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solar

Sungevity Web App Makes Installing Solar Panels a Piece of Cake

Eco start-up company Sungevity is launching a new web application on Earth Day (three days away, people!) that will take the guess work out of solar panel installations. Enter your address on Sungevity's website and satellite-imaging software will zoom in on your home, calculate your roof's dimensions, select the right sized solar arrays and calculate how much money you'll save on energy costs. More »

Glide wins the race to work around the iPhone's crippled Web 2.0 support—word processing ahoy. [InfoWeek/Yahoo!]

sad bloggers

iPhone Web 2.0 Standards Support Sucks

Steve Jobs: "Our innovative approach, using Web 2.0-based standards, lets developers create amazing new applications while keeping the iPhone secure and reliable." Yeah, they're going to have to create them since the iPhone's current support of "Web 2.0" standards, in a word, blows. More »

software

Top Five iPhone Apps of the Moment

Here are the top five most useful iPhone apps we've come across so far.

iPhone AIM Chat: No iChat? Use Web-based iChat. AIM only.
The Gas finder app and OneTrip shopping list: Save money and time
Digg: An interface to browse digg. Great until Digg makes an iPhone-friendly version of their site.
Chess: No games on the iPhone means this bandwidth light app will occupy you on the bus, plus make you look like a pseud-intellectual if you play this instead of Bejewelled.
LivePhone: Look up Xbox Live profiles. Great for gamerscore nerds like us. Ok, me.


home entertainment

Tracking Shot: Free and Easy Pic 'n' Music Editing

Want to put together a quick and tasteful photo/music sequence? At Tracking Shot, upload some photos and a song, and the free Flash-based web app automagically mixes up a pictorial montage for you, syncing up your pics with the beat of your music. Tell it which pics are more important, select a few key areas of your photos for zooming, and it's off and running. Then, it's up there on the site for all to see. More »