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  Recently, I was lucky enough to get an invitation to the beta of real-time video-sharing service, Redux. So far, the experience has been awesome! Redux has provided me with an easy way to discover and share video from all over the web. By connecting me with multiple users and groups sharing all manner of [...]

It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following items:   Turn By Turn GPS Navigation for GPS for $35 Bucks?? [...]

Last week, Lifehacker posted an article detailing how to recover your Firefox master password using a freeware password recovery tool, Firemaster.  Firemaster generates password guesses on the fly, coupled with other procedures, to rapidly attempt to crack your password.  If you lose your master password, you lose access to ALL of your passwords, so being [...]

The beta program for streaming gaming service OnLive started last week.  Not far behind OnLive is Gaikai.  Both services claim to bring high-end video games to low-end hardware, by streaming the graphics to you via your broadband connection. Because all of the "heavy lifting" is done on OnLive or Gaikai’s servers, the system requirements for [...]

HTC has been knocking the socks off of the Windows Mobile universe for a while now with increasingly beautiful and functional UI (user interface) designs for their Windows Mobile phones. Now they have done it again with the release of the HTC Hero and the very spiffy Sense UI design. The only problem is, the [...]

It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following items:   Windows Phones Coming October 6 – Microsoft reveals some news [...]

Google Voice offers many great features, such as transcription, call filtering and free U.S. calls.  Voice is not perfect, though.  In fact, there are a few aspects of the service that are downright disappointing.  Fortunately, Google does have time to work out the kinks, as Voice only has limited availability at the present time.  In [...]

This article has been updated in a newer post, How to Password-Protect Evernote, which shows an easier way to open an encrypted version of Evernote with a simple desktop shortcut. Do you want to keep your Evernote data secure on a less-than-private computer?  Right now there is no "built in" way to secure your Evernote [...]