Category Archives: Tech News Sites

Gear Diary

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The Gadgeteer (mobile) was one of the first (since 1997) and is still my favorite hardware review site. Reviewers Julie Strietelmeier and Judie Hughes delivered entertaining, incredibly honest and thus very useful reviews of all sorts of small electronic devices especially PDAs, and later smartphones. I like to buy cool but outdated handheld tech on eBay and The Gadgeteer’s archives are my primary resource when researching purchases. Judie left The Gadgeteer a year ago to start her own site, Gear … Continue reading →

Techdirt Lite

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Techdirt is Mike Masnick’s blog covering technology and media. Mike’s a very good tech business analyst, particularly in the areas of privacy and intellectual property and he’s made Techdirt a hot property. It’s on CNET’s Blog 100 list, the Technorati 100 and lots of other “best of tech blogs” type lists. There’s a “Lite” version (techdirt.com/index_lite.php) that works on some mobile browsers. Good blog, I’m not so sure about the Lite version though. It eliminates the ads and most images … Continue reading →

Mobile Meme Trackers

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A meme (rhymes with theme) according to Wikipedia, is a “unit of cultural information” such as “…tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.” As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean “hot topic” or “the next big thing”. A lot of people have a need to know the day’s newest and hottest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to track just that. The first was probably … Continue reading →

Digg Mobile

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Eugenia, the developer responsible for the awesome OSNews mobile site has created a mobile front end to Digg! The site presents the current top 40 on Digg in a compact format that displays nicely on any WAP2 phone. The only thing I’m not fond of about this Digg mobile is that when you click through from the mobile page you are on the non-Mobile Digg item page which causes my phones built-in Openwave 7 browser to throw an out of … Continue reading →

OSNews

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OSNews is a web site that covers just about every operating system past and present. There are the expected articles on the latest Microsoft Vista delay, the backlash against the Intel Apple and new releases of various Linux distros, but to me the real heart of OSNews is it’s coverage of obsolete and obscure OS’s. It’s a great site for anyone who has been playing with computers for a while and wants to know what’s up with the old systems … Continue reading →