There are all sorts of notifications options for Coordinatr. All of them can be toggled through various e-mail addresses and even SMS text messages to various phones. (click to enlarge)
Besides media sharing (usually an afterthought when the hangover wears off), the core part of the service–inviting and adding friends, is all handled through Plaxo, which [...]

The LG Flatron W2053TQ mocks you with its aspect ratio.
This week I take a look at the HP 2009m and the LG Flatron W2053TQ. Both are 20-inchers. Both include a 16:9 aspect ratio, which translates to 1600×900 resolution. Both also transform into kid-size robots and battle it out for your entertainment.
OK, the last [...]

In this Super Techies interview, I chat with Dan Bricklin about software innovation past and present. Bricklin discusses how he dreamed up the idea for VisiCalc, his excursion into handwriting applications for the tablet PC, and his current role as the inventor of WikiCalc, a collaborative spreadsheet program that merges financial formulas with wikis.
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This wouldn’t bother me at all, except that the comment includes personal reflection, such as this passage that appears verbatim in both posts: “Maybe I will get more bullish on Google when they get around to assigning someone to answer my phone calls or when their operator tells me that their marketing department does not [...]

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HP)
It uses the same print engine,which takes the same eight-ink/seven-color Vivera ink system (seven color because you’d never use the matte black and photo black simultaneously), and runs at the same speeds–I won’t bother quoting the useless draft-mode numbers the company publishes.
You won’t find a lot of differences between the B9180 and the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–Cisco is set to make several cloud-related security announcements at the RSA conference on Tuesday, including the expansion of its hosted security services and the integration of security-as-a-service applications with corporate network infrastructures.
The company also is announcing Cisco SAFE, a security reference architecture organizations can use as a guideline for deploying security [...]

We are entering the world of ambient computing, he proclaimed, as everything is wired into the Internet. “We are in a soup of computing. Web 2.0 is all around us,” O’Reilly said. He got nods from the crowd of the converted, who were busy Twittering, Facebooking, blogging, and SMSing, practicing continuous partial attention.

However, the [...]

Create wonderfully distracting art the simple way with Bomomo.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
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CNET Networks)
What makes the tool particularly interesting is that each of the 18 drawing tools are tied to your mouse in a different way. Some tools will follow it around, while others do their best to escape your pointer–creating some genuinely gorgeous effects. Some [...]

The shootout between this separates based system and the Samsung HT-BD2 wouldn’t take very long. The Samsung sounds like a home theater in a box–dynamically undernourished, with boomy, poorly defined bass, and no actual treble detail. Yes, the Samsung can play pretty loud, but sound quality isn’t a happening concept. It sounds like a very [...]

Still can’t decide? Check out CNET’s reviews: The Zen scored an 8.3 out of 10, while the Nano came close with an 8.0. So they’re both winners, but you obviously get a lot more bang for the buck from the Zen. Think Apple will respond with its own price reduction?

It’s practically a no-brainer: the Zen [...]