A Pew Internet & American Life study has refuted the idea that use of the Internet necessarily leads to decreased social isolation. Quite the opposite!, yelled a character in a Charles Dickens novel. It turns out that as people continually use things like Twitter, Facebook, and the like, they’re both expanding their social circle and increasing contact with said circle.

The old way of thinking was that spending all day on the computer would come at the expense of maintainingSource: CrunchGear RSS Feed

Windows only: System cleaning utility Moo0 DiskCleaner’s dead-simple interface makes short work of clearing out all those unwanted temporary files, cookies, browser history, and MRU lists.

Once you’ve installed and launched the application, just check the boxes for everything you’d like to clean up and click the Clean Now! button. There’s not a whole lot of other functionality, other than the ability to change the application skin, and set it to clean automatically when yourSource: TechBlogger RSS Feed

Apple announced today that the number of apps in the AppStore has now crossed 100,000. That’s a remarkable achievement for a platform that launched just 15 months ago.

As we’ve said before, the momentum behind Apple’s iPhone and iPod
Touch seems unstoppable. The 100,000 number should strike fear among
Apple’s competitors, who are so far behind. Whether it’s Nintendo with
the DS game handheld, Sony with the PlayStation Portable and PSPgo, or
the appSource: iPhone News Updated RSS Feed

The Ferrari Enzo is an amazing piece of engineering from one of the most storied names in racing. The million-dollar ride is named for the patriarch and founder of Ferrari, and it was the yardstick by which supercars were measured when it appeared in 2002. Its flawless function dictated an amazing F-1 inspired form. And now that very form has been named one of the ugliest cars of the past 50 years.

That’s right. The knuckleheads over at BusinessWeek have cast the Enzo into the sameSource: Autopia RSS Feed

The first racetrack I ever drove on was Mosport’s “Big Track” — not exactly an introduction for the squeamish. I’ve added thirty-seven more road courses, ovals, and dragstrips since then. I’ve listed them after the jump, with a brief note on each. Why not add yours and talk about them?

(If, on the other hand, you just want some track-outline keyrings like my Mid-Ohio and VIR examples above, check out 1552v2 Designs.)

Altamont Raceway Park – 24 Hours ofSource: Speed:Sport:Life RSS Feed

Remember the movie Cannonball Run?  You know, back when Burt Reynolds had a full head of hair.  Well, when I was a wee lad and I saw that movie in the theatre, the image of those two ladies with the huge racks piloting their Lamborghini Countach down the freeway and tagging the 55 MPH speed limit signs changed my life forever.

Fast forward a couple of decades, ole Burt’s hair line has receded but my yearning for an all out open road race adventure has not.  Roll tape onSource: Speed:Sport:Life RSS Feed

We all know that one of the main benefits of an SSD is that it allows your computer to boot much faster than using a traditional HDD. The SSD also allows users to access their apps faster as well. A-DATA has unveiled a new SSD that it claims to be the industry’s fastest called the S596.

The SSD offers sequential read speed of 250MB/sec and a sequential write speed of 180MB/sec. The drive also uses a DDR2 SDRAM cache buffer that allows it to boot faster than the typical SSD.

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Remember the Alex ebook reader? And remember how everyone thought it looked awfully similar to the nook? Apparently Spring Designs, the creators of the Alex, … [visit site to ]

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1. Exciting Plastic Logic eReader uses Barnes & Noble eBookstore for eReading 700,000 eBooks
2. Barnes and Noble unveils the Nook
3. Report from the trenches: Recon at Barnes and Noble

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Instant Hidden Internet allows you quickly hide or close all internet browser windows, chat windows and folder windows with the touch of a customizable hot key sequence.
Instant Hidden Internet will automatically hide any new chat windows or notifications that pop-up (e.g. someone initiates a conversation with you) and hide system tray icons.
Instant Hidden Internet is compatible with virtually all internet browsers and with many chat programs: AIM (AOL), ICQ, MSNSource: iMESSENGR RSS Feed

Looks like the number of folks who are addicted to iPhone apps is on an upswing. Check out this graph and you’ll see the increase in the number of iPhone app addicts.

Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company, says that in September, about half a million people among the 40 million users it tracked used apps more than 100 times per month.

Flurry calls folks who use an app more than 100 times per month, or more than three times each day of the month, “addicts.”Source: GigaOM Network RSS Feed