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Monday, October 15, 2007

Amazing!! Read and store your SMS on your PC

How many times using a device you are thinking how nice it would be to have more informations about the led that has 527 colors or it flashes in 6432 various ways but all equal . How many applications today are using a GSM module? Remote controls, remote activation commands etc. but thinking again why to not use it for sending and receiving SMS? We

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Reaper 2:0 digital audio workstation released

The folks behind the digital audio editing application Reaper just don't seem to know when to stop. We just noticed that the digital audio workstation got bumped up to version 2.0, and by the time we went to download it Reaper 2.002 was out.

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How To Use Flickr: Basics and Beyond

Flickr is one of the most popular photo-sharing sites on the Internet. Owned by Yahoo!, Flickr offers its users a website where they can create free accounts that let them store, share, and explore digital photos. Flickr is also an online community, whose members share photos and mutual interests. Just read on and begin your Flickr experience!

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Firefox As Your Desktop

How to use Firefox to replace many traditional desktop programs. I speculate that this could eventually replace standard desktop apps entirely.

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All FREE Music Making Software!

On this web page you can find all the FREE Music Making software at the web site Making Music for Pc, Mac and Linux.There are 20 posts on every page. Navigate back and forth in time with the "Older Posts" and "Newer Posts" links at the bottom of every page. You will find hundreds of FREE software!

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Why i like Opera Browser?

My opinion why i like and use Opera Browser

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Tips to Get indexed in Google in 1 Day

Tips on how to get your site indexed in google in 1 day! Let me know your opinions.

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Bubble Activity? Dot.mobi Names Sold For 6 Figures

The latest Moniker domain auction was held last week, and along with the usual multi-million dollar domain buys that we’ve come to expect from these domain auctions (computer.com went for $2.2 million), another domain many people might not have heard of, let alone used saw six figure sales.

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PicUrls does social news in pictures | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

While there's a giant crowd of people waiting for Digg to unveil its pictures section, there are already several services available for browsing popular news by pictures.

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Nokia & Lamborghini made limited edition Nokia 8800 Sirocco

Nokia and Lamborghini created a limited edition phone (Nokia 8800 Sirocco). Only 500 units will be made and will only be available from Lamborghini dealerships. With the discreet laser etched Lamborghini logo on the front and the back cover. Also a special Lamborghini made ball bearings equipped in the slider mechanism.

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What if the Wii wins the console wars?

Tom Merritt considers the prospect of the Wii's total victory in the console wars.

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4TB on Desktop Drives by 2009, Hitachi Says

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announce Monday it has developed technology that will quadruple the storage capacity of desktop hard drives within the next two years, while laptop storage could reach 1TB.

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250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web

250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web: "We’re all living on the web, and we all seem to be starting our own websites, so it’s time we all learned the languages that make it run. We’ve gathered over 250 resources to help you get going."

Why Facebook sucks

Why Facebook sucks (Scripting News): "Another topic Scoble and I talked about today was Facebook. I said I don't like Facebook, never have, and I finally figured out why. It's another one of those user generated content things, only this time I'm building up an address book that I can look at, but can only do things with it that Facebook lets me do."

Gmail Mobile 1.5 Released

Gmail Mobile 1.5 Released: "There's a new version for Gmail's Java application for mobile phones. Gmail Mobile 1.5 makes it easier to access your contacts by adding an option in the menu. If you click on a contact, you'll see the same information available in Gmail's desktop interface: a photo, the email addresses, the phone numbers and other notes. If you entered the phone number in your contact's details, you can call him directly from Gmail."

OpenOffice 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook

OpenOffice 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook - CyberNet News: "The presentation was called “OpenOffice.org 3.0 and Beyond,” and it walked through some of the most notable features that are expected to be released in the next big OpenOffice milestone."

Hitachi develops world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disks; result may be 4-terabyte drives

Hitachi develops world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disks; result may be 4-terabyte drives - Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi -: "The company predicts that it will be able to put four terabytes of data — four times as much as today’s drives — on a single hard disk for desktops. It expects to put a terabyte on a disk drive for laptops. Hitachi is targeting 2009 for commercial availability and full potential in 2011."

Top Blogs On Google Reader

So Google recently made it fairly easy to determine the number of Google Reader subscribers around a particular blog. Here's the list.

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

How to capture, save, record or download streaming audio for free

Ever wonder how you could possibly record or rip a song that’s being streamed across the Internet onto your computer for free? Trying to download streaming audio directly to your computer can be quite difficult because different sites have different security measures put in place, so one program might work for one site, but not another.

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With Social Bookmarking, You Can Tap Into An Unlimited Supply Of Traffic

More Targeted Traffic Since your bookmarks are categorized into different TAGS, you will get very targeted traffic from people searching within a particular TAG. They will click on your bookmark link and visit your site FAST.

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Amazing XP Tools to Arm your PC from Hackers.

Hackers have newer methods to hack into your systems.They are smart enough to detect security loop holes in your PC and enter through open ports,unencrypted Wi-Fi connections,malicious websites or internet servers.I

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The Top 10 Swedish Search Engines

Every Saturday on AltSearchEngines, they continue their tour “around the world in 80 weeks.” Today they’ve landed in Sweden in search of new Alternative Search Engines
Alt Search Engines » Blog Archive » The Top 10 Swedish Search Engines "Uff da!"

Friday, October 12, 2007

Add Digg vote button on Blogger Template (NEW)

This is an old but updated tutorial that explains how you can add a Digg vote button for each post into the new blogger template.

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How To Upload Your Video Clips To Multiple Video Sharing Sites

Upload your video to youtube, google, metacafe and others all from the one place. Only upload your video once, this site does the rest. Free.

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Updates to Windows Live SkyDrive!

Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog: Updates to Windows Live SkyDrive!: "These past couple of months since our last release, we asked ourselves, “What can we do to make SkyDrive even better?” The most obvious answer is something that our users have asked us to do: give out more storage. We’re excited to announce that we’re doubling everyone’s storage to 1 GB! "

First Look: Photoshop Elements 6

If you're a frequent camera upgrader, you know Adobe kind of has you by the short hairs when it comes to Photoshop revisions: If you want to process RAW files (without the horror of resorting to the inevitably kludgy software that came with the camera), you'll need the latest version of the application.

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Notepad Trick: Cool Trick How To Use Notepad As a Logger

Have you ever wonder if you can use notepad as a logging tools? By logging I mean you can put what ever notes/text and it will automatically set the date and time for you in each session. Believe it or not, our old, plain, and simple default windows notepad can do that.

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Exclude file types using Foobar2000

I like to use "Add Directory..." feature in my music player, however, I hate it when my player add all the music file types (e.g. WAV, WMV) into the playlist. **Imagine you are trying to add your root directory C: But if you are using foobar2000, there's a setting for you to exclude file types when adding new files.

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How to turn photos into beautiful sketches automatically.

Even if you can't draw, this little freeware enables you to create stunning sketches in black and white or watercolor from your digital photos.

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AT&T LG Prada Spy Shots

According to our spy, the LG Prada is coming to AT&T in the near future, which means there will be not one, but two fancy touchscreen phones on the same network battling it out for your dollars.

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What is 3G?

A beginner's look at 3G cellphone technology. Talks about it's benefits and how 3G works.

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Casio Exilim EX-V8 - The Blogging Companion

Looking at the latest Casio Exilim EX-V8, it appears that Casio is not just aiming to please photographers but also trying to attract a new crowd, the bloggers.

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More Gmail storage coming for all

Official Gmail Blog: More Gmail storage coming for all: "In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our 'Infinity+1' storage plan. At that time, we realized we'd never reach infinity, but we promised to keep giving Gmail users more space as we were able. That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage."

Mobispine - Twitter app

Mobispine: "It seems like everyone nowadays is Twitter-ing or Jaiku-ing. We do some twittering and we think it should be easy for users to do Twittering from mobispine as well as using for the normal reading & sharing of news. We are working on a fist version of a Twitter mashup with mobispine and we count to have that one live for you during end of October."

Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit

Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit.: "If you are an Outlook user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can update your Twitter status and follow your friends without having to open any other applications. OutTwit seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook. "

46 Things To Do Before Launching a Blog Network

Launching a website is hard enough - launching a network of them requires a lot of planning and grunt work to be done in advance. Most people are unaware of the challenges they have to face - this list will help you and other webmasters prepare to launch a blog network that succeeds and doesn't go under 6 months down the road.

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Sony Ericsson gets official on the W910 and K850

For you Walkman / Cyber-shot buffs out there who've been dying to get your hands on some new phoneage -- look no further. The Sony-Ericsson dreamteam have just announced the official release of two of its new mobile phones sure to have player haters... um, player hating. The W910, which we took a look at back in June.

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10 Tips for Improving Your Wireless Network

10 tips for improving your wireless network from Microsoft. Some basic but good tips for fine-tuning a wireless network for the best range and strength.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Mippin’s Mobile Portal Now in Public Beta

blognation UK » Blog Archive » Mippin’s Mobile Portal Now in Public Beta: "Now open to the public is Refresh Mobile’s Mippin , their third big play in the mobile content business. Designed to let mobile phone users get to relevant information, fast, I spoke to their VP of Product Management, Prashant Agarwal, about the service."

Madonna Dumps Record Industry

And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps Record Industry: "Since reporting Monday that Nine Inch Nails had dumped its record label and was to offer future albums direct to the public, Oasis and Jamiroquai have also joined the move away from the record industry, but the biggest announcement of all is news today that Madonna has dumped the record industry."

How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison

How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison - lifehack.org: "What lessons can we take from his work today, a century later? How did his note-taking help him to become the world’s most famous inventor with over a thousand (1093) U.S. patents in his name for a wide range of technologies from movie cameras and phonographs to cement making and electric lighting? In short, what made his note-taking and filing system so great?"

TagMindr

TagMindr: "Put any bookmark in a time capsule and we'll send it to your future self."

30+ HTML Tools and Tutorials

HTML TOOLBOX: 30+ HTML Tools and Tutorials: "With PHP, CSS, Ruby On Rails and so on, it’s easy to forget that HTML is where it all began. Even with its age, HTML is still essential for every wanna-be web developer, so we’ve gathered 30+ resources for you to learn, code, validate and more."

CBS eyes gossip site for $10 million

Anthony Soohoo, a former Yahoo executive, has managed to flip his website Dotspotter, yet another celebrity gossip site with thoroughly derivative social-networking features, to CBS for a quick $10 million.
Acquisitions: CBS eyes gossip site for $10 million - Valleywag

OpenOffice.org 2.3 Review: New Features, Extensions and More

An in-depth review of the newest version of OpenOffice. Instead of just the normal bug fixes, 2.3 has added several new features.

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Essential Social Networking and Bookmarking Toolbars and Extensions

Geekywood » Blog Archive » Essential Social Networking and Bookmarking Toolbars and Extensions: "After playing with Social networking and social bookmarking for some time now, I have come across these toolbars and Plugins which enhance the user experience. Almost all of them work only with Firefox, so better use Firefox if you want to use them."

Firefox Coming To Your Phone

Get ready to throw out that WAP browser on your mobile phone (if you haven’t already). The iPhone, with its fully-functioning Safari browser, showed us that mobile browsing need not be a compromise. Now, the folks at Mozilla are working on a mobile version of Firefox.

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Lockbox Computing: 25 Free Tools To Encrypt Literally Everything

"It’s not breaking news that hackers can easily figure out how to gain access to unsecured information on your system–emails, chat sessions, phone calls, and files are all vulnerable. What many people don’t know is that there are a number of free tools available that make it easy to fight back. Protect your valuable information with these."

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The Structured Web - A Primer

A critical piece of the next web evolution is the introduction of structured information. This article examines the key drivers, such as the rise of APIs and vertical applications that run on top of existing data, an increase in classic Semantic Technologies and Microformats, and more.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Link to a blog : Will they link back?

There are a lot of reasons why we link to other blogs in our posts. Most of the time we link to a blog or blog post because it is relevant to the post we are writing however sometimes we will link to more popular blogs just so that they will sit up and take notice of our own blog.
Link to a blog : Will they link back? | Blogging Tips

Clipotech is alla about linking to other blogs. But I've almost never get a link back. That's the fact. Why are there no link love?

Mozilla and Mobile

schrep's blog: Mozilla and Mobile: "People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it. Here's some information about what we're planning to do with hiring, technology, partnerships, and products, and how you can get involved. Short summary: we are serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices."

Now that Google has Jaiku, is Yahoo after Twitter?

Yahoo may be after Jaiku rival Twitter, the company that put "microblog" in everybody's mouths when it hit the scene at this spring's South by Southwest Interactive Festival.

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What the hell is Ogg Vorbis, and why should I use it?

Most Linux users have probably at least heard of Ogg Vorbis, while most Windows users most likely haven't, unless they are super nerds.The Ogg Vorbis website sums it up quite nicely.

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Bands Rushing To Ditch Labels And Embrace Free; Are The Floodgates Opening?

Techdirt: Bands Rushing To Ditch Labels And Embrace Free; Are The Floodgates Opening?: "We've only been predicting that music would eventually go free for about a dozen years, but it feels like we may be nearing a tipping point among musicians recognizing this simple truth as well, kicked off by last week's Radiohead announcement. Suddenly, similar announcements seem to be coming fast and furious. "

Facebook Has Competition: MySpace Platform To Launch Next Week

MySpace is gearing up to launch MySpace Platform, according to a number of third party developers who’ve been contacted for input on the product. This is the first indication that the service is preparing to actually launch. And we also have information that suggests that it will be announced next week at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

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MoFuse Creates Mobile Version of Your Website

MoFuse is a new service that many publishers today have a need for. MoFuse stands for "Mobile Fusion" and it enables you to create a mobile version of your website. It's similar to Winksite, a mobile conversion and community service that counts BoingBoing among its customers. However MoFuse is simpler, in that it doesn't offer community features.

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Put an Office in Your Pocket (with a USB thumb drive)

For people on the go, who may find themselves using a variety of different computers, a thumb drive offers more than just portable storage. With very little work and no money aside from the original expense of the drive itself, you can easily turn a thumb drive into your primary workspace — complete with the software and settings, etc...

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100 Things I’ve Learned About Photography

100 Things I’ve Learned About Photography: "Since I found photography two and a half years ago I have learned different things which I would like to share with you today. These lessons have made me richer and I hope that you will find them refreshing and inspiring on your journey with the camera, too."

Excellent list.

Google acquires Jaiku

Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it's more difficult to keep track of everyone when they're running around at warp speed. That's why we're excited to announce that we've acquired Jaiku.

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How HDMI Works

HDMI is more than a port on the back of a TV (and the often expensive cable that fits inside). It's a set of rules for allowing high-definition electronic devices to communicate.

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Google Buys 'Micro-Blogging' Service Jaiku

Similar to Twitter, another broadcast messaging platform to social networks, Jaiku has become popular with a small subset of the digirati in this country.

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Google buys Jaiku - Twitter competitor

After that Business Week article on Google's expansion of their social media platform it makes sense for them to go after Finland's Jaiku, that sits in the mobile social space.

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More Information On Google’s Social Networking Plans

More Information On Google’s Social Networking Plans: "Google plans to open up Orkut as a Platform, with fewer restrictions than Facebook. As an example, they say, application developers may be able to host applications on their own servers (Facebook does not permit this). Other Google services will be made available as well “If the plan succeeds, users might begin to see applications combining Orkut with Google Maps that would show where friends are located.”"

The Art of Filing - Managing Your Documents... and Your Time

The Art of Filing - Managing Your Documents... and Your Time: "On a typical work day, we deal with many documents, presentations, graphics, and other files. There's a flurry of data pouring in from all directions that we need to process and, usually, store to retrieve later. We want to be able to lay our hands on the information we need – at the right moment, when we need it – so it can be used for further analysis or report writing, or perhaps for creating a presentation. "

WeSmirch Leaderboard - Top 100 celebs news sites

The WeSmirch Leaderboard lists the sources most frequently posted to WeSmirch.

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Google: How High Can It Go?

Google: How High Can It Go? « GigaOM: "Google (GOOG) crossed the $600-a-share threshold today, giving it a market capitalization of around $188.1 billion. The big questions is, how high can it go? $750, $1,000 or (shudder) $2,000 a share?"

Inside AdSense: Introducing video units

Inside AdSense: Introducing video units: "AdSense isn't just for ads anymore; it's also a place to get video content for your site -- and earn extra revenue at the same time. We're excited about the launch of video units -- a new way to enrich your site with quality, relevant video content in an embedded, customizable player. Simply embed a snippet of code and have relevant YouTube partner content streamed to your site. "

More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

A list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design.

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Google phone will take on Microsoft, not Apple

Rumors about a Google phone have been flying for months. And since they started around the time that Apple was releasing its game-changing iPhone, it should come as no surprise that we all started to get the idea that Google might get into the hardware game and release a gPhone handset featuring Google software.

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PHONES: Google Creates Free, Open-Source Competitor to Windows Mobile

“The essential point is that Google’s strategy is to lead the creation of an open-source competitor to Windows Mobile,” said one industry executive. “They will put it in the open-source world and take the economics out of the Windows Mobile business.”

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Apple's iPod is more vulnerable than you think

Apple's iPod is more vulnerable than you think - Oct. 8, 2007: "Apple's hugely popular digital music player isn't as ubiquitous as most people think, which explains why rivals like Microsoft keep trying to dethrone it, writes Fortune's Richard Siklos."

Why I Won't Buy an iPhone

Why I Won't Buy an iPhone: "Apple has abandoned its founding ethos of creativity and innovation by hanging up on third-party software developers "

Google to show YouTube videos on other websites

Google to show YouTube videos on other websites The Courier-Mail: "GOOGLE will begin showing YouTube videos on thousands of other websites, hoping to profit from ads attached to the clips."

Here Comes the Money: YouTube Videos Coming to AdSense

Google is set to make a major announcement tomorrow concerning YouTube integration with AdSense. Selected YouTube videos will be available to AdSense publishers and will appear wrapped in banner ads. The ads will be persistent banners outside the frame and fading in-frame overlays.

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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 due in Q1 '08

The first service pack for Windows Vista is on its way, and PC Magazine has a preview of an early private beta version.

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Monday, October 08, 2007

Intel launches a company-ranking site

VentureBeat » Intel launches a company-ranking site: CoolSW: "Tomorrow, Intel is launching a Web site that lets people rank the most compelling software business ideas. Called CoolSW (it stands for “cool software”), the site looks much like Digg, the popular site that lets users rank technology-oriented news by voting on whether they like it or not."

From The Information Age To The Connected Age

What comes after the Information Age? The Connected Age. The Information Age is the age of the knowledge worker. The Connected Age is the age of the web worker.

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Msnbc.com Acquires Newsvine

Newsvine - Msnbc.com Acquires Newsvine: "It is our great pleasure to announce today that Newsvine has been acquired by msnbc.com. There are so many exciting things to share about this partnership and what it means for you that it's hard to know where to start. In the spirit of good journalism, let's start with the five W's: Who, What, Where, When, and Why. "

Sunday, October 07, 2007

4Sur Social Bookmarking

4Sur, is a great place where you can store your most visited websites. You can always conveniently and simply access them anytime you want, and best of all you can invite you friends to check out your recommended sites. You will also be able to see their favorite sites. 4sur is all about saving and sharing your favorites!

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Digg, StumbleUpon & NetVibe Founders Debate at MIT

Excerpts from the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT - the panelists were Kevin Rose from Digg, Tariq Krim from Netvibes and Garret Campbell from Stumble Upon. Jason Pontin, the editor in chief for MIT’s Technology Review was the moderator.

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Verizon claims latest LG offering is an "iPhone killer"

Verizon's Chief Marketing Officer claims that it's latest LG Voyager, aka the VX10000, will "kill the iPhone."

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Inside Google Desktop: iGoogle meets Desktop gadgets

We've often asked ourselves why Google Desktop Gadgets are confined to just the desktop and sidebar. With Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, we've decided to change that. In addition to improved Outlook search functionality, Google Desktop now lets you run Desktop gadgets on your iGoogle homepage. And that means you can check your wireless signal, grow a beautiful plant, or play music right from iGoogle.
Inside Google Desktop: iGoogle meets Desktop gadgets

Awesome Howto Guide to Tagging

Enough with the diarrhea of the keyboard tagging. Get efficient and make tagging functional again. 43 Folders drops knowledge.

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Friday, October 05, 2007

LG Chocolate HT972TR Home Theater System Looks Like an Overgrown Cellphone

LG takes this 5.1 home theater in a box (HTIB) deeper into Chocolate territory with this Chocolate HT972TR Home Theater system, hoisting its four surround speakers into a vertical arrangement that mimics the company's iconic cellphone line.

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Yahoo Answers To Go Mobile

Now Yahoo Answers is going mobile, with results from the service to be included in Yahoo’s mobile search, known as oneSearch. My guess is that this is just the start and Yahoo Answers will add more mobile features over time.

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Remote Control Your Desktop from Your Windows Mobile Phone

Windows only: Connect to and remotely control your Windows desktop from your Windows Mobile smartphone with the Windows Mobile 6 Remote Desktop client.

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Pioneer unveils SE-CLX9 / SE-CLX7 earphones

Joining all those other guys who have unveiled new earbuds recently is Pioneer, which has introduced two new sets that actually rely on different nozzles to adjust the sound.

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Minty Fresh Indexing -Google on Steroids

It seems like Google is now crawling websites and updating their index at blinding speed. Here is a post with some screen shots of a static web page that ranked at number 4 in the index after only 2 hours. Many thanks to Matt Cutts for the term "Minty Fresh Indexing"!

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Rumor: Mac mini turns Nano in late October

Mac OS Rumors reports that they've heard that as of October's end, the mini is dead-- long live something new called the Mac Nano. Supposedly, the new low-end Mac will be even smaller than a mini (just tall enough to fit a hard drive in), and the enclosure will have a completely new design.

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New Yahoo RSS Reader Now Reads Full Feeds With No Click Thru

MyYahoo beta now offers a full Ajax based RSS feed reader as part of the new MyYahoo homepage. Previously adding a feed to MyYahoo only gave you the list of feed items and you had to click thru to the blog page. Now it actually brings up the full feed item to view using Ajax without clicking away from your MyYahoo homepage. Nice work Yahoo!

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Getting Started with Photoshop

This introduction won't give you an exhaustive review of the many things that Photoshop can do (where would it end!), but it should provide the bare bones that will help get beginners started.

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MP3Gain - Adjust the volume of your mp3 files

Recently I wrote an mp3 CD to play in my car. Every time a certain song played, the volume would be so high that I would have to frantically search for the volume knob before I loose my eardrums. MP3Gain is the opensource solution to fix this.

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Social bookmarking sites uncovered Listed [300+] all tested and live

Social bookmarking sites have become immensely popular managing them can and keeping track of which to use has become a work upon it's own here is a list which has nearly all(worth mentioning) social bookmark sites one could possibly need.

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Use Twitter on your desktop with Snitter

Snitter is "Snook's Twitter": an Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering.

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Ableton Live 7 Has Been Announced

Ableton Live 7 renews the core of Live, with enhancements to the audio engine including 64-bit mix summing, new and improved devices with side-chaining capability, better MIDI timing and hardware integration.

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Hands-on With the AT&T Tilt: GPS-Enabled Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone

The AT&T Tilt, a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone that has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, GPS navigation, a 3-megapixel camera, and Push-to-Talk along with a slide-out/fold-up keyboard and a 2.8-inch touchscreen. It's a Windows Mobile phone, yes, but it's also the Windows Mobile phone with the best GPS package we've seen yet.

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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Streamline Your Grocery List with the Grocery List Generator

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Find new recipes and quickly and easily build your grocery list to make the new dishes with Firefox extension Grocery List Generator.

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A Flood of Mashups Coming? OAuth 1.0 Released

The distributed group working on Open Authentication spec OAuth havereleased what they hope will be the final draft of their 1.0 version,creating a standardized way for applications to request permission foraccess to user info & for info-holding services to communicate clearrules on access.

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PayPal: Phishing, Fundraising, And In The Lab

Are you sick and tired of phishing attacks, those fraudulent emails designed to look like trusted corporations but aimed at stealing your personal account information?

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Toshiba showcases trio of HDD / HD DVD recorders

All three units sport the ability to "transcode in real-time an off-the-air MPEG2 high-definition signal into the more efficient MPEG4 AVC compression system.

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Yahoo Mail's Shortcuts Make Directions and Contact Management Easy

Instantly look up addresses, search businesses, or add information to your contacts from content in your emails with Yahoo Mail Shortcuts.

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Bang & Olufsen Serenata Hands-On Video

Zara over at Shiny Shiny got her hands on the Bang & Olufsen/Samsung Serenata phone, which isn't just a phone, it's a "personal music system".

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Who Spams Digg the Most

On the heels of the recently launched Techmeme Leaderboard, Patrick Altoft at BlogStorm has cobbled together an unofficial list of sites that have the most Digg juice. The ranking is based on Google’s site search (how many results come back for a search of “site:digg.com arstechnica.com,” for instance, a site which happens to be No. 4 on both lists.

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Mozy Acquisition Confirmed

EMC Corporation announced the acquisition of Utah-based startup Mozy this morning, confirming our story of September 23. The price is not being disclosed, but our sources indicate that the price was $76 million.

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Hands-on the new HTC Shift (Video)

Here is a video clip with the cool Windows Vista equipped UMPC - HTC Shift.

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3G Costs Nokia N95 an Hour of Battery Life

When you go from the old EDGE Nokia N95 to the new 3G HSDPA version, called N95-3, you lose about an hour of battery life.

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Video of Sony Rolly in Action Shows It Is Not That Annoying

Gizmodo Japan got a ears-on with the Sony Rolly, the rolling white egg which plays music and lights up so you can easily locate it in the dark and kick it out of sight.

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New Toshiba HD DVD Recorders Also Write HD to Regular DVDs

Toshiba announced three new HD DVD recorders, including the new flagship Vardia RD-X7.

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Get Color Codes with Colorzilla

All platforms with Firefox: Designers will love the usefulness of ColorZilla, a Firefox extension that provides color readings in RGB and hexadecimal format. For die-hard Firefox users who surf the net often, this is a convenient alternative to standalone application Color Cop.

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More Zune 2 Details: Lossless, Glass Screens, Green is the New Brown

Going beyond the Zune 2 and Flash Zune launch details, we just got off a conference call with Microsoft and got new details on the Zune and Zune platform.

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Verizon's LG VX10000 Voyager Revealed and Groped (with Gallery)

Though images have leaked here and there, not much was known about the LG VX10000 from Verizon Wireless. Sure, when open, it looks like the QWERTY-obsessed LG enV, but when closed, it's got way more of a Prada—or dare I say iPhone?—vibe. More details and full gallery after the jump.

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Manage a To-Do List with Your iPod Touch

Ever since Apple released the iPod Touch, they've removed essential features, rendering it less versatile than the famous iPhone. Creative thinker Travis shows that you can still manage appointments and assignments using your nifty little MP3 player.

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Rock making HD DVD standard on selected laptops

Although Toshiba has been quite a player in bringing HD DVD to more and more laptops, Rock is now boasting that it is the first company to "feature HD DVD as standard" on lappies. Granted, it's only standard on select machines, but at least it's a start.

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Samsung has finally loosed its 19-inch USB connected 940UX on the public

Samsung has finally loosed its 19-inch USB connected 940UX on the public. Starting today, interested consumers can snatch the monitor up, which "leverages Samsung's proprietary UbiSync technology to allow multiple screens to connect via USB.

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Storms in the Web 2.0 Petri Dish

The Web 2.0 world is looking increasingly like a giant petri dish. There are so many experiments, so much innovation and, as yet, relatively little real revenue. Within this petri dish are a few ideas that will turn into billions of dollars, at which point we will all say “why didn't I think of that”?

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Spread to Enlarge - Designing for iPhone, Wii and Other New Web Devices

Read/WriteTalk has an interesting podcast interview with Dan Saffer, Experience Design Director at Adaptive Path. In the podcast, R/WT host Sean Ammirati and Dan discussed the process of designing for new types of Web-enabled devices.

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UC Berkeley Puts Courses On YouTube

The University of California Berkeley has started uploading video recordings of course lectures on to YouTube.

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Pixsy To Power Search On Veoh

Media search platform provider Pixsy have announced a strategic partnership with video sharing service Veoh Networks that wil see Veoh adopting Pixsy’s media search platform to offer enhanced video and image search functionality on Veoh.com.

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Meemi.com, new mini-blog and social network service

Free create your mini-blog and share with world your texts, your photos, quotes, links and events. Follow in every moments your friends and see their memes, their comments. See their presence in the "background noise" of every day. Alway follow the meme-sfera, the world with its "noise" speak with you ... and then follow Meemi from your mobile.

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Music Tube iPod Speaker Looks Like a Tube of Shower Gel

Taiwanese design company Nova has come up with a waterproof speaker system for iPod that looks like a tube of shower gel.

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Samsung's Armani and Serenata take a catwalk

Samsung's pair of uber designed Armani and Serenata cellphones were caught out on the town in a European paparazzi twist-up last night.

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ViaMichelin ships X-970 portable GPS navigator

ViaMichelin is just now getting around to releasing this thing en masse. Available now, the 3.5-inch X-970 features Bluetooth, text-to-speech, real-time traffic capability, a three-watt internal speaker and Michelin Green Guide content.

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40GB PS3 rumor returns, announced tomorrow?

Ok, this is now getting sad. With Sony just denying the "Big Bang" announcement, the on again, off again, 40GB PS3 rumor is back on. Big time, according to an "exclusive" over at Pocket-lint.

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A Review of Online Photo Services

An OSNews editor reviews the most popular photo sharing sites on the Internet and points out the positives and negatives of each. He reviews each with 15 specific points of measure, including upload tools, online organization, privacy settings, and much more.

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Batch tools for Flickr photo titles and descriptions

This great GreaseMonkey script will allow you to copy and/or append titles, descriptions and tags to a batch of Flickr photos. If you have to set the same or similar titles for large sets of pics, this is a lot more efficient than using copy/paste in the Flickr Organizer tool. It also allows for search and replace operations.

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YouPlayer: a YouTube player for Firefox

YouPlayer is a Firefox extension developed by Wojciech Walewski, that a adds a sidebar where you can drop YouTube links to create and organize a YouTube videos playlist, and a small area to display the videos and play controls making a cool compact video player embedded right inside your browser.

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The AudioFile: Understanding MP3 compression

It's one of the most popular and controversial file types in the world, but most explanations of its workings are either blindingly simplistic or overwhelmingly technical. Learn about the workings of MP3 without a second Ph.D. in this guide.

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Zoho adds database to office suite

Zoho is filling out it on demand suite with a database and reporting application. Zoho DB can convert spreadsheets into databases and supports pivot tables.

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LOOP to PDF for Firefox :: Firefox Add-ons

LOOP to PDF for Firefox :: Firefox Add-ons: "LOOP for Firefox also provides a revolutionary way to document web pages while browsing the Internet. You can seamlessly document URLs with the click of a button and then download or combine the web pages with other files to a single PDF."

Convert Web Page URLs to PDFs

LOOP is a unique extension for Firefox that converts the web browser into a proper PDF writer that can do some amazing things sometime not possible in other free PDF conversion software.First and foremost, as you are browsing the web, click the Add URL button and that webpage will be converted to PDF almost immediately.

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5 ways to improve Outlook functionality by plug-ins development

here is 5 main ways how to improve standard Outlook functionality.

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Automatic Summary Blogger Posts via Yahoo Pipes tool with RSS Feeds

Automatic Summary Blogger Posts via Yahoo Pipes tool with RSS Feeds.

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LG touchscreen phone could be VZW answer to iPhone

Verizon Wireless is covering its bases.The nation’s second-largest carrier unveiled four new phones today, including a touchscreen-with-QWERTY keypad model from LG Electronics Co. Ltd., without mentioning prices. You’ll have to wait for prices until the phones launch sometime before Thanksgiving.

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It’s a Database. It’s a Spreadsheet. It’s Zoho DB.

It’s a Database. It’s a Spreadsheet. It’s Zoho DB.: "Zoho DB is meant to provide developers and database administrators with better ways to manage and digest their data. In a way, it’s like Microsoft Office Access but online and (purportedly) with more powerful features. "

Netvibes Launches Corporate Startpages

Netvibes Launches Corporate Startpages - Will Companies Go For It?: "Netvibes, the French startpage near the top of the startpage market, is launching a new service this morning called Netvibes Premium Universes. The service allows companies to offer Netvibes functionality (reading feeds, posting widgets) on their own website with their own branding and domain. It's essentially a Netvibes page in an iframe on your website. "

Apple reportedly considering Intel platform for iPhone

Apple reportedly considering Intel platform for iPhone: "Apple reportedly is considering adopting Intel's Moorestown MID (mobile Internet device) platform processor in a new iPhone, according to OEM sources."

Zune vs. iPod specification smackdown

The new Zunes are official so let's get to it: a spec-by-spec scrap between Redmond's new Zunes and Cupertino's formidable iPod foe.

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Verizon unveils iPhone rival

Verizon unveils iPhone rival Reuters: "Verizon Wireless unveiled three new cell phones on Wednesday for the holiday season, including a high-end handset named Voyager that will compete with Apple Inc's iPhone. The Voyager, made by LG Electronics, trumps the iPhone by offering faster wireless Web access. But in a nod to the Apple device, which is only available to AT&T Inc subscribers, it has a large touch screen and full Web browser."

UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube

UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube Tech news blog - CNET News.com: "YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley. The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun posting entire course lectures on the Web's No.1 video-sharing site. "

Silverlight technology rivals Flash, AJAX

Silverlight lets Web developers and designers create "rich, engaging user experiences with 2-D graphics, animation, images, media, and video," to use Microsoft's own description. Silverlight competes in this arena with Adobe Flash and Flex, with OpenLaszlo and Curl, and with a variety of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) frameworks.

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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Google Adds Postini's Security and Compliance Capabilities to Google Apps

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Postini's email security and compliance services have been added to Google Apps Premier Edition. Google acquired Postini last month to help companies realize the benefits of hosted applications while also addressing complex information security and compliance requirements.
"With Postini, we saw the potential to deliver a more complete hosted solution for businesses of all sizes," said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise. "We are quickly adding Postini's market-leading security and compliance capabilities to Google Apps Premier Edition to give businesses more control over the administration and security of these applications."
Google Press Center: Press Release

What is deinterlacing? The best method to deinterlace movies

This site shows you how to make brilliant looking DivX video (from TV, DVB, DV, DVD etc) for archiving purposes OR how to reduce file size to produce good-looking yet small DivX footage.If you are dealing with DivX, this site features a few video statistics and experiments, that may be of some interest for all video publishers and DivX enthusiasts.
What is deinterlacing? The best method to deinterlace movies

Convert ANY MOVIE you have to .MP4 using FREE software

I've written a short and simple guide that shows you how you can convert almost any movie you have to an .mp4 file that your mobile device (cellphone/ipod/etc..) can read. All this using FREE software, and with screenshots to show you the way. This works on any platform (windows/linux/etc...)

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HTC TouchFLO version 2 presented by John Wang from HTC (Video)

Here is a video clip that shows the new HTC TouchFLO version in the Touch Dual smartphone, recently announced.

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480+ Open Source Applications

Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon.
OPEN SOURCE GOD: 480+ Open Source Applications

Power Up OpenOffice.org with Writer's Tools

The Writer's Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office suite OpenOffice.org that bakes convenient tools like Google Translate, an online dictionary lookup tool, email backup, remote backup to an FTP server, and more directly into OO.org.

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VirtualDub 1.7.5 build 28225 released

Version 1.7.5 build 28225 has been released of the video capture/processing utility VirtualDub. Several bugs are fixed like: audio display couldn't be opened if the curve editor was open, temporal smoother filter crashed in out of memory conditions, fixed rare cases where WAV reader returned the wrong data & some minor fixes.

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Free grabbing, burning and mastering - Blu-Ray, CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW,All media

Free StarBurn a powerful tool for grabbing, burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media. StarBurn supports all types of optical storage media (including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, Dual layer DVD-R & DVD+R, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM) as well as a wide variety of burning hardware.

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Exploring and extracting from an ISO image

Video that shows how to explore and extract contents from an ISO image using drag & drop. It shows too how to use collapsible panels for an easy navigate throw the file system.

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ConvertXtoDVD Reviewed

From the collection of “small but tough” I will present to you today the ConvertXtoDVD program that has been designed to help you convert your favorite video files into DVD-compatible files. If you wish to create a short video presentation that needs to be transcoded into a DVD, this is the right software for you.

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Adobe's AIR: Niche or the future of desktop development?

CHICAGO--The crux of Adobe Systems' platform strategy is in AIR. AIR, or Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a download that lets Web applications run on a desktop. With AIR applications, people can work offline and drag and drop items like graphics or text between Web and desktop applications.

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Rare interview with Techmeme's Gabe Rivera re: New Leaderboard

The Technorati 100 list is being challenged by Gabe Rivera, founder of Techmeme, a unique service that tracks popular conversations as they unite around particular topics. Rivera introduced the Techmeme Leaderboard yesterday which tracks the most consistent sources of popular discussions and news. Brian Solis interviewed him at PR 2.0.

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HTC claims 800,000 Touch phones sold

Taiwanese phone maker HTC claims it has sold approximately 800,000 units of its Touch smartphone, Reuters reports. While not yet available in North America, the Touch has only been on sale in Europe and Asia since June, making for one of the most impressive phone launches in industry history.

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MoFuse to Launch Tool for Mobile Web Site Creation

MoFuse, a web application that allows content publishers to easily and instantly create a mobile version of their blog or website

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XviD FAQ: Explanation of many advanced options of the XviD codec

When you open the XviD codec configuration tab in a program like Vidmex for the first time, you will see all kinds of buttons, sliders, subsections and subpanels featuring options, options and.... guess what? More options.Basically, all the options are what makes XviD so much different from most other MPEG-4 codecs.

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Bloglines to join Digg with APML Support

Digg has already announced intentions to support APML for its personalization features and Bloglines has just announced the same. Can they steal back some market share from Google Reader by supporting user rights and open formats?

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TwitterBuzz - Top 50 Site Rank Descriptions and Links

I've been periodically watching TwitterBuzz.com, a site developed by Robert Synnott, that shows what people on Twitter are linking to, akin to the way PageRank works where the more a site is mentioned, the more popular it must be.

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Unveiling of the Zune 4GB, 8GB, 80GB and Firmware Updates

Today, Bill Gates, J Allard, and some other folks from the Zune team met with some members of the media to talk about this Holiday’s update to the Zune line. I’m going to keep the PR-ish stuff out of it (for that you can go to the press releases), and just sum up with the facts and the tech specs.

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Microsoft's New Zunes and DRM-Free Music?

Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft: Yep, New Zunes. And DRM-Free Music?: "Our spy in Seattle (actually, 20 minutes or so outside of Bellevue) tells us that Microsoft did indeed show off new Zunes today - a $149, 4 gig version and a $199, 8 gig model, both of which use flash memory, and an $249, 80 gig version that uses a hard drive. "

Microsoft Zune - officially in 80, 8, and 4GB sizes

Microsoft's new Zunes: officially in 80, 8, and 4GB sizes - Engadget: "We love a good non-mystery around here, and Microsoft's new Zunes are about as un-mysterious as they get. But we also love a good product refresh, and now that the cat's officially out of the bag we can really dig into the new Zunes, which definitely have a lot going for them."

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Five Reasons Google Docs Beats Office Live Workspace

Five Reasons Google Docs Beats Office Live Workspace
Five Reasons Google Docs Beats Office Live Workspace - Software - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness

Gigabyte g-Smart i128 photo review

Gigabyte gSmart i128 may assist business travelers to efficiently manage their time working from anywhere. In fact, gSmart i128 offers efficient and speedy mobile internet access via Wi-Fi or GPRS.

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Adobe Flash Lite 3 for Mobile Phones

Nokia and NTT DoCoMo Inc will be the first to implement Adobe’s new Flash technology for mobile phones, according to Adobe.On Sunday, Adobe Systems Inc released Flash Lite 3 for its popular Flash Player, software which promises almost the same quality of videos on the mobile phones.

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Latest Version: ACDSee Photo Manager v10.0 Build 219

As you already know, ACDSee Photo Manager is a complete tool for processing digital images. With it you can do a lot of things like organizing, enhancing, sharing your images, and create slideshows with audio embedded. It features editing tool like red-eye reduction, crop, sharpen, blur, and emboss, and also management tools.

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Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com

Live Search : Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com: "We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comparative shopping engines."

40+ Media Players That Aren’t iTunes

iTunes is arguably the most popular media player for Mac & Windows, with a recent update for the iPhone…but is it the best? Check out the competition: 40 other popular media players.

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Blog Search || BlogSeek Directory

The BlogSeek Team has added a new Blog Search feature. Now you can search their entire blog directory database much like a search engine.

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Office Live Workspace revealed: a free 250MB "SharePoint Lite" for everyone

Cash cows are sacred, and Microsoft's new OLW looks to secure the future of Office by providing "value-added" online services for storage and collaboration. But it can also be used by users of other office apps.

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Is Favorit a Digg killer?

This “feature rich community-based feed reading system” is about to unleash a wholly original take on reading blogs and news feeds which could see it face-down even the social bookmarking giants like Digg and the newer kids like CoComment.

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How to setup an Ad Hoc WiFi Network

For this setup, I only use two computers. I use a laptop with WiFi and a desktop computer with usb wireless adapter. Both computers are running WindowsXP SP2.

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Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr

Discusses the new Yahoo! Search results, including Yahoo's new innovative tool called Search Assist, design to give users instant access to the information they seek. As the author describes, Yahoo is now offering embedded video, Flickr integration and other universal or holistic search result features.

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Adobe Share: Your Documents Are Now Embeddable On Any Site

Along with this morning's Buzzword acquisition announcement, Adobe has taken the wraps off a new beta service called Share. As the name implies, the service allows you to share documents either with a list of named contacts or with everyone on the web.

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Are High End HDMI Cables Really Better?

When you are dealing with a digital signal like HDMI cables, USB cables, and firewire cables it is totally different. With digital signals it is either an on or off, either the cable works or it doesn’t.

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Toshiba Launches New Satellite Laptops

Toshiba, who is known for dropping products like a bunch of dominos falling one after the other is releasing a new set of Satellite laptop configurations, enough for the uber-picky to even get lucky with a configuration they like.

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HTC's Shift with HSDPA and SnapVue to ship soon

The HTC Shift with HSDPA data just received its final push out the door today. With its released period determined, no new news has surfaced about its specifications. Available "across Europe" starting November for an undisclosed price.

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BenQ unveils new 7MP digital camera

Profit-making Qisda aka BenQ has now unveiled a new and slim digital camera, the X735. Big brother to the X725, the new X735 is a 7 megapixel camera boasting a 2.5-inch LCD display and Super Multi-Coating Pentax lens enclosed in a stainless-steel casing that is only 12.5mm thick.

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Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ

Nokia - ShowPressRelease: "Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ. Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will pay $78 in cash for each share of NAVTEQ including outstanding options for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.1 billion (EUR 5.7 billion), or approximately $7.7 billion (EUR 5.4 billion) net of NAVTEQ existing cash balance. "

Techmeme Leaderboard is live

Techmeme Leaderboard is live - Techmeme News: "The Techmeme Leaderboard, that much-leaked list of Techmeme's top 100 sources, including blogs, non-blogs, and everything in between, is now up. It ranks sites, every 20 minutes, simply by the amount of headline space they've occupied on Techmeme over the past month. "

Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday

BetaNews Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday: "According to sources close to the situation, both Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Design and Development chief J Allard will be on hand for the event. The main part of the announcement will center around the players, which will include the first flash memory based Zunes."

TechMeme list heralds death of blogging?

TechMeme list heralds death of blogging? « Scobleizer: "I was just looking at the TechMeme Top 100 List and noticed that it has very few bloggers on it — I can only see about 12 real blogs on that list. Blogging being defined as “single voice of a person.” Most of the things on the list are now done by teams of journalists — that isn’t blogging anymore in my book."

Excellent post.

Zune 2 leaks out in three flavors

Well, we'd heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units -- everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photoshop trickeration, it looks like we're getting two flash models and a slimmed-down hard drive edition.

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Monday, October 01, 2007

The Truth about digital photo frames

Digital photo frames are dropping in price and increasing in popularity at equal speed. It is now possible to pick them up for as little as $60 in the US or £45 in the UK - with the higher spec wireless frames and larger ones going up to around $300/£200 respectively.

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HDMI vs. Component - Assumptions That Mask The Facts

If you talk to any half-witted video enthusiast or ask an associate at your local big box retailer - bearing in mind that the two groups are pretty much the same - they'll unmistakably tell you that HDMI is better than component, case closed, end of story. This is just based on tired assumptions of the entire audio/visual industry.

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Kantaris Media Player 0.2.3 released

Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from Videolan client (VLC) and Bass audio library. Kantaris has a graphical user interface similar to that of Windows Media Player. Kantaris can play almost anything you can throw at it -- AVI, MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, quicktime, matroska, divx, xvid, H264, MP3, WMA, OGG files and more.

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HTC's 3G Touch Dual slider with HSDPA arrives in Europe

HTC's 3G Touch Dual slider with HSDPA arrives in Europe.

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Mz Ram Booster 1.7

Mz Ram Booster is a freeware program, designed to improve the performance of your computer by auto-recovering RAM and fine tuning some system settings! It uses minimal resources and almost no CPU time.

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7 useful Opera Widgets for bloggers and web designers

An HTML editor for your post, a color picker to adjust colors of the fonts, the banner, the bar etc, a screen ruler to measure sizes of the various section of your blog or websites - all types of useful Opera widgets to design and maintain your blog or website without leaving your Opera browser.

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HTC's S730 Vox-followup spotted in the wild?

If these spy shots of the purported S730 are to be believed, then HTC looks to be drumming up a successor to their S710 Vox. Besides sporting an improved 400MHz Qualcomm processor and 3G radio, we're told that it features a like, totally, "way better keyboard," Bluetooth, and the "excellent build quality" we expect from an HTC device.

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Adobe introduces flash for mobile phones

Adobe Systems Inc has released new software for its popular Flash Player that promises to bring the quality of live video on mobile phones closer to that of video on computers.Adobe, whose software made possible the rapid rise of pioneering online video site YouTube, said Nokia and NTT DoCoMo Inc would use its new Flash Lite 3 in their new mobile.

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Adobe Raises The Stakes For Web Documents With Buzzword and Share

"The list of companies offering free, Web-based word processors just got longer. Today, Adobe is entering the Webtop game (watch out, Microsoft Office) with its announcement that it will purchase Boston-based startup Virtual Ubiquity, the company behind Buzzword."

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Beta version of Open-Source video codec Ogg Theora released

The source code of the libtheora 1.0 Beta 1 codec library can be downloaded from the developer website.

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How To Explore Internet Memes

This is a compilation of some of the more famous of these memes. This list is in no way exhaustive, but it does provide a good cross-section of internet oddities.

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Microsoft finally unveils its answer to Google Docs

» Microsoft finally unveils its answer to Google Docs All about Microsoft ZDNet.com: "Office Live Workspace is, in Microsoft’s words, “a new web-based feature of Microsoft Office which lets people access their documents online and share their work with others.” "

Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati’s Last Stronghold

Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati’s Last Stronghold: "Blog search engine Technorati’s founding CEO is gone, its traffic party has ended and its core search functionality is under long term fire from competitors like Google Blog Search, Ask.com and Sphere (among others). Constant strategic shifts haven’t helped much either."

Adobe Unleashes Media Player to the Public

Adobe Unleashes Media Player to the Public: "Adobe will today release to the public for the first time their Adobe Media Player on the Adobe Labs site. It will be released as a public beta, with a final version scheduled for the first half of next year."

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Mozilla Firefox for mobile phones

Opera Mini was getting more attention and demand from the mobile users, can Firefox chase up to conquer the heart of all mobile phones?

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Rsizr - Online Image Resizing

Rsizr is an online Flash based image resizing application. It lets you resize JPG, PNG, and GIF images on your computer. In addition to resizing it also allow you to crop & rescale your images. It uses a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.

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Holy Social Bookmarks on Squidoo

What's Social Bookmarking? What can it be used for? OnlyWire automatic bookmark submission. List of Social Bookmarking websites(Different Languages).
Holy Social Bookmarks on Squidoo

Where to download Creative Zen software, movies, videos and music?

On this site you will find a list of Creative Zen download sites, media players and the movie, music, and image formats that each one uses as well as a guide to convert your DVD movies and audio files to Creative Zen format.

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How To Rid Your Computer of Norton Security Center

This is probably the one thing that has made my computer boot faster, and perform better, getting rid of Norton. The one thing thats supposed to be good for the computer, bogs down your system more then anything I've ever seen. Get rid of this virus in disguise in 5 steps.

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RSS icons for all your web projects

ever needed a different RSS icon? an icon that integrates with your current design? well, Brian from Design Bliss did a huge list with different RSS feed icons.

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Know what background tasks and processes are doing in Vista

Since Microsoft bought the sysinternals company lets hope Microsoft keeps the sysinternals utilities free. This bunch of free utilities are definately part of your a survival kit as a Windows user. This little kit of utilities lets you answer the questions like what the hell is svchost.exe running, even know what files they are opening.

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iPhone Downgrade Baby! Go from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2!

Just what the title says. Looks like all that complaining might be for nothing! Take that Apple!

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Make A Live Blogroll With Yahoo! Pipes

I've always thought blogrolls were a little boring. They are usually just the same static lists each time you look at them. But using Yahoo! Pipes, with which I started playing last night, you can replace your blogroll with links to your friends' latest posts, adding a dynamic and fresh spin on an old concept.

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Toshiba Satellite U305-S5097 13.3 inch Notebook PC Review

I was looking for a small laptop recently. I had several requirements like, it had to have a full size keyboard, and it had to be as small as possible. I picked up the Toshiba U305-S5097 because it fits both those requirements and it was on sale.

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Windows Live Writer, an Excellent WYSWYG Blogg Tool

A Blog about Microsoft Windows Live Writer.

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Great Proxy Site

Great, Fast, & Reliable..What more could you want?

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Edit Red Writing Community

Where writers come for fun, peer critiques, publishing tips and a FREE dynamic web base that allows them to promote their writing, connect with publishers, attract new readers and much more besides.
Edit Red Writing Community

Samsung Blackjack(i607) simulator

Video review of Samsung Blackjack and Samsung Blackjack simulator and tutorial.

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Saturday, September 29, 2007

60 Twitter Apps, Widgets and Plugins - Summarized

Twitter is a great service, but it would be nothing without the other sites, tools, and apps that help you get the most out of it. Here we highlight more than 60 of our favorite Twitter add-ons.

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An interview with Larry Halff - Founder of Ma.gnolia

In ancient times, say 1998, when the internet was young and dumb and full of you know what, the web was somewhat limited.Like a brand new baby with a PhD, here comes Web 2.0 and social bookmarking. And one of the cutest babies of the bunch is also one of my favorites, Ma.gnolia.

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Convert DRM protected music to plain MP3/WAV/WMA with Virtual Recording

This virtual sound recording method can convert any DRM protected M4P, M4B, WMA music to plain MP3 with one click.

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TalkStream - Easy Streaming Audio And Video Recording For Your Website

TalkStream is a web-based service whose objective is to help users add value to their marketing materials and promote their products and services across the Internet - both easily and effectively.It is a simple, yet powerful solution that lets you use streaming audio and video to improve your marketing efforts and increase sales.

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Make money from YouTube! New AdSense Embedded Video Players

YouTube look like they are rolling out a program to publishers to make money from their videos by using a new AdSense embedded Video player.

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Great Resource for Free Sound Effects and Loops

Searching for some sounds today I found a great resource for Free Sound Effects and Loops. This could be a great new Resource for XNA Development. Most of the sounds can be downloaded in mp3, wav and aiff format. Log onto the site and help support it.

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Learn how to create good looking photoshop CS3 icon

This tutorial is not just for a simple icon creation. It shows you all aspects of creating CS3 photoshop icon. Object, Gradient, Font style and much more.

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Top 10 Free Antivirus

Lots people asking for the best free antivirus. What come across my mind is AVG. But there still another good free antivirus in the net.This is the list of top 10 free antivirus.

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Use Your Camera phone as a Visual To-Do List

Using your camera phone to record your to-do's

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Step by Step tutorial to create high quality h264 video files for flash

A step by step tutorial explaining how to create high quality and low bandwidth video files encoded with h264 video and HE-AAC plus audio compatible with the new Adobe Flash Player and Flash Media Server, all using freeware tools.

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Future Tech: VAIO Zoom

Check out this VAIO Zoom concept which assure you that days of science fiction movies are really not that far. This notebook takes everything we know about holographic technology and squeezes it inside a thin glass form factor. When off, the screen is completely transparent and the keyboard goes opaque.

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Sony Ericsson K530i

Sony Ericsson K530i high-quality photos.

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Friday, September 28, 2007

Videora Converter

Videora Converter is a free video conversion application developed by the creators of Videora. It allows you to convert your regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into the proper video format that your mobile or fixed video device understands. Each version is tailored specifically to the device in question.
Videora Converter

Burn CDs and DVDs with CDBurnerXP

Freeware application CDBurnerXP is an easy to use, all-in-one CD and DVD burning suite with an impressive range of features. This app can burn gapless audio CDs, create and burn ISOs, and even handle burning to Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs.

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6 Reasons Why DiggM8 Buries Digg River

# When clicking through to read the original story, DiggM8 displays it in a mobile-friendly format so you can read it right there on your mobile phone. Digg River simply links to the main html site, many of which do not display well on mobile phones.# DiggM8 lets you send the story to a friend by SMS or email. Digg River doesn’t.

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Songbird audio player has potential, needs work

Songbird is a cross-platform, Mozilla-based music player with high ambitions. The app is still undergoing heavy development, but it has come a long way since we looked at the 0.1 release in 2006. Songbird today can sing a pretty sweet tune, but to push its way into the big leagues, it needs to get over its own interface.

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"Entertainment While You Wait" with Popuload RSS Feed Reader

Popuload appears and disappears simultaneously with your computer’s loading bar. So while waiting to Download, Copy or Print you can read news feeds of your choice. Or, simply access Popuload anytime directly from your desktop.

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Use FeedHub to create a filterable and customizable master RSS feed

Good review of FeedHub, a new individualized RSS app.

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Cowon A2 Portable Player - A Rival to the iPod

The Cowon A2 is a portable multimedia player that offers a compact size, 30 GB of disk space, a multitude of useful features, and crisp, clear screen images. The player competes favorably with products from the Apple iPod lineup.

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How to rip CSS protected DVD movie to iPod Touch iPod Nano and iPod Video

Step by step guide about how to break CSS protected and rip DVD to MP4 video for iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iPod Video, with this iPod guide, you also will know how to download youtube video to iPod for free.

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Live Search: Introducing...the new Live Search

Live Search: Introducing...the new Live Search: "This week we’re excited to launch a major update to Live Search that’s relevant, faster and easier to use. Hundreds of us rolled up our sleeves and dug deep. We pored over your feedback, analyzed the data and talked to thousands of users. How major is this? It’s our biggest update since our debut in January 2005. "

Palm unveils 100 dollar smartphone

San Jose Mercury News - Palm unveils $100 smart-phone: "Palm unveiled a new smart-phone today that will be available next month for about $100. That's the lowest introductory price yet for a Palm handset and will make the phone, dubbed the Centro, the least expensive smart-phones on the market."

Google Analytics Tutorials by Google on YouTube

Recently, Google has published a whole set of Google Analytics Tutorials on YouTube. These Google Analytics Tutorials include over 11 videos and have over 4 hours of tutorial footage. These Google Analytics Tutorials cover topics such as: Tracking Conversions, Non-Ecommerce Sites, Getting the most Value from Google Analytics, and more...

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