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Launching today, Google Dashboard

Today, Google announced that they launch Google Dashboard, a new feature from Google which is designed to let users see and control the copious amounts of data that Google has stored in its servers about you. The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your account – easily and concisely in [...]

[ More ] November 5th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet News |

Twitter Lists Now Open To All Users, Get your list now !!!

Twitter’s new Lists feature is now available to all users, project lead Nick Kallen has just confirmed through a tweet. The functionality has been in testing for weeks now with a select group of users, and a couple of weeks ago, opened to a wider audience.
The Twitter Lists feature has a similar concept like a [...]

[ More ] November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet News |

WEEKEND TIPS : Create a Custom Boot Logo for Windows Vista

Windows Vista’s boot screen is pretty boring, and for those of you that like to really customize your desktop, you may be wondering why it isn’t as easy in Vista as it was in previous versions. While it isn’t as easy as it used to be, if you follow along while watching this tutorial you [...]

[ More ] October 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Weekend Tips |

Android 2.0 will come with Google Maps Navigation in early November, will overtake iPhone market?

Verizon confirmed that Droid Pricing is set to $199 with 2 year agreement and release date is November 6th. By all accounts it will be an awesome device.  It will be the first phone running the Android 2.0 operating system.

Here is their press release :

HELLO HUMANS: DROID BY MOTOROLA ARRIVES NEXT WEEK
Verizon Wireless DROID By [...]

[ More ] October 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in technology |

WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal

Yesterday, after months of planning the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache, MySQL and the rest of the LAMP [...]

[ More ] October 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet News |

Geocities closes the service down today, should they buy Ning ?

When Geocities’ parent company Yahoo closes the service down today (26th October) all websites held there will be deleted. GeoCities, once the Internet’s third most visited domain, removed taking with it thousands of user home pages and decades of data. All that information will be history…. Fortunately, some historians are making sure it’s not lost [...]

[ More ] October 26th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet News |

WEEKEND TIPS : Online Child Safety – Windows Vista Parental Controls

This is another installment in using the Parental Controls feature in Vista.  I figured this week I would cover these controls and other utilities we can use to help protect the kids.
Start>>Control Panel>> and click on Set up parental controls for any user. You will then be greeted with the screen to choose the user [...]

[ More ] October 24th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Weekend Tips |

Bing,Twitter and Facebook Collaborate….Will dominate search engine market?

According to sources, Microsoft (MSFT) digital head Qi Lu will announce the deal onstage in a few hours at the Web 2.0 Summit. The deals will integrate real time updates from users of the services into search results. Google and Bing aren’t good at pulling in this real time data today because of the need [...]

[ More ] October 21st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet News |

Facebook’s Redesign Screenshots

Facebook is working on redesign its home page again. The big picture is that Facebook is coming out with a more nuanced new home page that may serve as a better central place for consuming information from the site and from the web. It doesn’t look too different. The biggest change is that [...]

[ More ] October 20th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet News |

Mozilla disables Microsoft plug-ins

Mozilla is disabling a pair of components stealthily installed by Microsoft earlier this year for Windows users of the Firefox Web browser, warning that the software suffers from serious security vulnerability.
Firefox users may already have seen a pop-up notice about an unstable or insecure add-on being disabled. The message would look something like image [...]

[ More ] October 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Internet News |

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