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Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts

I use keyboard shortcuts for practically everything on my PC. They save you a lot of time doing the most common tasks but it can take some time to get used to using them. So here is a list of Google’s Chrome new browser keyboard shortcuts. The bold ones are...

And here comes Microsoft's app store: Skymarket

I was pretty sure that Microsoft would be launching an app marketplace and here are some more details on this. The marketplace will be called “Skymarket” and is going live with the launch of Windows Mobile 7. There are over 18,000 applications for Windows...

Google’s Browser Project: Chrome

There have been a lot of rumors that Google was building a new browser. Today, I came across this blog post where more details appear on the upcoming browser. Basically it not fair to call it a browser since it will actually be a whole new enviroment able to connect...

Google to launch app marketplace for Android

Less than 10 days passed from my article “The future of operating systems” where I was suggesting that there are three more companies to launch app marketplaces (Google, Microsoft, Nokia) and Google made the move and announced the Android app marketplace....

Your personal archive.org library

The last few weeks I have been using a site called Iterasi. It is a social bookmarking website but with an interesting twist; it let’s you save a snapshot of any website and view it later. In other words, instead of simply saving an address like on Delicious you...

Amazon Elastic Block Store launches

Amazon has just launched EBS (Elastic Block Store) which allows anyone to attach persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage to an EC2 instance. For me basically this is the end of hosting to traditional companies and from now on all our...

The future of operating systems: my point of view

In the last few years there have been many changes in the world that were so expected that only few people talk about how they will change the future of personal computers. First of all I would like to summarize these changes and then analyze 4 different approaches on...

Latest news sum up for next gen Toyota Prius hybrid 2009

In the last few days there has been a lot of activity and press releases regarding the upcoming Generation 3 Toyota Prius. So here is a sum up of all verified news regarding the new Prius: Next Gen Prius to have 67% larger NiMH battery with 71 MPG (vs. 50 MPG current...

A tip for ultra-fast web browsing

 The last few months there has been a great interest around SSD drives and their 0.1ms access time. We all want to get an SSD ASAP but the prices are still too high. However there is software that can create a drive on your computer using its memory. This means that...