Tech Update

One unnoticed useful feature on the iPhone and iPod Touch is that you can add over 600 web apps to it. These web apps can vary from games to sports news, applications to use for work and maps. Simply fire up your iPod touch or iPhone and point Safari to http://www.apple.com/webapps/ and start browsing to find some web apps. You can add them to the home screen for easy access. You can also delete them at any time you find that you aren’t using them.

Take a look at some of the third party apps out there to make your Digg experience a better one.

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Imagine how successful Dell’s Ubuntu offering could be if just one Dell Ubuntu machine was put in retail stores. If people knew of an alternative to Windows, they would go for it! So what do you say, Dell? Why don’t you try to put at least one of your Ubuntu machines offered in retail stores? Please add your support!

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With HD DVD, things are just going from bad, to really bad, to worse, to car-crash-you-can’t-stop-looking-at. You can file this one under that latter category, as Wal-Mart has officially announced its intentions to stop stocking HD DVD players and movies by June.

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Firefox 3 Beta 3 is available in more than 30 languages on the mozilla official website.

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I continue to be fascinated, titillated, inspired and WOWed by Google. It’s no surprise Fortune Magazine named them Best Company To Work For in 2008. Google continues to reinvent itself by doing some really unique and revolutionary things that not many other large corporations can successfully pull off.

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Here is my list of ten websites I think every Ubuntu user should bookmark if not visit regularly. It is not complete so post some of your favorites in the comments.

1. Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ubuntu applications
2. Hack Attack: How to triple-boot Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu
3. Download Ubuntu
4. Installing a Dual-Boot with Windows and Ubuntu
5. How To: Ubuntu Portable - Ubuntu Forums
6. Ubuntu packages
7. HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method) - Ubuntu Forums
8. Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks
9. How To: Change a Computer Name in Linux
10. How To: Arrange the Window Buttons in GNOME

Leopard finally gets its second patch, and boy does it fix a lot of stuff. The first patch hit back in November, with test builds of the second making it out a month later. Here’s a list of the major things the 10.5.2 patch fixes (including menubar transparency and Stacks).

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Is your iPod running low on new songs? Need something to entertain you for the time being? By subscribing to podcasts in iTunes, you can listen to/watch some valuable informative podcasts or just have fun! To find some podcasts, open iTunes and go to the store. Click on podcasts on the left hand side of the page and start downloading completely free content for your iPod. Every podcast can be deleted at your pleasure if you simply do not like it. Find some new popular podcasts by going onto the Top Podcasts section in iTunes. Video podcasts are short video clips to either provide information or entertainment. One of my favorite video podcasts is the Best of YouTube podcast that features a new video everyday, usually a hilarious clip that you might not have found otherwise. Simply copy the link into iTunes under Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast and start downloading.

A comprehensive, in-depth list of blog-specific marketing strategies designed to drive traffic from search engines, referrals and brand building. Includes descriptions of how to implement each tactic and pitfalls to avoid.

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