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  • E-mail etiquette by age

    Older E-Mail Users Favor Fast Replies“When asked how quickly one should reply to a personal e-mail message, members of that age group were the most likely to answer “as soon as possible” or “in one day.” Internet users over 70 also check e-mail...
  • Content aggregation

    Web 2.0: SwitchAbit Syndicates Your Social Updates“switchAbit, a free social syndication tool, offers the tools to create multiple “switches” for all your cool tools. So you can, say, upload a photo on Flickr, then have a link or thumbnail...
  • Home healthcare

    Health Care: Intel Health Guide Lets Doctors Check Up On You Electronically“The Health Guide includes a small touch-screen PC running Windows XP and a web portal that helps connect patients and doctors. The computer can be used to remind patients...
  • Location-based handshake

    IPhone: Friend Book to Beam Your iPhone’s Contact Data with a Shake“The coolest feature without a doubt is the new “Handshake”: put two iPhones running Friend Book together, shake them up and down, and the personal contact information...
  • Service abstraction layers

    Map abstraction API in Javascript“Maybe you’ve tinkered a bit with the Google Maps API. Most of the software produced with it is not all that useful or entertaining, but a few gem have shone through. Still, wouldn’t it be better if applications...
  • Dual screen laptop

    V12 Designs’ dual-screen laptop coming in two years?“The dual-screen lappie we’re talking about actually has two LCD panels, one of which takes the place of a traditional keyboard / trackpad. Reportedly, V12 Designs — which takes...
  • Audio memorial

    Touched echo: Invisible Memorial for the Bruehlsche Terrasse in Dresden“Using bone conduction, a technology developed for hearing devices, the “touched echo” installation in Dresdon transmits sounds of the cities devastating 1945 carpet...
  • Color search

    Image Search: Multicolr Search Lab Sorts Flickr Pictures by Color“Need an image with dark blue and green undertones for desktop wallpaper or a design project? Multicolr Search Lab, a free search utility, digs through roughly 3 million images in...
  • Cloud-based 3D

    OTOY Developing Server-Side 3D Rendering Technology“Imagine you could play video games - and immerse yourself in virtual worlds - with 3D graphics comparable to those found in blockbuster films like Transformers or WALL•E. And then imagine you could...
  • Active building skins

    HABITAT 2020: Future Smart ‘Living’ Architecture“The surface would allow the entry of light, air and water into the housing. It would automatically position itself according to the sunlight and let in light; thus electricity for lighting would not...
  • 3D chat

    Lively Adds 3D Chat from Any Website“Why should you pay attention to the umpteenth avatar-guided chat platform to hit the web? For starters, while it requires a small package download and installation, the program itself runs tidily inside Firefox...
  • Unintended licensing

    Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You for It“Yahoo and Getty Images said Tuesday that they had entered into a partnership under which Getty editors would comb Flickr in search of interesting images. They will then invite photographers...
  • Changing printing habits

    GreenPrint’s Free Software Prevents Pointless Printing“The home edition available worldwide to users and nonprofits digitally reads and omits wasted pages that have useless text and images like URLs, banner ads, disclaimers, and the like – usually...
  • Creating timelines

    Timelines: Timetoast Creates Interactive Timelines“Once you create your timeline, viewers can click on date points to see what is significant about the event. From there they can expand the entry to see pictures and additional information.” LifeHacker...
  • Getting to zero e-mails

    Inbox Victory“1) Get your email inbox down to zero. People have various methods for dealing with their email so ‘inbox 0′ is going to mean different things to different people. A basic rule of thumb, however, is getting it to a point where no further...
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