Four apps that will/might keep your wife from killing you
Jason's writeup of PMS Buddy inspired me to write a sort of
Public Service Announcement. Since I'm sure a lot of our loyal readers
are "the friend that knows about computers," I thought I'd share some
programs that I should've used long before my wife's hard drive took a
dirt nap.
http://xrl.us/bejigc
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Facebook's Real-Time Homepage Goes Live Today
Today Facebook is rolling out the update to user homepages that
brings a new look, enhanced filter system, and most importantly,
realtime updating. Real-time updates are Facebook's response to Twitter,
which has been able to thrive on offering users immediate updates from
their friends and favorite celebrities (Facebook's original News Feed
took hours to update).
http://xrl.us/bejbnb
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Google Now Lets You Target Ads At Yourself
Google is wading into behavioral ad targeting in a big way
today. It will start placing cookies on consumer's browsers to collect
information about their interests whenever they visit sites that show
AdSense contextual ads. Then it will show ads targeted to those
interests to the same person as he or she browses the Web on other sites
that also serve AdSense ads (which is a large portion of all commercial
sites).
http://xrl.us/bejbjz
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GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It's Very, Very Good
GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in
2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007, hasn't been in
the news much lately. Other than a few good natured jabs at their
marketing gimmicks and coverage of outages, that is.
http://xrl.us/bejbjp
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