Sep
30
Oncore 6-Bay MacBook and iBook Charger Lightning Review [Lightning Review]
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The Gadget: Oncore’s 6-Bay MacBook or iBook battery charger that really only charges three batteries at one time because it’s a cluster of charging bays and not six individual chargers. Once the…
Sep
30
Windows 7 Getting (Kinda) Optimized for Parallel Processing [Windows 7]
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Besides looking a lot like Vista—and we mean a lot—Microsoft has said Windows 7 uses a lot of the same foundation, too, to keep upgrade migraines to a minimum. The problem is that its…
Sep
30
SearchBiz: Mehdi Moves Up At Microsoft; Should MSFT learn from Ask?; Top 25 People On The Web; Google & The NSA
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With Microsoft’s current advertising campaign still leaving many people shaking their heads in wonder, TechCrunch has an idea: follow the lead of Ask.com. Jason Kincaid confesses that Ask’s ad — the one that shows a young woman “exercising” (ahem) on a stripper pole in her house — actually made him curious enough to click through [...]
Sep
30
Conversation With An Idiot Link Broker
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Debate continues about Google’s war on paid links. But regardless of where you stand, I think most people would agree buying and selling is risky behavior. You don’t really want the world to know you’re doing it. And if you’re [...]
Sep
30
Try Google Search As It Was in 2001
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In honor of their tenth birthday*, Google brought back their search engine the way it was many years ago, in January 2001. Below an old-school Google logo (in 2001 they were actually already using a newer one) the input box invites you to search through “1,326,920,000 web pages”. A search for Barack Obama returns around [...]
Sep
30
If $100 is just too much for you to pay for a homemade iPhone stand, then this paperclip version might be a better option. And to anyone who has ever paid more than 50 cents to hold any pocket…
Sep
30
Dozier Continues To Go After Ronald Riley
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A few weeks ago, we wrote about the bizarre and troubling lawsuit filed by John Dozier against Ronald J. Riley. Riley, of course, is a well-known pro-patent system supporter who has generally made a nuisance of himself in the comments. Whenever he stops by here, it’s usually to personally insult me (and, in [...]
Sep
30
Synaptics Adds New Multitouch Gestures To Trackpads [Multitouch]
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Synaptics, best known for developing the Zune Pad and Android G1 screen, have unveiled two new multitouch gestures for their PC touchpads:…
Sep
30
Linked, Tagged, Tweeted, and Feeded - Three Real Time Link Trackers
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One challenge we all have is showing our clients evidence that our work is having the effect we said it would. What would make this part of the process easier is if there was one single universal tool that could identify every single instance when a site is mentioned, linked, tagged, tweeted, or feeded. [...]
Sep
30
Admit It, The Stormtrooper Hoodie is a Little Tempting [Fashion]
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By Mark Ecko, this Stormtrooper hoodie will ensure that, at a moment’s notice, you will be ready for an impromptu Star Wars convention or back alley role-playing fest. It may sound like overkill, but…
Sep
30
Apparently more than a few traders had heart palpitations today. As the market closed, Google’s share price fell apart, falling to $200 from an opening price of $396.
That was $62 billion in market cap that was zapped away in the last four minutes before the fiscal quarter ended and the markets closed, and it was [...]
Sep
30
Apparently more than a few traders had heart palpitations today. As the market closed, Google’s share price fell apart, falling to $200 from an opening price of $396. That was $62 billion in market cap that was zapped away in the last four minutes before the fiscal quarter ended and the markets closed.
And the “drop” [...]
Sep
30
iPhone Will Get Adobe Flash Soon, If Apple Says OK [Same As It Ever Was]
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If you’re still clamoring for Adobe Flash support to get Hulu on your iPhone, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Adobe Senior Director of Engineering Paul Betlem says that as soon…
Sep
30
270 Bloggers that Use Facebook
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A few months back here at ProBlogger I held a social media love-in experiment where I asked readers to submit their social media profiles so we could all get to know one another in different social media settings. The result was fantastic with lots of great connections.
We produced lists of bloggers who use Twitter, Stumbleupon, [...]
Sep
30
Space Station Astronaut Challenges Planet Earth to Chess Match [Internet]
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Canadian astronaut Greg Chamitoff has challenged everyone on planet Earth to a game of chess. He will play from the International Space Station traveling at five miles per second, 200 miles above the…