Apple introduces iTunes Movie Rentals

Apple on Tuesday introduces iTunes Movie Rentals, a new feature of the iTunes Store that enables users to download movies and watch them for a short time rather than having to buy them. Movie rentals will be priced at $3.99 for new releases and $2.99 for older films. High Definition (HD) movies will be downloadable [...]

An Apple TV With a Blu-ray Player?

Rumors are flying fast and furious over what Steve Jobs will pull out of his blue-jean pocket a week from Tuesday at his annual speech at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. These include a movie rental service for iTunes, a super small notebook computer perhaps with a solid-state hard drive, a notebook docking station, [...]

New OPEN SOURCE software archive hits the Web!

This project rocketed from just a personal list of free software links to a full-scale Open Source archive project, with multiple contributors and a new community in under 5 days.
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2007 In Numbers: More People Using Yahoo Mail Than Gmail

Suprising but True …. at least according to this research…..
Email remains one of the most popular of online services. Companies such as Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft have offered free online email since the earliest days of the internet. Google was late the party, launching Gmail in April 2004. Where as Google has come to dominate [...]

Lifehacker’s 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps

Sprinkled throughout Lifehacker’s archive of over 14,000 posts, we’ve featured hundreds of free web and desktop apps that help you get things done—but which are the best? As we wrap up the year 2007, it’s the perfect time to put together a quick list of our favorite pieces of free software and web services
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The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007

From on-demand video services that were overly demanding, to underwhelming operating-system updates, 2007 was full of disappointments. We surveyed the landscape and polled some old friends to come up with the 15 products, companies, and industries that left the most sour taste in our mouths.
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TV on Your PC: Hulu, Joost and Miro Reviewed

The Writers Guild strike already stripped us of our Daily Show and Colbert Report, and now it may take away Heroes and House as well. Looking to escape Reality TV hell? We’ve painstakingly reviewed three free (and mostly legal) video services—Joost, Miro and Hulu—for your faux-TV enjoyment during these dark times.
The Contenders:Hulu: NBC Universal/News Corp.’s [...]

First Beta of Firefox 3 Now Available

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and [...]

Broadband speeds days numbered?

Enjoy your speedy broadband Web access while you can.
The Web will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms local cable, phone and wireless Internet providers, a study by business technology analysts Nemertes Research has found.
“Users will experience a slow, subtle degradation, so it’s back to [...]

Opera Mini 4 released

After three beta releases Opera Mini 4 is finally here!
We’ve done a lot with this new Opera Mini. For example, we rewrote the entire code for Opera Mini 4 and added lots of improvements and new features to make the browser even better.
Opera Mini 4 is based on the same rendering engine as the Opera [...]

I Have a New Favorite Web Browser: Flock

More than two years ago, I blogged about the preview version of Flock, a browser, built with Mozilla Firefox at its core, with a social bent. I said it showed promise and said I’d keep an eye on it.
And then…the Flock folks failed to release a final version and I sort of forgot about it. [...]

Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client

Gmail’s IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of synchronized email access across devices, computers, and clients. IMAP is far superior to regular old POP for fetching your messages and maintaining your folder list whether you’re on your iPhone, office or home computer. If IMAP’s got you curious but you’re [...]

Opera 9.5 beta released

Opera 9.5 beta is available for download! Since the first alpha release hundreds of bugs have been fixed. Website rendering has been significantly improved, along with performance, stability and usability.
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Gmail gets IMAP

It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail. Download Squad reader eD! Thomas sent in a tip letting us know he came across the new IMAP setting while snooping around Gmail. However, it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment.
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iRobot Unveils Two New Robots at DigitalLife

iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Colin Angle today unveiled two new home robots during his keynote address. The iRobot® Looj™ Gutter Cleaning Robot and iRobot® ConnectR™ Virtual Visiting Robot further expand the company’s line of home robots. These robots introduce a whole new category of household assistants that are more than [...]