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  • Twitter turns on geolocation functionality
    Twitter has turned on its geotagging functionality for external applications.
  • Cloud Engines updates Pogoplug media sharing device
    On Friday, Cloud Engines introduced the second generation of its Pogoplug multimedia sharing device. The Pogoplug is designed to plug into your home or small office network and let you access and share content of USB hard drives over the Internet using a standard Web browser.
  • Google's Chrome OS stands to make waves
    Google's Chrome OS may be a year away from shipping, but the potent mixture of one of tech's most prominent companies and the mostly stagnant OS market is worth watching.
  • Review: Photo geotagging apps for iPhone
    Geotagging -- adding data to a photo that reveals the location it was taken -- brings a new dimension to enjoying and sharing photography. Several apps let you start tagging your photos with GPS data. We'll help you find the one that's right for your needs.
  • Yahoo's search news shortcuts gain 'tweets,' videos, photos
    Yahoo has enhanced the news "shortcuts" it displays in Web search result pages.
  • Agile Web Solutions releases 1Password 3
    After two private betas and a public beta, the well-received Mac OS X password manager 1Password 3 has been officially released.
  • Review: Quip for iPhone
    This app aims to let you send pictures with text messages to your friends' cell phones a la MMS, only without the texting charges. But Quip doesn't offer iPod touch support, and it has a number of flaws that make it a poor choice for most iPhone users.
  • Slideshow: CatPaint got your iPhone?
    The newly-released CatPaint iPhone app makes a simple promise: to let you insert cats in your photos. But does it deliver? Macworld editors put the application to the test.
  • CatPaint iPhone app adds cats to any photo
    CatPaint lets you add cats to your photos. For some reason.
  • Red Giant Software releases Holomatrix
    New After Effects plug-in gives your footage that sci-fi look.
  • Copy music off your iPod
    There's nothing worse than losing your iTunes library to a hard drive crash. If you have music on your iPod, you can at least get it back with the right tools.
  • Photo Essentials 3 plug-in released for Photoshop Elements
    The new suite adds easy-to-use tools for correcting images, removing backgrounds, and applying artistic effects to your photos.
  • SSL flaw could have been used to hack Twitter
    A researcher has shown how to hack Twitter using a previously disclosed bug in SSL.
  • Open minimized windows in current space in Snow Leopard
    Learn a simple keyboard shortcut to release minimized windows into the active Space, instead of back into their original Space.
  • Review: WritePad Pro for iPhone
    Apart from some quibbles and a few trade-offs, the feature-rich WritePad Pro is a very fine personal organizational tool.
  • Palm updates WebOS -- without iTunes sync
    iTunes syncing is conspicuously absent from the latest update to Palm's WebOS, signaling a possible end to the back-and-forth between Palm and Apple.
  • Google Voice acquires VoIP purveyor Gizmo5
    Google Voice moves to provide full phone service with the acquisition of Internet phone provider Gizmo5.
  • YouTube adds 1080p HD
    YouTube announced that it will allow users to upload and view video in full HD. The company plans to re-encode previously uploaded 1080p material so that viewers will be able to take advantage of its original resolution.
  • Enable global text replacements in Snow Leopard
    In Snow Leopard, text replacement must be enabled on a program by program basis. Use this hint to enable text replacements globally, at least in all programs that support them.
  • Bugs & Fixes: LaunchBar causes an unexpected surprise
    LaunchBar is an application (plus much more) par excellence. But a new feature in LaunchBar 5 has caused a headache for bug-finder Ted Landau.
  • A look at two Internet-connected printers
    Roman Loyola takes a quick look at the Internet features in the HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web and the Lexmark Interact S605 printers.
  • Storm8 says phone-number lawsuit lacks merit
    The company claims legacy code meant to identify iPhones mistakenly used phone numbers instead of device codes.
  • A practical approach to protecting trade secrets
    When you think about security, you probably think about computer viruses and worms. But what about your trade secrets? Here how your company's IT department and lawyers can work together.
  • Flash flaw puts most sites, users at risk, say researchers
    Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe's Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google's Gmail, then launch ilent attacks on visitors to those sites, according to security researchers.
  • SimplyDisk simplifies custom disk-image creation
    SimplyDisk is an easy-to-use utility for creating custom disk images and discs for distributing software and other content.
  • Apple launches iTunes Preview
    Apple has just quietly launched a service that makes links to the iTunes Store a little more informative by displaying information about the product in a Web browser.
  • Undercover 1.5 ousts iPhone thieves with push notifications
    Orbicule's Undercover 1.5 for iPhone introduces clever push notifications to the iPhone tracking app, specifically made to fool a thief into exposing his whereabouts.
  • MacUpdate Desktop 5 adds smart scanning, drops price
    A major update to MacUpdate Desktop brings a refined user interface and features such as smart scanning and one-click updating, in addition to a lower price.
  • Mint puts Twitter to work
    The popular online finance service Mint launched a new feature on Thursday that uses Twitter's real-time information stream to keep users updated on the latest financial news and tips.
  • Vimeo rolls out mobile-friendly site
    Video-sharing site Vimeo has introduced a mobile version of its site. Newly-encoded versions of the videos are now accessible on the iPhone and on Android devices