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Google and Neustar UltraDNS have teamed up in an effort to make global DNS resolution a much speedier and accurate process than it is today. DNS resolution, the process of looking up a common name,...
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In retrospect, 2009 was really the year of the PS3. Sales of the oft maligned console finally began picking up after price drops and the introduction of the PS3 Slim. The continued ascendancy of Blu-R...
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When we think of high end gaming machines, Intel's Xeon processors aren't the first chips that come to mind, but that doesn't mean we'd turn our noses up at a monster setup with not one, but two six...
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Gaming consoles are more and more positioned as entertainment centers. All well and good, as they’ve got the power necessary to live up to the task. One thing they don’t have, however, is hard dri...
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There’s a camera show right around the corner, PMA 2010, and while Canon isn’t going be attending, that’s not stopping them from participating in the ritual release of pre-show product announcem...
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Asset direction package applications that assist a company optimize its asset use are extremely advanced applications supplying comprehensive functionality and are commonly not uncommitted for free. N...
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We never know what will happen to our life. One time we can be very rich and in another time we can be really broke. As a good human being, we must be thankful when we are on top by doing good deeds f...
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Earlier today, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest version of its popular browser. While it's not as big of an update as the more ambitious Firefox 3.5, it includes a number of under-the-hood imp...
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It wasn't that long ago that a high-end gaming notebook would set you back several thousand dollars, and while you can still choose to spend that much if you look hard enough, there are plenty of po...
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Nvidia's new Fermi architecture is hot, loud, and naturally something you would want to put on your lap right? Well the guys over at Eurocom are hoping so, and are planning on offering Nvidia's GTX 48...
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I’ve spoken of the wonders of Chrome’s Google Mail Checker Plus extension before. If you missed the memo, here’s a quick hit: Mail Checker Plus drops a little icon next to your address bar that gives you a frequent update as to how many unread messages are in your Gmail account. You’d think that was it, given the simplicity of what said extension has to do. However, Google Mail Checker Plus dumps a ton of options into your lap for complete and total customization of this little icon and its functionality, including the ability to drop a preview window that gives you a quick glance as to what said emails actually are, as well as complete color controls and “always-on” SSL connectivity.
Great, eh? But frequent users of Google’s services will note that there’s more than just Gmail to worry about. What’s going on in your Google Reader feed? Any new messages come through Google Voice? What the heck is Wave and how many unread messages do you have on your watery messaging service?
That’s where the simplicity of the extension One Number comes into play. As you might expect from my foreshadowing, this extension allows you to combine the unread messages from Google’s four big feeds (sorry, no Buzz support just yet) into a single icon.
But suppose you don’t care about Google Reader–or, for that matter, suppose that you have just too many feeds to be able to adequately keep track of them all via a single icon. That’s fine. You can customize One Number to display any mix of the four tracked services you want. While the number overtop the icon will always display the combined “not looked at” amount, hovering your mouse over said icon will break this grand summation down into its requisite parts.
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