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Review: Audiobooks.com unlimited streaming service

Audiobooks

A lot of us out there are waiting for a company to provide a true Netflix-like experience for e-books. Amazon and Kobo have dabbled in this kind of service with the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library and the Kobo 2012 Book Club, but there is no all-you-can-eat option from either of these companies. On the other side more »

Dropbox: Get up to an additional 4.5GB of storage for free for installing an experimental build

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The folks over at Dropbox have rolled-out the latest experimental build and they are offering up to an additional 4.5GB’s of storage space for those willing to test. The app arrives as “forum build” version 1.3.12 and as implied by the name, this release is only available for download by way of the Dropbox user more »

Microsoft reacts to Google’s privacy changes by reminding us of its products

Microsoft vs Google

You may remember that Google recently changed its privacy policy, saying that it will now track users across all of its products instead of keeping individual data sets for each one. Understandably some people might be upset, and Microsoft wants to remind those people of the products it has that compete with Google. Specifically, Microsoft more »

Google Takeout can now mass export your Google Docs

Google Takeout Google Docs

Google’s Data Liberation Front has been hard at work making it possible to get all your data out of Google’s services. Google Docs has finally been added tot he list of services that the Data Liberation Front has touched. Right now you can export all the data in your Google Docs en masse very simply. more »

Twitter buys news aggregator Summify

Summify Joins the Flock at Twitter

Summify is the latest company to join the Twitter flock. The popular news aggregator has since shut off new signups, with it’s service closing down sometime in the near future. Summify, if you’re not familiar with the service, was a way to pull in your Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds. Summify would then sort them more »

Latest “experimental” Dropbox build adds photo importer

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Dropbox has added a cool new feature to it’s latest “experimental” build: an auto-importer for photos. The latest build will automatically import photos from your memory card or camera and store them on Dropbox. For now the new feature is only in the experimental build, but it’s available for PC, Mac, and Linux. If you more »

Dropbox 2.0 now available in the Android Market

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Earlier in the week Dropbox offered a preview release of version 2.0 of their Android app. And well, it looks like the preview period went well because the app has since come available in the Android Market. Yup, Dropbox 2.0 for Android is now officially available for all. The app comes as version 2.0, measures more »

Google+ ending the year with few, big feature improvements

So after making a mark in the social networking scene and disrupting Facebook’s dominance, Google’s social networking service Google+ lives on. After several months of feature improvements here and bug fixing there, Google+ struggles to steal Facebook’s thunder. Will it be more successful next year in getting more users and Facebook converts? That remains to more »

Calling from Gmail will remain free through 2012

Many Gmail users take advantage of the Call Phone option within the email client to place calls for free in the United States & Canada or pay low rates for international calling. For individuals without unlimited voice minutes or a landline, the ability to call for free anywhere in the United States and Canada is more »

LG announces 50GB of free Box.net storage for LG Android smartphone users

It looks like those sporting an LG branded Android smartphone have become the latest to receive 50GB of free Box.net storage. Yup, LG and Box.net have partnered up and those carrying an LG Android smartphone can now step forward and claim their free cloud-based storage. The terms of the offer seem rather simple. Download the more »