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03/31/2010

Managing your online minutes

If you are anything like me, your computer desktop is chaotic. I have more windows littering my display than Notre-Dame de Quebec Cathedral, and with so many things open at once, I have found it very difficult to concentrate on the task at hand. Emails arrive while I am writing, and it is difficult to ignore them. Friends instant message me while I'm trying to research articles in my browser. Before I know it, I find myself flicking between five or six different software applications, and perhaps twice as many websites, without being able to settle on anything. So, of course, I eventually settle on Facebook...

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03/30/2010

How much are your eyeballs worth online?

How valuable is your time? And how much of that time do you waste reading email from people that you don't really want to talk to? Would you like to be paid for it? A service called Attention Auction could enable you to do just that.

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03/29/2010

Would you buy an iPhone encyclopaedia for $25?

Encyclopaedia fans will be happy to hear about a new development for the iPhone platform. Paragon Technologie has released a version of the Britannica Concise Encyclopaedia 2010 for Apple's mobile device -- but at $25, would you buy it?

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03/26/2010

Avoiding the latest Facebook virus

Facebook's 400 million users face constant threats from phishing - attacks where fake web sites harvest their passwords - but the latest scam is far more insidious. And if you're a user of the service, there are a few things you should be doing to protect yourself.

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03/25/2010

Amazing amateur space photography

Wow. And when I say Wow, what I really mean is...W.O.W. Look at this picture. How much do you think it cost to take it? Launching the satellite, customising the carefully-controlled precision camera, getting the images back down to earth, and so on? $750, for the whole job. It was taken by a private citizen in the UK, and NASA is so impressed that it contacted him to find out how he did it.

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03/24/2010

Dude, where's my phone? Let PhoneHalo tell you.

Are you one of those people who loses everything? I'm hopeless. Keys, wallet, and of course phone - it's as if they're all wearing anti-gravity devices. They just float away. They end up top of the fridge. Perched atop the bathroom cabinet. I even lost a portable CD player once because I left it on a wall after I put it down to tie my shoelaces. Like I said, hopeless. But now, maybe there's something that can help even the lost causes like me. PhoneHalo is supposed to let your phone find your other stuff for you when you lose it - and even to help you find your phone when that goes missing.

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03/23/2010

On your bike - are electric bikes worth it?

Are you a car driver, or do you prefer to be out and about on your bike? A new product from a New Zealand company promises to give you the agility of a bike, with the self-propelled benefits of driving. Called the YikeBike, it looks like a modern day unicycle, but its lithium phosphate battery lets you zip along at 25 km/h.

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03/22/2010

Twitter users bring old-school gaming back to life

I'm always shocked by the strange new things that people find to do with technology. This latest one will appeal to anyone who grew up with the choose your own adventure series of books in the eighties. You remember those? "If you'd like to ask the Orc politely for money, turn to page 62. If you'd like to try and blackmail the Orc, turn to page 87". That sort of thing. Eventually, after playing for a few times, you knew that you'd always end up in a heck of a fight on page 87, and that however you got there, it was time to get the gaming dice out. Well, now it's been updated for 2010.  You can do it now on Twitter, thanks to a service developed using a bunch of shortened bit.ly links and Twitter posts. 

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03/19/2010

Chatroulette pianist Merton goes viral

Here's an idea for ChatRoulette that we hadn't thought of. A month ago, we mentioned Tinychat, one of the various video chat systems available, and asked how you might use your very own drop-in chat space. Well, Tinychat is a variation on Chatroulette, a video chat service that lets you drop in on random strangers. Now, an anonymous pianist is using the service to serenade whoever happens to connect with him -- often with hilarious results.

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03/18/2010

CanDoBetter: We can definitely do better than this

And you thought that the Internet has become as facile as it could possibly be. Well, hold onto your hats, folks, and surf along to candobetter.com. This site lets you upload pictures of yourself, and a possible dating partner (or, presumably, if you're feeling really mean, an existing one). Then, the world can decide whether you are a good fit for each other.

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Danny BradburyDanny Bradbury

Danny Bradbury is a technology journalist with 20 years' experience. He writes regularly for publications including the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Financial Post, and Backbone magazine. Danny also writes and directs documentaries.

Maurice CachoMaurice Cacho

Maurice Cacho is a Toronto-based journalist mixing his love for tech with a passion for news. He's also CP24's Web Journalist and appears daily on CP24 Breakfast and weekly on the channel's tech show, Webnation, discussing tech news and trends.

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