Archive for December, 2007

Integrate SMS in your web application using TextMarks

Posted by Matt Thommes on 12/27/07 in Mobile, Review

Services such as TextMarks, Msgme, and Kwiry are some of the first mainstream services that offer the SMS gateway as an alternative way to promote or access content, as well as manage your web applications. You could call it “mobile content management.”

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Budget 1080p HD-DVD comparison: Toshiba HD-A20 vs. Xbox 360 Add-on

Posted by Andy Atkinson on 12/9/07 in Hardware, Microsoft, Review

This article compares display quality of two budget-priced 1080p HD-DVD options, the Toshiba HD-A20 standalone player, and the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on drive. Results cover regular DVD upconversion performance, as well as HD-DVD results from Transformers and King Kong.

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Witch for enhanced window cycling

Posted by Matt Thommes on 12/3/07 in Freeware, OS X, Review

Witch is a System Preferences utility for Mac OS X, allowing you to customize the process of cycling between windows, which is traditionally accomplished with “Command + Tab” (“Alt + Tab” on Windows).

The traditional approach has a few drawbacks, specifically on Mac OS X:

You are limited to cycling only between open applications, as opposed to […]

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