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Filed under: Office, Productivity, Web services, Google
Google has been steadily adding to the variety of file types allowed in Google Apps — you can store or share basically anything, now — but there was still a missing link between the Microsoft Office documents you use on your desktop and the Google Docs files you edit [...]
Filed under: Social Software, Microblogging
The folks over at Delicious have been fairly active recently. A month ago they added filtering and browsing features, and yesterday they released a couple of new changes. Well, one is not that new actually — more of a comeback, but it’s still cool (or hot, as the case may be).
The [...]
Filed under: Fun, Time-Wasters, Education
So, the Winter Olympic games were just concluded a few days ago. Did you have enough? No? Well, now you can reflect back to past Olympics with the New York Times’ Flash retrospective of all past torches.
You can see both Winter and Summer Games torches from 1936 till the present. Did [...]
Filed under: OS Updates, Google, Android
A planned firmware update for the Motorola Droid might benefit owners of other Android devices, too. According to Android and Me, “every Android phone currently released in the United States will be receiving an upgrade to Android 2.1.”
This news comes from the same site that was previously skeptical about [...]
Filed under: Internet
Download Manager Tweak is a pretty useful Firefox add-on. One thing that always kind of irked me is that I cannot delete downloads from within Firefox. Well, now I can!
The add-on does quite a few more things. You can see your downloads in a window, sidebar or tab (a-la Opera). It’s quite configurable; [...]
Filed under: Photo, Web services, iPhone
If you use HP’s Snapfish to share and organize your photos, you might be interested to know that there’s now a Snapfish iPhone app that makes it easy to upload photos to the site. The free app lets you batch-upload a bunch of photos from your phone at once, and [...]
Filed under: Fun, Games, Freeware, Time-Wasters, Web
Have you been watching any sporting events on TV lately? An old friend tweeted me tonight feeling nostalgic about the hours (and hours, and hours) we used to spend playing Epyx’s Winter Games on my old Commodore 64.
While you can find ROMs for Commodore 64 games online, there [...]
Filed under: Fun, Internet
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you YouTube ‘My Speed’. Don’t all click it at once.
OK, by now now you’ve all clicked it. The silence is deafening. This is definitely one of those ‘ooh, cool… but… er… so?’ things. Well I say that, but I know there’s a whole bunch of computer enthusiasts [...]
Filed under: Web services, Google, Freeware, Web
One of my favorite features of Gmail has come to Google Maps: the Labs feature. In Gmail, Labs allows you to turn on a bunch of different experimental features that Google engineers have coded. In Maps, it’s exactly the same thing. Just click on the little green beaker up [...]
Filed under: Audio
Promoting your music online is not an easy task; MySpace is notoriously crappy, and that means there’s room for other options.
One of these other options is Bandcamp. Gratuitous American Pie cracks aside, the service seems pretty solid. It has a nice minimalistic feel to it, while leaving enough space for a band to [...]
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