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Microsoft has launched a beta of its new Windows Live for TV (formerly known as Nemo). Basically, what Windows Live for TV does is add a ten foot interface to a number of Windows Live services, such as Spaces, Messenger, and Live Call. The program is meant to work with Windows Vista Media Center. That means you can plug your PC into your TV and access Windows live services from the comfort of ...

One of the most annoying things about Windows Mobile devices is that by default you can only close an application by clicking on the start menu, settings, system, memory, and then running programs tabs. Then you highlight an item and click stop. Whew. That's a 7 click solution. While there are a number of programs out there that let you convert the X button in the upper right corner from ...

Skype is set to announce yet another change in its pricing strategy for SkypeOut calls. In December, Skype announced that it would no longer offer unlimited free PC to telephone calls within the US and Canada. Starting this week, users have to pay $29.95 for a yearlong calling plan (although it's only $14.95 if you purchase a plan by January 31st). On January 18th, Skype will unveil the next part ...

With a new year comes a new release of Software for Starving Students' CD of free (as in beer) software. The 2007.01 edition includes a wide gamut of programs to do everything from editing images and creating web pages to playing media files and video games. In other words, you can get your GIMPshop, NVU, VLC, and Tux Racer fixes. There's dozens of other programs on the disc as well. Of course, ...

The Wall Street Journal (which has a subscription-based web site, but is free today as part of a special promotion), has an article on Sony BMG's decision to license music for a series of corporate podcasts being produced by Rock River Communications. Why is this important? Well, the thing is the music industry has been slow to embrace podcasting. While there's been a relationship in place for ...

In December, I pointed out that this is a great time to pick up some software on the cheap. Well, if you thought there were a lot of good deals before the holidays, you should check out these after holiday sales: eSoft Interactive has extended their sale by about a week to January 7th. You can get 50% off of all the games in their store with the coupon code: ESOFTHOLIDAYS. Astraware is ...

Ever spend hours looking through YouTube videos only to find out that there's a famous clip of Mentos and Coke being played on CNN that you missed? Well, I don't know if that's the problem these new sites are set to fix, but there's a new crop of services designed to help you find popular videos. Megite and Tailrank are sites that track popular news stories based on how they are linked to in ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is preparing to launch a search engine. The Times of London reports that the new search engine will be called Wikiasari, combining the Hawaiian word "wiki" which means quick with the Japanese "asari," which means rummaging search. Wales is basing Wikiasari (which Techcrunch reports had initially been billed as Wikisearch) as an improvement upon the traditional search ...

QuickPlay Media has launched a streaming audio service for BlackBerry users. Multimedia has never been a strong suit of BlackBerry devices, but QuickPlay's cleverly titled QuickPlayer for Blackberry has gotten some pretty positive reviews for its streaming audio quality. For $8 a month, QuickPlay subscribers get access to short podcast-style audio streams from about 100 different content ...

In flagrant disregard for computer users, the U.S. government went and adopted an Energy Policy Act that extends daylight saving time by four weeks starting in 2007. Of course, this means that little clock in your computer that goes and changes the time for you while you completely forget to set your clock and wake up late/early for work is going to be off by a couple of weeks. Microsoft will be ...

I love my Pocket PC. I love that it's like having a small computer/media player/ebook reader in my pocket. I have never, however, been very fond of the suite of programs that comes preinstalled. The mobile versions of Microsoft Word and Excel work well enough for very basic functions. But the notes feature is practically useless if you store more than a few notes at a time. Phatware's Phatpad is ...

Streaming music service Pandora has added a whole new social component to its online music experience. CEO Tim Westergren hinted last month that some of these changes were on the way. Pandora works by analyzing your musical tastes and serving up songs that you like. Now users can create profiles and share their bios, preferences, search lists and "stations" with other users. For example, I did a ...

It's a busy week for the folks over at Opera. Not only did version 9.10 of the browser come out, but it turns out that Opera for the Nintendo Wii will be available for download on Friday, and we now have confirmation that Opera runs on the OLPC. Although Nicholas Negroponte and friends apparently don't want to include Opera standard on the OLPC because it's not open-source (although it does use ...

Sure, you could drop a couple hundred bucks on an iPod or a Zune, but who wants to carry around a portable media player and cell phone, and a PDA. there are a number of programs out there to do for your PDA what Winamp did for the PC. If you've got a Treo or other PalmOS device, Pocket Tunes is one of the most full-featured music players around, and version 4.0 adds a bunch of new features: ...

Opera Browser 9.10 is out today, now with fraud protection features built in. If you enable fraud protection, every time you request a web page Opera contacts a server to check for phishing. Opera's partnered with GeoTrust, which provides a whitelist and a blacklist, and Phishtank, which provides a blacklist. Opera downloads the blacklist from Phishtank and sends queries to GeoTrust. Sites on ...