Are you looking forward to the New Year or are you bogged down with unfinished tasks from this year? No matter what sort of year you have had, you still have the opportunity to end this year on a high, and start the New Year on a positive note. You will have had a number of successes in the last twelve months and it is important to acknowledge them. At the same time, you can learn from those things that did not quite go the way you had hoped. Here are some simple ways of ending this year powerfully....
Since long I was looking for a widget by which I can share or multi cast my new articles or blog or a website to all my friends via my contact address book from gmail or yahoo or hotmail or by entering custom mails, now socialtwist.com has a solution for it and they call it as “Tell a Friend“. Tell a friend Widget - Social Twist SocialTwist says they love widgets; those with serious functionality that could nearly make them applications. SocialTwist brings Widget Applications that can add a twist to the way visitors use a website or a new...
By Mona Nomura of Pixel Bits (FriendFeed/Twitter)I am the odd ball. The nerdy go-to person for my friends' and family's geeky needs. This Black Friday, before Christmas, et al sale holiday season, the most frequently asked question is: Should I buy a Blu-ray player? Since half of my guy friends are non-techies and my girl friends? PLEASE do not get me started. Their tech cred is limited to owning beauty gadgets and high end mobile phones. It is a challenge (and pressure) to simply explain what Blu-ray is and if it is truly a right choice for them; especially since...
On Friday YouTube unveiled a new feature for the holidays that lets users create hosted video cards to send to friends and family. Users can select this option from any YouTube video, or from a special page that houses selected community videos and links to a user's own clips. There's also an option to make a personalized greeting straight from a connected Web cam. When finished picking the video there are a handful of themes that house the video player, along with space to add up to 230 characters of text, both of which can be sent up to...
Have you ever wanted to be a snarky record store clerk like the ones in High Fidelity, recommending the choicest cuts to a grateful and adoring public? People's Music Store lets you set up your own online storefront to sell up to 50 DRM-free albums from a decent range of high-quality electronica, rock and other music. The store won't earn you money, but it could earn you respect, plus ability to download free music from other people's stores. People's Music Store was founded by Ged Day, who launched Bleep.com for Warp Records -- "the first" DRM free 320 Kbps...
Apple this week revised the layout of its iPhone application store to make it less of a cluttered mess. The iPhone App Store now displays the most downloaded applications for each category (e.g., Games, Travel, Finance, etc). In the past, the App Store only listed the top 25 apps (paid or free) downloaded overall, regardless of category. Breaking the apps into separate categories will not only make it easier for customers to find popular software; it'll help out iPhone developers as well. Some iPhone developers were recently complaining it's difficult for their apps to receive attention now that the...
Filed under: Linux, Freeware, Open Source, Analysis, EducationIf you're not familiar with it, the HeliOS project is an effort to get computers into the hands of kids who might not otherwise be able to afford them. To date this year, they've distributed over 300 machines. Apparently that's not enough to keep them from making an enemy.A middle school teacher named Karen observed one of her students demonstrating the abilities of his Linux-powered laptop to his classmates. What a great thing, a student exposing his peers to technology they probably weren't familiar with before....Right?Wrong. Karen sprang into action, confiscated the CDs...
Filed under: Industry, Tuners, Satellite File this one in the category of "Oh, no they didn't!" Sadly, it seems they really have. DirecTV has sent out an email stating the following: "DirecTV has suspended the development of the HDPC-20 tuner project that was designed to integrate DirecTV service into Windows Media Center after assessing the impact of missing the August 2008 release of Windows Media Center update and considering timing of the next release." The note goes on to say that both the satcaster and Microsoft understand that folks are clamoring for an easy way to get DirecTV content on...
