Jul 14, 2009

Engadget Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.If you're unfamiliar with either Showtime's series Weeds or HBO's True Blood, we'll catch you up to speed really quickly. The former is about a widowed h (Read More)

Jun 30, 2009

Gizmodo Months after he explained to us why Pandora wasn't immediately jumping onto Android, CTO Tom Conrad reveals that Pandora is indeed coming to Android now that "the Android universe has developed nicely." [Tom Conrad via Phandroid] . (Read More)

Apr 29, 2009

ReadWriteWeb At the same time as Facebook announced their Open Stream API technology, the company also released a desktop application built with Adobe AIR as a way to demonstrate the sorts of things possible the new technology makes possible. With the app, you're able to interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but witho (Read More)

Apr 15, 2009

Gizmodo Lifehacker's put together a list of ten+two Android apps that are both free and do something marginally useful. Like a clock when you sleep. [Lifehacker] . (Read More)

Apr 13, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Twazzup, which just launched this morning, tries to bridge the gap between Twitter's real-time search and a more traditional search engine. While Twitter's real-time search is great for keeping an eye on current developments, it is not a great tool for seeing which links about a given topic are currently popular. On Twazzup (Read More)

Apr 11, 2009

Search for "google" Last time we compiled our must-have Firefox extensions, it was two years (and one browser version) ago. Our new list keeps some, tosses others, and remains our go-to, Grandmaster list of the best Firefox add-ons. (Read More)

Apr 10, 2009

Gmail Blog Posted by Kent Tamura, Software EngineerWell, it's about time. You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar icon like this:Make sure you're in rich fo (Read More)

Apr 10, 2009

Outside The Beltway | OTB Arizona State has invited President Obama to be its commencement speaker but has decided not to award him an honorary degree, Dawn Teo reports for HuffPo.Universities typically confer an honorary degree on commencement speakers, particularly those who have reached the pinnacle of their career or achieved the top of their fi (Read More)

Apr 02, 2009

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Mar 30, 2009

RotorBlog.com Twitter and Facebook are the two hottest social networking/web 2.0 service right now. And perhaps most of us are using both services for different purposes. While this maybe all well and good, don’t you wish you can integrate both services? Well, here are 10 Twitter-related application available in Facebook.TweetSync -lets (Read More)

Mar 29, 2009

louisgray.com This evening, around 8:25 p.m. Pacific Time, pop star Britney Spears passed President Barack Obama for the most popular Twitter account representing an individual (Both trail CNN Breaking News). While Spears joined Twitter relatively recently, only 6 months ago, to Obama's more than two years ago, the diva and those who hel (Read More)

Mar 28, 2009

Buzzworkers' shared items in Google Reader Gmail is becoming more popular by the day, but it's far from perfect. Let's take a look at some tools that will extend its functionality and makes it an even more worthwhile service.For the desktopgBooks If your browser's bookmarks folder doesn't do enough for you, this clever tool turns your Gmail account into a bookmark (Read More)

Mar 20, 2009

VentureBeat Gmail is by far the most used web application in my life. It’s also the most frustrating.I’m not talking about the downtime issues, or really anything Google is doing wrong with the product — it’s just that I’m getting way more emails than I can handle. The problem is hardly unique to me, as more people use Google’s email s (Read More)

Mar 18, 2009

Mashable! Firefox users love their tabbed browsing capability, but if you leave tabs unchecked they can get completely out of control. For those of you who feel lost in a sea of tabs, there are numerous ways to manage them; Here are over 40 of the best extensions.While we think all of the options we’ve provided are great, we suggest (Read More)

Mar 17, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Alltop, Guy Kawaski's project to get all the best sites on the Web organized by topic, is now offering a customization option. This new feature comes exactly one year from the official birth of Alltop, and on top of amazing growth of the site overall. It's called MyAlltop and it is deceptively simple - but very welcome - an (Read More)

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