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Most of the world’s electronics are made in China…can we continue to trust our tools?

Filed under: Security

I know, it’s the story that never ends — and really, don’t expect it to end any time soon — but here’s another angle: what about Chinese hardware?

We now know that either the Chinese government, or a very large privately-funded clandestine operation from Asia, has been hacking Western governments, intelligence agencies, and [...]

Amazon restores Macmillan books, becomes eBook middleman for publishers

Filed under: Business, Text

Just days after Amazon.com decided to stop selling all books by Macmillan and its imprints, the online book giant has relented and added buy buttons back to Macmillan titles. The publisher vs. retailer dispute arose when Macmillan wanted to raise prices on its eBooks to $15, which is well over what Amazon [...]

Logitech’s free Touch Mouse app turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a keyboard and trackpad for your computer

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Freeware, iPhone

Touch Mouse [iTunes link] is a free iPhone / iPod Touch application from Logitech that turns your iDevice into a wireless keyboard and trackpad for your Windows or Macintosh computer. It’s not a remote control application, so you don’t get a view of the computer’s screen; you simply get [...]

Urbanspoon for Android makes picking a restaurant easy

Filed under: Web, Android

The folks behind the popular Urbanspoon iPhone app (oh yeah, and web site), have launched an app for Google Android devices. Here’s how it works. You want to pick a place to eat? Just fire up the Urbanspoon app, give your phone a good shake, and Urbanspoon will find a restaurant in [...]

How Does A Movie Distribution Company Get Money To Make A Movie?

Most good movies are going to cost around $300 million to make. How does a company like Paramount, or Fox get that kind of money? I understand that they’d use money from past movies, but what if it is their first movie? Do they just go to a bank and ask if [...]

How To Exactly Make Money Online In The Form Of The Residual Income?

Having been referred to some residual income online business opportunities before, I still need your expert guidance on how to actually get started and most importantly how to make sure I really make money out of it.
In advance many thanks for all your unselfish input and advices.
I look forward to learning from you.

Social Media and Young Adults report shows teen blogging on the decline

Filed under: News, Blogging, Social Software

Pew Internet released a report yesterday called Social Media and Young Adults that shows teen blogging down by 50% over the past four years, even as blogging increased among those over 30 years old.

The report also shows that teens are not very likely to be Twitter users (only 8% of [...]

Make some music with The Virtual Piano

Filed under: Fun, Kids, Freeware, Web

A computer’s keyboard and mouse have never been very good as an interface to play a virtual piano, but The Virtual Keyboard takes an interesting approach that makes the resulting music much more appealing.

While you can individually click on any key on the piano’s keyboard to hear the resulting [...]

Cc:Betty email threading tool axes cutesy name, becomes Threadbox

Filed under: E-mail, web 2.0, Humor

With the tagline ‘work outside the inbox’, and customary all-lower-case branding, Cc:Betty has just been relaunched and rebranded as Threadbox. Citing ‘branding issues’ and the need to ‘reel in the cute’, Threadbox is still the same software — it just has a different name.

If you haven’t heard of Cc:Betty, it’s [...]

February Fifth Firefox Friday Five!

Filed under: Internet, Features, Mozilla, Browsers

(Can you tell that I’m trying to spice things up around here?)

We’ve actually been discussing how to ’sass-up’ Firefox Friday Five. Interviews with Mozilla developers? Add-on creators? Perhaps we could even get a perspective from competitors — how does Microsoft intend to combat Firefox? With Chrome and Firefox both being [...]