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Dallas Mavs’ Josh Howard was already involved in a trade with the Kings for Ron Artest prior to the traffic incident and the Mavs turned it down. Have Howard’s latest antics secured his spot on the trading block? …
See the rest here: Dallas Mavs To-Do List: Shop Josh Howard

Apple releases the first update to the iPhone 2.0 software for the iPhone and iPod touch, which promises bug fixes (hopefully these bugs). Hit Update in iTunes to get it.
Excerpted from:iPhone 2.0 Software Update Out [Iphone 2.0]

Webapp EveryBlock delivers localized news from five major U.S. cities—New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Charlotte . EveryBlock aggregates data from a variety of sources, including previously mentioned Yelp, Craigslist, numerous blog posts and news outlets, and government databases. In New York, for example, one can look up information about graffiti clean-up requests (broken […]

Highlights of area happenings:
Excerpted from:Things to do on Tuesday, Aug. 5

Whether she’s appearing on a prime time TV show, gracing the silver screen, or writing, producing, and starring in her own hit web series, there’s no shortage of things to keep actress and gamer …
Read the original here: How Dr. Horrible’s Felicia Day Gets Things Done [Exclusive Lifehacker Interview]

If your Vista PC isn’t as speedy as you’d like, straight from the horse’s mouth comes a 14-page PDF document on Vista Performance and Tuning. Microsoft’s suggestions include customizing Vista’s power plan, sleeping the machine instead of shutting down, turning off search indexing in folders you don’t need it, disabling visual effects, using ReadyBoost to […]

Author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and other geeky tomes Neal Stephenson described how he wrote his first book at a 2003 USENIX keynote speech. After an editor accepted his book proposal, Stephenson had to complete the manuscript quickly:
With all his vacation time and the 4th of July holiday there were 10 days, in which to […]

If you have ever wondered about creating systems in your business, then consider reading the post I’ll introduce now. Rich Schefren, owner of Strategic Profits, had a great post today. He titled it “Anybody Seen the Instruction Mnual?”
Rich talks about how taking the time to outline a process can really help your business (and any […]

Click to Call Dials Calls from Your Browser (Firefox)“The GrandCentral Click to Call Firefox extension calls phone numbers on web pages using your GrandCentral account with the click of your mouse.”
EncryptOnClick Makes Securing Files Really Simple (Windows)“Have you ever wanted …
Excerpt from:This Week’s Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

A $9.99 iPhone tethering application called NetShare made a brief appearance in the App Store, but now it’s no longer available. The app purportedly let you use your iPhone’s data connection on your laptop by using it as a proxy server. Of course, you can tether your iPhone 2.0 for free by jailbreaking it.
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