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03/09/2010 02:50 PM
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10 awesome yet forgotten CD-ROMs from the 90's [Slideshow]
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Before the Internet provided instant access to vast stores of reference information, news, entertainment, and the like, there were CD-ROMs.
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03/09/2010 01:10 PM
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Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads!
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Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc. is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app.
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03/09/2010 09:40 AM
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US softens Internet export rules for Iran, Sudan & Cuba |
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Looking to facilitate what it calls free speech rights in countries that don't look favorably at such liberties, the US government Monday said it would ease the regulations around exporting Internet-based applications such as e-mail, blogging and social networking software to Iran, Sudan and Cuba
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03/09/2010 03:10 AM
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Comcast's Latest iPhone App Manages Your DVR From Anywhere
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Comcast is fairly evil, to be sure. But if they're doing one thing right, it's the latest version of their free iPhone app, Comcast Mobile App 2.0.
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03/09/2010 02:20 AM
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Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly
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Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year.
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03/07/2010 09:30 PM
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Five Best VPN Tools
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VPN software gives you access to private networks as though you're sitting at a local computer on that network, giving you access to shared folders and tons more handy stuff. Here's a look at five of the most popular VPN tools.
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03/06/2010 02:20 PM
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5 Great Extensions To Manage Various Tasks On Google Chrome
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From opening a new tab to restoring or saving our session,we perform various tasks in our internet browsers. Sometimes these tasks are present in the browser in an already convenient enough manner to make life easier for the user. But at other times,in the form of extensions and add-ons,third-party developers make these browser tasks easier for us.
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03/06/2010 08:10 AM
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6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed
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Using many plugins can affect a website's performance, and thus, you must be highly selective in choosing the plugins you install. In this article, we share with you the WordPress plugins that we use on our sites.
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03/05/2010 11:00 PM
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Recent Nvidia Drivers Causing Catastrophic Failures
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If you're using an Nvidia graphics card you should check your drivers, as there is a chance the newest drivers could cause your card to overheat during World of Warcraft, the Starcraft II Beta, or even Warcraft III.
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03/05/2010 10:22 AM
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Software patents should only be valid for 7 years
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Patent trolls would generally disappear, because a loophole in the current patent system allows them to wait for a technology to spread before retro-actively patenting it.
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03/03/2010 06:00 PM
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Opera 10.50 Lands On Windows, Mac And Linux Version
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Opera Software today released Opera 10.50, which it touts as “the fastest Web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers” (which, in turn, calls for a comprehensive speed test – anyone?).
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03/02/2010 08:34 AM
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Opera 10.50 Web browser released
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Opera Software has released version 10.50 of their desktop browser for Windows.
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03/02/2010 04:51 AM
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Google buys cloud photo editing site Picnik
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Until recently, you had to edit your photos using client software on your computer, but today Google has acquired Picnik, one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud.
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03/02/2010 01:50 AM
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New Google Chrome browser translates websites
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Google's new version of its web broswer offer automatic translation of websites as well as enhanced privacy controls
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03/01/2010 07:00 PM
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Google Adds Flickr, Picasa Photos to Street View
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Google actually began incorporating geo-tagged photos into Street View last year, but they've now added a new photo-viewing interface for users moving through a Street View tour of well-captured areas. That allows you to peek at places that weren't accessible by Google's camera-topped cars, and also provides more angles on any area y
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03/01/2010 02:20 PM
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Why Google Pushed Buzz Out The Door Before It Was Ready
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When Google Buzz launched three weeks ago, the product wasn't ready. There were basic privacy issues that still needed to be hammered out.
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02/27/2010 11:10 PM
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All About Google (INFOGRAPHIC)
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Everything about Google from how they make all their cash, to the composition of their workforce, to tidbits about Google's culture (a Googler n00b: Noogler)
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02/27/2010 11:10 AM
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HTML5 Knocks Out Adobe Flash in Reader Vote
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A few weeks ago, tensions between Adobe and Apple rose to all-time highs after Apple prominently left Flash off of the iPad. A lashing by Steve Jobs, calling Adobe lazy and Flash buggy didn’t help matters at all.
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02/26/2010 12:40 AM
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The Best Way To Customize Your Desktop: 3 Top Apps Compared
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Just as you have one heart, and one brain, your Windows installation comes with but one desktop. Sure, you can change the look of this digital meeting space by applying new wallpapers, or adding sidebars and widgets, or letting Windows 7 do all that automatic stuff that it does every ten minutes or so. But that's not really changing the desktop!
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02/25/2010 07:51 PM
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Google Search Accounts For 9% Of All Pageviews On The Mobile
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In their January 2010 State of the Mobile Web report, Opera Software looked at social networking on the mobile Web and concluded that Facebook dominated that aspect by a margin throughout 2009, while Twitter was the fastest-growing.
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02/25/2010 07:00 PM
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15 Awesome Google Services You Never Knew Existed
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Most of the mega company's services are either full blown web applications readily available to the public, or secretly tucked away behind a door in the Google Labs. However, even those wearing their Public Beta scrubs are readily available to play with.
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02/25/2010 06:20 PM
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45+ Free Open-Source Software For Windows
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List of some best and free open source software for windows. These software are licensed under Free Software Licenses and Open Source Licenses.
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02/22/2010 03:00 PM
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Places You Don't Want To Be Mayor Of On Foursquare
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Since we’re tired of repeated 4sq updates from people at Starbucks, the mall, eating sushi, that indie record store, or the soup kitchen, we thought we’d look into the places that don’t seem to make the 4sq cut.
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02/20/2010 04:30 PM
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The Secret World of Private BitTorrent Trackers
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Somewhere on the web is the ultimate music site. It has virtually every album, EP and single ever released in a variety of high-quality formats with insanely fast download speeds. You're probably not allowed in.
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02/19/2010 06:40 PM
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Google Mobile Shopper Android-app launched (Video)
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The Google Shopping Android Application just launched on Android Market. What will you get when you have a combination of a Barcode Scanner by ZXing Barcode, Google's Google Goggles and the Shopping Tab onGoogle.com.
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02/19/2010 01:10 AM
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Google Voice releases new HowTo (and WhatIs) videos [VIDs]
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Google Voice is a pretty incredible service, but not everyone understands what exactly it does (hint: it isn't VoIP - yet!). Google is hoping to remedy that with a fantastic series of videos which I've painstakingly collected for you to view.
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02/19/2010 12:10 AM
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30 Useful (and Unknown) Web Apps You Need to Bookmark!
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To help you prepare for a future in the cloud, we've put together a list of 30 of our favorite web apps and services. We've tried to keep them on the lesser-known side, but a few of the classics have snuck their way in.
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02/18/2010 08:40 PM
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20 Years of Image Editing: Photoshop from 1.0 to CS4
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From its humble beginnings on a grad student's Mac Plus to its complete photo-editing domination, Photoshop has changed the world in 20 short years.
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02/18/2010 05:30 PM
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Pirated DVD vs. Legal DVD
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Vote with your wallet...and your hard drive.
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02/17/2010 10:30 AM
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10 Hot Questions About Windows Phone 7, Answered
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After years of watching its Windows Mobile operating system languish behind sexier products from archrivals Apple, Google, and Palm, Microsoft launched the Windows Phone 7 platform Monday morning.
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02/17/2010 03:10 AM
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20 Instant Upgrades to Make Chrome Better than Firefox
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Move over Mozilla, and make room for Google Chrome. Why is that? To start with, Google recently added extension support to Chrome, which was previously only available in beta builds. Now that Google has given users the green light to install third-party add-ons, it's a brand new ballgame in the browser world.
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02/16/2010 05:46 AM
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'Why Firefox?' and 'Why Windows?'
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Is Mozilla becoming too much like Microsoft?
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02/15/2010 08:32 AM
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Top 10 Google Settings You Should Know About
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As the outcry over Google Buzz's privacy has shown us, it's smart to explore settings in Gmail, along with other places you are sharing data with the search giant. Le's take a look at 10 privacy, convenience, and annoyance fixers you should know.
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02/14/2010 01:10 PM
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7 Ways To Become More Productive With Firefox Tabs
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I still use Firefox (even though all other browsers have tabs now) and I am still pretty excited at the ability to open links in new tabs. Sometimes I have dozens of them opened and this is when it stops being handy (and usable).
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02/12/2010 02:00 AM
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10 Best Ways to Use Your PC While You're Sleeping or at Work
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As much as we like to multitask, there's only so much a processor can handle at once. That's why we keep our home PC powered on while we're at sleep or at the office. Forget about energy savings--a powerful PC is meant to be utilized!
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02/10/2010 03:00 AM
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Google Buzz -- and you thought Facebook had privacy issues?
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Google Buzz looks like it will be an interesting application. But those who use it need to be very aware of how much information they are releasing in public.
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02/09/2010 10:20 PM
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iTunes vs Zune vs Songbird: Music Organizer Showdown
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Music, music everywhere, and a ton of programs with which to organize it. But how will you know which of the many iTunes-equivalents (if not iTunes itself) are going to be right for your needs?
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02/09/2010 01:40 PM
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New Apple product is Aperture 3
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Apple on Tuesday unveiled Aperture 3, the latest update of its photo editing and management software.
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