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What’s with HTC Hero’s keyboard?; Apple’s influence on the market

HTC just released its highly-anticipated Google Android-based Hero phone to the public early this week. It features a tweaked version of the Android operating system, with a user experience dubbed “Sense UI” by HTC. After looking through a few videos, I find that the Hero comes in no comparison to the Apple iPhone and the [...]

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Tip: View YouTube video in full browser screen

This is slightly hard to describe, but I just randomly stumbled across a nifty little ‘hack’, for lack of a better word, involving the viewing of YouTube videos. Of course, YouTube natively supports full-screen viewing of videos, but I personally do not like this as I am completely immersed in the video and can no [...]

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Palm Pre to Sync with iTunes

Paul Cousino from Palm confirmed recently at the D7 event that the Palm Pre, due for release June 6th, will be able to sync with iTunes on the Mac (and PC). Cousino demonstrated on stage that the Pre, and other webOS devices, will show up in iTunes as a “device”, and will be able to [...]

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Official: Palm Pre will launch June 6th

Sprint just announced that the much-hyped Pre will cost $199.99 after $100 mail-rebate and 2-year contract and will launch on June 6th at Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-Mart stores. Not much other details now, but keep checking for more as they roll out! Now the thing to see is whether the Pre and [...]

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RUMOR: Apple to Buy Twitter for $700 Million?

“A source who’s plugged into the Valley’s deal scene and has been recruited by Apple for a senior position says Apple and Twitter are in serious negotiations, with the goal of unveiling a deal by June 8, when Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference launches in San Jose.” This should be an interesting deal, if it were [...]

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Windows 7 RC1 Available for Public Download

Microsoft has made available the Release Candidate 1 version of its next-gen operating system, Windows 7, earlier than promised, ahead of schedule. This RC1 release is meant to be vastly more stable than the previous public beta builds, Build 7000 and 7100. The interesting thing here, is that the RC1 is set to expire only [...]

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YouTube Updates Interface with Time Scrubber

The immensely popular YouTube service has just updated its interface a teensy bit, and every video now comes with a small pop-up time scrubber notifier as you mouseover the timeline of the video. Check it out for yourself over at YouTube.com. It’s these small little things that makes YouTube such a great service. In the [...]

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Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Ready for Download

Ubuntu 9.04, a.k.a. “Jaunty Jackalope” has just been released. This is the latest version of the open-sourced Ubuntu operating system, and boasts of faster boot times (reported to be 21.4 seconds), better power management, immediate system access after hibernation, a new system-wide notification service, and broader device support for intelligent switching between WiFi and 3G networks. [...]

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Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion

Oracle today said it would buy Sun for about $7.4 billion, or $9.50 per share. The move gives Oracle both a significantly stronger position in databases, letting it produce the servers that run its apps, as well as access to Sun’s software. Oracle will have access to Java as well as Sun’s Solaris operating system [...]

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Tutorial: Fluid Site Specific Browser

I just stumbled across this very cool little utility for OS X, called Fluid (view their product page, and download here). What this app is, is a “Site Specific Browser”, or SSB. The utility from the download link allows you to enter a URL which you want to be made into a standalone application that [...]

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