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Free e-book: “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010”

First Look Microsoft Office 2010 Free e book: “First Look: Microsoft Office 2010”

Greetings! For a limited time you can download this free e-book without stepping through any registration. First Look: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chapters of early content, organized like so:

Part I, “Envision the Possibilities,” introduces you to the changes in Office 2010 and shows you how you can make the most of the new features to fit the way you work today. Chapter 1, “Welcome to Office 2010,” gives you a play-by-play introduction to new… Read More

Android’s growth worries developers

Android Logo Androids growth worries developers

A year after Google’s Android launch, the open source operating system has become a sensation for both developers and consumers. With at least 12 devices currently using Android consumers have a range of mobile devices on which the platform operates and numerous devices on the horizon.

But it isn’t all good news. Some developers have complained that developing for Android is a “nightmare” citing the problem currently facing Android developers according to CNN. Some of those concerns are the fact… Read More

Google Gets Its First Taste of Facebook’s Real time Stream

Gooogfacebook Google Gets Its First Taste of Facebook’s Real time Stream

Google’s new realtime search wouldn’t be complete without Facebook updates. At the tail-end of today’s Google search event Marissa Mayer announced that Google will start to include real time results from Facebook as well as MySpace. While Twitter and MySpace is making available everybody’s updates (or at least the public ones), Google right now will only show updates from public Facebook pages, which are generally fan pages.

“Facebook will be providing us with a feed of updates from public profile pages, also known as Facebook… Read More

Google Enters the Word Game with Its Own Dictionary

Google Logo 300x200 Google Enters the Word Game with Its Own Dictionary

Google already permeates nearly all spheres of our online lives, so the fact that it’s launched its own dictionary doesn’t surprise us much. After all, Google has offered word definition via the define:word search query for quite some time now, so the dictionary, quietly rolled out at google.com/dictionary, is simply an extension of this service.

The dictionary, like most Google services, is very simple, and ties into the search engine’s translation service, as it includes word definitions for 28 languages, including English, French… Read More

Facebook hits 350 million users, announces privacy changes

Facebook Logo 300x99 Facebook hits 350 million users, announces privacy changes

Facebook announced today that they have surpassed the 350 million user mark. Facebook officially reached 300 million members back in mid-September 2009, and marked their 250 million member back in mid-July of this year.

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, posted an open letter to all of the Facebook members about the upcoming updates to the site. Facebook has posted an advance warning of the upcoming changes asking members for feedback. The company has previously changed the site on numerous occasions and received negative… Read More

Google now testing new search interface

Google Logo e1280858922356 Google now testing new search interface

The rumors published last week may be true after all: Google is testing a new search interface on random people, as these screenshots from Gizmodo reader Matt Karolian confirm.

Like the Google Wave-inspired interface for Gmail, the new user interface is cleaner and bolder than the current version, offering more options to the user. It may still be far from deployment, however, but it’s good to see some changes after so many years of same all same all.

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