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How many Flickr users does it take to recreate Rome?
By Nik Fletcher, Downloadsquad
Flickr is one of my favourite all-time web services, and I’ll admit a huge fascination with some of the visualisation stuff the Flickr folks do with maps, Flickr photos and their location data. So you can imagine my excitement last week as Popular Science featured a piece on how a University of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )µTorrent 2.0 beta released
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
The latest stable version of the popular Bittorrent client µTorrent is version 1.83. But the developers decided that the next major release packed in too much to simply call it µTorrent 1.9, so the next version will be called version 2.0. And µTorrent 2.0 beta is already available for download.
The update brings:
Support [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )OMG Yahoo Gets OMG.com For Cheap
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch
Yahoo has been active in the domain buying and selling space the past few months. Today, it was revealed to be the buyer of OMG.com, which sold last week for $80,000, according to Domain Name Wire.
It’s a great domain, and a really, really great price especially considering the image-centric TMZ.com-rival it [...]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix gets an interface overhaul
The folks at Canonical are in the process of redesigning the user interface for Ubuntu Netbook Remix. UNR is basically a custom version of Ubuntu that includes optimizations for netbooks with Intel Atom processors as well as a desktop environment and program launcher designed for computers with small, low resolution displays.
The first version of Ubuntu [...]
Fast forward to 4.0 with a new Firefox theme
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad
Not long ago a DeviantArt user put together a Firefox 3/3.5 theme based on Mozilla’s concept for Firefox 3.7. Want to go the extra .3 and jump ahead to version 4? Take a look at Strata40.
By using the them in conjunction with a few Firefox addons – All Glass, Personal Menu, Fission, [...]
BatteryCare provides detailed laptop battery info
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
Sure, Windows will do a decent job of estimating how much juice is left in your laptop battery and let you adjust your power management settings accordingly. But BatteryCare goes a few steps further, by providing you with information like the battery’s total capacity, voltage, CPU temperature, and manufacturer, if the information [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hot Gloo: web-based wireframing for information architects
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad
Hot Gloo is an online wireframing tool designed with information architects in mind. The heart of the app is a palette of the main site elements IAs use in wireframes every day. The elements can be easily positioned and resized by dragged, making Hot Gloo a cinch to use. Throw in the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Internet Explorer 8 becomes a gentleman today
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad
Back in July, Microsoft detailed a few changes that were “coming soon” to the Internet Explorer 8 installer. In a nutshell, the new version was designed to be less…well…presumptuous.
Previously, the installer’s Express mode would automatically set IE as your default browser without so much as an “excuse me.” That’s no longer the [...]
16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap
by Orli Yakuel, Tech crunch
sharing services are not as popular today as they were four years ago. It’s not that people are sharing any less. Rather, they just found easier ways to do it. Would you upload a funny video from a friend’s email to any of those services or would you search for it [...]
Lifehacker starts Gmail Ads bloodbath
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad.com
do massacres and bloodbaths have to do with your Gmail account? Lifehacker has discovered that they could be the key to getting rid of the pesky, hard-to-block text ads that show up next to your messages in Gmail’s web interface. It turns out that advertisers don’t like being associated with certain keywords, [...]
In The Pre-Chrome OS World, Google Optimizes Gmail For Netbooks
by MG Siegler, Tech crunch
Google is clearly enamored with the netbook space. We already know that it’s serving as an entry point for the new Chrome OS, but Google isn’t just going to sit around and wait for that, it’s starting to optimize its experience for netbooks already.
Tonight, Google has just released a small [...]
Chrome’s New Feature: Click The UI Designer To Close The Window
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch
This is just kind of odd. Look at the picture below. See the picture of some guy in place of the “X” button? Yeah, that’s this guy.
Apparently, one of Google’s Chrome UI designers, Glen Murphy, has inserted his face into the latest nightly build of Chrome. Specifically, this is the Linux [...]
Google Acquires Video Compression Technology Company On2 For $106 Million
Google and On2 Technologies jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire On2, a developer of video compression technology. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. On2 markets video compression technologies that power high-quality video in both desktop and mobile applications and devices and also [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Latest Google Chrome Beta Is “30 Percent Faster,” Supports HTML5, And Is Prettier Too
by Erick Schonfeld, Tech crunch
Google just released a new beta version of its Chrome browser for Windows PCs. The company claims that it is 30 percent faster than the current stable version of the browser (based on V8 and SunSpider benchmarks).
What may be more significant, though, is that this is the first version of Chrome [...]
Personas is live, and an uglier Firefox is easier than ever!
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad
Fans of other browsers have slammed Firefox’s rather plain appearance for ages. Now, at last, Mozilla fans have a weapon which they can proudly wield against their friends who run IE7 with bikini-clad Hotbar backgrounds!
Personas has gone live, complete with a gallery chock full of prefab styles that can be easily applied [...]
Calibre looks like the essential app for eBook fans
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad
If you’re starting to amass a large collection of eBooks, formatted for all kinds of different readers, Calibre might be just what you need to help organize them. It’s a cross-platform app that can read and tag eBooks from Kindle 1 and 2, iPhone, and readers from Sony and Cybook. It can [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Discovery Communications Sues Amazon Over Kindle
By Alex Weprin, Broadcastingcable
Discovery Communications is suing e-retailer Amazon.com, saying that its popular e-book reader the Kindle infringes upon a patent held by the company.
Most patent suits are between technology companies. Interestingly cable programming giant Discovery says it has valuable intellectual property that is being infringed by Amazon’s popular Kindle and Kindle 2 electronic book [...]
Carbonite launches online backup for Mac
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
Carbonite has been providing online backup services for PC users for years. This week the company launched a Mac client.
Here’s how it works. For $54.95 a year, Carbonite provides you with unlimited online storage space to backup all the important files on your computer. At regular intervals, the program will scan the [...]
Amazanian makes searching Amazon easier
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
Amazon.com is a storehouse of useful information whether you’re looking to buy something or just find information about it. But generally you have to first enter your search term and then click through to a product page to find items like customer reviews or sales rank.
Amazanian is a web site that uses [...]
Google Chrome on Linux progressing, screenshots inside
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad
Ubuntu users (or users of a Ubuntu-based distro) who have been waiting patiently for the chance to play with Google Chrome, there’s now a dead simple way for you to do it. Thanks to the PPA (personal package archive) for Chromium daily builds team, getting the pre-alpha Chromium browser running on your [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dell Adamo arrives tomorrow? Google seems to think so
By Paul Miller, Engadget
Thanks to a fortuitous search on Google Ireland, friendly tipster Niall spotted this rather intriguing sponsored link for Dell Adamo. Instead of the vague “Learn More” promised by similar sponsored links in the States, the ad on Google Ireland says that we can “Discover the Love Story on 17/3.” Dell has been [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Credit Card Sized MP3 Player
By Laura June, Engadget
We’ve seen some ultra-thin MP3 players, even ones that were credit-card sized, but this newest one actually maraudes as a credit card, numbers and all! There’s perilously little information available about the device, but we can tell you this: you’ll look and feel awesome sporting it, should you ever be able to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Pandora coming to Vudu, LAN streaming too
By Nilay Patel, Engadget
We’ve always had a soft spot for Vudu and its 1080p HDX movie rentals, and it looks like it’s about to get even easier to love — our man Dave Zatz says that Pandora will be launching on the device “imminently.” Not only that, but it looks like the $150 box will [...]
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