Google is about to launch their own Groupon clone, called Google Offers.
Google described the service: “Google is communicating with small businesses to enlist their support and participation in a test of a pre-paid offers/vouchers program. This initiative is part of an ongoing effort at Google to make new products, such as the recent Offer Ads beta, that connect businesses with customers in new ways.”
I remember when Google used to innovate new products! Is this just going to be another Groupon clone or will Google be able to offer something special.
[via Search Engine Land]
Monster Offers is a daily deals aggregator that is on the rise! Monster Offers aggregates deals from sites such as Groupon, KGB deals, Tippr and more. Monster Offers seems like a very basic search engine that grabs RSS feeds from the deals sites and then gains revenue from a CPA model.
If you want to keep up to date across all daily deal sites, then Monster Offers might be for you.
It has been reported that the Pirate Bay will be launching a music sharing system. The Pirate Bay registered themusicbay.org a few years ago, but it has never been launched.
The currently active subdomain fear.themusicbay.org is currently displaying a “coming soon” title so TorrentFreak caught up with a Pirate Bay insider to learn more about the plans for the site. Although the Pirate Bay crew is reluctant to release any specific details, their intentions are obvious.
“The music industry can’t even imagine what we’re planning to roll out in the coming months. For years they’ve complained bitterly about piracy, but if they ever had a reason to be scared it is now,” TorrentFreak was told. “It will be a special surprise for IFPI’s 78th birthday, and we’re thinking of organizing a huge festival in Rome where IFPI was founded.”
IFPI is of course the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, one of the most active anti-piracy outfits and a long-time adversary of The Pirate Bay. Formed under Italy’s fascist government of Benito Mussolini in 1933, IFPI will turn 78 in April of 2011.
jQuery File Upload Plugin allows you to select multiple files at once and upload them simultaneously. Users have the ability to drag and drop files from desktop or filemanager.
It shows a progress bar indicating the upload progress for individual files. Individual file uploads can be canceled to stop the upload progress. It also provides an API to set individual options and define callBack methods for various upload events. It works with Google App Engine (Python, Java), Ruby on Rails, PHP and any other platform that supports HTTP file uploads.
A lot of users experience the “Windows Setup could not configure Windows on this computer’s hardware” error when trying to install Windows 7.
To resolve this issue and install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 on your computer, follow these steps as mentioned in the KB Article published by Microsoft.
Method 1: Download the appropriate drivers for your hard disk drive:
Download and install the latest driver for your Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 computer. To do this by using another computer, visit the following Intel website and download the appropriate drivers for your hard disk drive, either 32-bit or 64-bit, to a flash drive, or burn the drivers onto CD/DVD media. The flash drive or media will be used during the Setup phase for Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2.
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-031502.htm
Method 2: Change the BIOS hard disk drive setting to AHCI or IDE:
You can change the hard disk drive setting in the BIOS to AHCI or to IDE if the hard disk drive setting is currently set to a RAID configuration. When you set the hard disk drive to AHCI or to IDE, you do not have to install the driver that you obtained in method 1.
Warning This procedure may involve changing your hard disk drive settings in your BIOS. Incorrect changes to the BIOS of your computer can result in serious problems. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems that result from changes to your BIOS can be solved. Change your BIOS settings at your own risk. Incorrect or corrupted BIOS settings can cause startup problems or shutdown problems.
Microsoft is now offering 165 free templates for Powerpoint 2010. These templates are created by PowerPoint MVP Julie Terberg and available for download for free. You can either download the templates and use as it is or modify it to suite your requirements. These templates comes with animation and professionally designed effects and images.
Click here for the full list of templates.
According to All Things D, multiple sources confirm that the deal is now closed, and would allow for a Spotify service in the U.S. that is much like the one currently available in Europe. Users across the pond can now access streaming content for a set number of hours per month or pay for an ad-free option. Another plan lets users listen on mobile devices like the iPhone, All Things D reports.
A Spotify spokesman said the company “can’t comment specifically on the negotiations as they’re strictly confidential.” But he reiterated that Spotify is “working hard to get the service to the U.S. as soon as possible.”
With Warner up for sale and EMI in financial trouble, possible Spotify only has to sign Universal and launch.
The Nintendo 3DS will be priced at $249.99 in the US and will on March 27, while the Europeans will be getting it a few days earlier, on March 25th. However European pricing will be decided by retailers and according to various sources, the price in UK is likely to be £229.99, while the rest of Europe is looking at €249.99.
THere will be at least 30 games available on the 3DS at launch. Titles will include: Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D, Dead or Alive Dimensions, Rabbids 3D, Resident Evil: Revelations, a new Paper Mario, and a compulsory Madden game.
Via Engadget
4Chan Plus is a Google Chrome extension that adds many features to 4chan that improve the website’s usability. All features of the regularly updated extension are optional which means that users can make use of them but do not have to.
Lets take a closer look at the features:
- Hoverable images – Grab the full image and display it on mouse over directly on the same page without loading another one. Option to preload images on request or always. Option to replace thumbnails with the large versions automatically.
- Expandable images – Open images in a new tab on double-click. Option to define the size of that image (original, fit screen, custom size)
- Post Preview – Displays referenced posts on mouse over.
- Show the number of unread posts in the titlebar
- Restore postnumbers in /b/
- Autofetch new posts – Set to every 3 seconds by default, can be changed to every second or every 10 seconds. Autoscroll when new posts appear, scroll quick-reply box with auto-scrolling.
- Quickreply – Activate on board pages and within threads, remove original box.
- Bookmarks – Add thread bookmarks to access them at a later time again.
- Smartbar – Displays information and options at the bottom of the screen, for instance to preload or expand images, see the number of repllies, favorite it or reply.
- Quickreport – Add a button to quickly report a thread to moderators.
- Content features – Play Youtube videos directly on 4chan, make links clickable and restore original filenames of images.
- Sounds – Add sounds for specific events.
Im not exactly sure if this is a good idea! The new LG LSM-100 mouse is also a handheld scanner. The combo makes sense since you’re constantly moving your mouse around anyway and since the tech behind a mouse is similar to that of a scanner; I just don’t know that there’s really much of a demand for a scanner-mouse.
Engadget via EverythingUSB via Slippery Brick
