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Time (in partnership with CNN) has compiled a list of gadgets that are most suitable for traveling, going by the magazine's standards. Although, for one reason or another, the Slingbox Pro-HD tops the list of ‘Best Travel Gadgets of 2009,’ Softpedia was happy to find Apple’s MacBook and iPod to... |
4 November 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Women are constantly looking for new gadgets that would make their life better and easier – not only this, but they’re also willing to pay the extra money for whatever that gadget may be. However, they’re also very quick when it comes to abandoning the newly purchased item once they realize reputati... |
25 September 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are the new rage as far as quiting the habit of smoking goes. They are purely electronic devices, but they can actually make you feel like you are smoking an authentic cigarette. The producers went to some lengths to create the perfect substitute, and apparently some of them did i... |
12 February 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Sony Japan announced that its new Vaio Type C VGN-CS60B laptop would become available on September 13th. The new mobile PC will have a 14.1 inch LCD display featuring a 1280x800 resolution in WXGA and LE liquid crystal clear black, as well as an entire series of colors, including Dove White, Cosmopolitan Pink, S... |
10 September 2008
06:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has extended the control of Windows Media Center in Windows Vista beyond the limits of the operating system to devices adjacent to the platform via Windows SideShow. With the Windows SideShow technology, users are enabled to access information from their Vista machine on a variety of additional hardware fro... |
8 July 2008
09:45 GMT |
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We have recently brought you news about a product that was meant to capitalize on Father's Day, namely the ESPN's Ultimate Remote. It appears that there's yet another similar product that aims at providing media enthusiasts with a new remote control experience. This time around, the manufacturer is fam... |
23 May 2008
11:13 GMT |
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I always enjoy a good product that bundles a number of features which you can just find useful. One such product was released by IOGEAR on Monday. Dubbed IOGEAR's USB Net ShareStation, this device allows users to connect one USB device and share it across an Ethernet network. At a price tag of $80, this gadget i... |
21 May 2008
11:39 GMT |
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iPods, portable media players, as well as the vast majority of the consumer electronics gadgets are allegedly posing a threat to the future development of the Internet. According to a study conducted by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, such devices are sealed plastic shells that are allegedly turning their users into pas... |
8 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company has just rolled out a developer sandbox for iGoogle in order to let them build more advanced gadgets for Google's personalized homepage using the OpenSocial APIs. This means that iGoogle makes now the first step into the social networking jungle, a special side of the industry in ... |
22 April 2008
02:47 GMT |
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Working in an office can sometimes be extremely boring, especially if you have annoying people around. Rest assured, you can get what they deserve using one of these nifty and undetectable devices. Your could watch your potential targets rip their clothes off in despair, throw their computers off the window, or even ... |
8 April 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Could it just be that Apple's releasing two new models of its iPod player three years ago has somehow triggered an increase in the U.S. crime rate? Even though Apple is just one of the companies rolling out new goods during that period, researchers believe the iPod alone is responsible for a 50 percent (or highe... |
5 March 2008
09:07 GMT |
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The Google Talk team has been working their arses off these past weeks and has come up with two new features that will make heavy duty chatters' lives a lot better. First, there was the option to choose not to be seen by your contacts when you are online, the much talked about invisibility that would slow down a... |
26 February 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Nokia, via its Beta Labs website, announced the release of Nokia Text Messenger for Windows Vista, a gadget that enables users to view their latest SMS messages and send new ones from the Vista sidebar. This means that Nokia owners who also have PCs with Vista on them will have from now on a quick and convenient way ... |
21 February 2008
03:49 GMT |
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What's inflatable, can be molded and senses when you're starting losing it? The answer is simple: three absolutely weird mice you haven't heard of yet. Let's start with the beginning...Travel mice are really on the wave lately, because of the same reason external storage is facing increased demand... |
31 January 2008
09:46 GMT |
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I'm already tired of all the products coming out on the market in order to get a slice of the election cash pie. I wish that they would just have a meeting and come together one day and decide something like "a week from now, at 12 o'clock, we'll all release our election gadgets, pages and anything els... |
27 December 2007
04:43 GMT |
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I've always considered Google to be a sober company because of the all-white background that it has and because of the simplicity that it displays in every aspect of the many domains it has gotten involved in. Apparently, this isn't the policy of the company, about a month ago I enviously found out about th... |
20 December 2007
05:10 GMT |
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Working at Google's Mountain View headquarters can and is an all-around the year time occupier big time, so the engineers and everybody else there is thinking of the Holidays as a well deserved break from everything. And if they're not working, why should you stop? Here's what they have offered as an a... |
20 December 2007
03:23 GMT |
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I remember the first days when I started using Google Talk, how new and strange everything felt to me, a more than experienced Yahoo Instant Messenger User. Not as easy a way to select the avatar, the smilies looked like hell and the lack of color really depressed me. I had to endure through it as some of my friends... |
13 December 2007
03:51 GMT |
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Right. Books being digitized. Libraries running out of real human beings walking through their doors and going to the librarian for help. Librarians - on the brink of extinction? Save the librarians, take one home today. Possible idea for a campaign against the digitizing which I'm totally opposing. As much as ... |
11 December 2007
03:12 GMT |
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Next year is election year and, oh, boy, will it be thrilling to watch every politician out there making promises they know they cannot keep, but still try to mystify themselves into thinking that. If you have a liar-liar pants-on-fire politician list that you want to constantly update, this Google gadget is for you.... |
5 December 2007
11:51 GMT |
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No, there's still no option regarding the creation of your own theme, so if that's what you were hoping for, just drop it. Not yet at least.To make up for that stupid option which is very important to many, they rolled out a new gadget, the "Custom iGoogle Skins" online, that lets you choose between more th... |
27 November 2007
06:17 GMT |
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In case you're not all that familiar with Twitter, it's a service that allows the communication between friends, family, co-workers etc., through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to just one simple question: "What are you doing?"It might sound a bit weird to constantly update your status every time y... |
22 November 2007
03:03 GMT |
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We all know that Google likes to celebrate in style every new event or special moment in our lives. This time, Halloween will receive Google's 'gratitude' and the Mountain View company can' wait anymore to roll out its special goodies for the real fans. Today, the super giant presented some new ga... |
30 October 2007
15:31 GMT |
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In case you're one of the iGoogle fans out there, I'm sure you strive to set up your Personalized Homepage in order to get more information in no time. That's why I recommend you to install the recently released Google News gadgets which is supposed to bring you the articles you want straight on iGoogl... |
30 October 2007
05:54 GMT |
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You replace your old computer with a new one annually, you do the same with your mobile phone even more often and you still breathe a fresh air. But your gadget wastes go to recycling places where people living nearby load their organisms with gadget toxins you have not even heard of. These include dioxins and furans... |
23 October 2007
06:23 GMT |
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Google's gadgets rose in popularity since the Mountain View company started a powerful campaign to promote it and some of the users became real fans of them. Because they are able to work with Google Desktop or iGoogle, the gadgets target a large segment of consumers who are already registered for these technolo... |
22 October 2007
03:34 GMT |
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iGoogle, Google's Personalized Homepage, is a product which gives you the possibility to create your own homepage equipped with lots of Google goodies. Since a lot of consumers use it every day, it's obvious the Mountain View company had to improve it and allow the fans from all around the world to access t... |
19 October 2007
03:10 GMT |
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In case you're one of those addicted Google Gadget users, this is probably the best piece of news you could read today. As you know, Google Desktop and iGoogle are two different products which are fully compatible with the gadgets developed by the same company. The gadgets represent some tiny tools which can be ... |
9 October 2007
02:16 GMT |
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You just love drinking your coffee outside on some bar's sunny terrace. But what do you do if your iPod's or your mobile phone's battery is low? Well, now technosexuals (or 'technological geeks', if you like) that love to spend time in open air will see their dream come true. This is better t... |
3 October 2007
07:15 GMT |
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A long time ago, it was reported that Google was testing a new format of adverts distributed in its own content network that might be based on gadgets and that appeared only on a limited number of websites. At that time, it was quite obvious that Google tested the Gadget Ads which can implement almost any format of m... |
19 September 2007
14:26 GMT |
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Microsoft Romania has just launched a gadget competition for Windows Vista and Windows Live. Essentially, the contest is nothing more than a repeat of the Windows Vista Gadgets Competition on Code Project, with the sole exception that entries can now be submitted for both the client and the cloud Microsoft operating ... |
10 September 2007
11:27 GMT |
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Researchers are no geeks. They know that the human mind is haunted by sex. By combining sex and technology, they got the most 'science fiction' variants of having sex. Some current gadgets may be a hint for the way we will have sex in the future. For example, the iBuzz is a sex toy combining an I-pod with a... |
8 September 2007
06:26 GMT |
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Although the Mountain View company has recently hired one of the best known hackers coming from Poland, it seems that Google is not afraid of the successful exploitations of the vulnerabilities since it is not interested in some of the reports sent by the users. Security researcher Robert Hansen recently discovered a... |
20 August 2007
05:10 GMT |
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As I said yesterday, both India and Google celebrated India's Independence Day on August 15 but it seems like the national day continues with some special gifts coming straight from the Mountain View headquarters. The Indian side of Google Labs, Google's technology playground as the folks from the Googleple... |
16 August 2007
04:45 GMT |
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How can an iPod be turned into a vibrator? The Japanese gave this problem a lot of thought and finally came up with a solution than doesn't rely only on the vibration function of the phone. The gPod is the latest hi-tech gadget that aims to satisfy the needs of Japanese women.I'm not talking about the commu... |
28 July 2007
05:58 GMT |
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The iGoogle solution is improved every once in a while but today's update is somehow different from the older ones. Basically, it adds interoperability between the personalized homepage and Google Checkout, the product that allows you to buy all kinds of things from a single webpage. Yes, you've guessed, it... |
11 July 2007
02:55 GMT |
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Google rolled out a new contest in Japan that offers the chance of winning three attractive prizes to all the interested competitors. The first place receives a brand new MacBook while the second place is awarded with a Google Earth Pro license and a Space Navigator device that enhance the mapping tool experience. Ha... |
9 July 2007
03:28 GMT |
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It's been a while since the Mountain View company included traffic information into Google Maps but the search giant has struggled to make it even better than that. As you probably know, the traffic option from Google Maps allows you to choose the best route to reach your destination. Today, Google releases a ne... |
6 July 2007
02:42 GMT |
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The Google Talk Gadget, the tiny utility that allows the users to communicate straight from their own Personalized Homepage, received a new update that pushes the instant messaging application closer to the famous Yahoo Messenger. The Group Chat function enables several consumers connected to the program to chat at t... |
25 June 2007
06:14 GMT |
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Google Talk received a brand new update that might get the instant messaging client closer to its famous rival, Yahoo Messenger. TypePad, one of the largest blog services on the Internet, integrated the Google Talk gadget into their service and is now allowing the blog owners to chat straight from their pages. The em... |
22 May 2007
02:41 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company is now testing a different type of advertising platform, the gadgets ads representing an innovative solution in the online market. Basically, those tiny utilities that are implemented in iGoogle or Google Desktop are now well-developed and are evolved to the rank of adverts, allowing t... |
7 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Remember Tamagotchi, the Japanese virtual being stuck in a tiny device that slowly dies if you don't virtually feed it? I do. Well, if you find the tiny-winy Tamagotchi too pretentious, then maybe you should take a look at this.The USB Fishbowl is breaking new ground when it comes to taking care of tiny fish. If... |
4 May 2007
18:31 GMT |
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Google released today an improved version of Google Desktop SDK, a developer tool that includes the latest edition of Google Desktop Gadget Designer. This utility helps users build their own gadgets, tiny applications that will bring one more function to the stand-alone product. In the past, Google made several effor... |
4 May 2007
02:44 GMT |
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Here are some typical blogger assertions you probably often ran into. First, the mass media propaganda induces fear among the public. Secondly, people are starting to see more threats. And when mammals like us feel insecure and threatened by something, they grab whatever they might find near and start displacing th... |
1 May 2007
11:46 GMT |
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If you are the owner of a dog, you probably need a lost pet prevention system. Something like the PetSafe Micro I.D. Rescue Collar. It doesn't hold a micro-chip, but a USB flash drive that's hidden inside. So, there's no need for the rescuer to own a scanning device. Here's how it works. Insert th... |
13 April 2007
04:25 GMT |
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The mouse is a lazy thing that sits silently on your desk, right? Well, this one is different. Even if this hilarious gadget is not actually a PC mouse, it's still a gizmo concept that tries to approach the real mouse philosophy of life: "pedaling". Who said an artificial mouse can't do the evolution dance?... |
12 April 2007
04:12 GMT |
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Once in a while, the Google team tries to promote their tiny gadgets by adding interoperability with another solution powered by the company or by revealing a new feature for them. Recently, Google introduced the Google Talk gadget that allows users to communicate with their friends straight from the Personalized Hom... |
10 April 2007
04:12 GMT |
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CallWave recently announced the launch of its text messaging widget - a free, desktop-based application enabling users to send text messages worldwide right from their desktop. "Our SMS text platform maximizes the time consumers spend at their computer and demonstrates CallWave's commitment to simple and innovat... |
5 April 2007
10:51 GMT |
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Google's gadgets are continuously attracting developers and users are they are more and more promoted by the search giant. The Google Gadgets are some tiny tools able to enhance a certain product by adding a simple function, different than the one provided by the service. For example, a Google Desktop gadget can... |
29 March 2007
05:17 GMT |
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The Google Gadgets were introduced a long time ago by the search giant and were especially designed to allow users to enhance the functionality of a certain product developed by the search giant. In fact, what is a Google Gadget? They usually represent tiny tools able to add one more function to the basic service des... |
29 March 2007
03:39 GMT |
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