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Last month I found Titanium, a powerfully simple platform that helps you build native iPhone and Adroid apps (mac, linux and windows too)  with only HTML, CSS and Javascript – the designers coding trifecta.

Titanium has helped fulfill a fantasy of mine dating back to 2007 when I got my first iPhone. The freedom to build my own personal portable web enabled software. Unfortunately, I found Objective-C “Cocoa” drastically different from anything I have done before – and thus never  found the passion to learn it. So my personal iPhone apps dream died, until last month. Thanks guys!

Titanium is FREE and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux – (I’m pretty sure you will need a Mac to build iPhone apps).

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Looking to clean up your online store? Check out this collection of free eCommerce buttons (available as individual images or the full Firewords document for editing).

This set includes : Checkout, Buy Now, Add to Cart, Add to Wishlist, Continue, Share, Update Cart, Previous, Next, Back, Info, Reset, Save, Search, Register, Login, Subscribe, Proceed, In stock, out of stock, update, Edit, Remove, Help and Chat Live.

Download this free set of eCommerce buttons here

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sugru can help you dramatically prolong the life of your stuff. By applying, in some cases, even a teeny tiny bit to your things, you get to keep them for much longer and decrease your impact on our wee world. Repair with gusto!

The team at TechCrunch and the boys at Fusion Garage were working on a pretty killer Tablet called the CrunchPad.

Unfortunately, TechCrunch just released news that the deal is dead in the water and stated that “We will almost certainly be filing multiple lawsuits against Fusion Garage, and possibly Chandra and his shareholders as individuals, shortly. The legal system will work it all out over time.”

In true TechCrunch fashion, CEO Michael Arrington brazenly reveals all of the details in this post.

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Stewart Alsop at Alsop Louie Partners ultimately says that the Motorola Droid is not ready for prime time.

From the post “The Motorola Droid is truly terrible, in part because it has such promise (and has been amazingly well reviewed — I worry I’m missing something). Ironically, most of the blame for the cruddiness of the phone really should be laid at Google’s feet, not Motorola’s.”

Read the full review Droid Doesn’t: It’s Not Ready For Prime Time · Alsop Louie Partners.

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. Thanks Hulu!

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Marissa Mayer leads Googles product management efforts on search products web search, images, news, books, products, maps, Google Earth, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Health, Google Labs and more.

She joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer and led the user interface and web server teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com.

Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. In her spare time, Marissa also organizes Google Movies outings a few times a year to see the latest blockbusters for 6,000+ people (employees plus family and friends).

via YouTube - Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products and User Experience, Google.

We are doing this early, almost a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with open source developers. There are many of you who share our passion for creating a new model of computing. Chromium OS makes it possible for any interested developer to contribute code, ideas and designs to help shape the future of personal computing.

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Bypassing the entire “AppStore Process”, Hahlo did the next best thing and built a killer Twitter client that runs on your phones browser.

Another bonus with the current phone browsers market, is the dominace of WebKit, which currently powers the iPhone, Android and Palm Pre’s web browsers.

From there website:
Hahlo is free to use, and free from unsightly ads, but as a consequence we rely on your donations to keep Hahlo up-to-date. Countless hours go into development and support and all contributions, big and small, are greatly appreciated. Big thanks to those who’ve already donated

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. This is a demo video to give you a feel for the Google Chrome OS user experience.

Google Chrome OS is an opensource operating system for people whos lives are spent online. Expect it to start showing up on limited Hardware (as they are not making it available for download).