Drag & Drop.io Makes Sharing Files Dead Simple
Thursday, den 14. August 2008Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Drag & Drop.io Firefox extension makes it easy to quickly share a file in Firefox 3 with previously mentioned file sharing site Drop.io by simple dragging and dropping the file in your browser. The best part of the extension is that you don’t need to go through any tedious Browse for [...]
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Why you should use OpenDNS… NOW!!
Tuesday, den 29. July 2008
Yesterday, CERT released a notice that many DNS vendors are vulnerable to a particularly evil form of DNS Cache Poisoning. Furthermore, there are companies like Road Runner which redirect you to spammy sites when you typo domain names instead of just reporting an error and letting your browser show a 404 or whatever.
There are better [...]
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Live Mesh Goes Mobile
Wednesday, den 23. July 2008
Yesterday, the Live Mesh team surprised everyone by opening up the service to all and today they’ve gone mobile. That’s right – it’s official – the mobile portal is now available at m.mesh.com. From this mobile website, you can access all your meshified folders and files from your browser and read the news feed about [...]
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Games For Windows LIVE is Now FREE
Wednesday, den 23. July 2008
Kevin over at Gamerscore Blog has the details: I love getting achievements when I play games. I love having the same friends list shared between my PC games and my XBOX 360. And I love not having to pick games from a list of servers, but just having matchmaking that [...]
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WordPress app hits the iPhone fashionably late
Wednesday, den 23. July 2008
Just a week and a half ago WordPress for the iPhone was announced with a pretty killer screencast detailing what you could do with it. Tuesday morning it finally showed up on the app store (download it here), and I’ve had ample time to play with it. The good news is that it’s very enjoyable [...]
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Yoics, Internet access (almost) anything
Wednesday, den 16. July 2008
Turn your PC into an iPhone web server.
Yoics makes is instantly possible (ok, it takes about 10 seconds) to view any folders on your computer from you iPhone. Even better the folders are viewable from any web browser, and shareable to anyone that you want, securely and privately. Watch the video.
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Facebook’s iPhone App (Almost) Replaces My Contacts List
Thursday, den 10. July 2008
All of us iPhone fanatics are just getting our hands on the new apps, but I’ve already found one that I’m sure to consider indispensable within the next few months: Facebook’s new app.
Why is it so compelling? Because it almost eliminates the need to maintain a separate contacts list on my phone. While Facebook’s web [...]
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Facebook Fans Rejoice As New App for Windows Mobile
Tuesday, den 8. July 2008
Earlier we told you about Snap2Face, a Windows Mobile Facebook app that let you upload your photos from your phone to Facebook. But now, a real Facebook app has launched. Thanks to Macrospecs, Inc., you can download FriendMobilizer, a new software app for Windows Mobile phones that gives you full access to your Facebook account. [...]
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Dashwire 2.0 improves phone-management software | SO COOL…….. Try it NOW
Wednesday, den 25. June 2008
Dashwire (review), a dashboard for synchronizing and managing the contents of your mobile phone online, has let loose with Dashwire 2.0 for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. Tuesday’s release enriches the syncing client application with photos and with Facebook and Twitter updates.
Sharing media and status messages makes Dashwire way more fun.
The previous version of the [...]
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bigBrains is Twittering
Monday, den 23. June 2008Follow me and I will follow you. Read a tweet, and download a Twitteroo.
If you dont know what I am talking about, your not alone. Twitter is a free social networking site. It is what they are calling “micro-blogging”. This service allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) [...]
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Get Your Hands on the New Live Writer
Wednesday, den 4. June 2008
Windows Live Writer has got to be, hands down, one of the most popular tools out of the whole Windows Live lineup. I know many a blogger (myself included) who can’t live without it. That’s why the recent release of the Windows Live Writer Tech Preview has everyone talking. The Windows Live Writer Tech Preview [...]
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ZuneTV | Load up the Zune
Monday, den 2. June 2008
Zune fansite ZuneBoards has recently launched a YouTube-like site for converting and sharing Zune clips with the community. The site is called ZuneTV. Here, users can upload videos, which are automatically converted into the Zune-compatible .wmv format. Those clips are then made available for download by any member. Like any social video sharing site, there [...]
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Latest Updates to SkyDrive are Live
Thursday, den 22. May 2008
The Windows Live SkyDrive team blog gives us the latest on new updates to SkyDrive that launched today. SkyDrive is now available in 24 additional locations, with support for a total of 62 countries. You can now leave comments on any SkyDrive file. You can add captions to photos, there is a click control to [...]
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Map the Chinese Earthquakes
Sunday, den 18. May 2008
No doubt you’ve heard about the recent earthquakes in China. The Live Search Maps team in China has put together a collection rendering all of the earthquakes in China. In addition to mapping out where the earthquakes occurred, there’s a sidebar which provides more information about each spot listed in the collection. This could be [...]
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Snackr drenches your computer in a river of news
Sunday, den 18. May 2008
Marshall Kirkpatrick, over at ReadWriteWeb, turned me on to Snackr with a post from earlier today. Snackr describes itself as being an RSS ticker. It provides a constant river of news on your screen. Built with Adobe AIR, it is compatible across all platforms and looks really slick.
Snackr sits on one of the four [...]
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Featured Freeware: Pando Makes emailing files as large as 1 GB a cinch
Monday, den 12. May 2008
Emailing large attachments has never been easy, but Pando for Windows and Mac combines P2P tech with a clean interface to make sharing files or folders as large as 1 GB a cinch–and free.
Circumventing FTP servers, online storage, and tertiary e-mail accounts, Pando either generates a link for instant messages and Web pages, or [...]
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Free Wi-Fi: Get Free Wi-Fi Access on Your Laptop at Starbucks, Barnes and Noble
Thursday, den 8. May 2008
Our gadget-obsessed brothers at Gizmodo report that many AT&T hotspots—including Starbucks and Barnes and Noble—have started offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. With a little ingenuity, the same free Wi-Fi access can be granted to your laptop. Using it from your iPhone, you just connect to the hotspot and give the site your iPhone [...]
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Twing offers deep search for forums
Monday, den 28. April 2008
Searching forums for specific posts can seriously suck. Most have proprietary search tools that can be unfamiliar or downright difficult to use. Some even require you to fill out a captcha to avoid getting attacked by bots or having its forums infested with spam. Twing is a new service that’s attempting to solve these problems [...]
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"I’m" Still Making a Difference
Monday, den 28. April 2008
Have you heard of i’m? The i’m initiative lets Windows Live Messenger users give money to selected charitable organizations just by using IM. The money comes from Microsoft’s advertising revenues and goes to support organizations like the Red Cross, Unicef, Boys and Girls Club, Sierra Club, the Humane Society, and more. The program, now a [...]
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Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers
Friday, den 25. April 2008
Encyclopedia Britannica often is used in case studies as a definitive example of how new technology can disrupt a business. Everything was great for the nearly 250 year old privately held company until the Internet came around and a Category Five hurricaned on their parade. According to Comscore, for every page viewed on Brittanica.com, 184 [...]
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