就强势的产品，才是比较明智的选择。而在4年后的今天，苹果却推出了Windows版的Safari，却有些让人摸不清头脑。

尽管Safari号称是世界上最快最易用的浏览器，但它的实际表现以及兼容性、扩展性上，和第三方开发的浏览器Firefox及Opera相比，并没有让用户感觉到明显的优势。把这个浏览器移植到Windows系统里，加入本就已经竞争异常激烈的市场，实在是看不到前途的光明。

Safari for Windows的试用过程也非常不愉快。在我的WindowsXP SP2中文版上，Safari打开的第一个中文网页就无法自动识别标准UTF-8编码的中文网页；第一次点击工具栏的按钮就让整个程序Crash掉。。。

iTunes是一个非常优秀的媒体播放器，多年以来也并没有在Windows的媒体播放软件市场上获得很好的成绩。这样一个还不成熟的Safari for Windows，真的会很艰险。所以我宁愿相信，这个Safari的推出只是为了即将上市的iPhone。

a visually overwhelming approach of presenting the most relevant websites according to specific categories, such as shopping, blogging, entertainment, travel, insurance, dating, translation, & music, by displaying a huge list of logos of the according web companies. a separate category focuses on a weekly updated collection of hand-picked websites.

[link: allmyfaves.com]