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  • Songbird: The Firefox of Media Players

    Songbird, built by former Winamp, Netscape, and Firefox designers and developers, is fast on it’s way to becoming a large competitor in the media player category.  The free and open source Songbird has been in development since early 2006. Recently released by the Songbird team is version 1.4.2 of the Songbird media player.  Although Songbird…

  • FlockDraw: Real-time, Collaborative Drawing

    Drawing has been a medium for communicating ideas since the beginning of time, probably because of it’s simplicity.  That’s the idea behind FlockDraw. FlockDraw is an amazing online application from Dan Blake (a founder of the equally simple TinyChat.com) and Ryan Hile.  The purpose is to bring collaborative, real-time drawing to the internet. Like TinyChat,…

  • Free and Simple Screen Sharing with LogMeIn Express

    Recently released from LogMeIn is a free, simple and secure screen sharing service known as LogMeIn Express.  Setting up the service is very simple and is outlined in this article. Before getting started, make sure your systems meet the requirements shown below. Requirements Host requirements Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, or 2008 (all including…

  • Dropbox: Take Your Files Everywhere

    Methods of transferring and sharing files have come a long way from the days of 3.5″ floppy disks.  Once limited to 1.44 MB at a time, we are now able to use flash drives to easily transfer around 32 GB (approximately 22000 times as much data) at greater transfer speeds than before.  Although physical media…

  • Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions

    Now that the Google Chrome web browser officially supports extensions, great extensions are appearing every day.  I’ve gone through and picked ten of my favorite (and most useful) extensions so far and put them into a fancy Top 10 list. Before you can install extensions you’ll need to download and install the new beta version…

  • How to Remove Duplicate Facebook Entries from Motorola Droid Contacts

    One mildly irritating bug I’ve noticed on my Motorola Droid is that some of my contacts accumulate duplicate Facebook profiles in their contact information.  Opening their contact information can show from 5-7 additional Facebook profiles, but they all open the correct profile page. Here’s a quick fix I came up with to remove the duplicates:…

  • How to Manage Attachments in Gmail

    Since Gmail offers nearly unlimited storage space, most people keep emails with attachments archived so they can access important files later. This works great when you need to dig up pictures sent from a relative or print a copy of the report you wrote last year. Unfortunately, it’s pretty easy for messages to get lost…

  • 5 Reasons Why A Netbook May Be Right For You

    Check out Windows 7 Netbooks Starting $350 With their initial release in late 2007, netbooks are quickly becoming a large part of today’s line of consumer computers.  It is estimated that netbooks now make up 20% of new PC orders (MaximumPC).  I recently purchased my first netbook and have thoroughly enjoyed using it for the…

  • Google Chrome (finally) Offers Support for Extensions

    For many of us, extension support was the last thing that was holding us back from fully switching to Google’s Chrome web browser.  As of today, you can browse the officially opened Google Chrome Extension Gallery which offers 300+ extensions and growing. To enable extension support, you’ll have to download and install Chrome beta first.…

  • Google Adds Real-Time Search Results

    Google has recently released a new real-time search option that contains a scrolling list of results that update as new results become available.  Don’t worry, this won’t be replacing Google’s standard search results, but it will be eventually be an option you can enable in the sidebar. Real-time results combines posts from news sources, blogs,…