Skyfire 1.0 Released

My favorite portable browser, Skyfire, announced their 1.0 version earlier this week. What was already a pretty solid product has gotten even better with this release.

For instance:

Thumbnail interaction. Now you can click on links immediately after the page loads without having to zoom in. This enhancement is especially helpful for high resolution phones, and for

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TwitterGadget URL Expansion

A month ago I mentioned that I was using TwitterGadget with iGoogle as my twitter client. In fact, I’ve been using it daily since then. Today I finally noticed a very cool feature: URL Expansion.

Hover over any URL that comes from a URL Shortening service (bit.ly, is.gd, etc.) and TwitterGadget will show you the destination.

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Follow-up to Netbook Linux Adventures

Here’s a very quick follow-up to Netbook Linux Adventures from last week.

I gave Crunchbang (#!) Eee version a quick try. Pretty cool distro that ran very nicely on my old Eee. But, ultimately, not what I was after. I’ll be keeping my USB key boot version around though.

True Confession Time: I went back to

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The Current Essential Apps List

You can find more Essential Apps at the Essential Apps page (which was added at some point after this post was created).

Due to my adventurous nature (along with hardware failures, indecision and general turmoil) I’ve had the opportunity to load some Microsoft OS’s over a dozen times in the past month on my own

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Netbook Linux Adventures

It has been a while since I last mentioned my little Asus Eee 701 netbook. I still use it daily and everything has generally been great. However, I’ve had a couple stability issues with it lately (due to 3rd party apps I’ve tried out) so, on a whim, decided it was time to have a

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