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- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Cool Tools - What is your Twitter grade?
- HubSpot has launched what it is calling the Twitter Grader, which seems to be the now-defunct Tweeterboard reincarnate -- yet with a proposed business purpose. The grader allows Twitter users to enter in their screen names and the names of others into its secret algorithmic stuff generator and find out...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- MSD Organizer Freeware (zip)
- MSD Organizer Portable Freeware is a personal and professional information manager to be installed in Pen Drives, with the following modules: Calendar, Contacts, Alarms, Tasks and Cards. It also provides the following tools: backup and restore, word processor, spreadsheet, image viewer, calculator, and financial calculator. The program will allow you...
- Software downloads 2008-08-29
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- First images of Google-powered HTC Dream
- First images of Google-powered HTC DreamHopefully, we can eventually break the lock on cell phones. There is NOreason that the carriers are involved in your cell phone purchase. Imagine how outraged we would be if the ISPs required us to buy out computers from them and told us what applications...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- First images of Google-powered HTC Dream
- It was rumored that the HTC G1 Dream would be the first Google powered phone on the market, and if everything pans out, those rumors will end up being true with a launch date sooner than later. Android Guys have the first mock-up drawings of the Dream, and it's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- How do we address the have-nots?
- How do we address the have-nots?It's the NetThe problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it like Xubuntu. So poor people can have a fine computer for free. That's easy to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Mouse Clicker (exe)
- Mouse Clicker has the ability to lock 2 positions on the screen and you can change the speed and time it takes to go to each position, as well as the time it takes to click each time, enjoy everyone I hope you like it. This version is the first...
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- GoGo Digger (exe)
- GoGo Digger is a simple logic, arcade style puzzle game thats best described as a cross between Mine Sweeper and Dig-Dug. The idea of the game is to control your character GoGo through the dirt searching for diamonds while avoiding the hidden land mines and finally making it to the...
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- iPod Deleted Data Recovery Tool (exe)
- Recover iPod Apple, Shuffle, Mini, Nano and portable media player songs, music files. Data Doctor iPod recovery software is the best solution to restore your iPod deleted files. This advanced files retrieval tool support restoration of hard drive-based iPod Classic data. Undelete utility retrieves the touch screen iPod Touch, the...
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Arcade ScreenSaver (zip)
- Arcade ScreenSaver includes a screen shot slide show of some popular arcade games from the 80s. Easy to install and uninstall. No spyware or viruses. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Wallpaper Hanger Desktop Designer (zip)
- Take control of your desktop and create your own custom wallpapers by easily resizing, cropping & combining your pictures. Also automatically changes your desktop wallpaper on the schedule you choose. Easy to use, just add jpg, gif, png, or bmp pics, including transparent pics, and set the time change. Great...
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- CrazyContrast (zip)
- Crazy Contrast is another crazy prank program from MAXIMA Productions. It will change your monitor contrast level every 1 second, so your monitor will be flashy. Great program to prank your friends. To stop the prank: move your mouse to the left-corner of the screen until a window appears. This...
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Jet Screenshot (exe)
- Jet Screenshot is a freeware utility enabling you to share screen snaps via the net in seconds. It allows you to take a snap, edit it and send it to the Web, so that you can immediately provide anyone with a link to the image. Such an approach allows you...
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- Towerball (zip)
- Towerball is an entry for LD12 (www.ludumdare.com), a 48 hour game programming competition. The goal of the game is to guide two balls connected by a string to a yellow target. Set your trajectory and speed using the mouse, then left-click to fire and right-click to dampen your shot.Climb the...
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
- ZeeVee ZvBox Zv-100
- These days, there's a wide range of products that will stream on-demand movies from the Internet to your living room (Apple TV, Vudu, Xbox 360, TiVo, PS3, and Roku's Netflix Player). The ability to access YouTube videos, video podcasts, and other online content is built into some of those products...
- Product reviews 2008-08-27
- Internet Explorer 8 beta 2
- With the public release of its second beta, Microsoft said it intends for the Internet Explorer 8 browser to be more customer-oriented than previous versions of its browser. Our initial impression of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is positive: we think Microsoft has not only caught up with Opera, Safari,...
- Product reviews 2008-08-27
- Samsung LN-52A860
- Although CNET did not review the 52-inch Samsung LN52A860, we did review the 46-inch Samsung LN46A750. Judging from their spec sheets, the two Samsung flat-panel LCDs are basically identical but for screen size, bezel color, a thinner panel (about 1.9 inches deep, versus 3.9 for the A750), and the addition...
- Product reviews 2008-08-27
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