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StevieB’s Shared Items - December 13, 2008

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Gmail Makes Viewing PDF Files In-Browser Easier [Gmail]

Why You Should Get Back to Basics With Your Blog

Is Firefox Doomed?

Pay-what-you-want signed XKCD prints

E-books for Nintendo DS

Computer Power Management Myths Debunked [Energy Conservation]

Epilogue: Austin schoolteacher who didn't believe Linux existed

Want to See How Much Sploggers Steal from Your Blog? FairShare from Attributor Will Help You Find Out

Your New Agreement With Google, Chrome Users

Browzmi, Firefox, You and your friends connected

MPAA to Obama: censor the Internet, kick people off the Internet, break other countries' Internet

English ‘green Banksy’ shuts down turbine, leaves station owners gobsmacked.

Cut and Paste Between iPhone Safari and Mail with Pastebud

Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008

Firefox, Chrome and IE Talk Add-ons

A Russian has trademarked ;-) It makes us :-(

Amazon MP3 store will affect UK MP3 startups - in good ways and bad

SkyFire Beta Now Available In The UK

Nokia to launch HSPA modems in early 2009 -- take that Intel

StevieB’s Shared Items - December 12, 2008

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Improved Contacts Management

As Chrome leaves beta, here’s an update on the Mac version

Copy and Paste Coming to Your iPhone via the Web [IPhone]

LimeWire 5 Alpha Adds Private Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, Integrates with Gmail [Early Adopter Download]

Bopaboo Claims to Let You "Legally" Sell MP3s [MP3s]

UK Broadcasters Plan To Stream Everything Online

The Zune Phone Is Not Pink

Google Takes Chrome Out of Beta

The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe

WordPress 2.7 goes gold

Le Web: Like a web conference, without the web

How Twitter's competitors do what it doesn't

Tunebite lets you enjoy Nokia's Comes with Music service, DRM-free

UK’s Newquest may shut 11 papers

Teachers should stop using red pens to mark schoolwork: Government Report

Ericsson amp; Intel Working On New Laptop #39;Kill-Switch#39; With GPS

StevieB’s Shared Items - December 11, 2008

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Yahoo Layoffs result in Epic Sensitivity Fail

Thumbtack: Microsoft Labs Launches New Bookmarking Service

Austin teacher threatens to sic cops on Linux group because "No software is free"

New Firefox Addon Brings All the Content That Matters Right To Your Browser

Multitouch Gestures Added to the Latest Firefox 3.1 Beta [Beta Beat]

Zentact: A Must-Have Networking Tool

What I’d like to see: FriendFeed + Google Reader tighter integration

Never Leave Your E-mail Again

Sony Ericsson, HTC say new Android-powered handsets due next year

Would You Pay for a Web App That Delivers the News?

Lijit Networks launches search-powered advertising network

Embed Whole Seasons of Hulu Shows with SplashCast

Vista Makes 9 Out Of 10 Users Happy

Google Publishes Global Zeitgeist for the First Time in History, Sarah Palin Wins

SciFi.com set dates for BSG webisodes written by Jane Espenson.

Biz Stone Prefers Be-A-Magpie to Twittad

New Terminator Salvation Trailer Online

The Dark Knight fan commentary BD-Live feature shown on video

Delicious Mobile? Still a Pipe Dream

Cops too busy eating donuts to protect police stations

StevieB’s Shared Items - December 10, 2008

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Want to Be Read? Jazz Up What You Share Using the FriendFeed BookMarklet

Social Networking Patents Could Turn Friendster into Foe

Did Loic LeMeur Just Commit a Kevin Rose?

Lawrence Lessig: the mistake in bailouts

DRM-Free iTunes Seems Unlikely, Despite Report

Is This the Cloud OS You Wanted?

Open Handset Alliance signs up 14 more Android-lovers, including Sony Ericsson, ASUS and Garmin

iTunes Teetering On Brink Of DRM Deal

Appcelerator Launches Titanium: AIR for the Open Web

Winsize2 Remembers Your Preferred Window Sizes [Featured Windows Download]

GazoPa Searches Faceook Images

Google Offers "Native Client" for Heavier Webapps [Google]

HOWTO Carry a gun onto an airplane

Google Book Search Now Includes Magazines [Google Book Search]

WordPress Elved

Using Twitter… ‘The Smart Way’

GMail, Struggling With Email, Wants to Be Your Task Manager Too

Why it doesn’t pay to play nice with Google

MySpaceID: MySpace Sides with the Open Stack

Novatel MiFi proves "3G hotspot" and "sexy" can coexist

StevieB’s Shared Items - December 9, 2008

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Updating Old Posts On Your Blog

Integrated Gmail Loads Any Google App Inside Gmail [Featured Firefox Extension]

Kopbusters -- reality show that busts cops for conducting illegal drug raids

Greasemonkey: The 7 Best New Browser Tweaks and How to Use Them

BlackBerry Storm OTA update now available on Verizon

Change the “Subscribe to posts/comments” link in your Blogger template

When Does Social Media Copying Go Too Far?

Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform

HP and ASU demo bendable, unbreakable electronic displays

Google Lets Advertisers Target Mobile Devices

Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

John Lennon Died 28 Years Ago Today; a Word to Boing Boing from Yoko.

Man charged over viral baby-swinging video

New Rochelle school board mutilates books to protect children

Malcolm Gladwell on how to spot potential star teachers

Pownce Community Looks For a New Home in Topixz

Mindomo - desktop mind mapping with AIR

TweetDeck: The Client King

How the Great Firewall of Britain works

Intense Debate vs Disqus: Why I Nearly Switched

StevieB’s Shared Items - December 8, 2008

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Socialmedian Exits Beta; Goldberg Charged With Grand Theft Content

The space between Twitter and FriendFeed

UK ISPs Filtering Access to Wikipedia

StevieB’s Shared Items - December 7, 2008

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Great Desktop XM Radio Player

HP Mini 1000 to get $40 price cut

Obama Says Internet Key to Economic Recovery

Britain's "Great Firewall" set to restrict access to Wikipedia

Google working on a new mystery OS?

Top 10 Things You Forgot Gmail Can Do [Lifehacker Top 10]

From BlackBerry, to iPhone, then back to BlackBerry. Why?

10 reasons why Twitter Direct Messages suck (and so do Facebook’s)

Why We Love UserVoice

Freckle: Feel Good Time Tracking

StevieB’s Shared Items - December 6, 2008

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

How To Fix The New Google Reader

H.M., amnesiac, RIP

Top 10 International Products of 2008

Getting Started With Google Friend Connect

The Future Of Blogging - As They See It

Qitera: Social Bookmarking for the Deep Web

Dr Horrible CD to join the DVD

Social Network Profile Costs Woman College Degree

AT T to ditch WinMo over Symbian, iPhone may stay

Airports To Use Emotional Screening And Subliminal Messages To Detect Terrorists

The Age of Grainy Web Videos Has Come to an End: YouTube Turns on HD

PeopleBrowsr Turns On Social Media Dashboard for Twitter and More

LinkedIn Got Rid of a Clone in Russia

Sociable! Provides Instant Connect Integration for Your Blog

Most Underhyped Apps of 2008 [Best Of 2008]

Do you need to protect your whois information?

Nominet bitch slaps self over domaining

Wordpad 2009 Offers Windows 7-Like Ribbon Interface [Featured Windows Download]

Britain ordered to destroy its database of innocents' DNA

Data Portability Google and Facebook Style: Which One Will Webmasters Choose?