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Priority Inbox: Gmail Tells You What Messages are Important, You Profit (?)
01 Sep 2010 by Kevin Ivanca / 3 Comments
Busy people, rejoice. Gmail, the primary electronic mail client offered by the giant Google, is getting a simple add-on sometime in the near future (it’s actually rolling out right now, but it will be a week before everybody has it). What does it entail, one might ask? Well, its a filter. Not a new spam filter (Gmail already has one of those), but a new new filter that tells you, the u...
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The Facebook Gift Shop Closes Its Doors, Focus Shifts to Improving Other Features
02 Aug 2010 by Evan Wondrasek
Topping the list of Facebook features I’ll never miss, the Facebook team removed the Gift Shop as of August 1st. No longer will you see the nagging option to give your friends images of cakes or puppies for their birthdays (I’m still baffled by the whole virtual item/currency thing). Jared Morgenstern, Facebook’s product manager for games and credits, explains: The gifts you&#...
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Google Re-Invents Android Development with App Inventor
15 Jul 2010 by Kevin Ivanca / 4 Comments
The Android Marketplace may be getting a little bit more crowded soon. This week, Google Labs revealed to the world App Inventor, a creative programming tool that allows just about anyone to figure out how to design and create Android applications… and there was much rejoicing. Thanks to the open architecture of the Android OS, App Inventor allows for tweaking of everything and any...
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Opera Web Browser: Fighting Back With Version 10.50
02 Mar 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 2 Comments
Many people are aware of the instant popularity of the Google Chrome web browser, taking just over 3% of the browser market share upon its release. Opera, a competitor in the web browser market since 1996, has only achieved a 2% market share in the past 14 years. The Opera developers aim to get back into the web browser market with the 10.50 release of the Opera web browser. The Opera 10.50 we...
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Google Announces Upcoming Option to Disable Buzz (for real this time)
17 Feb 2010 by Evan Wondrasek
Google Buzz is a new Twitter/FriendFeed-esque social network which was released last week for all Gmail users. Buzz allows you to share messages, photos, and links with your friends that use Gmail and is built right into your Gmail inbox so you’ll never miss a message. Google Buzz has had several privacy concerns since its launch last Tuesday, causing many users to try deactivating their ...
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Windows 7 RC Will Auto-Shutdown Every Two Hours Starting March 1st
16 Feb 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 4 Comments
This is an important reminder to anyone still using the release candidate version of Windows 7 – even though it doesn’t officially expire until June 1st, 2010, Windows 7 RC will begin to auto-shutdown every two hours starting March 1st, 2010. Microsoft warns that your work will not be saved when these automatic shutdowns occur. You can check out Microsoft’s official statement b...
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Windows 7 Secret: ‘GodMode’
06 Jan 2010 by Reis Pritchard / 5 Comments
Some are calling it the “ultimate control panel”, but what does the new, secretive Windows 7 ‘GodMode’ do? The foxy-sounding name is a little deceiving, because as far as we know, it is exactly what people are calling it – a glorified control panel. However, that goes without saying how useful this feature actually is. To access the simplified, all-in-one control p...
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Google Chrome (finally) Offers Support for Extensions
08 Dec 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 6 Comments
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. A couple extensions I’m most excited abou...
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Google Adds Real-Time Search Results
08 Dec 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 1 Comment
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, and even Twitter to give you an or...
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Coming Soon: The End of DVDs?
23 Nov 2009 by David Carman
According to a new article on movies.com, Universal Pictures will no longer be selling stand-alone DVD copies of several of it’s movies as of January 1st, 2010. Instead, the movies will only be sold as Blu-ray/DVD bundles. This bundling is not new since Disney and other studios have already been bundling Blu-rays, DVDs and digital copies, but this is the first time a stand-alone DVD is not ...
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