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Smart Technologies has released version 11 of its collaborative learning tool, Smart Notebook. The company has also released an update to Smart Response and 3D Tools for Mac OS X.

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Dropbox has just announced an update to its self-named service that provides new public sharing links. This update, which appears to be an end-run against the imminent launch of Google's competing Drive app, makes it possible to share read-only folders with anyone -- regardless of whether or not they have a Dropbox account.

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When I first read the description of MagicReader, I thought it was just too good to be true. A reading app for iPad that flips pages with just a turn of your head? No way. But then I remembered that the iPad has a front camera, and the app must be using it to detect faces and the necessary head movements. I was right.

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If you've been putting Evernote through its paces on your Android device, a new update adds a few more bells and whistles. First, the outfit has integrated speech-to-text transcription to go alongside its existing audio notes feature. Don't worry, the original audio is also attached to each note and the new tool can be disabled for sound-only reminders. This feature only works with Android 4.0 tech and "certain other devices" though.

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The next big release of LibreOffice is due out next week, The Document Foundation has promised.
It's a victory lap for a small group of developers who left Oracle to try and improve a solid free alternative to Microsoft Office.

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Delicious has just announced 4 new features to make its stacks, or collections of links, more social. Because the only thing better than a bundle of your favorite kitten websites is bundle co-created by you and your friends.

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Get ready with your "slow news day?" comments, because Microsoft has introduced an Achievement system to its Visual Studio programming environment and this is indeed a news story highlighting that fact.

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Omnibar is free, and runs as a SIMBL plug-in; it works with the latest versions of Safari in both Lion and Snow Leopard. After you install the plug-in and restart Safari, the search box in Safari’s toolbar will vanish. Now, when you type search terms into the single location field and press return, you’ll trigger an immediate Google search.

safari adds search location bar browsers macworld

Here's an interesting concept for a case meant to make the iPad usable for blind and visually impaired customers. The Omnifer almost covers the iPad completely, save for a small portion of the screen, and adds raised Braille buttons.

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Twitter is ramping up its social media aspects, by adding a couple of features that are very Facebook-ish.

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Google has actually detected a major a massive influx of “unusual search traffic” that’s flowing through its data centers due to malware-infested Windows machines. As Google can detect whether your machine is one of the large number of compromised PCs that harbor this malicious piece of software, it can also warn you about it.

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"*Free as in fring itself is a free app and you don't incur extra fees for using video calling. All the other happy iPhone-related fees apply."

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