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Gmail Now Lets You Save Attachments to the Desktop via Drag-and-Drop

Saving dozens of e-mail file attachments to your computer just became a hell of a lot easier. Google has added a new feature to Gmail: the ability to save file attachments by simply dragging-and-dropping them onto the desktop. If you hover over the file icon or the “Download” link for any attachment, you’ll notice the new text […]

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Calculate Taxi Cab Fares With Bing Maps

Thanks to a new app, Bing Maps now calculates the cab fare on a route between two points. The Taxi Fare Calculator was developed by Ricky Brundritt as a submission to the King of Bing Maps competition. The app is available at the Bing Maps website right now. Just pick a region (results are best within a […]

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Great Travel guides for the iPhone

Condé Nast Digital Britain recently unveiled a series of apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, dubbed Condé Nast Traveller City Guides. There are four separate apps for Barcelona, New York, Paris and Rome priced at around $9.99 each. The apps [iTunes link] are divided into six sections containing more than 500 searchable listings, complete with venue […]

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Tour de France 2010 real time with bing maps

Looking for tools to help you follow the 2010 Tour de France? Microsoft has built an app for Bing Maps that visualizes the various stages of the race and provides information like weather and results. You can see the routes the cyclists are taking on the map, including important points like the beginnings and ends of stages. […]

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Google Docs’ New Upgrades Go Live for Everyone

Google has recently made a slew of changes to their Docs office and productivity suite live for all users and all new documents. From now on, when you create a new spreadsheet, drawing, presentation or text document in Docs, you’ll be using the snazzy new interface and collaboration features as the default. Two months ago, Google […]

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Create a Socially Integrated Online Shop in 60 Seconds

Tinypay.me is the easiest way to sell virtually anything and is the world’s first socially integrated e-commerce website. Genius Idea: If you are thinking of putting an old watch up for auction oneBay or listing your latest T-shirt design on Etsy, you may want to check out Tinypay.me first. Tinypay.me is an e-commerce service that enables […]

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Evernote Competitor Springpad Launches Killer Android App

Springpad is an awesome app. Like Evernote, it allows you to save items in a virtual notebook of sorts. But the app doesn’t stop at saving information; it also pulls in actionable links. For example, if you “save” a movie, you also save links to buy tickets for a local theatre or add that film […]

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5 Great Ways to Find Music That Suits Your Mood

Jessica Miller has written for Jewcy.com, The Jew and the Carrot, and is an avid digital music explorer. She holds a B.A. in religion from Barnard College, and blogs regularly on her own site, The Boomerang Blog. You don’t have to be Oliver Sacks to know that music can have a profound effect on the human psyche. Music is […]

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Group buying: A billion-dollar Web trend?

Can we all get a better deal by making purchases together? That’s the idea behind a new breed of “group buying” Web sites — at least one of which may be valued at more than $1 billion. It’s hardly a stretch to predict that group buying will become one of the biggest Web trends of […]

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Google Adds Calendar Invitations to Gmail Messages

If you’re a Gmail user, you may have noticed a surprising new feature in your e-mail account this morning: There’s now an “Insert: Invitation” link adjacent to the “Attach a file” link in each new message you compose. The invitation addition makes scheduling meetings and setting up appointments via Gmail much easier. It also completes the […]

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