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For anyone who spends any time on the Internet reading blog posts or other news articles and enjoys reading or leaving comments, you have probably seen the small custom avatars that accompany the comments left by the various readers.  For those who don’t know, do you ever wonder how they magically seem to appear?  This blog post [...]

Almost a week ago at Google I/O, the search giant announced Google TV.  For those that haven’t heard, Google TV is a modified version of the Google Chrome web browser that will allow users to access their favorite TV shows, search the web and work with Android-based apps on their TV’s.  It will either be [...]

There are a few really great Twitter apps on the iPhone, each doing things a little bit differently:  Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Twitterific, Hootsuite, and Echofon are a few that I have tried and each have their strengths and weaknesses.  Everyone out there on the iPhone and Twitterverse has their favorites.  Tweetie ($2.99), from Atebits, has been [...]

In my earlier blog post, I reviewed Pandora radio.  Pandora is a great radio service, don’t get me wrong, but it has its limitations.  One thing I found with Pandora, which is a drawback, is what some call “Pandora Fatigue”.  If you listen to a particular station or tag long enough, you will hear the same song [...]

LastPass is an amazing online password manager and we are going to take a look at why it is getting so much attention.  There are a ton of password management software programs out there, and I will not really spend a whole lot of time covering off on each of them.  There are certainly platform-specific [...]

Before I go into this blog post, it should be obvious that I not only have a new design, but a new host.  I have decided to host my blog at http://www.gadgetblurb.com.  I will make a separate post for the reasons why and what Gadgetblurb.com is mean to be. So, for today’s post I am [...]

Have you wondered what all of the fuss over Foursquare and Gowalla is about but were unsure what it all means?  Have you even heard of Foursquare of Gowalla?  I will do my best to answer both of those questions.  In this post I am only going to cover Foursquare.  In a nutshell, Foursquare is a location-based social [...]

About 6 months ago I decided to try out Google Chrome, a new browser from Google.  It is available for the Mac, PC and Linux.  I am not going to really do a full fledged review of the browser.  What I am going to do is cover off on the things that I like about it [...]