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Here are some interesting links from today:

• Clove 2 (Cemetech Bluetooth Dataglove)
  Clove 2 is a bluetooth dataglove used for one-handed typing. It uses a 31-combination finger chording design with three modes to allow every key on a standard keyboard to be typed with minimal effort. The bluetooth functionality removes the need to tether
• Lifehacker Faceoff: Outlook vs. Gmail
  Gmail launched in 2004 and has matured each year, but Microsoft Outlook (with Exchange) is still the most popular tool for accessing email. Comparing the two side by side, is it time to jump ship from either platform? Let's find out.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• iPhone, Blackberry locked in titanic struggle for supremacy
  Determining exactly what impact the new iPhone will have on RIM's chunk of the smartphone market appears to be tricker than you might think, though. At least one market analyst seems to think RIM is doomed…
• The New iGoogle Gets Full Screen Gmail
  Now the Gmail gadget can go full screen, and it looks and feels very much like regular old Gmail. You can read, compose, and archive email just as you would from Gmail (no labeling yet). Likewise, RSS feeds now look and feel very much like Google Reader.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Portable Gmail Contacts
  Google Contacts Autocomplete is a Greasemonkey script that brings your Gmail contacts everywhere you go on the web. When you start to type the name of your friend or his email address, the script shows a list of suggestions.
• Gmail and Google Calendar to Add Offline Support
  It seems that this year Google's most popular web applications will work offline. After Google Reader and Google Docs, two other services will integrate with Gears. Gmail and Google Calendar will add offline support in approximately 6 weeks.
• Updates to Gmail contact manager
  We've heard from some of you that Gmail's auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter. One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the addresses you email subsequently show up in auto-complete.
• Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming
  GOODBYE air pollution, hello brighter days. That's been the trend in Europe for the past 30 years; unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Multi-Touch Capability Available Tomorrow for Latitude XT Customers
  Tomorrow we will introduce a software update globally via support.dell.com for the Dell tablet that will bring multi-touch to both Windows XP and Vista. With this update, customers can use the functionality in several standard apps like Google Earth, Outl
• Sprint rises on SK buyout talks report
  Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) shares rose almost 14 percent on Tuesday after CNBC reported that South Korea's SK Telecom Co (017670.KS) was in talks to buy the No. 3 U.S. wireless service.
• San Francisco IT worker arrested in hijacking of city network
  A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
• Windows Vista tip: Using Gmail or Yahoo! Mail as your default Email handler
  gAttach is a free program that integrates Gmail into your system as your default email service, to be used by default instead of a local client when you send email or attach files from the desktop, the browser, or any local applications.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• The supercomputers of Oak Ridge National Lab
  Oak Ridge National Lab, which is a DoE research, is probably most famous for being the place where the first plutonium was processed. But these days, it is a hotbed of research into materials sciences, energy efficiency and, of course, supercomputing.
• Congressman Culberson Pioneers Real Time Representation
  I discovered the extent and potential of social media this past May, and I will keep expanding my use of these tools beyond Qik, Twitter, Utterz and Ustream to communicate with constituents and anyone interested in a polite thoughtful debate/discussion.