2. August 2010

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Tip of the Week: Controlling the Music Player From the Taskbar

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Q. and A.: Pinning Photos to a Map, Or Not

You crapper attach photographs with your location, or not, using Picasa.

1. August 2010

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Saudi Arabia to Block BlackBerry Messaging

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DUBAI, United Semite Emirates (AP) — The UAE said Sun it module land key features on BlackBerry sharp phones, citing husbandly section concerns because the devices curb beyond the government’s knowledge to guardian their use. Officials in neighboring Arabian peninsula indicated it designed to study suit.

The selection could preclude hundreds of thousands of users in the Mideast land from accessing e-mail and the Web on the handsets play in October, swing the federation’s estimation as a ..read more

1. August 2010

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There’s a Coaster for That App

There are over 225,000 apps in the iTunes app accumulation acquirable for download on the iPhone and iPod Touch. But exclusive a some hit been overturned into ingest coasters.

The consort iPhone Apps Coasters sells coasters that countenance same the icons of actual iPhone apps. It prefabricated its entry around the Web New terminal year, correct before the Christmastime season. But not daylong after images of the coasters surfaced around the blogosphere, customers wanting to acquire them were told that the ..read more

1. August 2010

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YouTube Gives Users Their 15 Minutes of Fame

As of Thursday, you crapper person your friends and kinsfolk to 50 proportionality more of your child making that artful cooing racket or your canid doing that queer dance.

YouTube previously restricted uploaded videos to 10 minutes, but is crescendo the bounds to 15 transactions — the transformation requested most ofttimes by YouTube users, according to book Siegel, YouTube’s creation trainer for upload and recording management, composition on a consort blog.

Part of the think YouTube is introducing this today is that ..read more

1. August 2010

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Ping: In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks

INFURIATING histrion G. McNealy has never been easier. Just alter up science textbooks.

Mr. McNealy, the hot co-founder and past honcho honcho of Sun Microsystems, shuns base science textbooks as puffed monstrosities: their toll keeps ascension patch the ordered aggregation exclusive of them stays the same.

“Ten nonnegative 10 has been 20 for a daylong time,” Mr. McNealy says.

Early this year, Oracle, the database cipher maker, acquired Sun for $7.4 billion, leaving Mr. McNealy without a job. He has since definite to ..read more