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Asus today launched what it describes as a "strikingly stylish" 13.3-inch notebook, the U30Jc. The thin and light laptop is the world's first notebook to pair Intel's Core i3 processor with Nvidia's...
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The stylish, compact SX120 IS megazoom has a nice range of controls, but it suffers from a sluggish shutter and short battery life. Canon's PowerShot SX120 IS ($250 as of 11/16/09) is a AA-powe...
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ATI revealed its last generation Radeon 5000 graphics family last September, when we got the chance to review the ATI Radeon HD 5870, and what a treat that was. In a few tests the single-GPU Radeon...
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The One Laptop Per Child team is ready to embrace multitouch displays. The not-for-profit outfit has revealed that the upcoming XO-1.75 laptop will come fitted with a 8.9-inch multitouch display. A ...
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You are now less than 365 days away from a new console Zelda game. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata confirmed to Japan's Asahi Shimbun daily today that the Wii Zelda sequel, first revealed at last year's E...
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All then attention right now is on Microsoft's revamped Xbox 360 console, which sports a sleek new design and runs both cooler and quieter. So can we also expect a redesigned Xbox 360 Arcade? Word ...
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The debut of Google's Nexus One "superphone" generated a lot of pre-launch hype with many heralding it as an "iPhone killer" before even seeing it. Fast forward to today. The phone is out and the revi...
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Google has been iterating Android at an astounding pace since it was first introduced in the fall of 2008. Barely a few months have passed in between releases, and now much of the feature set has ...
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Whether you're a grizzled Windows vet or a relative newcomer, you can always use a trick or two for making things go faster. We've compiled our 26 favorite time-saving tips for Windows XP, Vista, and ...
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If you browse a lot of text on the Web–and who doesn’t, given one’s typical commuting habits and/or easy access to 3G USB dongles–then you probably find yourself scrolling over huge pages of copy without any real way to make notes on what it is that you’re reading. This might not be the biggest deal for the casual surfer, but there’s always a time when it would be nice to just have some way to mark an especially pertinent passage for use later.
You can save pages via bookmarks, but you can’t really do much with the information contained within these pages unless you copy and paste it over to your word processing app of choice and go to town. A Firefox add-on looks to change this up a bit, and it delivers a very simple feature that’s surprisingly omitted from, well, every browser there is.
The add-on’s called Wired-Marker and, as you can guess from its name, it allows you to highlight any text you want on any Web page that you can pull up. You can pick different colors and styles but, more importantly, your highlighted text will remain as such even when revisit the page on multiple occasions. As well, you can now set up your bookmarks to point to a specific piece of text you wanted to call attention to–you’ll automatically jump to that place on the page without even having to scroll back and forth to find your block of colored text.
To help you organize your highlighted notes, Wired-Marker lets you tag your various saved bits of text by varying degrees of importance. You can also append notes to the little text snapshots you’ve taken and even drag and drop them into different folders via a Firefox sidebar. It sure beats copying-and-pasting bits and pieces of text into a running Word file, or however else it is you organized interesting information prior to Wired-Marker. Post-its, maybe?
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