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Google Holding Chrome OS Event Thursday. Complete Overview And Launch Plans To Be Revealed.

Nov 17, 2009 2:13 PM

Google is planning to hold a special Chrome OS event at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA this Thursday morning, we’ve just been notified. The plan is to give some technical background informat...

Mystery Of Droid Autofocus Conspiracy Solved (For Reals This Time)

Nov 17, 2009 1:33 PM

The problem: users have complained about the autofocus feature on the Droid since day one. As in, it didn’t work (video). Last night I wrote that some users found a fix – clean the lens. It turns o...

Craigslist’s Craig Newmark Joins Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board

Nov 13, 2009 9:00 AM

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will join the advisory board of Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation advisory board was created in January 2...

SPDY Gonzales: Google Continues Its Push To Take The Web To Breakneck Speeds

Nov 12, 2009 12:13 PM

Google is obsessed with speed. By many accounts its Chrome web browser is already the fastest out there, and it runs laps around the two big boys: Firefox and IE. But that’s not good enough for Goo...

Listiti Offers More Ways To Promote And Track Twitter Lists

Nov 12, 2009 4:25 AM

Whether you're a fan of Twitter's new list feature or not, it has proven to be a great way to discover people of interest one can mass-follow. But keeping track of Twitter lists can prove cumbersom...

Magic Mouse Is Apple’s Best Mouse Ever, But…

Nov 9, 2009 1:52 PM

After much trial and tribulation, I finally obtained Apple’s new Magic Mouse last week. Following its release, the $70 device was so popular that practically every store in the Bay Area was sold ou...

Twitter Starts Curating Trending Topic Tweets

Nov 5, 2009 4:44 PM

Twitter’s Trending Topics area is one of the easiest things to game on the web. Even when trends start out as real items, spammers often latch onto them with bogus tweets hoping to ride the wave an...

Google Voice User? Get The Quick Reference Card

Nov 2, 2009 2:40 PM

If you’re a Google Voice user like me, you’ll be glad to print out this quick reference card that gives you all the menu options when you call the service to listen to voicemail or change settings...

CrunchGear Week in Review: Monster Mash Edition

Nov 1, 2009 12:52 PM

Here are some stories you might have missed this week on CrunchGear. All about the Motorola Droid Helmet radar: coming to a supersoldier near you Spooky Tesla Radio in a jar

For The Future Of The Media Industry, Look In The App Store

Oct 31, 2009 10:23 AM

The following guest post was written by Edo Segal (@edosegal). Media scarcity is dead. In the future my son will have a flash drive that he will pay $29 for that will have the capacity to hold al...

RedesignGoogle: A Contest To Revamp The World’s Most Popular Search Engine

Sep 20, 2009 12:47 PM

There’s no question about it: Google is great at search, and its huge lead over competitors is well deserved. But the site’s spartan design can sometimes leave something to be desired — sure, the ...

TC50: Udorse Leverages Facebook Photos For Social Product Endorsements

Sep 14, 2009 3:52 PM

Billed by its founders as a ‘visual endorsement engine’, Udorse is launching today at the TechCrunch50 conference a couple of months after word got out that the startup raised half a million dollar...

Dropbox’s Web Interface Gets An Overhaul: Adds Bulk File Management, Search, And More

Sep 10, 2009 8:32 PM

Dropbox, the impressive file syncing service which makes it easy to sync your files across multiple computers and the web, has released a brand new version of its online interface. Today’s upgrade...

Kickin’ It Old School: Facebook Lite Launches In The U.S. And India

Sep 10, 2009 2:28 PM

Well here it is. Just as we first discovered a few weeks ago, Facebook Lite has just been released for U.S. users to test out. Simply put, the site is SO much cleaner than Facebook regular, and muc...

VodSpot Gives Publishers Easy Custom Video Portals; Now Powering TechCrunch Video

Sep 10, 2009 2:27 PM

For many content publishers, managing video can be a tricky business, particularly when you’ve got clips spread across multiple services like YouTube and Blip.tv. Today video bookmarking startup V...