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If you're trying to get an extension gallery for your web browser off the ground, it's important reach out to developers. After all, they're the ones who will be creating the snazzy addons you plan to showcase. So it's not surprising to see the change which took place in the Chromium ...
Online
"Wordoids", which are words that are made-up, but sound right. They follow the rules of phonetics, and if done properly, roll off the tongue. The need to have an online presence has increased the need for unique product and company names and has led to these wordoids. Yet, even with a made-up ...
Other
Seesmic have released their ' Seesmic Mobile ' Twitter client for Android and Blackberry on their respective application stores. Available for download free of charge, the clients are slick, feature packed and refreshingly free of advertisements.
The Android client (pictured above) has ...
Mobile
Seesmic
Android
BlackBerry
The SEVEN Beta setup is an interesting one.
As a company, Seven (enough capitalising already!) sell their excellent push e-mail products only via mobile operator channels, however their Beta program is an excellent way for users on unsupported carriers (that's likely you and I) to enjoy ...
Online
Android
Gmail
Yahoo
Socialite (Née Eventbox) for OSX is now available in Beta 3 form prior to an expected full release later this month.
Originally developed by TheCosmicMachine before being acquired by respected Mac house Realmac Software (creators of RapidWeaver and LittleSnapper ), Socialite ...
Online
Flickr
Digg
Mac
This week Cisco released a new iPhone app called Cisco SIO To Go [ iTunes link ]. The application is primarily focused on delivering security and threat information via a number of freely available online feeds including Cyber Risk Report, Cisco Threat Outbreaks, Cisco Security Blog, and even ...
iPhone
iPhone
If you've ever considered buying a Roku , the set-top streaming video box for your TV, you've got at least 10 new reasons today. Roku just launched its Channel Store , featuring 10 free content sources. You may have heard of some of them before: Flickr and Facebook Photos are available, as ...
Online
Pandora
Netflix
Amazon
While most touch mobile devices like the iPhone render web pages surprisingly well, sometimes they are slow to load and difficult to read. Blogs, in particular, with their wide text areas tend to become difficult to read on small screens.
If you run a WordPress blog, there's an option ...
Online
Wordpress
iPhone
Opera have released version 10 of their browser, now with Opera Unite and Opera Turbo included.
Opera Unite gives your web browser the ability to deliver content as well as consume it. The standard download includes a number of Unite applications, with more available for download from ...
Online
Opera
Linux
Mac
Facebook made a promise earlier this year to listen to user input about any changes to its terms of service and privacy policy, and so far they've followed through. Facebook opened up a comment period on an update to the privacy policy earlier this month, and now the users have spoken and ...
Online
I admit it, European Download Squad readers: I'm jealous of you. My friends in London and Paris are swapping Spotify playlists like crazy, and we Americans and our brothers to the north still don't have access to this awesome music service. Heck, it doesn't even take a fancy phone to use ...
Mobile
Nokia
Symbian
Android
In a marketing ploy so draconian and heavy-handed as to be reminiscent of the original XBox launch, Microsoft is now offering to pay-off publishers if they delist their content from Google's indexes. Sounds crazy, but it's true. Microsoft have approached News Corp and offered to pay them to ...
Online
Bing
Microsoft
Rupert Murdoch
MySpace
When GrandCentral evolved into Google Voice , it was only a matter of time before the old GrandCentral website went to the big page archive in the sky. Google's killing off the old, redundant site on December 31st, 2009. Why the heck is this news? After all, GrandCentral users can all upgrade ...
Online
Google Voice
Everyone cringed when Microsoft announced that Office 2010 Starter would be partially ad-supported, and it looks as though advertising in desktop apps may be something we'll just have to get used to. As Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration found out , Google Earth is now showcasing sponsored ...
Online
Google Earth
AdSense
Most statistics packages focus on which pages or content are drawing people to your site. While that's certainly important, sometimes you want to know what's happening right now in terms of traffic on your site.
If you're running a self-hosted WordPress blog, you can install a plugin called ...
Online
It's been a number of months (if not longer) since Yahoo showed any love to its Upcoming events service . Since acquiring the service in October 2005, the service has seen just one re-design - and few additional features since. However, in a largely-uncovered announcement earlier in the ...
Online
Yahoo
Last.fm
iGoogle, Google's customizable homepage, has some pretty sweet-looking themes. In fact, I rounded up the 10 best on Download Squad not too long ago. Google keeps adding themes faster than I can change my homepage, though. The latest fresh batch of themes is food-related, and a bunch of ...
Online
iGoogle
On 12/28 I am eligible to switch phones and am rationalizing an iPhone purchase, which is all the more difficult as I just read David Ramsey's Total Money Makeover. The book advocates saving money and paring down expenses, so the $30 monthly data plan would definitely be in the con column. ...
iPhone
iPhone
App Store
By now a lot of you will have experienced the 'All-in-One Omnipotent Start Menu' thing that was first introduced with Windows Vista and can now be found in Windows 7 . It combines My Computer, My Documents and your installed programs into one big, gribbly menu. Some people love it. Some hate ...
Software
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, spoke to some reporters yesterday, after the Chrome OS presentation . Citing the common WebKit and Linux code found in both operating systems, he said "Android and Chrome are likely to converge over time." "We're reaching a perfect storm of converging ...
