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Navegas is a classy, super-simple music player in your browser
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There’s no shortage of ways to listen to music online these days, and Navegas is throwing its hat into the ring as a browser-based portal for accessing tunes from a variety of sources. As it’s made in Berlin, there’s little surprise that this is a good-looking site, oozing the Berlin...
Facebook Could Jumpstart HTML5 Platform With App Bookmarks On News Feed
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Facebook’s late-comer HTML5 mobile app platform lags way behind the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace. Yesterday I spotted Facebook’s latest effort to catch up — a test showing bookmarks for third-party applications at the top of the mobile news feed. Currently, Facebook buries HTML5 app bookmarks at the bottom of...
Child-friendly Internet Explorer 9 released by CEOP and Microsoft
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Microsoft and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) have teamed up to release a customized version of Internet Explorer 9. The browser launches today as part of Safer Internet Day 2012, and provides easy access for children to report cyberbullying and inappropriate images, as well as seek...
Firefox Australis: One browser interface to rule them all
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Before you read on, make sure you’re seated comfortably. If you’re wearing a tie or belt, loosen it. Usually you’re told to brace in such instances, but I find it easier to just kind of just, like, go limp. Ready? Firefox is receiving yet another interface overhaul. Dubbed Australis, the...
Good Lord, I Might Now Want to Use Yahoo Search Again -- Product Dudes Talk About New Axis Browser (Video)
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Yahoo introduced its new Axis browser tonight, with versions for the Apple iPad and iPhone, as well as plug-ins for the top desktop browsers. The company briefed a media army on the product an and the consensus is that it’s very good. My favorite headline from Gizmodo: “Yahoo Came...
Good Lord, I Might Now Want to Use Yahoo Search Again -- Product Dudes Talk About New Axis Browser (Video)
Yahoo Debuts Axis, Their New (And Impressive) Desktop And Mobile Search Experience
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Late last year, Yahoo filed for a trademark on the phrase “Yahoo Axis.” The filing raised more questions than answers at the time, but after six months Yahoo has finally spilled the proverbial beans — Axis is both a new search-oriented add-on for your web browser, and a new browser...
Yahoo! Announces Axis, A New Visual Paradigm In Web Search UI
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We take our search engine experience so much for granted that it can be hard to see with clear eyes. Consider this: The dead simple process of googling something actually has four distinct phases. First, you arrive at the URL and type your query. Second, you scanning the long list...
Mozilla's 'Junior' iPad browser prototype keeps it simple
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Love your iPad, but hate Safari? Mozilla's Alex Limi can relate, it's "a pretty miserable experience," he says. So what's he doing about it? Building a replacement, of course. In a recent presentation showing the fruits of the Mozilla Product Design Strategy team's labors, Limi offered a glimpse at...
Pre-rendered Pages Highlight Latest Google Chrome Release
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The latest version of Google's Chrome browser, known as Chrome 17, can now determine which sites you're likely to visit when you start typing them into your search bar and will actually preload them for you....
13 Things You Never Knew You Could Do On LinkedIn (LNKD)
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A lot of LinkedIn's ~150 million users don't know how to unlock its true potential. The company's co-founder, Reid Hoffman, said as much in a recent profile by WIRED: "They think it’s a place they keep their CV online and maybe have some connections with people they know professionally. They...
Mozilla Is Building A “Simple” iPad Browser Called Junior
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Last week, Mozilla’s Product Design Strategy team quietly announced a few new projects including something called Junior, a Webkit browser for the iPad with no tabs or search bars. Instead, it uses simple gestures and a simplified UI to change the way we work with the web. To browse the...
The Serge SDK Can Find Almost Any Brand You Shoot With Your Smartphone
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Have you ever wanted to take a picture of a purse and figure out where to buy it instantly? Probably not, but now you can. Serge has built a mobile search engine that uses voice, music, vision, barcode, QR code, location, augmented reality and video recognition technology to connect users...
Bad Taste In Music? Crowdsource Your Next Party Playlist With Anthm
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Cultivating the perfect party playlist requires more than a little time and effort, but when there are kegs to be tapped and cheese plates to be arranged, the task can sadly fall by the wayside. That’s where a new iOS app called Anthm comes in — instead of putting the...
Google Docs Research sidebar looks up terms, adds images, quotes, and citations
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Google Docs has a lot going for it as an office or writing tool, and we imagine the Research sidebar, which appears to have recently launched on the suite, will help bolster its popularity. After selecting Tools > Research or using a shortcut, Docs will bring up a sidebar,...
The New Bing Makes Google Look Anti-Social
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It's time for Bing's big headline. Today Microsoft takes the wrapper off the new Bing, for which the cleaned-up redesign a couple weeks ago was just a preview. For signed-in Facebook users, Bing now has a social search component that should send Google back to the drawing board. It's called...
Google Now: A Smarter, Mobile Search Offering Tailored To Your Life
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So far, searching for content on a phone has been designed around the experience of searching for content on a desktop. Google’s search bar still leads you to a list of text links. And it’s proven to be a pretty lousy solution as we try to navigate information on a...
Google Docs' New Sidebar Makes Research Faster
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Enlarge / Sadly, Google's new research sidebar has no information on the planned Matlock Expressway. If you're the type that has an unfortunate tendency of mangling popular Simpsons quotes or the words of English literary greats, Google is here to make your life a little easier. Our friends at...
Why Google needs the Motorola deal for tablets
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China is expected to rule soon on Google’s proposed acquisition of Motorola, with the deal already approved in the U.S. and Europe. When Google announced its intention to spend $12.5 billion on Motorola — one of its own Android hardware partners — the purchase was considered to be a play...
Politwoops preserves deleted tweets from US politicians
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Not everyone thinks before they tweet, and US politicians are certainly no exception – enter Politwoops, a website set up by The Sunlight Foundation to archive deleted tweets from politicians. Politwoops scrapes the Twitter accounts of political figures, updating the site when tweets disappear. The website has a convenient...
Mozilla Working on 'Junior' Web Browser for iPad
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Back in mid-2010, Mozilla released Firefox Home, an iOS app designed to sync users' Firefox histories, bookmarks, and open tabs from their desktops to their iOS devices. Several months later, Mozilla acknowledged that it had no plans to bring a full-fledged Firefox browser to iOS, due in part to "technical...
Mozilla developing ‘Junior’ browser for the iPad, prototype features full-screen browsing
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Calling Safari for iPad “a miserable experience,” Mozilla’s Alex Limi showed off a prototype of a new browser for the iPad called Junior in a recent presentation. Junior takes a different approach from traditional browsers, ridding of an address and search bar on the main screen, and going with a...
Official Spotify iPad app leak surfaces, possible unveiling at NYC press event April 18 (photos)
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A leaked image of Spotify’s official iPad app surfaced today. Swedish technology consultant Statigram posted a purported picture of the app’s Beta version on Instagram (link now redirects). The caption simply read: “It’s getting closer!” The above screen capture depicts an iOS Twitter and Sparrow-like user-interface, with play options...
Chrome for iOS review: syncing is great, but still just a WebKit wrapper
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A version of Google's Chrome browser has finally come to iOS devices. The company made its announcement on Thursday as part of its annual Google I/O conference in San Francisco, with Chrome becoming available on the App Store for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users just hours after the announcement....
Google’s 2012 Gay Pride Search Bar Ribbon
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In 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008 Google showed their support for the Gay and Lesbian community by adding the rainbow colors to the search results. This year is no different for the Gay and Lesbian Pride month. If you search for [gay] or related keywords, Google will show the following...
Here's What I think Of Google's Nexus 7 Tablet After Playing With It For An Hour (GOOG)
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I've been playing with Google's first-ever tablet, the Nexus 7, for about an hour now. (By the way, big ups to Google for being super cool and giving me a tablet before most of the other developers and press here at I/O got a chance to see it. They're all...
Wikipedia updates iOS and Android apps, ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMaps
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To say that mobile has been a huge boost for Wikipedia would be an understatement according to a post from the site today, saying that its 2-month-old Android version alone has accounted for 23M page views per month, with 2.25M installs to date. Today, the company behind the project has...
Bing Desktop Beta released with search toolbar and desktop background controls
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In what looks like a preliminary test before Windows 8, Microsoft has released a beta version of Bing Desktop, a combination search toolbar and desktop manager for Windows 7. We tried it out, and the tool basically includes two features: a bar that lets you search Bing and an...
Turning Attention to the Payment Side, Square Rebrands its Card Case as "Pay With Square"
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Mobile payments start-up Square has built its business targeting small business owners who shied away from traditional credit card systems, by offering an easy-to-swipe, low-fee solution with a Square dongle on a mobile phone. Now, it’s working on the other side of the equation: the consumer. The company is rebranding...
Microsoft puts Bing search ad on Facebook logout page
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Microsoft is the first advertiser to use the new Facebook logout page placement with a unit that includes search capabilities, TechCrunch confirms. Last week the social network surprised advertisers with a new ad type several times larger than any it had previously offered. The ad, which is shown after a...
Google warning users in China of censor-prone searches
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Google is now letting search users in mainland China know when search terms they’ve entered are likely to break their connection to the company’s servers. Apparently, the Great Firewall doesn’t like queries containing characters like 江 (river) and 周 (week), which are frequently used in Chinese surnames. Searches containing...
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