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As expected, Digg’s users are unhappy with the redesign – a few examples

Aug 25, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Our RWW post about the new Digg just hit the Digg front page – and the comments are anything but friendly. A few choice examples: dw221 Plain and simple….this sucks! Bring back the old Digg. nicklo06 FUCK YOU NEW DIGG GIVE ME DIGG CLASSIC! tophomeloans What’s the point in digging if you don’t get credit [...]

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Just Got Access to Google Voice in One of My Gmail Accounts

Aug 25, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Works just as advertised, but here are a few observations: the new phone icon is inconspicuously placed in the “Chat” box – if Google didn’t point it out so clearly when the feature is activated, you could almost miss it Gmail doesn’t auto-recognize phone-numbers and so you can’t just click on a number in an [...]

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Twitter Launches Official Twitter Share Bookmarklet

Aug 20, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

There are already numerous Twitter bookmarklets and browser extensions on the market that make it easy for Internet users to share any site with their Twitter friends. Today, Twitter itself is joining the fray with its own, official Twitter Tweet Button.

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Google Brings Voice and Video Chat to Linux

Aug 19, 2010 1 Comment

Google just announced that Linux users can now finally use voice and video chat in Gmail. For now, this is an Ubunutu-only feature, though the company plans to add support for other Debian- and RPM-based Linux distributions (like Red Hat and Fedora) in the near future.

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More Categories for Chrome Extensions Gallery

Aug 19, 2010 Comments Off

Just a few months ago, Google finally introduced categories for its Chrome extensions library. Today, the company is adding a number of additional categories, including News and weather, Photos,Productivity, Search tools and Social. Nothing too exciting here, but good to see that Google continues to improve the extensions library.

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Facebook Places Is the Most Boring Location-Sharing Service Yet – And That’s a Good Thing

Aug 19, 2010 Comments Off

Yesterday, Facebook launched Facebook Places, its new location-sharing service. As a location-sharing service, Facebook as about as barebones as they come. The functionality is limited to checking in and sharing your location with your Facebook friends.

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Paper: Android’s Graphical Passcodes are Insecure

Aug 12, 2010 Comments Off

Most Android phones allow users to protect their phones from unauthorized access by drawing a pattern on their device’s touchscreens. According to a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, however, these graphical passwords are actually extremely easy to crack, as “oily residues, or smudges, on the touch screen surface, are one side effect of touches from which frequently used patterns such as a graphical password might be inferred.”

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Impressive: Demo of Rage On The iPhone

Aug 12, 2010 Comments Off

During his keynote speech at QuakeCon 2010, id Software’s John Carmack demonstrated Rage on the iPhone, running at 60 frames-per-second and able to “kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2.” via id Unleashes Impressive Rage On The iPhone.

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Voice Control Your Android Phone: Google Introduces Voice Actions

Aug 12, 2010 Comments Off

If you own an Android phone with the latest Android 2.2 Froyo update, you can now use your voice to control almost all of the most often used features of the phone. With Voice Actions for Android, users can use voice commands to perform actions like sending text messages (” “send text to Allison Miller Running late. I will be home around 9″), play specific songs from their music collection (“listen to the New Pornographers”), go to websites, send email, write a note, search Google and view a map and get directions.

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Camera+ second month sales: The Sophomore Software Slump?

Aug 10, 2010 Comments Off

tap tap tap ~ Camera+ second month sales: The Sophomore Software Slump? You just have to love how open these guys are about their sales figures.

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