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AFTER scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.org composed a colorful message for “all publishers” of college textbooks, warning them that “myself and all other students are tired of getting” ripped off. (The contributor’s message included many ripe expletives, bu

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All of Apple's US retail outlets are now in a permanent launch mode and will open as much as two hours earlier each day to accommodate the unprecedented demand for the new iPhone. Also, at least some locations are now giving customers rainchecks for the day's iPhone 3G stock.

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In declarations to NYT's Joe Nocera—one of the reporters who speculated on the health of Apple's CEO after WWDC—got a call from Steve Jobs himself. He told him to stop speculating and that he didn't have cancer. Nocera says it must be disclosed for the investors, but that's bull. If FDR and JFK didn't, why the president of Apple?

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MySpace took another step in cooperating with other Internet services, joining a coalition that allows people to use the same accounts and passwords across the Web. The OpenID coalition now includes Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, Google Inc.'s Blogger, Yahoo Inc. and blogging services Vox, WordPress, LiveJournal.

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What should each of these companies do with Digg if it bought the social media and user-chosen content powerhouse? Where would the integration points be and what would be the long-term strategy and direction for Digg under new overlords? And how would an acquisition affect the Internet landscape?

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When tapping out an email or pinching and swiping on the iPhone's web browser just doesn't get the job done, and you want to use the full keyboard and screen on your laptop in a Wi-Fi-less place, the best way to put your newly jailbroken iPhone 2.0 to good use is to turn it into a cellphone modem for your laptop.

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Sharp reductions likely in contract staff, professional services and hardware, and almost no investment in cloud computing

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For the 2008 installment of FHM Online's 100 Sexiest Women in the World, we received millions of votes for everyone from talk show hosts to supermodels to professional wrestlers. Did last year's winner Jessica Alba come out on top? Or was a new queen crowned?

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The criteria for a good sequel is almost contradictory; it's a dangerous mix of old and new, with just enough old to serve as a sturdy foundation and just enough new to prevent boredom and apathy. But when not perfectly balanced, a sequel can prove disastrous...

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If you installed Firefox 3 since its release, you may have noticed that Mozilla issued an update for the browser today. The update wasn't major, fixing a small list of security flaws and bugs discovered since release.

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BitTorrent is without a doubt the best way to share large files, as long as you follow some basic rules, that is. We asked one of the leading BitTorrent client developers for some tips and tricks so you can speed up your BitTorrent downloads.

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Virtualization continues to be a big topic among Mac users with Intel-powered Macs. Products from Parallels and VMware allow you to easily run many different operating systems on your Mac, each within its own protected virtual environment. Recently, a third player entered the market—Sun, with its VirtualBox product.

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So much for indexing all the world's information:

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Feeling a little stressed out? Good thing it's Friday—the weekend should offer ample opportunity to unwind. Unfortunately, some of you may be have so much going on that a couple of days off may not do the job. Not to worry, there are plenty of gadgets out there that can help you recover from the stress that a long week at work.

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A white man and a black woman have become the extremely rare parents of twins of different colours.

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A woman was given a chemical abortion tablet by mistake after a nurse mixed up two patients with the same first name, a misconduct hearing has heard. Ann Downer gave the drug to a woman who had gone into the clinic for an initial consultation. When staff realised what had happened the distraught woman, named only as patient A, was called back to...

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The best leaders are often known to have buoyant energy levels that make them excellent speakers. Here's how to follow in their footsteps.

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Apple promised that iPhone 3G and its iPhone 2.0 software would be more suited to business, but a severe shortage of the device could force companies to wait as long as two weeks before they see their orders, and is forcing many home customers to go without at the same time.

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Indications are that Obama has attracted a massive number of new $5, $10, $20 donors after the primaries ended. Going forward, the sustained growth of this small-sum base is by far Obama's biggest advantage over McCain.

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday that his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, is likely to be in Iraq over the weekend.If Obama is going to be in Iraq this weekend, this is a major breach on McCain's part.

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Why are we so much fatter today than we were 30 years ago? Even as researchers try to refine the eat-too-much-move-too-little theory, some are entertaining other ideas (obesity virus, anyone?). Read on for some of their theories, as well as a weigh-in from our panel of obesity researchers.

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When researching how people use templates, we saw that lots of you create documents for all aspects of your lives. You need resumes and cover letters to look for jobs and fax cover letters and invoices to run your businesses. And of course you want to use documents in fun ways with family and friends, such as unique designs and layouts for invitati

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Chris Martin doesn't have to worry about his online reputation as much as some people. If you Google his name, you get pages and pages of results about the lead singer of the band Coldplay. Other people aren't quite as lucky.

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Nature design element are needed anywhere.This is a giant resource post including beautiful nature themed brush sets & vector images.

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Should a single company be left in charge of putting all of the world's books online?

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- Sony has no plan to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 game console, the company's chief financial officer Nobuyuki Oneda said Friday."This year, our strategy is not to sell more quantity for PS3 but to concentrate on profitability," Oneda told a forum in Singapore. "Our plan is not to reduce the price."

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The news is here, today 'LinuxTreat' in association with other open-source developer had released some flavor of Windows for free (you may also download the source code).Surprised, Amazed or Shocked!...If you are shocked, here are some screen shots of this 'Open Windows Flavor' , with their description, website or (may be....

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"Learn the secrets of living a happy and simple life from Warren Buffet- the richest man on earth"

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This feature allows you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again while you are logged in to your Google account, you'll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you've made.

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Since Jeeves came on the scene in 1996, the web has quickly become an indispensable resource of know-how for travelers of all motives and means. However, many hostels still have unreliable wireless connections, and there’s usually a line for their £3 per hour Easy Internet booths (which are suspiciously sticky). Here’s where the mobile web comes in

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Women are happier than men and enjoy life more in old age, a new study claims.

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Exchange money online is easy, even without a credit card. This is real interesting. we can make online transaction without a credit card.

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Over 1,000 unique Website domains were compromised by this attack. Each of the compromised domains included a reference to a malware that was served by over 160 different domains across the Internet. Since the list of these malware serving domains increases every day, this is just the tip of the iceberg...

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Selling t-shirts is a very profitable business if done correctly.Not everyone have the required capital, facilities, supplier connections, skills to operate a t-shirt business off line. Good thing is there are number of vendors who can help you run an profitable online t-shirt store.

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A discussion with law professor Jonathan Turley, who earlier this week made the assessment of the FISA vote that "the fix is in". This time he discusses the use of torture on prisoners - "I think it might in fact be time for the United States to be held, internationally, to a tribunal."

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I’ve included 17 from other sites - 5 from our archives (this time last year) and 3 great photoshop video tutorials.

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It appears that Microsoft has banned TinyURL links on its Windows Live Messenger network. Currently it is not clear whether this is intentional or simply yet another slip up by Microsoft's third-party partner which manages the URL blocking.

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The Infrastructure Updates apply to Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express, Office Project Server 2007 and Office Project Professional 2007.

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Even if you don’t feel linguistically-inclined, it’s possible–with patience, diligence, and a sense of humor—to become fluent in a language in six months or less.

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The U.S. produced 28 Million tons of plastic waste in 2005 - 27 million tons of which ended up in landfills. Our food & water come wrapped in plastic. It's used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. But the infinitely adaptable substance has its dark side.

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GOP Loves Less Government Except, of course, when they need federal billions to bail out their cowboy, unregulated, corrupt economic policies

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Announced at keynote today...

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On the list are stores in Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas and West Virginia. The sites will shut down by the end of this month.

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As Google keeps growing its share of search queries, it’s hard not to wonder if anything’s going to slow it down. Tonight, Yahoo is throwing up a long pass in hopes of changing the game that Google already seems to have won.

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WordPress 2.6 contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

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For many people we encountered in line on launch day, the decision had already been steadfastly made: they’d be picking up a black iPhone 3G, and no one would sway them from their path (except maybe — maybe — if the black was sold out by the time their number got called).

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pdf to html, avi to flv, mp3 to wav, zip to cab and nearly any format you can imagine to another... and back, even files as large as 1 gig!!!!

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For a couple days, none of the mac users in my family have been able to upload digital images from iphoto to Picassa Webalbums. This may be a larger issue and I'm hoping Digg can help fuel the solution. And no, I don't want my family to have to go buy mobileme.

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Based on reports from developers, it seems Apple has opened the program up and dropped the "beta" designation. Multiple developers have reported that they have been accepted into the $99/yr developer program which allows them to install their applications directly onto their iPhone and also submit their apps for inclusion into the iTunes App Store.

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"There is certainly no shortage of Photoshop tutorial websites floating around in cyber space. Instead of wasting your time scouring the web looking for good Photoshop tutorials, Instead of wasting your time scouring the web looking for good Photoshop tutorials, stick with this list of the 10 best. You will actually learn something on these!"

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The new App Store has unleashed a slew of great new apps for the iPhone, but there are still a few standard features we wish Apple's multimedia phone had. Here's the short list.

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Gizmodo tested the data speed of 3g, wifi range, voice quality, camera quality and case design, said you probably don't have to buy a new iPhone to get most of the cool stuff.

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While most iPhone users are stuck with an iBrick this morning as Apple’ servers can’t complete the last step of the upgrade process, those of us smart enough to take the unofficial upgrade route 24 hours ago are happily trying out new App Store Apps. This morning I turned my iPhone into a VoIP phone by installing the new Truphone iPhone app.

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Uh Oh... "Apparently Apple completely underestimated the load on their servers for activation and ALL COMPUTERS in the Boston Apple store are stuck" "I was in the first group of 30 to get an iPhone 3g at the biggest AT&T Experience store in Houston, Texas. The staff couldn't get anyone's phones to activate"

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More than 500 native applications are now available on the iPhone's App Store for use with the new iPhone 3G that goes on sale tomorrow. A good number of the 500 applications are free downloads.

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Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with software version 2.0 or later. Also use the new Remote application for iPhone or iPod touch to control iTunes playback from anywhere in your home - a free download from the App Store.

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Linux is more than Ubuntu and Gnome.

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Apple has released iTunes 7.7. This latest version of iTunes is required for the iPhone 3G as well as Firmware 2.0 and the App StoreUse iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with softw...

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Smart-phone shoppers who have been waiting for a cheaper iPhone that runs on faster cell networks might want to take the plunge on the iconic device's latest iteration, but service costs have risen and battery life has dropped.

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If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site.

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The nonprofit agency (ICANN) in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

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Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user's names, and IP addresses to viacom.

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Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone's browser, so you don't need to download or install anything. Just visit www.google.com/talk on your iPhone

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The new version of Firefox feels much faster. The notorious memory leaks of flavors of 2.0 are plugged. The developers claim 3.0's Javascript performance is 9.3 times faster than IE7's and 2.7 times faster than its predecessor. They also claim 15,000 improvements to the old version - most of those are under the hood...

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With over 8 million downloads Mozilla sets the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

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Earlier today, Google launched an affiliate ad network.Pay-per-action advertising is a new pricing model that allows advertisers to pay only when specific actions that they define are completed by a user on their site.

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Adobe has announced that it is working with Google and Yahoo to finally ensure that Flash SWF files are indexable by search engines. Google has already gotten a jump start on this feature that designers have been asking for since the late 90s, too.

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For most people -- the cab driver, the tourist, the business traveler -- the ubiquitous GPS has become a lifeline, giving directions to the nearest bathroom, a pizza joint or the shortest route to the office. But, just like with spell-checker before it, some experts believe that the guiding device gives less than what it takes away...

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We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.

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It is an article of faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does is right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically follow that it is wrong to have a keyboard, and therefore that Steve Jobs will never produce a version that does have a keyboard.

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