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Verizon’s Droid Phone and the Android Army

Verizon’s announced plans for a shiny new Android phone called the Droid. Here’s a look at how it compares to other new Android devices also on the way. More: continued here

Where are all the Radeon HD 5800 series cards?

AMD gives us some information on the shortage. More: continued here

Diabetes Pilot for Palm Gives Diabetics The Right Balance of Health Tools

Palm OS program Diabetes Pilot diabetics tracks blood glucose, carbs, exercise, blood pressure, and insulin doses. More: continued here

Back Up the Desktop and IE Favorites

Julie Darrigan wants to back up her desktop and her Internet Explorer favorites More: continued here

The Digital Afterlife and Morning-After Messaging

Establishing a plan for discarding of your digital remains and the delicate art of crafting a Facebook message the morning after. More: continued here

Download and Print Free Mazes for the Kids

Kids love mazes, and the Printable Mazes Web site has hundreds of them, all free for the downloading. More: continued here

Extend the Background to Clean Up a Messy Photo

Use this quick trick to cover large blemishes or widen a photo in your image editor. More: continued here

Can Verizon’s Motorola ‘Droid’ Live Up to the Hype?

Does Verizon risk setting expectations too high with its ambitious marketing campaign for its Motorola Android handset, ‘Droid’? More: continued here

Ad-Aware Plus Adds Features Above The Free Version–But Is It Better?

This for-pay version of the popular antispyware program Ad-Aware includes antivirus protection. More: continued here

Mitigate the 7 Deadly Sins Found in Windows 7

Lust, gluttony, greed, anger, envy, pride, and sloth — with Microsoft’s new OS, you’ll find every deadly sin. Here’s how to minimize the toll each sin takes. More: continued here

Software Pirates in China Beat Microsoft to the Punch

At shops in Shanghai’s bustling Xinyang market, bootleg copies of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system are already available, days before the official version goes on sale Thursday. More: continued here

Review: The latest motherboards and CPUs are reviewed at the Firing Squad, September 21, 2006.

This blog entry was gleaned fromTheFiringSquad, aFeatured Community Web site.   The Firing Squad has rounded up four different Core 2-ready motherboards from ASUS for review: the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe WiFi-AP, P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP, P5N32-SLI SE, and finally the P5NSLI. Each motherboard has its fair share of pros and cons. Join them as they [...]

Behind the Cover of an ITunes LP

One of the big new features rolled out alongside iTunes 9 was the new iTunes LP format. You’ll recall that the iTunes LP is an attempt to include some of the…More: continued here

BOOKS ON SCIENCE | John Markoff: Rethinking What Leads the Way: Science, or New Technology?

An economist says science and technology move forward together in a kind of co-evolution, and science does not lead. More: continued here

Microsoft Rolls the Dice on Windows Mobile 6.5

Microsoft wanted 600 applications filling its Windows Marketplace for Mobile on its first day of release, Oct. 6. The idea was to give Windows Mobile 6.5, its smartphone operating system debuting on the same day, a sizable ecosystem with which to begin challenging Palm, Apple, Research In Motion and other players in the mobile-device space. [...]