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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/bestof2008_01.png" width="494"
height="290" Mobile phone operating systems and a reheated web browser war: that's how we'll recall
the year 2008 when it comes to software. From brand new to revamped browsers and mobile platforms
and apps, 2008's been good to technophiles who like their data in the cloud and accessible wherever
they are. Let's take a look back at this year in software, and some of the best new and improved
applications, web services, and mobile platforms that were born in 2008. Looking back at the last
12 months, these are the apps that get a gold foil-wrapped chocolate coin from us this year. iPhoto
by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/1947414336/"Gaetan Lee/a./i/p pbr clear="all"/p
h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"Firefox 3/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/firefox3-sq-thumb_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Not only did you swoon over the release of Firefox 3
because of a href="http://lifehacker.com/392160/top-10-firefox-3-features"the "AwesomeBar" and the
rest of the "Had no idea I needed this but now I love it!" features/a it offers, but because the
launch itself was a grass-roots community-driven effort towards making software history. Indeed, on
June 17th of this year, the makers of Firefox a
href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-07-02.html"set a new Guinness World Record
for most software downloads in a given day/a, at more than eight million downloads of the new
browser iteration in 24 hours. If you haven't dug into the advanced functionality Firefox has to
offer, check out our a href="http://lifehacker.com/396312/power-users-guide-to-firefox-3"power
user's guide to Firefox 3/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"Google
Chrome/h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/thumb160x_gchrome.png"
width="135" height="135"While Mozillians and Firefox users celebrated across the globe over the
summer, no one knew that search powerhouse Google was in the software development lab cooking up
their own lean, mean browsing machine that would forsake all of the fox's bells and whistles (and
extensibility) to run Javascript-based applications lightening-fast. On September 2nd, Google
released the first beta of a href="http://google.com/chrome/"Chrome/a, their new web browser which
they hope you'll make your window to the web and all its apps. Our own in-house a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5055406/browser-speed-tests-the-compiled-up+to+date-results"browser
speed tests show that Chrome is indeed speedy/a, and we're seeing a significant uptake on Chrome
usage by Lifehacker readers. (Last month's browser breakdown for Lifehacker readers was 62%
Firefox, 22% IE, 8% Safari, and 6% Chrome. Not bad for a browser that's been out only a few
months.) For more Chrome goodness, see our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5045904/the-power-users-guide-to-google-chrome"power user's guide to
Google Chrome/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"iPhone 2.0 and the
App Store/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/iphone20-sq-thumb_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Yeah, yeah, the iPhone launched in 2007, but this year the
iPhone 2.0 software and the new iPhone 3G model with a faster data plan and GPS came out to hype
almost as big as the original iPhone launch. The combination of an operating system that finally
ran third-party apps officially plus pinpointy GPS goodness set the bar for what users can expect
to get from the next generation of smartphone with a fast internet connection, full-on browser, and
spot-on location-awareness. Plus, dozens of the apps available for the phone are free. At first, we
were a href="http://lifehacker.com/395171/how-your-location+aware-iphone-will-change-your-life"in/a
a href="http://lifehacker.com/398338/iphone-20-gets-you-laid-and-more"love/a. Later, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/398658/why-youre-better-off-avoiding-the-iphone"we had our doubts/a.
The iPhone 2.0 launch did start to show some of the cracks in the Apple armormdash;several of the
earliest versions of the software were crash and freeze-prone, requiring many users to uninstall
apps and reset their phone software to fix maddening keyboard delays and application crashes.
Meanwhile, Apple's approval-only App Store left a few applications out in the cold. Still, the
iPhone 2.0 software created a compelling mobile platform and app marketing campaign that made Aunt
Bertha really want to try that Neil Diamond song out on Shazam.br clear="all"/p h3
style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak Utilities and Apps/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/cydia-thumb.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" What with the App Store limitations and Apple's insistence
on ruling over what you can and cannot do on your phone, it's not surprising the enthusiastic
"jailbreak" community soldiered on this year, continuing to offer installers and non-Apple-approved
applications for your iPhone even in the face of the mainstream iTunes App Store. We take our hats
off to these intrepid hackers, who offer such lovely functionality as the ability to SSH into,
theme, and download video clips to your phone; if you haven't jailbroken your iPhone or iPod touch,
here are a few of our picks of best a
href="http://lifehacker.com/400148/iphone-20-jailbreak-apps-you-cant-find-in-the-itunes-store"iPhone
2.0 jailbreak apps you can't find in the iTunes Store/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%;
margin-top: 20px;"Google Android/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/android-logo-sq.png" width="135"
height="135" Google's answer to Apple's proprietary iPhone hardware and software came in the form
of their very own touch mobile phone operating system, Android, which launched this past October.
Unlike the iPhone, this new mobile platform is open source and will run on various handsets going
forward. Right now Android's first release is only available on the HTC G1 handset; you can see our
a href="http://lifehacker.com/5064117/a-hands+on-first-look-at-google-android"hands-on first look
at Google Android running on the G1 here/a. As an iPhone user frustrated by limited apps,
crashiness, and lack of copy and paste, Android is like a breath of fresh air. Even though the
mobile OS is still very new, its open-source nature has led to hundreds of new apps. See our pick
of a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5075332/best-android-apps-to-boost-your-mobile-productivity-so-far"best
Android apps to boost your mobile productivity/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%;
margin-top: 20px;"Digsby/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/digsby-logo_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" One of the few software apps on this list that's not open
source or made by a ginormous company, new instant messenger client Digsby took chatters by storm
with its ability to a
href="http://lifehacker.com/354345/consolidate-im-email-and-social-networking-with-digsby"consolidate
your IM, email, and social networking in one place/a. Even though the Digsby beta only went public
in February, by April it was already a
href="http://lifehacker.com/375391/five-best-instant-messengers"one of our readers' top five
favorite instant messaging tools/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"XBMC and Forks/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/xbmc-logo-sq_01.png" width="135"
height="135" We were really late to the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) party when we showed up last year
and a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/transform-your-classic-xbox-into-a-killer-media-center-299809.php"installed
it on our old classic Xbox/a, but since then we've been hooked on this rich, open-source media
center. Luckily, just because those old black boxes are becoming obselete doesn't mean the XBMC
software project has died off. Just the opposite: XBMC has forked into several neat branches that
run on various hardware platforms so you can enjoy the same media center goodness without hacking
an old Xbox. Check out a few launches from various factions of XBMC developers this past year that
have warmed our hearts:/p ul lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/5051874/xbmc-atlantis-beta-1-released-for-all-platforms"XBMC 'Atlantis'
Beta 1 Released for All Platforms/a/li lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/5095241/plex-7-adds-itunes-and-iphoto-support-and-more"Plex 7 for Mac
Adds iTunes and iPhoto Support and More/a/li lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/396382/boxee-is-xbmc-with-newer-look-and-social-flair"Boxee Is XBMC
with Newer Look and Social Flair/a/li /ul br clear="all" h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Ubuntu Hardy Heron/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/hardyheron-logo.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Another year, another Ubuntu release, and they just keep
getting better. Seriously, you have to love the free, open source operating system that manages a
new major release on a yearly basismdash;something Apple and Microsoft, companies you pay hundreds
of dollars to for the privilege of using their software, don't pull off. If you've tried Linux on
your desktop before and killed the partition in frustration, only to slink back to Windows, it's
time to give it another go. This year's flavor, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/383769/hardy-heron-makes-linux-worth-another-look"version 8.04 Hardy
Heron makes Linux worth another look/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Gmail Labs, Gadgets, and Themes/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/thumb160x_thumb160x_thumb160x_thumb160x_smallish_smallish_smallish_smallish_gmailenvelope.png"
width="135" height="135" Our favorite web application on the internet, Gmail, continues to burn
down barns and rip up the competition with continual iteration and feature adds. This year, Gmail
added a "Labs" section to your account, a safe way for power users to enable "experimental" power
features to their email while keeping everyone else's safe from harm. Truthfully, when I a
href="http://lifehacker.com/395211/gmail-gets-13-experimental-new-features"attended the Google
press event announcing Gmail Labs/a back in June, I had my doubts about whether or not the
featureset would ever expand beyond the initial 13, and if it would go beyond eye-candy games like
Snakey to, you know, actually useful stuff. Turns out it did. Six months later, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5052060/what-gmail-labs-features-do-you-have-enabled"ten more Gmail
Labs features/a are available in your account, including a super-useful Gadgets feature that lets
third parties embed their apps into your inbox. (Like a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5101139/bitly-offers-in+gmail-url-shortening-gadget"Bit.ly/a or a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5084502/add-your-basecamp-projects-to-gmail"Basecamp/a.) Later, Gmail
launched a href="http://lifehacker.com/5093536/gmail-updates-its-look-adds-themes"themes/a as well
as a href="http://lifehacker.com/5100649/gmail-google-desktop-gadget-now-available"a Google Desktop
gadget/a. In the midst of all this, the Gmail security team took the time a
href="http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/gmail-security-and-recent-phishing.html"to
respond to a breach/a that several users had experienced and blogged about online. Clearly there's
someone home at Gmail; this is a rapidly-evolving product that any webapp developer should use as
an example on how to iterate quickly.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Honorable Mentions/h3 pMaking best-of-year lists is always difficult because you risk leaving
off really deserving items. At least two that go in our honorable mentions bin are the a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5042312/ubiquity-prototype-offers-a-natural-language-web-command-line"Firefox
keyboard interface prototype Ubiquity/a, and photo-sharing site a
href="http://lifehacker.com/377598/flickr-adds-video"Flickr's launch of short video clips/a in
April./p pNow, you tell us which one of these apps impressed you the most in the year two thousand
and eight./p pscript type="text/javascript" language="javascript"
src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/1160637.js" /scriptnoscripta
href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1160637/"Which new or improved app impressed you the most
in 2008?/abr span style="font-size:9px;"( a href="http://www.polldaddy.com"polls/a)/span/noscript/p
pIf you can't get enough of best-of lists, hop into the time machine and see our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-new-and-improved-apps-of-2007-332617.php"top
10 new and improved apps of 2007/a, and our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/best-of-2006/geek-to-live--the-best-apps-of-2006-221920.php"best
apps of 2006/a and of a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-best-apps-of-2005-144388.php"2005/a./p
pAnything you would have included on this list that we left out? Tell us about it in the
comments./p br style="clear: both;"/ a
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Lifehacker -
14 hours and 53 minutes ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/bestof2008_01.png" width="494"
height="290" style="display:block;" / iframe
src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.php?u=http://digg.com/software/Lifehacker_Best_New_and_Improved_Software_of_2008"
align="right" frameborder="0" height="82" scrolling="no" width="55"/iframe Mobile phone operating
systems and a reheated web browser war: that's how we'll recall the year 2008 when it comes to
software. From brand new to revamped browsers and mobile platforms and apps, 2008's been good to
technophiles who like their data in the cloud and accessible wherever they are. Let's take a look
back at this year in software, and some of the best new and improved applications, web services,
and mobile platforms that were born in 2008. Looking back at the last 12 months, these are the apps
that get a gold foil-wrapped chocolate coin from us this year. iPhoto by a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/1947414336/"Gaetan Lee/a./i/p pbr clear="all"/p h3
style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"Firefox 3/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/firefox3-sq-thumb_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Not only did you swoon over the release of Firefox 3
because of a href="http://lifehacker.com/392160/top-10-firefox-3-features"the "AwesomeBar" and the
rest of the "Had no idea I needed this but now I love it!" features/a it offers, but because the
launch itself was a grass-roots community-driven effort towards making software history. Indeed, on
June 17th of this year, the makers of Firefox a
href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-07-02.html"set a new Guinness World Record
for most software downloads in a given day/a, at more than eight million downloads of the new
browser iteration in 24 hours. If you haven't dug into the advanced functionality Firefox has to
offer, check out our a href="http://lifehacker.com/396312/power-users-guide-to-firefox-3"power
user's guide to Firefox 3/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"Google
Chrome/h3 pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/thumb160x_gchrome.png"
width="135" height="135"While Mozillians and Firefox users celebrated across the globe over the
summer, no one knew that search powerhouse Google was in the software development lab cooking up
their own lean, mean browsing machine that would forsake all of the fox's bells and whistles (and
extensibility) to run Javascript-based applications lightening-fast. On September 2nd, Google
released the first beta of a href="http://google.com/chrome/"Chrome/a, their new web browser which
they hope you'll make your window to the web and all its apps. Our own in-house a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5055406/browser-speed-tests-the-compiled-up+to+date-results"browser
speed tests show that Chrome is indeed speedy/a, and we're seeing a significant uptake on Chrome
usage by Lifehacker readers. (Last month's browser breakdown for Lifehacker readers was 62%
Firefox, 22% IE, 8% Safari, and 6% Chrome. Not bad for a browser that's been out only a few
months.) For more Chrome goodness, see our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5045904/the-power-users-guide-to-google-chrome"power user's guide to
Google Chrome/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"iPhone 2.0 and the
App Store/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/iphone20-sq-thumb_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Yeah, yeah, the iPhone launched in 2007, but this year the
iPhone 2.0 software and the new iPhone 3G model with a faster data plan and GPS came out to hype
almost as big as the original iPhone launch. The combination of an operating system that finally
ran third-party apps officially plus pinpointy GPS goodness set the bar for what users can expect
to get from the next generation of smartphone with a fast internet connection, full-on browser, and
spot-on location-awareness. Plus, dozens of the apps available for the phone are free. At first, we
were a href="http://lifehacker.com/395171/how-your-location+aware-iphone-will-change-your-life"in/a
a href="http://lifehacker.com/398338/iphone-20-gets-you-laid-and-more"love/a. Later, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/398658/why-youre-better-off-avoiding-the-iphone"we had our doubts/a.
The iPhone 2.0 launch did start to show some of the cracks in the Apple armormdash;several of the
earliest versions of the software were crash and freeze-prone, requiring many users to uninstall
apps and reset their phone software to fix maddening keyboard delays and application crashes.
Meanwhile, Apple's approval-only App Store left a few applications out in the cold. Still, the
iPhone 2.0 software created a compelling mobile platform and app marketing campaign that made Aunt
Bertha really want to try that Neil Diamond song out on Shazam.br clear="all"/p h3
style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: 20px;"iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak Utilities and Apps/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/cydia-thumb.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" What with the App Store limitations and Apple's insistence
on ruling over what you can and cannot do on your phone, it's not surprising the enthusiastic
"jailbreak" community soldiered on this year, continuing to offer installers and non-Apple-approved
applications for your iPhone even in the face of the mainstream iTunes App Store. We take our hats
off to these intrepid hackers, who offer such lovely functionality as the ability to SSH into,
theme, and download video clips to your phone; if you haven't jailbroken your iPhone or iPod touch,
here are a few of our picks of best a
href="http://lifehacker.com/400148/iphone-20-jailbreak-apps-you-cant-find-in-the-itunes-store"iPhone
2.0 jailbreak apps you can't find in the iTunes Store/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%;
margin-top: 20px;"Google Android/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/android-logo-sq.png" width="135"
height="135" Google's answer to Apple's proprietary iPhone hardware and software came in the form
of their very own touch mobile phone operating system, Android, which launched this past October.
Unlike the iPhone, this new mobile platform is open source and will run on various handsets going
forward. Right now Android's first release is only available on the HTC G1 handset; you can see our
a href="http://lifehacker.com/5064117/a-hands+on-first-look-at-google-android"hands-on first look
at Google Android running on the G1 here/a. As an iPhone user frustrated by limited apps,
crashiness, and lack of copy and paste, Android is like a breath of fresh air. Even though the
mobile OS is still very new, its open-source nature has led to hundreds of new apps. See our pick
of a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5075332/best-android-apps-to-boost-your-mobile-productivity-so-far"best
Android apps to boost your mobile productivity/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%;
margin-top: 20px;"Digsby/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/digsby-logo_01.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" One of the few software apps on this list that's not open
source or made by a ginormous company, new instant messenger client Digsby took chatters by storm
with its ability to a
href="http://lifehacker.com/354345/consolidate-im-email-and-social-networking-with-digsby"consolidate
your IM, email, and social networking in one place/a. Even though the Digsby beta only went public
in February, by April it was already a
href="http://lifehacker.com/375391/five-best-instant-messengers"one of our readers' top five
favorite instant messaging tools/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"XBMC and Forks/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/xbmc-logo-sq_01.png" width="135"
height="135" We were really late to the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) party when we showed up last year
and a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/transform-your-classic-xbox-into-a-killer-media-center-299809.php"installed
it on our old classic Xbox/a, but since then we've been hooked on this rich, open-source media
center. Luckily, just because those old black boxes are becoming obselete doesn't mean the XBMC
software project has died off. Just the opposite: XBMC has forked into several neat branches that
run on various hardware platforms so you can enjoy the same media center goodness without hacking
an old Xbox. Check out a few launches from various factions of XBMC developers this past year that
have warmed our hearts:/p ul lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/5051874/xbmc-atlantis-beta-1-released-for-all-platforms"XBMC 'Atlantis'
Beta 1 Released for All Platforms/a/li lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/5095241/plex-7-adds-itunes-and-iphoto-support-and-more"Plex 7 for Mac
Adds iTunes and iPhoto Support and More/a/li lia
href="http://lifehacker.com/396382/boxee-is-xbmc-with-newer-look-and-social-flair"Boxee Is XBMC
with Newer Look and Social Flair/a/li /ul br clear="all" h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Ubuntu Hardy Heron/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/hardyheron-logo.png" width="135"
height="135" align="right" class="right" Another year, another Ubuntu release, and they just keep
getting better. Seriously, you have to love the free, open source operating system that manages a
new major release on a yearly basismdash;something Apple and Microsoft, companies you pay hundreds
of dollars to for the privilege of using their software, don't pull off. If you've tried Linux on
your desktop before and killed the partition in frustration, only to slink back to Windows, it's
time to give it another go. This year's flavor, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/383769/hardy-heron-makes-linux-worth-another-look"version 8.04 Hardy
Heron makes Linux worth another look/a.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Gmail Labs, Gadgets, and Themes/h3 pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/thumb160x_thumb160x_thumb160x_thumb160x_smallish_smallish_smallish_smallish_gmailenvelope.png"
width="135" height="135" Our favorite web application on the internet, Gmail, continues to burn
down barns and rip up the competition with continual iteration and feature adds. This year, Gmail
added a "Labs" section to your account, a safe way for power users to enable "experimental" power
features to their email while keeping everyone else's safe from harm. Truthfully, when I a
href="http://lifehacker.com/395211/gmail-gets-13-experimental-new-features"attended the Google
press event announcing Gmail Labs/a back in June, I had my doubts about whether or not the
featureset would ever expand beyond the initial 13, and if it would go beyond eye-candy games like
Snakey to, you know, actually useful stuff. Turns out it did. Six months later, a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5052060/what-gmail-labs-features-do-you-have-enabled"ten more Gmail
Labs features/a are available in your account, including a super-useful Gadgets feature that lets
third parties embed their apps into your inbox. (Like a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5101139/bitly-offers-in+gmail-url-shortening-gadget"Bit.ly/a or a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5084502/add-your-basecamp-projects-to-gmail"Basecamp/a.) Later, Gmail
launched a href="http://lifehacker.com/5093536/gmail-updates-its-look-adds-themes"themes/a as well
as a href="http://lifehacker.com/5100649/gmail-google-desktop-gadget-now-available"a Google Desktop
gadget/a. In the midst of all this, the Gmail security team took the time a
href="http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/gmail-security-and-recent-phishing.html"to
respond to a breach/a that several users had experienced and blogged about online. Clearly there's
someone home at Gmail; this is a rapidly-evolving product that any webapp developer should use as
an example on how to iterate quickly.br clear="all"/p h3 style="font-size: 120%; margin-top:
20px;"Honorable Mentions/h3 pMaking best-of-year lists is always difficult because you risk leaving
off really deserving items. At least two that go in our honorable mentions bin are the a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5042312/ubiquity-prototype-offers-a-natural-language-web-command-line"Firefox
keyboard interface prototype Ubiquity/a, and photo-sharing site a
href="http://lifehacker.com/377598/flickr-adds-video"Flickr's launch of short video clips/a in
April./p pNow, you tell us which one of these apps impressed you the most in the year two thousand
and eight./p pscript type="text/javascript" language="javascript"
src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/1160637.js" /scriptnoscripta
href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1160637/"Which new or improved app impressed you the most
in 2008?/abr span style="font-size:9px;"( a href="http://www.polldaddy.com"polls/a)/span/noscript/p
pIf you can't get enough of best-of lists, hop into the time machine and see our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-new-and-improved-apps-of-2007-332617.php"top
10 new and improved apps of 2007/a, and our a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/best-of-2006/geek-to-live--the-best-apps-of-2006-221920.php"best
apps of 2006/a and of a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-best-apps-of-2005-144388.php"2005/a./p
pAnything you would have included on this list that we left out? Tell us about it in the
comments./p br style="clear: both;"/ a
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Actualités PDAfrance -
14 hours and 58 minutes ago
Le T-Mobile G1 n'est plus le seul smartphone sur le marcheacute; agrave; embarquer Google Android.
En effet, le constructeur chinois Tech Faith Wireless en collaboration avec le marque QIGI
viennen...
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iTWire - Latest Headlines -
15 hours and 33 minutes ago
LGrsquo;s 8 megapixel ldquo;Renoirrdquo; touch screen smartphone has finally arrived in Australia,
with an advertising campaign showing just how many features have been squeezed in to challenge the
iPhone, Omnia and even the...
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Games and Geeks -
15 hours and 39 minutes ago
L#8217;actualité était bouillante hier avec l#8217;annonce du Nokia N97. Je vous ait
déjà donné les grandes lignes, mais voici les détails pour ce
smartphone qui sortira durant la première moitié de 2009. Configuration
matérielle du Nokia N97 Le Nokia N97 ça sera du haut de gamme à tous les
points. La qualité est vraiment celle d#8217;un ordinateur [...]
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Ubergizmo FR -
16 hours and 6 minutes ago
div style="FLOAT: right"img title="HTML editeur disponible pour le S60 Smartphone" alt="HTML
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pN'avez vous jamais révé de pouvoir éditer votre blog ou une de vos pages HTML
sur votre S60 Smartphone ? Ou, imaginez la situation où vous n'êtes pas devant un
ordinateur et que quelqu'un vous téléphone pour vous dire qu'une de vos pages web
contient des erreurs. Et bien, grâce au Editeur de HTML pour S60 smartphone, il ne vous
suffira que de quelque minutes pour mettre à jour votre site web. L'application est à
la base un simple éditeur pour Symbain sur les S60, conçu pour éditer du HTML.
Le programme permet d'éditer, de créer, ou de manipuler du HTML rapidement et
facilement. Une fois que votre page est prête, il ne reste qu'à le
télécharger directement sur le serveur avec le client FTP SIC et tout ça, sans
avoir besoin d'un ordinateur ! Dommage que la pré-visualisation ne soit pas
implémentée./p pPermalink: a
href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr/archives/2008/12/html_editeur_disponible_pour_le_s60_smartphone.php"HTML
editeur disponible pour le S60 Smartphone/a d'a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"Ubergizmo FR/a.
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Actualités PDAfrance -
17 hours and 35 minutes ago
RoverPC n'est pas le constructeur de smartphones le plus connu au monde, mais son petit nouveau, le
Pro G7, meacute;rite tout de mecirc;me un petit coup d'oeil. Ce mobile integrave;gre en effet ...
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Gizmodo -
19 hours and 54 minutes ago
After besting BlackBerry and the Razr, the iPhone has seized its largest parcel of the global
smartphone market yet: 16.6 percent. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually a pretty big
deal....
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Gizmodo -
19 hours and 54 minutes ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/applearnings.jpg" width="500"
height="254" style="display:block;" /After a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5066543/apple-quarterly-earnings-69-million-iphones-sold-more-phones-than-rim"besting
BlackBerry/a and a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5082165/iphone-passes-the-razr-to-become-best-selling-phone-in-the-us-this-quarter"the
Razr/a, the iPhone has seized its largest parcel of the global smartphone market yet: a
href="http://cultofmac.com/iphone-now-has-166-percent-of-world-smartphone-market/5390"16.6
percent/a. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually a pretty big deal./p pimg
src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/smartphones.jpg" width="755"
height="398" class="center"You actually have to look at Nokia's numbers, though, to understand why.
The global smartphone leader by a huge margin, its marketshare shrank from 63.3 percent to just
43.6 percent. So, not only did it lose 20 percent of its grip, its marketshare fell below 50
percent for the first time in several years, according to Needham's chart. And, more to the point,
its drop is roughly proportional with the iPhone's rise in the last quarter. In fact, the iPhone is
the only reason smartphone growth did not slow overall. FWIW, RIM and Windows Mobile's marketshare
stayed roughly constant, dipping slightly./p pEven though it's not like the iPhone is stealing
Nokia's users directlymdash;many of the iPhone's are first-time "smartphone" owners in the
USmdash;it does make it painfully clear how unwise it is for Nokia to essentially forego certain
segments of the market. Hey, guess who their flagship a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5100707/nokia-n97-unveiled-the-first-high+end-n+series-touch-phone?skyline=trues=x"N97/a
precisely doesn't target? [a
rhef="http://cultofmac.com/iphone-now-has-166-percent-of-world-smartphone-market/5390"Cult of
Mac/a, a
href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/02/iphone_single_handedly_driving_smartphone_growth.html"AI/a]/p
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CNET News.com -
19 hours and 59 minutes ago
Apples iPhone ensured the smartphone market would continue its strong growth during the third
quarter, while the rest of the market wavered.
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CNET News.com -
19 hours and 59 minutes ago
Apples iPhone ensured the smartphone market would continue its strong growth during the third
quarter, while the rest of the market wavered.
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CNET News.com - Personal Tech -
19 hours and 59 minutes ago
Apples iPhone ensured the smartphone market would continue its strong growth during the third
quarter, while the rest of the market wavered.img
src=http://dw.com.com/clear/c.gif?ts=1115768950edId=3prtnr=CNET%20Networks,%20Inc.oid=2100-null-ptId=2547onId=nullsId=17asId=astId=1CTYPE=rss_feedsCVAL=
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Fuzz - News en attente : -
21 hours and 31 minutes ago
À cheval entre le smartphone et le netbook, le Nokia N97 se présente comme
étant l'ordinateur mobile le plus performant au monde.8 Vote(s)
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Hackint0sh - iPod Touch -
21 hours and 44 minutes ago
via AppleInsider:
In addition to outselling a broad and combined range of Windows Mobile handsets, Apple's iPhone 3G
is being credited this week as the lone force responsible for growth of the smartphone market
during the September quarter. 
More... |
Linux Today -
23 hours and 52 minutes ago
Business Week: "iPhone hackers have just managed to replace Apple's own operating
system that comes with the device with Linux software. That could be the beginning of a seismic
shift for smartphone software. It opens the door for open-source operating systems to jump onto
devices not built specifically for them."
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Techmeme -
1 days ago
 Electronista:
iPhone
soars to 16.6% of smartphone market — The iPhone is now not only
the second most popular smartphone in the world but has saved the smartphone industry from a
decline this past summer, according to a research note by Needham analyst Charlie Wolf.
Apple's handset has represented …
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DCEmu Forums:: The Homebrew & Gaming Network :: PSP Dreamcast Nintendo DS Wii GP2X Xbox 360 GBA Gamecube PS2 Forums - Dreamcast News Forum -
1 days and 1 hours ago
DVD Catalyst 3 converts movies quickly and easily into a format that can be played on a portable
device (Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Sony PSP, Creative Zen, Smartphone, PocketPC and more) It offers
a multitude of different video types it can create, allowing it to even create video files for
non-listed or brand-new devices. DVD Catalyst 3 incorporates an extensive feature list, with many
unique, handy and industry-first options to make your conversions as easy as possible, while
providing you with the best possible quality. DVD Catalyst 3 uses the award-winning open source
mplayer/mencoder projects for detection and conversion, which allows DVD Catalyst to convert just
about anything to any format without the need of having codec's installed on your computer.
http://software.smartphonethoughts.c...for-any-device |
DCEmu Forums:: The Homebrew & Gaming Network :: PSP Dreamcast Nintendo DS Wii GP2X Xbox 360 GBA Gamecube PS2 Forums - Dreamcast News Forum -
1 days and 1 hours ago
DVD Catalyst 3 converts movies quickly and easily into a format that can be played on a portable
device (Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Sony PSP, Creative Zen, Smartphone, PocketPC and more) It offers
a multitude of different video types it can create, allowing it to even create video files for
non-listed or brand-new devices. DVD Catalyst 3 incorporates an extensive feature list, with many
unique, handy and industry-first options to make your conversions as easy as possible, while
providing you with the best possible quality. DVD Catalyst 3 uses the award-winning open source
mplayer/mencoder projects for detection and conversion, which allows DVD Catalyst to convert just
about anything to any format without the need of having codec's installed on your computer.
http://software.smartphonethoughts.c...for-any-device |
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