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Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate SMB Collaborative Website

November 22, 2009
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Can’t convince the boss to shell out some bucks for Sharepoint server? Oh what’s that…He doesn’t trust Google with company resources? Ok well, you still need to figure how to set up a collaborative website/cms/wiki whatever you want to call it. In this case we will use the term “wiki” because that is the solution [...]

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Google Chrome OS: The Video Demo

November 19, 2009
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Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security… Blah Blah Blah here is the video:

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Round 1: Google Sites vs Microsoft SharePoint…Fight!

November 19, 2009
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Leena Rao over at TechCrunch reports that:
Google Sites, which launched a little under two years ago, have given businesses and consumers a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making it relatively easy for anyone without a technical background to build a simple website. Now, Google [...]

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Get Google Maps Navigation on Your T-Mobile G1

November 12, 2009
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Kevin Purdy over at LifeHacker found a cool little hack for all of you T-Mobile G1 owners!
Google’s awe-inducing, turn-by-turn Maps Navigation is exclusive to Verizon’s Droid phone—unless you’re willing to hack around with your G1. With either some command-line-fu or a two-part Windows application, you can put Google Maps Navigation on a rooted G1.By “rooted,” [...]

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gDrive: Twice the storage for a quarter of the price

November 11, 2009
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Elvin Lee, Software Engineer over a Google informs the world…
“People today have more personal data online than ever before. More and more people are starting to move the bulk of their data off the desktop and into servers “in the cloud,” where it’s accessible from any computer or mobile device and easily shareable with friends [...]

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Mozilla’s Thunderbird Team looks toward the cloud with Raindrop

November 6, 2009
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For almost all of its existence, Mozilla Messaging has been known for Thunderbird e-mail software with the traditional view that a person’s PC is the center of their computing existence.
Now, though, the Mozilla Foundation subsidiary’s scope is expanding beyond the confines of the computer under your desk or on your lap. In the near term, [...]

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Greetings Earthlings, Soonr for Android is here

November 4, 2009
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Today Soonr announced the widespread availability of Soonr for Android available in the Android Marketplace. There has been a huge ground swell of support for the Android SmartPhone operating system. Last week Motorola announced the “Droid” phone that they will be launching in conjunction with Verizon wireless, the largest carrier in the USA. This is [...]

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Google Apps will get stronger video chat capabilities

November 4, 2009
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Google Apps users can expect to see significant improvements in the suite’s voice- and video-chat capabilities, as the company builds on Gmail’s current features in that area.
Gmail’s voice and video chats are now limited to one-to-one communications, but Google wants to broaden that capability to more than two participants and make it more robust all [...]

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Google Chrome 4.0 graduates to beta status

November 3, 2009
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More people will get a chance to try out bookmark synchronization with Monday’s release of a beta version of Google Chrome for Windows.
Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, but now it’s also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16. However, there’s still no Chrome beta for Mac OS X [...]

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