http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 45 times. Tagged Dealhacker (426) Downloads (5976) Featured Mac Download (456) Mac (4317) Mac OS X (3629) . If you're a fan of the free OS X software offered at MacHeist, you'll want to scoot over there to grab some free software before their software giveaway expires. MacHeist is offering a bundle of six applications: ShoveBox, WriteRoom, Twitterific, Tinygrab, Hordes of Orcs, and Mariner Write. The first five are free right from the start and the final application Mariner Write—a Word alternative for Macs—will be free once they give away 500,000 of the nanoBundles. Visit the link below to grab a free copy of the bundle. The software, if purchased individually, would cost $154. If you know of any other current software giveaway deals, let's hear about them in the comments. MacHeist nanoBundle Giveaway [via The Unofficial Apple Weblog] nonameplayer said: worth it, if only for tinygrab. Jake...
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 44 times. Tagged 3g (1052) 3g coverage (52) 3gCoverage (50) ad (775) ads (1059) apple (18235) At&t (3175) commerical (51) iPhone (19722) There's a map for that (134) TheresAMapForThat (97) Verizon (3344) Video (15546) . AT&T might be suing Verizon for misrepresenting its network in ads, but that doesn't seem to have dissuaded Beg Red from using that same map image in this new spot, which casts the iPhone away to the Island of Misfit Toys. Hard to argue with the premise, but here's the real question: why not just sack up use a real iPhone, instead of this KIRF piece? Check the ad after the break. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Continue reading Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys Filed under: Cellphones Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys originally appeared on Engadget on...
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 44 times. Tagged web (9461) . So, the hype got to me. Yesterday I headed to Verizon and bought a Motorola Droid, which runs Google’s Android operating system. Last night my friend Luke Kilpatrick came over and we compared the Droid to the Palm Pre and iPhone. He’s a bit biased toward the Palm, and ran the first Palm Pre Dev Camp but he’s also a mobile freak and has an iPhone and an HTC Hero, which runs an older version of the Android OS. Plus we get together with other people at the Ritz and compare phones regularly and I know he is fair and knows his stuff. Why did I buy the Droid when I’m a happy iPhone? Because for the past two days Dave Winer has been praising the Droid and because I want to stay up to date on what’s going on on the Android OS. It’s one thing to try a phone for a couple of minutes, it’s a whole nother thing to force yourself to use it. For instance, if...
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 41 times. Tagged Inspiration (4941) list (1510) Lists (5388) Video (15483) Video Lists (251) . Stuck in a cubicle all day? Hit a brick wall on that project? Not sure what to do next with your life? You need some inspiration, and you’re in luck because the web is full of inspiring stories captured on video. Video is the perfect vehicle for an inspiring story because it can make the story come alive like no other medium. Below is a list of 7 of the most of the inspiring videos on the web, embedded so you can watch them here. Each video, which range in length from 3 to 20 minutes, has an inspirational message to impart. If you know of any other inspiring videos, please share them in the comments. 1. William Kamkwamba: Harnessing the Wind William Kamkwamba was 14 when he built a windmill from scrap parts in order to provide enough electricity to power 4 lightbulbs and 2 radios in his home in his tiny...
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 38 times. Tagged Headline (2451) mice (353) WTF!? (1987) . You may recall our incredulity when SteelSeries announced their 15-button MMO Mouse. Not one to be passed by, Razer shortly thereafter came out with the 17-button Naga, which we’ll be reviewing soon. But unknown to them, a small team was working in obscurity to create an 18-button mouse… with an analog stick for your thumb, to boot. The OpenOfficeMouse, or OOMouse, isn’t exactly the most attractive piece of hardware, but its creator claims that “16 buttons divided into two 8-button halves were the maximum number of buttons that could be efficiently used by feel alone.” I guess if you take the thumb out of the equation with the analog stick, which Razer nor SteelSeries had the wherewithal to do, that’s probably true. They’ve set up profiles to make the OOMouse work with WoW, 3D Studio Max, Firefox, and...
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 38 times. Tagged Google (51019) Marissa Mayer (111) . This is Marissa Mayer, the queen of Google. Every Google thing that you use goes through her. And she's nerd. So she says, sitting on her red ball in that red dress: "When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. I do code all night! I am the stereotype, but I also break the stereotype." Oh, if only there were more of you, breaking stereotypes. [Glamour] Hector Villarreal said: Mami... jajaja Kluzter said: No sé de qué trate la nota, pero: quieroquieroquieroquieroquieroquieroquiero Mariano said: OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!111
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 36 times. Tagged Health Care (1779) Radical Right (464) Radical Right-Wing Agenda (279) . This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) — repeatedly talked over, screamed, and shouted objections. “I object, I object, I object, I object, I object,” Price interjected as Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) tried to hold the floor. In an effort to delay and derail the proceedings, the Republicans continually talked over the Democratic women for half an hour. They sought to prevent the debate by calling for unnecessary “parliamentary inquiries” and requests for “expanding the debate” by an hour. After being repeatedly interrupted...
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 36 times. Tagged Company & Product Profiles (38799) europlay capital advisors (36) pulser music services (36) rdio (53) . Now that they got what they wanted – a renewed stake and board representation in the Skype that will be spun off eBay soon – the Scandinavian duo Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis can divert more of their attention again to the latest Internet venture they’re putting their weight behind: Rdio. The yet-to-launch digital music startup was first talked about publicly a couple of weeks ago when the New York Times unveiled plans for its imminent online music subscription service but it’s been pretty quiet ever since. I’ve been keeping busy this weekend doing some very basic research – I love you, Internet – about Rdio and discovered a couple of interesting details that have emerged on the Web since the stealth startup got its first dose of media attention....
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 37 times. Tagged Company & Product Profiles (38791) . I’d probably feel slightly smug, if I didn’t feel so sick. Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency, the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view. Unfortunately it’s hard to feel smug – hard to feel anything but sadness and nausea – when thirteen innocent people are dead. I’m talking, of course, about Thursday’s Fort Hood shootings. Better informed and more sensitive commentators than I have written about the massacre itself and what it means for the US army, and in particular for the thousands of Muslim soldiers currently fighting – and dying – for this country. How do you even begin to process the idea of an American soldier shouting the takbir, before mowing down his comrades in arms?...
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http://www.rssmeme.com/story... Shared 38 times. Tagged Charlie Osmond (40) co-creation (49) cocreation (38) Communities (181) conferences (343) crowdsourcing (393) facebook (16879) FreshNetworks (45) Google (50906) google wave (5748) googlewave (434) hashtags (90) online communities (143) slideshare (99) social media (10492) social network (494) Twitter (22628) wave (2078) web 2.0 (4989) web2.0 (1345) Why Social Media Matters (38) . Image courtesy of Shutterstock Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat. Reading what other people tweet during a speech provides an extra dimension as you get a sense of what the audience is thinking. And just like passing notes in class, it’s also a lot more fun than simply sitting and listening. (remember that Facebook interview from SXSW’08?) Twitter is also a great way to attend a conference without actually being there – just follow a conference hashtag (e.g. #smib09 or...
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