Techmeme: Amazing Tech News Aggregator Without the Blog Spam

Quick load time? Check. No blog spam? Check. Good RSS feed? You better believe it. Really great supplement to Digg's front page for ther latest tech news and information.

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What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 -

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions.

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Aptana: open source IDE for iPhone

In an AjaxWorld Conference this week, Aptana had one of the more impressive presentations on how easy it is to develop Ajax applications for the iPhone.They presented open source Aptana Studio IDE. It is a full Ajax development environment and it is available as a stand-alone as well as an Eclipse plug-in.

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Kiss Microsoft Project Goodbye!

If you use Microsoft Project, you might want to seriously consider three alternatives that run completely on the Web. In addition to supporting more contemporary features right now, and getting updated with even newer gadgets more frequently than Microsoft can muster, these products, being completely Web-based, offer much more robust collaboration

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Wacky Apple patent application shows dual-screen 'iPhone 2.0

ok i have said my next phone should be a candy bar sized phone, that will open up from the side not the top. also needs nipples for the keyboard when it shows on the screen.

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iPhone crushing LG LH2300 announced with 800x480 resolution

LG loves to bring drama to the mobile arena. When it comes to iPhone competition you can now add the LG LH2300: 3 inch 800×480 touchscreen, 3G enabled device to the list. The LG LH2300 packs more resolution than the iPhone as well as 3G connectivity, T-DMB mobile TV receiver, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD and a sleek design. To ma

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All New Tech Support Forum Uses Videos To Fix Your PC

A brand new tech support forum actually helps you by making custom videos for free to help you solve problems with your computer and computing related needs. Great site that hopes to help many certainly worth checking out. Having fixed many issues with computers via the standard forum I found having a support video to show me is so much better.

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New IBM Software Brings Web 2.0 to Mobile Phones

IBM announced that the Lotus Expeditor software platform is extending desktop computing and Web 2.0 capabilities to mobile phones.

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Nokia 3555

The launch of this phone was delayed due to U.S gov . T-mobile officially announced that the infrastructure of it’s 3G network is ready and will be online until Q2 of this year . Nokia 3555 looks like 6555 design and includes a TFT screen of 262K colors , and a second display with 98 x 65 pixels resolution .

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Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload

These days, it seems everyone has an opinion about how to deal with information overload, especially when it comes to email management. There are numerous methodologies, best practices, tips, and tutorials available, but are any of them really effective? We'll explore that question as we delve into the top _ email management methodologies.

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HTC Calls Android Phone "Dream", Feels LIke One Already

More details of HTC's Google phone are emerging, it seems. The handset is to be called "Dream", will be touchscreen and have a large QWERTY keypad. So, what else do we know? And, more importantly, when is it coming out?Well, the HTC handset is around five inches long and 3 inches wide with a keypad that either slides or swivels out to make

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9 MySpace Apps Worth A Look

MySpace has launched their initial platform applications, and we’ve picked out nine of the initial crop to give you a sampling of what they’re bringing to you. So, prepare for the onslaught! By the way, if you thought MySpace pages were already crowded enough with various things, it’s about to get a whole lot worse!

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Komodo Edit: An Open-source Scripting Environment

ActiveState announced the release of Komodo Edit 4.3 last week, the first version of the cross-platform programming tool to be distributed as open source. Komodo Edit is now tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL, just like Firefox.

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The Psychology of Human Misjudgment

A pretty interesting article........

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Web 3.0 Demo The Future WebTech will bring Cross-Linking

This is a sample. Push buttons on the right to see what we can do with our technology.How works Cross-Linking right now @Web2.0?

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YouTube Seeing AdSales Stymied-Marketers' Attribution Fears?

YouTube, the largest video haven on the Web, is oft described as a potential gold mind - both for its owner, Google, and for the advertisers that tout products and services beside (or, now in some cases, inside) the playback window.

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ProBlogger.net Top? Create a Video Tutorial and Help Others

Video tutorials can be created simply with screen recorder software. This will only record your screen and your voice.By the way:What do U think about ProBlogger.net?

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24 Great Niche Web Design Galleries

CSS galleries can be a great source of inspiration, but if you’re looking for something in particular they can be a bit of a nightmare. Since niche galleries have a tighter focus it allows them to be more detailed. Below you’ll find a list of niche galleries, that focus on things from color schemes, to layout, and specific content types.

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24 Hours in the Life of IT Professionals

5:30 AM: Dragged to consciousness by alarm clock. Pulled out of wonderful dream where Vista desktop upgrade went without a hitch. 3:30 PM: VP of Sales stops in office to show off new iPhone. Wants IT to support it.

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Eclipse to stress component, runtime efforts

The efforts will be featured at the EclipseCon 2008 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Conference highlights also include a presentation by an executive from Eclipse holdout Microsoft on Wednesday

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How the Mayan Calendar Works

For the people of ancient Maya, calendars were just as important to daily life as they are to people today. In this article, you'll see how the Mayan calendar came to be and the meaning behind each type of calendar the Mayans created.

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3 Powerful Offshoring Tips

Tips for creating and managing offshore programming teams.

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Best Tools for Mobile PC Users: Hotspot Hot Stuff

Uber-mobile bedouins rely on Wi-Fi to get their work done. Here, we share a comprehensive list of their favorite tools--from software to laptops and accessories--for working from public hotspots.

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Nokia N810

The countdown for CTIA started , after CES , CeBIT and Mobile World Congress, very important events of this year , now we have CTIA 2008. Looks like Nokia will launch a new phone called N810 .It might be just a rumour , but we will know for sure on 1 april , when CTIA starts. N810 will have WiMAX support , a very powerful CPU ...

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Must Know Shortcut Keys for Designers

A must know list of very handy shortcut keys for any blogger or designer that is serious about time…You must learn these shortcut keys!

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The Best Tools for Visualization

here are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best:

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Why Apple Will Dominate Next Generation Computing

Last week Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple Town hall meeting and announced the iPhone SDK. This powerful platform that Apple uses to create beautiful applications for MacOS and iPhone is now completely open. The enterprise and SDK solutions will go hand-in-hand to propel the iPhone to be THE handheld device of the future.

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Visualizing tagging behavior in Nicovideo [Nico Nico Douga]

Project Description:In Japan, Nicovideo (Japanese call this service Nico Nico Douga) is a known user generated content service similar to YouTube. Users in Nicovideo create new videos by remixing and adding new features to existing

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Another Touchscreen Phone But Wait, This One Has A Surprise!

Check out this concept mobile phone called the Mooon+. One too many “o’s” in there but I appreciate the clean design. It’s got that big gorgeous touchscreen, sleek design, sexy metal accents, and a digital camera. So what’s the big deal right? The mouth piece detaches and turns into a bluetooth headset.

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Acquia Unveils Roadmap to Commercial drupal

Acquia provided new details on plans to deliver a commercially supported distribution and value-added network services based on the wildly popular Drupal open source social publishing system.

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Google Calendar Sync

Want to use a web-based calendar but can’t because of syncing, or lack thereof? Google Calendar Sync was unveiled tonight allows you to sync your Google Calendar with your Outlook Calendar. The program works both ways and should prove useful for anyone who fancies having their Calendar data available wherever they are.

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20+ Free Web Design Ebooks And Guides

Even though there are plenty of books available in stores on almost all aspects of web design, you don’t need to spend a dime when you can get all the basic information for free. The following list of free web design ebooks and guides will get you started building accessible, usable, and useful web sites in no time.

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What Makes a Great Video Blog?

In case you hadn’t noticed, video is kind of a big deal on the interwebs, now. It may have put the thought in your mind to do a video blog or start adding videos to your current blog.

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Apple TV vs. Vudu vs. Xbox 360: Video Download Battlemodo

If you've been wondering how to compare the video-download options of Apple TV, Vudu and the Xbox 360, I think today is your lucky day.

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10 Tips For Improving Your Appointment Setting Skills

Your appointments may be big group meetings, one-on-ones, or even job interviews. You may even be skipping the face-to-face aspect of meeting and be taking conference calls or using Skype. No matter what type of meeting you’ve scheduled, though, these tips can help you improve your appointment setting skills.

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Top 15 Concept Cell-Phones

Concept Phones are great, as they give you an idea about what designers can do when they don't have to be concerned about the mundane stuff. Here's a list of Top Ten concept phones that might or might not meet Realism.

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Text To Speech News and Blogs

No time to read the day’s news on your homepage before hopping in the car and rushing off to work? Check out what Pimp My News, a new text-to-speech service which converts your favorite news and blog sites into audio

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artists need only 1,000 True Fans to make a living

The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches. — But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators

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Microsoft's Silverlight goes mobile with Nokia

Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft’s Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant’s rich media development framework.

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Google launches Google MOBILE Gears

Google is bringing offline apps to mobile phones - and this has nothing to do with Android.Google Gears, which allows developers to create apps that run on Firefox and Internet Explorer when offline, is supposed to launch later today under the name Mobile Gears.

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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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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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