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uatuh home thumb Uatuh provides Automated Product Search

Uatuh.com is a service that lets you automate products searches. You no longer need to remember search every day – whatever you want, can all be navigated at this site. You only need to configure what you’re looking for and monkeys will do the work. When they find something you will be notified.

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whitey macbook thumb The ‘low cost’ MacBook gets an upgrade

Apple had another surprise up its sleeve as it upgraded its white polycarbonate body – $999 MacBook’s hardware today. The low-cost MacBook now carries 2GB RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 9400m graphics processor. The upgrade though doesn’t affect the CPU speed as it remains the same (2.0GHz), however it makes it a lot more attractive.

dscn2379 thumb Take your iPod Touch along… next time you decide to take your sniper rifle for a spin!

I swear I was speechless, when I discovered this blogpost about… mounting an iPod Touch on your sniper rifle. I mean, what’s next? Now you have weapons being fancied up. Okay, back to the topic. It is learnt that you can now mount an iPod Touch on an Knights Armament M110 sniper rifle – an invention that I seriously have no clue, as to why it would be handy, thinking that on one hand the world is trying to rid terrorism and here people are, releasing stuff like this.

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nycgo home thumb New York City launches an all new Citysearch: NYCgo

New York City, looking to better its Citysearch over the Web, re-launched its NYCgo with better offerings of an extensive search that includes events, restaurants, hotels, and more. The website is hooked up with Google Maps which makes it all the more easier for tourists to find their way around the city.

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Fuzz.com to shutdown soon

fuzz home thumb Fuzz.com to shutdown soon

Fuzz.com announced on their blog that the service would be shutdown come February. The service will cease to exist on Feb 13, probably due to the fact that the company wants to dedicate their funds ands resources in Blip.fm. The blog reads:

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y undead thumb Yahoo Live making a comeback as Y!Undead, through TokBox

The broadcasting service that Yahoo launched under the name of Yahoo Live is making a comeback, though now this time under a different name and brand altogether. Y!Undead is going to take over where Yahoo Live left off, providing a webcam chat service.

Though it’s similar to Yahoo’s service there’s no connection between the two in terms of association. As the developers state:

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online app store thumb The App Store comes out of iTunes and onto the Web

Apple’s renowned App Store finally comes out of the iTunes store as an online version. For the user’s ease of access Apple has launched a separate site for applications, where you can easily and quickly browse for new and popular apps, read reviews, and avoid stuff related to iTunes.

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blindspeak thumb thumb BlindSpeak lets you send text to speech messages

BlindSpeak recently launched its text-to-speech service that lets one send their typed-in messages as a voice message. The process involves the written text going through Microsoft Sam’s (a default text-to-speech voice in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP) text-to-speech reader, and then being converted to audio.

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chrome thumb thumb Now get RSS support for Google Chrome

Google Chrome, the browser that’s been creating buzz with its speed factor, (but lacks a lot of other features) gets support of RSS through a bookmarklet service. The web page enables on to get RSS features in Chrome through two bookmarklets available: View RSS Feed, and Auto-Detect RSS.

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inauguration chart thumb Twitter gets traffic frenzy as Inauguration Day gets going

As reports came in that Twitter rocked past Digg in terms of its traffic market share (due to U.S. Airways crash); another report came in suggesting that the micro-blogging service went berserk as the Inaugural Day unfolded.

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