The slide show editor is pretty simple to use, although it swipes a lot of look and feel from sister site Flektor.
Did you know photo slide show service Slide.com is used to create over a million slide show widgets a day? With those slide shows comes serious business, pulling in a monster load of traffic. [...]
Acer has been the fastest growing PC company in the world over the last year, rising through the ranks to become the No. 3 PC vendor at the end of 2007, with 8.9 percent of the overall market, according to research firm Gartner.
It’s also set about making its presence known, scooping up U.S. PC maker [...]
On a final note, it’s also been fascinating to see how the iPhone has caused the federal government to take a new look at phone locking. Though that practice has been entrenched in the industry for years, the hype surrounding AT&T’s exclusive on the iPhone drew criticism from members of Congress last summer. And speaking [...]
Correction: I originally posted that Qtrax uses MusicIP. According to a PR representative from that company, Qtrax has no deal with MusicIP–the companies have talked, but no deal has been signed. Apologies for not double-checking all my facts.
I was finally able to get the Qtrax 0.2 beta client, and it’s clearly based on Songbird.
The [...]
In case you forgot the names of all four Monkees, WikiFM automatically puts artist bio information side-by-side with your Last.FM player.
(Credit: WikiFM)
Ever catch yourself hearing a new band on Last.fm, then popping open a new browser tab to look them up? WikiFM saves you a step by creating a two-frame page that keeps your Last.fm [...]
One of the most daunting tasks in video archiving is getting the footage digitized and transferred to an easily accessible storage device. This is especially tiresome and tedious if the original is in tape format.
For this reason, I am impressed with the Video Transfer from Pinnacle.
About the size and weight of a cigarette pack, this [...]
New trend in New York media: White People Trying To Look Serious. Clockwise from left: Gawker Media's Nick McGlynn, Richard Blakeley, Dealbreaker.com's John Carney, budding Tumblr trendsetter Katie Baker
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Nick McGlynn/Randomnightout.com)
In the tech world at large, Gawker Media video producer Richard Blakeley is better known for getting kicked out of events than organizing them himself–he’s the [...]
The chairman and founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative said in an interview Tuesday that the XO laptop may switch from using Linux to eventually running Windows XP, according to several reports.
Windows XP could soon be available on the XO.
(Credit:
OLPC)
In an interview with the Associated Press following the departure of the OLPC [...]
Though CRT monitors have been made practically obsolete for consumers by the LCD industry, a few industries–photography/visual design/filmmaking–still cling to them for their nonpareil color quality.
Hewlett-Packard is trying to loosen their grip on those clunky desktop space-hoggers by offering a liquid crystal display for visual artist types that boasts the ability to show 1 billion [...]
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When Microsoft starts making videos like these, even as a spoof (as CNET discovered), its best years are clearly behind it. I have no great love for Microsoft, but I’m blushing with embarrassment for the company. Even spoofs should be better than this.
Wow. Make it go away!
