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We fair humans of Earth believe Internet access to be a fundamental human right

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 [...]

Delicious lands in Google Chrome Extension Gallery - it’s official, and very beta

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 [...]

Mobile Minute: Free EA games for UK and Ireland Palm Pre users!

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 [...]

Add volume and battery meters (and more!) to your Windows 7 superbar

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 [...]

Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with useful social information

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 [...]

Ubisoft’s DRM servers fail, while gamers say "We told you so!"

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! — [...]

LimeWire teams up with AVG to secure their file sharing client

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 [...]

Chrome Corner: extensions to keep Google Chrome in sync on multiple computers

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 [...]

Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market

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; [...]

Microsoft to release cross-platform games on Windows, Windows Phone 7, and Xbox

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. [...]