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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:01:37 -0800

Google Will Mail a Free Holiday Postcard on Your Behalf
If I could pick up Google and give it a hug, I would, because as a token of their appreciation to all of their fans, the company is offering to mail a free holiday postcard to anyone in the U.S.. . . just for you. The Internet giant understands that not...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:33:31 -0800

Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome
Starting in the Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.249.0, Web Sockets are available and enabled by default. Web Sockets are "TCP for the Web," a next-generation bidirectional communication technology for web applications being standardized in...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:31:31 -0800

Sharks with people teeth.
Sharks with people teeth.
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:27:28 -0800

Inside the dark heart of the Eagle
Herschel has peered inside an unseen stellar nursery and revealed surprising amounts of activity. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into filaments of dust stretching through the image. The image is the first new release of...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:23:39 -0800

NGC 6992: Filaments of the Veil Nebula
NGC 6992: Filaments of the Veil Nebula Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,500 years ago that star exploded in a supernova leaving the Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop. At the time, the expanding...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:22:37 -0800

Crescent Earth from the Departing Rosetta Spacecraft
Crescent Earth from the Departing Rosetta Spacecraft Goodbye Earth. Earlier this month, ESA's interplanetary Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar System. Pictured above, Earth showed a bright crescent phase...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:19:54 -0800

Change DNS Servers With DNS Jumper
DNS and DNS servers have been pushed into the mainstream with Google’s announcement that they have released public DNS servers to speed up computer user access to the Internet. We have already given tips in the past how to benchmark DNS to find the...
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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:12:09 -0800

Maybe it's time for personal servers?
In the early part of this decade, after the first dotcom crash, a lot of us thought that we'd all have personal servers by now. We called them fractional horsepower servers because the issues were different. Ease of use mattered more than scalability....
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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:11:11 -0800

@anandshimpi Anandtech is giving away a Lynnfield system, check it out: http://bit.ly/1uNkr5
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Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:49:27 -0700

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:32:08 -0700

Mozilla Raindrop
The Raindrop project was introduced the other day at the Mozilla Labs website by the Mozilla Messaging team which also develops the email client Thunderbird. Raindrop aims to be the only software program a user needs to manage all messaging needs. It...
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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:30:12 -0700

Pearls Before Swine - October 23, 2009

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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:33:37 -0700

The Best Nettops Around Right Now
Nettops are all the rage right now, and with good reason too! For around $330-$400 you can get desktops that will do all the basic things you want to do and they will playback HD videos for you. Here’s news of the latest in nettops plus a roundup of...
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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:40:36 -0700

Pearls Before Swine - October 15, 2009

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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:20:26 -0700

are you safe? are your friends?
The tech savvy among you know that web browsers are no longer the number one target for malware and other online scams. Browsers are all getting much safer much faster since Firefox entered the market so the bad guys are targeting the less frequently...
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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:46:22 -0700

an open letter to the guy who put just a geek the audiobook on his website for people to steal
Hi there, guy-who-I-won't-link-to-for-obvious-reasons,I'm Wil Wheaton. I wrote Just A Geek, and I created the audiobook you're helping people steal. You may not know this, but I 'm just one guy, without a publisher, so when you help people steal this...
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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:38:22 -0700

Music Manager The Godfather
The Godfather is a feature rich music manager that supports extensive tagging, audio format converting, playlist management and renaming options that has a slightly higher learning curve than many other music managers. The learning curve can be fully...
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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:37:14 -0700

Ohm

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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:37:20 -0700

Woo hoo got a supercloud.org domain, jtintle.supercloud.org
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Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:29:29 -0700

Midori Lightweight Web Browser Alternative
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. Those are the usual web browser names that make the news these days on the Internet. This are also the web browsers that the majority of web users use actively. Other web browsers face this...
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Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:30:29 -0700

The Butterfly Nebula from Upgraded Hubble
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team Explanation: The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth’s night...
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:47:11 -0700

25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives
Replacing The Pirate Bay is easier said then done. The tracker is currently responsible for approximately half of all public torrent transfers, which represents a significant percentage of global Internet traffic. However, history has shown that...
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Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:00:24 -0700

The Trifid Nebula in Stars and Dust
Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona Explanation: Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam...
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Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:32:02 -0700

Stephan’s Quintet: A Galaxy Collision in Action
Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/CfA/E.O’Sullivan); Optical (Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope/Coelum) Description: This beautiful...
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Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:18:17 -0700

The Dark River to Antares
Credit & Copyright: Jason Jennings Explanation: Connecting the Pipe Nebula to the colorful region near bright star...
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