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  • ChromeOS spotted with dock and other blurry UI elements

    ChromeOS spotted with dock and other blurry UI elements

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    A blurry snapshot of ChromeOS has surfaced showing a new, Mac-like dock and some battery and wireless notifiers in the bottom corner. This OS looks so stripped down compared to other OSes we’ve used that we’re loathe to call it anything more than a shell. However, we all love us some Google so let’s just [...]

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  • Everything you want to know about Office 2010

    Everything you want to know about Office 2010

    Posted on July 13, 2009 | No Comments
    The web has been abuzz the past few weeks with chatter about Microsoft's announcement today at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans about the new version of Microsoft Office 2010. There's even a mini-movie about its debut. Facing potential challenges from Google's browser-based Apps products and its new Chrome OS, Microsoft has been touting its three screens strategy, which is the ability for products to synchronize across the phone, browser, and desktop, for some time now. With the release of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Visio 2010, we finally see the implementation of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's mantra. We had the opportunity to see an in-depth demo of the new suite of products from Microsoft's Group Product Manager for Office 2010, Chris Bryant. Here's a complete breakdown of all the functionality that has been added, including screenshots:

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  • Skype mouse slides open, features LCD screen

    Skype mouse slides open, features LCD screen

    Posted on July 1, 2009 | No Comments
    skype mouseBuilding a Skype phone into a mouse has indeed been done before but here's another implementation for your perusal. This one's got a nice 128x64-pixel LCD display, too, which ought to make it easier to see who you're drunk-dialing after a long night of drinking Mudslides.

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  • Classic, Retro HP Calculators Now on iPhone

    Classic, Retro HP Calculators Now on iPhone

    Posted on June 30, 2009 | No Comments
    What you see above is not a calculator. Or rather, it’s not the calculator you think it is. Rather, it is the latest software-only implementation of the classic Hewlett Packard scientific calculator, the 15C. It gets better. This emulator runs on the iPhone, and is joined there by its little brother, the 12C (a financial calculator). [...]

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