29 minutes ago in Business & Marketing - Google has officially released their popular photo management application Picasa for Macs, after years of offering Picasa as a free Windows download. It's an exciting announcement for anyone who's looking for a good photo management app on OS X that ...

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1 hours ago in Technology & Software - Earlier today we posted our annual Game of the Year awards. The deserving winners were the results of group thought, discussion and vote. The Judge's Awards, though, are all about one person's choice. When we went through the process of picking our ...

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1 hours ago in Technology & Software - If you thought that MSI would allow CES to pass it by without unleashing a veritable smorgasbord of new kit upon us, you're dead wrong. For starters, the company will be showcasing its Wind U115 and U120 netbooks for the first time in the public ...

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1 hours ago in Technology & Software - This year we decided to try something different with our Game of the Year awards: The GOTYS. We came up with categories that exemplify the areas of gaming that we think should be highlighted. Instead of awards meant to serve as a shopping list for ...

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2 hours ago in Business & Marketing - Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Tabhunter Firefox extension adds quick keyboard-based tab switching to Firefox—sort of like Launchy for Firefox tabs. Just invoke Tabhunter, start typing, and Tabhunter searches for a match through all ...

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3 hours ago in Technology & Software - Well, it looks like Oregon Scientific will be making a respectable enough showing at CES, with it set to show off a mix of old-ish products like the ACT5K action camera pictured at right, and some new and updated products that it'll apparently only ...

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5 hours ago in Technology & Software - Game Informer gets a little feminine competition as GameStop announces a special promotion that delivers free 12-month subscriptions to popular female-friendly magazines with the purchase of select fitness titles. From now until February 22nd, ...

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5 hours ago in Technology & Software - Here's another severe warping of the spacetime continuum caused by the financiapocalypse: Notebook makers want Intel to delay its crazyfast Nehalem-based mobile CPUs and chipsets. In other words, they want notebooks to be slower, longer. The ...

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6 hours ago in Technology & Software - If you are an early adopter like myself, you have probably left a trail of iPods in your wake. This little DIY project is a great way to repurpose those obsolete players as desktop speakers. All-in-all, the conversion cost around $100, with most of ...

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7 hours ago in Technology & Software - As he did for Helvetica's namesake typeface, Gary Hustwit gathered the world's top designers for his forthcoming documentary Objectified, telling the story of the magic behind the objects we use every day. We're lucky enough to be the first folks ...

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8 hours ago in News & Current Events - Just look at how thin he was, and you'd know it. But now Steve Jobs himself has admitted that his declining health is keeping him from taking the Macworld stage tomorrow. In a letter posted to... ...

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8 hours ago in Technology & Software - As he did for Helvetica's namesake typeface, Gary Hustwit gathered the world's top designers for his forthcoming documentary Objectified, telling the story of the magic behind the objects we use every day. We're lucky enough to be the first folks ...

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9 hours ago in Technology & Software - As he did for Helvetica's namesake typeface, Gary Hustwit gathered the world's top designers for his forthcoming documentary Objectified, telling the story of the magic behind the objects we use every day. Helvetica, is one of my all-time favorite ...

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9 hours ago in Technology & Software - Answering recent coverage about his health, Steve Jobs has published the following letter addressed to the Apple community. Dear Apple Community, For the first time in a decade, I'm getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than ...

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9 hours ago in Business & Marketing - Windows only: A small background app can give XP and Vista users part of the functionality of "Aero Peek," a smart way of previewing windows and showing the desktop in Windows 7. Unfortunately, that part is just the desktop showing aspect, available ...

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14 hours ago in Technology & Software - Don't you go thinking just because it's January we're done with the "best of 2008" lists. Because we are so not. Latest comes courtesy of Microsoft's Larry Hryb, and charts the years top Xbox Live games. First, we have the twenty most popular ...

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16 hours ago in Technology & Software - There were concerns from some that the DSi made piracy easier. Then there were concerns from others that it made piracy harder. Everyone was in a tizzy! Now, there's reason for Nintendo to worry. Really worry, actually. While the R4 flash cart won't ...

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18 hours ago in Technology & Software - Lenovo's IdeaPad Y-series consumer notebooks are all going 16:9 widescreen, teed off by the 16-inch Y650, which is the thinnest, lightest notebook in that class, thanks to carbon fiber. Rounding out the series are the Y550 and Y450, which are the 15 ...

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18 hours ago in Technology & Software - Lenovo's IdeaCentre 600 is a pretty splashy debut: Its first ever all-in-one is a simple curved slab that's supposedly the thinnest all-in-one in the industry. Beyond the form factor—which borrows liberally from the new Star Trek and the iMac ...

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