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Facebook Connect pulled from Apple's iTunes Ping
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Filed under: Apple, Social Software, FacebookFacebook Connect is missing from Apple's new social network, iTunes Ping, after it was apparently working on Wednesday night. There seem to be mixed messages coming from Apple, according to interviews that All Things D's Kara Swisher conducted with Apple honcho Steve Jobs and VP Phil Schiller. Jobs said Facebook Connect wasn't in Ping, and gave a dismi
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17 Votes
Norton's best idea ever: Hack is Wack! contest, featuring Snoop Dogg
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You know, if there's one genre of music I think of when I'm pondering issues related to cyber-security, it's rap. And if there's one rapper I think of when I'm in the mood for lyrics which don't mention any kind of illegal activities, it's Snoop Dogg.Yes, those are two of the most ridiculous sentences I've ever written at Download Squad, but whatcha gonna do? This isn't a situation I ever expecte
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14 Votes
PerformanceTest by PassMark lets you benchmark and compare your system
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Filed under: Shareware"I need a new computer!" is a cry often heard by parents and system administrators alike. But often, the problem isn't in the hardware - if the user isn't an avid gamer or using a really ancient system, more often than not the problem is a crudded-up Windows installation (yes, I know, "this doesn't happen on Linux").Proving to your user/kid that the hardware isn't the proble
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How To Resize Fonts On a Per-Website Level
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Web browsers have had the ability to resize both fonts and images for some time now. Whenever you want to adjust the size, you can use CTRL+Plus, CTRL-Minus, CTRL-MouseWheelUp, CTRL-MouseWheelDown and so on. Resetting the size to a standard 100% is done by CTRL+0 (zero).The only problem with resizing is that it’s global. For some sites you’d prefer 100%, others 120%, others 200%, othe
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12 Votes
iTunes 10 introduces Ping social network for music (and a new logo!)
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Filed under: Audio, Web services, Apple, Social SoftwareApple has finally unveiled iTunes 10, and it comes with Ping, a built-in social network for music. Based on Steve Jobs' demo, Ping looks just like a Facebook/Twitter hybrid. The social graph connects the same way Twitter's does -- with a "follow" system, and a single on-or-off privacy setting -- but the activity stream is very reminiscent of
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11 Votes
AutoCAD finally arrives on Mac -- iPad and iPhone, too!
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Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, iPhoneMac-loving engineers and architects, get excited: AutoCAD is finally coming to the Mac, and iOS devices, too. The last time AutoCAD ran natively on a Mac was well before OS X, before iPhones, and possibly before time itself: 1992. Let's not revisit those dark times, though, let's think about what this means for the future: no more running Win
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20 Votes
Windows Phone 7 goes RTM
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Filed under: OS Updates, Windows MobileSure, Apple's been stealing most of the blog headlines this afternoon, but Microsoft has some pretty big news of their own. Today, Windows Phone 7 was officially released to manufacturing -- and the boys in Redmond are pretty stoked about it.Microsoft's Terry Myerson certainly sounds pumped in the official blog post. "We've had thousands of independent softw
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How To Get a Complete Yahoo! Mail Backup With Zimbra Desktop
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If you haven’t heard of Zimbra Desktop before, this is free software that is a hybrid of sorts between cloud and local. Essentially it’s a webmail interface installed locally on your computer that synchronizes all your email and contacts on the web. Zimbra Desktop works with Yahoo! Mail and Gmail easily, but for this specific article I’m concentrating on Y! Mail.Side note before
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