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Google finally buys DocVerse, the bridge between MS Office and Google Apps

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 [...]

Delicious brings back the Hotlist, adds "People" feature

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 [...]

Check out Olympic torches since 1936 to this day - Time Waster

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 [...]

All U.S. Android phones may get an update to OS 2.1 soon

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 [...]

Delete and manage downloads in Firefox with Download Manager Tweak

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; [...]

HP’s Snapfish photo sharing service gets an iPhone app

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 [...]

Play classic NES game Winter Games online - Time Waster

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 [...]

YouTube Video Speed History — check your video streaming speed!

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 [...]

Google Maps adds Labs, just like Gmail has

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 [...]

Bandcamp lets musicians be heard

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 [...]