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It's been over a year since it hit 2,000 apps, but it looks like BlackBerry App World has finally hit its biggest milestone yet -- RIM has announced via Twitter that it's now "10,000 apps strong and growing." For those keeping track, that still leaves it well behind Apple's App Store and the Android...
Jibe, a next-generation job board that leverages Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to help job seekers find the best positions in the job market. Today, Jibe, which has been in private beta since March, is launching to the public, with job listings from Conde Nast, MTV Networks, Amazon, Equinox, and...
As location-based services have emerged as compelling ways for businesses to interact with potential customers, there have been a flux of marketing and social media platforms that help set up campaigns. Context Optional, SnackSquare, Geotoko, Sprout Social and a number of other platforms are helping...
Today at their Google Search event in San Francisco, executive Marissa Mayer kicked things off with a big state: Google is now serving 1 billion users each week. Mayer noted that they have some big announcements coming up today (likely these), but first reiterated that they’ve already done a lot...
Oh Sanyo, you do like to flirt with our Crapgadget label, don't you? Having already given the world battery-powered neck and hand warmers it never asked for, Sanyo is today expanding the Eneloop warmer family with a slinky new waist furnace. Thin film heaters are embedded inside that dashing-looking...
Pioneer is very big in the DJ gear market with all manner of stuff from hardware for actually making the music to headphones for listening to the tracks the DJ crafts in a noisy environment. Pioneer has unveiled the latest set of headphones for the DJ market that are aimed at the person just getting...
Willow Garage has been working on its cool PR2 robot for a long time now. I still say the bot looks like Rosie from the Jetsons and if it could vacuum my floors and cook dinner, I might want one. That is assuming I can afford one, which I cannot. The PR2 may be available to purchase by any geek wanting...
Jesper Buch who co-founded Just-Eat, the European company that took fast food online, has launched his latest venture: Mentaline, a platform for therapists, life coaches and psychologists to deliver services to clients. Ambitiously, it’s not a marketplace in which sessions eventually take place...
When it comes to uploading files online, it’s either shell commands or select -> drag & drop to ftp applications. Rightload is kinda the otherwise, it allows you to preset the upload destination and you can then browse to and upload within one click. [Watch a demo video] Rightload requires an...
There’s really no reason why you should convert your .flv movies downloaded from the Internet into other formats if all you want is to play them on your Mac. ‘SWF & FLV Player‘ as self-explanatory as the name is, is a Mac FLV and SWF player, and this 9Mb application comes free with no charges at...
Google Picasa Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you to locate and organize all the photos on your computer, edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks and share your photos with others through email and print. It’s fast, easy and free. Download Google...
Good news for those who read feeds via Google Reader. Here’s another option where you can read feeds with a standalone application on your desktop, without logging into Google Reader with browser. ReadAir is build with Adobe AIR, so you can be rest assured that it will run smoothly cross-platform, Linux,...
Instan-t messenger is like Adium for Mac, it allows you to add all your instant messaging account under one so you don’t have to open multiple chat software. Instan-t messenger supports MSN, Gtalk, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ and AOL and you can even conduct a video chat across different IM clients. ...
It’s not wise to have few copies of the same file on our hard drive, not only it creates confusion; it’s also take up spaces in the hard drive. Duplicate File Finder is a free shareware that scans your computer trace for file duplications and list them out. To delete or maintain, it’s your call. ...
It’s hard to remember a product I’ve become so dependent on quicker than Gmail’s new Priority Inbox. I’m so addicted, that the few times I’ve accidentally clicked on the old “regular” Inbox view in the past week have really annoyed me. So much so that I actually moved that view into my...
This evening Twitter CEO Evan Williams put up an interesting post about Twitter mobile usage. By just about every measurable metric, it seems to be skyrocketing. He also included a graph of the top 10 ways people are now using Twitter. This includes both Twitter’s own apps and third-party clients, but...
Snipi is “the smartest way to collect, organize, share and collaborate on your interests by grabbing content from anywhere on the web”. It lets you snip images, videos and products with a simple browser tool. If you happen to use Firefox, you can download a cool toolbar that will let you drag and...
Plixi is a photo sharing service for Facebook and Twitter that integrates location and events. So, instead of just telling people what you’re doing, you can also show them. The interesting thing about Plixi is that it used to be TweetPhoto, and has now transformed. The TweetPhoto site is still up so...
Last week I posted an article entitled “5 Skills Every Bloggers Needs to Excel” spelling out five skills that I consider essential for every blogger to either have or be willing to obtain if they want to truly excel. Overall, the article was well-received but several commenters took issue with the...
The other day someone I know approached me about taking a look at a business website because they’d spent a fair amount of money with a search engine optimization company toward getting the kind of traffic they thought they deserved. The mission failed miserably. I’ve been working with SEO as a...
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