Friday, September 25, 2009 - Page 2
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NetNewsWire 3.2 Finalises Google Reader Integration

Mac OS X: Yesterday we told you about NetNewsWire 2.0 for the iPhone, and earlier today NNW’s Windows counterpart FeedDemon finished its Google Reader integration. Today NetNewsWire’s 3.2 Mac release completes support for Google Reader syncing, web service Instapaper and more.


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Nocs Is A Google Docs-Powered Notepad Clone

Windows only: Notepad clone Nocs looks and feels just like the regular Windows utility, but instead of editing local files, it can save and edit text notes directly to your Google Docs account.


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Cement A New Business Relationship With A Well-Timed Follow-Up

Language like “leveraging your contacts” makes us a bit queasy, but the fact remains that finding a job or advancing your career often depends largely on your network. The Simple Dollar suggests a well-timed follow-up is essential in cementing those business relationships.


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Evernote 3.5 Beta Brings Tons Of Tiny Fixes To Windows

Windows: If you’re a happy Evernote desktop user and only wish it looked nicer, moved faster and was smarter about how it handled your organisation tools, the just-released 3.5 beta will make you very happy.


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SpotifiTunes Helps Smooth Your Transition From iTunes To Spotify

Upload your iTunes Music Library XML file to web application SpotifiTunes, and it generates a page full of links to artists, genres, and albums that point directly to Spotify to help you smooth your transition to the excellent cloud-based desktop music player.


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Apple Gets OK To Block Third-Party Gadgets Syncing With iTunes

When we put together our iTunes wishlist, item number three on the list got wistful that someday Apple might consider allowing non-iPod devices to sync with their music player.


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Read Google Sidewiki Comments Without Installing Google Toolbar

Want to see what others are saying about a web page with Google’s newly released Sidewiki but don’t want to install Google Toolbar to do it? Amit at Digital Inspiration has cooked up a simple bookmarklet that lets you do just that.


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Minimise Windows To Icons In Snow Leopard

Ever since the birth of OS X, the operating system minimised each window to its own special place on the Dock, meaning every time you minimised something, your dock got a little more cluttered. That’s no longer the case in Snow Leopard.


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Gmail Slow Or Down For Some, IMAP Still Working

Trouble grabbing your mail this morning? Google says Gmail’s web interface is unavailable to an uncannily familiar “small subset of users”. They officially recommend accessing Gmail through an IMAP mail client, among other ways to access Gmail when it’s down.


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Choose Good Security Questions And Better Answers

A few security-conscious web sites allows users to write their own security questions, and web developers are occasionally asked to provide a few questions for their sites. Lifehacker reader James provides some perspective on what really makes a question secure.