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Greg’s bite: It’s an app world out there

By Greg Mills

My daughter loaded We Rule, the iOS game in which you manage a small kingdom including houses for the people, stores of all kinds, collect taxes, rents and grow crops to buy more infrastructure. The iPad was soon also loaded and I set up my own “kingdom” and have enjoyed planning my own community, as well.

The games are free but they try to sell you mojo to speed up the development and crops of your kingdom for those without patience. They sell mojo for real dollars on the iTune store. They also give you five mojo units if you download and open apps.

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BookMacster offers cross-browser bookmarks syncer, manager

Sheep Systems says BookMacster (http://sheepsystems.com/bookmacster/) has passed final testing with the release of version 1.2. This version supports automatic cross-browser bookmarks synchronization via the user’s choice of file-syncing services in the cloud.

It also rounds out BookMacster’s web-browser support by adding iCab and Pinboard. The app supports tags, comments, and shortcuts. BookMacster users can add bookmarks directly from within browsers, and access all bookmarks while in any app from the menu bar.

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Free Safari extension helps ensure privacy

Orbicule has introduced Incognito (http://www.orbicule.com/incognito/), their free Safari extension that helps ensure greater privacy by preventing Google and Facebook from tracking the user’s movements and actions while online. It requires Safari 5 or later on Mac or Windows systems.

Incognito protects the user by blocking Google AdSense and Google Analytics on non-Google pages. In addition, it provides the option of blocking Facebook content and embedded YouTube Movies on non-Facebook and non-YouTube pages.

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Greg’s Bite: Microsoft’s greatest dud?

By Greg Mills

When one considers the potential for Microsoft to elbow their way into the smartphone market with their “late to the party” Mobile Vista 7, there are distinct categories of customers that have to buy it in significant numbers for the product to succeed. If we examine the smartphone market that exists today from the basis of a customer category analysis, the prospects are quite grim for Microsoft. Who is going to buy it?

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Greg’s bite: Vista Mobile 7, Microsoft dud

By Greg Mills

In the extremely high stakes competition in smart phone operating systems, Microsoft’s new Mobile OS appears to be a stone loser. This is for a number of indisputable reasons.  

The expensive advertising program (rumored to be half a billion dollars) which will be launched soon, and the efforts of various hardware companies and cell phone carriers rallied to support Vista 7 are likely to be a doomed and completely wasted effort. This will certainly end Microsoft’s presence in the mobile market, which includes both smart phones and slate computers.  

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