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Filed under: Internet
Today seems to be ‘rights for all!’ day, or something. It’s quite easy to get rights and privileges mixed up, which is the only explanation for the results of the BBC World Service survey: four in five people believe that Internet access is a fundamental right. Like the right to marry, or freedom [...]
Filed under: Google, Browsers
It’s still a bit rough around the edges at this point, but the new beta bookmarking extension from Delicious is a big improvement over its last offering.
In case you hadn’t seen the last version, it was pretty much identical to using Delicious via a bookmarklet — and not very exciting. The new [...]
Filed under: Palm, Freeware, Mobile Minute
With Palm’s webOS App Catalog finally starting to roll out paid applications around the world, EA Mobile and Palm seem to be enticing folks to start using the App Catalog with a trio of free games. Unfortunately, in order to nab the three downloads — Need for Speed Underground, Monopoly [...]
Filed under: Utilities, Windows
We’ve covered a few Windows 7 friendly status indicators before — like these two for monitoring your CPU and memory utilization. Another developer decided to have a go at his own version, and the results are pretty slick.
Five meters are available: power, volume, disk, CPU, and memory. The meters are very [...]
Filed under: E-mail, Google, Mozilla, Freeware, Social Software, Browsers
There are a number of email plugins that look to give you contextual information about the person you’re communicating with. The first one I tried (and arguably the best I’ve seen) is Xobni, an Outlook plugin.
There’s now a similar plugin available for Gmail users called Rapportive. Rapportive [...]
Filed under: Games, Windows
Gamers almost universally groaned when Ubisoft announced a new DRM scheme that requires its latest games, including Assassin’s Creed 2 and SIlent Hunter 5, to be connected to the Ubisoft servers to function. Everyone wondered, “What happens when the servers fail?” Well, we found out over the weekend, when — surprise! — [...]
Filed under: Security, P2P
While its users might be swapping bits that are less than legit, the crew behind LimeWire knows that securing their network isn’t an optional thing — it’s a duty. They’ve stepped up to the plate on that front, announcing that they have licensed AVG’s Antivirus SDK and will be bolting on the [...]
Filed under: Google, Browsers
Since you last saw an edition of Chrome Corner, we’ve done some re-thinking about what it should be. Instead of trying to force together a weekly update when there’s sometimes just not enough news to justify doing it, the Corner will now crop up whenever the crew at Download Squad has a [...]
Filed under: Developer, Games
Did you know that the Xbox 360 is just a PC in a box? Sure, the inputs are different and you generally attach it to a TV — but still, internally, it’s PC hardware. You can even use the controllers with your PC if you like! The Xbox doesn’t run Windows though; [...]
Filed under: Games, Windows, Windows Mobile, Microsoft
Holy synchronicity, Batman! Microsoft is preparing to offer games that can be played across Windows, WIndows Phone AND Xbox. That’s right: one game, three systems. It doesn’t matter that the input method for each platform is different; you’ll be able to play these games by keyboard, controller, or accelerometer. [...]
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