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FON, the Madrid, Spain-based WiFi services company has bought the popular Firefox extension, GSpace, for an undisclosed amount, according company officials. The FireFox extension was developed by Rahul Jonna and allows users to treat their GMail accounts as an online file storage locker. The extension… Read More »

Widgets Live conference to be held in San Francisco and organized by GigaOM and Niall Kennedy is now sold out. Read More »

 
 

iHome’s iH5 Clock Radio

No, not that iHome. Ain’t No Other Man… The iHome iH5 clock radio is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a full-featured clock radio that lets you hook in your iPod as a source for sound. So instead of accidentally having the radio wake you up… Read More »

TextExpander by Smile On My Mac

In what is probably my favorite gauge of a great application, TextExpander fades into the background and just works. Smile On My Mac purchased the previously-known Textpander (which we’ve covered here and here) from developer Peter Maurer this past year. If… Read More »

Another day in Silly-con valley. WSJ reports Yahoo is looking at Facebook, for somewhere around $1 billion. Yahoo-Facebook reports and rumors have been circling for a while now. The other Web 2.0 darling, YouTube is also for sale, for $1.5 billion.… Read More »

It doesn’t get any more "hands on" than an actual keyboard review, now does it? I passed along a great deal on the new Think Outside Sierra Bluetooth keyboard last… Read More »

Interarchy 8.2: FTP Redefined

Interarchy 8.2 is a remarkably feature-packed update to an already wonderful piece of software. I haven’t used Interarchy since version 8.0.1, and in the interim the folks at Stairways Software have clearly been hard at work. First Impressions When you first fire it up, Interarchy greets… Read More »

RapidWeaver: Filling the WYSIWYG Void

For those of you who have never seen RapidWeaver version 3.5.0 in action, it can best be described as the forgotten middle child. Sure, it’s not as revered as the first-born Dreamweaver, and it’s not talked about nearly as much as the baby iWeb,… Read More »

Color Schemer Studio

Lately, I’ve been giving up my deepest darkest tricks to the readership here at TAB. Many of you are fantastic web designers, and you probably already know about Color Schemer Studio. What’s that? You don’t know about it? You say you’ve been using color swatches to… Read More »

I’m constantly on the go. If there was an eighth day to the week, I’d be on the go then too; that’s how much I tend to be mobile. As a result, I rely on my “7 x 24” EV-DO connection for Internet service on my… Read More »

Desktopia: Bring your desktop to life

Pierre Chatel (who brought us Sidenote) is at it again with an app that’s sure to spice up your desktop. His newest app is titled Desktopia. Desktopia is a freeware application that lets you set your desktop to change pictures at a specific time as… Read More »

My first experience on a Mac Pro

Yesterday I received a call that Apple Store UTC had demo units on the floor and I should come check them out. As any deserving person does to test the power of a system, I rebooted the thing. The system was up and running in under… Read More »

More Must Reads

Tha’ts right, folks. I’m not talking about Civ 4, the most anticipated version of the Sid Myer’s command and control civilization simulator. This is all about it’s older brother, bundled with both expansion packs and a few other niceties. I’m just going to get the the point… Read More »

While I am not sure how many there are, one thing is for certain – there are far more FTP clients than one person needs. This is a classic problem when looking for a piece of software. There are dozens of offerings, but which one… Read More »

skEdit is the web developers text editor. While not nearly as feature packed as some other text editors in the Mac software market, I’ve been using it for two weeks and in that time it has easily saved me three months worth… Read More »

This Lifehacker post about encrypting text on your website using Javascript reminded me of some little known OS X-only software that I use on my websites. Email Encoder from Closenit Sofware is a free and brilliant little app that weighs in at… Read More »

Routebuddy has just been released, and in an effort to get in there before everyone else I just downloaded and gave the app a quick spin. Firstly… why do I personally want a GPS / mapping app? A fairly newfound hobby of mine has been… Read More »

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