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Filed under: Internet, Security
Until now, geolocation has been one of those quaint, semi-useful buzzwords: ‘… now with geolocation!!!’ Twitter, Buzz and Foursquare — the main exponents of exposing your location — might not be small, but they pale in comparison to Facebook. With the announcement that Facebook will be enabling geolocation next month, Pandora’s Box [...]
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source
Want to make sure you can access the files on your home (or work) computer from wherever you are — on any computer or web-enabled device? FeelHome is a hassle-free way to get the job done.
The open source server app is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows (Windows [...]
Filed under: Fun
While we’re on the subject of other web technologies that do things we’re used to seeing from Flash, I thought I’d show you Harmony. It’s a very neat little toy (or proof of concept, I guess) that is written in Javascript, and it uses a technique called “procedural drawing”. It’s a similar concept [...]
Filed under: Business, Developer, Google
The announcement for the new marketplace is actually going on right now. Head on over to the Google Code YouTube Channel to watch the live broadcast.
Google Apps, if you’re confused by the sheer number of ‘apps’-related terms used in conversation nowadays, are Google’s in-the-cloud business solutions. Today’s launch does not represent [...]
Filed under: Palm, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
We covered location-based game Foursquare’s webOS client earlier in the year, noting that competitor Gowalla had a client for the Palm Pre and Pixi ‘in the works’ - and today, just in time for SXSW, the Gowalla webOS client has appeared in the App Store. As with [...]
Filed under: Audio, web 2.0
You know those IQ test questions, “An apple is to an orange as a ________ is to a wall”? Well, HTML5 is to HTML4 as a photon torpedo is to a snowball hurled by a sleepy five-year old. Or something. If that sounds jumbled, it’s just because HTML5 is challenging my [...]
Filed under: Utilities, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Maybe you’ve heard of Foursquare — that trendy mobile app that lets you and your friends check in when you go somewhere — but chances are you haven’t heard of FourWhere. It’s a search engine for location-based social networks, starting with Foursquare, but planning to expand to [...]
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 [...]
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