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Google Revamps it Universal Web-App Look

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The new Google.com Interface Do you think you're tired of that simple hunting Google homepage? Can you desire Google would get clear involving it's basic design, and also help make this a lot more interesting. Very well, thank you in order to the brand-new Google web-app revamp, you are still out of luck. The brand new Google.com style in addition applies for you to all regarding the various other Google web-apps, as well as generally makes Google seem less complicated, though the Google experience has never changed very much. The new bring up to date places the particular links Google.com just about all from possibly the top or bottom of the page, making that less complicated to see the actual blankness of the other site. The actual Google logo design is now a bit scaled-down, and this particular also creates is less complicated for you to see the actual blankness involving the web page. It seems that the new Google color scheme is red and black. Although the actual Google

Hulu Plus: Now Available on Android

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If you wanted to watch movies or TV shows on your phone, but had an Android device, until recently you were mostly out of luck. Not too long ago, Netflix , the popular paid video streaming service, announced their Android version of their mobile application. Most probably due to issues of video piracy, it was only available on a few Android devices. Now Hulu Plus is following suit. Hulu.com is a website that allows you to watch clips of movies and TV shows, or even entire movies or TV shows for free. One can also sign up for Hulu Plus, which, at $7.99 per month, brings some more content, as well as allowing users to access Hulu from more devices, instead of just being able to watch from a browser. Hulu Plus was available for a while on the iPhone, Playstation 3, and XBOX 360, but the latest addition to the app lineup is Hulu Plus for Android. However, like the Netflix app for Android, Hulu Plus for Android is only available on a select six devices, with more devices coming late

Apple Unveils iCloud, iOS 5, Shows off Mac OSX Lion

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It's this time of year all over again! Apple holds a developer's conference every year in San Francisco called WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference, discussing, usually from more of an app developer's point of view, some of the new products or services that Apple is creating. This year's event was sold out in less than ten hours, and tickets weren't cheap either, so we'll see what they paid to see. Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO (Currently on medical leave), with the help of some fellow Apple employees, announced three new products/services, and showed off one more, that had already been announced. None of these three products are actual physical products, but they are just as interesting. Apple's iCloud logo iCloud:  The first product announced is called iCloud , and is an online service similar to the current, and slowly phasing  out, Apple service Mobile Me. iCloud is an online service that stores and syncs "your music, photos, apps, documents,

Microsoft Shows off Windows 8 for the First Time

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A lot has been going on at the current tech conference D9, from Google announcing it's first city supported on the new Google Offers , and now to Microsoft officially showing off, for the first time, Windows 8. Windows, Microsoft's widely used operating system, has gone though many versions over the the years, most recently XP, Vista, and 7. There have been many rumors about what we may see in the next version of Windows, which Microsoft is calling Windows 8. Many of the rumors involved blurring the line between desktop Windows and Windows Phone 7 .  The presentation Microsoft gave at D9 really showed that they were trying to blur the line between the desktop and mobile operating system. Microsoft also published a video, the first in a series of many, showing some of the new features found in Windows 8. As shown in the video below, the new Windows 8 UI will be based on the same tiles design as Windows phone 7, but will also have the ability to run regular Windows apps.

Google Offers Beta Arriving in Portland now, NYC and San Francisco Later

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Google had announced their Google Offers service, a service that sends you daily deals for a specific city, a while back. However, the service only started rolling out today, and in one city: Portland, Oregon. If you live in Portland, you can now go to offers.google.com , and sign up to receive daily deals by email. Support for New York City and San Francisco will come this summer, with more cities on their way. There are many services already that are similar to Google Offers, like Groupon and Living Social , so we kind of already know what to expect. The deals will most likely be for something that you weren't going to buy in the first place, but now that it's 50% off, you might.  An example given by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's announcement of the offers service is pictured below, and shows a certain coffee shop, which is offering $10 worth of drinks for only $5. Although you probably won't find those kinds of deals for a Starbucks, it still may