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Brijit is an online community that offers up the world’s best long-form content by boiling it down to 100 word abstracts. You can then peruse the abstracts to determine what you what to read, listen to, or watch. The sources Brijit pulls from can be stories, like magazine articles, but they can also be radio […]

Worried you have a nasty bug? Not sure if your anti-virus software is up-to-date? (Shame, shame!) A free service from NanoScan will instantly scan your PC for viruses. The service provides an “instant” scanner that searches for viruses, spyware and other threats. It can detect, in less than a minute, a huge number of threats […]

Mixbook.com is a site that lets you create photobooks from your digital photos. You can import photos from facebook, flickr, or upload them from your PC. You can also collaborate with others in the design of your custom book. Mixbook will then print and ship the finished photobook to your door so you can […]

Frequent fliers will be interested in the identity-verification service provided by the startup, Clear. Launched in 2003, travelers can pay $99 per year to receive a pre-screened ID card which lets them zip through airport security at one of the participating airports. Members receive a high-tech card which is inserted into a Clear kiosk, […]

Don’t be put off by the very un-web 2.0-ness of the Orb website - while other companies were busy building the perfect bubbly logo and tagging system, the people at Orb were busy building actual useful technology. Orb is software that manages all the media on your PC and lets you access it remotely while […]

FilesTube is a speciality search engine that scours many different file sharing and uploading sites like RapidShare and MegaUpload. The FilesTube search spider records the recent uploads to these sites in a database which you can then search from the FilesTube search box. Doing search on FilesTube website will provide you with a links […]

After much debate, the OpenID 2.0 standard was announced today. In case you are not familiar, OpenID is a new service that lets you log in to multiple websites with one account: your OpenID. The number of websites that support OpenID is growing every day. Currently, there are over 8,000 participating sites including big […]

I kind of want this. I have absolutely no use for it, I don’t need it, but who can resist a big, squishy, purple keyboard?
Everyone was down today due to a major power outage in San Francisco. Netflix, Craigslist, TypePad, Vox, LiveJournal, Adbrite, Technorait, Yelp, RedEnvelope and more. Or was it really a […]

With the holidays just around the corner, I’ve already starting stressing over getting those thank you cards out. Since many family members ship presents from out-of-state, I’ve received a few things early. I always send thank you cards, but I never have stamps, because really, who actually writes letters anymore now that there are computers? […]