http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/dozen-daily-deals-for-december-23-2009 http://tech.peekbase.com/dozen-daily-deals-for-december-23-2009#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:40:03 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/dozen-daily-deals-for-december-23-2009 December 23rd, 2009 ‘Tis the season shop until your brains melt (or skip it all entirely, depending on your interpretation of the term holiday). In that spirit, for the next few weeks we’ll be rounding up a dozen daily deals courtesy our friends at DealNews.com. Each afternoon tune in to TUAW for this handy summary. Keep in mind that while ... 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Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/apples-12-days-of-christmas-iphone-app/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/play-and-share-your-music-collection-in-the-cloud-with-tunesbag http://tech.peekbase.com/play-and-share-your-music-collection-in-the-cloud-with-tunesbag#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:07 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/play-and-share-your-music-collection-in-the-cloud-with-tunesbag December 23rd, 2009 Vienna, Austria-based tunesBag is opening up the public beta version of its social music service today, after allowing access by invitation only for the past year or so. The launch has been a long time coming, considering the fact that the startup has already produced a fully functional web client, and Adobe-AIR powered ... 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