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A lot of us use presentations made from either PowerPoint, Google Docs, or other applications. Most of these apps work fine but I think you’ll be interested in this next one.
SlideRocket is a web application that lets you design and manage your presentations, as well as allowing you to share libraries of slides and assets.
Let’s […]

Sporting a new welcome page for testers, Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. The 4th beta boasts better integration with Vista, OS X, and Linux. Improvements to the Javascript engine and memory usage are also being mentioned on the announcement page.
Firefox developer, Mike Beltzner, had this to say in the developer site:
This […]

French newspaper Le Monde has published a graph of the dominant social networks across the globe. It shows which social networks are most used by different parts of the world. MySpace is still king of the hill in the U.S. and Australia, with LiveJournal being the dominant network in Russia. Facebook holds reign in Canada […]

Yahoo has officially launched its social news portal, Yahoo Buzz. Similar to most social news sites, Buzz users vote on articles they like. Stories with the most votes have a good chance of hitting the front page and could possibly hit the Yahoo home page as well. With a user base of over 500 million, […]

The Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge (UK) have just unveiled Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept phone.
The device was launched to demonstrate the possibilities for future mobile phones, specifically their flexibility which would allow users to transform their phones into different shapes. The concept phone also boasts two important features, transparent electronics and […]

Adobe has just announced that Adobe Integrated Runtime, more commonly known as AIR, is now available for download.
Having been available as a beta since last year, AIR has been used to create a wide variety of rich Internet applications for the desktop. For those wanting to see what’s possible with AIR, there are over 200 […]

Mozilla is currently celebrating reaching the 500 million download mark for its increasingly popular open-source browser, Firefox. As part of the celebration, the Spread Firefox site has announced that Mozilla is trying to earn 500 million grains of donated rice from FreeRice which would be enough to feed 25,000 people.
Good news indeed. With the extensive […]

Photo sharing site Photobucket has recently tweaked its slideshow tool and it’s looking good so far. The new slideshow tool has a few similarities to Flektor that users will instantly recognize.
There are 20 added themes for customizing your slideshow and there’s a good chance you’ll find one that matches your images’ overall theme. A missing […]