Software
Get Microsoft Tinker for free via the newly-launched Games on Demand
Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows
Sebastian told you yesterday that Games on Demand was coming, and it's now here. Need a reason to care? Perhaps getting a pretty sweet game for free would do the trick.
I'm certainly not impressed with the ...
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Digsby's at it again – this time they want you to tweet for dollars
Filed under: Social Software
Digsby, I really want to like your app. It is, after all, one of the best multi-protocol instant messaging apps around. But when you keep doing unsavory stuff like this, well... it makes it hard to do ...
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The EU – Microsoft browser ballot fight is over. For now.
Filed under: Microsoft, BrowsersEU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes had some big news this morning. At long last, a deal has been worked out that will see Microsoft implement a browser ballot screen which allows users to choose something other than ...
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Microsoft's Bing gets an iPhone app, and it doesn't suck
Filed under: Microsoft, iPhone, SearchMicrosoft and Apple don't always play nicely together, but if MS wants to compete with Google in search it has to go mobile. And going mobile these days means having an iPhone app, so that's exactly ...
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MapQuest introduces updates for Blackberry, Android, and iPhone
Filed under: Web services, BlackBerry, iPhone, Mobile, AndroidAlthough we've seen MapQuest struggling to keep up with Google Maps, the popular map service continues to add features and improve existing ones. MapQuest has been especially active in the mobile arena lately, ...
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Free WiFi at 11,000 McDonalds beginning in January 2010
Filed under: InternetStarting mid-January 2010, McDonalds will be offering free wireless Internet access at 11,000 of its 14,000 fast-food joints. Whether it will be 'gated' via some kind of time code on your receipt, or really free remains to be ...
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Portal – the Flash Version is a kick-ass Time Waster
Filed under: Fun, Games, Kids, Time-Wasters, Web
Armor Games is publishing a fan-made re-creation of Valve's incredibly popular game Portal as 2-D puzzle platformer called Portal - the Flash Version, and it's awesome. The concept is the same; you have an ...
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The future of HTML is looking bright: file-system and external device access in the works
Filed under: Internet, Browsers
digg_url = 'http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/16/the-future-of-html-is-looking-bright-file-system-and-external-d/'; There's been a lot of HTML-related news recently: first there was the WebGL draft standard, then editor's draft for the File API and now it looks like there's going to be support ...
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Evernote for Android is finally here
Filed under: Mobile Minute, Mobile, Android
If you're currently a user of Evernote, the awesome note storing solution AND you're packing an Android device, then today is the day to finally rejoice as the Evernote client for Android is available now, ...
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Mozilla taps Google Chrome source code to bring multi-process plugins to Firefox
Filed under: Google, Mozilla, Browsers
Mozilla has been working on bringing multi-process plugins to Firefox for quite some time, and in the latest nightly trunk build it's finally arrived.
Yes, the same superpower which prevents Google Chrome from tanking entirely when a ...
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