Category: Tech

The latest stable version of Google’s Chrome browser adds the ability to translate web pages on the fly. It also adds a rich set of privacy controls to fine-tune your browsing experience. Keep in mind that this is the latest stable version, so you don’t have to worry about dealing with beta or alpha software […]

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Today, Google announced a new tool that makes it simple for current Microsoft Exchange customers to move into the cloud and switch to Google Apps. Tensions between Microsoft and Google have been mounting in this arena. Each has come out with videos basically going at the other. Microsoft directly down-playing Googles cloud-based services and Google […]

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If this title didn’t make much sense to you, it’s understandable. This story caught me off-guard as well and what Canon wants to do here seems pretty odd. Rather than being happy with an official-looking “canon.com” web address for it’s business dealings, Canon wants to purchase the “.Canon” top-level domain. You’re reading that right, it’s…

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Microsoft unveiled a preview release of Internet Explorer 9 today during their Mix 10 keynote. It aims to support all the latest web standards. You can grab the preview from http://www.ietestdrive.com, unless you happen to run Windows XP. It seems IE9 throws XP under the bus, so those users will have to stick with something […]

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The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. The Google Nexus One phone is now available for AT&T customers. Up until now, it’s 3G technology wasn’t compatible with AT&T and could only be used with T-Mobile and some other carriers. Apparently, AT&T and others use a different frequency, so these customers could only access […]

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PayPal recently overhauled their iPhone App and added a few features to make it much more useful for users. Not only is the redesign visually appealing, but the interface itself has been greatly enhanced. You can get it for free here.
Also benefiting greatly from the release of this new PayPal application is the startup Bump […]

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Springpad is a free web application that wants to help you remember those things you think are important or interesting. It offers a web clipper, a mobile application, and a posting email address to help you save things and keep track of what you have saved before. Everything is automatically organized and enhanced to help […]

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It has been estimated that Apple has already received about 150,000 pre-orders for the device, which will be delivered some time in April. Apparently, this doesn’t even include people who have pre-ordered at their local Apple Stores. The 150,000 number is the people who have pre-ordered the device online. Acording to one source, “Apple stores […]

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Today, during a keynote speech at SXSW, Twitter founder Evan Williams talked about what’s going on with the popular micro-blogging platform. Among other things, Ev mentioned a new set of web frameworks, known as @anywhere, that will allow website owners and brands to better integrate with Twitter via it’s rich API. While there are already […]

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LoKast is an iPhone app by NearVerse exploring a new dimension in location-based technology. There is an ever-growing number of new and already existing applications looking to jump on the location sharing band-wagon. Most are the same concept: simply a way to broadcast your location to your social networks. LoKast takes a different approach, creating […]

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WeWorked is a simple web application to help you manage your companies time and resources. Your staff can submit their time worked via the web for your approval. Leave is automatically accrued according to your specifications and staff has easy access to the information. Timesheets are generated automatically and can be viewed or printed.
Add users […]

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Apple’s iPad has been available for pre-order since 8:30am Friday morning. They took down their site temporarily in order to update and prepare. Not sure why a company like Apple can’t just update the site without taking the whole thing down. I assume it’s some type of marketing tactic as they do this all the […]

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The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals again upheld a jury’s verdict saying that Microsoft “willfully infringed on a patent awarded to i4i.” The verdict was originally affirmed in December and Microsoft was to pay about $240 million in damages. They were also supposed to remove a specific feature of Microsoft Word 2007 starting in January. […]

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Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere
FourWhere is a mashup of Foursquare and Google Maps that provides a visual representation of venues overlayed on a map. Clicking a venue shows you recent checkins and comments. The interface is a little weird, but you should be able to figure things out from the right-click menu. Created by […]

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Playstation’s new motion controller has been officially named the Playstation Move. Given the devices appearance, I’m sure any one of us could have come up with something a little more spicy. This controller lets you interact with certain games on the Playstation through the motion of your arms. If you’ve ever played a Wii or […]

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