Last Wednesday Google made out to change the search game yet again with their announcement of Google Instant, the new Google that actively searches as you type anxiously anticipating every next letter. The addition of Google Instant alone is fantastic but what adapted from Instant is the just the beginning, suddenly other sites are “instantizing” more »

Google is getting really serious about killing off Gears. The company recently abandoned Gears on Google Docs, making the offline version HTML5 version the only way to use Google Docs while not online. On Tuesday June 1, Google will slay the offline mode of another one of it’s popular web apps. On June 1, Google more »

We study hard, work hard, play hard, eat hard, and the list of hard goes on and on. With all the other hard in the list, do we still have the time to do other things we love and like? Do we need to surf hard too? It’s a torture! Coming back from a long more »

Thought having Season Pass recording, direct Amazon movie downloads, and Netflix Watch Instantly was enough for TiVo? Think again. Starting August 5, 2009, TiVo will be offering over 100 free podcast channels, including content from networks such as G4, FOX, and CBS. Beyond these channels, independent video podcast providers can add their content to TiVo via RSS and H.264 video.

Google Reader is down with the whole social scene, just like Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed with 4 new ways to share content. Google Reader is adding “fun” social elements like following, liking, and searching. But is it too little too late?

Google Reader used to be the place where I got all the breaking news. The problem? RSS isn’t real-time. Twitter has taken over that job for me and for folks like the mighty Robert Scoble and Friendfeed fills the niche. Google Reader, presumably feeling the Twitter effect, is fighting back. At least a little bit.

Today, the Google Reader Blog pitches us 4 new ways users can get social, but not too social if that is your bag.

A while ago, Google introduced a way to search blogs. The search excludes lots of other sites so you can easily find information published on blogs (whether they are on Google’s Blogger or not). The Goolge Blog Search just got a couple of new features to make it more useful. Now you can have an more »

Google seems to update at least one of its products once a month or so. Sometimes the updates can be small, other times they can fundamentally change how some people use the products. The newest update to Google Reader seems to be somewhere in between those two extremes. The new updates, overall, seem to make more »

Remember the dismal news last month that Boxee would no longer be providing Hulu content? Well, Boxee tried to come up with a way around that. Although the solution was not the same as what those loving Hulu content on Boxee are used to.

Instead, the newest Boxee featured an RSS reader which is optimized for video. This worked to get Hulu content on the site since Hulu offers up public RSS feeds. So, the once “bleeding edge release” of Boxee grabbed the Hulu videos and streams them. While it did work, it did not work as smoothly as the previous Hulu tools. However, within the same day of this RSS work around, yet another glitch arose – Hulu blocked them. What the heck?

According the Boxee blog “we just found out that Hulu blocked the boxee browser from accessing the Hulu site. this is a disappointing development since their RSS feeds are publicly available, and our browser, while optimized for a great 10 ft video experience, is no different in how it accesses this content than Internet Explorer, Firefox, Flock, Opera or any of the other browsers out there.”

All I can think is that Hulu is caving to the content providers. Previously, Boxee had talks with Hulu and its content providers, which fell through to keep things the way they were. At that point, they added the new RSS tool. Boxee, however, remains diplomatic on their blog stating that “the people in the industry ‘get it’ … they are trying to adjust to a new reality, but they need time.”

Hmmm…I’m thinking if the content providers really did “get it,” Hulu would still be on Boxee. The providers have to realize, if they try to block places like Hulu, viewers are just gonna go elsewhere to get what they are watching. Places a little less than legal perhaps. At least on Hulu we still have to watch all those blips of commercials during the programming. Keep making it difficult to get your shows to watch legally and push your viewers to some commercial-free programming.

Gadgetell recently got to play with an IPEVO digital picture frame, the Kaleido R7. Now, I am the guy who wrote a post denouncing digital picture frames as a pointless technology. IPEVO changed my mind.

Digital picture frames have gone through a couple of styles. It started off with toyish plastic borders and eventually moved into looking like traditional picture frames with slim borders. IPEVO decided to come up with its own design.

Looking like it belongs in a movie that is set in the future, the IPEVO is slick looking with its two-toned color scheme and flat buttons.

FriendFeed launched a new feature last night, real-time updating. With this feature, you can see all the most recent FriendFeed posts without even having to refresh the page. As nifty as this new feature is, it can also get a bit crazy.

The site has essentially turned the web into a giant chatroom according to Robert Scoble. You’ve got it all going on here, not just the chatting, but videos, photos, tweets, and more. Every item has its own URL, as well as its own RSS feed. You’re able to comment on everything there, not just on the “commentary” like in a chat room.

Much more after the break!