I’m fine on the concepts, but I know I will need some of the specifics of this eventually. From gizmodo.com of all places, comes a bunch of free ways to thoroughly erase hard drives, ssds and thumb drives, moving from very secure to totally secure to insanely secure. Article focuses mainly on zero-fill software from [...]

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Gowalla is a service that has been getting a lot of buzz lately. If you're not familiar with it, it's a location-based social networksing service that comes in the form of mobile apps. Gowalla announced today, the availability of Gowalla 2.0 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS platforms. Gowalla highlights the following new features with this version: - Design – Gowalla developers have created a fresh new...

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Google has launched the Blogger Template Designer , a way to customize the look and feel of your Blogger blog. "Over the past few years we've worked to scale Blogger and ensure that it is capable of handling hundreds of millions of pageviews per day," Google says. "But we also believe that blogging is about self expression and that an important part of expression is creating a custom design that...

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When Twitter users go to post a new tweet, they have in the past used a button that says "update" (at least from Twitter.com...that varies when you get into all the different apps Twitter users use). Now, that button says "Tweet". We're not sure exactly when the change was made, but it appears to have been very recently, as there is quite an outpour of Tweets from users mentioning that they are...

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JavaScript performance has been a common bragging theme for web-browser makers lately, but, as everyone is racing to make their browser faster, they easily lose focus of the fact that JavaScript also has to be interpreted accurately, not only fast. Last summer, Google launched a set of JavaScript conformance tests bundled togeth... (read more)

Last fall, Twitter started including geolocation information in its API, but it was not available through Twitter.com. That appears to be in the process of changing now. This week, Twitter has been rolling out (it appears to still be in the process) geolocation info on tweets at Twitter.com. Various reports from users have been circulating, with those who have access to the feature pointing to a...

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Google has been on a roll lately with Street View. After a boatload of new Street View images went live in the UK, practically making any road in the country available online, the company is launching the service on the other side of the world as well, in Hong Kong. So, if you're planning to take a trip to one of the Orient's most 'western' cities and ce... (read more)

Google's Labs experiments have proven quite successful and quite a hotbed for innovation. With the Labs feature, Google developers feel more at ease experimenting with wild features and tools knowing they won't ruin anyone's experience by doing so. The company has been adding the Labs section to all of its main products, most recently to Go... (read more)

A Google exec recently said , "In three years' time, desktops will be irrelevant." That's debatable, but there's no question that mobile use will have grown much more than it already has. Based on comments in a recent keynote , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn't seem to think PC use is going to drop too much, but he did say, "Mobile queries are just going to keep going up and up and up." Do you...

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The "Facts about Google's acquisition of AdMob" page Google established in November of last year apparently hasn't satisfied the Federal Trade Commission's curiosity. A fresh report indicates that the FTC has stepped up its investigation of the deal by seeking sworn declarations from third parties. This isn't a good sign for Google. Todd Shields and Dina Bass heard about the FTC's move from...

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