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7:20AM Mark Wilson | If you’re a Google Chrome user, you may appreciate new Artist Themes — skins for Chrome by various famous fashion labels and designers. More »
Download 100 Free Google Chrome Artist Themes
7:20AM Mark Wilson | If you’re a Google Chrome user, you may appreciate new Artist Themes — skins for Chrome by various famous fashion labels and designers. More » 
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Mobile Web Finally Easy Enough For Old People, Females, Teens
9:00AM Jason Chen | Nielsen’s mobile web statistics show that, from July 2008 to July 2009, the demographic groups of 65+, female and 13-17 showed the most usage growth. The least? 18-24 year olds, who are all up in this mobile web already. More »
Software
Google Chrome’s Getting Hardware-Accelerated 3D Graphics Powers
7:29AM Matt Buchanan | Google’s building their O3D plug-in—that lets browsers use hardware-accelerated 3D graphics—into Chrome. The idea behind O3D is that with hardware graphics acceleration, it’s possible for web apps to get even more intensive and sophisticated, closer to native apps—like games. Which makes Chrome OS’s web app-only approach look even more feasible. [Cnet]
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Google Wave Going (Semi)Public On September 30th
9:36PM John Herrman | In May, the world was SHOCKED to find out that Google was pregnant, again, with what could best be described as a genetically modified inter-species lovespawn between Gmail, Google Docs, Twitter and AIM. Google called it “Wave;” Matt called it “frothy;” whatever it is, it’ll become available to about 100,000 interested users come September, and has started rolling out to developers, API in tow, already. [Google via CNET] More »
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Will We See Google Chrome OS In The Mobile Space?
3:40AM Adrian Covert | At today’s Mobilebeat 2009 Conference, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra spoke about mobile platforms and what enables success. Interestingly enough, Gundotra quickly mentioned web app development as the future of successful mobile platforms. Does he mean Chrome OS? More »
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Microsoft Has A Counter To Chrome OS On Monday?
4:24AM Jason Chen | Scoble hints at Microsoft announcing something along the lines of the Google Chrome OS next Monday, but he can’t give any more details since he’s under embargo. [Friendfeed via i4u]
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Wolfram Alpha Is Actually a Frustrated Stand-Up Comedian
4:20AM Jesus Diaz | Yesterday we got some funny answers from Wolfram Alpha, the search engine that promised to enlighten us. Today, this catalog of silly answers uncovers its true nature as a failed stand-up comedian and pop culture expert. More »
Computers
New CrunchPad Prototype Photos and Video
8:27AM Andi Wang | Another prototype of the CrunchPad, Michael Arrington’s web tablet, has been revealed. More »
Gadgets
The Machine That Changed the World
2:00AM Jesus Diaz | Perhaps more than anything else previously invented, this pretty black box changed the world of communications, entertainment, commerce, scientific research, and even war forever. In fact, the world as we know it today would have never existed without it. More »
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