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Firefox Friday - not such a great week for the Fox, but the future looks good3 September 2010, 3:30 pm
Filed under: Features, Mozilla, BrowsersHi there, Firefox fans. The esteemed Mr. Anthony is out this weekend, so I'm your host for today's Firefox Friday. Sad to say, things aren't looking too fantastic for Firefox at the moment.
Before he left, Sebastian ran a comparison of the hardware acceleration in modern browsers, and Mozilla's baby was lagging in last place. Browser growth was also stagnant for Firefox in August, according to this month's numbers.
There might be brighter times on the h...
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5 great content discovery sites which aren't Digg2 September 2010, 2:00 pm
Filed under: Features, Social Software, web 2.0, ListsDespite what you may have heard in the last two weeks, Digg is not dead. It is, however, a very different service than when it started. What used to be a great place to find interesting links and hilarious commentary has become, for almost all intents and purposes, a Twitter clone.
Digg isn't about to shut its doors, but I do get the feeling that regular, loyal Diggers are looking to take their custom elsewhere. Judging by the 'Reddit incide...
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Twitter Tuesday -- OAuth is here, password-based authentication is dead31 August 2010, 3:00 pm
Filed under: Features, Web services, Social Software, Microblogging, Twitter
Big changes for third-party apps on Twitter today: they can no longer require you to log in with your Twitter password. Twitter's mandatory switch to OAuth authentication has finally happened, which means you have more control over which apps can access your account.
In case you've never signed into a Twitter app with OAuth, here's how it works: you click to sign in, and get redirected to Twitter, where you'll see "ap...
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Gain a superpower by learning to touch-type - Back to School31 August 2010, 12:00 pm
Filed under: FeaturesIf you're a fan of life hacks of any kind and you can't touch-type, you're wasting your time. Just like the best current upgrade you can give your computer in terms of overall speed improvement is a solid-state drive, the best overall speed improvement you can give yourself when it comes to the time you spend on a computer is the ability to touch-type. I'm not kidding, and if you're skeptical I intend to convince you.
For our Back-to-School series, I really wanted to write a...
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DLS Review: IDriveSync is a cheaper, more powerful, Dropbox competitor for Windows25 August 2010, 12:00 pm
Filed under: Utilities, Features, Productivity, web 2.0
I'm an avid Dropbox fan. I've been using it for a long time now, and it's one of a handful of applications that I think of as "mission critical" on my system.
But there are a couple of things that have always irked me about Dropbox. First and foremost, there are the rates. It's US$9.99/month for 50GB. Really? With online backup solutions such as Backblaze and Mozy offering unlimited storage for just $5/month, Dropbox's price tag seems quite...
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Twitter Tuesday -- Twitter becomes the last Web service to get a bookmarklet24 August 2010, 3:00 pm
Filed under: Features, Web services, Microblogging, Twitter
Twitter is finally getting on board the bookmarklet bus, about a million years after every other Web service and URL shortener in the megaverse. You can now add a button to your browser's bookmarks bar that allows you to quickly shorten a URL using the little-hyped t.co shortener. Gee, I wish bit.ly would have thought of that ... oh, wait, they already did.
I'm perplexed by the little ways in which Twitter continues to thwart its very...
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iPhone 3G Speed Test: iOS 4.0 versus iOS 4.1 [IPhone]3 September 2010, 12:00 pm
iOS 4.0 was so slow on our 3G, we promptly downgraded after updating. Earlier this week, Apple announced, among other things, that iOS 4.1 fixed performance on the iPhone 3G. We put their claim to the test. More »
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Without a Trace: Turn Your Flash Drive into a Portable Privacy Toolkit [Privacy]3 September 2010, 11:00 am
Whether you're trying to increase your security at an internet café, tunnel your way to your home computer from your cubicle, or leave no trace on your friend's borrowed computer, a flash drive turned portable privacy toolkit is invaluable. More »
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Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Adds New Photo Manager, Improves Multimedia Experience [Downloads]3 September 2010, 6:00 am
An early look at the next release of Ubuntu's Linux desktop hit the web late yesterday. What's in 10.10, or "Maverick Meerkat," for desktop users? Besides app updates, there's a new photo manager, improved multimedia controls, better Ubuntu One syncing, and more. More »
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The Best Things to Buy in September [Buying Guide]2 September 2010, 7:30 pm
Lots of stores are looking to make space for their big fall inventory push, and everything left over from summer is going cheap. Time to look into cars, appliances, holiday airfare, and other good buys in September. More »
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The Basic Guide to Troubleshooting Common Windows PC Problems [Troubleshooting]2 September 2010, 3:00 pm
Your Windows PC might be designed to make your life easier, but they often have a non-stop list of problems. Today we'll walk through some of the more common problems and how to troubleshoot them. More »
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How to Always Get to the Airport On Time [Travel Tip]2 September 2010, 1:30 pm
While there are better places to be than sitting at your gate, running from the clutches of airport security to make your flight is no fun either. Here's a guide for showing up at your gate with James Bond timing. More »
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90's game hero Duke Nukem returns after delay of more than a decade3 September 2010, 3:45 pm
By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Friday, 2K Games and Gearbox Software announced they will be releasing Duke Nukem Forever on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PC in 2011. The game was first announced in 1997 and has long been considered the most legendary case of "vaporware," that is, hardware or software that is announced but released either too late or not at all.The story of Duke Nukem Forever is so legendary that its delay inspired its own parody game franchise. D3's Eat Lead: The Return of Ma...
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Ping off to a rocky start as spam, issues plague service3 September 2010, 2:36 pm
By Ed Oswald, Betanews
Apple's foray into social music is not going well as its Ping service is experiencing a multitude of problems, including comment spam, a lack of promised functionality, and generally inconsistent user experience.Security researcher Chet Wisniewski at Sophos said Apple is not employing any type of spam or URL filtering, as comments such as those advertising "free iPhones" were already appearing some 24 hours after the site's launch. He also said that Apple has made it easy ...
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Company of Heroes Online open beta launches, rewards early adopters3 September 2010, 12:20 pm
By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Video game maker THQ has opened the beta of Company of Heroes Online, a free-to-play World War II strategy game based upon THQ's critically acclaimed real-time strategy franchise Company of Heroes, originally released for Windows in 2006.The open beta of Company of Heroes Online includes 17 multiplayer maps which can be used in two, four, six, and eight-player modes, and beta testers can play one-player campaign mode from Company of Heroes for free. Users that register...
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Verizon offers prepaid data plans for smart phones2 September 2010, 5:23 pm
By Ed Oswald, Betanews
Verizon strengthened its prepaid offerings on Thursday, introducing prepay data plans for consumers who wish to use smart phones on a no contract basis. While the acquisition costs for those phones will be significantly higher, a customer would be free to leave at any time.Prepaid data plans would cost the user $30 per month, and include unlimited data access. The company would offer a 250MB data plan for "multimedia" phones, which would be a $10 per month add on. Both off...
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Samsung bets on Galaxy Tab in race against Apple's iPad2 September 2010, 3:23 pm
By Ed Oswald, Betanews
In what could potentially be the first serious challenge to Apple's dominance in the tablet sector, Samsung Thursday debuted the Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch Android powered tablet device. It will initially be available in European markets later this month, with a broader worldwide launch shortly afterward.Although the device's screen size is smaller than the iPad, much of the rest of the specifications are quite similar. The Tab includes a 1GHz processor; up to 64GB of storage sp...
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Why can't Apple's Ping sing?2 September 2010, 12:08 pm
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
Is Apple going to compel me to write another "I was wrong post?" Yesterday I extolled Ping -- Apple's new social music discovery tool -- based on features and product strategy. Finally, late last night, Apple widely distributed iTunes 10, giving me the chance to finally use Ping. The results aren't good. The discovery tool is simply useless, because Ping doesn't reflect my current music listening habits.One of Ping's most important personal features is "What I Like." It c...
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WSJ: T-Mobile wants to sell Huawei Ideos3 September 2010, 7:40 pm
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that T-Mobile is “in talks to distribute Huawei Technologies Co.’s new Google-powered smartphone this holiday season.” The phone in question, dubbed the Ideos, was revealed yesterday in Berlin. The phone is an inexpensive, 2.8-inch…...
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Mobile app echoecho makes check-ins personal3 September 2010, 5:30 pm
This week, we inadvertently stumbled across a pretty neat, cross-platform, geo-location mobile app titled echoecho. The premise behind echoecho is simple: instead of using a service like Facebook or foursquare to broadcast where you are, it offers a way of requesting the location…...
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Unreleased Samsung Galaxy Tab rooted3 September 2010, 3:00 pm
The recently announced, unreleased Samsung Galaxy Tab has officially been given the root treatment. Blog sera-apps.de is reporting that they have seen, used, and possess a rooted Gally Tab (now that didn’t take long). The site does caution, “I don’t…...
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Reuters: Google to have music service up and running by December 25th3 September 2010, 1:15 pm
Reuters is reporting that Google’s VP of Engineering, Andy Rubin, has been conducting talks with record labels in an attempt to launch an online music service “before Christmas.” The publication cites two sources familiar with the matter, and states that…...
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Samsung ups 2010 smartphone sales target by 7 million units3 September 2010, 11:52 am
For those of you wondering whether or not the Galaxy S family of phones has been a hit, we present you this story. Today, at IFA in Berlin, Samsung Mobile President J.K. Shin told reporters that his company is upping…...
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Bell Mobility to launch BlackBerry Torch too3 September 2010, 10:21 am
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 might be exclusive to one carrier in the U.S., but that hasn’t stopped the floozy of a handset from making the rounds in Canada. Bell Mobility recently announced that they too will be carrying the BlackBerry…...
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Is Ping the Future of Social Networks3 September 2010, 7:42 pm
Apple announced today that in less then 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million consumers have joined Ping. It may have gotten lost with the LaLa acquisition’s focus on streaming music that at its core LaLa.com was a social network for music lovers. I remember the first briefing I had with Bill Nguyen the founder of LaLa.com back in 2006. After sharing his vision and a demo of the service I knew they were on to something.
The premise of LaLa.com back then was that ...
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MeeGo Screenshots Appear Again, Still Looking Good3 September 2010, 3:28 pm
It’s been a couple of months since the last batch of MeeGo User Interface screenshots broke cover. And with these new ones showing off their pretty images, we can say that it was well worth the wait. Despite the fact that MeeGo isn’t quite ready for prime time yet (so they say), it’s looking like the development cycle is turning the upcoming mobile Operating System into something we could really get into. Of course, these are just development builds, and there is something stri...
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For Apple iOS is Key3 September 2010, 3:03 pm
Steve Jobs rattled off a lot of numbers at Wednesday’s event. As an analyst I like statistics and making sense of statistics. That’s why the platform strategy of iOS struck me when I thought about Apple’s product lineup, specifically iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches, and even Apple TV. Since these products run iOS, iOS as a platform is experiencing rapid growth and tremendous momentum. Sometimes people only think of iOS as a platform as it relates to the iPhone in terms of growth. ...
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LG Display’s 31-Inch OLED TV Showcased at IFA 20103 September 2010, 2:42 pm
It was the middle of August when we brought your attention to LG’s highly-anticipated 31-inch OLED TV. There was some speculation that the set would make an appearance at this year’s IFA, and sure enough it looks like the company managed to sneak it in and put it on display for everyone to look at. Actually, just by looking at the image below, we can safely say that they put it out there for everyone to stare at.
Coming in at 31-inches, it may not be the biggest TV out there, but i...
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Antec Soundscience Virtual 3D Speakers Coming This Fall for $2503 September 2010, 2:21 pm
If your living room is usually being used to watch movies or play video games, then you know that having the best sound is critical to a fully enjoyable experience. There are plenty of options out there for speakers, especially if money is no worry and you have a system that can handle 5.1 or 7.1-channel experiences. But what if you just want a simulated 3D experience? An experience that doesn’t come with a huge price tag? Then you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer to get your...
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Google Music Available by Christmas This Year, Sources Say3 September 2010, 2:07 pm
Google’s answer to Apple’s iTunes is coming. Or, perhaps not an answer, but part of the conversation. When Google showed off the idea of Music at this year’s I/O conference, people were eagerly awaiting its official unveiling later in the year. Unfortunately, despite the fact it’s already September, we’re still waiting. But, if the sources speaking toReuters are indeed accurate, we don’t have much longer to wait at all, as this Christmas may indeed be a holida...
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Sprint Samsung Epic 4G fails to break HTC EVO 4G’s first day sales record3 September 2010, 11:50 am
Sprint may have opened their stores early for the launch of the Samsung Epic 4G, but that didn’t help it break the HTC Evo 4G’s first day sales record. Sprint have a press release out claiming that the Epic 4G had “One of the Best First-Day Sales for Any Sprint Device”. As in, not the [...]...
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Verizon Samsung Gem seen in Best Buy guide3 September 2010, 11:20 am
There’s another Samsung Android-powered smartphone headed to Verizon apart from the Fascinate. We’ve seen the Samsung Gem in the wild before, and now its existence (and perhaps imminent release) has been confirmed by the September edition of Best Buy buyers’ guide. This may indicate that, like the Fascinate, the Gem may be released later this [...]...
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Verizon Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) gets priced, extended battery, TV ad3 September 2010, 11:03 am
Verizon’s Samsung Fascinate is now officially the last to launch of the Galaxy S versions tailor-made for the big four carriers in the US. And while a release date or price still haven’t been discussed by Big Red, there have been countless leaks involving details about this handset. After these, the date that the Fascinate [...]...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab rooted, priced, may be headed to Sprint in the US3 September 2010, 10:34 am
As you probably know by now, the Samsung Galaxy Tab was only officially unveiled yesterday. And very important details such as pricing and exact release dates were left out of that announcement. We know it’s supposed to come “to Europe” (whatever that means) in mid-September, and that’s about it. In the mean time, mobile operator [...]...
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BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 is now available from Three UK3 September 2010, 9:45 am
Three UK have just started selling the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300. So far, we’ve only seen this phone launch in Canada, on Rogers, Bell and Virgin, and now it seems to have made its way across the pond. This is basically a Curve 8520 with 3G support. This is not at the high end of [...]...
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LG Optimus Chic shows up in the wild again, this time joined by the Optimus One3 September 2010, 8:46 am
LG’s hard at work delivering on their smartphone-related promises. They’ve already sort of announced two upcoming Android devices (without actually revealing any specs, the price or release date – way to go LG!), the Optimus One and Optimus Chic. The latter has even been spotted in the wild before. And now it has showed up [...]...
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