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It might have been a minor upgrade on the feature side of things, but the souped up version of Apple’s OS X has been selling briskly. According to research group NPD, Snow Leopard sold twice&...
Google on Wednesday offered an update on its Measurement Lab (M-Lab), which is intended to provide researchers a platform to deploy Internet measurement tools in order to share data about…
Google launched a new technology at TechCrunch50, Google FastFlip, designed to help users quickly browse a number of sites.“At Google, we’ve had a very aggressive goal around speed,R...
Friendster has followed Facebook’s recent example by embracing—rather than fighting—Twitter. The social network’s friendly handshake, however, has taken something of a diffe...
Beleaguered electronics company Circuit City is now accepting payments via PayPal for purchases made on circuitcity.com. The arrangement was described as a “long-term relationship” bet...
Surely it takes a lot to make life-long competitors like Dell and HP join forces. The two PC manufacturers are siding with Microsoft over the recent legal battle that is set to ban Microsoft Word&#...
If you’re looking to create dazzling slide shows that go beyond fades, dissolves, and the Ken Burns-effect pans and zooms, check out PhotoDex ProShow Gold 4 ($70 direct) and its big…
Microsoft really wants a piece of the iPod Touch. Really, really bad. In fact, it seems that the company is apparently approaching iPhone app developers to create games and apps for its forthcoming...
It seems like only yesterday that the browser wars were largely a one-party race. Netscape had ungracefully bowed out, and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was marching toward…
There are plenty of things to be wary of on the streets of New York—crime, crazy drivers, construction. You can officially add the trees in Central Park to that list. While he was walking thr...
I can only hope that Google celebrates my 40th birthday with this much class. Four decades after first landing a man on the moon, the search giant is launching the oddly named The Moon…
Xobni, the Outlook plug-in that helps organize your inbox, introduced a paid version of its service Wednesday, which promises more powerful inbox search capabilities. Xobni Plus is now…
Internet radio provider Pandora has finally come out the other side of a long fight over royalty prices. The site even managed to secure a good chunk of VC funds. Now it’s focusing its attent...
Windows only Are you addicted to Twitter, but afraid to use it while you’re at work? We’ve got the cure for your addiction! Well, not really a cure… I guess it would be more…
No need to check your calendar. It is not April 1. This is not a joke. I suspect the Steves—Ballmer and Jobs—have gone to the Pepto bottle already! Google is in the operating system…
I am among the Gmail faithful, but its folder system, or lack thereof, has always been somewhat of a drawback. Google took steps to fix this problem Wednesday with the release of…
Google reportedly snapped up 1 million phone numbers last month in a move that could signal the launch of its Google Voice service. Google Voice, which was announced in March, lets…
Yahoo is apparently looking to unload a little dead weight in the form of valuable domain names. The floundering company got rid of the seemingly valuable name contests.com last night for the…
One of the first things users discovered while checking out Microsoft’s new search engine Bing was that the site was a really, really good porn discovery tool. Not only that, Bing would…
Good news for fans of the brand-new Palm Pre (and of underdogs everywhere). Apple’s new iTunes 8.2 update doesn’t break the Pre’s Pre-ternatural media syncing, where the Palm smar...
I just finished lesson ‘Typing Test’! My Score: 41 WPM [www.TypingWeb.com]
Google has wandered into another social minefield, archiving controversial details of Japan’s caste system.Specifically, its Google Maps division has published an overlay of the historical...
Not to be outdone by Apple, RIM, and other smartphone manufacturers, Handango—one of the original mobile app stores, I might add—today announced its new Mobile Store Platform. The…
Most Twitter clients use Adobe AIR, so they’re cross-platform and run on any system where AIR is running. This is great, since Twitter clients are one of those things that people really…
In 1977 Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman published a paper at MIT describing a new algorithm for public key cryptography. Their RSA algorithm was the first to allow digital…
Most popular Twitter apps blame the fact that they use an external framework, like Adobe AIR and Microsoft’s .NET, on their resource usage. Additionally, if you’re looking for the perfe...
When I worked in technical support, I knew several users who were guilty of keeping their computer desktops cluttered with dozens—if not hundreds—of files and folders. Every file they&#...
Just in time for the launch of BlackBerry App World, Slacker has updated its popular Slacker for BlackBerry OS app. The updated Slacker app adds the ability to view song lyrics,…
How do you discover new apps to download on your iPhone? Maybe you get recommendations from friends or from Websites, or maybe you just comb the iTunes Store at random. But today at the…
After the Chinese Civil War ended in 1948 with the Nationalist government fleeing to Taiwan, there were two Chinas. And now it looks like there could be two Chinese videogame trade shows, both in&#...
In the fast paced world of gaming technology, seven years is a long time for a company to be in incubation. In that time, there’s a good chance that some upstart will pass you by before you&#...
Watch out, Boxee, because Zinc is coming on strong. It’s a heady time for streaming video on the Net. Hulu is showing record growth, competitors like TV.com are gaining viewers, and…
This week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will join the ever-lengthening list of online-only publications. The 146-year-old Hearst-owned paper will print its last issue tomorrow. Addressing his…
Developers selling applications in the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be charged to submit apps, and will receive 70% of sales revenues, Microsoft announced today. Signing up…
Apple today announced the release of the latest Beta version of its Safari browser for Mac and PC. The company continues to claim the title of “fastest browser,” having upped SafariR...
What do you do when your boss friends you on Facebook? I’m only asking because it just happened to me. Really. It’s not that he’s not a nice guy—he is. But he’s my bo...
If you don’t live in Alaska it’s possible you haven’t heard there’s a volcano about erupt up there. Mount Redoubt, a bit over a hundred miles from Anchorage, a volcanic mou...
The economic stimulus package has dominated nightly newscasts and newspaper headlines this week, and while Democrats and Republicans are still undecided over whether the bill is unnecessary…
The long-awaited Firefox Mobile browser, codenamed Fennec, could be ready for a Windows Mobile beta as soon as next week on the HTC Touch Pro, according to WMExperts. A developer note…
It didn’t take very long into Barack Obama’s presidency for a group of users to declare him a “failure”—or for them to assert such feeling by way of Google. Following ...
Microsoft is “about to release” the first release candidate for Internet Explorer 8, according to a Wednesday blog post. “We’re about to release [IE8 RC1] for Windows Vista...
Drop.io’s been one of my favorite Web services for a while now; like YouSendIt and Mediafire, it’s a simple, free way to swap files, but it has a much more robust feature set. Users...
Good news for iPhone owners: you may no longer be beholden to Safari. Apple this week has begun approving third-party Web browsers for its handset. According to Mac Rumors, the company has…
Microsoft has made a number of updates to its Live Search Mobile client, some of which bring it closer in line to features already found in Google Maps for Mobile. The first, LocateMe,…
Remember the days when you actually had to go in person to a Chipotle and tell the person behind the counter each item you wanted in your burrito? Not anymore! You don’t even have to talk...
As you probably know by now, Apple has announced some big changes to iTunesvariable pricing, a 100% DRM-free iTunes Music Store, and song purchasing/downloading via 3G. Good stuff, right? …
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t…
Letters to Santa are so passé. Why not make your Christmas requests via Twitter? Tweetmas 2008 is gathering present requests from the Twitter faithful and posting them on users’ feeds and...
Yahoo! today announced today that it will cut down user activity logs to 3 months—from 13. The move comes amid pressure for Google and Microsoft to do the same. Google recently announced tha...
So you’re listening to your favorite tunes in your favorite music player, but you’d really like to see what the album looks like while you groove. Or maybe you want to follow the lyric...
Important Note: This giveaway is only available for residents of the United States. This is the one and only hardware item that we have up for grabs in our birthday giveaway, and…
We were a bit taken back when we heard earlier today an AT&T exec proclaim his company’s goal of moving toward a single mobile OS for smartphones across the carrier. Was this actually a s...
Since its launch earlier this year, the iTunes App Store has boasted all manner of success stories, but none come close to that off Internet radio generator, Pandora. While the Web-based version...
More post-holiday fallout: at this point, no one quite knows how merchants fared during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, usually considered the two key shopping days of the season. Questions…
Microsoft announced via a press release that they will be discontinuing OneCare, their current antivirus product, on June 30th, 2009. I don’t think this is very surprising considering…
Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect Video http://tinyurl.com/6pngu7 via…… http://ff.im/3yM9
Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize http://ff.im/36mw
Woman Loses $400,000 To Nigerian Email Scam [Scams] http://ff.im/36my
I just watched Space Shuttle Endeavour take off. It’s headed to the International Space Station with a crew of seven. Among the astronauts is Dr. Donald Pettit. A while ago I read…
Learn to Type with Keybr.com http://ff.im/2W7V
EBay has agreed to pull listings for tickets to President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration from its main site, StubHub and Kijiji. The move comes after California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a&#...
Doesn’t anyone play real instruments anymore? Thanks to the various musical fakery games and digital synthesizers that turn computers into full symphonies there doesn’t seem to be a ne...
Anyone who follows technology is surely used to the US being second—or third—in line to get cool new stuff. So, it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that micro-blogging site Twitt...
I can’t wait until tonight to see election returns!! This should prove to be very…………… http://ff.im/6DP
The moment of truth…so to speak…has arrived! http://ff.im/4UM
Google today announced the triumphant return of SearchWiki, the company’s collaborative search experiment feature. The company describes the experimental feature as a method for…
Whether you’re looking for an interesting way to pass the time or perhaps a way to spice up your blog or Facebook profile, Kwanzoo has the answer. With over 50,000 questions, hundreds of…
Google on Monday announced the release of a number of “experiments” for Gmail. Users can now add gadgets to the left-nav of their Gmail account, beside Labels and Gchat. Among the key ...
Nothing says “everlasting love” quite like hacking your girlfriend’s Super Nintendo ROM. At least, such was the rationale behind one uber-nerd’s marriage proposal. Over t...
Hey Twitter users: follow @AppScout and @Gearlog to get blog updates sent straight to your Twitter feed! You can also follow @PCMag for updates on the best stuff from that site, and if you…
I was looking for an excuse to write about the GNU GPL (aka: free) licensed Web Developer Toolbar Add-on for Firefox by Chris Pederick. Wish granted. The PrimalSkills blog has a great…
It’s official—everyone is on Twitter but you. John Dvorak, Barack Obama, someone pretending to be Sarah Palin, me, and now Britney Spears: The pop princess and/or her handlers have…
The VideoSurf folks dropped by our office today to give us a quick tour of the site and announce that the free video search engine is opening up today to all users, no registration…
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EatAddict: A Free Speech Blog: The Little Train That Couldn’t http://tinyurl.com/42c63q via @ShareThis
If you’re a weather junkie like I am, you want to wake up in the morning and immediately know what temperature it is outside and what the high for the day will be. You also want to know if&#...
There are a number of utilities that allow you to manage your PDFs online like PDFEscape and PDF Hammer, but when it comes to actually reading or browsing a PDF file, you still have to…
[News] Dow plunges 679 to fall to lowest level in 5 years - The Associated Press http://tinyurl.com/4j4mc8
I wonder how eBay’s PR department viewed the opening moments of Tuesday night’s presidential debate? On the one hand, when asked to name a potential replacement to Henry Poulson, Repub...
Retweet @NewsOnTwitter CNBC - NBC/WSJ Poll: Economic Crisis Lifts Obama Over McCain: [1]
Haven’t heard from mom all day. I am not sure if that is a good sign or a bad one.
The one upside of the economic turmoil? Less spam. Global e-mail spam declined 8 percent in September, a number Web security company MessageLabs attributes in part to the demise of…
[Technology] McCain’s Tax Returns Hide Gambling http://tinyurl.com/4m24pw
It can be aggravating when you sign up for a new Web service—and someone’s already beaten you to the punch and registered your username. I know this disappointment well; I’ve all...
[Web 2.0] TweetBeep: Twitter Keyword Alerts to Your E-mail http://tinyurl.com/4v5czb
Class went really well, though…and I handled the responsibility well.
You know what the gaming industry is missing, these days? Delicious pie. The tasty dessert is the driving force behind The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. Designed as a thesis project by…
Wired kicked off NextFest press day this morning with a talk by the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson. The Long Tail author used his allotted 45 minutes to discuss his…
Laptop DJs and serious musicians alike benefit from inspiration and collaboration with their peers, friends, and other musicians. Similarly, music fans love the hybrid tunes that come out of…
One of my favorite features in Internet Explorer 7 is Quick Tabs, the ability to see thumbnail views of your open tabs and select any one of them to go directly to it. In Windows Vista, you…
[Toluu Group, Tech Reviews] OpenOffice Version 3, RC1 Adds Many Features http://tinyurl.com/4mnyvw
Electronics Arts gave the world an innovative and highly addictive game with the long-awaited Spore. The company also managed to irk a heck of a lot of people with Internet connections and axes…
[Web 2.0, Tech Reviews] 10 Huge Groups to Petition the New Faceook (And How to Get Back to the Old One) http://tinyurl.com/6mz8m5
Playing around with Userscripts.org and Greasemonkey.
[Tech Reviews, Technology] 15 Podcasts Every Geek Should Listen To http://tinyurl.com/5emzj3
If you’re a Gmail user you owe it to yourself to follow Gmail’s official blog. No, they’re not going to tell you why Gmail is still in beta—maybe the world’s most used...
Blizzard today announced the release date for its upcoming World of Warcraft expansion pack. The Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion pack for WoW, is set to arrive on November 13. …
Time-Saving Tuesday If you’ve ever attempted to build your own website and your related skill level isn’t very high, you know that it can be a big headache. There are so many things…
Gosh…I have a splitting headache and I have taken Aleve.
[Technology] Free: Lifehacker Readers’ Free Replacements for Paid Tools http://tinyurl.com/5j2buu
Retweeting @nytimesnational: In Simi Valley Train Crash, Riders Had Destinations and Death in Common http://tinyurl.com/6dycyx
Here are some feeds from some of the top social news sites. Throw them in a fead reader and now what’s hot today.
Suppose you have a fitness and wellness blog, and you’d like to do a special article on the body-mass index. It might be useful to include a tool or widget in your article that would allow&#...
Greasemetal: Greasemonkey for Chrome http://tinyurl.com/6m9fkp
What Verizon Wireless is lacking in new phones at the CTIA Fall trade show, they are making up in the sheer number of press releases they’re putting out. I woke up today to, get this, sixteen...
Filed under: Audio, Windows, Macintosh, Apple As my colleagues at TUAW tirelessly liveblogged, Apple had some big super-huge iPod event today. But this is Download Squad,…
Filed under: Internet If you need to know what to prepare for weather-wise for the day, Umbrella Today? can help. I like to know weather basics - like if it’s going to be hot or…
[Windows] How to Block Ads in Google Chrome http://tinyurl.com/6x8o8j
Retweet @delicious_prog Google Code Blog: Add your own buttons to Picasa, upload photos all over the Web [1]
[Web 2.0] You’d be Stupid Not To… (I love Fox-It Reader! Much better than Adobe Reader.) http://tinyurl.com/668evt
Chrome seems to be working better now! I guess just a glitch in the system.
two undercover cops came into the center today and arrested a man on suspicion of burgulary
Obama utilizing web better than McCain…http://tinyurl.com/68mnle
Retweet…top_news cnn: Gulf Coast may be without power for weeks: .. http://tinyurl.com/6eymjx
So, people do read those EULAs (End User License Agreement), after all. Maybe Google just wanted to, you know, make sure. Either way, someone noticed some fishy language in the user agreement…
(Click to Enlarge) The Google Chrome web browser launched yesterday almost 24-hours after Google announced that it would be coming. That gave quite a few media sites enough…
Google announced plans to add facial recognition technology to its online photo management tool, Picasa when the new version of the app launches at 12 PM PDT today. The new technology comes…
Retweet @diggupdates McCain: a roll-the-dice commander [1]
Filed under: Podcasting, Podcasts If you’re as busy as rest of us, you may not have time to catch all the latest presidential election details on the evening news. Fortunately, you…
Retweet @newscred Hilarious P.Diddy video on McCain’s VP Choice: “Alaska? Alaska!? You must be buggin out.” [1]
Retweet @diggupdates With Gustov Strengthing, You Need to Fill up NOW [1]
Retweet @foxnews NATIONAL: Michigan Couple Gets Hitched at Family Funeral Home [1]
Palin from a woman’s point of view…http://tinyurl.com/66w3he
I meant that I don’t think the test twit I did made it to SM.
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Search, web 2.0 No, I didn’t edit that image, that’s actually the first question that pops up on MyMiaMia’s flash intro banner. While…
Win; Mac; Linux It’s always surprised me that Google has a few desktop applications (Picasa, Google Desktop Search, Google Talk, etc…), but for one reason or…
Filed under: Design, Features, Web services, web 2.0 I rarely get as excited by a Web 2.0 app or service as I am by ProofHQ, which is an innovative and…
Mozilla is looking to drastically improve the JavaScript performance in Firefox 3.1 when it is released later this year. When Firefox 3 was released back in June it included a…
You can’t please all the people all the time, when you’re running for president, right? Not unless you’re Barack Obama. The presumptive Democratic nominee went for broke, picking ...
Senator Barack Obama made history today. That’s right: I am talking about the text message sent out early this morning to millions of Obama supporters announcing his choice for second in…
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware If you spend any amount of time moving files around using Windows Explorer, the repetitive clicking can get…
I have entrusted way too much of my online life to Google. They handle my mail, protect (and host) my photos and provide for my word processing and number crunching along with other more…
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