Archive for July, 2009
Does Apple Get Held to a Lower Standard?
Apple recently rejected the official Google Voice iPhone app. This app would have enabled iPhone users to make free or cheap calls on their iPhones using Google Voice, and also use free SMS. This comes on the heels of other apps being rejected by Apple, and more apps hanging in limbo. For example, the [...]
Energize Your Sleep With Pzizz
Today, 40Tech is pleased to present a guest post from Oscar Del Ben from the Freestyle Mind.
Pzizz is a program that lets you relax your body and take both short and long naps. I was introduced to this program more than a year ago by a friend, and I have used it extensively ever [...]
Supercharge Your Firefox Browsing With Icons
One way to streamline your Firefox browsing experience is to move away from using the dropdown boomarks menu, and instead use the bookmarks toolbar. To streamline the experience even further, and to fit more bookmarks on the toolbar, you can modify the toolbar so that the sites you frequently visit are accessible by a row [...]
An Early Peak at Evernote’s Next Windows Version
I’ve talked about Evernote quite a bit here. Next to Firefox, it may be my most used application. One of the strengths of Evernote is that it is available on several different platforms, such as Windows, Mac, portable USB, iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre, and via the web. A quick visit to the Evernote forums, [...]
5 Critical Reasons to Root Against Comcast’s Online Television
Over at Technologizer, Harry McCracken recently contemplated whether Comcast’s On Demand Online service was reason enough to stick with Comcast, if you are considering dropping your television service. On Demand Online is a Hulu-like service still in development that, once released, will allow Comcast subscribers to view shows and other content online. There are [...]
Organize Your Desktop With Fences
Windows only: Fences is a program, free for personal use, that helps you organize your Windows desktop. I don’t know about you, but I have problem with organization when it comes to computers. When I install an application, I often install the startup icon for that application on my desktop. When I download files, [...]
Someone Sends You Stolen Confidential Documents. Would You Publish Them?
A story that has had the tech world abuzz involves a story on TechCrunch. In that story, TechCrunch head honcho Mike Arrington wrote that a hacker had forwarded him a zip file containing over 300 confidential corporate and personal documents stolen from Twitter and Twitter employees. Evidently, the hacker did this by hacking email [...]
5 Tools to Keep You Synchronized Everywhere
Many of you use more than one computer. You probably have a computer at home and one at work, and you may even have a laptop as well. Some of you probably even have a few computers in different rooms in your home. Keeping track of logins, passwords, bookmarks, and other information between your [...]
Mmmm, Bacon. Protect Your Email Address, and the Addresses of Friends
This tip will be so unnecessary for many of you that I almost hesitate to write it. I am always amazed, though, at how freely some people give out their email addresses, and the email addresses of others. My wife knows that this is a pet peeve of mine. When I see an item [...]
Google Chrome Operating System – Able to Promise Big Because it Delivers Small?
On Tuesday night, Google announced its new Chrome operating system, with the code due for release later this year, and netbooks that run it due in the second half of 2010. Some of the announcement is sure to be marketing speak, as Google’s announcement seems to promise the world. Or does it? Is Google [...]
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