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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Hands on with Live Mesh
Wednesday, den 23. April 2008Have you ever had to email yourself a file or found that you had four different versions of the same document on four different PC’s? Wouldn’t it be awesome if you had a synchronized copy of all your important files on each of your devices and access to them at any time via nothing [...]
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Beyond Microsoft’s new traffic-avoidance feature
Thursday, den 10. April 2008
Today Microsoft announced a new feature on its Live Search Maps service: Clearflow, an option that will alter driving directions based on traffic, not just on the usually metered major freeways, but on adjoining connector ramps and streets as well. See news story.
Microsoft now considers surface street traffic as well as freeway speeds in [...]
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Modern Feed serves up the ultimate Web TV surfing tool | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
Tuesday, den 8. April 2008
Modern Feed is a smart product, taking hosted video programming from a variety of sources and consolidating it into a single directory that’s curated by human beings. The entire experience revolves around a small navigator that sits atop your browser in its own frame. It lets you browse around playlists, search for your favorite shows, and [...]
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Ebooks: Get Free Copyrighted eBooks in PDF Format at Wowio
Saturday, den 29. March 2008
Want a free ebook copy of a Kurt Vonnegut novel? Free ebook site Wowio has five of them, along with lots of other copyrighted fiction, literature, comics, and other works. The site offers the wares through sponsorships, and only limits your downloads to three books per day, 30 per [...]
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The Best Activities & WebSlices for IE8
Wednesday, den 19. March 2008
Are you running the beta of IE8? With all the new features, like WebSlices, Activities, and the new Favorites Bar, there is a lot to see and try. So, if you want to get your IE8 Beta up to speed with only the best of the new features, look no further - here are the [...]
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Quero Toolbar - The New Web Experience
Thursday, den 13. March 2008
The Quero Toolbar is a navigation bar replacement for Internet Explorer that offers a built in ad-blocker. With Quero, you can customize the UI of IE, allowing you to resize, move or shorten your address bar again. Then integrated ad blocker stops unwanted Flash, banner, layer, Google, IntelliTXT, and pop-up ads. Other features let you [...]
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Dropbox: The Online Storage Solution We’ve Been Waiting For?
Wednesday, den 12. March 2008
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The idea behind Dropbox, which officially enters into private beta today (which provides a free 5GB of storage), is that little to no effort should be put into keeping your desktop files synced with [...]
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Windows Live FolderShare beta
Tuesday, den 11. March 2008Today the Windows Live FolderShare team launched their new blog. Along with it comes an all-new version of FolderShare that includes better performance and a better SysTray. FolderShare is a cloud storage service that lets you sync your Favorites, Files, & documents. You can share them with family and friends, and [...]
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NBC Olympics Player | Olympics + Silverlight + 1000’s of Hours of HD Goodness
Friday, den 7. March 2008
Some time ago, we announced that NBC would be using Silverlight to broadcast the Olympics to the web. Now, for the first time, NBC is showing what the application looks like — and it is beautiful! Nishant interviewed Perkins Miller of NBC about the application, and got an exclusive demo — this [...]
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