Although the LCROSS mission last month (aka the “moon bombing”) that was broadcast live on TV and the Internet may have not provided any spectacular footage, it did apparently deliver some remarkable findings. According to NASA, “the mission successfully uncovered water during the Oct. 9, 2009 impacts into the permanently shadowed region of Cabeus cater [...]
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Google’s been on a homepage logo changing spree: they’ve celebrated H.G. Wells, the bar code, Confucious, Gandhi, and Sesame Street over the last few months alone. If you check Google.com now though, you’ll see that the search giant is celebrating something different: the discovery of water on the moon! NASA made the stunning announcement earlier [...]
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OpenOfficeMouse crams practically a million buttons onto the back of a rodent
Posted on 08. Nov, 2009
How many mouse buttons do you really need? If you’re an Apple user, you only need one. A PC owner might get by with a two button mouse, but three buttons are better, since that opens up the easy possibility of tab and new file opening. But do you need more? Sure. Logitech sells numerous [...]
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First, there was Google Voice. And all was good, and not so good. But it showed that there is a better way to manage voicemails than to listen to 15 in a row just to get to the one you care about. Now, there is an alternative to Google Voice called Ribbit Mobile. And it [...]
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A Facebook developer named Yvo Schaap has uncovered a massive security flaw present on both Facebook and MySpace that would give hackers the ability to steal all of your account data, including your photos, personal messages, and basically everything else you’ve ever put on the social networks, without you ever realizing it. Update: MySpace tells [...]
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A source just tipped us on some interesting changes Google-owned YouTube has made that give its partners more control over the blocking of video content they upload to the service. Basically, there are two new buttons in the interface for partners. One says ‘Block by Country’ and provides content partners with the ability to geo-block [...]
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Last week Google launched the Music Onebox — a special new music search product that lets users stream songs in their entirety for free. Today, Yahoo Video is answering by improving its music video search offering. When you search for a song or artists, Yahoo will extract music videos of the most popular songs and [...]
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Tonight at a Ning’s developer event in Palo Alto, newly appointed COO Jason Rosenthal announced that Ning has reached 37 million registered users, as well as 1.6 million Ning networks created. The company also says that it grows another million users every couple weeks. Out of the 1.6 million Ning networks, 20% of the active [...]
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Love fancy new phones but hate paying money for things? Flipswap wants to help with its new “iDon’t Pay for Droid” promotion. The company is giving away money toward the purchase of a new Motorola Droid: You can swap your current iPhone for up to $350, buy a Droid, and show your proof of purchase, [...]
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Google, who tends to always be timely with new products, has released a new search product for commerce sites just in time for the holiday shopping season. Google Commerce Search allows websites to offer product search without having to host the feature themselves. Since the service is hosted in the cloud, commerce sites do not [...]