Archive for the 'Beta' Category
Switchabit Multitasks Your Blogging For You
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Maintaining your online presence can be such a giant pain in the ass nowadays since your followers are looking for fixed updates on three hundred different web sites. It’s particularly annoying to try and publicize your new blog post manually after you’ve spent precious minutes of your dawn ty…
Sling Media to demo SlingPlayer for iPhone and iPod Touch
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Want to watch habitable TV on your iPhone? Pretty soon you may be able to… assuming you’ve got a Slingbox set up at domestic. While Sling Media has been releasing client software for Windows, Mac, and a variety of cellphones for years that lets you stream habitable or recorded TV by the Net,…
Fed up with trying to send music? SoundCloud it instead.
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A lot of web apps seem to be targeted at problems that nobody actually has. SoundCloud is smarter than that, focusing on a problem we have at least once a week: what’s the best way to send a song to a friend? E-mail is a pain, you might not have ready access to an FTP server, and those weird Rap…
Microsoft SearchTogether IE7 plugin enables collaborative searching
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Microsoft’s SearchTogether plugin for Web Explorer 7 lets you share your search history with others. The plugin additionally provides tools for leaving Gadgets and voting on search listings.
Why precisely would anyone want to use that service? Say you’re planning a vacation and you’re looking…
HHOTT View plugin for IE7 offers safe “clickless” browsing
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HHOTT View is a plugin for World Wide Web Explorer designed to let you surf faster and safer. We’re not entirely convinced it accomplishes either goal, but the concept is intriguing. Once the plugin is installed, you should see a green, blue, red, or gray arrow seem every duration you hover …
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 now available
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Mozilla has pushed out the first release candidate for Firefox 3. That means that version should be more regular than any of the betas that have been released by the final year, but there may still be some bugs to work out. whether you want to be absolutely convinced you won’t lose settings or m…
Chameleo: Open source video player from Korea
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The world probably needs another desktop video player like it needs a gap in its head, right? Setting aside the fact that we’re not certain the world has a head, Chameleo is a new video player that’s actually worth checking out. The open source application from Korea’s NomadConnection has an app…
Silverback brings advanced usability examining to the Mac
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Silverback, a new OS X application from the renowned UK-based design team Clearleft, was a mystery for fairly a while. The app had a site with some neat visual tricks and a gorilla with a clipboard, and it said the application was for designers, but what did it do? The suspense was killing us! We …
TinEye image search engine launches public beta
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There are plenty of image search engines on the web. Enter a text based search term, and Google, MSN, or Yahoo! will spit out a series of pictures it thinks match that query. But TinEye takes a slightly different approach. that image search engine, currently in private beta, lets you upload an i…
Opera 9.5 beta 2 released
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The Opera team has released the second public beta of Opera 9.5. The web browser packs all the features we’ve seen in earlier experiment builds like an improved tab manager, plus a bunch of new features and fixes. Here are just a few:
Full text history search from the address field
Spatial…












