I predict the Maestro, which uses laser lights to show you what frets to press, will teach me guitar as well as a self-playing piano helped me learn the keyboard: not too well.
Strap the Maestro onto any guitar, load a music file with the songs you need to learn, and then little laser lights [...]

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When you want to know about a domain name, you jump to whois to get all of the information on the person who registered it. But when you want to know more about the person who just started following you on Twitter or FriendFeed, it hasn’t been that easy - even though we’ve tried to [...]

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Mark D. Drapeau, Ph.D., is a Washington, D.C.-based biological scientist, government consultant, and frequent writer on social media and society.
Perhaps overshadowed by Super Bowl chatter, the past weekend was also noteworthy for a thoughtful Wall Street Journal blog post by Chris Anderson called, The Economics of Giving it Away. Many companies trading in bits and [...]

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While this upcoming mp3 player from China’s Aigo looks cool, it’s hard to piece together more information about it. Aigo’s given us no specs, no price, and no release date. Drop a hint, Aigo! [Yesky]

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As much as we love to laud the features of the iPhone, we’re also the first to admit that it’s missing some basic functions - functions so seemingly obvious that it’s boggling that more app developers aren’t rushing to solve them. And while our favorite gripe is the lack of copy and paste functionality, there [...]

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Bloomberg’s interview with Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen reveals that Adobe is developing Flash for the iPhone, it’s been in development since June 2008, and is a customized solution just for the iPhone.
Apple has said repeatedly that regular desktop Flash is too heavy (on CPU, and thus battery life) for the iPhone, whereas Flash Lite is too [...]

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Quick, what’s your favorite Super Bowl advertiser? If you said Anheuser-Busch then today’s news might add a little extra gallop to your trot. Perfectly timed with all the Super Bowl commercial hype, Anheuser-Busch has just released AB-Extras.com, a blog-like site that aims to take you behind the scenes of their highly anticipated spots.
Ab-Extras gets you [...]

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Feed manipulation service BlastCasta has released a new feed widget this morning that allows publishers to offer more sophisticated feed subscription options to readers and is highly customizable.
The BlastCasta widget works with or without FeedBurner and provides options to filter your feed by keyword, sort it differently or translate it into any of [...]

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The most important feature that web hosting companies provides you with is the Dynamic Site Creator. This interactive flash does not entail programming expertise. If you are new to building and designing web pages, this is an excellent feature to have at your disposal. Another feature that web hosting companies offers you Dynamic Content, which [...]

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Mamutu monitors in realtime all active programs for dangerous behavior and blocks malicious activities. It recognizes new and unknown Trojans, Backdoors, Keyloggers, Worms, Viruses, Spyware, Adware and Rootkits (Zero-Day attacks), without the need of daily signature updates. Mamutu gives you full control over internal system activities. It’s the perfect security enhancement.
“Mamutu” is composed from the [...]

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