Time Magazine: Why Two Browsers are Better than One

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"The just released Mozilla Firefox 2 may be better than Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7, but you'll probably want to use both.."

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Google Earth coordinates for all of Wikipedia

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"Wikipedia contains the geographical coordinates for thousands of cities, landmarks, and other geographical features. One clever soul has taken a snapshot of the geocoordinates Wikipedia makes available and put them together as a .KMZ file that you can load into Google Earth. There are tens of thousands of coordinate pairs in the nearly 2MB file"

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Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now

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""In this article, I introduce you to some of the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that can be downloaded for free. I walk through using each of the add-ins, but because I am covering so many I only have room to introduce you to the basic functionality...""

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The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

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"Joel Spolsky's amusing and informative screed on the proper way to interview and hire software developers. (This is updated from the older, previously-dugg version.)"

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Review: Firefox 2.0 is a solid improvement

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"Not to be outdone by the debut of Internet Explorer 7 last week, the Mozilla team has released Firefox 2.0 with a minor makeover, a few new features, and a number of enhancements to existing features. It's not a drastic change from the 1.5 series, but Firefox 2.0 bring enough improvements to make the upgrade worthwhile."

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Search across tabs in Firefox with Showcase

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"Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system."

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Firefox 2 is NOT released!

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"Downloading Firefox builds before the "official" release can cause problems for both Mozilla and for end users. "Preed the Release Engineer says: friends don't let friends download Firefox before it's released.""

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Skype 2.0 for Mac goes gold

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"Skype for Mac 2.0 goes gold today, which means that we?ve tested it, you?ve tested it and we all agree that it does a pretty good job. Download it now and video call your friends, family, colleagues or anyone else you?d like to see face to face."

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Firefox 2.0 Available To Public!

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"The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups."

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Internet Explorer 7 is better than IE 6, but doesn't beat Firefox

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"CNET discusses IE 7 and compare it to Firefox."

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111 free Photoshop plugins

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"The Plugin Site (aptly named) has 111 free Photoshop-compatible plugins available for download. Take your pick from categories such as Image Effects, Patterns/Textures, Photo Enhancement, and many more. Each plugin is rated according to a three-star usefulness scale; plus, you can easily see if the plugin is Mac or Windows compatible..."

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Google To Unveil Election Mapping With Google Earth

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"Google is expected to unveil on Sunday night a mashup that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the U.S. congressional races coming up in two weeks."

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Only porn is more popular than Diggnation

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"Having a look at the Most Popular Channels on the Democracy Channel Guide comes up with an interesting find. Diggnation is the 4th most popular Channel after three porn channels including ""French Maid TV" :) Maybe Lala needs to make some guest appearances to boost the ratings."

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Microsoft working on a Secret Vista Product:

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"Keep your eyes peeled for some big software announcements to coincide with Windows Vista?s release. Microsoft said several developers are working on products to make the most of Vista?s advances, and we were told that Microsoft bigwig Jim Allchin, co-president of its platforms and services division, described one as "the best Windows application""

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How to Install Internet Explorer 7 Bypassing Genuine Windows Validation...

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"Internet Explorer 7.0 is the long awaited tabbed web browser by Microsoft. Nearly four years after the release of Internet Explorer 6.0, in the face of growing competition from Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft has finally given the old IE platform a facelift. Optimized design along with new cool interface, favorites centre, search box, RSS feeds and..."

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Democracy: the free and opensource Internet TV platform - New Version

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"You've probably watched hundreds of tiny videos on websites. It's tedious. Democracy Player makes video on the internet way less frustrating and way more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of internet video, download videos, and watch them fullscreen, one after the other, all in one application. Internet video becomes internet TV. It's free."

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Official Microsoft's Extensions Site for IE 7

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"Microsoft's official directory for IE7 Extensions."

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New Vista License Terms may Prohibit Installation on a Mac

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"Microsoft has published the licensing terms for Windows Vista; containing clauses that specifically address usage of Vista in a virtualized environment. For both Home Basic & Home Premium editions, they state that "You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.""

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Songbird 0.2 Released

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"Today, we proudly launch Songbird 0.2 "Developer Preview". New in 0.2: * Cross-platform support: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux * Multi-language support: 30+ languages * Play the Web: Play as you browse, Web pages as playlists * Developer life-cycle tools: Doxygen, Trac, SVN"

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Major New Version of Democracy Player - Open Source RSS Video Player

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"This version is faster, adds Flash playback on Mac, and has a new 'Search Channel' feature. With this feature, you can auto-download any items in a video RSS feed that match a keyword search. The interface has also been reorganized. For Windows, Mac, Linux."

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imeem - New Social Media Network that will give you More!

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"imeem is a great new social media network that will allow you to browse for tags in a different and cool way and will give you lots of stuff to enjoy from right from the web. You can search and listen to music, watch videos, find playlists, upload photos and share just about everything with your friends online."

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Microsoft to release an open-only OpenDocument Format filter for Word

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"Microsoft soon plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format. The Word plug-in is the 1st installment of MS's plan to add support for the OpenDocument, or ODF, standard which has gained interest from government customers. This is the same format that MS fought in Mass. earlier this year."

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Blue Screen of Death Top 10 Images

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"Hilarious Blue Screen of Death images you have to see! Includes possible first ever Windows 1.0 Blue Screen of Death!"

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Software that reveals which paintings are authentic

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"Spotting a forged painting is a laborious process, typically involving hours of painstaking analysis by art experts. But a computer program could slash the time it takes by spotting the telltale patterns and techniques used by individual artists."

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Microsoft helped company finance legal battle over Linux, investor says

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"Microsoft Corp. helped a Utah company raise money for its legal challenge to the open-source Linux operating system, an investor said in a court filing.In a sworn statement, Lawrence R. Goldfarb, a founder of BayStar Capital Management of Larkspur, Calif., said he invested $50 million in The SCO Group Inc. at the urging of Microsoft executives"

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Google AJAX Search API beta Version 1.0 Available

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"Includes APIs to Google News results, Maps results for more geos and Intranet use."

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Internet Explorer 7 to go gold this month?

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"The final release of IE7 is fast approaching ? and I mean really fast ? and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it?s available for download. We want to ensure that you are ready and the information below will help get you there."

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Backing Up and Cloning OS X

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"How you do your backups will determine what backup utilities you need to use. Backing up HFS+ filesystems with resource forks. Backing up normal unix files. Mounting disks from remote computers onto Mac OS X. All you can find in this tutorial."

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A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools

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""In an effort to replace my home backup server with Amazon's S3, I've been collecting a list of Amazon S3 compatible backup tools to look at. Here's what I've discovered, followed by my requirements.""

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Vista RC2 Out, Last Build Before RTM

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"As expected, Microsoft on Friday issued the second release candidate of Windows Vista - the last public build before the next-generation operating system is released to manufacturing."

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Windows Vista RC2 Gallery

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"Check out screenshots of the last pre release build of Vista."

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Microsoft blesses Datacenter users with limitless OS copies

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"Microsoft, of all companies, continues to lead the way with free and loose licensing terms around server virtualization software and multi-core processors"

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HOWTO: Diagnosing Bad Memory

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"Does your Windows-based PC crash for no apparent reason? Well OK, mine does too, but does yours crash often? At random times? With Nasty blue Screens of Death? If the answer is "yes", you may very well have a memory problem. Read what tools to use and how to use them to diagnose your RAM."

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MozEx Firefox extension

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"The MozEx Firefox extension lets you define external applications to handle common in-browser actions."

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The Firefox development team returns from Redmond

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"In August Microsoft invited members of Firefox's development team to the Microsoft campus. At the time, it was unclear whether the Firefox team would actually accept the invitation. Now we have discovered that a handful of Firefox developers did journey to Redmond, and one member of the team kept track of the experience in his blog."

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Vista's Virtual Kill Switch

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"Microsoft denies that Microsoft Software Protection is a "kill switch" for Vista, even giving it a Q&A in its mock interview announcing the program. Technically, they're right, perhaps. Switching a PC into a degraded functionality where all you can do is browse the Internet doesn't kill it; but it's arguably a near-death experience. (Via ZDNet)"

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Microsoft likely to ship Vista on time: analyst

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"Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund sent a note to clients saying that Microsoft may be ready to send the final test version of its much-anticipated Windows upgrade later this week or next week, indicating that Vista will be available for business customers in November and retail PCs by late January."

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