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My dear faithful readers. I’m terribly sorry about the recent trouble on The Beta News. I did an update a few days ago, unfortunately it messed up my .htaccess file. I’ve fixed that and everything is back to normal again. Well it is until I hit the “Update” button and update this blog to WordPress [...]

Curse ze French, they are ahead of us again. This time The French National Railway Company (SNFC) is testing train tickets on a 4 Gb. USB dongle. The USB ticket is called Weneo ID Smart. It consists of two chips. One that contains personal data and one with an ID-number, that is used when paying [...]

When I asked Leo Babauta from ZenHabits to Show Me Your Desktop, I didn’t know that I was about to set The Beta News record. With 4,298 views this is the most viewed page on The Beta News. It’s only fair that I help Leo Babuta and friends to spread the word about their latest [...]

One white page. One textbox. One button. And the information of the world is at your feet. I do have one suggestion for Google though, call it my birthday present. On September 7th Google celebrated its 10th birthday. Google was named by its two young Stanford University electrical engineering graduate students in misspelt homage to [...]

Thanks to my good friend Dan from Minute44.com, I’m now the proud owner of a iPhone icon. Well The Beta News are. If you go to www.thebetanews.com on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you will see the cool new logo. I’ve also added the Disqus plugin. I’m looking forward to using it. The plugin supports [...]

The next season of Show Me Your Desktop is about to start. The schedule is almost filled up. Some of the people featured in season 3 of Show Me Your Desktop is, Stowe Boyd, Chris Garrett, Chris Pirillo (L0ckergnome) and Gary Vaynerchuck, who, if everything works out, will be guest blogging right here on The [...]

I’ve found a new batch of really interesting links. Plurk is the new microblogging service that everyone is talking about. It can be a very addictive. RevenueRobot has gathered a few Plurk tools. I can recommend the Plurk tracking tool. Ping.fm let’s you post to all your microblogging sites at once or update your statuses. [...]

It’s time for another batch of very useful links: Twitter.com is down a lot and the latest statistics from Pingdom confirms this. From January to April twitter has been down 37 hours and 16 minutes. That’s 18.5 minutes a day. Mahalo VLOG Idol continues and The Beta News favourite, Lisa Brewster is still going strong. [...]

I was pleasantly surprised to see The Beta News mentioned on MoMB, Museum of Modern Betas a few days ago. I’ve always been a big fan of MoMB and the work Saurier Duval puts into it. If you are into twitter, you should check out MoMB’s top 100 popular twitter sites. Remember you can follow [...]

Windows 7 milestone is ready next year. According to many rumours, some sort of release milestone of Windows 7 will be ready in a year. (I guessed that in January). Paul Thurrott has a screenshot gallery of Windows 7. Twingly, the spam-free blog search engine, launched it’s private beta last week. I’ve got my hands [...]