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Tech Links for Friday, July 31, 2009

Justin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:39:40 +0000

★ Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
An Interesting Analysis on “The State of Microsoft” by John Gruber: ‘Windows is at the core of everything Microsoft does that makes money. They sell Windows, then they sell software that runs on Windows. As Windows goes, so goes Microsoft, and right now Windows is heading south.”
(Via daringfireball.net )

To arms! How to join David Pogue’s Take Back the Beep campaign
David Pogue’s “Take Back the Beep” campaign aims to shame the wireless companies into not running up your phone bill!
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NewsGator Daily: Google and NewsGator – What’s It All About?
NewsGator Online is dead / Long Live Google Reader!
(Via blogs.newsgator.com )

11 Cool iPhone Keypad Codes
Type in these codes to get back information about your mobile carrier, phone and billing details.
(Via www.makeuseof.com )

Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M | Hardware | Mac|Life | Mac|Life
MacLife review of the new Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner for the Mac: “ScanSnap’s best feature is also its main flaw: The feeder technique yields unprecedented speed at the cost of making it difficult to scan nonstandard page sizes. At the end of the day, though, it really has one job—to scan—and the ScanSnap does this exceedingly well.
(Via www.maclife.com )