Despite social bookmarking sites such as Delicious and Diigo, many of us still like to bookmark the old fashioned way - using our browser’s menu bar. But, if we have to use multiple browsers and computers our bookmarks soon get scattered and unorganized. Bookmark synchronizers solve that problem by merging our bookmarks and storing them online.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
25+ Ways To Synchronize Your Bookmarks
Top-Down: A New Approach to the Semantic Web
In this post, we will look at the solution that we call the top-down approach to the semantic web, because instead of requiring developers to change or augment the web, this approach leverages and builds on top of current web as-is.
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Google To “Out Open” Facebook??
The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data.
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Asus R3 UMPC gets a little more real
We caught a peek of Asus' R3 UMPC / MID yesterday, but it got shown off in a little more detail today during a presentation on Adobe's AIR platform. No word on which variation of Intel's Menlow platform it'll be sporting, but it looks like the device will have a 4.8-inch screen with 1024 x 600 resolution, a fingerprint reader, webcam and more.
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Organize your twitter followers using Twitter Groups
Twitter Groups allows you to tag your followers into different groups. Then you can send a message to those groups without needing to send the message to each person one at a time.
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Roxio Launches Easy Media Creator 10
Roxio has just launched Easy Media Creator 10 giving you the tools needed to enhance your digital lifestyle. Record internet radio, batch convert files, backup your iPod; Record or edit audio tracks, add multiple sound layers and apply filters or effects, and convert audio files into other formats with Sound Editor. Now includes support for VST effects. Enhance your 50-hour music DVDs with professionally-designed menu templates. Copy your favorite audio, movies or TV shows from any iPod to your PC. Copy unprotected HD DVD data discs with one click.Burn HD DVD or Blu-ray discs; Certified for Windows Vista™.
It’s the best software for all your digital media needs.
Create, share and enjoy your movies, memories and music with these, and more great features:
- Copy* your favorite audio, movies and TV shows from any iPod to your PC.
- Add perfect soundtracks to slideshows and movies - no looping.
- Send videos to YouTube™ with one click.
- Auto-fix your camera phone photos with the Mobile Photo Doctor.
- Show off mobile phone pictures without bars or borders.
- Auto-sync digital media on your PC and mobile devices.
- Convert audio and video files to the format of your choice - right on your Windows Vista™ desktop.
- Save tons of time by ripping CDs using multiple drives.
- Burn lots of gigs: save data to HD DVDs and copy with one click.
- Automatically catalog the contents of your CDs and DVDs.
*Does not copy encrypted or copy-protected content
Merging Photos in Adobe Photoshop CS 3
Adobe Photoshop CS 3 can be a lot of fun. It allows you to merge photos creating panoramas. This tutorial explains how to do that.
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Apple’s iPod Touch Is a Beauty of a Player Short on Battery Life
Apple’s iPod Touch Is a Beauty of a Player Short on Battery Life Personal Technology Walt Mossberg AllThingsD: "In the hyper-competitive world of consumer electronics, it’s highly unusual for one branded product to dominate its market for years on end. Yet, that’s what Apple’s iPod media player, now approaching its sixth anniversary, has managed to do. One reason is that it has been reinvented continuously."
Beginners Guide: Creating MP3 Music Files
Everyone has heard of MP3. For the last 5 or 6 years, it has been the most publicized topic concerning the computer world. Do you know how to create them from your CD library? PCSTATS shows you how, in this informative beginners guide to creating MP3 files from your CDs.
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Meizu M7 miniplayer
Meizu M7 will be the rival for the iPod Touch. Featuring a 2.81-inch (480 x 288) touchscreen display in 15:9 aspect ratio with 16.6M colors, Meizu M7 dimension will be 89 x 48 X 7.3 mm. The PMP said to be capable to plays H.264 (720 X 480) at 30fps.
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Fujitsu LifeBook U810 UMPC
Fujitsu LifeBook U810 UMPC is the first UMPC for the US market from Fujitsu. Powered by an Intel A110 Ultra Low Power processor clocking at 800MHz with 400MHz FSB, 1GB DDR RAM and 40GB HDD, the Lifebook U810 is pre-installed with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 or Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Home Premium depending on configuration.
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Asus Announces 11.1 Inches U1F NB
Asus has launched it's ultra portable U1F notebook with a 11.1-inch widescreen in the country. The notebook is based on Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology, Windows Vista operation system, and other Asus innovations, the company claims.
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Yahoo's New Mash Social Network Lets Your Friends Edit Your Profile
Yahoo is preparing to launch Mash, a whimsical and quirky new social-networking service. The company claims it's the first one to let you mess with your friends' profiles.
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HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software
Using HandBrake for Mac or Windows to rip movies to your iPod.
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Firefox memory usage and memory leak news
"Many Mozilla community members, including both volunteers and Mozilla Corporation employees, have been helping to reduce Firefox's memory usage and fix memory leak bugs lately. Hopefully, the result of this effort will be that Firefox 3 uses less memory than Firefox 2 did, especially after it has been used for several hours."
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Is Email The Ultimate Social Environment?
A $350 million buyout of Zimbra by Yahoo (YHOO), Thunderbird being spun out as an independent entity by Mozilla, and the impressive launch of San Francisco-based Xobni: Email, the most socialist of all web apps, is back on the front burner. As old as the contemporary Internet itself, it remains a constant source of pain and pleasure for all of us.
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Beginners Guide: Making DVD Movies from Video Files
In this guide, PCSTATS will explore and explain the process of authoring DVDs from video files you have stored on your computer, that will play on any home DVD player. We will also run through some basic editing techniques to help you get the best out of your home movies.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Social Networking: Why Do We Use It?
Social Networking is as pervasive to our lives now as instant messaging was in the late '90s. Along with having profile comes inevitable social pressure and anxiety over acceptance by our peers. This is true from office colleagues to everyday social circles.
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iPod touch vs. Nokia N800 - Filling the Other Pocket
One is a mobile Internet device that happens to play music and videos. The other is a mobile music/video device that happens to have a web browser. The purpose of the article is to accentuate the strengths and weaknesses of each device help people decide what's right for them.
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diggm8: A Better Mobile Browsing Experience for Digg
diggm8 [digg-mate!] lets you get the latest Digg stories on your mobile phone.
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Siphs | A more convenient way to share links and videos
It's simpler and faster than email.Forward links privately to friends, family, and colleagues in two short steps. You don't have to open your email client and won't have to cut & paste.Siphs | A more convenient way to share links and videos
NewsCloud.com - Breaking news and top stories from around the World chosen by readers
NewsCloud readers choose the most essential stories from around the world to share with each other. Join the conversation today.NewsCloud.com - Breaking news and top stories from around the World chosen by readers
Flock going 1.0, adding RSS reader and lots of tabs
Flock is launching version 1.0 of its social browser next month. The biggest change is a new RSS reader and start page that essentially builds in its own NetVibes and Google Reader. Also new is a sidebar that hangs out on the right side of the browser and has tabs for Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube. If you've read up on our coverage of Mozilla's
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Nokia 6301 UMA phone
Nokia - ShowPressRelease: "With a sleek stainless steel design, the Nokia 6301 phone launched today is not only stylish, but offers consumers seamless voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networks via Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology. The Nokia 6301 phone uses UMA technology to integrate the benefits of landline and a mobile phone, including seamless indoor coverage, sound quality and affordability."
Google Takes on Digg?
Google has launched a new Social Bookmarking Service 'Shared Stuff' that lets users tag, comment, and share sites with others.As well as a browser button, Google is building this 'share' functionality directly in to Google services like Reader and Video.
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Netscape's Propeller is Changing More Than You Might Think
AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape," Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be much more going on underneath the surface.
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The New Digg: A Quick Guide
The much talked about new Digg features just launched a few minutes ago (or a few hours ago, depending on when you read this). Here is a quick look at the major new features included in the release.
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Soup: Tumble Blogging with Friends
Watch out Tumblr, here comes Soup. Soup is an easy to use tumble blogging application that includes two killer features: social networking (kinda) and outside activity streams.
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iriver W10 WiFi media player with Skyhook positioning ready in November?
Man, we've been painstakingly following iriver's development of the W10 media player since it was first rumored back in July of 2006. Well before touchscreen DAPs were all the rage. One hands-on and several postings later, iRiver seems prepped to push their baby out in November to what will assuredly be an adoring public, in S.Korea anyway...
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Google Remains King Of The World
Well, the Web search world, at least. Hitwise released statistics today that showed Google has nearly 64 percent of the U.S. search market, compared to Yahoo's 23 percent, Microsoft's 8 percent and Ask's 3.5 percent. Year-over-year, Google's share inched up, Asks' and Yahoo's were fairly flat and Microsoft lost market share, nearly 4 percentage.
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Blackberry 8820 goes seamlessly from Wi-Fi to EDGE
"The Blackberry 8820 is the first mobile and Wi-Fi Blackberry phone and was announced today by RIM and AT&T and slated for a September 20th reelase date. The combination of connections means that Blackberry users can use their Blackberry via Wi-Fi at work to increase coverage and at home.
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Intel offer native support for both HD DVD and Blu-ray
Intel to straddle fence, offer native support for both HD DVD and Blu-ray: "The format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD isn't just playing out on store shelves and within the movie industry, although those are the two most visible battlegrounds. The giants of the tech world are also taking sides—or not taking sides, which is the approach Intel has decided to take. During his keynote speech at this week's Intel Developer Forum, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that his company will back both formats. "
Laptop vendors to offer Centrino with WiMax next year
Laptop vendors to offer Centrino with WiMax next year - Yahoo! News: "Several laptop vendors plan to announce support for an upcoming version of Intel's Centrino platform that uses WiMax wide-area networking technology -- but Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Apple are not expected to be among them. ADVERTISEMENT Asustek Computer Inc., Acer Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd"
Intel wants you to put the Internet in your pocket
» Intel wants you to put the Internet in your pocket ChipLand ZDNet.com: "The next big thing for Intel is little. The company has used its Developer Forum, here, to extol the virtues of its forthcoming handheld device platforms for allowing consumers to connect to the Internet. Intel calls this “Internet in your pocket.” "
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Get your Firefox Wonder Edition, most efficient Firefox build!
Firefox Wonder Edition is a special version of Firefox that combines one of the most efficient Firefox build with special extras that make it the fastest Firefox around for Windows.
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New USB 3.0 will be optical, 5Gbit/s
In an attempt to break the USB bottleneck, Intel has kickstarted work on USB 3.0, aka ‘Super Speed USB'.
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DIGG: New Digg Profiles Launch
The Digg team is excited to launch new Digg user profiles later tonight, the first of many cool new features rolling out this year.
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Google Reader Theme 1.2 by Hicksdesign
...all cleaned up and ready to use! Apart from the tidying up, having the search bar meant there was space to show the account bar (which was previously hidden until you hovered over it). Also, the splitter icon in the status bar bottom right now actually toggles the sidebar when you click it.
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Are widgets the new website?
In the online media world where choice is unlimited and generating content is on a level with consuming it, newspaper websites are faced with enormous competition. How to solve this problem? Why not offer tools known as widgets that create a branded presence that potential readers can integrate into their daily web habits?
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Top 10 Firefox Extension-free Tabbed Browsing Techniques
Power web surfers need close control of the dozens of tabs they chew through in a day. From extensive keyboard shortcuts to configuration tweaks to mouse manipulation, today we've got our top 10 favorite Firefox extension-free tabbed browsing tips.
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Onda VX878 - iPhone PMP clone gets nano-sized
The Onda VX858 is the big brother version with a 2.8" screen while the new Onda VX878 has a 2.4" QVGA touch screen, a Swiss-VX878 RK2608A, dual lossless compression music(APE, FLAC), with Microsoft PlayFX sound. Also support 24 frames / second Xvid encoded MPEG-4(AVI).
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Sony Vegas 8: An Alternative to Final Cut and Premiere
Is the job of a video editor to simply edit video? In Vegas 8, Sony makes it much easier for the editor to work with audio and titling right along side the video.
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Cakewalk Ships Sonar 7 - Links to use While Their Website is in Flux
Cakewalk has released Sonar 7 although their web site seems to be in flux regarding this version and they didn't even get a press release out before posting the kit. Therefore, I dug up some links for you Sonar users out there so you can figure out what's new, as well as purchase.
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AddToPicasa - Add online images to Picasa Web Albums
AddToPicasa allows you to add any online image to Picasa Web Albums, from a Web site or from a Firefox extension.No registration, use Google account, simple !
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Hello Propeller? New Social Site launches quietly
The Netscape social news experiment is now done. Social News has been migrated over to Propeller.com while Netscape.com itself resembles a Yahoo-esque portal. Didn't see any official announcement from the Propeller/Netscape staff either.
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Yahoo Acquires BuzzTracker
TechCrunch and All Things Digital are reporting that Yahoo has acquired BuzzTracker, a memetracker, for about $5 million. Participate Media CEO Alan Warms' post says all of the staff from Patricipate Media will be joining Yahoo. Patricipate Media runs also runs Rumormill and powers the Real Clear Politics BuzzTracker located here on FoxNews.com.
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Google will definitely launch its own branded handset based on Linux
Given that we're already pretty sure that Google has developed their own mobile OS based on Linux. DigiTimes' sources also note that Google is contemplating going with a 3G handset instead of EDGE for its initial foray into the cellphone market.
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The AudioFile: basics of uncompressed digital audio
Bit rate, bit depth, sample rate... what's the difference? Part one of a series on digital audio gives you the scoop on the basics of digital audio in its most common, uncompressed form.
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Take note with Notesake
Although there are lots of freeware and pay-to-play note-taking programs, there hasn't been a note-killer, a single note-taker that makes you sit up and take notice. While scouring the Web for this elusive-but-essential tool, Notesake shines as a robust tool designed for the college lecture hall but useful for a myriad of purposes.
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Google Presentation - A Demonstration
A simple 4 slide presentation demonstrating what Presentation can do.
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Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw Updated
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software and Camera raw plug-in are updated to support 14 new camera models, including Canon EOS 40D and Sony Alpha A700. Improved noise reduction and some bug fixes are other differences from the previous versions.
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Hands on with Google Presentations
Having spent nearly a decade working with PowerPoint during my time at McKinsey & Company (I use PowerPoint 2004 to create all of the charts seen in Ars articles), I found myself intrigued by Google Presentations. I wondered if it could truly replicate the functionality of PowerPoint.
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BugMeNot Google toolbar button! Bypass compulsory registration.
Gets the login info for current site. For those that have trouble with the bookmarklette. Shift-Click the button to open in a new window.
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Burn free youtube videos to DVD with Nero
A detailed article about how to burn free youtube videos to DVD that can be played on all brand home dvd player with nero.
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Google Reader Goes Multilingual, Comes Out of Beta
The Google Reader team announced today that the project has left "Google Labs" and added 9 language options to its existing English interface. Those languages include French, Italian, German, Spanish, English (UK), Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, and Korean.
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USB 3.0 Brings Optical Connection in 2008
Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.
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Add video comments to any website with BlipBack
blipBack is a video comment widget that allows anyone and everyone to receive video comments on their website or blog. The widget can be embedded on your MySpace, Facebook, or personal webpage and allows users to upload short video clips from their camcorder or webcam or even their video enabled mobile phone (if they're registered with blipBack).
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IBM Jumping Back Into the Office Software Game - with FREE Apps
"I.B.M. plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsoft’s dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. The company is announcing the desktop software, called I.B.M. Lotus Symphony, at an event today. The programs will be available as free download"
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Samsung's YP-P2 available on Amazon
We know you can't wait to get your sweaty, smearing mitts all over Samsung's little YP-P2, AKA the "palm theater" (the company's words, not ours). Well, it looks like you won't have to wait much longer, as the eighth wonder of the media player world has just made an appearance on Amazon.com.
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Apple promises 3G iPhone for 2008
Apple promises 3G iPhone for 2008 - Pocket-lint.co.uk - gadget news and reviews: "Making the comments at the 'Mum is no longer the word' press conference at the Regent Street Apple store in London, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple said: 'You can expect a 3G iPhone later next year'. "
Google Gadget Ads
First Look: Go, Go, Google Gadget Ads!: "Google has just announced the limited launch of Google Gadget Ads, a new interactive ad format that will run on their content network. Unlike Google AdWords’ existing array of text, video and graphical ads, Google Gadget Ads are designed to be interactive, can be built using HTML or Flash, and support both cost-per-click (CPC) and cost-per-impression (CPM) pricing models "
Digg Goes Deeper with Social Networking
"With its audience expanding and interests diversifying, the popular site is launching new features to help users find like-minded friends"
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Firefox 2.0.0.7 Now Available
Firefox 2.0.0.7 was released this afternoon to patch the QuickTime issue described here. This will protect Firefox users from the public critical security vulnerability until a patch is available from Apple.
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Mint.com is now live - Free online money manager.
"I'm pleased to announce Mint.com is officially launching today at TechCrunch 40 in San Francisco. We are now open to everyone! The free, automatic, online way to manage your money is here!" Truly awesome free service.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Text Formatting Toolbar
Text Formatting Toolbar
The Text Formatting Toolbar is a toolbar that allows easy formatting of posts on forums, blog comments and wikis. It supports three formats: BBcode (bulletin board) like used on most forums, HTML, and the format used by Wikipedia
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Mozilla Launches New Messaging Company - Thunderbird MailCo
In a blog post, Mitchell Baker, Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation board and CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, announced that Mozilla will be creating a new company to focus on email and messaging. David Ascher is joining Mozilla to lead MailCo. Mozilla will provide an initial $3 million dollars in seed funding to launch MailCo.
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Google Presentation - Google's PowerPoint app goes live
Google's long-rumored and eagerly anticipated PowerPoint clone has finally shipped. Although we've only had a chance to have a first look, here are some impressions. What's there: PowerPoint import, Versioning, Collaboration, Online presentation sharing. What's not there: Animations, Sound, Video, exporting to PowerPoint.
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Nokia eyes mobile email, unveils business phone
The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia, unveiled on Tuesday a new phone model, the Nokia E51, for corporate users and said it still expects to fast growth in the mobile e-mail market.
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New Google Docs presentations feature
Official Google Blog: Our feature presentation: "In April we announced that we were working to bring presentations to Google Docs. (Astute readers may recall learning about this even earlier, which caused a bit of excitement around here.) And today we're unveiling the new Google Docs presentations feature and invite you to try it at documents.google.com. "
Apple Chooses O2 as Exclusive Carrier for iPhone in UK
Apple Chooses O2 as Exclusive Carrier for iPhone in UK: "Apple® and O2 announced today that O2, the leading wireless carrier in the UK, will be the exclusive UK carrier for Apple's revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in the UK on November 9. "
Web 2.0 is here to stay....
To many people today Web 2.0 may just seem the latest in the never-ending succession of Internet trend, but just like the Internet I can see Web 2.0 staying for long. It mat be or may not be a bubble of sorts.
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Social Media Optimization, a Source to Become Popular
Social media optimization is the one strategy that is being undertaken on a huge scale by online business owners to popularize their site and business.
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Google has released 'Presentations' for Google Docs
Let's break out the champagne and celebrate presentations! Yes, you heard correctly -- after a long period of waiting and wondering, we've launched our Google Docs presentations feature.
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AOL Launches BlueString
AOL has just launched a new collaborative multimedia story telling service called BlueString. The site lets you pull in all your image, video, and audio content from across the web and mix them together into a slide show presentation. The shows can be embedded, shared, and edited by your friends.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Facebook Offers Data Storage
The Facebook Developers wiki now reveals Facebook’s plans to offer data storage. But what if facebook take the opposite approach and decide to make data storage a free service? Will this further amplify the Facebook revolution?
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Fear of Web 2.0
Enterprises continue to adopt web technologies and 'web 2.0' trends, but there are two common threads to this adoption. One is that web technologies are step-by-step being adopted by enterprises, but they aren't yet ready to usurp many desktop software apps. The Google Apps vs Microsoft Office debate currently raging is proof of that.
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How Big a Difference the Number of Megapixels Make in a Digital Camera?
Why is it considered that the higher the number of megapixels in a digital camera the better is the image quality? A larger pixel has more light-gathering area, which means the light signal is stronger over a given interval of time.
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Winamp Goes Where iTunes Doesn't Dare
Winamp 5.5 (Beta) sports two new and potentially controversial features: support for mp3 blogs and the ability to stream your music collection over the Internet.
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Search Startup Ready to Challenge Google
The dozens of entrepreneurs gathered for an exclusive high-tech conference here Monday all hope to dazzle the crowd with their ingenuity. But one startup, Powerset, is pursuing a particularly challenging goal: It's aiming to outshine the Internet's brightest star with a new search engine built to outsmart Google.Search Startup Ready to Challenge Google
7 Reasons Why Niche Social Media Outlets are Better Than Digg
Some great info here describing some downsides to digg when trying to get traffic
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Resizing images online is easier and more powerful than ever
The thing that makes this online image resizer better is the simultaneous generation of different sizes.
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Socializr vs. Evite
Friendster’s founder, Jonathan Abrams, started a new online invitation and social planning website came out. The first competitor that comes to mind in the online invitation market is Evite. May I ask how many people will use Socializr and how many people will use Evite?
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Opera's Built-In Features vs. Firefox's Equivalent Extensions
It is widely known that Opera is amazing for its out-of-the-box capability: right after the installation, you have a wide variety of tools inside of Opera. On the other hand, Firefox is known to be great for its extensions: people can easily download an addon that is suitable for them (and there is a very long list of addons for Firefox) and use it.
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30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows
What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.
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SpiralFrog Finally Launches Free Music Download Store
SpiralFrog, the free, ad-supported music store, has finally opened its doors with over 770.000 songs and 3.500 music videos from indie labels and UMG. The company has had a long journey, with many speculated that its business model would never work. With more than a few setbacks, SpiralFrog looked like it wasn’t going to make it at all.
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10 EverPink Only For Moms Social Networking Websites
With a jump in mom bloggers and work at home moms need for social networking websites which are made exclusively for moms has been observed and many such sites have been created too. Here I list 10 very cool EverPink (pink for females ofcourse) social networking websites only for moms.
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Absolutely HUGE List of Color Related Sites
Someone put together a list of just about every color related resource (worth mentioning) in the known universe.
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How Computers Transformed Baby Boomers
Computers once filled entire rooms. Now they fit in our pockets. How a generation formed our tech landscape.
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Defraggler,from the company that brought you CCleaner
It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool!
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winPenPack - The best Portable software
winPenPack is a collection of free and open source portable programs optimized for use with a USB pen drive and also directly from a folder of your Hard Disk.
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Social networking leads to social publishing
First look: social networking leads to social publishing - Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi -: "If social networking isn’t enough for you, consider “social publishing.'’ That’s what Shervin Pishevar, president of Freewebs, calls the new Pagii web site at www.pagii.com. This free web site debuting today allows you to create a completely custom social networking web page with all sorts of tools that make you look like a talented artist. "
The new LG Opus LCD HDTVs
LG is launching a new line of high end LCD HDTVs nicknamed Opus. Otherwise known as the LBX line.The Opus series of HDTVs will feature Full HD (1080p) resolutions, 120Hz frame rates, for cutting down on jaggies during fast action sequences. Also featured is a color technology that reproduces a greater range of hues.
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DVD Upsampling vs. Blu-ray
FiringSquad.com has an article comparing the DVD upsampling of the PlayStation 3, ATI Radeon HD2600, NVIDIA GeForce 8600, and Silicon Optix Realta HQV against native Blu-ray. They even compare the HD post processing performance of the group.
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Learn More About Dual Layer Media
As the name suggests, Blank dual layer DVDs offer you the advantage of being able to use two individual recordable layers on a single sided DVD disc. But in order to be able to use this technology you require a dual layer enabled DVD burner and dual layer DVD media.
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Samsung i760 Now Available
The Samsung i760 that has been announced to be launched on the 24th September is already seen in the market - out more than a week earlier than anticipated. This Windows Mobile Smartphone comes with a 32bit Samsung SC32442 processor that runs at a speed of 400 Mhz, 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM.
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Social Media Impact: Digg and others Threatening Mainstream News?
In every marketplace, business owners respond to the needs and wants of their customers. From restaurants, to clothing designers, and everything in between. It's the job of a good business owner to understand what their customer wants, and provide it to them. And that includes the media. Those that do will profit - and those that don't, won't.
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Online Video Watching - Consumption and Habits
After all the talk of Video Consumption, movie downloads, movie streaming on mobile phones – I’ve suddenly started researching quite a bit about Online Behaviour when it comes to watching videos on the internet.
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Web video gone wild - Adobe to stream video to mobile phones
One of the key noticeable feature of Adobe's Flash Media Server 3 will be its ability to provide live or recorded streaming to Flash Lite 3 powered Mobile Phones. Flash Lite 3-enabled phones are expected to be on the market by the end of 2007.
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Meizu's M8 MiniOne shipping January 17th?
Alright, so this isn't straight from the horse's mouth, but this potential ship date for the Meizu M8 definitely vibes with what Engadget has heard up until now. This one has a new price too, at $788.50, which is a fair amount less than the $989 number floating around.
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DrawAnywhere.com vs. Gliffy.com
I was looking into some visio replacements and I came across these two online applications, which allows me to do my diagramming online and it’s also free of cost. I was wondering if anyone can give me some inputs to which service I should use.
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The Assumptions That Yahoo Mash And Other Social Networks Make About You
The Assumptions That Yahoo Mash And Other Social Networks Make About You - Publishing 2.0: "Every application needs to make assumptions about its users, and for some people those assumptions will inevitably be wrong. Why is it, though, that so many social networks and other social applications assume that all social web users are not yet old enough to drink? "
Sunday, September 16, 2007
AirTalkr - AIR based Instant Messenger
AirTalkr is a multi-protocol Instant Messenger that connects to MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, AOL and ICQ. Not only that, it also has connects to to various Web 2.0 services like Flickr and YouTube. AirTalkr runs on Adobe AIR, so you will need the runtime to use it. As of now, AirTalkr can run on Windows and Mac.
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Problems With My iPod Touch
Check this out for tips and workarounds on some problems the iPod touch has.
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d0ink!
Recently released, d0ink.com beta is one of the coolest new web inventions. You can write about anything or anyone, as in Wikipedia, but can collaborate, judge, comment, and vote openly. You can adds friends like in social networking sites and can also voice your opinions through videos and podcasts. The editing system is quick and full-featured.
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Google Presently - Will Anyone Use It?
Presently could be cool, I will be able to make a presentation online, woohoo. But then I thought: do I actually want to? Will you really turn down Keynote or Powerpoint for Presently?
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Social Networks At A Crossroads
A few years ago, social networking Web sites were just some newfangled technology that college students loved. But over time, they have metamorphosed into an unavoidable Internet phenomenon that is changing the way people of all ages keep in touch with friends, find long-lost acquaintances, explore new hobbies and even look for employment.
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First full-featured DivX Authoring Program: DivX Author v1.5.2.180
With Divx Author you can convert videos in the most popular digital formats and then combine them into a single DivX file.Use your creativity skills to add DVD features like menus or chapter points and even multiple subtitles and multiple audio tracks.
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20 Open Source Windows Apps For You
20 Open Source Windows Apps For You | Technology Bites
Some of the commercial software like Photoshop are so expensive that an average user can not afford to buy it. Lately I am looking for some free or open source alternatives for windows programs and i was amazed with the range of programs available. Here i will list some of the open source or free programs as alternatives to windows commercial programs.
TinyTube: Mobile Video
TinyTube provides search and video proxy services for mobile devices. It enables search and video playback from several major video sharing services by optimizing web pages for smaller displays and reformatting video clips.TinyTube: Mobile Video - Welcome!
Screenshots of Microsoft Gatineau, A Potential Google Analytics Killer
Gatineau has gone through constant tweaks and testing to get the looks that it has today. Those looks are finally available in the form of screen shots in this post. The idea was conceived by Ian Thomas, Gatineau is still a code name, and the programming was lead by Microsoft adCenter Labs.
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Free Tagboard and Chat Widget for Web Site
Get a Cbox tagboard for your website or blog and let your visitors leave you messages or chat with each other. Getting started couldn't be easier – sign up, get your code, and start chatting! Very Cool!
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Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us
Traditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use.
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Movavi VideoSuite 4.6.3 Released
Movavi VideoSuite is a set of tools for Windows used for capturing, editing and processing video and audio files. With it you can capture video from a digital or web camera and convert it in mobile device compatible format, like PSP, iPod, PDA, Zune or cell phone.Edit videos using splitting/slicing functions; add special effects with Magic Enhance.
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Sony Ericsson W910i
Sony Ericsson W910i recently got FCC approval. Introduced a few months back, the Sony Ericsson W910i is a quad-band GSM phone with 240 x 320 px resolution screen and 35MB internal memory expandable via Memory stick micro card which can hold up to 4GB card. The SE W910i comes in 99mm x 50mm x 12.5mm dimension and has 86 grams weight.
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TorPlus includes Kestrel support
TorPlus v1.0.1 released with support for Opera v9.5 alpha a.k.a Kestrel. TorPlus is a web proxy bundle that includes the Opera Browser, TOR (onion router) and Privoxy (web proxy software). This release fixes a problem with portability of the included Opera browser.
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Yet another proxy site... is this one different? Maybe...just maybe.
Ok, maybe it isn't different.. but you can still use it because it just plain kicks ass.Do you want to be cool and popular? If so, check out www.hardproxy.net for fast and anonymous browsing. Use www.hardproxy.net to unblock the web at school or work!
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Nokia at work an yet another removable flash memory format
Flash memory manufacturer Nokia is heading a drive to create a new, unified flash memory technology by partnering with a variety of other companies considered leaders in the field.
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7 of the Coolest Online Generators
Welcome to the 21st century, where anything that can be done in a browser will be, and almost everything now can. Along with all the boring office tools, chats, and email clients, here’s some fun stuff you probably didn’t know you could get online.
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Office 2.0: what it looks like?
These were some notes I made before the conference when thinking about "What is Office 2.0?". I didn't bother trying to mention most of this stuff on my panel, as it seemed over-covered, but thought it was worth putting some of these here for...well... just to put it somewhere (and for dispute or expansion, if you are in the mood).
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The Number of iGoogle / Google Reader Subscribers
Google Webmaster Tools becomes more useful every month. Initially developed as a way to submit sitemaps, the service expanded its focus by displaying interesting information Google has about your sites, but shouldn't be available to the public: top search queries are the queries that most often returned pages from your site, PageRank distribution.
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Adding an icon to Bloggers blog
Learn how to add a custom icon to your Bloggers blog.
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TwitterNotes
TwitterNotes
Be able to take notes as easily as:
+ I'm using TwitterNotes
and you can even tag your notes:
+ The fastest way to take *notes* and *tag* them anywhere
Some Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
A video tutorial and "cheat sheet" for the tool palette in Photoshop.
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Zipeg: ZIP Archive Browser and Extractor for Windows
Zipeg: ZIP Archive Browser and Extractor for Windows
Zipeg is archive decompression utility for Windows™.Zipeg is freeware alternative for WinZip™, StuffIt™ or WinRar™ and alike compression utilities.Zipeg opens ZIP, RAR, ARJ, LHA, 7z and many other types of archives.Zipeg helps to preview files and Jpeg photographs (.jpg, .png) before extracting them.Decompress, unzip, expand, extract or drag and drop exactly what you want to where you want.Runs on: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, MCE and Vista
There is also a Mac version here.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Flock Blogging with Photos
Here is a screencast demonstrates how to use Flickr photosharing and the Flock browser to add photos to a WordPress blog (or any blog or web page, really). Flock makes it dead-simple to upload, tag, and post photos.Ryan Price vs. the Media » Flock Blogging with Photos
How To Load YouTube Videos Faster
If you are on a slow internet connection, you might have noticed YouTube videos getting stuck. The solution to this is to use SpeedBit Video Accelerator. This software will make your YouTube videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions.How To Load YouTube Videos Faster
Ditch Your Laptop
It's a compelling thought: getting rid of that clunky laptop in your bag in exchange for something smaller, sleeker, and just capable of doing the things you need it to do. Most folks, after all, don't need to run Photoshop or 3D games when they're on a business trip or sitting in class. They just have to check their e-mail, surf the Web, maybe hack together some office documents or edit a database. Why can't something smaller do the trick?Ditch Your Laptop - Ditch Your Laptop - Review by PC Magazine
iPod Touch video review - 7 minutes of iPod touch heaven
Christopher Breen from Macworld has set up a tripod and camcorder to record the first impressions of the iPod Touch. Here we have is 7 minutes of pure iPod Touch heaven.
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HDTV: An Introduction
HDTV stands for High Definition Television, and if you live in the USA, Australia, or Japan you may already have experienced it. There are three key differences between HDTV and what's become known as standard definition TV ie regular NTSC, PAL or SECAM.
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Simplebucket: Simple, Ad-Free Image Hosting
Most sites on the Web that offer image hosting are very picky about the amount of bandwidth you use, what types of photos you upload, and how long they stay active. If you want more control, you can either pay for image hosting from a service such as Flickr or Photobucket, or host your photos yourself on your own Web space. What do you do if you want some control over the types and longevity of the photos you upload but you don't want to spend a lot of money? Simplebucket wants to fill that gap. The service offers simple, one-click image hosting with no ads, no registration hassles, and lots of features.Simplebucket: Simple, Ad-Free Image Hosting - AppScout
12 Tweaks - Squeeze Every Last Drop of Performance Out of Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a resource hog, 12 tweaks to boost its performance.
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Erwan Loisant - Speed Blog / Tumble log
The idea behind this extension is the concept of "tumble log", painless publishing of interesting information to your blog - without any edition. Usually you would not do that on your main blog, but on what would be your "tumble log". You can publish images, links, or text selection. If you do a right click on no particular object, a link to the current page will be published.Erwan Loisant - Speed Blog / Tumble log
Avant Browser Review
Josiah Kiehl reviews the latest release of the Avant Browser, which is built on the IE rendering engine.
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OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 released already
The official release date for OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 is September 17th, 2007 but it has already been released for the public. This new version an be downloaded from several mirrors such as OSUOSL and tried out today.
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15 Smashing Online/Offline File Converters. Includes Many Video Converters.
Internet includes many video converters and this article brings for you 15 best converters. The list contains 4 online file converters (for any format), 8 online video converters, 1 offline file converter (for any format), 2 offline video converters.
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Lifeshaker
Does the world really need yet another to-do list program? We think so. You see the problem with a traditional to-do list, whether on paper, a computer screen or even a tablet of stone is...it's a list and quite frankly there's nothing more uninspiring than a list of tasks.
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Testing the new Flock version right now
I'm testing the new Flock web browser right now. I'm blogging this directly from the Blog editor in Flock.
Seems to be working great!
Here is a picture that I drag and dropped from the media stream:
A complete list of the digital photo album software
A complete list of the digital photo album software with brief information about each product title. This one-page site is for anyone who's looking for the best image organization software.
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30+ Apps That Are Killing Microsoft
With Google acquiring a Powerpoint-like tool to bulk up its impressive web office suite, and hundreds of startups releasing everything from web based word processors to complete operating systems, Microsoft is under fire. This week, we tested some of the services that are nibbling away at Microsoft’s dominance, with Google leading the charge.
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What Other Social Networking Sites Are Out There?
We all know about MySpace.com, Friendster.com and MSN Live Spaces as some of the best or maybe the most well known social networking websites. These sites have millions of hits everyday and are growing their population steadily. But you should know that there are other “quality” social networking websites that are not getting as much.
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BlogRush: Fastest FREE Way to Instantly Drive Targeted Readers to Your Blog
BlogRush is a revolutionary free blog syndication network created by John Reese. It serves up relevant content from blogs in the content network, including yours, onto a widget that displays on other people's blogs. Plus, if someone signs up for BlogRush through your blog, then you get an exposure for each time their widget is displayed..
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Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social we
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That's where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.
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What is SocialMarker.com?
Oh, it`s very usefull.I think that top site in the kind of this service is "Bookmark & Share(AddThis.com)".Social bookmarking provide 'bookmarks toolbar' and Bookmark & Share(AddThis.com) provide widgets.If you want to big blogger, you must use this service.
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SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: 50+ Social Bookmarking Sites
With the acquisition this week of a shopping bookmarks service, and strong rumors of another bookmarking service being acquired, we thought it was time to reflect on how the social bookmarking space shapes up these days. Here are more than 50 of the top social bookmarking sites available.
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Mappeo - mapping youtube videos (beta)
Mappeo is gmaps-youtube mashup. With mappeo you can geosearch videos and filter specific keywords.
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How the iPod Touch Works
The iPod touch isn’t even in stores yet, but it’s already received its share of criticism. Naysayers call it a stripped-down iPhone and claim that it doesn't have enough storage capacity to be considered a top-of-the-line player. So how does it measure up?
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Tips and Tricks: Use Sticky Notes with Windows XP
"Have a look at a few small, handy things which arent part of windows. The first one will be Sticky Notes-the virtual equivalent of writing down tasks and reminders on paper and sticking somewhere around you. If you need this with windows XP, you have to download and install freeware. But, you can use sticky notes in windows XP without installing a third party tool."
Download Winamp 5.5: New Skin, New Features
It’s hard to believe that Winamp will be celebrating its 10th anniversary next month, and they plan to do it in style! To mark the occasion they will be releasing Winamp 5.5 on 10/10 at 10:10AM, but a Beta version of the application has already been made available to testers.
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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema v1.0.10.0
Media Player Classic looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player); built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec.
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Flock 0.9.1 Is Now Available
Numerous fixes and a few enhancements. It does seem to be more stable, especially with flash and multiple (15+) tabs open. You may need to download it manually to update, for some reason the "Check for Updates" menu option didn't detect the update was out there.
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First Impressions on Yahoo’s new social network - Mash
Yahoo! is rolling out a new social network, Mash. It’s invite based, and is refreshing. Completely AJAXified, the network has more or less all the features that you’d would love to have in a social network. They've combined the key features from other social networks.. that's how it seems.
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now there's a faceosphere?!
You're right there is a faceosphere. Not a day goes by without Facebook being mentioned in the, well, blogosphere. If it's not someone developing a killer Facebook app, then it's someone using FB's groups to protest something, etc., etc.Welcome to the faceosphere.
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Yahoo! Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network
A little more than two months after we started reporting rumors about Yahoo!’s new social network Mosh, the company has given us a preview of a social network with a slightly different name: Mash.
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Docstoc to compete with Scribd: Raises Series A Round
Docstoc to compete with Scribd: Raises Series A RoundPrivate Beta Invites available.
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Organizing The World’s Push Content: The iGoogle Ecosystem
'When we first started working on iGoogle, our goal was to build a product that was the answer to the query "What do I want to see?" We formalized this mission as follows: Organize the world's push content in a fast, simple, and useful manner.'
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Apple iPod touch Review (Verdict: Good In the Face of Greatness)
When looking at the iPod touch, you have a choice: you can either see it as an evolutionary leap for iPod, or a slight downgrade from iPhone. You gain a thinner shell, up to 16GB of storage, but lose a bunch of apps, the phone, and some other surprising things. In our opinion, it's both the leap and the downgrade, and therein lies the rub.
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Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet
Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.
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Zannel Offers Multimedia Microblogging
Zannel is a new player in the microblogging and mobile social networking arena. Their service combines mobile status updates ala Twitter with mobile photo and video sharing. Updates of your friends can be viewed either on your phone or on Zannel’s web site. The company describes its service as “Instant Media Messaging”.
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Microsoft’s Gatineau to Compete with Google Analytics
Gatineau will be offered in an English version first, in countries that have local adCenter support teams. The purpose of Gatineau is to offer more targeted advertising options to marketers, with the provision of better analysis tools in order to get a better ROI.
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Google Presently Will Soon Take On Microsoft PowerPoint
The release of this application will fill in a major gap that still left Google Apps lagging behind the features of MS Office. Whether or not it will actually make an impact on the sales of PowerPoint or the user base is still up in the air.
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Sony Pushing Another Proprietary Format
Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are among a group of companies backing a new memory standard. Called Universal Flash Storage, it would apply to both internal and removable memory; in the case of the latter, it would theoretically eliminate the need for adapters bridging different card sizes, such as SD and microSD.
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Watch a live stream of pictures uploaded to blogger.com
Watch a live stream of pictures as they are uploaded to Googles Blogger service!
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Friday, September 14, 2007
New Google Earth satellite to launch next week
DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Inc.'s interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive. The new spacecraft, dubbed WorldView I, is to be launched on Tuesday.
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GMail on Your Desktop Yet?
Rumors of an offline GMail service press on as the Hindustan Times say that the offline version of GMail has already been built and it currently being tested internally.
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Yahoo! launches public beta of new social network service (Mash) at 2PM PST
Today, at 2:00pm pacific, Yahoo! will launch the public beta of its new social network called Mash. There are some key differences between this new service and existing social networks that you might like. You can open your profile to contributions from trusted friends, or set up starter profiles for friends and invite them to take ownership.
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Blu-ray Disc Association Hints that 51GB HD DVD is a Publicity Stunt
Frank Simonis, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, to stir the ever-whirling pot even more. In a recent interview with Tech.co.uk, Mr. Simonis was said to have insinuated that "the HD DVD Group's BD-trumping 51GB disc announcement is purely a publicity stunt"
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Diigo to Launch Website Slideshow Feature Next Week
Website annotation tool Diigo will officially announce its new WebSlides feature next week.
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iPod Touch unpacking tour and first look
Looks a lot thinner than the iPhone, lots of photos of an actual iPod touch 16GB.
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Watch DiVX on your XBox 360 - Step by step how to
I'll show you how you can get DiVX running on your Xbox in 3 steps. Simple really.
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US online video popularity keeps climbing
Macworld reports that people in the U.S. have steadily increased the amount of time they spend watching videos online, as Google's YouTube remains by far their preferred video site, according to a study. In July, almost 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched videos online, up from 71.4 percent in March, according to comScore Networks.
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Google Presently Powerpoint Clone Could Be Days Away
Google’s long awaited Powerpoint clone could be days away from launching, according to a report at The Inquirer.
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jZip - a free alternative to WinZip
"The new free jZip * Create, extract and manipulate Zip, RAR, TAR, GZip, 7-Zip and other file archives * jZip is absolutely FREE for everybody, home and enterprise users * jZip is an easy to use and fast archiving software * jZip is based on proven 7-Zip technology by Igor Pavlov"
10 extremely useful features of Opera that you won't find in other browsers
These features are absent in other browsers. Even extension or add-ons for these are either unavailable or rarely work as good as Opera's. These are some features that most people are unaware of. Lets spread the awarness about Opera.
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Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker
Today, the Internet giant will announce the purchase of a clever Web site called BuzzTracker, which uses a combination of editorial selection and complex algorithms to aggregate content from all over the Web.
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Create feeds, widgets, and image loops for any site with Dapper
Dapper is a new free web service which helps you to create RSS feeds, widgets, Google Gadgets, image loops and other feed formats for any site easily.Embedding these new content tools in your site is as easy as copy and paste.Well, basically, Dapper allows you to easily build an API for any website.
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MySpace's new anti-spam measures hardly useful
MySpace is encouraging everybody to participate in voluntary anti-spam measures to protect themselves from nuisance e-mail--an increasing problem that aggravates most everyday MySpace users.
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CubeVoice Is Twitter for the Office
CubeVoice is a simple network for posting updates about your company. As in, your place of employment. The entity that writes your paychecks. This Twitter for companies operates on a very simple premise. Sign up with a company name, and start micro-blogging. Other employees can join in, and everyone at the office can read the updates.
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Jaiku Adds Better Social Networking Features
There’s now a better way to see your followers, in addition to your contacts. With a new one-click options, followers can become your contacts. If you’re halfway familiar with most of these micro-blogging tools, the whole “follower,” “following” and “contacts” distinctions won’t be a bit confusing.
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Gmail going offline?
Gmail, a revolutionary email service which was started by Google around 3years back may be having plans to take their service offline, Hindustan Times claims (from their reliable sources) that Gmail is in the process of making an offline Gmail from which gmail users would be able to to browse, reply, save drafts.
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The Samsung F700: iPhone Follower, Not Killer
Samsung has unveiled their "iPhone Killer", which is basically an iPhone clone with a QWERTY keyboard. An Apple supporter lashes out: "the new Samsung phone won't be an 'iPhone killer' – it's the very fact that they're trying to make one that guarantees they will fail."
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Mixx To Take A New Look At Social News
I generally don’t get that excited when I hear about yet another Digg-like social news site coming on the scene, but Virginia-based Mixx may be different.
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Viacom Launches Broad Decentralized Social Networking Strategy Called Flux
It turns out the rumors of a Viacom investment and partnership with social network Tagworld, which we first covered in late 2005, were accurate. Viacom invested a reported $40 million in the company for a minority stake (Tagworld was previously funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson) and the two companies began working on new social networking products.
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How to: Make Awesome-Looking YouTube Videos
So how to make your videos sharper and clearer? YouTube recommends you encode your movie in MPEG4 format, shrink it to 320x240 resolution, use MP3 audio, and set your framerate to 30 frames per second (30fps). While these suggestions are dead simple and fine for most movies, it's possible to get much better results by ignoring some of them.
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iPod Touch Hands-on Gallery and Video
Here's our hands-on gallery of the iPod Touch. It looks the same as it did when we saw it last Wednesday—sexy and thin—but now we have the added bonus of photographing it on our own desks.
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Five Things We Like About the iPod touch (Video Edition)
Benny the NYC intern and I have found a few things we really like about the iPod touch. Rather than tell you about them, we thought we'd show them to you in a quick video. Needless to say, there are also some things we don't like about the touch. Stay tuned, because we'll address all that later on.
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
HD DVD whips out 51GB discs, surpasses Blu-ray (barely) in storage capacity
One advantage Blu-ray has had over HD DVD is its larger capacity. That has changed in the wake of the DVD Forum s approval of three-layer, 51GB HD DVD discs.
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MySpace Getting A Little Less Chaotic?
Interesting blog post by MySpace co-founder and president Tom Anderson this morning. He’s proposing a new default layout for MySpace pages that has significantly better organization of user information, and moves from a two column to three column approach.
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List of 83 social bookmarking sites
Probably the biggest list of Social Bookmarking web sites sorted according to their Pagerank
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10 Ajax Start Pages to Consider
Ajax start pages are easy-to-use, customizable webpages, allowing you to keep up with the latest news and add interactive content. You can add new RSS feeds and widgets, and move your content around the page.
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Yet Another YouTube and Google Videos Downloader and Converter
On September 8, AliveMedia published Alive YouTube Video Converter, a professional tool for download videos from YouTube.com and Google and convert them into usual formats like AVI, MPEG, MP4, DivX, XviD, 3GP, WMV, VOB, QuickTime MOV, ASF, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Mobile Phone, Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen Vision, Sandisk Sansa, MP3, AAC, M4A, AC3.
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The 'Social Media for Firefox' Extension
Cool tool that uses API's to scan Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us and others to helps you find stories becoming popular on one site so you can be the first to submit them at another. Saw it this morning and tried it out - definitely saves time!
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LG R500 Review
The LG R500 is the new top-of-the-line notebook in the R-series from LG Electronics. The notebook offers a solid foundation for performance thanks to Intel Core 2 Duo (Santa Rosa) processors, nVidia GeForce 8600m GS dedicated graphics and plenty of RAM and HDD storage space.
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Get More Productive with Firefox
You already love the Firefox Web browser for its tabbed windows, cool extensions, and other spiffy features. Now learn how to be more productive with it, courtesy of PC World’s 15 undocumented Firefox tips. The article includes keyboard shortcuts, Web-search tweaks, security tips, and optimization tricks.
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Microblogr - Micro Blogging Social Network Community
"Microblogr is a social networking and micro blogging community started by Cosmin Ghiu in September 2007 that allows you to instantly connect and collaborate with your friends along with discovering new ones."
Microblogr.com
A fresh new micro blogging social networkin community. In Alpha phase currently. Looking to invite as many test users as possible. SMS option like twitter and pownce, coming soon!
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Blog Editors
Anything and Everything's overview of some great blog editing tools such as ScribeFire, Flock and Windows Live Writer.
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CDMA Mobile Watch W/ 3 MegaPixel Camera Attached
Here’s a snazzy-looking “cell watch” that’ll beat the pants off the Apple iPhone. Digitalrise doesn’t have the marketing muscle of Apple but that doesn’t mean it can’t make cool products like this SD88 cell watch and camera. It’s also equipped with an FM tuner, MP3 player and video-playing functionality besides GPRS, SMS, MMS and WAP support.
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Samsung's F700 Ready for Business in November with Vodafone
We went a bit moist and gooey earlier this year when we saw Samsung's F700 in Barcelona. Now the touch-screen smartphone with 3-megapixel camera and QWERTY keyboard has got a release date in Europe and a carrier: November; and Vodafone.
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Savit Micro's Cinedisk CD26HD media player: 1080i everywhere you go
The Cinedisk CD26HD pocket-sized, HD media player that can handle MPEG2, WMV9HD, or DiVX video formats, plays MP3, WMA, and OGG audio, and does AC3 and DTS audio processing. Your precious, friend-making files are stored on a 2.5-inch, 120GB hard drive, and you can hook the miniature-media-center up to your favorite HDTV via its component outs.
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Achieving The Twitter Equilibrium
This is the state when Twitter is providing you with just the right frequency and quality of content that you expect. It’s totally arbitrary and completely personal, but essential to preventing Twitter from becoming another useless, annoying social networking tool that you maintain out of a weak sense of loyalty to people you dont really know.
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Using facebook as the hub for your personal brand
Good article explaining how to utilize Facebook in the creation of your personal brand.
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Social Wiki = Social Web + Wiki
A Wiki is a Web 2.0 tool, right? It is a collaborative tool for people to add and edit contents. A Santa-clara based company has launched a drag-and-drop wiki called PikiWiki with a touch of social web. I will call it a social wiki.
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Manage Facebook and blog comments from one app
Using JanRain's new Pibb Facebook app, you've got a communications conduit with the potential to tie Facebook communications to the rest of your online communications. (Like say for instance, keeping your Facebook comments and your blog comments all in one place.)
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O2 Launches Xda Flame
O2 has launched its PDA phone, Xda Flame, with multimedia capabilities of a 3D graphics processor. The NVIDIA GoForce 5500 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerates multimedia tasks such as audio and video in hardware - the improved speed gives customers console-class 3D gaming, DVD-quality video, sharp photo playback.
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Best mobile applications
The best mobile services I’ve seen so far combine mobile and PC. They use the strengths of the PC-based web (such as a big resolution screen and qwerty keyboard input) to handle the heavy lifting that cellphones suck at (like user registration). Then, they build a mobile interface to their site to enable smaller pieces of the service remotely.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Audacity removes vocals from mp3
If you’re interested in transforming you’re favourite mp3 songs into a ringtone for your cell phone or newly hacked iPhone then make use of this video provided by video maker Jimmycron. Using the Open Source sound editor Audacity, Jimmycron explicitly explains how to get rid of vocals on Mp3 tracks, that then become instrumentals.
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Google's GDrive on its way as GoogleDrive.com's name servers are updated...
Google already owns GDrive.com, but it's unlikely that will be the final name of the service. Like Gmail is technically "Google Mail" the real name for GDrive will likely be "Google Drive". And sure enough, today, the name servers associated with googledrive.com changed to to NSx.GOOGLE.COM.
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What is the future of mobile and social networking?
An interview with Microsoft Sociologist Marc Smith, a senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research (MSR) specializing in the social organization of on-line communities and computer mediated interaction. He leads the Community Technologies Group at MSR. Smith describes us moving from an "ephemeral society to an archival society".
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NEW: ACDSee Pro 2.0
ACD Systems has just released a new version of the well known ACDSee toolset for viewing, processing, editing, organizing and publishing your pictures.With ACDSee Pro 2 you can import, rename or categorize your photos, and view, sort, cull and compare them in its fully customizable interface.
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Basics Of Podcasting For Beginners
Once considered a novelty, Podcasting is now a commonplace method used to broadcast audio and video files across the internet. Every day, the podcast audience grows. To successfully join the quickly growing group of Podcasters there are three elements you must understand.
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Is the World Ready for a Web-Based Desktop?
There will be popular online desktops. But I expect it to be the next generation of Google Apps, not AjaxOffice. When all is said and done, no matter how important these thin desktops become, I still expect most people to get most of their work done on fat-client desktops with fat office applications.
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Ultimate Firefox Addons : 222 Addons For Just About Everything
The Ultimate Collection of Firefox Addons, You name it and its all there. Addons range from Bookmarking to Blogging to Advertising to just about everything you can imagine..
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The Holy Grail For Mobile Social Networks
We’ve been tracking emerging mobile-only social networks such as ZYB and Mocospace and Mig33. All have unique selling points (Mocospace is dead simple to use, ZYB has a rich set of potential users from their address book backup service, and Mig33 has a VOIP tool), but there’s one solid gold feature that none yet have: physical presence detection.
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Clip2Net - The easiest way of web publishing
Really cool... This service allows you to select screen area or any file from your computer and just in about 1-2 clicks get the URL to the file uploaded with publishing code to use on your blog or web-site.
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Apple intros Logic Studio, Logic Express 8
Apple on Wednesday introduced long-awaited upgrade to its Logic audio production suites. Logic Studio replaces Logic Pro 7 as the company's professional editor and is the first to include MainStage, a live performance tool for both rehearsals and stage sessions; on-screen controls link directly to faders, knobs, and other hardware controls.
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Reconstruct a Feed's History Using Google Reader
Google Reader is more than a feed reader: it's also a platform for feed caching and archiving. That means Google Reader stores all the posts from the subscribed feeds and they're available if you keep scrolling down in the interface. Here's how to take advantage of this.
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FL Studio - Dance Beat Tutorial
Create a cool dance beat in Fruity Loops (FL Studio). Techniques used appeal to both beginners and advanced users. Beginners will learn a vast amount of skills from following this tutorial.
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CCleaner v2.0 Features Redesigned Interface And Improved Vista Compatibilit
CCleaner, a free system optimization and privacy tool for Windows, has emerged from beta testing with a new 2.0 release. CCleaner is probably one of the best known cleaning/optimizing tools out there and the new version brings the application out of beta and into prime-time with several new features as well as a bunch of bug fixes.
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Open Season On Microsoft Office
Earlier today IBM (IBM) threw its weight behind the Open Office project, a move that will give the open source productivity suite some much needed support in the enterprises. And if that wasn’t enough, now Google (GOOG) has upped the ante on Microsoft Office.
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Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should
It's a shame when a great program is not heard about by most people - especially when it's free. Here are the top 10 freeware software that many people still haven't tried, but definitely should.
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Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Can't Do Without
You may not know this, but there are actually a number of great references available to you that isn’t Wikipedia. Now, don’t get me wrong - I love Wikipedia, too. But it’s not all you have. Here's twenty great reference sites aside from Wikipedia (and some even use Wikipedia, but better!)
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Wikia Gaming Launches With 250,000 Articles
I love Wikia - CEO Gil Penchina, a former eBay executive, says he works harder than anyone in Silicon Valley at building his startup. I routinely point out to him that his startup doesn’t actually do anything - their wiki software is based on the open source MediaWiki project, Google, Looksmart and FM Publishing handle all the revenue via ad sales.
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500GB Sony Blu-ray BDZ-X90 Recorder announced
Sony announces four digital Blu-ray disc recorder with HDDs. The line-up includes the BDZ-X90, BDZ-T70, BDZ-T50 and BDZ-L70. All new Sony Blu-ray disc recorder are able to record HD on the Blu-ray disc, 24p true cinema, high-speed Hi-vision dubbing and AVCHD support.
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Samsung SGH E200 review
Samsung SGH E200 review - Samsung SGH-E200 is triband/EDGE slim candybar phone. It sports a 1.3 megapixel camera, 20MB memory with microSD expansion slot, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 1.1, Media Player and FM-Radio.
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Google Developing Integrated Social Applications
Leaked video from a Google internal meeting reveal a major innovative plans with social apps.
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GTD: How Do You Determine What To Do Next?
How do you cope with a very large GTD list?
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