1. Surprise: Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X in Market Share  permalink

Surprise: Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X in Market Share
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!

Windows 7 is doing well, which gives the number crunching crowd an opportunity to compare it with Mac OS X – if only for a moment. According to Internet metrics company Net Applications, Windows 7 last weekend powered (on average) 5.07% of PCs, while in that week Mac OS X (in all its iterations) powered around 5% of computers worldwide. ...

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Surprise: Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X in Market Share How Microsoft could kill Google's Chrome OS   —  Thin is in again. At least that's the message I'm taking away from the full-frontal media orgy surrounding last week's Chrome OS demo. Virtually everyone who's anyone is now singing the praises of the smaller, lighter, Web-centric desktop model at the heart of Google's still unreleased "Windows killer." And that includes Microsoft.

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Surprise: Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X in Market Share Windows 7   —  Computerworld - Windows 7 passed the 5% market share milestone last weekend, which put it, if only temporarily, above the total market share of all versions of Apple's Mac OS X, a Web measurement firm said today.

2. Lenovo's Snapdragon smartbook gets Android, pictured properly  permalink

Lenovo's Snapdragon smartbook gets Android, pictured properly
Vladislav Savov / Engadget

That's right, sailor, Qualcomm has been dishing some more info on the future of smartbooks, and we now know that the Lenovo number we noticed being teased earlier this month will be driven by a vanilla copy of Google's Android OS . Other data of import includes a purported battery life of more than eight hours and always-on connectivity through ...

3. Review: Eastwick - Paint and Pleasure  permalink

Review: Eastwick - Paint and Pleasure
Jane Boursaw / TV Squad

(S01E08) "I am through with tortured relationships and unrequited crushes." - Joanna Even though Eastwick has gotten the big ol' axe , I'll cover it til the bitter end, gosh darnit. I believe it has one more episode, which airs next week. At this point, it seems kind of silly to invest more emotional energy into the show, but even though it's ...

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Review: Eastwick - Paint and Pleasure Review: Sons of Anarchy - Culling   —  (S02E12) "Either you or me goes home in a bag." - Jax to A.J. The showdown we've been waiting all season to see finally happened tonight and even though it didn't end the way the antagonists deserved (i.e. heads removed where the shoulder meets the neck, placed on a stick and paraded around town on a substandard Japanese import), it still had my ...

Michael Pascua / TV Squad
Review: Eastwick - Paint and Pleasure Review: So You Think You Can Dance - 2 of 12 Voted Off   —  ( S06E18 ) I'm surprised how well So You Think You Can Dance can cover up the fact that the first 30 minutes can be wasted in just finding out who the bottom three were. It felt like the two-couples-at-a-time technique worked better than having three couples up at one time. One thing I'm happy to see in the recaps are the slo-mo camera angles. ...

4. Browse the World’s Best Photos at Print Society  permalink

Browse the World’s Best Photos at Print Society
Matt / Photojojo

~Reach 270,000 photo fansAd spots available in Jan 2010 Nothing makes us giddier than printing photos ginormous, whether they’re of parasailing in Provence, summers at Space Camp, or that one time we lept into a stranger’s wedding photos. Brand-new site Print Society encourages our obsession, gathering the world’s best prints ...

5. Xbox 360 Elegant Edition shows Microsoft how it's done  permalink

Xbox 360 Elegant Edition shows Microsoft how it's done
Vladislav Savov / Engadget

You know, we've pretty much all been enamored with the Zune HD's industrial design , but one unintended consequence for Microsoft was that it made its console look even more childish and toylike. It was inevitable, then, that a group of industrious Swedes would take up arms against this injustice and right the world with their Elegant Edition mod.

6. Happy Thanksgiving. Thank Able Lincoln too. He Finalized its Bogus Invention.  permalink

Happy Thanksgiving. Thank Able Lincoln too. He Finalized its Bogus Invention.
John C Dvorak / Dvorak Uncensored

THIS IS A REPOST OF A 2005 POST HAPPY THANKSGIVING from Everyone at Dvorak Uncensored. Thanksgiving Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln — I’m always amused by the cock and bull story about Thanksgiving being about Pilgrims, maize, turkeys and Indians when the holiday stems from an Abe Lincoln proclamation at the behest of magazine editor.

7. VOTE: NFL Star Steve Smith Banks on Facebook for Pro Bowl  permalink

VOTE: NFL Star Steve Smith Banks on Facebook for Pro Bowl
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!

The relationship between sports and social media is unique. On any given day Sunday an NFL football player’s tweet will get him released from the team , and yet the next day a basketball superstar will handsomely reward his one millionth Twitter follower . Such is the nature of a platform that supports real-time updates from athletes. ...

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VOTE: NFL Star Steve Smith Banks on Facebook for Pro Bowl Like Facebook, Data Robotics Dreams of an IPO   —  IMPORTANT POINTSData Robotics has sold 85,000 Drobos Will do sales of $60 million in its third year of sales. Wants to go public after crossing $100 million in revenues.It’s easy to confuse the technology industry with the shiny, attention-grabbing consumer web that’s comprised of services such as Twitter [...]

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Fantazzle / Steve Smith Sweepstakes   —  New York Giants WR Steve Smith invites YOU to win a chance to join him in Miami at the 2010 NFL Pro Bowl if you can help get him there! Did you know that 33.3% of the votes for the Pro Bowl are determined by YOU, the fans?  Well it’s true. In fact, as Steve’s fans, you can personally influence whether or not he gets to the Pro Bowl more ...

8. Investimonials Wants To Be Your Guide To Quality Financial Products  permalink

Investimonials Wants To Be Your Guide To Quality Financial Products
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

If you've ever tried searching the web for financial advice, you probably know just how much junk there is out there. Sure, there may be a few diamonds in the rough, but oftentimes the best results go to the finance 'experts' who are good at SEO - not the ones who know what they're talking about. Investimonials is a new site launching this week ...

9. Should WordPress Buy Pheedo.com?  permalink

Should WordPress Buy Pheedo.com?
Darnell Clayton / The Blog Herald

One feature that I love about both Blogger and WordPress.org is that I can redirect my default RSS feed over to FeedBurner in order monetize my blog feed. While this option is available via plugin for WordPress.org fans and baked in for Blogger users (ever since Google purchased FeedBurner), WordPress.com users seem to be left out [...]

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Should WordPress Buy Pheedo.com? WordPress.com Rolls Out Blog Subscription Widget   —  Know what? I’m starting to like WordPress.com as free blog hosting site. I mean at least, it continues to improve its services not unlike its rival – Google Blogger which seems to have stagnated for quite awhile now. So aside from the recent geotagging feature that was rolled out recently, WordPress.com has also introduced another ...

10. Aviary’s Chrome Extension Proves That These Add-Ons Are Going To Be Awesome  permalink

Aviary’s Chrome Extension Proves That These Add-Ons Are Going To Be Awesome
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

I have something to admit: I've never been a big extension guy. When I was still using Firefox, I liked them, but the downside, browser bloat, turned me away. But now that we're starting to see the first steps of true extension support in Chrome, I think I could be swayed. While people have been developing extensions for Chrome for a little ...

11. Are small cars doomed to fail in the American market?  permalink

Are small cars doomed to fail in the American market?
Harry Fuller / ZDNet Blogs

Categories: Blogroll, air pollution, biofuel, cars & traffic, conservation, energy, engineering, federal government, fossil fuel, green tech, law & politics, mass transit, petroleum

12. Ask TV Squad: TV shows on DVD  permalink

Ask TV Squad: TV shows on DVD
Isabelle Carreau / TV Squad

The " Ask TV Squad " column, published every Wednesday, answers your questions about current and past TV shows, as well as about the celebrities appearing on TV. Every week, I will pick a question (or more) sent to us and provide answers in the column. If your question is not picked for a column, it may be answered in a subsequent column or in ...

13. Gadgettes Podcast 86: The Body Episode  permalink

Jason Howell / Crave

There will be no episode of Gadgettes this week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the US. So, have a listen to a classic episode from the Gadgettes archive. Remember to read this entire blog post in your own "hot breath" voice for the full effect. Go ahead. You know you want to. Enjoy! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with ...

14. Jason Howell CNET Staff  permalink

My.cnet.com

Show summary: A new survey shows the messaging behavior of men and women on dating sites. And it leads Natali to the inevitable conclusion that you shouldn't date dorks. We also talk over the WikiLeaks pager data from the 9/11 events. And BlackBerry gets an eBay app Why is this such big news?

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15. NBC Flexes Its Sunday Night Muscle  permalink

NBC Flexes Its Sunday Night Muscle
Www.broadcastingcable.com

The NFL has moved the Patriots/Dolphins game from the Dec. 6 NBC Sunday night matchup to a 1 p.m. start to make way for two first-place teams. It is its first flex move of the season.

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16. Locus adds water module to environment software application portfolio  permalink

Locus adds water module to environment software application portfolio
Heather Clancy / ZDNet Blogs

This might not be every company’s problem, but environmental software application provider Locus Technologies, has added a groundwater remediation and monitoring module to its core Web-based service portfolio. I only wish I could figure out how my dear friend could use this project. She’s on month seven or eight of a groundwater ...

17. Man Marries Character in Game  permalink

Man Marries Character in Game
John C Dvorak / Dvorak Uncensored

Magazine publishers want an app store! Black Friday talk getting old. Google and Tivo going to dog viewers like nothing before. Japanese man marries video game character. Xbox360 outselling PS3 by 3X. Great security predictions for 2010. Brought to you by e-Harmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com and use the code EHTECH for a fat discount. ...

18. Google’s Not Done Giving: Free Wi-Fi in Even More Airports  permalink

Google’s Not Done Giving: Free Wi-Fi in Even More Airports
Ben Parr / Mashable!

Google got into the Holiday spirit several weeks early. The search giant didn’t want to just give boring old toys or gadgets, though. No, when Google does something, it does it on a wide scale. Perhaps that’s why they gave holiday travelers the gift of free Wi-Fi in 47 U.S. airports and free Wi-Fi on Virgin America flights . The ...

19. Handbrake 0.94 transcodes DVDs even faster  permalink

Handbrake 0.94 transcodes DVDs even faster
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad

Filed under: Video , Windows , Macintosh , Linux Handbrake , the insanely great multi-platform video transcoder - or "dvd ripper," if you're really being honest - just got its first update in almost a year. The biggest new change is 64-bit support, which means a 10% jump in encoding speed. According to our sister site, TUAW , Mac users don't ...

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Handbrake 0.94 transcodes DVDs even faster HandBrake 0.9.4 released … Good tool gets better   —  DVD ripper Handbrake has seen an update. Lots of new features: 64-bit build Live preview Quality-based encoding We also get big promises: "There's an old proverb in the video encoding world: "Speed, size, quality: pick two." It means that you always have to make a trade-off between the time it takes to encode a video, the amount of compression ...

20. Newegg's Black Friday sale starts with LG, Sharp and Samsung HDTV deals  permalink

Newegg's Black Friday sale starts with LG, Sharp and Samsung HDTV deals
Sean Portnoy / ZDNet Blogs

Newegg has kicked off its Black Friday festivities a little early, and the site is straining with the traffic surge. If you can actually get onto the site, you'll find a bunch of deals on HDTVs from brands like LG, Sharp and Samsung. While Samsung sets are well-represented in the Black Friday specials from other retailers, LG and Sharp are in ...

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Newegg's Black Friday sale starts with LG, Sharp and Samsung HDTV deals The 5 Rules of Black Friday   —  Black Friday is almost here. It’s a great time to score some deals, but don’t go at it willy-nilly. Follow these 5 simple Black Friday rules to avoid the scams and wasting time.1. Doorbusters are stripped-down crap