Monthly Archives: December 2011

Firefox 4 Friday: 25 million downloads, anti-aliasing, and how to make it look like Firefox 3

If you’ve had your head under a rock for the last few days, here’s this week’s Firefox news in brief: Firefox 4 was finally released. Yes, 13 months after the initial release of Firefox 3.7 alpha 1 and four more … Continue reading

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Iowa Leader Mired in Controversy After Backing Santorum (ABC News)

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A Meteorite Didn’t Start Today’s Six Alarm Fire in San Francisco [Video]

Twitter is going insane with talk of a meteorite possibly causing today’s fire in San Francisco’s Western Addition. It’s all based on a blurry (they’re always burry) photograph. Guess, what, that didn’t happen. More » Jennifer Love Hewitt Jennifer Morrison Jennifer … Continue reading

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O’Reilly helps Japan, offers entire e-book catalog for 50% off, today only

O’reilly make some of the best computer books in the world. They also sell them as DRM-free e-books in a bunch of formats, including PDFs and Mobi for Kindle. They usually offer one “Deal of the Day”, which is a … Continue reading

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Google Latitude check-in deals now available across the US

Recently, Google has been busy beefing up Latitude to make it more competitive with other location apps — and more fun to use. Location history was added recently, iOS users can post check-ins via Latitude, and now Google has begun … Continue reading

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Farragomate is a social fridge magnet game where you make up sentences

You know those fridge magnet kits composed of a whole bunch of words? The ones you put all over your fridge door and then try to arrange into all sorts of juvenile and/or amusing sentences. Well, Farragomate is the social, … Continue reading

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Samsung’s in a gifting mood, is giving away up to 16 free games for select Galaxy devices

Well, it seems as if the holiday freebies won’t stop coming. Chances are, if you own a smartphone you’re an app collectionista (sorry, guys), and if you’ve got a certain Samsung Galaxy device in particular you’re about to get a … Continue reading

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MOTOACTV update brings longer battery life, other goodies

The MOTOACTV update announced by Motorola earlier this month is now pushing to all 8GB models, with 16GB models set to receieve it "within the next week." Software version 4.55.76 and 4.56.76 (for the smaller and larger models respectively) bring … Continue reading

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Weekly Standard: Hurry Assad Along

Over 5,000 protesters have been killed during the uprising in Syria. But when will it be enough? The Weekly Standard‘s Lee Smith urges the Obama administration to get rid of Bashar al-Assad. Hilary Swank Isla Fisher Ivana Bozilovic Ivanka Trump … Continue reading

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Intel’s First Android Smartphone Plays Blu-ray Quality Video Without Breaking a Sweat [Intel]

Intel is late to the smartphone game, sure, but its Medfield system-on-chip has been touted as the firm’s make-or-break venture into the market. Now the first working Intel Android phone is in the wild—and it seems mighty promising. More » IOMEGA … Continue reading

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