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Tax Questions? There’s an App for That…

Wondering when you’ll get your tax refund? Well, now there’s an “app” for that. The Internal Revenue Service Monday announced its first smartphone application, part of its effort to modernize the agency. (The tax collection agency is already on Twitter and YouTube.) The free IRS2Go phone app, which works with iPhone or Android phones, allows [...]

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Happy 10th Birthday to iTunes

Apple’s cute little music player is growing up so fast! iTunes has grown leaps and bounds over the past ten years. Could the makers of “SoundJam MP” known what their little app would become in the hands of Apple? PS – Let’s not also forget that today is the 4th birthday of the iPhone. Happy [...]

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Angry Birds – The Cake

Take a look at this awesome Angry Birds cake by “aspiring cake artist” Anya Richardson. Bravo!

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ShowPass | Safari Password Input Revealer

ShowPass is a simple extension that defeats Safari’s behavior to hide what you’re typing into password fields. Name: ShowPass Author: Canisbos Computing | Website | Download Description (from author):This trivial little Safari extension does one trivial little thing: When you move the mouse over a password input field (the kind that shows asterisks in place of the [...]

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Microsoft Gears Up For Head-To-Head Combat With Apple at the Mall of America

This is just downright cartoonish. In an attempt to stay relevant, Microsoft, as you’re probably already aware, has been at work opening a chain of retail stores to do battle in the IRL with Jobs and Friends. But this is perhaps no bigger a pissing contest than in the Mall of America, where Microsoft is [...]

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How to Revert iTunes 10′s Crappy Visual Changes

I hate it when companies change a programs user interface (UI). I really hate it when companies change a single UI for a program in a collection or operating system. I don’t know what Apple was thinking when they went crazy re-designing the iTunes 10 UI. Perhaps it’s a glimpse into Apple’s future OS design [...]

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Apple TV

Wow – I have been waiting for this for so long now… Thank you Apple! “Apple TV has been redesigned to be small in size but big on entertainment. Rent from the largest selection of HD movies — many available the same day they come out on DVD. Watch Netflix titles instantly. Rent TV shows, [...]

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Apple Fall Event

I really hope Apple announces a new Apple TV today. I have been putting off getting one since I heard rumors of a revision. Please Apple Gods; grant me this wish! I can’t wait to get rid of Netflix…

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H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin

The big news announcement of the day is that MPEG LA, license holder for a number of high profile video standards has declared all h.264 video will be royalty free, so long as the video is provided to the end user for free. The technical implications of this are lengthy, dull and tedious. The short [...]

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