Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Stan wrote a fairly simple rant, this morning. This rant rings true with me as well. I haven’t gone so far as to enumerate my personal Firefox issues here with a Mashable piece, but my followers on Twitter and <a href="http://friendfeedContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Exercise can protect against everything from heart attacks and cancer to depression and erectile dysfunction, but the New York Times focuses on how working out also helps with ailments you're already suffering from—even those that make exercise difficult.Perhaps the most immediate benefits are reaped by people with joint and neuromuscular ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The Official Gmail blog points out a small new feature update in Gmail that allows you to edit contact information on-the-fly directly from your chat list. In short, when you hover your mouse over a contact in chat (or an email), the name in the pop-up details window is now ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Strands has been around for a couple of years now, and has made quite a name for itself in th realm of social media recommendations. Often considered a competitor to sites like Last.fm, Strands built a brand around providing a service that spanned the web and mobile devices for ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Last.fm is reporting that the new single from Coldplay, “Violet Hill” is getting played about once every 2-seconds. This is of course a similar tactic pioneered by Radiohead last year, and Last.fm is reporting that its rate of play is outstripping the trend setters own song, “15 Step”.
It may be ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Web site Boolify makes advanced web searches easy through a simple drag-and-drop interface. Intended as an educational tool, Boolify teaches users how to create boolean searches in Google using operators like OR and NOT (-) to get very specific search results. Boolean searching isn't new by any means, but if ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Discover a tool that enables developers of Java EE applications to migrate from WebSphere Application Server, Community Edition, to the more advanced WebSphere Application Server family of products. Remove a lot of the manual intervention involved in migrating the specific deployment descriptors.Continue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Picnik has done a lot in the past few months, like make its services readily available for integration amongst other social media-sharing sites, embark on global growth, seek out additional revenue through peripheral products and make all of its services <a href="http://mashableContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The recording industry group known as the IFPI, one with international support from some 1400 companies located all around the globe, has come to terms with a hard truth. No, it hasn’t caved to the pressures of the peer-to-peer crowd. That war is still very much in playContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Blogger Ron Brinkmann doesn't want to buy an overpriced laptop stand or build his own DIY laptop stand. Instead, he takes the cheap and easy route and uses a $6 hot water bottle as a water-cooled laptop standContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Del.icio.us fans will be glad to know that they have finally released a Firefox 3-compatible add-on.
As our own Stan Schroeder mentioned last night in a piece titled “Are You Frustrated With Firefox?,” he has held back from switching to Firefox 3 because one of his favorite extensions wasn’t supportedContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The previously mentioned PC Decrapifier utility, which cleans pre-installed bloatware that ships with new Windows laptops, sees an update today and detects more applications than ever, like Norton 360, the Microsoft Office 2007 Trial and Activation Assistant, and Symantic LiveUpdateContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
What is the most beautiful place on Earth?Getting up early in the morning never seems to get easier. Any tips?What are some simple tricks I can use to improve my car's MPG?Where's a good, verbose online thesaurus for wandering through words?<a href="http://askContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
If reports are to be believed, YouTube may be launching a regional site specific to Indian viewers. Because India is one of the most populated countries and one with a good deal of technological advancements among the consumer class, such a launch could help push the Google-owned video trove into ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Oh my. The latest words from Radiohead’s quirky frontman Thom Yorke aren’t about how much money they earned by giving away their music. (Sounds weird, but that’s how things work in this crazy 2Continue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and deep-pocketed financier of a number of Web businesses, including Linden Lab (Second Life) and 37signals, has invested $3 million into the company whose focus is social online gaming.
The lucky recipient of the funds is <a href="mashableContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Men's Health magazine online offers four free workout videos that you can download, drag into iTunes, and sync directly to your iPod. The routines range in intensity from the at-home muscle plan—which suggests a circuit of exercises you can do at home—to more gym-focused workouts like the "Ultimate Strength-Boosting" workout. ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The folks at Google are evidently in the mood to flood the Web with news today. There came word of enhancements made to the iGoogle platform. The company also spoke of ambitions related to its newly-secured DoubleClick acquisition, saying that the graphic ad giant is busy working to turn into ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhen I add a new friend to Gmail chat, sometimes my friend's email address is added as their contact name, such as hikingfan@gmail.com. I personally like to have the name of all my chat friends in my chat list so I don't get ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
SoftBank, a mobile phone and Internet service provider in Japan, may be looking to increase their stake in the Chinese Internet market. According to a report by the Associated Press, SoftBank already has a 14% stake in Oak Pacific Interactive, owners of the very-very-Facebook-like, <a href="http://mashableContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you've got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted and handy. Whether it's a client's name, a password or combination you want stored ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Internet advertising is most definitely expected to rise quite a bit in the next few years. But the last 12 months for AOL haven’t been particularly appealing. No, the company hasn’t done terribly. But given the measured growth of its competitors in the Web giant field, namely Google and Yahoo, ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Make it seem like you're sending email when you're really playing hooky with Outlook's built-in "defer delivery" rule. Tech blogger Dennis O'Reilly runs down how to set up Outlook to delay sending messages for a certain amount of time (like half an hour) automatically. You can also set ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The wretched saga of Microsoft-Yahoo continues. Slowly. Painfully.
After weeks of overt threats to compound its takeover bid not with more cash, but instead with some spritely electioneering to the Yahoo board of faces friendly to the interests of Redmond, Microsoft has spend the days following the deadline of this Saturday ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
FLVto is a web app with three buttons, one input box, and one simple-but-great function of converting YouTube and other Flash-based videos to MP3 audio files. We've shared a reader-submitted download-and-convert method, but FLVto makes the process pretty foolproof. Paste a YouTube or other video link (or upload an ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) proposed standard for linking and expressing data on the Web. Java developers who develop applications for the Semantic Web will need to convert RDF properties to or from Java types.read moreContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
There has been a lot of interesting work going on in the research community of late on a handful of really specialized and esoteric application attacks, like Mark Dowd’s NULL pointer attack and David Litchfield’s lateral SQL injection technique. These two methods have a few things in common, specifically the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Mac OS X only: Back in the non-Stacks days of Tiger, you could add a folder to the Dock and expand it into a hierarchical menu. Now with Stacks you can't easily navigate subfolders from a folder on the Dock, but small utility AppMenuBoy aims to change that—for your ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Roughly one week ago Google introduced mobile image ads within the AdWords network. Today DoubleClick, Google’s most ambitious acquisition of late, of which it was officially granted tutelage not too long ago after <a href="http://mashableContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Sticking to to-do lists with specific next actions can help you get things done, but we can all get lost along the way, whether in the wide-open playground of a browser or some other time sink. Productivity blogger Andre Kibbe suggests fighting a procrastination jones with a little self-awareness and ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Google has teamed up with almost 70 artists from around the world to finally create a decent assortment of themes for their personalized portal, iGoogle. By the way, sometimes I think they chose the name iGoogle just to prevent anyone else from even thinking about using it and/or to annoy ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Over at the TipNut blog, they've rounded up 20 supposedly disposable items and how to reuse them, in ways both common (newspapers for kitty litter liners) and unique (greasing pans with used butter wrappers). There's a handful of items that might make you think twice before trashing, but with so ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Windows only: Ever use an online translation service and wonder if you can get more accurate results elsewhere? Translate.Net, a free Windows translation aggregator, knows just how you feel. The desktop app puts your words or phrases through 17 different language translation engines and dictionaries, letting you scroll through and ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I’m a guy who builds his own computers, and I always take care to have a very stable and very fast machine. However, lately I haven’t been happy with its performance; it simply doesn’t work as well as it should - it stutters, stops, coughs, freezes, waits, buffers and loads ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
We haven’t heard much from WorkLight since its public launch last year, but the company that bridges the gap between enterprise solutions and existing social media tools like Facebook and Netvibes has raised a $12 million series B round of funding, led by Pitango Venture Capital, a VC firm in ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Media company One True Media is spinning off a new service for th video advertising sector, called SpotMixer. Applying many of the same multimedia editing tools as you’ll find in One True Media’s service, SpotMixer gives you the opportunity to make your own campaign creative to be used across ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
We’ve all been waiting for the glory days of mobile to arrive, and there’s probably nobody that wants it more than the advertising sector. From mobile games to the portal approach, mobile advertisers have been toying around with ways to get their messages to users by various means, which ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The 80/20 rule of economics can be applied to a lot of life's dilemmas, but blogger Jodie Clements used the rule as one of her "10 Commandments" to help her drop 10 pounds and feel better overallContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Yesterday we heard about Madonna’s upcoming Hard Candy concert, which will be streamed online through MSN. As I noted, there are several other ways in which concerts online are being distributed amongst the crowds of online usersContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Ready for May flowers? First, a last April shower of this month's most trafficked posts:
Top 10 Harmless Geek PranksApril Fool's Day: "Since the dawn of time, geeks have been playing harmless pranks on their beloved (but unsuspecting) associates, and it's up to all of us to carry the torch ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Can we please stop calling this a recession?
I scream this at my monitor at least four or five times a day. Somehow, though hook or crook, the entire tech blogosphere seems to be fooled into thinking that we’re in the midst of the Great Depression, and it’s beginning to be ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
xtimeline is a service that launched last summer as a wiki-like way of recording history. Having seen a handful of competitors emerge in the months since its launch, I’m happy to see that xtimeline is revealing a new version of both its website and its widget offeringContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Are you the last kid on your block without a social network? I’m not asking if you’ve somehow avoided joining a social network - I’m almost certain everyone in the known universe is a member of at least two or three. I’m asking if you haven’t actually created your own ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Scribd and StandOutJobs, two startups we covered extensively here at Mashable, are announcing this evening a partnership. In case you need a refresher, Scribd is the company that makes the cool embedding platform that allows you to put PDF documents into web pages, and StandOutJobs extends a series of web-based ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
One of the things we discussed on the last Elite Tech News podcast was the newly acquired ability for border control agents to seize laptops, phones, cameras and other electronic devices that may contain material suitable for incriminating the ownersContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Lycos Europe is available to the right buyer. If you’re a newcomer to the internet (and by newcomer, I mean someone who has joined sometime in the last ten years or so), you may not be familiar with the former search giantContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Personalized shopping tool and wish list aggregator Wishpot has closed its Series A round of investment, adding another $1 million in funding from Monster Venture Partners. Other investors participating in this round include H-Farm, an Italian Internet development group, and existing investors including Adrian HanauerContinue Reading....
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The Google I/O event is coming up at the end of May here, and it’s set to be a defining moment for a lot of Web 2.0, particularly the social web. Just about every big name in the social networking world and at the OpenSocial side of things at Google ...
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