See the new Google Buzz Twitter Like Android App

1.integrates with Gmail inbox
2.shows thumbnails in posts
3. imports your info from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader
4. see real time posts with with no refresh
5.(optionally geo-tagged location based posts) so you can figure out where the posts are coming from and see reviews and comments on certain locations

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Here is a great chart on the capabilities of Windows 7 Media Center, XBMC and Boxee. I personally use Windows Media Center which is part of Windows 7 and I really like it alot. WMC spotted my Hauppauge TV Tuner and green button remote without any extra device drivers. Setup was easy with Cox Cable. XBMC is nice also, but it doesn’t support a tuner. It does get meta data including TV, movie and music pictures, data about your media, reviews, and even trailer links for the videos and music. See the chart below and checkout Lifehacker for the full review.

Most of us have an MP3 player or know someone who does, but how and where do you get the MP3 files to put on it? Sure you can buy the tracks at a dollar a piece, in most cases, but that can get costly especially if you love music as much as I do. If you are so inclined you can access one of the music sharing services, but that is frowned upon, and it leaves you open for virus infection. On the other hand, if you have browsed the internet, you have probably stumbled across online radio stations. You can access radio stations directly, or through yahoo, MSN, Google radio, etc…, but you have to be at your computer to listen. Now there is another way.

You can use RADIOTRACKER from audials.com; this will allow you to record an MP3 from the radio station you listen to.

You can choose a station and tell the software to start recording. At which point it will start recording everything that comes through that particular station. Yes, it will cut out commercials. It records each song individually and names it by artist and song title. It will even tell you if the recording was a complete and error free recording or whether it may have a flaw. If there is a flaw you will now to try for that song again. I compared both the ones marked as pure and the ones marked as flawed, and I was unable to find the flaw myself. All the music was crisp, clear, and sounded complete.

Another way to download offered by the program is a wish list. You can search for and find artists or songs that you are interested in. The program will then scan internet radio broadcasts around the globe for matching content. When it finds one it will record it for you. Then continue until it fills your wish list. You can create various different wish lists depending on mood or temperament. You can have a wish list for rock, or slow songs, or favorite artists, etc… It can also determine if you already have songs in your collection and skip them, thereby eliminating the need to filter through your music and manually delete duplicate songs.

If you don’t know the radio station you want to record, and aren’t selective enough to want specific artists but you know what genre you enjoy, you can do that to. With the click of the mouse you can tell it to record just country, or rock-n-roll, or classical, or pop, etc… Again it will scan stations all over the globe and automatically select your genre.

You have the option of setting the program up to save files in categories by genre, or artist, or album, etc… This eliminates the need for you to categorize everything manually, though personally I was hoping it would first categorize by genre and then by artist giving even more structure, but I was still quite pleased with the versatility it does give.

If music is not your forte, then you can try the podcast section. This will allow you to choose a subject of interest and the program will search for and record podcasts matching your choices. This works like the music does, as it scans globally for podcasts and saves to your hard-drive. You can then listen to them at your leisure or save them to your MP3 player and listen on the go.

I found the program quite versatile and easy to use. Just about everything is point and click. I downloaded and installed the program, and within minutes was building my library. It takes very little guesswork, and everything is easy to find. The one thing you do have to remember, you are recording from radio broadcasts. This means that from time to time the program may appear to be doing nothing, but a blink later and its off and running. At one point I had 17 simultaneous recordings. When you turn off the program it will need to finish the current selections before closing, or you can forego those few selections and close immediately. The software does not force you to wait for it to finish, and it’s a good bet that those selections will roll around again.

In my book, this one’s a keeper.

Really small requirements for Microsoft’s newest operating system. Will run on Netbooks with no problem. This guy was able to get Windows 7 to run on a PII-266 with 96 megs of ram. Check it out here:

PII-266 with Windows 7

Windows 7 system requirements

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here’s what it takes:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Additional requirements to use certain features:

• Internet access (fees may apply)
• Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware
• For some Windows Media Center functionality a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required
• Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware
• HomeGroup requires a network and PCs running Windows 7
• DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive
• BitLocker requires Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
• BitLocker To Go requires a USB flash drive
• Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1 GB of RAM, an additional 15 GB of available hard disk space, and a processor capable of hardware virtualization with Intel VT or AMD-V turned on
• Music and sound require audio output

Windows 7 Requirements

Single Sign-On: Current and Future Uses

Try to imagine a world where, as you browse the web, sites just know who you are. Single sign-on technology aims to make your identity provider your only provider. So if you log in once, you will be automatically logged in everywhere. A range of possibilities are offered by this technology, some of which are potentially very exciting; Single sign-on could even change the way that the internet works by allowing users to experience a more personalized and simplistic web browsing experience, without the need to keep logging in and out of individual domains. With this flexibility, users could post comments, stories and interact…all by using one true online identity.

Practically, it may be difficult to unite such a complexly distributed, multi-party system such as the internet. However, this example of how single sign on technology can be used on a grander scale in the future highlights the software potential.

Novell’s single sign-on technology currently exists primarily for use in the business sector and offers the following benefits:

• It reduces password fatigue, thus preventing passwords being overused by inputting different username and password combinations.

• It will significantly reduce the time spent by each individual re-entering passwords

• It can incorporate conventional authentication login details (i.e. Windows login)

• It can significantly reduce company costs due to lower number of password related IT help desk calls

• With 5,000 users, Secure Login (SSO) recovers your full investment in only 10.2 months

• Increased security benefits (without re-prompting) on all levels of entry/exit/access to systems.

The benefits offered by single sign-on technology in the business world have been acknowledged and well documented. Recently, the popular networking site Facebook has began to implement single sign on technology. This means that more users are automatically logged into the site, so that more logged-in, traceable page views exist, thus lowering friction for commenting, posting, and rating etc and generally improving the efficiency of the site.

The future uses of single sign-on technology are certainly exciting, and could potentially (if exploited) revolutionize the way we surf the internet and interact with others online.