There was too much news today in the web video world, but here are the highlights! Babelgum has acquired Chad Vader, Next New Networks is launching a health and fitness network, Revision3 is now available via iPhone app and Michael Buckley no longer needs glasses. Read More »
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Regular readers will know that I’m a fan of the note-taking combo of Notational Velocity on my Mac and Simplenote on my iPhone. But if you’re a Windows user, you should check out CintaNotes, which provides a similarly fast, lightweight access-anywhere note-taking experience for the PC. Read More »
Tesla Motors, gunning for an IPO next week, has won over members of the Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill and Hollywood elite. But will the company, which has never turned a profit, charge up Wall Street with a blockbuster IPO? Read More »
Visor is a neat way to make the terminal in Mac OS X universally accessible via a hotkey. It’s useful because it means you can jump to the terminal without moving your hands from the keyboard, regardless of which application you happen to be using. Read More »
Despite the threat of competing e-readers such as the Nook, an impending price war and the omnipresent threat of iPad, Amazon’s Kindle will be the winner of the e-book war. All Amazon has to do is stay true to its technology roots and focus on users. Read More »
One of the cool features of the new Safari 5 is the “Reader” mode, which makes it easier to view articles online by removing adverts and other visual distractions. However, you can achieve much the same effect in other browsers using arc90′s Readability bookmarklet. Read More »
What do you get when you build a smartbook using the Android OS without touch support? The Toshiba AC100 smartbook. The AC100 is a thin 10-inch notebook running Android 2.1 without touch support that is intended to be an always connected device with long battery life. Read More »
There’s a gold rush mentality going on right now when it comes to building data centers in Iceland, according to execs of the companies that have been moving into that market. The latest person to reference this phrase to me is the CTO of Verne Global. Read More »
While there are plenty of tools available for securely wiping a disk, overwriting the data with a stream of random bits and obliterating it completely, for Windows users, there is another option: a built-in Windows command line utility: cipher.exe. Read More »
Perhaps I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, but I’m getting a little bored with the current crop of “superphones,” as Om likes to call them. Most of the recent top-end smartphones appear to be slight enhancements over what’s currently available. Read More »
The multitouch surfaces of the trackpad on Apple’s recent MacBooks and of the Magic Mouse are great. But have you ever wished that you could use them to do even more? jitouch 2 is an application that extends your Mac with a range of additional gestures. Read More »
Between the four major U.S. cellular carriers and Clearwire, mobile broadband in this country is undergoing a fundamental transition to faster networks. But who’s doing what and when with their offerings? Here’s a summary of next-generation plans from the major U.S. carriers and Clearwire through 2013. Read More »
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