Quick Question: Monitor, Mouse, Keyboard, Sound System, Router. Which one is most boring device? Router...of course. You install it and forget it usually, like forever (This case is different for Computer Networking Professionals who constantly deal with routers). Routers are the humblest most devices with no beauty, colors or glamour about em'. Few people I know care what their router looks like? and plenty don't even know what a router is. They only care that their internet works and something blinking it sitting on the computer desk or in a corner behind a side table such that they can use it.
But the internet router. Most of us have one. Whether hidden under a desk or shoved next to the TV, this ubiquitous chunk of plastic and wires may be functional – but it certainly isn’t sexy. However, a new generation of 'designer' home routers will do far more than flash randomly and deliver the web to our computers. Goldsmiths, University of London - world renowned for design and innovation - has been working with the country’s largest home broadband provider, TalkTalk. Together, they have been exploring what the Routers of the Future might look like and how they could take pride of place in our households.
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Now this is fun. Give your favorite youtube video URL or search term, specify frame width and height and hit enter. You will get a cool canvas full of the same video in multiple screens played for you.
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Guess what? You can share data from Here, there, everywhere... and anywhere using your PC, MAC or mobile phone and access it anywhere using your PC, MAC or mobile phone or friend's PC, MAC or mobile phone. You can even access your office PC desktop remotely at your home PC. wicked...eh! All you need is a Windows Live ID. (email address at www.live.com). Your work computer. Your home laptop. Your Mac. Your mobile phone. Devices live in multiple places. But the files you need—and the programs that open them—often don’t. Live Mesh changes all that. Stop e-mailing yourself. Get files across your devices by synchronizing them instead.
By definition you can say that: Live Mesh is a 'software-plus-services' platform and experience from Microsoft that enables PCs and other devices to 'come alive' by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling individuals and organizations to manage, access, and share their files and applications seamlessly on the Web and across their world of devices.
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Firefox 3.1 and IE8 are bringing private browsing feature. It is present in Google Chrome as Incognito mode. So what's that private browsing all about?
If you've closed the browser, and there are no traces of the websites you visited in the browser's history, cookies or temporary files, that's what we call private browsing. Private browsing is NOT an anonymous service. Private browsing is only about the browser not storing information about where you've been. It doesn't make you hidden to your ISP or for example your boss if you are using the corporate network to job hunt.
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YouTube is launching new service called as WARP, which will enable you browse HD videos in full screen player. In WARP, videos thumbs are displayed in bubbles which grow as new videos pop up. Similar kind of videos goes side by side.
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The easiest email could possibly be. As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages. Well, now there is no need to read every message, even reply to every message by yourself: Gmail team says. Following is an autopilot response to a business email.
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Tired of managing many social media website accounts and email services? NetshellMail has a solution for you. Now you can get updates from any web service in single inbox, whether it is twitter, hotmail, yahoo, facebook or any other medium. I mean get all updates in single email account. Suppose by using a single hotmail account you can manage your twitter account, facebook account and many more... NutshellMail sends you Email Updates to your mentioned "Primary Email Address" from all popular social networking and email websites.
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A new type of ad are about to release that can appear on your pages. Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action. This will allow ads to interact more with interested users. For instance, expandable ads may stream a movie trailer, show video game clips, or display various views of an item for sale.
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Pictcha might be the next generation form spam control solution and replacement of Captcha. Pictcha is an experiment by Yahoo! in which you have to write down two words describing an image. You will have to observe the image and extract two words from it.
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Twitter-Sync is a new plug-in from WackyB that lets you keep Twittering away when using Yahoo Messenger.
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