Archive for January, 2008
Whenever I see a random "make your Internet faster" hack, I just ignore it and move on because it, more likely than not, is garbage. That's why I was pleasantly surprised when this gem turned up from MakeUseOf: OpenDNS actually does seem to make your Internet connection faster!
OpenDNS has positioned ...
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The internet today has further crossed the debatable line into too much information: Domino's is rolling out a new tracking system to 3,400 outlets, allowing customers to track their pizza delivery's - accurate to within 40 seconds. The person who takes your order's first name will also be available online, ...
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Google has been shaking things up these past few weeks, tweaking the interfaces and functionality of almost all their current services. The most recent has been the five experimental features they've been trying out, aimed at improving your "search experience". The features are: Alternate view for search results, Keyword suggestions, ...
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Mozilla announced that they were freezing the Firefox 3 Beta 3 code last night, in anticipation of rolling out RC1 soon. There will be only one more beta before they move on to the Release Candidate stage.
The new Beta will finally include the much anticipated default Windows XP theme, although ...
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As unreal and futuristic as it sounds, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are in the early stages of being able to create a mass of microscopic, reconfigurable electromagnetic robots. If the project succeeds, the team will be able to put together hundreds or thousands of such tiny robots and program ...
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Gadget Lab's Rob Beschizza has created a short parody of the Macbook Air, showcasing a product that features the biggest attraction of the Air without its largest problem. [Youtube via Gizmodo]
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According to a study that was recently published in the journal Psychological Science, the human brain has a hardwired limit to the number of things it can concentrate on at once. According to the findings of the team of researchers, led by psychology professors Edward Awh and Edward Vogel ...
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Have you ever wanted to carry your full desktop settings over across multiple computers? Maybe you've had one too many family members ask you to fix their crashed computers and you need a swiss-army knife of tools for the future, or maybe you just want to run the applications you ...
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The good folks over at the xda-developers forum have posted a pre-release ROM that unlocks the in-built GPS and EVDO Rev A features of the Sprint Mogule, or any HTC 6800 device (which includes the Sprint Mogul, the Verizon XV6800 and the Alltell PPC6800). While EVDO Rev A has ...
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A browser that can simulate a desktop web experience? That seems like years off - at least until mobile devices get a little beefier. Skyfire, a new Bay Area startup, begs to differ. The company is putting together a mobile browser that can support anything a normal desktop browser can. ...
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