Today, Microsoft announced that it’s discontinuing Encarta later this year, offering symbolic confirmation that Wikipedia is the world’s definitive reference guide. Microsoft acknowledges as such in an FAQ they’ve setup explaining the move and what existing Encarta customers can expect. The company writes, “Encarta has been a popular product around the world for many years. [...]
Skype for iPhone will appear “sometime Tuesday” and allow you to make VoIP calls to friends and family all over the world, a move that at once blows a great waft of flatulence in the face of the carriers and, in one smooth motion, high fives the international community of Skype users. You obviously cannot [...]
Google Docs just got an amazing new feature called insert drawing. With it you can now create and insert drawings directly into your Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The drawing creation tool is easy to use, and supports snapping to grid points and full free-form or constrained rotation and sizing of individual lines, shapes, or [...]
LinkWithin is a new and useful widget that you can employ in order to give readers of your blog a more comprehensive experience. What it does is to link any new story to the ones that have been published a long time ago, and not just to the most recent ones. This way, readers can [...]
Google reviews has introduced two changes to its most important product, Search. It now recognizes longer queries and gives you longer description snippets as results. The other change is much more important since it points to Google making use of certain semantic web technologies. Related searches – the terms associated to your query which are [...]
Photovisi is a surprisingly sophisticated collage maker with an assortment of options for tweaking your collage to your liking. Photovisi has eighteen collage templates for groupings of pictures ranging from only a couple up to 30 pictures. Once you select the pictures you can shuffle their order and crop them. On templates where there is [...]
Yahoo Pipes provides an interactive, web-based way to manipulate information from the web in order to create custom feeds and web apps. With its graph-based, Lego-like GUI you can pull data from RSS sources, Flickr, Yahoo search, arbitrary web pages, and more. Pipes lets you comb through that data, mash up information from any number [...]
Do you need a quick translation while working online? It can be an e-mail from a colleague, the lyrics of a song, an e-mail, or even a web page. All you need to do is try one of the free language translation services reviewed in this mini-guide by Robin Good. 1. SDL FreeTranslation.com SDL FreeTranslation.com [...]
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Are you looking for the best apps in order to maximize the uses you can put your iPhone or your Android to? If that is so, the reviews which can be found on this online resource are more than likely to dispel any doubts that you might have. Essentially, this site garners together and reviews [...]
