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This is a guest post by Shane Perris, who authors a blog at techwhimsy.com.
Trent Reznor kept hard core Nine Inch Nails fans in desperate suspense for two weeks with cryptic clues in the properties of two free mp3 downloads - Discipline (made available from nin.com) and Echoplex (available exclusively through iLike on Facebook). We […]

Tell me we’re not heading down a dangerous road: an article in today’s Guardian reports on how ISPs worldwide have turned into the police of the web, throttling, shifting, and killing packets left and right. In the U.S., Comcast has been in the news for their throttling of heavy BitTorrent users, but they are […]

An email today alerted me about the latest FriendFeed clone, Lifestream.fm. Like everybody’s favorite social app du jour, Lifestream also lets you aggregate your various online services, be it twitter, your blog, StumbleUpon, or whatever else, into one continuous stream. But unlike FriendFeed, you can’t comment or "like" people’s items, filter out or hide […]

I recently wrote a post on Read Write Web about how "Blogs Comments Still Matter," which, among other things, highlighted the issue of blogs getting more negative comments than positive ones. In the post, I mentioned the FriendFeed/WordPress plugin, created thanks to the fabulous Glenn. One of the commenters, as it turned out, was […]

I wrote about blog commenting today over on Read Write Web, which Mathew Ingram picked up on in this post, "Blogs and the ‘phone-in’ show effect." He also refers to what MG Siegler calls "bitchmemes," which are the "blog fights" that often get exposure on tech blog aggregator, Techmeme.
My original post began with Paul […]

In January, MG Siegler set up the Elite Tech News Reddit as an experiment with Reddit’s new "Create Your Own Reddit" feature to be sort of an "elite digg" type of site. The experiment paid off, and other bloggers including Steven Hodson, Frederic Lardinois, Louis Gray, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, Jason Kaneshiro, and Tony Hung […]

Xdrive Lite is a new Adobe AIR app that was just launched today. With this client application, Xdrive users can upload files and folders to the online Xdrive web storage service right from the desktop. When logged into the Xdrive Lite app, everything in your Xdrive folder is shown within the app in the […]

There are several different ways your security can be comprised when you are using a Bluetooth mobile device, like a smartphone. But you can stay safe by following the tips listed below.
3 Types of Bluetooth Security Threats:

Bluejacking, also known as “bluespamming”, is a technique used to send anonymous text messages to mobile users via Bluetooth. […]

Microsoft Windows Desktop Search is a fast way to search your computer for many types of files, including documents, photos, videos, and music. Windows Desktop Search also searches Microsoft Office Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express items, such as email messages, contacts, and appointments. After you install Windows Desktop Search, the Windows Search Companion is replaced […]

In Microsoft Office (prior to Office 2007), there is a feature called “Personalized Menus” that I find very annoying. What personalized menus do is hide the full list of features from you when you click on the menus at the top of your Office document (like “File,” “Edit,” “Tools,” etc.). This was designed to keep […]