Thursday, October 1, 2009 - Page 2
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Performance Tests Show Windows 7 “Marginally” Faster Than Vista

Windows 7 will officially be released on October 22, but PC World has already given the new operating system a side-by-side spin with Vista and concluded that it’s only “marginally faster” than its older sibling.


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Tungle Makes Cross-Calendar Scheduling Simple

If you’re looking for a web-based application for scheduling meetings, you’ll find no shortage. Want that application to sync to common calendar applications like Google Calendar, Outlook and iCal? Prior to Tungle you were out of luck.


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Gmail Notifier Keeps Track Of New Email

Windows only: System tray utility Gmail Notifier tells you when you have new email messages, allows you to check multiple accounts, and lets you read, delete, or mark the messages as read right from the notification utility.


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Resumé Achievements Not Worth The Ink

The purpose of a resume is to tout your talents to a prospective employer; however, not all talents deserve a listing. Yahoo’s HotJobs sets out criteria for which achievements you should include and which you should leave off entirely.


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Five Features We Want To See In Android

As with our Ubuntu wishlist, we can’t actually tell everyone contributing to Google’s open source Android mobile phone software what to do. All we can do is suggest five things that would make its smartphones even smarter.


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Copy Path Pastes A File’s Location To Your Clipboard

Windows only: Free utility Copy Path adds a new entry to your right-click context menu that lets you quickly copy the full path to any file with two clicks of your mouse. Why would you want something like this?


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Tweetalarm Keeps An Eye On Twitter Keywords For You

If you’re fond of using Google Alerts to keep an eye on web searches and wished there was an equivalent for Twitter, you’re in luck. Tweetalarm tracks keywords and updates you via email.


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Google Wave First Look

If you’re not one of the 100,000 lucky users next to get an invitation to Google Wave, don’t fret. You can check out Google Wave right here.


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Growl Updates With Full Support For Snow Leopard

Mac OS X only: Universal notification application Growl has released a significant update, particularly for folks who’ve upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard.