Aug 19, 2009

Submitted by Jennifer Fisher: You can counteract age-related changes in the brain with a surprisingly simple regimen of activities guaranteed to nurture and fortify your mental musclepower. (Read More)

Aug 18, 2009

readwriteweb We have seen our fair share of screencasting tools, but we immediately liked Screenr when we first saw it a few days ago. Screenr, which just launched today, lets you record screencasts of up to 5 minutes in length and stands out because of how easy it is to use. Just enter your Twitter credentials and press 'record.' Scree (Read More)

Aug 16, 2009

TechCrunch Facebook has submitted v. 3.0 of their iPhone application to Apple, Joe Hewitt says via Twitter: “Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :)”Hewitt also says he’ll post screen shots and more detais on this Facebook page for the iPhone app next week, and that he’s looking forward to getting started (Read More)

Aug 07, 2009

Submitted by Graeme Wood from blog: (photo credit)So Rupert Murdoch has finally made the announcement that the rest of the newspaper industry has been waiting for: online news content will be hidden behind a big paywall from sometime in 2010. This was always going to be a game of who blinked first; who would take the plunge. Realistically I don't thin (Read More)

Aug 03, 2009

louisgray-com Three years in technology can be an eternity. I marvel that just over three years ago, I was telling you that "RSS Is a Demanding Mistress", showing off a screen capture of my NetNewswire application, powered by Newsgator. At the time, as I complained about having nearly 100 articles to read, I didn't anticipate the impact (Read More)

Jul 31, 2009

Knowledge Hemispheres Consolidated Feed for New Media Google Wave inbox.Google presented a private demonstration of its much-anticipated collaboration tool, Google Wave, this morning. Even after watching all of the videos and talking to the developers, the first thing that struck us is how rough it is around the edges.To be fair, Google calls it a developer preview, meaning it (Read More)

Jul 30, 2009

Hacker News I was having a nice lunch with Chris Wand the other day.  The bill came, and I laughed, it was around $40 with tip, which was more than my entire food budget for a month in college.  I told this to Chris how I did it, and  he said I should write about the process of living off of next to nothing.This isn’t a post that resem (Read More)

Jul 31, 2009

play Nintendo go after AppleA new Facebook application has been released for the Nintendo DSi handheld, the new 'app' (if I might be so bold) arriving as part of the system's 1.4 firmware update.After the update is installed, the DSi will display the Facebook logo in the camera's photo album section. This will allow users to upl (Read More)

Jul 31, 2009

The Register VoloMedia wants loads of money 'collaborative relationships'A US company has been granted a patent that it claims gives it rights over podcasting technology. VoloMedia says that its patent, for "a method for providing episodic media", covers all episodic media downloads, or podcasts.…Web threats: Why conventional protection (Read More)

Jul 31, 2009

The Register VoloMedia wants loads of money 'collaborative relationships'A US company has been granted a patent that it claims gives it rights over podcasting technology. VoloMedia says that its patent, for "a method for providing episodic media", covers all episodic media downloads, or podcasts.…Web threats: Why conventional protection (Read More)

Jul 30, 2009

AJ's shared items in Google Reader A little while back, our friends over at NewsGator told us that lots of people who use their client RSS readers like FeedDemon and NetNewsWire had been asking for the ability to synchronize with Google Reader, since maintaining two separate subscription lists was a hassle. Today, we're happy to report that we've worked with (Read More)

Jul 24, 2009

ReadWriteWeb White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mentioned casually to CNN today that Twitter is blocked on official White House computers. Gibbs clearly doesn't appreciate the value that can be derived from the innovative social network; he jokes about it is a tool for personal exhibitionism. Many readers here will no doubt reco (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

Lifehacker The RIAA have finally declared DRM dead for music, according to all-things-BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak. You won't see us arguing, having avoided DRMed music like the plague ever since it started gaining ground in the post-Napster 2.0 world, but the steady decline of digital rights management in recent months has been a w (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

Techdirt It's become popular for old school newspaper folks to hate on Google and other aggregators for somehow "profiting" off of their content. This is wrong on many, many levels. First, the aggregators send traffic to newspaper sites. They're promoting the newspapers' content. That's a good thing. But much more important is (Read More)

Jul 08, 2009

Submitted by Raidho from Google Reader: Chris Anderson’s book Free! is now available for free in online as well as audio book form. Below is the first online iteration, being a Scribd hosted version, obviously free to embed wherever you want. Full screen mode is recommended.You can get the audiobook from Wired, and read more on Andersons’ The Long Tail blog. Ther (Read More)

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