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Get your Photoshop version control for free — Timeline giveaway!

Filed under: Photo, Utilities

Hopefully by now you’ve read my review of Timeline and decided whether you want a copy or not. In a nutshell though, Timeline is a front-end for Subversion (SVN) version control within Photoshop. It automates the process of checking files in and out — that’s it. I want to say that casual [...]

Verizon to allow Skype VoIP calls over 3G

Filed under: VoIP, Mobile

Verizon Wireless has announced that Hell has frozen over starting next month wireless customers with compatible phones will be able to use Skype’s mobile software to make VoIP (Voice over IP) calls over Verizon’s 3G wireless broadband network. In other words, you can call people on your cellphone without using any voice [...]

AT&T takes a jab at Apple with its own cross-platform app store

Filed under: Business, Mobile

AT&T continues to live the good life as the exclusive U.S. mobile carrier for Apple’s iPhone, riding the wave of customers attracted by the App Store. That could all change at any time, though, with speculation that Apple plans to drop its exclusive deal and bring the iPhone to new carriers sometime [...]

Send a real gift to your valentine on Facebook

Filed under: News, Web

If sending virtual gifts like hearts, flowers and smiles on Facebook isn’t your bag, you can send the real deal via RealGifts, a Facebook app that allows you to purchase real items and send them to your Facebook friends. Real gifts appear in Facebook’s Gift shop and can be purchased through the [...]

Americans consume 33 billion online videos in December 2009

Filed under: Internet, Video

Boom! 178 million US Internet users watched online videos in December. That’s 87% of the total potential audience — very nearly total penetration. I wonder what percentage of Internet users write email — less than 87%? Anyway, of those 33 billion videos, 40% (13 billion) of them were watched at YouTube. But [...]

Jaw-dropping and life-changing details about Chinese attacks on Google emerge

Filed under: Internet, Security, Google

Your world is about to be rocked.

If you’re not a hardened, tinfoil hat-wearing the-apocalypse-is-nigh conspiracy theorist, you soon will be. Wired has just published a stunning article detailing a really scary report from computer forensic firm Mandiant. The story brings to light some disturbing truths about the always-connected, always-on world we [...]

How much are you willing to pay for eBooks? (Macmillan wants $15)

Filed under: Internet

For the last few days Amazon and Macmillan have been waging a tiny little war over the future of eBook pricing. You may have missed it, because unlike most wars, the stakes in this battle aren’t all that visible. Digital book sales still make up a relatively small portion of the digital media [...]

International Data Privacy Day 2010

Filed under: Internet, Security

Today is International Data Privacy Day, and some of the big names in the online world are stepping up and… acknowledging issues of data privacy. Google has released a video highlighting the ways it uses some of that personal data it collects about you to make your life easier, and then explains [...]

Business Owners Beware of the “We Have Qualified Buyers” Pitch

We were just concluding our first information gathering meeting with a new client who had engaged us to sell her business when she handed us a letter. That letter was from another Merger and Acquisition Advisory or Business Broker firm.

The letter began: “Our buyer group has requested that our firm assist them in locating [...]

Trade with B2B Portal

Made-from-india is a b2b portal in India. Online B2B marketplaces have been redefining the Business to Business industry in India. Made-from-India.com is one such B2B marketplace, which has been relentlessly working its way up the ladder as the best product directory of India, with larger than normal number of Suppliers, Buyers, Exporters and Manufacturers. Suppliers [...]