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Share Your Latest Purchases With Scordit

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Scordit Quick Pitch: A social site where you share the stuff you’ve bought or want to get, and win prizes by doing it! Genius Idea: It’s nice to share your new purchases or “scores” with friends or to let people know what stuff you really want to score in the future. Likewise, it’s fun to see what your friends are scoring or adding to their wishlists
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PlayStation First to Sell HD Movies from All Major Studios

Sony Computer Entertainment is proudly shouting “FIRST” (YouTube commenter-style) with an announcement that claims the PlayStation Network is the first online service to sell high-definition movies from all the major movie studios: Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Warner Bros and, of course, Sony Pictures. Some of the content has been around for a while — for example, NBC Universal videos debuted on the PlayStation Network one year ago tomorrow — but PlayStation owners have access to a few new movies today. They include Up , G-Force , Earth , Star Trek , Paranormal Activity , Zoolander , This Is It , 2012 , District 9 , Zombieland , Inglourious Basterds , Couples Retreat , Public Enemies , The Hangover , Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Wizard of Oz . All the studios but Fox are represented there; Fox’s new contributions ( Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian , Jennifer’s Body and Fantastic Mr. Fox ) will debut on the PSN this Saturday, March 13
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ShiftPlanning Makes Setting Schedules for Businesses Easy

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: ShiftPlanning Quick Pitch: ShiftPlanning Provides free employee scheduling tools to businesses of all sizes. Genius Idea: ShiftPlanning is a web-based tool for companies that want a way to easily and efficiently manage work schedules and availability
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From the Tips Box: File Extensions, USB Charging, and Time Tracking [From The Tips Box]

Readers offer their best tips for quickly showing and hiding file extensions, charging devices with your computer turned off, and using a cellphone as a long-term stopwatch. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption
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DotNetNuke Makes It Easier For You To Build Feature-Rich, Interactive Web Sites And Applications

DotNetNuke Community Edition is a leading free open-source content management system for ASP.NET websites.  With DotNetNuke, you can quickly and effectively deploy dynamic web applications with almost no technical knowledge, however if you are an ASP.NET developer, you can customize it in the way you want to fulfill your specific needs.  Whether you need to deploy a simple website or a feature-rich dynamic application, DotNetNuke cater your needs in the way you want. Unlike legacy web applications, you don’t need services of a web developer in order to make changes in your content and locations of different modules.  You can easily achieve this task on-the-fly by logging into the administration control panel. Since DotNetNuke is open-source, you can enhance and extend the functionality of it if you are familiar with ASP.NET programming.  In addition to the existing modules in DotNetNuke, you can develop custom modules over it or use from a number of pre-developed modules by different third party vendors to extend the functionality as per your business needs. DotNetNuke is the world’s most widely adopted framework for building web applications on Microsoft Windows platform. DotNetNuke powers over 500,000 portals, web applications and public web sites.
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HP Slate Demo Shows Off Flash Support [VIDEO]

One of many upcoming tablet alternatives to the Apple iPad , HP’s forthcoming Slate device was teased briefly by Steve Ballmer at Microsoft’s CES keynote earlier this year. HP and Adobe teamed up to offer a couple of video demos of the HP Slate (embedded below), with an emphasis on showcasing its Flash and AIR support. Punctuating even further Adobe’s row with Apple over the lack of Flash on the iPhone and iPad , both videos lay it on thick with emphasis on how Flash support lets you “access the full web and not just a part of it.” The first demo video below shows off photo-sharing and editing, interactive crossword puzzles, Flash games, and more as well as the on-screen keyboard and other elements of the HP Slate user interface. The second video is a 30-second marketing reel showing off the HP Slate in action.
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Online Video’s Rapid Growth Hits a Speed Bump [STATS]

comScore just posted its monthly report on online video viewership , and the total number of videos viewed in January slipped slightly as compared with December . In December, 179 million people watched 33.2 billion videos. In January, it was 173 million people and 32.4 billion videos.
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AutoPatcher Keeps Windows 7 Systems Up to Date [Updates]

Windows: AutoPatcher, the small but powerful utility that makes it easy to install Windows updates while offline, and on multiple systems, has added support for Windows 7, giving users more control over when and how they update their systems. We've previously offered big props for AutoPatcher , because for people with slow connections, big jobs to pull off, or quite a few systems to keep updated, it's far more convenient than going the official Microsoft Updates route. To use this version, you'll download the package, run "apup," then let AutoPatcher build its own program from the most recent updates.
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Use Dropbox to Sync Custom Dictionaries [Dropbox]

From the files of the What Can't Dropbox Handle Dept.: the web-based file syncing service makes it easy to keep custom dictionaries in Word, or most any other app, available and synchronized between computers, as commenter caryo points out . Image via eHow . From the "Spelling and Grammar" tab in Microsoft Word's options, you can choose where your custom dictionary—with all your custom words for the spell checker not to catch—should reside, and export it somewhere else. Move it into your Dropbox folder, and set up other computers to pull their custom dictionaries from there, too
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HTC HD2 breaks free in the T-Mobile USA wilds

HTC's HD2 is a near perfect combination of physical hardware and silicon that delivers impressive performance on a device that's surprisingly sleek given the display's massive 4.3-inch exapanse. Even Microsoft's much maligned Windows Mobile 6.5 is expertly masked by HTC's Sense interface. So it's easy to understand the anticipation felt by the HD2's first US release, questions of a Windows Phone 7 OS upgrade path notwithstanding. T-Mobile has the release honors and is now showing the HD2 as "coming soon" in its phone inventory
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