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  • The Motorola Cliq with MOTOBLUR for T-Mobile is a new smartphone featuring the latest Google Android operating system. This QWERTY Slider supports Microsoft Exchange 'Push' Email and Outlook, as well as popular web-based email services, like Gmail. Of course, the Motorola Cliq with MOTOBLUR comes pre-loaded with all your favorite Google apps including YouTube, GTalk, Google Maps and more. The user interface, called MOTOBLUR, creates an intuitive, customizable experience with home screen widgets, syncing of personal, work and social network contacts, and easy access to the information you want – whether it is a friend's status feed or the weather. And with MOTOBLUR, you only need to update your status once, and the Cliq will push your update to all your social networks at once. When words aren't enough, record videos and snap photos with the advanced 5 megapixel camera/ camcorder and easily share on your favorite sites, including Picasa, MySpace, Facebook and Photobucket.
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    links for 2010-11-22

  • I've had this issue as long as I can remember – Adwords and Google accounts collide. If you are an intense user of both, you know what I'm talking about. It is a great mystery why Google invests so much money in developing magnificent products that generate 0 revenue, and the one product that brings in all of its revenue – adWords – remains a step child. It is the only product that works really badly with the whole Google single-signon system. To take just one small example – the password strength requirement is different in AdWords. AdWords requires a stronger password, so if you attempt to sign up for a new Adwords account, your good ol' password from your Google account may not be strong enough. Anyways, that's enough whining for one post. The reason I'm writing it is to explain how I finally got all my logins lined up without getting thrown from one account to another unexpectedly or getting logged out in the middle of writing an email.
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    links for 2010-08-27

  • Sometimes people put foreign languages in movies. Aside from this being treasonously un-American, they hardly ever do it right. Here are some of the most distracting attempts:
  • Not long ago, there was a lively discussion brewing on Sal Gentile’s article about the U.S. falling behind its rivals in college degrees. Readers weighed in about the ills of the country’s educational system, high school graduates’ lack of preparedness for the rigors of college-level work, and most of all, the fact that college graduates can face stratospheric levels of student debt without any guarantee of full-time employment. Given the state of today’s economy and the uncertainty that belies the job market, it’s no real surprise that the topic would generate a wealth of diverse opinions. One reader, Anna, said that college freshman are woefully unprepared for college life:
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  • You already know Gmail integrated with Google Voice for free phone calls (and cheap international calls) from your inbox. But apart from using it to a friend, Gmail's new phone calling capabilities introduce a lot of cool capabilities to your inbox. Get Caller ID from Your Computer Let's say you've got a landline set up with Google Voice and you don't want to pay for caller ID. Or you just spend a lot of time staring at your computer. If you're logged into Gmail, and someone rings up your Google Voice number, you can see who's calling on your computer without digging your phone out of your pocket.
  • Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or Adobe Illustrator) before spending big bucks on it. Maybe sometimes you just need it for a very small job, in which case spending the big bucks on it just simply isn’t worth it. Or maybe you’re a student with not much money (which is usually the case) and just want an application that will do the job but not cost you an arm and a leg!
  • An enhancement to our video embed capability is now available through a new embed code style.
  • Mozilla’s Thunderbird is all yours – your language, your add-ons, your email. Experience the difference. Thunderbird is developed and supported by Mozilla, a global community working together to make the Internet a better place for everyone. For frequently asked questions, tips and general help, visit Thunderbird Help Center. For the latest product information, visit the Thunderbird Home Page.
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    links for 2010-02-08

  • The random image generator is a free tool that will generate placeholder or dummy images in your specific dimensions. The images are randomly generated abstracts.
  • Dynamic Dummy Image Generator Sometimes you just need a placeholder image right at your finger tips. Just enter the width + x + height at the end of this URL and off you go! Example: http://dummyimage.com/640×480 FAQ What is this? This is a simple tool for generating dummy/filler images on the fly at whatever size you want. How do I use it? Simply add the width, an 'x', and the height (example) of the image you want and my script will spit out a gray box to the size you want with the image dimensions in black Arial text centered in the middle of the box. Can I use a dummy image url as an image source? Yup, that was what it was designed for. Try this: <img src="http://dummyimage.com/325×123" alt="A Dummy Image"> How many images can I generate? As many as you want until my server collapses. If you would like to run this script on your own server, here are the PHP files and instructions for doing so. Update: Someone made a Ruby version of this script called fakeimage,
  • Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends. [Update: We think Google might announce these features on Tuesday] As WSJ points out, Gmail users can already update their statuses — sort of — through Gmail’s chat feature. Currently, this feature is more akin to the traditional IM “away message.” However, with this new social push, Gmail will offer a timeline-view of your friends’ status updates, just like on Facebook and Twitter. Those updates might come from both Gmail and third-party services. According to WSJ, Google-owned YouTube and Picasa will be integrated into the stream. The huge question then is whether or not the new feature will include updates from Twitter and Facebook.
  • PageRank Backlink Generator software make it easier for you to explore the appropriate backlink to your site theme, was quite easy to use and capable of automating the comments you have previously set… just download the software PageRank Backlink Generator directly here and this is Video Tutorial to use this software, download here PS: Please don’t SPAM with this utility…
  • We’ve compiled six useful tips for all you web designers and developers out there. They cover various topics including: accessibility, SQL, web developer plugins for Firefox, HTML emails, design and jQuery. Feel free to disagree or add your own in the comments below. If you’d like to submit a tip to be considered for future articles, just head over to Tipster and add your own.
  • From the director of the upcoming Captain America movie: The costume is a flag, but the way we’re getting around that is we have Steve Rogers forced into the USO circuit. After he’s made into this super-soldier, they decide they can’t send him into combat and risk him getting killed. He’s the only one and they can’t make more. So they say, ‘You’re going to be in this USO show’ and they give him a flag suit. He can’t wait to get out of it… So he’s up on stage doing songs and dances with chorus girls and he can’t wait to get out and really fight. (Emphasis mine.) They make a super-soldier and then refuse to let him fight, and the captain himself hates his costume. This is incredibly telling, and shows us exactly how the writer feels about the idea of Captain America.
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