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Apple just announced that its tablet device, the iPad, will be available in the U.S. on April 3. See announcement below.
Pricing & Availability
iPad will be available in Wi-Fi models on April 3 in the US for a suggested retail price of $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. The Wi-Fi + [...]

Ubuntu has been the “Flagship Linux” distro for quite a while now. This is the distro most people judge Linux by (and the only one I personally work with). However, its visual style remained constant for a long time, and has been starting to look a bit stale. It’s [...]

The entire 137 year archive of Popular Science Magazine is now available for online free browsing. You can view the entire collection’s issues as they appeared at time of publication. It’s definitely fun to go back in time and view cutting edge science throughout the years.
Right now, you can search [...]

Mobile software maker SPB is launching SPB Shell 5.0. Like previous versions, SPB Shell basically replaces your phone’s default user interface with a customizable “shell.” What’s new in version 5.0 is that SPB Shell ain’t just for Windows Mobile anymore. It’s also available for Symbian and Google Android phones.
SPB Shell 5.0 also [...]

Windows Phone 7 feels like an iPhone from the future. The UI has the simplicity and elegance of Apple’s industrial design, while the iPhone’s UI still feels like a colorized Palm Pilot.
That doesn’t mean that the Windows Phone 7’s user experience would be better than Apple’s. The two user interface concepts—data-centric vs function-centric—are very different, [...]

India is different – a nightmare for a map maker. Google Maps now talks in the language of India. Read complete article.

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At right around 10 pm PST Twitter was hacked and defaced. The site was offline for a while.
Via- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

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Google today launched a new, free DNS service—called Google Public DNS—aimed at making your web browsing experience even faster. Here’s how it works:
For those of you who are unfamiliar with DNS (and it’s cool if you are—as long as DNS is working, most people never need to know what’s going on), Google offers an explanation:
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This might surprise you, but Google has made their “fade-in” homepage variant – or more precisely, one of the several prototypes they were testing – their official homepage design now, as they announce at their blog. This is a major redesign for Google.com: at first when you see the page, you’ll only be looking at [...]

Lifehacker’s list of 61 Free Desktop Applications, Webapps, and Tools We’re Most Thankful For

Firefox (see also: Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3, Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features)
VLC (see also: Master Your Digital Media with VLC, VLC Hits 1.0 with Better Playback and File Support)
CCleaner (see also: Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools)
Dropbox (see also: Use [...]