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Picasa Web Albums has added new privacy options to your web-based digital photo album properties, allowing users to list albums as Public, Unlisted, or Sign-in required to view. In the latter you...
Reader reb wanted something festive to dress up her Windows desktop this December, so she used a combination of visual tweaks and strategic customizations to add both holiday cheer and productivity...
Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera released an alpha version of Opera 10 today, a first step toward the next major release of the popular cross-platform web browser. First and foremost, Opera 10 is looking to...
YouTube is full of videos that don't require singled-minded attention, but trying to keep a YouTube page visible in the background for passive watching isn't easy. Digital Inspiration's Amit Agarwal...
CNET reports that Wikipedia has received $890,000 in funding specifically aimed at creating an easier to use interface for readers with a low level of tech knowledge. Wikipedia's goal is "to identify...
Windows only: Portable application Toucan backs up and syncs your data between two locations (like your hard drive and your USB drive). Weighing in at just over 4.10MB installed, Toucan offers...
Web site Windows 7 Center reports that Microsoft's forthcoming update to Vista, Windows 7, will release its first official beta on January 13, 2009—exciting news for anybody dying to test drive...
Despite a widely reported claim that Apple had recently changed a support document to recommend its users run multiple antivirus utilities, Gizmodo reveals that the antivirus recommendation is not...
The All About Microsoft blog posts a seriously complete list of what's going to be included in Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista, expected to be out in April 2009. Major items include the Vista...
Windows Live, intended to be a landing page for social activity and Microsoft's cloud-connected apps, is rolling out a host of redesigns and upgrades today, but none so exciting (to our eyes,...
Windows only: Photology steps away from tag based searching and allows you to search through your pictures with a variety of filters. There are filter functions for colors, dates, times of day, photo...
A new top-level-domain, .TEL, is due to be available for registration today that lets individuals and companies companies, and later individuals, create a web home for contact information. Phone...
Windows only: Internet Explorer add-on Favorites Search is a small, handy button for your toolbar that adds a pop-out pane to quickly search your bookmarks. That's nothing that Firefox, Google...
iPhone only: Normally, getting free Wi-Fi at one of AT&T's 20,000 or so hotspots requires opening a launch page in mobile Safari, entering your phone number, clicking the link in a text message, then...
Mobile phone operating systems and a reheated web browser war: that's how we'll recall the year 2008 when it comes to software. From brand new to revamped browsers and mobile platforms and apps,...