iPod 4.0 update

iPod 4.0 update

Recently if you plugged your iPod Touch (includes iPhone but 4th gen should have this already) in to iTunes you would have been asked to upgrade to iPod software to 4.0. This upgrade has some pretty good features added to it. Some of the best are: Change homescreen background! No more black! You’re now able [...]

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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011

The Microsoft Mac team has posted the first in a series of videos that show off some of the new features in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. This next version will put the mac office on the same playing field as office for windows.  Office for Mac will include the ribbon interface first introduced in [...]

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Twitter Begins Testing Inline Photos And Videos On Its Website

Twitter Begins Testing Inline Photos And Videos On Its Website

A new option has just appeared in Twitter’s “Settings” menu called “Twitter Media.” The check box means that inline images and videos will soon be on the main Twitter stream. I have not gotten the option on my account yet, but many other users have seen the box. The option right as of now does [...]

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Google Apps Government Edition

Google Apps Government Edition

Google Apps for Government is, according to Google, the first cloud computing app suite to receive the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification. This will make it easier for agencies or groups to evaluate and adopt Google Apps. If you’re interested in seeing what a government migration to Google Apps looks like, check out [...]

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JailBreaking and Rooting Now Legal?

JailBreaking and Rooting Now Legal?

Library of Congress has added new anti-circumvention exceptions to the DMCA that allows users to tweak their handsets for the purpose of installing legally obtained software. This is know as jailbreaking with iPhones and Rooting with Android. The full statement from the Librarian of Congress can be read else where, but here is the main [...]

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Firefox Tab Candy

Firefox Tab Candy

Mozilla Creative Lead Aza Raskin has released Tab Candy, an experimental feature for Firefox. Here’s how it works: – When you click on the Tab Candy button, it will take you to a tab overview page that scans all of your open tabs. – Tab Candy lets you drag-and-drop tabs into related groups. – When [...]

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YouTube Launches New HTML5-Friendly Embed Code

YouTube Launches New HTML5-Friendly Embed Code

The YouTube blog has just posted about a new video embed style that uses <iframe> and will provide HTML5 embedding. The new embed code is still being tweaked, but developers are encouraged to use it and give YouTube their feedback. The code will use the HTML5 player, provided you have signed up for the beta [...]

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Mobile theme disabled

Mobile theme disabled

Today the Mobile theme was disabled because it was  being displayed as the default theme for computers. It is only supposed to serve mobile devices. We may be enabling it soon but a date isn’t set. Leon and I are aware and are working on it. Sorry for any inconveniences, Ryan

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Safari security flaw found

Safari security flaw found

A bug found in Safari’s AutoFill feature can allow a malicious website to gather personal information from a users address book card, more specifically: first name, last name, work place, city, state, and email address. If you have any of the “AutoFill web forms” boxes checked, a site can snag information from your Address Book entry without your [...]

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Youtube good, Limewire… not the same

Youtube good, Limewire… not the same

While Youtube managers celebrate their win against a copyright claim from Viacom, Limewire officials are dealing with a lawsuit from the Recording Industry Association of America. The court found Lime Wire and founder Mark Gorton liable for copyright infringement and that decision is likely “fatal” to Lime Wire, legal experts have said. The judge denied [...]

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Facebook Passes 500 Million Users

Facebook Passes 500 Million Users

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg just made it official on the company’s blog: the social network is now 500 million members strong. Later today, Zuckerberg is expected to make a rare television appearance on ABC’s World News, where he’ll be interviewed by Diane Sawyer. The interview will either focus on what the 500 million milestone means for the [...]

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Nexus One no longer available for purchase from Google

Nexus One no longer available for purchase from Google

Shortly after Google tells the L.A. Times that the Nexus One will be sold out by the end of the month, the phone no longer is for sale at Google.com/phone. This means no one will be able to get their hands on a brand new Nexus One, unless you go to ebay to buy a used one. This [...]

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Google Images New Look

Google Images New Look

Google is launching a revamped version of Google Image Search, which starts rolling out to users today. The new interface for Google Image Search which replaces pagination with infinite scrolling, hides the information about the results until you mouse over an image and uses space more efficiently. When you click on a results, Google shows a [...]

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Foursquare Talks with Major Search Engines

Foursquare Talks with Major Search Engines

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley did not mince words when speaking with the U.K. paper The Telegraph. Crowley said, “Our data generates hugely interesting trends which would enrich search,” and went on to note that they were in talks with all the major search players including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!. “We can anonymise data and use it [...]

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