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Fancy accessing your Windows Home Server directly from your Windows Phone? Then you might want to experiment with the Phone Connector add-in for WHS 2011 beta (aka Vail). This lets you connect you to core network functions and settings via an app on your handset, including alerts, user accounts and connected devices. Crucially, it also streams all your lovely media, so long as it’s in WP-supported codecs. And if you pin the app to your home screen, you’ll get a nifty live tile with your network’s name, free disk space and a breakdown of network health alerts. Sure, you might have a bit of fuss to get this RC working, but then that’s half the fun.

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Almost every day you encounter new places and businesses, whether it’s a new store you spotted on your commute to work, or a restaurant you visited with friends over the weekend. To date, you’ve been able to star places on Google Maps, rate them via Google Places, or add them to a customized map with your own icons and annotations through My Maps.

But keeping track of all the locations you care about and memorizing which places you starred or rated isn’t easy. So today, we’re unveiling the new My Places tab on Google Maps, which helps you quickly view and interact with your saved maps, starred locations, and rated businesses.

The My Places tab replaces the My Maps tab in the Google Maps toolbar. Items are organized by date with your most recent activity at the top, and filters make it easy to sort and view only your maps, starred locations or rated places. And of course, you can still create and share personalized My Maps through the “Create new map” link.

My Places also simplifies your ability to manage the locations that make up your personalized maps experience. Using the drop-down arrow next to each location in your list, you can easily delete any of your saved maps, stars or Google Places ratings. These personalization changes will automatically be synchronized across all other Google properties including Google Places, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile.

To use My Places, you’ll need to sign in with your Google account. Try it now: visit Google Maps and click the My Places tab to access and organize the places you care about.

Posted by Hiroki Asakawa, Software Engineer

Japan is slowly rebuilding after a devastating tsunami destroyed parts of the country earlier this year. A series of before and after pictures show how far Japan has come and how far it still has to go to rebuild its shattered country. [Denver Post] More »

It was only a matter of time before D-Link entered the WiDi fray. Even though Intel is pushing manufacturers to pack the wireless display tech into practically every laptop (and even a few tablets), options for actually getting that feed on your TV have been scarce. The decidedly nondescript MainStage adapter gives you at least one more choice and, since it boasts WiDi 2.0, you can beam 1080p video and 5.1 surround sound to your home theater from up to 33 feet away — all while you continue to browse and chat on the small screen. You can find them now in all the usual places (Newegg, Best Buy, Amazon, etc…) for $129.99, but our neighbors to the north in Canada will have to wait till July to get their hockey-loving mittens on one. Check out the PR after the break.

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Getdrunknotfat has a mission to keep you slim and trim while you drink yourself silly. The website painstakingly compiled the calories and calorie-to-alcohol ratio of many popular alcoholic beverages. All this wonderful data is organized in a searchable chart. More »

U.S. President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that Congress must raise the American national debt ceiling or risk causing another global financial crisis.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s former housekeeper says her son only learned a year ago that the former California governor was his father.

The Canadian Wheat Board said Tuesday this year could be even worse than 2010, sucking an additional $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion out of the
prairie economy.

HP’s upcoming Wi-Fi TouchPad will be available for pre-order on June 19th and hitting Canada officially on July 15th. You’ll be able to score either the 16GB or the 32GB version at these locations: Best Buy, Future Shop, The Source, Costco, Staples, London Drugs and Rogers Wireless stores. HP has uploaded a plethora of videos for you to get familiar with this tablet, and how it competes against all the others (such as multitasking, screen size, ability to play flash, notifications…)

Via preCentral

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The CBC says Monday’s Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final between Vancouver and Boston was its highest-ever rated NHL game.

This is curious: InfiniteApple is saying they’ve confirmed that iCloud is powered by Microsoft’s Azure, at least for the moment. More »

Here’s food for thought: Some cities are considerably more densely populated than others. Imagine packing all 6.9 billion people in the world into a city you know. How much space would that megacity take up? More »

Today hell has frozen over, pigs can fly and the Firefly TV series has been revived. Ok, none of those things actually happened but one thing did: Duke Nukem Forever has finally been released after 15 years of development. Developers Gearbox Software, Triptych Games and Piranha Games took over from…

If you want to stay on top of your audio or video podcast subscriptions on the go without connecting to your computer, you have plenty of options. Last week, we asked you which mobile apps you used to organize and download podcasts on your smartphone. You responded, we put them to a vote, and now we’re back to highlight the winner. More »

The federal government is serving notice that it is willing to legislate an end to the Air Canada strike as early as Thursday if the airline and its customer service and sales staff fail to reach an agreement.

Mail delivery across Canada is expected to be limited for the rest of the week due to rotating postal strikes in Montreal and Toronto.

When couples fight, sleep often suffers. Now a new study shows that the reverse can also true. Not sleeping well, it seems, can make for a rockier relationship.

Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody as you haven’t seen them before. Reimagined as action figure “badasses” by designer Luis Eduardo Vargas Montoya. No word if these custom-made “toys” will ever be mass produced, but I’ll be first in line if they are.

(Thanks, Andrew Murray)

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