Dec 27, 2008

TechCrunch Remember the ill-fated Google-killer Cuil? Named ‘Cuill’ and very much in stealth mode for the first part of the year, they finally emerged end of July 2008 with a ‘massive’ search engine that would rival the most popular search engines of our time with an enormous index, an innovative interface and (Read More)

Dec 26, 2008

Lifehacker Google has taken a more aggressive approach to moving users away from Internet Explorer, recommending that Gmail users install Firefox or Chrome if they want to see Gmail run "an average of twice as... (Read More)

Dec 16, 2008

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Dec 15, 2008

Submitted by Matik72 from Google Reader: I've always found PDFs to be supremely annoying thanks to Acrobat Reader's slow, crashy behavior. Now, Gmail is allowing users to skip the Reader altogether. Now, when you click "View" on an attached PDF, you'll get to view it inside your browser with no mess. All the pages show up thumbnailed on the right, and you can view (Read More)

Dec 14, 2008

Submitted by Ryan Flanigan from Google Reader: TIME has come out with The Top 10 Everything of 2008. The list of 50 categories include "Awkward Moments", "Breakups", "Fashion Faux Pas", to more serious categories like "Financial Collapses", "Green Ideas", "Medical Breakthroughs" and... Top 10 iPhone Apps. Here it is: 1. Pandora Internet Radio 2. AroundMe 3. (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

TechCrunch Only a few days after the launch of its new task manager, Gmail has introduced a new feature allowing users to send free SMS messages through its integrated Chat. To activate the feature, visit the Gmail Labs page and scroll down until you see the appropriate listing (you may also want to activate a few of the other nifty (Read More)

Dec 09, 2008

Mashable! While Google has been tightening its belt in some areas, attempting to photograph every square inch of the world for its Street View product doesn’t appear to be one of them. The company pushed out a massive update today, doubling the amount of terrain covered in the US. In addition to incorporating street level photos (Read More)

Dec 10, 2008

Submitted by Eristoddle: Social media mimics real relationships — in many cases. Would you do the following within real face-to-face relationships?. (Read More)

Dec 07, 2008

Submitted by The Puck from Google Reader: Let’s be clear, there are no rules for who you need to follow on twitter.  You follow who you want, block you want, and talk to whomever you want to talk to.  I’ve had several people tell me that ... (Read More)

Dec 04, 2008

Gizmodo Each release of Windows treats us to a new boot screen. XP had its endless progress bar, and Vista added its emblem. Windows 7, though, gets a strange glowing Microsoft blob. As is always the case with early software, this video could represent a concept that never makes it to manufacture. However, as Ars Technica notes, Mi (Read More)

Dec 02, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg from YouTube: Exhaustive police investigation is underway after CCTV cameras have released footage showing the massacre of the Mumbai attacks unfolded. Al Jazeera's James Bays reports from Mumbai on the footage which sheds new light on the sequence of events, which killed at least 200 people. (Read More)

Dec 02, 2008

Mashable! Twitter competitor Pownce is no more. We’ve followed the story yesterday: it was acquired by Six Apart, but not to develop the service further: simply to acquire the talented people that worked on Pownce. I’d like to quickly revisit the story because I’ve been following Pownce from day one, I’ve actu (Read More)

Dec 01, 2008

Digg dalogi Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening's long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery -- a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store, "it's so sterile," gasps Lisa (Read More)

Nov 30, 2008

Submitted by Stewbagz from blog: Zombie Nutritionist Recommends All-Brain Diet. (Read More)

Nov 27, 2008

Lifehacker Dear free software developers: Before we American nerds sit down to our turkey and mashed potatoes today, know that your creations are at the top of the list of things we're most thankful for. Whether you're an indie hacker putting out the occasional script or an employee at a giant internet company building out a webapp w (Read More)

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