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iTunes music library makes its way to the browser

Posted by LEMBAR Saturday, November 14, 2009 0 comments

by Don Reisinger


Apple quietly launched a new preview service this week that makes it easier for users to view its iTunes music library from the browser.

Dubbed iTunes Preview, the new feature allows visitors to view iTunes content from their browser without being forced to launch iTunes. Previously, when a Web user received an iTunes link, they needed to open iTunes to view its content.

As part of the launch, Apple has updated links in iTunes to redirect to iTunes Preview. When a user copies a link in the software and pastes it into the browser, they will be brought to the song's individual listing on Apple's Web site. The feature is especially handy for those who don't use iTunes, since they can now view an individual song without being forced to download the software.

Aside from individual music listings, iTunes Preview also allows users to sift through artists and albums based on genre. Each individual listing displays all the songs in an album, the album art associated with it, its cost, and other content typically found in the iTunes store. The page also includes a link to the iTunes store in case the viewer wants to buy it. That said, there aren't any song previews in iTunes Preview; users will still need to go to iTunes to hear them.



For now, iTunes Preview features music. There's no telling if Apple will add more content over time. If you want to check it out, copy an iTunes link from within the software and paste it into your browser.

(Via AppleInsider)

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NBA Basketball and a squishy driving game, iPhone apps of the week

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By Jason Parker

Like I've mentioned here several times before, I'm one of the people who is still using the iPhone 3G. Like many, I'm waiting for my two-year contract to be up so I can get whatever the next-gen iPhone is. It doesn't bother me too much (aside from a few app features that require 3GS), but I do long for the faster processing power and extra features found in the latest iPhone. Especially when it comes to (surprise!) games.


To give you an idea of the difference between the two iPhone processors and how they effect game performance, fellow CNET editor, Josh Lowensohn, put the two iPhone models to the test. In Joshhe offers up several side-by-side comparisons of many of the top iPhone games with analysis. If you're an iPhone-gaming fan or just want to see how the processing power matches up between the two models, check out his article.

This week's apps are both games, with the first complete basketball game for the iPhone and a fun sequel to one of the more unique games in the iTunes App Store.

NBA Live ($9.99) is the first fully licensed and complete basketball game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You can play as any of the 30 NBA teams featuring the actual players and stats. You can play a quick exhibition game, play through an entire season, or just play through the playoffs up to the NBA Championship. The control system includes an onscreen joystick for movement and two buttons that take care of most basketball action (shooting, passing, etc.), but with a clever system for pulling off more advanced moves. The graphics are not on par with what you'll find in the current basketball games on consoles, but for an iPhone game, it looks fairly good and plays well enough to satisfy basketball game fans.

NBA Live packs a lot of features into the game using only a couple of buttons. Advanced moves like cross-over dribbles and hardcore dunks require you touch a button then flick in a direction. Holding down on the pass button brings up icons you can touch to pass to specific players. If you want to go deeper than just running and gunning, you can touch the clipboard icon to call a play and set up an open man for an easy shot. While I'm happy with NBA Live as an iPhone basketball game, I may be spoiled by the smooth experience on console versions. The graphics are pretty good, but not great and the movement can be a bit jerky. Overall, I think it's a pretty good basketball game, but it might be worth waiting a little while to see if it goes on sale. Hardcore fans should get this game.

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Yahoo Messenger 10 waves bye to 'beta'

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By Jessica Dolcourt

Yahoo Messenger 10 beta is no more. At least not the "beta" part. This week, Yahoo gave the version 10 beta its stamp of approval, pulling away the "beta" marker and replacing Yahoo Messenger 9 with Yahoo Messenger 10 on Yahoo's download page.

For those using version 9 or below, Yahoo Messenger 10 adds a slew of design enhancements that draw out the chat app's social-networking side and video calls. If you're already using Yahoo Messenger 10 beta, you should be prompted to download a fresh version of Yahoo Messenger 10, but you won't see new goodies pop up since the beta was first introduced last August.

Check out screenshots of the Yahoo Messenger 10 features in this gallery before you download--the images are for the 10 beta, but they still apply. Pay close attention to our installation advice before you download; choose "Custom," not the default, if you'd rather avoid all of Yahoo's installation "perks," like the Yahoo Toolbar.

If you're not ready to make the jump, there's no hurry yet. Yahoo will currently continue to support Yahoo Messenger 9.

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5 Web Sites to Read Free Best Sellers Books

Posted by LEMBAR Thursday, November 5, 2009 0 comments

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Want to read great books ? Have you always intended to learn from the great works of history, philosophy, and science? If you know what you're looking for, the Internet and your home computer can be your own private library. "Certainly the Internet has raised the profile of information and reading in society," says Wendy Newman, president of the 2,700-member Canadian Library Association. "Readers can read entire books online, get information about books and genres, and talk to other readers about books."

Books and excerpts onlineCreate a reading list for yourself or your family on your computer without having to leave the comforts of home. The following sites offer access to thousands of book listings.



This site offers a search engine that provides access to more than 18,000 listings of entire books freely available on the Internet (many of them older texts with expired copyrights). The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library and maintained by a digital library planner and researcher. These book lovers have also compiled several themed features including an outstanding compilation of major literary prize-winning books and a celebration of women writers.



The editors of Yahoo! Internet Life magazine named Bartleby.com the "Best Literary Resource" on the Web. This site offers free fiction and non-fiction books, short stories, poetry, and reference texts for research.



This site aims to digitalize all books now in the public domain due to expired copyrights. Revisit the classics by William Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe or download a children's favorite like Alice in Wonderland.



The Rosetta Project offers free access to 90 illustrated children's classics such as Peter Rabbit and The Three Bears. Parents can download an entire book as a compressed zip file to store on the computer or to print out for bedtime stories. The site also offers books in multiple languages.



Chapter-a-Day delivers free book excerpts to your e-mail address on a daily basis. The site's purpose is to provide the "joy of reading" by giving you a taste of a new book each week. You can register to receive selections from the genre of your choice, and a new book is started each Monday

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Selecting Notebook or Laptop Buying Guide

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Used to be the high streets




In days of yore the first stop for cheap laptop hunters used to be the high streets and malls, however this strategy is nigh on useless if you haven't already formed an opinion and researched the specs you really need.....Why? Because then you leave yourself open to one of the most dangerous predators in the laptop jungle - the oily sales assistant. These folks often display a remarkable talent for over-selling. Indeed, 3 minutes after sidling up to you and asking innocuously - "Can I help you sir/madam", you could be standing outside the store clutching a smoldering MasterCard, a Josh Groban DVD deal sweetener in your back pocket, and the latest 3-grand multimedia monster stuffed under your arm.


What Kind of Laptop User Are You?

That's fine if cheesy baritone crooners and cutting edge quad-core gaming are on your wish list, but useless if you were just looking to run Excel and play Manic Miner on a ZX Spectrum 48k emulator. That's not to say stores have no part to play in the deal hunting process, but in my humble opinion they're certainly not the first port of call. First visit sites like Laptopical.com - read up on reviews and guides and find out what you really need and what to look out for. Then it's off to do some comparison shopping to find the best laptop deals out there. Just for the sake of generalizing, Laptopical has put together a few guidelines depending on what you plan to do with your laptop.

  • Home User
  • Student
  • Ultraportable
  • Business User
  • Gamer


Home User

Most home users use their computer for all kinds of tasks - in addition to surfing the web, paying the bills and writing a few emails, the laptop will most likely be used for pure entertainment purposes; ripping CDs to beef up that iTunes library, playing some casual games, or hooking it up to a TV for watching movies might be some of the stuff you'll want to use it for. To simplify: You need a versatile laptop with plenty of hard drive space, a reasonably fast processor and a fair amount of RAM. If you're at all into gaming, a dedicated graphics card from Nvidia or ATI is a must.


Student

A tight budget doesn't rule out getting a laptop anymore. A few years ago you had to pay twice as much for a laptop as a similarly equipped desktop PC, but that has all changed. In all fairness, you still get more bang for your buck with a desktop, but it's not half as convenient. A small and cheap netbook like the Asus EEE could be an option, as they're easy to lug around between lectures and whatnot, but keep in mind that they're not suited for anything heavier than basic tasks like web surfing and word processing. Alternatively, you can get a budget mainstream laptop with more horsepower and skimp on the portability.


Ultraportable

Portability is one of the main reasons to get a laptop, but regardless they come in all shapes and sizes, including huge desktop replacement models. What defines an ultraportable laptop is of course its size and weight; the screen should be no larger than 13.3 inches and the weight no more than four pounds. Thin-and-light laptops are usually not as powerful as larger ones because of the cramped space and limited cooling options. However, if you travel a lot it's easily worth the tradeoff, and even the smallest laptops can handle most work-related tasks you need it for.


Business User

If your work only involves basic office tasks, such as editing spreadsheets and keeping up with the company correspondence, it's safe to say you don't need a super fast laptop with the latest gaming graphics card. There are lots of options for small and large businesses - from really cheap, low-end laptops with just the basics, up to powerful workstations with professional grade video cards. When you have assessed what you need, it's also important that the laptops have a solid and durable build quality and that the manufacturer provides the right amount of long-term support.


Gamer

The single most important requirement in a gaming laptop is the dedicated graphics card, and if you're really serious about gaming on your laptop it needs to be a powerful one. Because of the heat they generate, you normally only find these in larger, 15 or 17-inch laptops. Laptops dedicated to gaming are very powerful and tend to drain the battery fast and be very pricey, and it's quite a niche market because of it. Nevertheless, if you want to see your LAN party buddies green with envy, this is what you want.

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Find luxury hotels at convenient prices

Posted by LEMBAR Wednesday, November 4, 2009 0 comments





A fast and easy way to find luxury hotels at convenient prices, this hotel website takes you directly to a major database where you can find the best rates and book your hotel room online with travel, lodging and accommodation information. With All-Hotels.com you will have one less thing to worry about when planning you next trip.

Find a property in the destination of your choice and book a room in advance at very convenient hotel room rates, from luxury hotels, discounted hotels, airport hotel rooms and much more. Within this engine you can also combine hotel bookings with flight reservations and several travel deals.

You can use either the hotel directory or specify your destination within US or Europe or even check featured hotels according to your needs and special interests, like golf hotels and ski hotels. Or perhaps you are planning a trip to Disneyland, if so this is the page you needed in order to find the most suitable hotel for you and your kids.

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Photo Galleries For Bloggers

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PictureSurf is a new Wordpress plugin that aims to make the process of adding photographs and images to blogs an effortless (or at least more direct) task. In principle, users upload photographs from their desktops, and these are resized and automatically arranged in standard CSS. When it comes to editing, no coding skills whatsoever are required – all the user has to do is drag and drop the desired pictures. After the images have been selected, a customization process will let him specify the gallery title, as well as choosing the gallery width itself.

The latter aspect is very important, as it lets users double the amount of ad impressions by displaying advertisements in separate pages.

In addition to sharing pictures in blogs, this service also accommodates the needs of MySpace users and those who are an active part of the Twitterverse. Message boards are accounted for as well.

Still, the basic aim of this service is to let pro bloggers make more money, and they are the ones that will put the service to the best possible use. If you are one, or if you aspire to become one, this site is perfect for you.

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Distribute Your Content Online Easily

Posted by LEMBAR Tuesday, November 3, 2009 0 comments



One of the most common things you might do if you are the kind of person that needs to be updated with the latest news about any specific matter, is taking a look at different blogs and websites that are commonly visited by your friends and other people you know. Unfortunately, the internet is full of those sites and if you try to take a look at each one of them individually it would take you for ever to do it.

That is one of the main reasons why this service could a valuable option for you to bear in mind. In essence Arktan.com could be well defined as a free online service developed to give people the help they might need to be updated with blogs, news and photos, as well as videos and other kind of interesting material their friends might have added on a variety of social websites. For instance, if any of your friends have used sites like Blogspot, Flickr, YouTube or others, Arktan will be a valuable solution to be used when it comes to aggregating and "mix" this content.

After you do that the system will allow you to share the content with your friends or family, as well as colleagues by the use of different "channels" you can create. This will be like watching TV or videos while you take a look at the content your friends like. Now, the next time you want to watch any interesting photos or videos you just need to stop by Arktan.com to make use of an attractive and useful service you will enjoy.

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Latest news about the Future of Fashion

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Style spy is dedicated to social trend and fashion spotting. It stands out for its particularly cool layout: items appear in modules on the screen and users click “yes” or “no” to say whether a piece of clothing, a gadget, a car or a new fashion accessory is cool. You can also find the newest, top rated and random items.

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The Latest Rank of Gadgets

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As you already know there are so many gadgets released that it is actually impossible to know about every single one. However, this might be your next destination when you try to find an online resource that supplies information about the most valuable and interesting gadgets in the market.

An interesting thing about this site is the fact that it functions as a ranking. In general, you will get the top 100 gadgets related to anything you can imagine in the technological world. For instance, if you are looking for an audio gadget, you will certainly find it on this site. Other gadgets are specially developed for video, internet, audio and more.

Therefore, if you want to know more about the iPhone through comments about its 3GS features for video recording and voice control, as well as its 32GB of storage the site will let you know what the customers think about it because there is a section that was especially developed for that.

The site has different sections where you will find the products ordered by rank and you will be also able to suggest or dispute different gadgets like the Samsung's LN52B750 LCD HDTV or the revolutionary Palm Pre. There is another section that will be interesting for you to join a number of discussions on different products you will certainly enjoy. In essence there is not much more that could be said about this site. For more information about its many features and products you just need to give it a visit at Top100gadgets.com and inform yourself that way.

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Makes the process of searching for information easier

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Portals and engines for searching the web are among the most interesting developments that we can come across. All eyes are on them, and when a new one materializes it never goes unheeded mainly because everybody is looking for “the new big thing”, and they are even partial to focus a lot of attention on the search capabilities of services like Twitter – that is, something that is not really a search engine to begin with but that plays out the role to the hilt if it wants to.

And now we have a new search engine to put through its paces. Named Zakta, it makes the process of searching for information easier by letting people manually edit and save their results, and then share them with their friends and colleagues. In this way, feedback and insight from the community can be obtained. The search result themselves are shared in what are termed “Zakta Guides” in the site’s parlance – collaborative documents that benefit from the live input that is provided.

The search process itself is a flexible and logical one, as results are split into categories, and related topics and subtopics are provided all the time to enrich the experience of the user. Besides, a set of tools that go by names such as Zakta ClipPad and Zakta SearchPacks are featured for the user to expand Zakta’s search capabilities. Of course, Zakta can be added to your browser’s toolbar effortlessly and searches be launched whenever you wish that way.

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An Online Community Of Sports Lovers

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Many people all around the world have been looking for an assorted supply of precise information about diverse activities they can practice effortlessly in order to enjoy the gains of a more stimulating life.

You could try practicing a new sport or routines if you want to have an active life and you unquestionably need to have access to the right information to do that. That is why this site seems to be where you can receive the support you need to be in touch with like-minded people to share your sport experiences with them. Besides, you will be given the chance to find local or abroad sport events where you can get involved.

iSweat4 aims to be the correct source of information for you to be connected through a motivating and complete social network with data about a multiplicity of sports. The site is reasonably simple to use, being compound by different sections that were designed to make it easy for you to find information according to your needs.

One of the most remarkable things about this community is the fact that you will not be confined to your computer because you will be doing sports in the real world. On iSweat4 you are free to post any events no matter their size or complexity. All in all, this is the website where you will find a community of people waiting for you to join them and have a more active and enjoyable life.

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Keeping your family’s stories safe and share with others

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Keeping your family’s stories safe and intact in order to share them with others is priceless. This site has been developed in order to give you an interesting service that will allow you to archive the stories of your family participating in a social network environment where you can share those stories with other relatives and close friends.

There are many important things happening in one’s life and you want to keep some specific information and photos safe to share them with your family later. The problem is: when you do this through a social network, does the information remain private? The answer is that Kidjot.com will keep it totally confidential and only viewable by invited friends.

In this way you are free to archive you most valuable memories for a long time to be revisited years later. Adults can also give their children "trophies" on the site as rewards (a good report card for example), to encourage good behavior.There is nothing in this world that is compelling to human beings as their children. This site gives parents a place where they can celebrate their kids and share them with friends and family who may be across town or across the continent. The system is focused on parents and kids, something no social networking site has yet embraced. In case you want to learn more about this simple, elegant and easy to use service, feel free to give this site a visit at Kidjot.com and you will not regret it.

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How more easy for students and techers connect effectively

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If you ever want to pick any skill up, the WWW is always a good spot to focus your search. There are people from so many cultures right there that mathematically speaking you must find somebody who could teach you what you need. Besides, sites such as TeacherLane make it all the more easy for students and teachers connect effectively and start exchanging insight. Because it always works both ways.

This site enables you to specify exactly what it is you want to learn and provide the location where you are based, and then be presented with a list of matching tutors. Each teacher that you can come across the site has a reputation for you to be able to assess how suitable he or she might be.

Prospective students can use this system at no cost whatsoever. When it comes to teachers, there is a fee that has to be paid for listing their services online.

The site itself caters not only for professional and academic subjects but also for fun activities, so that if you have always wanted to learn how to play the xylophone this might be where it’s at for you.

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3 Ways Google Can Show What Your Readers Want

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All bloggers secretly wish that their readers would just tell them what to write about. But selecting new topics is seldom so easy. Well, what if I told you that Google has devised a system that allows you to tap into your readers’ psyche and magically predict which topics will interest them the most?

In fact, nothing is better for Google than for you to produce the type of content that people want to read. Every time you do, their search results get a little better. So they have really worked hard to provide tools which help you understand what topics are the most sought-after within your niche. Below are three free tools from Google along with tips for using them to improve your site:


Google Analytics
Google Analytics provides a great starting point for generating new content, because it can tell you what people already like about your site. As you look through the keywords that people have used to find your site in the search, pay close attention to the ones you have never really written about. If someone searched for this piece of information and the best they could find was an article that didn’t really answer their question, then you have just found a question worth answering on your site!

Search Based Keyword Tool
The next step is to look at the Google Search-Based Keyword Tool. If you have an Adwords campaign promoting your site, you can get keyword suggestions based directly on the content of your site. But this tool is still extremely useful if you don’t use Adwords.
What you’ll do is simply take the keywords that you identified from Google Analytics as being good topics for new articles, and plug them into the Google Keyword Tool. Google will show you related terms that people are searching for. This can help you understand what questions people need answered the most, so that you can make your new article as useful as possible.


Google Insights
Another great way to find related keywords is through Google Insights. This tool works a little differently than the search-based keyword tool in that it shows you recent search trends related to your topic. This is a great way to see which areas of your topic are becoming more popular with searchers. Being the first blogger to answer an important question can give your readership a tremendous boost in organic traffic as well as RSS subscriptions.


Google Is Your New Best Friend
If you follow this process you will be able to attract more traffic naturally, because you will be creating articles that accurately reflect the needs of internet searchers. Google will be happy to send the traffic to you, because your new articles will answer the questions that people are looking to them for the answers to. They look good because you look good.

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