Google is doing WHAT?

Its motto is 'Don't do evil' - but it looks like anything and everything else imaginable is pretty much fair game.With a skyrocketing stock price, fanboy hysteria and - most importantly --really useful products, Google Inc. is the prima donna of tech for the new millennium. The company is so active that it's hard to keep track of everything it does

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What's Good (and Free!) in the iTunes App Store

More than 550 new applications arrived for the iPhone and iPod touch this morning in iTunes' brand new App Store and more than 130 of them are available for free. This morning we're taking a look at the best free applications for your iPhone and iPod Touch, available after the 2.0 software update arrives.

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Mind Maps: Boost Your Brainstorming Session with MindMeister

Jotting a simple list is a great way to brainstorm, but when you want to visualize, organize, and untangle a deep set of ideas, you want a mind map. Web-based mind mapping tool MindMeister offers a simple interface to create mind maps collaboratively or on the go.

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"Augmented Reality" application developed for Google Android

"Enkin" introduces a new handheld navigation concept. It displays location-based content in a unique way that bridges the gap between reality and classic map-like representations. It combines GPS, orientation sensors, 3D graphics, live video, several web services and a novel user interface into an intuitive and light navigation system for phones.

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Why You Will Love FireFox 3?

The new version of Firefox feels much faster. The notorious memory leaks of flavors of 2.0 are plugged. The developers claim 3.0's Javascript performance is 9.3 times faster than IE7's and 2.7 times faster than its predecessor. They also claim 15,000 improvements to the old version - most of those are under the hood...

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GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers

A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win.

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Google Defends Open Source from 'Poisonous People'

Fitzpatrick and Collins-Sussman, two long-time open source gurus now plying their trade at Google believe in open source projects that maintain a small "bus factor." That would be the number of contributors who could be hit by a bus before a project collapses. A simple means of maintaining a small bus factor is baring names from source code.

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Top 10 Firefox 3 Features

The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. It's time to spotlight the biggest improvements that will make "Gran Paradiso" the browser to beat.

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Top 5 Web Browsers That Aren't IE, Safari, or Firefox

Those three browsers take up a collective 97.1 percent share of the market. But what about the rest of us slobs who protest anything corporate, reject anything mainstream, and don't even know why? There is surprising amount of excellent web browsers that get no love at all. And these are our five favorites.

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Patent reform coalition aims to abolish software patents

A coalition of patent reform advocacy groups has launched a new project that aims to challenge the legality of software patents.

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Top 10 Online Video Conversion Services

Did you know you don't have to be "on Youtube" to watch a Youtube movie? Instead, you can download the video stream to your computer, keep it there as a "normal" video file and watch it whenever you like. Nothing is illegal or fishy about it, it is simply another way of consuming the data.

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Is a free global WiFi network possible?

WeFi creates software that can be downloaded for free onto laptops or mobile devices that the company says will enhance WiFi connectivity and provide mobile devices with more powerful connection tools

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2-Step DVD-to-PC or iPod Video Conversion using Free Tools

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past years figuring out how to get my DVD collection onto my PC so I can use my Home Theater PC (HTPC) to play my library on my TV. The following is the two step process I’ve come up with to do this; all other programs I’ve used either are not free, install spyware, or desync the audio.

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SXSW 2008 on BitTorrent: 3.5 GB of Free Music

The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the biggest and most popular in the United States. For the fourth year in a row, SXSW has released a DRM-less collection of songs that - thanks to Greg Hewgill - can now be downloaded for free via BitTorrent.

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Firefox hits 500,000,000 downloads

The Mozilla community is celebrating 500 million Firefox downloads by earning 500 million grains of donated rice, enough to feed 25,000 people.

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Opera: Browser market is broken—thanks to Microsoft

Internet Explorer 8 is around the corner with "standards compliant" mode, but there are still certain parties that think Microsoft should do a lot more. Opera is one of them, and has a few tips for Microsoft to "fix" its browser issues.

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'DVD Jon' frees your media with DoubleTwist

Beginning Tuesday, the first product from his company, DoubleTwist Ventures, will enter open beta. Called DoubleTwist, it's a free desktop client that essentially allows any kind of music, photo, or video file to be shared between a long list of portable media players, and through Web-based social networks.

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Top 10 Free Software for Audiophiles

Make the most out of your music files - A carefully chosen list of free Apps that do the right jobs.

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Patrick Norton's free software article.

Patrick Norton's article about free programs on C|Net. We miss you Pat!

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Freeware/Shareware Site to Rival Download.com

This site is an awesome place to download freeware/shareware software. It doesn't have as much stuff as download.com, but, at least in the freeware section, it has better quality. Over 1000+ downloads, probably 10,000+. Check it out!

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The Google Linux Cluster (webcast)

Great webcast I found a while back in which Urs Hölzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs.

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AOL / ICQ are adopting the open source technology Jabber

Proprietary protocols are things from yesterday. Today, Opensource technologies are taking over the world! AOL / ICQ has just launched a test server using XMPP, an open technology. This means that you'll soon be able to talk to your ICQ / AIM contacts via Jabber. Google has already started using it. So who's next? MSN!

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5 Packs to Transform Windows to other OS

It’s a new year, why not give your years old XP operating system a new look? If you’re bored of having to look at the same kind of icons and eyecandy everytime, you can download and install these free transformation packs, and transform XP to look like any other OS.

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NEW! Firefox Live Support Chat!

Ever had a problem with firebox? Need some help? There are almost always people just waiting to help you. Just go to"http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Live+Chat"and fill in the fields and you will be answered in less then 20 seconds. Very useful and it has solved almost all of my Firefox problems. Check it out!

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50+ Open Source/Free Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat & PDF

What many people don’t realize is that PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard, which means the specifications behind the format are widely published. Numerous developers take advantage of this fact and create programs that offer effective alternatives to Acrobat. Check out our list of these programs and take advantage of these tools...

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The 5 most annoying programs on your PC

Elephantware. That is what we are talking about. Bloated programs that make brand new PCs boot like Pentium 2s with 64 MBs of RAM.This is software that causes your screen to freeze while it works, consumes enough system resources to display a reminder box letting you know there is a new, even bigger, version available for download. Software ...

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Top 10 Underhyped Webapps

Every once in awhile we get sick of constantly writing about the big name webapps everyone knows about, so today we're turning the spotlight away from the obvious greats and taking a look at online tools that may have flown under your radar. Here's our top 10 pick of of underhyped webapps that should get more attention than they do.

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How To Share Torrents With BitTorrent Illiterates

very now and then I want to share a torrent with colleagues or family members who have never even heard of BitTorrent. For them even the easiest tutorials look like advanced algebra. That leaves me with two options, BitComet Lite and Bitlet. For the complete novice, sharing on BitTorrent doesn’t come any easier than this.

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YouTorrent: Great New BitTorrent Search Engine

New BitTorrent sites are launched every day, but only a few stand out or have something new to offer. YouTorrent is such a site; feature-wise it’s just a meta-search engine, but the design and user interface make it one of the best i’ve seen.

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Transmission 1.00 Released!

Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client with a focus on being lightweight yet feature-filled. Version 1.00 is one of our biggest releases yet, with lots of bugfixes and a new Leopard-oriented UI (on OS X).

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5 Things You'll Love About Firefox 3

Some of the new features in Firefox 3 are not immediately obvious -- at least, not to the casual user. Among other things, Mozilla is incorporating new graphics- and text-rendering architectures in its browser layout engine (Gecko 1.9) to offer rendering improvements in CSS and SVG; adding a number of security features, including malware protection

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Free Tools to Manage New Year's Resolutions

To reach the goals you've set out for yourself in '08, follow through each and every one of the next 365 days—several free tools can help you with just that. Track your progress and help motivate yourself to stick to your New Year's resolutions with our favorite goal tracking webapps and tools.

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