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Author and technologist Scott Berkun offers a clear-minded primer on what, exactly, voters should consider when choosing a presidential candidate for the U.S. this coming November 4th. Skip…
You already know that with a little URL-hacking, you can skip to a certain time in YouTube clip embedded on your blog. Now you can do the same within the comments on a clip at the YouTube…

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PC makers are setting their sights on reducing the amount of time it takes your PC to boot up, reports the New York Times, because users are increasingly impatient about waiting to go about…
These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port….

Our gadget-obsessed siblings at Gizmodo got a chance to walk through Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference, highlighting a heaping serving of nice new features. Keep…
Weblog Google Operating System rounds up eight different Gmail modes worth a shot next time you have trouble accessing Gmail. That includes everything from Safe mode—which runs Gmail…
The new Amazon Windowshop multimedia marketplace does fancy 3D browsing of the popular online commerce site. Aside from the eye candy, features also include multimedia previews of any…
TinyURL fends off an onslaught of new competition to take home the prize in this weekend’s Hive Five Best URL Shrinkers. Up-and-comer Is.gd pulled in second, followed by Bit.ly.

Web application MeetInBetweenUs takes the guess work out of locating a good place for two distance parties to meet. For a trial run I used it to see where Gina and I would meet between San…
Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference continues to roll out exciting new announcements; this time, Microsoft announces the next version of Microsoft Office will include a web…
Windows only: Free application Hitman Pro scans your system for malware using not one, not two, but eight different anti-malware applications. Essentially, Hitman Pro is a helper utility…