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AT&T is now offering song downloads from your cell phone. You search Napster’s music database and pay $1.99 per song. Which is twice what you would if you were using a computer and competing services from Apple, Amazon, or Microsoft.
If you are plan to download multiple songs in one month you can also sign up [...]

As you may have already started to notice Mozilla keeps building more applications. We have Firefox web browser, Thunderbird e-mail client, Songbird music player/browser, and now we’ve got a Mozilla-based instant messaging client.
Instantbird is still in very early beta. But version 0.1 already shows us assurance. The program is much like popular instant messaging services [...]

We gotta admit this browser does seem a bit out of the ordinary, which is good. It’s a web browser built using Firefox code with a whole lot of neat social networking features.
We downloaded the new version… and we like it! Flock browser now includes a blog editing client, which lets you drag and [...]

Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac OS, coming out this winter, has been on the minds of Mac followers since Apple started using intel processors. Plus it has been 4 years since any changes.
Something great that we found was that it is a bit quicker than previous versions. Another thing that’s nice in this new [...]

Kubuntu 7.10 was released today. Many improvements have been made over the last release. Some that we noticed were, improved hardware and driver support, 3D Desktop graphics, and integrated desktop search.
Kubuntu is really just Ubuntu with the KDE interface instead of Gnome. It is not hard to turn Ubuntu into Kubuntu all that is [...]

Meebo, the widely used instant messaging application has released a Firefox add-on for easy chatting while browsing.
The Meebo Firefox add-on makes it much easier to chat with friends while browsing online. By being in firefox users will no longer have to go back and forth while chatting and browsing. The sidebar gives users a visual [...]

Apple now has over 2 Million Tracks for you to download from expanding its catalog of unencrypted music.
Apple can now legitimately claim to have the largest library of DRM-free music available online. For a some time Amazon has been in the lead, but Apple has caught up. And while there are still a [...]

Opera Browser just keeps getting better. Today the Opera team released Opera 9.24, which is really just a security update to Opera 9.24. And next week public beta of Opera 9.5 is being released.
Opera 9.24 fixes several vulnerabilities that could leave your computer open to attack. Updates are available for the Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix [...]

Napster has made changes to its subscription music service and the company is launching a web-based service.
Napster 4.0 allows you to listen to your music collection on any internet-capable computer. We all know web-based software has many pros. Napster is now compatible with any Mac, Linux, and PC machine, without having to download and [...]

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Most of us laptop users are concerned about battery life. For Apple users there now is a utility called CoconutBattery.
This tiny utility lets you know about the battery in your computer, like what the current battery charge is and whether the battery is currently charging or not. But it also tells you [...]