Filed under: Software , How-tos , Productivity One gem in Mac OS X that sometimes gets glanced over is the Services menu. Lots of readers may not know yet that Snow Leopard brought with it the ability to create your own customized service in Automator -- in other words, you can get additional selections on a contextual menu when right-clicking ...
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Mike Schramm
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Dick Durbin presses Apple on human rights in China
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Filed under: Apple Corporate , Apple Technology relations with China and their human rights situation is turning into a hot-button issue lately, especially given Google's recent troubles with that country . Now, my old senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, has decided to raise the level of scrutiny, calling for a list of 30 companies, including ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of seven newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. The most notable patent covered in this report relates to possible next generation technology that Apple could employ in either in their Apple TV console or an HDTV unit itself - over time. Other patents granted to Apple today ...
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Megan Lavey
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Apple forces Stanza to nix USB book sharing
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Filed under: iTunes , iPhone , App Store Those who enjoy USB book sharing their ePub and eReader files in the current version of Stanza [ iTunes link ] will want to avoid the 2.1 version of the software, currently being distributed in the App Store. The update notes reveal that Apple apparently ordered Lexcycle to remove the USB sharing ability. ...
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Neowin.net
The real reason Apple updated the iPhone OS
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When Apple released their update for the iPhone, most assumed that it was a general bug fix. But, if you dig a bit deeper, there are some major security holes that are now plugged with the new update. Referring to an Apple support page, the page details some of the...
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TechCrunch
3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...
 
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ZDNet Blogs
There are now reports that the former director of the East Anglia climate research unit may have tampered with data. That has led to press speculation that he will never resume his official duties at the University of East Anglia. There’s an on-going official investigation of the hacked emails and the research done at East Anglia. Emails ...
 
Barb Dybwad
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Mashable
Mashable was in attendance at today’s New Music Seminar in Los Angeles, where Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek gave an excellent keynote about the state of the music industry and the re-emerging subscription model. Since we have new music on the…
Microsoft officials have confirmed to Neowin that the company recently released a Release Candidate (RC) build of Office 2010 to private beta testers. Early Release Candidate builds began leaking to the web in January this year as Microsoft was preparing for the RC release to Technology Adoption Program (TAP) testers. Russian site...
Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
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The Age: Burned Indian faked attack to claim car insurance: police And this follows the recent murder of an Indian man by other Indians. Both cases were cited in the Indian media as examples of Australian racism. So is an insurance scam racist? Side note: the funniest thing this morning was listening to the head of the Indian [...]
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Celebrate Super Bowl XLIV through the experiences of fans in South Florida and the rest of the world. Explore photos and tweets from fans tagged #SB44, the official tag of the Super Bowl. Want to be included in the experience? Make sure to include #SB44 in your Twitter posts and tag your photos on Flickr. Then come back often to see the ...
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Samuel Axon
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Mashable
Remember that “ If You Printed Twitter ” image that made the social media rounds two weeks ago? A similarly formatted graphic that describes the state of Internet use and adoption has been published today for your infotainment. The focus is on exactly…
Here we take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. At a glance, we can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However, their age, educational background and level of income may influence how much time they spend online.
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This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. We've learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. For instance, when ...
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CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
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NYT
Ten-year venture capital returns are deteriorating, yet venture capital still outperformed the public markets.
 
Justin Yu
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Crave
Back in your hole, guy. (Credit: Punxsutawney Groundhog Club) 2010 started off positively: an amazing CES visit, an uplifting State of the Union Address, and an entertaining Grammy Awards show. Yes, 'twas a great January...too bad that filthy, overgrown rat Punxsutawney Phil had to show up and ruin it with a dreary six more weeks of winter, ...
We'll be in the waiting room a bit longer before we're allowed to meet with the Trauma Team. Atlus announced a delay from the game's original April 20 date to May 18.
Ever since the supposedly limited run of the Halo 3 Legendary Edition was first released, we've watched its price slowly tumble. Originally sporting a hefty $129.99 price tag, we've seen the price slide ever lower as retailers, desperate for shelf space, slashed the price again and again. Now, 1saleaday.com is selling copies of the Legendary ...
IPad Hardware Reveals Potential Slot for Camera
In a quiet moment yesterday I asked my Twitter network: “what’s one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog? (and what’s stopping you from doing it now?)” The answers were quite varied – everything from redesigns, to writing E-Books, to posting more regularly to SEO optimization, to ...
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“Profitability” can be a squishy term for startups — until they file for an IPO and deliver, through the SEC, what’s often the first unfiltered snapshot of their financial situation: the S-1. That’s been the case for Tesla Motors, which filed on Friday to raise up to $100 million through an initial public offering.
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