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Small Biz Spotlight: Slide to Play (Pt. 2)

Posted: March 7th, 2010, 4:08am PST

Tags: Small Business

Good advice from Slide to Play about the perils of selecting a mobile app to download
Make Outbound VoIP Calls on Your iPhone Now Using Google Voice

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 6:25pm PST

Tags: gadgets

Apple previously rejected the iPhone downloadable app, but Google engineers coded around them
Blog Focus on Free Holiday Music

Posted: December 11th, 2009, 8:42am PST

Tags: technology

Bored? You can download free holiday music samplers or resort to sticking your tongue on the flagpole again
Cheap Music Downloads Sound Sweeter in UK

Posted: December 3rd, 2009, 8:06am PST

Tags: Music

Getting the best deal on your favorite music downloads has suddenly been made much easier in Britain.
New iPhone Game "Snakes and Ladders" Showcases India's Emerging Tech Dominance

Posted: November 10th, 2009, 6:43am PST

Tags: gaming

After its launch on September 27th, Indian engineer T. Harikumar's game "Snakes and Ladders" has already had over 250,000 downloads. What are YOU waiting for?
Retailers pleased with PSP Go ... because it helps sell the PSP-3000

Posted: September 30th, 2009, 10:53am PDT

Despite word from a few European retailers that Sony's download-only handheld, the PSP Go, won't be sold in their stores , the company's UK product manager isn't afraid of poor sales. Even with no ability to read physical media (read as: nothing for retail to sell other than the console), and a £224.99 price point ($362.07 -- seriously ), Sony's Claire Blackhouse says retailers are happy to have the new console in their stores. "We were very aware of concerns when we went into it and I actuall
Dropbox for iPhone Is Out (and Awesome)

Posted: September 29th, 2009, 5:19pm PDT

In one of the better announcement posts we’ve seen, the Dropbox Blog let us know that the Dropbox iPhone app is now out and ready for free download (warning: iTunes link). We wrote about Dropbox in our 10 free social apps for the Mac feature recently (it’s also available for Windows and Linux), and we’re fans of the service for its easy and convenient cross-platform cloud storage and sharing capabilities. Now you can tap into your Dropbox account from your iPhone as well. It’s not
iPhone Accessories Can Now Trigger App Download Prompt [IPhone]

Posted: September 28th, 2009, 8:30pm PDT

We know that there are iPhone accessories which can be controlled by apps , but what happens when you plug one in without having the corresponding app? Turns out it'll trigger a download prompt. Choosing to download the app at the prompt will lead users to a brand new " For This Accessory " page in the App Store from which they can select the app they need. We've only got Griffin's iTrip accessory and app as an example for now, but it seems like this is showing some great third-party accessor
Palm WebOS update released, still no iTunes support

Posted: September 28th, 2009, 8:11pm PDT

The latest version of the WebOS was released today, with some minor improvements to the bluetooth, email, and the calendar. They still haven’t worked out that pesky iTunes problem though. As far as updates go, this one isn’t terribly exciting. Palm added support to phone downloads from the Amazon music store (you used to have to use WiFi), backed up your bookmarks to your profile (so you won’t lose them if something bad happens), added a location feature to the calendar function, and added the
2 Billion Apps Downloaded From the Apple App Store

Posted: September 28th, 2009, 6:35am PDT

When it comes to big numbers, Apple is never shy. And they’ve got every reason to be proud about their App Store figures; before the iPhone, smartphone manufacturers cared little about third party applications; now, they’re a huge market . And Apple’s App Store just hit another important milestone: 2 billion downloaded apps . Here’s some more numbers for you: over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users can now choose between more than 85,000 apps, created by over 125,000 developers. Of cours
Apple announces App Store downloads top 2 billion

Posted: September 28th, 2009, 5:40am PDT

Apple on Monday revealed that its App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch had served customers more than 2 billion downloads of software, with a half-billion in the last quarter.
Blasted puts recent files in your OS X menubar

Posted: September 27th, 2009, 10:00am PDT

Filed under: Utilities , Macintosh , Productivity When you're working with a bunch of different files on a Mac, it can be a pain to remember where each one of them saved, where your downloads ended up, and what you've recently opened. Blasted puts all your recent files right in the menubar, making it extremely easy to find what you were just working on. It's hard to believe there's nothing like Blasted built into OS X. You can add various recent items to your Dock with a quick Termin
Export Google Sites

Posted: September 27th, 2009, 1:27am PDT

Google has released an API for Google Sites that lets you create or edit pages, upload or download attachments, monitor the activity of a site programmatically. The API could be use to create a new interface for Google Sites, to upload files from other sources or to migrate your data. Google's Data Liberation team built a Java application for importing and exporting Google Sites. The application lets you export the pages from a site and all their attachments to a folder. "The folder struct
Some copies of Madden 10 missing 'Online Franchise' DLC codes

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 10:30am PDT

Developers these days are doing a lot to incentivize those new game purchases over their used counterparts, and Madden 10 is no exception. Those who purchased the game were supposed to receive a downloadable code for the game's "Online Franchise Mode," though reportedly, those in "regions outside of North America," specifically Australia, the UK and "other regions" are getting copies with a missing DLC code. Panic broke out at EA's forums over the situation, but EA Sports told Joystiq thi
Another Report Finds Internet Explorer 8 To Be The Most Secure Web Browser

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 8:59am PDT

A web browsing security test that pitted Internet Explorer 8 against Firefox 3, Opera 10, Safari 4 and Google Chrome 4 came to the conclusion that Internet Explorer 8 is the most secure web browser, at least in the area that were tested by security research company NSS Labs. The report, which is available at the company’s website for download was sponsored by Microsoft’s online security engineering team and later send to marketing after the results have been published. The test analyzed
Weave Now Syncs Firefox Preferences, Auto-Logins [Downloads]

Posted: June 29th, 2009, 4:30am PDT

Firefox 3.5 : Weave, Mozilla's add-on to synchronize bookmarks, passwords, and now preferences and automatic logins across Firefox browsers, updated to a 0.4 beta, just in time for the release of 3.5—which could happen tomorrow, by the way. We've previously covered Weave's major release , albeit still as an experimental product, and found ourselves intrigued at its plans to provide automatic web site logins . This release includes those automatic logins and OpenID support, for sites that sup