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Eco-tech: Theme Day Spreads like Wild Flowers
by Hilary at Eco Friendly Driver
we’re finding ways to improve on today’s gadgets for a cleaner, greener tomorrow
by Juan at The After Mac
Here’s an interesting article from LifeHacker that talks about obscure functions of your Mac (OS X Leopard). These are things that you forgot that you can do with your Mac. From saying phrases out loud, launching an application via Spotlight all the way to doubling as an external drive. These...
Corporate Tech Drama Week!
by Mike Abundo at Tech Side Up
Sigh. I knew all that competitive coolness over the weekend couldn’t last. Now towards the end of the week, we’re stuck with people either buying, salvaging, or raiding stuff. Comcast buys Plaxo. Pathetic. This is an ISP with a bad reputation buying a social network with a bad reputation in a...
ReadAir the practical and adaptable RSS Reader
by Juned at A Feed Is Born
Would you want to read your Google Reader on your desktop? And would you want to read it indifferent way while at the same time retaining the features of Google Reader? If your answer to both questions is yes then you might want to try ReadAir. But not before installing AdobeAir. Wait,...
ML2 daily 05/15/2008
by Tris Hussey at Maple Leaf 2.0 - Technology and Web 2.0 News in Canada
The Idée Blog » Blog Archive » Spring in Toronto means ‘mesh’ is in the air! tags: idée, mesh08, mesh, meshu, ml2 Share This...
SEO And The Title Tag
by Noel at Search Engine Herald
One of the most important meta tags that you should focus on when creating your site is the title tag. See, this is the very first part in a web site and so this is the first thing that the spider sees. Aside from that, visitors to your site would...
Samsung 15 inch Blue Phase LCD panel
by colbert low at The Gadget Blog
Samsung 15 inch Blue Phase LCD panel above In its bid to provide consumers with more natural screen action, Samsung has announced the world’s first Blue Phase technology that moves at 240Hz speed. Faster speeds means faster action on screens and less flicker to the human eyes. Samsung says the design...
More than idea, startups need work, luck, and money
by Tris Hussey at Maple Leaf 2.0 - Technology and Web 2.0 News in Canada
Cambrian House of Calgary closed its doors recently leading many to suggest that is was crowdsourcing that was to blame, but I think Mathew Ingram hit the nail on the head: Does this mean that crowdsourcing startup ideas doesn’t work? I don’t think so — but it shows that simply coming...
Disappearing Web User Control in Design View
by Jason Bean at Microsoft Weblog
My boss experienced an weird problem with his installation of Visual Web Developer Express 2008. When he tried to view a web user control page in the design mode the application only displayed a blank white page. If he clicked on the “Source” view, all the code was there that was...
How to Spot Fishing Messages and Spoofs
by Jason Bean at Uncover The Internet
This may be a little basic for some of our readers, but I thought I’d take a minute and talk about some Internet security for a minute. As this site is dedicated to uncovering great stuff on the Internet, we’re also aware that there’s plenty of opportunities to uncover some...
Asus Eee PC 901 dropping soon
by colbert low at The Gadget Blog
Looks like a new sibling to the existing Asus Eee PC 900 is coming soon. The Asus Eee PC 901 may have the same specs as the 900 and the difference is only a new row of buttons between the keyboard and battery, along with a power plug on the...
Scoble’s Cry Factor Now Available
by Jason Bean at Microsoft Weblog
Remember when Robert Scoble, was reduced to tears over something that he had gotten a peak of at Microsoft’s development teams? It turns out that the cause of all the eye leaking is now available to the public. The Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope (why can I not get David Letterman’s production...
Win A Trip to Australia Zoo for Bindi Irwin’s Birthday
by Jason Bean at Uncover The Internet
One of the places I dream of going one of these days is Australia. For some reason I’ve always loved what I knew about the continent. I was also a big fan of Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, and here’s a chance to win a free trip to his home...
PR, blogs, media, and doing right by folks
by Tris Hussey at Maple Leaf 2.0 - Technology and Web 2.0 News in Canada
There was a bit of a dust-up recently about making lists of “bad PR people” and it’s taken me a while to get to this because I’ve been answering emails from PR folks. I put out a call on ProfNet that Manscaping 101 (my men’s grooming blog on b5media) was...
Fedora 9 released
by Clair at New Linux User
Fedora 9 has the following features: FreeIPA - for managing identities and authentication support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install support for creating and installing to encrypted file systems unified installer of packages via PackageKit Desktop environments such as GNOME 2.22 and KDE4 are available so you could choose either. I guess that...
SK Telecom brings Crackberry into South Korea
by Jayvee at Cellphone9
SK Telecom has just opened its doors to selling RIM’s BlackBerry. This is a rather aggressive move for the Canadian company to push their products in Asia - risky too. South Korea is home to LG and Samsung, that also manufacture mobile handsets, but not necessarily BlackBerry enabled devices: Up to...
Linux From Scratch
by Clair at New Linux User
Why would anyone bother with making Linux from scratch? With all these distros with almost everything you need, people still choose to build Linux from source. There are people who say that they get a more optimized system that way. Others want it because of the control...
Theme Day: Green Auto Accessories
by Hilary at Eco Friendly Driver
For more ways technology is advancing our fight to preserve Planet Earth, check out this month's Tech Channel Theme Day posts....
Top 10 Tech Workspaces
by Mike Abundo at Tech Side Up
Valleywag is holding a contest to rank the top 10 workspaces in tech. Candidates include wealthy giants like Google and plucky startups like Digg. Personally, I prefer my tech workspace: my bedroom. Commute consists of rolling out of bed. Traffic consists of finding my flip-flops. Tags: BusinessShare This...
Comparison of Free Security Products
by Kiven at That Damn PC
You may be surprised at how much protection you can get for your PC at practically no cost. As they say: The best things in Life are free. Sure, complete and full security suites are still encouraged but for true value, you cant beat some of these products especially for...
Green Maven - Search the Green Web
by Noel at Search Engine Herald
Here are b5media tech channel, we have a channel wide event called “Tech Channel Goes Green”. I was looking for a good material for this. One of my plans is to make a post about those green search engines where the color of the website is just green...
Four Vulnerabilities Patched By Microsoft
by Kiven at That Damn PC
Microsoft issued security bulletins and patched for four vulnerabilities today. Three of the flaws, in Microsoft Word, Publisher and the Jet database engine, are critical in at least some configurations. A fourth vulnerability, in Microsoft’s malware detection engine, maxes out at moderate. The first bulletin, MS08-026, describes two vulnerabilities in Microsoft...
Text Costs More Than Hubble Data
by Mike Abundo at Tech Side Up
Think texting is cheap? Think again. The University of Leicester’s Dr. Nigel Bannister points out that the cost of SMS is, quite literally, astronomical. “The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that. “The maximum...
How Often Do You Clean Your Gadgets?
by Lia at The Home of the Gadgenista
I kind of noticed that every Tuesday (that’s maintenance day for World Of Warcraft, hehehe), I clean my MacBook Pro. I take it out from it’s Speck Case and wipe the body with round cotton sheets wetted (is there such a word?!) with 30% alcohol mixed with 70% water solution. Then...
Is Web 2.0 Really Green?
by Tris Hussey at Maple Leaf 2.0 - Technology and Web 2.0 News in Canada
Today is the Technology Channel’s Theme day and we’re looking at “green” technologies (I’ll have the round-up post link here when it’s posted). While we might think that tools like RSS (as Juned suggests in his post on RSS as green tech) are truly green, are they really? Things are a...
Make Your Own Multitouch Pad for $50
by Mike Abundo at Tech Side Up
Screw Microsoft Surface. It’s nothing but a big-ass table. Here’s how to make your own multitouch pad for $50. Software and hardware updates here. Tags: Hardware, multitouchShare This...
Guest Post At Filipina Soul: Woes Of A Filipina Gadgenista!
by Lia at The Home of the Gadgenista
I was invited to guest post at Filipina Soul! Read all about it here! It’s all about my woes as Filipina Gadgenista! [ Image source from Filipina Soul ] Share This...
Globe Telecom To Carry iPhones In The Philippines!
by Lia at The Home of the Gadgenista
It’s official! The 3G iPhones will be coming to the Asian shores in the months to come and it’s out in the open that Globe Telecom will be it’s official carrier in the Philippines! Lucky for Globe subscribers! (Are we really lucky??) But truth be told, I’m sure not if a lot of...
Green and RSS
by Juned at A Feed Is Born
The theme for this month is Green. Meaning to be environmental friendly. And this is kind for us here at A Feed Is Born because or product or our niche is not really physically tangible. However, the RSS and Web feeds can be found nearly everywhere. It would be easy...
Emoticons Are So Passe
by Jason Bean at Uncover The Internet
If you’ve been around the Internet and Tubes for long you probably recognize emoticons when you see them. ;) I use one in my design and communications company ” =) Bnpositive Design”. But they’re getting so old now don’t you think? Let’s move to a new way to describe, not your emotions,...

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Eco-tech: Theme Day Spreads like Wild Flowers

Corporate Tech Drama Week!

ReadAir the practical and adaptable RSS Reader

ML2 daily 05/15/2008

SEO And The Title Tag

Samsung 15 inch Blue Phase LCD panel

More than idea, startups need work, luck, and money

Disappearing Web User Control in Design View

How to Spot Fishing Messages and Spoofs

Asus Eee PC 901 dropping soon

Scoble’s Cry Factor Now Available

Win A Trip to Australia Zoo for Bindi Irwin’s Birthday

PR, blogs, media, and doing right by folks

Fedora 9 released

SK Telecom brings Crackberry into South Korea

Linux From Scratch

Theme Day: Green Auto Accessories

Top 10 Tech Workspaces

Comparison of Free Security Products

Green Maven - Search the Green Web

Four Vulnerabilities Patched By Microsoft

Text Costs More Than Hubble Data

How Often Do You Clean Your Gadgets?

Is Web 2.0 Really Green?

Make Your Own Multitouch Pad for $50

Guest Post At Filipina Soul: Woes Of A Filipina Gadgenista!

Globe Telecom To Carry iPhones In The Philippines!

Green and RSS

Emoticons Are So Passe

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