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How To: iCal Birthday Reminders With Alarm (iCalBirthdays 2.0)

March 12, 2010

Here’s a quick and really neat trick for Mac users who would like to have birthdays listed in iCal. As default, your Mac will easily display birthdays in iCal, based on dates from your Addressbook, but it can’t give you an alarm and there’s no way to modify the events to do so.
So, somebody created [...]

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Friday Flick Find: REGEN (Amazing short film, Making Of & Bloopers)

March 12, 2010

The title of this amazing shortfilm is “REGEN”. At this time, it has around 200,000 views on YouTube, so chances are, you haven’t seen it yet – I hope It’s short but it deserves a look, it’s really great work from the people behind it. And speaking of “behind it”, there’s a behind [...]

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iPhone OS 4.0 With Multitasking Support This Summer

March 12, 2010

Sources with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances, told AppleInsider that Apple has developed a “full-on solution” to multitasking on the iPhone OS, but offered no specifics on how the technology would optimize resource conversation and battery life – two of the most critical issues surrounding the matter, alongside security.
iPhone OS 4.0 [...]

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Google In Talks With China After Hacking Attempts

March 11, 2010

Google recently threatened to close down its activities in China, including their office, and pull out of the country, after they learned about the hacking that came from China.
Apparently, it now seems that Google only mean business when they decide to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 on YouTube and not when it comes to pulling [...]

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Facebook: Bigger Photos For Better Viewing

March 11, 2010

Ever since I started using Facebook, I’ve wondered why our uploaded photos always showed in such a low resolution, without the possiblity of enlarging them.
Now, Facebook has begun increasing upload size for photos from the previous 604 pixels maximum size, to 720 pixels, an increase of almost 20%.
I think 720 pixels is still quite low, [...]

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Google’s Phone, Nexus One, Doesn’t Sell As Expected

March 10, 2010

The expectations for Google’s phone, Nexus One, was quite high when it was first announced. Try to google “nexus one iphone killer” and you get about one million results. Yeah, lots of people thought Nexus One would be the iPhone killer. iPhone killers are not new though, every few months a new iPhone killer appears [...]

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Debt Consolidation [Sponsored Post]

March 10, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
“Debt” is a term used when you owe something, but it doesn’t have to be money. Having a debt can also be a moral [...]

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Google Street View – More Funny Pictures

March 9, 2010

My post from a month ago, Funny Pictures: Google Street View Launched in Denmark, keeps topping the “popular posts”-chart here on the blog. I guess people like to look at funny Google Street View pictures, and that’s understandable, because there are some very funny and whacky moments out there
I’ve been gathering some more [...]

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Google To Build Data Centers in Scandinavia

March 9, 2010

Sometime this summer, Google will open up a brand new data center in the old paper factory in Hamina, Finland. Google is also considering opening up data centers in Sweden.
The Finnish data center will employ 50 people and will contain “thousands” of servers. More information than that, is not available at this time. It’s no [...]

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Steve Ballmer Compliments Apple On The iPhone !!!

March 9, 2010

This is almost breaking news, because when Apple announced the iPhone, Steve Ballmer laughed at it.
Now, a different choice of words are coming out of Steve Ballmer’s mouth, about the iPhone, when he said at a speech at the University of Washington: “Apple’s done a very nice job that allows people to monetize and commercialize [...]

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iPad Ad Premieres At Oscars – Like iPhone Did

March 8, 2010

Like the “Hello” ad for the iPhone premiered at the Oscars some years ago, an iPad ad now also appeared for the first time, at the Oscars.
The background music in the ad is “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van. I’m sure the song can be found in the iTunes Store if you want [...]

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Apple – The World’s Most Admired Company

March 8, 2010

Each year, Fortune (the magazine), elects the world’s most admired companies. For the third year in a row, Apple is the winner. This year, Apple even increased it’s distance down to 2nd place, Google, and 3rd place, Berkshire Hathaway (investment firm).
A total of 4,200 executives and analysts voted in Fortune’s study.
As BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer [...]

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How To Blog Using WordPress [Sponsored Post]

March 8, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by ReviewMe. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
WordPress is one of the most-used and best platforms for blogging. If not the best platform for the purpose. WordPress was started back in [...]

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Why Do Inkjet Cartridges Cost So Much? [Sponsored Post]

March 6, 2010

This is a sponsored post, paid for by Sponsored Reviews. All views expressed in this post are mine and are not influenced by the fact that I have been paid to write this.
If you own an inkjet printer for your computer, you’re probably aware that buying new ink cartridges can be quite expensive. If you’re [...]

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Comment Spam, She’s Back: Dr. Ann Voisin From Linda Christas College

March 6, 2010

A few days ago I wrote about the first comment spam that I received from this Dr. Ann Voisin person, a message that is most likely automated and simply abusing the name of the real Dr. Ann Voisin from Linda Christas College. Click here to read that post: Akismet Blocking Your Blog? No Way, Just a SPAM Trick!

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Conan O’Brien On Twitter: Sarah Killen, Your Life Is About To Change

March 5, 2010

Conan O’Brien, you might have heard of him in relation to Jay Leno and The Tonight Show. Long story short, he has over 500,000 followers on Twitter – and he doesn’t follow anybody himself. Until 1 hour ago, where he wrote this tweet:

Sarah Killen, who is @LovelyButton, up until a few hours ago had just [...]

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Friday Flick Find: The Website Is Down – Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

March 5, 2010

This one is a classic so it deserves a spot in my Friday Flick Find series, where I every Friday try to feature a cool or interesting video to show you.
If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to work in tech support, here’s your chance to take a look behind the scenes. It’s [...]

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