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Well, it’s official, we live in the age of computers. Surprised? Ok, so you’re probably not — but that only serves to illustrate my point. These are the days where people are often attached to their machinery for hours and hours and sometimes days at a time; and because you geeky folks out there reading [...]

Twitter users certainly don’t have a shortage of Twitter clients from which to choose.  There are many twitter desktop and mobile Twitter apps, but also a few browser-based Twitter clients.  One such browser-based client is Brizzly.  Brizzly follows Twitter’s example in its simplicity, but does add a few nice wrinkles.  Brizzly is not yet open [...]

One of the benefits of Evernote is that you can use it almost anywhere, thanks to the multiple platforms on which it is available.  Over in the official Evernote forums, a new topic has just started brewing that discusses creative uses of Evernote on mobile devices.  Inspired by that thread, here are seven creative uses [...]

Over on our Posterous site, we recently addressed one use case for reQall, a personal reminder service that allows you to capture information using voice or text.  In that post, we explained how to get information into Evernote using reQall’s voice capturing and transcription features.  There are other ways, though, to use reQall to stay [...]

Due to the crap that was the Vista operating system (at least without 4 GB of ram and a few tricks up your sleeve), many people have skipped the OS altogether and stuck with XP. Many of those same people, however, are excited to try out the much vaunted Windows 7 operating system, due out [...]

One of the biggest news items this week was an announcement that T-Mobile Sidekick users had all of their online data lost, possibly permanently, by Danger and its parent company Microsoft.  After sending this shockwave through the Sidekick community, another announcement followed that the data might be recoverable after all.  This is a relief to [...]

A few weeks back, Google unveiled the long-awaited push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile. Push Gmail is part of the Google Sync package, which is still in Beta and previously offered only Google Calendar sync and Google Contacts sync. The calendar and contacts features have been working fairly flawlessly for some time now, aside [...]

If you’re a blogger, you know that one of the beauties of WordPress is the sheer number of available plugins.  There are the "old standbys" that many blogs use, such as WP Super Cache and All In One SEO Pack.  But are you familiar with some of the lesser-known gems?  Here are five WordPress plugins [...]

  You may think from the title that I am a bit less than enthused with Skymarket, the new Windows Marketplace for Mobile app store. You wouldn’t be wrong, either. This may come as something of a surprise to some of you, considering how much I have obviously been looking forward to the release 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 item:   Use Google Analytics to Get Up to the Minute Stats [...]