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Dell and Google to reveal a Android based Phone?

Last year we have seen lot of rumors about the possible launch of gPhone, but finally Google released Android software for mobiles. Now Marketing Week is speculating that Dell and Google may reveal a mobile phone next month. Neither of the companies have confirmed this, but there is a lot of ... Read More →

1001 brings Flickr to your Mac desktop

Mac Only: 1001 is a free desktop app that allows to bring Flickr out of browser. This app uploads your photos to Flickr, notifies you about updates from your contacts, everyone, or from the tags you are following. 1001 has a nice UI and a fun way to use Flickr in a desktop app. It also comes with ... Read More →

Your own Twitter with Prologue and WordPress

If you are a Twitter user you already know it is a good way to communicate with friends. Twitter is a good way to communicate but what if you can create your own twitter to use with your friends or for your organization. The folks at Automattic thought the same thing and released a wordpress theme ... Read More →

Tweetmeme, techmeme clone for Twitter content

Tweetmeme tracks the popular links posted to twitter similar to techmeme does for tech blogs. Tweetmeme tracks what content is posted to twitter and ranks the content based on how many users are posting or how popular is that among twitter crowd. It can recognize the content as Blogs, ... Read More →

Put your face on Time magazine cover

Do you know that it is not hard to put your face on the cover of popular magazines like Time, Maxim, Vogue. Magmypic is a service that allows you to put your face on popular magazines, currently they support 12 magazines including Time, Maxim, Vogue, Fortune, Rolling Stone. It's completely free ... Read More →

Schedule Meetings With ScheduleOnce

ScheduleOnce is a simple web 2.0 service that helps you to schedule meetings with accuracy across all time zones. You can specify time range and date range for your scheduled meeting. You need to specify your time zone while creating your schedule. You can give permission to suggest time zones ... Read More →

Listen to news & blogs on your iPhone

Pimpmynews is a free social news site that converts text from news & blog posts to mp3 clips which you can listen in your iPod or iPhone. If you are tired of reading news in the web or in your reader, this is a good option to listen to them instead of reading. You can create a "personalized ... Read More →

WordPress for Blogs, Talkpress for Forums

Wordpress founder Matt recently wrote about plans to offer hosted forums much like Wordpress.com blogs at Automattic. Today on a phone conversation with Houston Chronicle's Dwight Silverman Matt said the the upcoming forums will be called as "Talkpress". Talkpress is built on BBPress, the ... Read More →