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I just installed the new 2.0 beta of Google Maps for Mobile (GMM). This has a cool new feature called ‘My Location’. If, like me, your phone doesn’t have a built in GPS, GMM uses the signals from the mobile phone system towers to triangulate you coordinates.
I downloaded the app via the browser on my [...]

Google Plans Service to Store Users’ Data - WSJ.com
Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company’s competition with Microsoft Corp.
(tags: google storage cloud)

NFL Power Poll: The best game you can’t [...]

IBM patent could pause your DVD movie for “a word from our sponsors”
Would you buy or rent ad-supported movies if they were priced lower? A new patent from IBM details a system to make that option a possibility.
(tags: ibm patent dvd advertising)

Keeping your information private in the Internet is getting harder and harder. Last weeks episode of the Security Now! podcast outlined how even Paypal is getting a little shady and redirecting links through doubleclick.net. It’s really crazy. Just about all their links contain redirection.
The whole topic is a little complex but to show you what [...]

Is Twitter Down?
Where to go if you ever wonder if Twitter is ‘blue birding’ again.
(tags: twitter)

Camtasia Studio 3 - now available for free download
(tags: camtasia free screen capture software)

US Shoppers, start your engines! ‘Black Friday’ is upon us!
Chris Pirillo has been gathering all the latest Black Friday deals. Some cover the whole weekend or further so check ‘em out if you are interested.
 

Best Buy Black Friday Sale
Macys Black Friday Sale
Target Black Friday Sale
CompUSA Black Friday Sale
Palm Black Friday Sale
Eddie Bauer Black Friday Sale
Dell [...]

The new 4GB, 8GB and 80GB Zunes come with preloaded content. But what happens if you deleted it for some reason? Or some crash occurs? Or you don’t have a Zune? Well, thankfully Microsoft gives you a way to get it back. Or get it in the first place
All the details can be [...]

Canon RAW codec for Windows Vista
Canon RAW Codec 1.2 is a software plug-in that, when installed in Windows Vista, enables the import and display of RAW images (with the extension .CR2) taken with Canon cameras.
(tags: RAW Canon digital camera codec)

speak lolcat - lolcat translator
IF U EVR WONDERD HOW 2 SPEEK LOLCAT, HER IZ TEH PLACE 2 GO.
(tags: lolcat translator humor languate)