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StevieB’s Shared Items – March 11, 2010

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

• Adobe smacks back Apple over iPad, again

March 10, 2010
• Remembering Corey Haim Through His Best Pictures

March 10, 2010
• Microsoft Launches the MSN Video Player in the UK, BBC iPlayer Rival

March 10, 2010
• Shazam For BlackBerry Updated To Version 2.5- Music Videos And 7Digital Music Purchases Added

March 10, 2010
• Google’s Schmidt: China Negotiations Should End ‘Soon’

March 10, 2010
• Coverflow for Feeds? Google Reader Goes to "Play".

March 10, 2010
• Get Satisfaction Turns Facebook Fan Pages into Customer Support Hubs

March 10, 2010
• Brizzly Acquires Birdfeed, WikiRank, Adds iPhone App

March 10, 2010
• Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests

March 10, 2010
• Set Google Calendar Alerts to Gentle Reminder Mode for Less Intrusive Reminders [Google Calendar]

March 10, 2010
• EU Parliament votes 663-13 against ACTA's enforcement measures

March 10, 2010
• ?And now for something completely different

March 10, 2010
• Trust And Safety

March 10, 2010
• Open for business: the Google Apps Marketplace

March 10, 2010
• Google Maps “Bike There” Is Now Live!

March 10, 2010
• Microsoft shows off XNA games running on Windows Phone, full 3D is a go

March 10, 2010
• 5 New screenshots for the upcoming Civilization V

March 10, 2010
• Google Launches Apps Marketplace, Apps Store for Cloud Apps

March 10, 2010
• Google Apps Marketplace Integrates Third-Party Cloud Apps with Google Apps [Google Apps]

March 10, 2010

StevieB’s Shared Items – March 10, 2010

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

• Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

March 9, 2010
• Google Buzz Integrating With Apps Ahead of Schedule?

March 9, 2010
• Best VPN Tool: OpenVPN [Hive Five Followup]

March 9, 2010
• Put.io Turns Torrents Into Streams [Invites]

March 9, 2010
• Sony signs up all six major studios for HD movies on PlayStation Network

March 9, 2010
• Report: Location Sharing Is Coming to Facebook

March 9, 2010
• "Work Expands to the Time Allowed" [Quotables]

March 9, 2010
• Apple Warned the Industry Before Suing HTC? [Patents]

March 9, 2010
• New State Law Bumps Colorado Off Amazon's Affiliate Map

March 9, 2010
• Miso: A Foursquare-Like App for Homebodies

March 9, 2010
• Giant water purifier looks like a bubbly skyscraper

March 9, 2010
• Spying school district update: remote webcam functionality disabled, two IT monkeys suspended

March 9, 2010
• 8 Tips for Photographing Wildflowers

March 9, 2010
• Freescale's 7-inch tablet runs Android, Chromium OS or Linux, costs $200 (video)

March 9, 2010
• iPhone developer EULA turns programmers into serfs

March 9, 2010
• Stomach-churning details of CIA waterboarding crimes

March 9, 2010

StevieB’s Shared Items – March 9, 2010

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

• HTC Supersonic makes brief appearance

March 8, 2010
• What Does Google Have In Store For The Set-Top Box?

March 9, 2010
• Gowalla Follows Foursquare's Lead with Real-Life Incentives

March 8, 2010
• Foobar Combines Firefox Address and Search Boxes [Downloads]

March 8, 2010
• HP Slate makes an appearance to show off Flash, stays for a rock concert

March 8, 2010
• AutoPatcher Keeps Windows 7 Systems Up to Date [Updates]

March 8, 2010
• Photo Friday's Monitor Calibration Tool Makes Easy-on-the-Eyes Monitor Tweaks [Monitors]

March 8, 2010
• Nokia Files Patent For Self-Charging Smartphone That Never Needs To Be Charged!?

March 7, 2010
• Internet access 'a human right'

March 8, 2010
• Acer working on frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard?

March 8, 2010
• EPIC WIN: Hurt Locker Kicks Avatar At Academy Awards

March 8, 2010
• Hey Jude: Times Square subway sing-along

March 8, 2010
• New Iron Man 2 Trailer Lands

March 8, 2010
• Ubisoft DRM servers go down, punishing customers but not pirates

March 8, 2010

StevieB’s Shared Items – March 8, 2010

Monday, March 8th, 2010

• 6 Hilarious print ads

March 7, 2010
• 5 Pics of one huge big-assed solar boat – and I mean big

March 7, 2010
• Five Best VPN Tools [Hive Five]

March 7, 2010
• Genealogy in the Commons

March 7, 2010
• Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”

March 6, 2010
• Packrati.us: A Dead Simple Way To Make Delicious Bookmark The Links You Tweet

March 7, 2010
• For Many Families, Facebook Is The Real World Web

March 7, 2010
• Google Chrome extension for Netvouz
  
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March 7, 2010

StevieB’s Shared Items – March 7, 2010

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

• Get Gigabytes of Free, Legitimate Music from SXSW 2010 [Dealhacker]

March 6, 2010
• New Office 2007 Users Get Free Upgrade to Office 2010 [Upgrades]

March 6, 2010
• Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox

March 6, 2010
• HTC Legend in hands overseas

March 6, 2010
• b5media Dumps Women Bloggers

March 5, 2010
• Obsolete professions

March 6, 2010
• Windows Phone 7 Series demo video reveals new apps, screens

March 6, 2010
• Entelligence: Will Android fragmentation destroy the platform?

March 6, 2010

StevieB’s Shared Items – March 6, 2010

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

• How Apple Plans to Make You Watch Ads With Cheap TV Shows [Apple]

March 5, 2010
• After Getting Acquired by Google, ReMail Goes Open Source

March 5, 2010
• London Olympics in 2012 to give stupid powers to the police

March 5, 2010
• Moodstream Streams Music, Images, and Video According to Your Mood [Music]

March 5, 2010
• KeeFox Integrates KeePass and Firefox (At Long Last) [Downloads]

March 5, 2010
• Score Free AudioBooks at BooksShouldBeFree [Audio Books]

March 5, 2010
• Palm to demo porting iPhone games to webOS 'in a matter of days' at GDC?

March 5, 2010
• Internet TV Guide Clicker Redesigns its Homepage, Goes Full Blast with New Features

March 5, 2010
• Draw Abstract Wallpaper Using the Flame Drawing Tool [Wallpaper]

March 5, 2010
• Want to overthrow US government? Pay $5

March 4, 2010
• Baby starves to death while parents raise virtual child

March 4, 2010
• HyperDevbox ExZeus Arcade allays fears that Android games are destined to suck

March 4, 2010
• Privacy in an Age of Public Living: Google and Tor

March 5, 2010
• Zynga Tries To Do The Right Thing, Gets Whipped Anyway

March 4, 2010
• Windows users need to security-patch every five days

March 5, 2010
• Ubisoft's notorious "uncrackable" unfair game DRM falls in less than 24h

March 5, 2010

StevieB’s Shared Items – March 5, 2010

Friday, March 5th, 2010

• 10 PlayStation 2 games you MUST own (Happy birthday, PS2!)

March 4, 2010
• Follow the Hippie: Leadership Lessons Through Dance

March 4, 2010
• Help test email notifications!

March 4, 2010 - E-mail notifications in Wave will make it less of a black box silo.
• YouTube Turns on Automatic Captioning for All Videos

March 4, 2010
• Yahoo! Launches Facebook Contact Importer

March 4, 2010
• Hands-on with Google Gesture Search

March 4, 2010
• Google and RSS

March 4, 2010
• Scam-Trafficking Games Company Insists Its Haiti Charity Was Not a Scam, Too

March 4, 2010
• The Future of Firefox Personas: Dynamically Changing and Filled with Ambient Info

March 4, 2010
• Skimlinks makes it easier for publishers to discover affiliate programs

March 4, 2010
• Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive

March 4, 2010
• The Karate Kid 2010: Same, same? No, no!

March 4, 2010
• Puniz Indexes Free Tunes From the Web [Music]

March 4, 2010
• Opera Mini Browser Arrives on Windows Mobile Phones

March 4, 2010
• Oxygenated Alcohol Won’t Give You A Hangover

March 2, 2010
• ? This Apple-HTC Patent Thing

March 4, 2010
• Google Index to Go Real Time

March 4, 2010
• LibDem Lords seek to ban web-lockers (YouSendIt, etc) in the UK

March 4, 2010
• If you blog unauthorized "Daily Show" or "Colbert" clips, Viacom will sue your ass

March 4, 2010
• The end game for Apple and the entertainment industry

March 4, 2010

StevieB’s Shared Items – March 4, 2010

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

• Rent. Rip. R.I.P.: RealDVD Takes a Dirt Nap; RealNetworks Ordered to Pay Hollywood $4.5 Million

March 3, 2010
• Google Solves the Fafebook Problem

March 3, 2010
• Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn

March 3, 2010
• Run Your Own Free Proxy Through the Google App Engine [Proxy]

March 3, 2010
• First Google Buzz iPhone App Hits The Store – It’s Buzzie!

March 3, 2010
• Apple Couldn't Sue Google for Open-Source Android

March 3, 2010
• Firefox 4.0 Alpha 2 + Chrome-Like Plug-In Isolation = Fewer Browser Crashes [Downloads]

March 3, 2010
• Get Glue is a Nerd's Dream Come True, Now Available Everywhere Online

March 3, 2010
• Stripgenerator is one lean, mean comic strip creation tool

March 3, 2010
• 10.5 Million Wordpress Blogs Get PubSubHubbub

March 3, 2010
• Google responds to Apple's HTC lawsuit: 'We stand behind our Android operating system'

March 3, 2010
• NatGeo Downloader 2.0 Grabs Over 5,000 Wallpaper-Worthy Photos [Updates]

March 3, 2010
• Warning: 10 Deadly Post Processing Sins

March 3, 2010
• Foursquare checks-in with Vodafone UK

March 3, 2010
• Well, Apple, You've Really Done It Now

March 3, 2010
• Nokia adds Skype to Ovi Store, foreshadows death of regular phone calls

March 3, 2010
• Blackberry Touchscreen Slider Gets Spotted [Image]

March 3, 2010
• Audiobook DRM versus the patrons of the Cleveland Library

March 3, 2010

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