The Associated Press gets a bit, well, blog-like in an article detailing 20 recurring fees that seem like unavoidable annoyances, but can be worked around with planning and a strong dose of Won't Stand For It. Photo by Refracted Moments™. The Associated Press explains the trickery that many firms have started foisting on consumers by including enough hidden surcharges, fees, and "penalties" that
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The Avoidable Fees You're Still Paying For
Posted by anonymous 91 days ago (http://lifehacker.com)So You Have an Opinion on Google Acquisition of Twitter? Who Cares?
Posted by zeeshan 91 days ago (Editorial)
If there is one thing that I totally don’t understand about the blogosphere, it is our usual attitude that our voices can change everything - and easily. And while we have seen examples of good and even great things happening because of someone raising a voice in some part of the world on a small blog, there are also things that will hardly be changed because of a crowd of bloggers insistin
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Zoho Chat 2.0 Brings Multi-Protocol Support
Posted by zeeshan 91 days ago (http://mashable.com)
Zoho has announced a major new version of its Zoho Chat, which brings multi-protocol support and thus becomes a competitor to Meebo and other web-based instant messengers which support several IM protocols. Zoho Chat 2.0 brings support for Yahoo!, Google, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Jabber-based IM networks, but it’s just one in the long list of improvements in the new version. Other important featu
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Working Together to Keep You Secure
Posted by zeeshan 91 days ago (http://blog.facebook.com)
Jeff Williams is a principal group program manager for the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), and he recently worked with the Facebook Security team to protect you from the Koobface virus. We've asked him to share more about his work to help stop the spread of the virus...
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From time to time, our own T.V. Raman shares his tips on how to use Google from his perspective as a technologist who cannot see -- tips that sighted people, among others, may also find useful.In our continued efforts to make Google applications more accessible, we have launched ARIA support for several Google applications over the last few months. W3C ARIA is a set of HTML DOM properties that en
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5 years of Gmail
Posted by admin 91 days ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)
It was five years ago yesterday that Gmail launched by giving out a gig. Back then, a typical webmail account could only store about five megabytes of mail. It's hard to remember what those days were like, considering that today, you can send a single 20 megabyte attachment, four times the size of an entire webmail account from 2004. A gigabyte of online storage may have been what got a lot of p
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A Master List of Free Online Language Lessons
Posted by anonymous 93 days ago (http://lifehacker.com)
Open Culture has a comprehensive list of totally free resources for anyone looking to learn a language though audio files. Whether you're brushing up your Yiddish or delving into Dutch, you'll find a free feed here. Organized alphabetically by language, Open Culture's list of free foreign language lessons includes links to each lesson series' iTunes site, podcast RSS feed, or basic web site to ge
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Skype For iPhone Now Live in App Store
Posted by zeeshan 93 days ago (http://mashable.com)
Right on time; as promised yesterday, Skype client for the iPhone is now live in the US App Store.We’ve gone through the features yesterday, but the folks at Engadget mention a very interesting glitch (or feature) that was previously unreported. It seems that you can make Skype calls over 3G network if you have the beta 3.0 OS installed on your iPhone; unfortunately, in that case the applic
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