Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Steve
Google announced the availability of Picasa 3 for the Mac OS, Google’s free photo organizing and editing software. The release coincides with the opening of the Macworld expo in San Francisco, where Google will have a booth open for demonstrations of Picasa 3 on the Mac.
After having downloaded it and tested it out myself, [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Steve
Internet usage monitoring firm comScore announced today that online video viewership was up 34% in November 2008 as compared with the same time period last year. Google’s sites, which include YouTube and Google Video, account for 40.3% of all online video viewings, or somewhere around 5 billion video views (yes, that is 5,000,000,000) for [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Steve
Twitter recently announced a warning on their company blog about people sending private messages with links to a phishing site that pose as Twitter’s login page. The site links to a bogus URL, twitter.access-logins.com, in hopes that the victim will re-enter their Twitter username and password without noticing that the URL is incorrect:
A [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Steve
A lot of speculation was circulating about Steve Jobs’ health recently. He had been losing a lot of weight, and Apple had announced that this will be the last time they hold a Macworld conference – many people have suggested that the two are related.
In a letter delivered January 5, 2009 to Apple customers, [...]
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