Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
The New York Times Well blog asked nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden to round up the healthiest easy-to-find foods that rarely make their way into our shopping carts. The resulting 11 foods, ranging from beets and Swiss chard to pumpkin seeds and sardines, represent healthy options that you should be ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The folks over at Royal Pingdom have discovered an interesting trend: Google Trends shows that the number of searches for both “web hosting” and “hosting” has decreased quite rapidly in the past few years.
This could be for any number of reasons, as they’ve noticed in the post: change of ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Last week we told you about iGoogle's new look, which they've rolled out to a few users in June and will continue to roll out to users through July. However, if you're dying to start using the new iGoogle today you can head to the iGoogle Sandbox Sign Up page ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Mac OS X only: Freeware application ZDNet Clock overclocks your Mac Pro's processor for faster performance. As the name suggests, the application is made by the German branch of tech web site ZDNet, and according to the download page the latest generation Mac Pro (3.1) with a 2.8GHz processor ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Slide’s SuperPoke! seems to be the marketing tool of choice, especially for MTV Networks. After the success of the Juno Pregnancy SuperPoke!, MTV Network’s VH1 is now teaming up with Slide for the “I Love Money SuperPoke!Fest.” This is a gap-bridging promotion between online and on-air mediums, where ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The Netgear Open Source Router is aimed specifically at running third-party, open-source firmwares like previously mentioned Tomato or <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/router/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router-178132Continue Reading....
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
UPDATE: see the comments section for a template you can use to create your own extended Twitter profile!
While simplicity and a 140 character limit on messages is a big reason for Twitter’s success, the limitation of 160 characters on your profile biography is a constraint for some people, especially ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
What's the best method for purchasing music online?How can I reduce the bubbles in soda?What's the point of backing up my DVD collection if I can just download replacements?<a href="http://ask.metafilterContinue Reading....
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Social network hi5 has just announced its acquisition of application creator PixVerse for an undisclosed amount. PixVerse, the Flash-based virtual world chat platform, has branched out into social networking applications such as Pix Chat and Pix Wall, both of which have gained some traction on hi5’s social network platform, ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
As ingrained as Digg has become with certain social media and bookmarking crowds, there are still some underlying issues that particular users have had with Digg’s loss of emphatic promotion as Digg spreads its influence across more and more topicsContinue Reading....
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
meOwns is a new wish list creation site that lets you add items you own or would like to own. As with most other wish list sites such as Wishpot, you can add items you’re interested in, and use this expression of your taste in order to find like-minded ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The Lost island may have a grip on the Losties, but if you were to be stranded on the island, which celebrities would you want with you?Continue Reading....
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
All things Mac web site Macworld details how to set your instant message privacy status on a schedule to help you stay productive during your busy times. Unfortunately there are no IM clients that allow for privacy scheduling, so the article details how to adjust your privacy settings on ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Whether you're new to this site or you're a star commenter, chances are there are lots of things you didn't know you could do hidden in these pages. From comments to profiles to tags to feeds to embedding images and video clips into your posts here, a little know-how ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
AOL is upping the ante in an effort to get more application developers on Facebook and Bebo using its WIDGNET advertising network. The company has announced that it will be offering developers a “guaranteed CPM” on ads served across their applications.
While on the surface this sounds like a great ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The advent of the Internet and social media have spawned a number of how-to sites, which has made finding tips and resources easier than ever before. We’ve put together a list of 10 essential sites where you can find or in some cases contribute tips and how-to’s on a wide ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Windows only: Free search utility Locate32 uses Unix-style databases and locate commands to find files by name, size, creation dates, or any other system criteria. While it can't search the insides of files like Google Desktop, Vista's Search 4Continue Reading....
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Rhapsody, Real Networks' music subscription service, has heeded the moves of Amazon and other restriction-free music sellers by opening up its own non-DRM MP3 store. The move also <a href="http://newsContinue Reading....
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
June's been a busy month around here. Before you flip the calendar page to July, make sure you didn't miss any of this month's most popular posts. Power User's Guide to Firefox 3"You already know about Firefox 3's marquee new features, but now it's time to dig deep and unearth ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Most people are surprised to find out that Israel is a small country with only seven million people (less than the population of NJ), that has become a major player in the global Internet industry and has the second-largest concentration of startups per capita after Silicon Valley. More than 400 ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Tele-commuter and IBM "social computing evangelist" Luis Suarez writes in the New York Times that he was able to cut down his weekly incoming email by 80 percent—seriously—by responding to messages that would normally start a chain reaction through wikis, blogs, and instant messaging instead. He also started picking up ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Windows only: Free utility CrystalDiskInfo keeps tabs on your hard drive health, including temperature, S.M.A.R.T. disk reporting, and the number of power cycles and run time on each disk. Although there is no silver bullet that can predict hard drive failure, if you're paranoid about your data you might ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Here’s Mashable’s latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media sponsorship.
July 2, 2008: We’re right smack in the middle of summer in San Francisco. It’s the perfect time for an old-fashioned Big ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
When most people think online project management and collaboration tools, they automatically think of Basecamp from 37signals. As a company they have helped define online project management as a serious contender in what has traditionally been an offline, software driven enterprise utility. But markets are always richer with choice, and ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Marketing whiz Seth Godin is right when he says that the thank yous dished out at the beginnings of conferences, large meetings, and other confabs are usually inelegant, rushed, and jammed-together, boring the listeners and not really crediting the helpers. His suggested fix is to take or grab pictures of ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
There’s a new company called Apture launching a new product today with one major objective in mind: make content-sharing easier on the Web. I spoke at length with Apture co-founder Tristan Harris, who found that the Web in its current state is still a reflection of our mental projection ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Linux only: If you've got a batch of audio files to convert, or you're just not keen on messing with a full-fledged editor to do the job, Audio-Convert-Mod, a free Linux utility, has you covered. The straight-forward app takes in files, asks you how and where to convert them to, ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Site-finding service StumbleUpon has taken full advantage of Firefox 3's "Awesome Bar" by integrating its browser toolbar/extension with Firefox favorites. A new option in the latest version of the <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/top/download-of-the-day-stumbleupon-firefoxinternet-explorer-214626Continue Reading....
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Personalized start page Netvibes has added an often sought feature: Google Search. If it doesn’t show for you yet, close Netvibes and reopen it. This is how it looks:
The settings for Google Search can be found in the Settings - General dialog, accessible from the upper right corner in your ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Soceeo is one of those interesting Web 2.0 startup projects that is easy to stereotype, but is hard to describe succinctly (or at least to accurately describe succinctly). If you take a step back and look at others that it most closely competes with, you could say it’d be services ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
As the pressure builds for useful mobile applications on both the device manufacturer and wireless provider ends, the need for platforms that publish content across a wide array of mobile phones also increases. Cascada Mobile, a mobile application publishing service, has just launched its new development platform called BreezeContinue ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Earlier this year we caught wind of Rhapsody’s plans to extend its reach as far as it can go wen it comes to digital music. From wifi-enabled devices to online social networks, it became quie clear that Rhapsody was really beginning to tap into its newly established relationship with ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Live on the East Coast and want to see Lifehacker's post timestamps on Eastern time? Sick of having to check the "preview comment" box every time you write a comment? In the tradition of the Better Gmail Firefox extension, today we present the Better Lifehacker extension, which adds useful ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
What do you do for an encore once you’ve built the largest contextual advertising network on the Web? Apparently in Google’s case, use it to air cartoons. According to The New York Times, the Google Content Network will soon launch, debuting with short webisodes of a show called ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Adding another internal hard drive to your desktop computer isn't difficult, but a notebook is a whole other ball of wax. Still, blogger Fewt details how he got the job done and came out the other side with a second 100GB hard drive in his laptopContinue Reading....
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application WPanorama turns your panoramic photos into videos or screensavers. We've already shown you how to stitch your photos into beautiful panoramas, but once you've done that, there aren't a lot of great ways to show them offContinue Reading....
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The volume of sites and services on the Web doing their thing on the Q&A circuit is quite extensive. There is Yahoo Answers of course. Yedda is anotherContinue Reading....
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Windows/Linux/Windows Mobile: It's not the whole world-knowledge shebang, but Pocket Wikipedia drops 14 million and 24,000 images onto your PC or Windows Mobile device. The articles are hand-picked to cover the widest array of material you can fit into 175 MB, and the interface is condensed to offer quick searching ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The puppet will live, but the dream will die. So says Loren Feldman of 1938 Media and the technorati favorite, ShelIsrael.com, a domain now purported to be in transfer to the man who inspired the spoof.
If Feldman’s blog post yesterday, written to the effect of an angered end to the ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Student weblog College Being recognizes both how delicious and bad for you many sodas are, so they're rounding up a few tasty alternatives to the addictive beverages. None of the suggestions are terribly original—they just fall under the other-things-you-can-drink category—but sometimes a good alternative is all you needContinue Reading....
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Start pages come in all shapes and sizes. There is the very simple and straightforward Google.com that many Web users maintain. Others prefer the more general-purpose Yahoo.com domain. Some segments, though, enjoy customizable, widgeted palettes like Netvibes, <a href="http://wwwContinue Reading....
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Conventional wisdom says politics is ugly, politics is blood sport. And conventional wisdom is spot on. But the field of play is no longer reserved only for the Washington Beltway. Nor is it the sole domain of London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow or Beijing. Now the YouTube set have ample ammunition ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
On Thursday we asked you what books have changed your life, and over 250 thoughtful comments later, it's clear you all have book shelves stuffed with meaningful tomes. Now it's time to share the loveContinue Reading....
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Features, I’ve recently come to realize, can be obstacles. Problems. The more powerful an application is, the more specialized it is, and thus with increased power its intended audience shrinks, and ironically, it becomes more, not less, vulnerable to competition.
Specialization, traditionally, is a good thing. But, as Alexander Bard ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
If your two-wheeled transport is in need of a seasonal tuneup or any kind of fix, The Bicycle Tutor can clearly explain what you'll need to get it done. Run by a photography enthusiast and serious bike geek, the site offers plain-English tutorials in both hi-res video and full text. ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Today’s the day. Spain v. Germany. Vienna, Austria. Are you ready? After weeks of footwork by national football teams competing in the Euro 2008 tourney, but two forces remain. They begin their battle for top honors at 2:30 ESTContinue Reading....
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Mac OS X only: Free, open-source application Cocoalicious is a dedicated browser for navigating your bookmarks from social bookmarking site del.icio.us. The app provides a three-pane browsing interface similar to many newsreaders, with tags on the left, bookmark titles on top, and a browser window below displaying each bookmark ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
I just come to know about a new service which supports the blogging by email.you only needs to send a mail containing a blog post and then this service will create a blog for you.No doubt it makes life much simple but then it can be misused easily.consider a case ...
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