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If you can’t get to the Consumer Electronics Show this year you can follow all the posts about it via RSS. A while back I built a Yahoo! Pipe to combine RSS feeds from various sources based on tags. You can check it out here: Tag Monitor

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Trying to find TV online? Try out out the new site launched by TV Guide - video.tvguide.com. There several full episodes that you can watch if you happened to miss a show. It was just launched so I haven’t had extensive time to play with it but it looks really great. If you have a [...]

My wife and I stopped off at Starbucks this morning. Along with my change I got a card with a cheery explanation that throughout October Starbucks and Apple iTunes are teaming up to give away a song per day. Isn’t that nice of them? Today’s song is a Bob Dylan track off his Infidels album.
We [...]

The TechCrunch40 is this week in San Francisco. The TC40 is where forty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products over a two day period.
Not everyone can get there so I created an aggregator to monitor all the news and pictures coming from bloggers over the next [...]

Steve Fossett has been missing for several days. If you don’t remember, he is the first person to fly a plane around the world without refueling and the first person to fly around the world in a balloon. It is assumed his plane is somewhere in the Nevada desert.
Now with the help of Amazon’s Mechanical [...]

This past February I posted a launcher for Windows Live Writer so that you can take it with your between computers and retain all your settings. Today I am releasing version 2.0 of the Launcher. Much has changed with Windows Live Writer and I have learned some new techniques for making it portable. This is [...]

Quechup is a new social network (do we really need another one??) If you aren’t careful you’ll end up spamming everyone in your address book when you sign up. This is bad mojo and I suggest we just say now to this and go back to the established networks we are already using.
Just say no [...]