Yesterday Digg decided to launch their first Firefox 3 extension, and being a Firefox extension developer myself one of the first things I noticed was the preferential treatment they apparently received. Before I get into that let's take a look at their well-designed extension.

The top toolbar aspect of the extension is nothing new as we've already seen other extensions offer similar functionality. Basically the toolbar

Back in April, Microsoft's Surface Computer began appearing in select AT&T stores across the country but they still weren't available to the general population. That apparently has changed. A "Microsoft Surface Order Form" is now available as well as "Marketing Guidelines" and nowhere in those documents does it say that the general population can't buy one.

Below is a screenshot of the order form showing various prices for the unit and for service.

As a recent college graduate I look back now astonished at how many thousands of dollars I spent buying books over the four-years I was at school. It didn't matter if the books were new or used, either way you had to fork out an arm and a leg for materials that hardly even got used.

One site is looking to get around that by utilizing the BitTorrent network as a means to share downloads of

There are both pros and cons to the fact that Apple has so much control over iPhone application distribution. One area that they have control over which might be seen as both a pro and a con is the removal of "bad apps" from a phone. You read that right, Apple has the capability of disabling unauthorized or malicious applications from your phone.

According to the author

Mozilla is apparently not going to sit on the sidelines while browsers such as Flock get all of the social fanfare. Instead they are trying to develop a way to integrate Web 2.0 services such as Twitter, Facebook, Google Talk, and more into a central location that makes following your friends easy. Huh, sounds like exactly what the Flock browser is for.

Snowl (download) is the name for Mozilla's project, and it ships in

Most of you are familiar with Google Trends by now, it's Google's application for telling you what's hot around the web as far as search queries go. It launched into Google Labs back in mid-2006 and since then they've added some features to it every now and then. If you understand what Google Trends is, you'll probably be wondering why it is that Google just launched Google Insights as a separate application. This

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