Category Archives: Software

Top 5 Free Android Widgets

Posted on July 29, 2010 by The Tech Gadget

Thank you James Kendrick!  Via http://jkontherun.com: One of the best design choices Google made for Android is to allow widgets on the home screen. This took on additional significance when Android gained the ability a few versions back to have … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Launches Outlook Facebook Integration

Posted on July 14, 2010 by The Tech Gadget

Image via Wikipedia By Ben Parr, Mashable.com Microsoft is announcing today that it has integrated Facebook and Windows Live Messenger into Outlook, bringing the streams of millions of Facebook users into inboxes across the world. Last year, Microsoft launched Outlook Social Connector, … Continue reading →

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Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks

Posted on July 12, 2010 by The Tech Gadget

from www.lifehacker.com: 10. Give Your Drive a Custom Icon An “oldie” but goodie. If you use multiple USB drives, or just want to make your USB drive more recognizable at a glance, you can give it a custom icon. The root … Continue reading →

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Giveaway of the Day – Desktop Icon Toy 4.0

Posted on December 27, 2009 by The Tech Gadget

Good until midnight December 27th, 2009   Who said toys are for children Desktop Icon Toy 4.0 – Use Your Desktop with Pleasure! Are you tired of a boring desktop? Would you like to give it more pizazz, and brighten you … Continue reading →

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How MicroSoft blew Win Mobile and the Smartphone Market

Posted on December 22, 2009 by The Tech Gadget

Image via CrunchBase By Brian X. Chen, www.cnn.com Tech: Windows Mobile has lost nearly a third of its smartphone market share since 2008, research firm Gartner reports. Windows Mobile had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in the third … Continue reading →

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Google working with D-Wave …

Posted on December 16, 2009 by The Tech Gadget

Image via Wikipedia …on what may or may not be quantum computing. From www.Endgadget.com.  Yah, my attention span wandered right about “D-Wave“, but it looks interesting enough to post.  Thought i’d give you readers a break from the cell phone, … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 complaints begin

Posted on December 13, 2009 by The Tech Gadget

Image by nDevilTV via Flickr By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer   Microsoft launched Windows 7 in late October to much fanfare. But, just like with previous Windows upgrades, complaints about bugs have already started rolling in.A whopping 31% of … Continue reading →

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Giveaway of the Day – The Mysterious Past of Gregory Phoenix

Posted on December 6, 2009 by The Tech Gadget

Phoenix I love hidden object games and have several on my computer now.  I’ll be downloading this one, courtesy of http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/the-mysterious-past-of-gregory-phoenix/  Link and giveaway good until midmight tonight.   Mini Review from Moby Games: While searching the house inherited from … Continue reading →

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Attention MS OneNote users: 64-bit Printer Driver is here!

Posted on November 27, 2009 by The Tech Gadget

Image via Wikipedia From Nota Bene: http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_oldenburg/archive/2009/11/26/9929297.aspx Many of you have been trying out the Microsoft OneNote 2010 Beta since its release last week and I hope you’ve been enjoying the test drive. One of the main questions that we’ve … Continue reading →

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Microsoft bans up to 1 million Xbox Live users

Posted on November 12, 2009 by The Tech Gadget

Way to alienate your members, Microsoft! Reaching out there to work out a solution. From MSNBC.com: By Suzanne Choney msnbc.com updated 5:29 p.m. PT, Wed., Nov . 11, 2009 Anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players who use … Continue reading →

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