Microsoft new device manager software

Trying to keep up with RIM, MS is showing off their not yet released System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008. needs WM 6.1

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Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC

If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting?

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Kevin Rose Can’t Keep Up With E-mail

He can’t keep up with it all, and wanted to come up with a way to stop offending people who he never gets back to by sharing some of his e-mail data with them.

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Microsoft's Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails

"Today, if you e-mail things around, it's very typical for the information to go far and wide," Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in a 2003 address to a conference in Seattle. "The next thing you know, it's in the newspaper."

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Platform-as-a-service provider Rollbase launched today

Marketing its offerings as web-based software geared toward small- and medium-sized businesses. While the PaaS terminology conjures up images of Rollbase competing with something

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Trying to build the next BIG Web 2.0 Co.? Read this first!

An excellent post about what to do when all you have is an idea and no means to implement it yourself. You need more than just great web developers to make execution a success!

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Video Sharing Site CrunchyRoll Crunches Into $4.05 Million

CrunchyRoll recently removed all ads on the site and the blog post is worth reading. They are currently generating revenue from donations with badges for users who provide a donation

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11 Useful Email Addresses

"0. www@web2mail.com - Send an email with the URL of the web page in the Subject field (e.g. www.cnn.com) and you’ll soon find a copy of that web page in your Inbox. A perfect option when there’s no [WWW] Internet access in the area or access is restricted (for instance, you want to read the BBC homepage in China)."

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Nokia Shows Off Nanotech Mobile Phone Concept

Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the UK's University of Cambridge - has been put on show at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

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Hollywood and the internet - There will be blood

Hollywood is doing its best to ignore the internet. That is a big mistake. The internet may look unfamiliar and dangerous, but it could be the ultimate home-entertainment weapon. No trip to a thinly stocked retailer, no late fees, no waiting for a package in the post.

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12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them

There are loads of different types of clients out there and chances are at some point you’ll get to meet all of them. So let’s take a look through some typical clients and see if you recognise a few of your own in there! And the contractors

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8 steps to life change and success

Those who admire successful individuals and desire to achieve their own success want to know the steps they must take. There is no set path to success, it varies depending upon the person and the situations they face. However, these are 8 steps that you can walk to achieve a change in your life.

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Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them. Some technique is missing? L

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Buying The DVD: Unhelpful And Unethical

These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment ‘our way’: de-loused, delivered efficiently in economical, good-looking codecs. Because we rarely turn it on, it’s been easy to forget just how cynical, unsatisfying and downright venal television, as a distribution medium, has become.

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Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Many of the most successful web 2.0 companies understand this intuitively and it is reflected in their product management. Although they all have a general vision for their product, it does not spring full formed from their minds.

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51 Power User Ways to Reinvent the Windows Wheel

Forget what you think you know about Windows! Whether you use XP or Vista, these 51 tips and tweaks will give you a whole new OS

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12 Power Networking Questions

If you want to supercharge your in person networking skills, then these twelve questions are the foundational keys and the tools you will need to expand your network rapidly.

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Pen Style Personal Computer

You might’ve got one of these “hard-to-believe” emails and wondered if this is true or is this a myth. Take a look at those Pen Style Personal Computer pictures.

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How To Manage Feature Creep: 8 Simple Tips

Feature creep (also known as scope or requirement creep) is the term used for additional requirements that get tacked on outside of the original project scope. Here's some essential ways to help you manage feature creep on your own projects.

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doubleTwist makes DRM-stripping, sharing easy as pie

doubleTwist is a new venture cofounded by DVD Jon, the hacker who made a name for himself by cracking a number of prevalent DRM schemes. Except this time, he wants to help out average Joes and Janes free themselves from the complicated world of DRM by making it as easy as drag-and-drop.

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A Futuristic Mobile Device Mockup ... Pretty Cool [PICS]

The idea behind this concept is exploit the internet ability in a mobile device. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search all in one slim device.

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BBC's iPlayer nukes "all you can eat" ISP business model

The UK’s largest broadcaster finally launched its online video streaming and download service on Christmas Day. Plusnet - an ISP - has provided a preliminary analysis of the traffic and the results should send shivers down the spine of any ISP currently offering an unlimited “all-you-eat” service.

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10 Apps To Have For Your Symbian S60 Phone

I have 5.. now to down load the other 5

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The Analog Cell Phone Timeline (PIC)

As of today, the analog cellphone is no more. Here's the complete timeline of its development, since Greece in 490BC to February 18, 2008, the day in which networks are no longer obligated to provide with analog cellphone coverage.

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Mysteries Of Computer From 65BC Are Solved

The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck and recovered statues and other artifacts from the site.

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Watch DVDs on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc. with HandBrake

So you just bought an iPod touch or iPhone and want to stock it with movies from your DVD library. There are countless commercial utilities that promise to rip DVDs, but I recommend trying HandBrake. This open-source (read: free) utility for Windows (download), Mac (download), and Linux converts your DVDs for viewing on iPods, iPhones, Sony PSPs

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Windows Live Hotmail program manager's e-mail hacked

Windows Live Hotmail's Lead Program Manager had his e-mail account hacked... repeatedly. Welcome to the dark and rainy side of cloud computing.

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Intel and Nokia working on seamless WiFi / WiMAX

Along with Nokia, Intel is developing a technology with which a person could continue listening to Internet radio or watching online video without a disruption in service.

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Modu LEGO-Like Cellphone System Video Hands-On

Modu is a very small cellphone that carries your personal data everywhere and you can plug into "jackets", which are specialized hardware modules that transform it into all kinds of things, like multimedia players, a full-fledge PDA with full QWERTY keyboard, gaming handhelds, GPS and whatever you want. Seeing the concept work is quite cool.

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samsung mini projector goes mobile in March

Samsung returns with a hot little accessory. The MBP-100 mini projector casts a 20-inch display from cellphones or presumably appropriately jacked portable media players of all kinds. No details at the moment but it's expected to hit S.Korea in March and hopefully go global soon thereafter.

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Really, We Don't Want to Join Your Social Network

Dude explains why incorporating social networking functionality into an existing business' website isn't that great an idea.

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Microsoft Buys Mobile Developer Danger

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy cell-phone software developer Danger Inc., bolstering the company's stake in the growing market for mobile device applications.

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Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 iPhone killing QWERTY

It's here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. SE's new XPERIA brand will focus on multimedia and mobile web communication. The X1 then, brings a 3-inch wide VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera (with photo light), A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, and quad-band GSM/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUPA... I want one

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LG Phones First to Support the DivX Video Format

LG Electronics and video compression provider, DivX have announced that the LG Viewty camera phone (LG-KU990) is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX format.

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Alltop Has All the Tops Stories, and Egos, Covered

Introducing Guy Kawasaki's latest startup, Alltop.

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U.S. Internet Users Viewed 10 Billion Videos Online in Dec

Wow...the numbers seem unbelievable!!!

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EQO Mobile

A New EQO Mobile IM client for your phone, no skype support though. Java based.

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Turn Your S60 Phone Into A Hot Spot

JoikuSpot, a new piece of software for the Symbian S60 smartphones, might be the best thing that’s ever happened to web workers, though it is likely to raise the ire of mobile operators.

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Nokia Audiobook software beta for S60 available

Here's a nice little freebie if you're a fan of audiobooks and have a Symbian S60 device: Nokia has a beta Audiobook application ready and waiting for you to download.

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Instant Collaboration Software Solution

KonoLive is the instant collaboration software that is defining the future of knowledge sharing.



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Open Handset Group announces Linux based mobile phone

The open handset consortium, the LiMo Foundation has announced the on-schedule availability in March 2008 of the first release of the LiMo Platform - a Linux-based software platform for mobile handsets-together with the immediate public availability of the application programming interface (API) specifications.

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8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

"An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design..."

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4 Tools to Backup your Mobile Phone

Some services to backup your mobile phone [contacts list, calendar entries, text messages, browser bookmarks, phone settings, notes etc]

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101 Design Patterns & Tips for Developers

An excellent collection of useful tips on design patterns, refactoring and other programming tricks

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Nano (this is really cool)

I have no idea how to explain this...almost like an interactive timeline thing.....it's pretty neat....

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50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

If your business limits its online presence to advertising banners and blogging, it's missing out. The Internet provides powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and more. Take advantage of these tools by asserting your company's presence online ...

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World's First Phone With Fold-Away Screen

New phone is the size of two business cards. This gadget is no bigger than other mobile phones by making a screen that folds up when not in use. The 5-inch display of Polymer Vision's "Readius" is the first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the that the device can fit into a pocket.

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Twitter Opens Their Messaging Platform

In the first post on the new Twitter Technology Blog, Alex Payne announced that Twitter is releasing their underlying messaging platform, which they call, “Starling”, to the community.

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Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

This article provides hand-picked professional Flash tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Most sources can serve as the entry point for further tutorials.

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Digg-like navigation bar using CSS

This tutorial explains how to design a digg-like navigation bar using a liquid design with rounded corners for links.

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IBM to launch Lotus Notes for iPhone & iPod touch

E-mail software from IBM will be made available on Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices under a new partnership that brings together two big rivals of Microsoft.

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Sink or Swim? The Top Moving Sites Of 2007

With 2008 now more than two weeks old, it’s a great time to look back at last year and see how the web has changed. What sites experienced a surge of traffic in 2007? Has anyone fallen off the map? We compared the top 1000 sites in December 2007 with those in December of the previous year to find out.

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Sign Of The Times: Web 2.0 Outsourcing Humor

Something that you don’t often see a lot written about in new media is the strong trend by startups to outsource a lot of their work. Digg for example was originally designed by Kevin Rose outsourcing the job on elance... "doubtsourcing" is a webcomic exploring the lighter side of "Outsourcing 2.0"

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Ultra-mobile future beckons for PCs

The desktop PC's days of dominance could be numbered as laptops and ultra-mobile PCs begin to reap the benefit of ever greater, and more efficient, computing power."Soon you will be able to have a connected experience everywhere you go," said Mr Moore.

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New sun-spot activity threatens mobile phone networks

A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even mobile phones, showed signs it was on its way late Thursday when the cycle's first sunspot appeared in the sun's Northern Hemisphere.

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Building a .com in 24 hours

This is about how I spend 24 concentrated hours spread out over 4 days during Holidays to build the online service Wigitize.com. What I tried to do for this project is use some new methods/tools out there to solve practical problems in my weakness area: design, frontend coding, system administration and SEO.

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Ten Common Objections to Social Media and to Respond

here is a list of the Top 10 Objections to New Online Tools and What You Can Say in Response. surveyed nearly 1300 friends on Twitter and got all kinds of thoughtful replies. Below is that list;

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SlingPlayer 2.0, SlingModem, and SlingCatcher details

The makers of the Slingbox are updating their software making it easier to flip channels and record clips. They've also announced the SlingModem, a cable modem with SlingPlayer features built right in. And the SlingCatcher which lets you stream internet video to a PC gets an updated release date.
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Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked--Multi-touch, Motion Gesture

This isn't Windows Mobile 6.1—which we've seen leaks of recently—but the next full version of Windows Mobile that fixes a bunch of problems we've seen with the platform. The huge changes are multi-touch gestures (including flicking, swiping and drawing on the screen), motion gestures (shaking the phone), Windows Vista-like redesign.

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Pointui Skins Windows Mobile phones, fixes the OS

Pointui, the app that sits on top of Windows Mobile 5/6 in order to skin it into something actually usable. It's so awesome that I actually made a movie out of it, including Jesus-style subtitles, so that you guys can see just how awesome it is. (Have I said that it's awesome?)

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5 Make it or Break it Characteristics of Web Designers 2008

The Independent Web Designer in 2008 | 5 Make It or Break It Characteristics2007 is almost over. Time to start thinking about the future.

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Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites 2007

Our 2007 picks are the best examples of what's new and exciting about the Web right now. Here we honor sites with exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience.

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Remote Desktop for Mobiles

Access your PC from your phone remotely. You can copy, cut, paste files or folders, send, receive e-mails, surf web and a lot of other things. Just download RDM+ to your PC

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New Digg Like Site for Designers

Check out this Digg like site for graphic designers, web designers, multimedia designers, interior designers, etc.

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Most Popular Content on Social News Sites

Ever wonder what kind of content is most popular on the various social news sites? Well wonder no more… We analysed over 500 front-page stories for Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us to try and determine what type of content is generally popular on each site.

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The Year of the New Mobile Operating System

The entrance of two new operating systems from well-known brands shakes up the plans of some mobile operators and indicates some fundamental changes in the mobile industry.

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Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike

IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.

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5 Things I Had to Unlearn to Become Self Made

When I went into business for myself, I knew there would be an ‘unlearning’ process - and I was excited to discover just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

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3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM

Warner is making all of its music available as MP3 files for sale at Amazon's music store.

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OPEN SOURCE GOD: 480+ Open Source Applications

Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications for you to use or build upon.


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How to Build a Web App in 48 Hours

Do you have an idea for a web app? Looking to get it ramped up with a quickness? Here are some steps that will help you fly through a 48 hour development blitz.

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Chat Rooms Are Dead! Long Live the Chat Room!

Columnist John C. Dvorak's showing his age in his latest column, going way back to CompuServe's CB simulator from 1979 to make a point about today's dying chat rooms. The point of this column, which I kind of agree with, is that people still want to chat, but the current systems are a mess

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12 Lessons from Top Business Masters

Warren Buffet, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey and many more share their wisdom with you.

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Ars Technica: Who should Apple buy? Nintendo? Adobe? TiVo?

To put these spectacular numbers in a larger, more spectacular perspective, six months ago Apple was valued at some $100 billion. Today, it is over $170 billion, and will almost certainly break $200 billion by Macworld Expo next month.

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Extreme Home Engineering: How To Build Your Own TiVo

Building your own TiVo—or FreeVo, as some call it—is more than a dream. It’s more than a trend. It’s the new cool way to stick it to The (TiVo) Man while impressing your friends.

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Three Communication Tips that Will Take You to the Top

A handful of core assets that are consistently sought out and rewarded.

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Career Matches by Personality Type

Do the test then see what career is your type..

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Vodafone AUS data plans 3 dec 2007

looks like we will see 5gb for $39.95 from voda this year... looks good

How to take a course at MIT free -- at home

"You may not have the grades, the money or even the means to get to a physics class with one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's best lecturers."

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20+ Public Domain E-Book Sources

"...list of 20+ sources for e-books for your use."

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Top 4 Most Compelling Theories of Everything

There have been numerous theories of everything proposed by theoretical physicists over the last century, but as yet none has been able to stand up to experimental scrutiny, there being tremendous difficulty in getting the theories to produce experimentally testable results. So here are the top 5 most important Theories of Everything nowdays

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49 Open Source Projects in the Spotlight

Open source projects that deserve a round of applause, from the desktop to multimedia to games. Even one called "Gramps." Who names a GPL project Gramps?

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An early look at Google's Android (photo slideshow)

Here's what you, the consumer, would really want to know: An Android phone will most likely support a webkit-compatible browser, Wi-Fi, GSM technology (like EDGE and HSDPA), 3G, threaded text messaging, a photo gallery (with a filmstrip plus grid album view), plus a touch screen.

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What Web Writers Can Learn from the Writer’s Strike

The point for you is this. If you’re freelancing for online producers or blogging for hire, you’re setting yourself up to be exploited. No wait… you are being exploited

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Why I don't go to the movies

This says it all! Too much to comment here... check out the post!

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Top 10 Mistakes of Rookie Filmmakers

Nobody can can cover everything you need to know in a short article, but I can point out the ten most common mistakes I see over and over. Make sure the time you invest into videography is time well spent and not time wasted.

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Picture: Yahoo vs. Google 1996 to 2005

The power of simplicity versus the portal mistake.

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gOS: Where Computers Are Headed

We reported Thursday on the gPC going on sale at Wal-Mart, a $199 bare bones PC that runs a Linux package by the name of gOS. Unlike some initial reports suggested, this isn’t the long fabled Google Operating System, but the folks behind it most definitely had Google on their mind.

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60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

The techniques shown are advanced level and require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop, they actually require talent and knowledge of design, layout, balance, color theory, subtlety, etc. If you are an advanced user, I hope you find these techniques inspiring and helpful.

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6 ways to create lightning fast php scripts

a great must read for any php developer!

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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Slingbox

The Slingbox (not as famous as the TiVo) has a new version that is cheaper, takes up less space and is more flexible than the original.

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10 Effective Ways to Increase Your Energy Levels

Here are 10 simple (and unique) exercises you can use to increase productivity and energy levels. If you are in search of a boost, consider implementing a few of these recommendations over the next few weeks, and see how you feel:

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12 Beautiful Javascript Image Galleries

A nice round-up of Javascript and Ajax based image galleries, complete with screenshots for each one. Worth a look for anyone looking for an image gallery solution.

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Visuwords: a very cool graphic way to explore words

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

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How to Organize the Web

Microsoft proposes a simple solution to the problem of information overload: lists.

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Blockbuster Essentially Admits Defeat to Netflix

"The company will no longer be narrowly focused on its online subscriber count but instead will concentrate on the growth of, and report on, its total membership." In other words, Blockbuster Total Access=fail.

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Hulu Review: What It Is and What It Should Be (Good, and Better)

We've been playing around with News Corp. and NBC's answer to internet video, Hulu, for a couple of days, letting the low-traffic, buttery smooth launch day stretch out more into real time and real traffic conditions before we let loose with our judgment. Let's get this out of the way: YouTube killer it ain't. Same genus, different species.

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Format Your PC less then 10 Minutes

Usually format PC need 40min to 1 hour, this method take you less then 10 min, is another easy way from ghost. It is easy and not require much IT knowledge to make it.

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