30 Essential Open Source Software Packages for Windows

This is from the perspective of a person setting up a machine from scratch and shows the possibilities of OSS. Good descriptions, covers the obvious and the not-so-obvious, provides URLs, and indicates clearly what closed source software each package can replace. A great list for someone setting up a new machine or updating one.

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Top 25 Tips to Secure Your VoIP Network

A VoIP network is susceptible to the usual attacks that plague all data networks: viruses, spam, phishing, hacking attempts, intrusions, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, data sniffing, eavesdropping, and so on. The only difference is, with other technologies people take basic steps to protect themselves. Here are 25 tips to do so with your VoIP.

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Gobo Linux Makes Installing Apps As Easy As OSX!

Gobo Linux manages to completely remove the UNIX directory structure in their distro! What they've come up with you might find very surprising!

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Housekeeping utilities for Debian packages

For all the efficiency and continued evolution of Debian's APT tools, some gaps in package management functionality remain. One of the largest ones is that, when a package is removed, any other packages that depend on it are not removed.

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This person has come up with a very simple way to reduce traffic jams during your commute. His solution: drive at a slow and steady pace instead of competing with other drivers.

Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) welcoming OpenSUSE developers

Novell
’s decision to go to great lengths to circumvent the patent framework clearly articulated in the GPL has sent shockwaves through the community. If you are an OpenSUSE developer who is concerned about the long term consequences of this pact, you may be interested in some of the events happening next week as part of the Ubuntu Open Week.

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20 Must Read HOWTOs and Guides for Linux

If your a Linux user who enjoys learning new things, I recommend taking a look at the following 20 must read HOW TOs and Guides I
’ve gathered over the years. These documents are vital to both new and old Linux users.

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The English Wikipedia hit 1.5 million articles today!

"The English language Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 1,500,000 articles!" Congrats, Wikipedia, and here's to another 1.5 mil.!

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How To Login From an Internet Cafe Without Worrying About Keyloggers

"We tested five shareware or commercial keylogging programs: HomeKeylogger 1.70, GhostKeylogger, KG-BKeylogger, Spytector 1.2.8 and ProBot. None of them captured passwords entered using the trick we describe."

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Linux movement destroys Ballmer's dream

MICROSOFT'S cunning plan to be the ruler of Linux has hit a slight snag.
Its Linux ally Novell is not going along with its plans to force Linux distributors to join its approved partners, pay up or be sued and the Open Sauce community has a counter attack planned...

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How Windows XP Wasted $25 Billion of Energy

3 WinXP flaws in power-savings options created a situation where Microsoft's silly mistakes have cost the world roughly $25 billion dollars and resulted in the release of 225 million tons of CO2. Um...Oops?

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Ultimate Guide to E-mail: 99 Security, Productivity and Communication Tips

Even though 6 billion emails are sent every day, almost no one agrees about simple things like email etiquette, how to organize a note, or whether emails are considered private or not. The 99 tips in this article make up the best in email practices.

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Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days

Learn the basics of C++ in 21 days! Great guide for beginners. Remember, this is just an overview, fully mastering any program languages takes many years. But this is the guide to get you started!

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If Linux violates Microsoft’s patents, let’s see the proof !

If there is offending code, I think Microsoft should show it and prove it. Why not set up a Web site with a few code snippets that show how Linux violates Windows patents — if such snippets really exist?

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The Rising Star Of Ubuntu

Given the recent Novell+Microsoft, RedHat vs. Oracle, and Sun Java Open Source news, Ubuntu is out there marching to it's own drummer. It is a grassroots effort that seems to be growing. That's a good thing for the Linux and Open Source community.

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OpenOffice.org Calc adds support for Excel VBA

As an Excel user, you may have looked at OpenOffice.org and found that it doesn't support Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the Microsoft Office macro language. If you've spent years building hundreds of Excel macros, the fear of losing them all could keep you locked in to Office. If so, it's time to look again; Novell has taken OpenOffice.org's

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Examples of Microsoft stealing source code

With all of the FUD around Microsoft and SCO making wild and unsubstantiated claims regarding Linux, I thought I'd look up how much code Microsoft has stolen themselves. With a simple Google search, I was able to turn up eight different instances in just a few minutes where Microsoft has lost court battles from their code theft.

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Windows user migrating from XP to Ubuntu 6.10

Experiences of an windows user while migrating away from Windows XP.

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Zimbra chases Microsoft with low-cost email

In late 2003, at a coffee shop in Palo Alto, Calif., three friends weary of work at big Silicon Valley companies decided to create an email program. In a weekend they cobbled together a simple prototype. They combed the Web for free software, and in a few months they had assembled more than 40 blocks of free programming into a basic system.

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Linus Torvalds officially a Hero

According to TIME magazine, Linus Torvalds is one of the the greatest heroes of the last 60 years.

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10 Ways Women Judge You

"So much subliminal information is conveyed in those first seconds of contact," says Carol Kauffman, Ph.D., a relationship therapist and psychology instructor at Harvard medical school. Okay, so you're on the clock. Make every second count. Below are 10 ways - in rough chronological order - a woman judges your fitness to be her proverbial daddy.

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Ten Job Hunting Myths

The job market looks more promising for this year's college grads, but the perfect opportunity probably won't fall in your lap. Search smart by avoiding these common misconceptions.

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World Statistics Chart Updated in Real Time

"Current Earth Population, Births This Year, Births Today, ect.." Lots of stats updating in front of your eyes.

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Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd in their dealings with Microsoft, and have posted their thoughts on the matter.

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Ubuntu Tricks : How to Mount Your Windows Partitons make it read,writable

This is very simple tutorial how to mount your NTFS and FAT partitions in ubuntu and make these Partitons as read and writable

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Give the Gift of Pre-Installed Linux This Year

With Christmas around the corner, you'll be glad to know that you can check out over 100 vendors around the globe who offer desktop and notebook computers with GNU/Linux pre-installed. Put another way, LXer's Pre-Installed Linux Vendor database is now available! All vendors in the list offer reasonably-priced desktops and/or notebooks.

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I am the 447,241,380 richest person in the world!

This website ranks your income against the world population. I make less than $30k per year but am still in the top 7.45% of the world's income bracket.

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Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine

Adobe and Mozilla today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.

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Adobe to make largest ever source code donation to Mozilla

Adobe will contribute source code from its ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.

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GoogleTorrents.com ... search for torrents using google

A new torrent search engine using Google's Custom Search Engine.

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ULTIMATE Online File Converter- 200 File Types- 100MB- FREE

Every major file format: Document formats, Image formats, Music formats, Video formats,
Fast and High Quality - Stored for 24 Hours

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Ten reasons Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows - Part II

Last week, I began a countdown of the ten reasons Linux and BSD are far superior to Windows. I received a huge response to the first installment, so without further delay, here's the final four reasons and my official response to some of the comments and criticisms I've received.

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YOU'RE BEING TRACKED in Firefox 2.0 - how to disable 3rd party cookies

Issue was raised in latest Security Now. Firefox always blocked 3rd party cookies, now in 2.0 it removed the option. To fix: about:config in your address bar, change network.cookie.cookieBehavior from 0 to 1. I did this immediately. Also in the mozilla forum thread, link to extension that blocks 3rd party cookies.

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Open Source Earns Legal Victory

The open source software operations of IBM, Red Hat and Novell need not fear prosecution under antitrust laws, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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134 Free Academic Podcasts

These lectures are a great way to keep your mind sharp during your daily commute or while exercising. Some of the lectures lend themselves to this better than others. I'm not sure how much I would get out of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology I while driving in heavy traffic, but I suppose it is free to try.

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Get lost!

Ever get lost, or turned around? Found yourself in unfamiliar territory? Or worse, awakened with just one shoe on? Well, we have something for you. No, not a shoe -- we mean GPS-Enabled Google Maps on the Helio Drift.

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Review: GnuCash 2.0

GnuCash is a personal and small business accounting package that provides true double-entry accounting, the ability to set up automatic recurring transactions, and simple budgeting. The application does not try to hide the complexities of managing your money from you with pretty screens.

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Amazing online organizer

If the actual product is anything like the video on the home page (and on youtube), this will scoop up and slaughter the current set of online personal organization and tracking systems. Very well thought out, works offline, prints to a useable, portable format and works with firefox.

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HOW TO - Free international calling... for the next 3 years?

"Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research spotted this odd phone service for making free international calls, you call a number in Iowa (712-858-8883), enter 011 and then enjoy your free call."

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The Secret Failures of Microsoft

The big corporations partering with Microsoft suggest that the company knows what it's doing, but real the secret is that Microsoft hasn't ever earned significant profits in the consumer hardware business. Here's why DRM is the least of the Zune's worries! Daniel Eran, RoughlyDrafted Magazine : The Truth, Censored by Digg.

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Microsoft was behind Baystar investment in SCO after all

Seems SCO, the company suing IBM and alleging that they put masses of SCO code into linux illegally, was sponsored by Microsoft after all. Larry Goldfarb, head of Baystar investment says in a court filing that Microsoft pushed the $20 million investment ahead, even going so far as guaranteeing to back up the investment for the company.

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The Rarest, Most Valuable, and Desirable Video Games Ever

This feature runs down the "Holy Grails" of console game collecting. The list covers games from Atari, Nintendo, Sega, and many others. You never know, may have a treasure in your pile of old video games.

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Does an OS have to be costlier than the hardware on which it is run ?

This insightful article looks at the obvious mismatch of the pricing between the propritery OS and the hardware on which it is run. And goes on to state why it is prudent to choose GNU/Linux over the propritery OS.

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How To: Your First Firefox Extension -- Say XUL

The active ingredient is XUL, a markup language (the eXtensible [or "XML-Based"] User-interface Language, to be precise) that describes things like toolbars, menus, keyboard shortcuts.

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PDF TextOnline - PDF Text Extraction in Your Browser

PDF TextOnline Is a new (Beta) Ajax application that allows you to upload PDF documents right from your browser and convert them to text that you can easily copy past any where you need without the hassle that you usually gets from Adobe Acrobat or other PDF viewer.

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Become a del.icio.us Power User

"Del.icio.us can be used as a place to store bookmarks, share bookmarks, and discover web sites, blogs, downloads, and more, that would otherwise largely go unnoticed. Here are some of the ways to really harness the power of del.icio.us."

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234 Free Vintage DOS Games and Llayable Demos

It's amazing how far computer games have progressed. But have you ever felt the urge to take a trip back in time and relive the games of the eighties and nineties? Well now you can

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Parallels Desktop adds support for Mac Pro, Leopard

It works, finally it realy does - great news ....

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Open Source: changing the world and web

"Let's face it, not everyone is a tech junkie at this stage in their life (I know that I am not) but the further one gets in their college career, the closer we get to the corporate realm, and it is important to note one of the most interesting tech issue revolutionizing our world, open source programming."

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Results of the Google Desktop Gadget Contest!

1st place goes to "diGGGadget by Marius and Yannick Stucki Stay on top of the latest stories from digg.com. Click on a few buttons and you'll know why we think it's so great. It also takes advantage of our advanced APIs to enable sharing news with friends plus personalization based on your interests. "

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Free downloadable algorithms book

I've only read chapter one, but it seem like a very good reading !

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Free Linux Disks needs your support!

The folks at FreeLinuxDisk have 20,000 orders to fulfill with an additional 60-100 requests a day. To fulfill the orders in a timely fashion they have to buy an automated CD duplication machine ($4500 CDN). The goal is to raise $4,500 to purchase "Big Daddy Tux" in order to meet with the ongoing demand for Linux disks. Show them your support!

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Hail the Konqueror

Many KDE users tend to take the Konqueror Web browser for granted, but that's a mistake. Konqueror may not be able to replace Firefox as a Web browser for every site, but it does a lot more than just simple browsing.

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It's not just Linux: Open Source has arrived

Open-source true believers have been saying forever that open source is the way to develop software. It turns out they've convinced most programmers that they're right. According to a newly released IDC study, open source isn't just hype; it's now the way most developers make software.

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Do Everything Right From the Command Line: the Internet

UNIX provides hundreds, if not thousands, of commands with which you can manipulate a large variety of resources available in the kernel and user space. Martin Streicher, Editor-in-Chief, Linux Magazine, looks at three essential UNIX utilities that deliver the entire Internet to your command line.

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Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial A Beginner's handbook

Most of the other tutorials on Linux shell scripting are either too basic or skip too many important intermediate steps. The concept of this tutorial is to maintain a balance between these two. It covers many of the real life examples of shell scripting that are missing from many other tutorials.

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GMail Hacks/Tips

"I've been using GMail since 2004 and have always thought it was the best email service. With the large amount of space it offers, and the amazing features the possibilities are endless. Here are some nifty hacks/tips that allow you to get the most out of your GMail account."

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The New Yorker to Sell All 4,000 Issues from 1925 to 2006 on Hard Drive

"In one of the first digital publishing initiatives of its kind, we are proud to announce the release of The New Yorker's entire archive, February, 1925 - April, 2006, on a palm-sized portable hard drive. Over 4,000 issues of your favorite magazine now sit, ready for you to search and savor, on an 80G light-weight hard drive."

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Linux at Your Fingertips

espite the hype, Linux hasn't made a dent in Microsoft's desktop PC monopoly, grabbing less than 2% of the market versus 95% for Windows. That's mostly because PC makers remain loyal to Microsoft. But Linux is catching on like crazy in other devices ike crazy in other devices, powering the sleek new Motorola A1200 smart phone, the Sony Mylo

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Linux double your download speed

It is true that wget is ultimate command line downloader. However, when it comes to download acceleration wget fails to deliver the download speed. With axel and proz utilities, you can almost double your download speed. You will surprise to see how much difference these accelerators program can make.

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6 Ways To Organize Your Mail Application

Dealing with emails can be a nightmare, especially when you have hundreds of unread emails which keep growing by the hour, and dozens of flagged messages which need following-up on. Here are a few simple actions you can take to clear that inbox.

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British Airways Flies With "Google Earth"

British Airways became the first airline to pin the technology to its Web site, allowing visitors to not only book their flights, but find nearby hotels and car rentals on a 3D map. Once users have zoomed in on their chosen locale, the Google service provides a link through which they can make a booking back on the British Airways site.

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How to filter Gmail image spam

The latest email spammer tactic - an image attachment that contains text with a legit-looking subject and from address - is getting by a bunch of spam filters, including Gmail's. here's a fix.

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New phones run Skype without PC

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype Ltd.'s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs.

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Why proprietary software is dangerous for business-critical applications

But this software company said, "No, we can't give you a new registration for your old software. You need to upgrade to our latest version, and the upgrade will cost you [several thousand dollars]." Nope, they said, you must upgrade to our new version. That is your only choice. Take it or leave it.

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Microsoft backs down on XML patent claim. OSS celebrates.

The New Zealand Open Source Society has claimed a moral victory in the patent office after Microsoft amended its patent on XML schema. NZOSS president Peter Harrison says the changes made to the patent were such that the organization was no longer concerned about the threat posed by the patent.

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Kerala (Indian State) to go 100% Linux

After the cola ban it is now the turn of Microsoft to log out of Kerala. Children in 12500 high schools in the state will not be taught Windows. Instead instructors are lining up Linux for them. Kerala has 99.9% Literacy.
No Tech Support Comments Please

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Mastering Wget

wget is old school unix and is quite handy. "Wget is a highly hackable, handy little tool that can take care of all your downloading needs. Whether you want to mirror an entire web site, automatically download music or movies from a set of favorite weblogs, or transfer huge files painlessly" hellz yeah

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A Gentle Introduction to SQL

Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access.

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Best Ubuntu Guide Ever

Frustrated with trying to get simple stuff done? This guide has everything you need. Things like mapping the windows key to something useful, where to get codecs, getting XGL to workCovers Dapper Drake as well as earlier versions.

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25 things you must know before buying digital camera

very-very important things that u might forgot when you buying your new digital camera

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Major Linux Apps

The list contains the best and most popular Linux apps

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Linux Flash 9 Player Making Progress

In the most recent blog post on Penguin.SWF, Mike Melanson notes that all Flash-based sites he checked recently, Flash 9 for Linux was completely stable. Now they're moving on to more specific feature tests. Here's hoping it comes out soon!

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Making Movies: New Camcorders Shake Up the Market

The new camcorders can shoot in 24-frames-per-second mode (which looks like film). Both of these camcorders look like they will be big hits with indie filmmakers. They are designed with the wide selection of professional controls that appeal to aspiring directors who like to take control of their shooting. Canon also announced a new DVD camcorder.

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RAW vs. JPEG

If upgrading to a dSLR from a compact, there are a few advantages and disadvantages to learn about when choosing to shoot in JPEG or shoot in RAW...

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Gmail addresses available with a shorter / cooler domain name

izi.jp is a domain name powered by Google's hosted Gmail. The address is very short and many generic words and names already taken on Gmail.com are available on izi.jp because it's newer and not as well known. But the email system is powered by Gmail, which means everything works the same wonderful way, including Calendar, GTalk, Spam filter etc.

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Gmail cryptography plugin.

FreeEnigma brings cryptography to webmail, with an ingenious set of free and open browser plug-ins that work with Yahoo, Gmail, and others. The plugins implement a version of GPG and scramble and de-scramble the text in your webmail before you send it and after you receive it.

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Computer boots Linux in 1.69 seconds

A maker of board-level computers has released a Linux OS that can boot one of its boards in just 1.69 seconds. This allows, for example, a battery-backup/control accessory to wakeup the board, boot Linux, record data, and go back to sleep (step and repeat). Many other possibilities come to mind.

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Rate Hike is Causing Sellers to Drop eBay

Frustrated customers often threaten that they'll never shop at a store again. Now, a number of online retailers have become angry at eBay, and many of them claim they'll never again sell on the site. One group has grown so frustrated with eBay that it named itself "Google We Need An Auction Site."

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The People Behind KDE...

Who are these creative people? Why are they working on KDE? What motivates them to contribute to the project? What do they eat? Who are their favourite writers, singers and actors? Well... you get the picture. At this web site there are interviews with the people who work on KDE to find the answers to questions like these.

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AOL to offer video from all the big guys

AOL announced today that it has finalized deals to offer download to own deals with 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group through Video.AOL.com. AOL will now distribute content from all 6 the corporations owning major studios in the US, either through download to own or onl

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EA says Wii might be $170: "“I’ve heard in Japan that the price is about $170, but I don’t know if the price has been set in Europe yet. Nintendo has come up with a very clever strategy. They’ve made a choice which is great for the consumer. Now we’re going to have a choice whereby consumers can buy a Wii plus one other console.” - Executive VP and COO of EA, David Gardner

Wii for $170…sounds damn good to me!

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.Mac's slow death

"Somebody call the ambulance, because .Mac is dying...and Google is the assassin (with a little help from his sidekick Firefox)."

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Google's MP3 Player: "Google has a nice little MP3 player you can use on your site, as Amit Agarwal found out by digging through Gmail code. Just append the URL of an MP3 file to 'http://mail.google.com/mail/html/audio.swf?audioUrl='.

Below I've included a link to a podcast using Google's MP3 wrapper in a simple Iframe... and now you have streaming capabilities and a Google Video-like interface with a progress bar and sound adjustments.

You can also replace above podcast with an MP3 URL of your choice:


[By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments]
Source: Google Blogoscoped"

Ten tips for new Ubuntu users! Excellent!

Ubuntu has become the most popular Linux distribution for new Linux users. It's easy to install, easy to use, and usually "just works." But moving to a different operating system can be confusing, no matter how well-designed it is. Here's a list of tips that might save you some time while you're getting used to Ubuntu

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Gmail Audio Player

Gmail has a built-in player for MP3 attachments. If you receive emails that include MP3 files (maybe a podcast or a public domain recording), you can listen them directly from Gmail.

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Kickoff - The new KDE start menu

This is a nice little flash movie about what the new KDE start menu will look like. It looks like this will be in openSUSE 10.2

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Open source guru advocates ideological shift

Eric Raymond, one of the high priests of open source, has told the community that painful compromises are needed to the way it deals with closed source platforms and formats to avoid losing ground on desktops and new media players.

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Google CEO wants $74 billion TV ad market | Digital Micro-Markets | ZDNet

Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes television viewers should not have to stand for tv commercials that are a waste of your time.Schmidt is frustrated that when you watch the television you see ads that are clearly not targeted for you. What does he plan to do about it?

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Crazy Egg - visual heatmap of where visitors are clicking on your site

Crazy Egg is a program that shows you a visual heatmap of where your users are clicking. It tracks clicks on links, ads, flash and Ajax and more.

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What Is OpenDocument, why should I care?

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an emerging file format standard for electronic office documents. Representing a triumph of common sense over the methods conceived before the rise of the Internet, ODF's goals are both exciting and controversial. Early adopters of the format include state and municipal governments in some near-and far-flung places

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How do you get a price cut? just ask

Most people don't think twice about bargaining when it comes to something big, like a new car or home. But getting a price cut on smaller things, cable bills, doctors' fees, electronics goods, can be surprisingly easy: Just ask.

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Cool map of Starbucks & McDonalds taking over the world

This pair of maps show the global presence of Starbucks coffee shops and McDonald's restaurants. When examined graphically, both companies act as global hubs that connect some of the world's poorest, most remote countries with some of the wealthiest. Very cool yet freaky at the same time!

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Can't hear me now? Verizon is dropping a lot of DNS requests!

Verizon drops 3.14% of all DSL subscribers's DNS requests! CNET just rehashed a report that Nominum commissioned to look at the speed and reliability of ISP DNS servers. The verdict won't shock any of you: ISPs are pretty bad at providing DNS!

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HOW-TO watch YOUTUBE videos from LINUX Shell Prompt

Publishing your own video on YouTube, or watching other people's videos, is all the rage these days. Why are we talking about YouTube, in a column about the CLI? Because this week we're writing about youtube-dl, a clever little CLI tool that's easy to install and and use to fetch YouTube videos.

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Exclusive Q&A With Linus Torvalds

Linux creator says his 15-year-old creation is growing up nicely


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In-depth review on why Google bought Neven Vision

An in-depth over of Neven Vision, image recognition software, and why Google bought them. Review breaks down patents, past publishings and integration into Google's services.

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Big Blue Sings Linux

Linux showed off its big ally. Big Blue on Tuesday touted plans to boost Linux development with a commitment to open-source business models that it hopes will usher in a new era.

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Lockheed Says F-35 Could Fly Pilotless

"Lockheed Martin Corp. has proposed an unmanned version of its Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35, which would make it the first full-scale fighter to operate without a pilot and signal the Bethesda weapons maker's push into the growing market for drone aircraft."

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IBM Puts Weight Behind New Open-Source Markets

Among the projects underway are tuning the Linux kernel to run faster and more securely on IBM's new Cell processor, shipping versions of Lotus desktop apps that run on Linux, and expanding IBM's open-source Web server business, company executives said Tuesday at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco.

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Google Talk Adds Voice Mail, File Sharing

Google Talk is offering an update today that will enable users to easily transfer files, set presence with music, and send and receive voice mails.

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AnandTech: Apple's Mac Pro - A True PowerMac Successor

Here we're going to be looking at the Mac Pro as a Mac (mostly) and compare the performance of two speed grades (2.0GHz and 2.66GHz) to the outgoing PowerMac G5. We'll also take the thing apart and give you a nice tour in pictures of the new chassis.

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Top 10 Municipal Wi-Fi Plans

"Some of the largest U.S. cities have hatched big plans for providing low-cost wireless broadband to residents. Want to know where you may be getting free Wi-Fi next? Here's a look at 10 of the biggest municipal Wi-Fi plans."

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Google's 3D Video Camera Project

Using technology similar to doppler radar, this live motion camera made by Advanced Scientific Concepts can translate what it shoots into 3D data. The result is that you can digitize anything you film into 3D data, complete with textures. Google seems to be involved with the project. Could VR walkthroughs be coming to Google Earth?

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New installer gives Debian Etch an edge

The Debian Installer team has released the third beta of its installer for Etch, the next version of Debian. According to the announcement, there is now an optional graphical installer for the i386 and AMD64 platforms, and you can now set up encrypted partitions during installation. Not all features are present yet in this beta.

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Trolltech woos developers with "open" Linux phone

Trolltech, best known for the Qt graphical framework and toolkit that form the basis of KDE, will ship an "open" Linux-based phone in September. The "Greenphone" features a user-modifiable Linux OS, and is meant to jumpstart a third-party native application ecosystem for Linux-based mobile phones.

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Windows 5x More Expensive than Mac OS X

Apple released 5x as many major updates, and over 15x as many minor updates to Mac OS X since 2000 vs Windows, but buying Windows actually costs users 5x as much! How will Microsoft's expensive platform affect sales of PCs next year under Leopard & Vista? Daniel Eran at RoughlyDrafted Magazine 'splains.

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Amazing comparison of a 32-core Sun running Ubuntu versus 4-core AMD

60 days ago Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz issued a daring invitation to developers: write a public review of "the world's most power efficient server" and keep the server. Be careful what you wish for.

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Google Adding Face Recognition Technology to Picasa

Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects

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Atheist

Awesome video of atheist people and their accomplishments...disproving how atheists are thought to be.

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Thailand Plans to Give 1 Free Laptop Per Child

"Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand's millions of elementary school students will begin in October."

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Indian village uploads itself onto Internet

An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the Internet, giving the outside world a glimpse of life in rural India.

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So You Wanna Change Your Default Browser In Vista?

Microsoft has designed the User Account Control (UAC) to work so perfectly that it will be difficult for the average person to switch the default browser.

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TV interview with Mark 'Ubuntu' Shuttleworth

A rare chance to see Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Ubuntu, on television.

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Google: the Godfather of Open Source?

It's well known that Google runs its vast array of servers using a custom version of GNU/Linux. But this is only one aspect of its support for free software. Others include its Summer of Code, now well established as an incubator of both coding talent and projects, and more recently its open source code repository.

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Google: Govts are the greatest threat to web privacy

CEO Eric Schmidt told the Search Engine Strategies industry conference that Google had put all necessary safeguards in place to protect its users' personal data from theft or accidental release.

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How To Run A Ubuntu Webserver And Torrent Client Under Windows XP

This tutorial is meant for Linux newbies who want to try and build a Ubuntu server box as a webserver and torrent client. It is a step by step instruction on how to do this in VMware on Windows XP to get the feel of it.

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Apple thrashes Dell on Mac Pro pricing

"We thought it would be interesting to compare pricing between similarly specced systems from Dell and Apple, and were gobsmacked at the results - this should be very good reading for Apple advocates..."

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IE7 is basically non-compliant with CSS web standards.

IE6 51%
IE7 55%
Firefox 93%
Will this affect Web 2.0?

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Tackles Net Neutrality and AJAX

Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared to play the role of cryptic savant in remarks at the search engine strategies summit in San Jose. Schmidt, who once opposed development of Java during his days at Sun, conceded that it is very difficult to predict the future in the technology business in general and in the search business specifically.

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Managing Users In Ubuntu

I think a lot of people new to GNU/Linux don't understand the whole "users thing". This short, practical guide to user management in Ubuntu and GNU/Linux will make it all clear.

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Google says click fraud estimates are overblown

Google is fighting back against what it says are exaggerations in industry estimates of click fraud in its bread-and-butter pay-per-click advertising system.

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Japan is Producing Electricity from Train Station Ticket Gates

Busy train stations (those with large numbers of passengers willing to bounce heavily through the gates) will be able to accumulate a relatively large amount of electricity. It works by embedding piezo elements in the ground.

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Thunderbird 2.0 preview

I addition to the front-page attractions, Thunderbird provides several improvements to the existing features. The new mail notification area has undergone extensive revision -- this is the pop-up transient window that appears when Thunderbird finds new mail on the server during a routine background mail-check...

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Nuremberg hopes to create 'Linux Valley'

Linux Business Campus Nuremberg has opened the doors of its new Innovation Center in the Maxtorhof office center north of the city's historic center. The group is targeting young companies interested in developing new Linux-based or open source-based software applications..

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Black Hat: Researcher creates Net neutrality test

Dan Kaminsky, a Seattle-based security researcher has devised a way to test for net neutrality. He will share details of this technique, which will be rolled into a free tool, today at the Black Hat conference. The software can tell whether computers are treating some types of TCP/IP traffic better than others.

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First Ubuntu Billboard spotted

"The above billboard was spotted near the Ralston exit in Redwood"

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Top 10 Websites for Students

"You've checked the course schedules, bought your sheets and towels, shopped for a laptop, gotten in touch with your new roommate--you're all ready for college, right? Wrong. Your campus orientation isn't complete until you get a little Internet orientation, too."

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Google Launches Picasa Web Albums for Mac

"I'm happy to tell you about the release of Picasa Web Albums Uploaders (beta, of course) for Mac OS X. Picasa Web Albums makes it simple to share photos with friends and family, and now we've made it even easier on the Mac."

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AOL to provide 5GB of online storage for FREE

AOL is leading the industry by providing 5GB of online storage FREE for all web users.

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GNOME 2.14.3 Released!

The latest stable release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.14.3! This is the
final release in a series of point releases for the 2.14 branch.

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Linux Command Line Cheatsheet

A list of linux commands for common operations including: file searching, networking, directory navagation, etc.

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A Five Minute Guide to Opposing DRM

I've been covering the Free Software Foundation's Defective By Designcampaign against Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies since its planning stages. Starting from scratch, in less than three months, the campaign has grown to 7000 members. This number is impressive.

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Introduction to 90 Online File Storage Services

"You can use them to send big files, or backup your documentations. Some services can be accessed from your web browser, others may have a client program for you to auto-backup your hard drive."

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Learn How to Develop Firefox Extensions!! - A step-by-step Tutorial

What is your dream firefox extension? Don't wait, Do-it yourself!! This tutorial has been created for individuals wanting to develop full-featured extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser. The tutorial has been constructed as a step-by-step guide providing many examples, explanations

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Developers Flock To Google's SourceForge Rival

Google is winning good reviews from early adopters of its new open-source development hub, Google Code Project Hosting. Less than a week after its launch, several thousand projects are hosted on the site, and users praise its simplicity.



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Microsoft's secret record of every website visited on your PC!

Windows creates invisible, undeletable files listing all the websites the PC has visited. Not only every URL but also all of the email that has been sent or received through Outlook or Outlook Express is also being logged. This information is untouched by clearing history, internet cache folder and temporary internet files. Link shows how to remove

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Free book: The Easiest Linux Guide You've Ever Read

The author Scott Morris says: "After several months of writing and revising, I have made available the Easiest Linux Guide You've Ever Read. It is a book geared towards people who are competent with using Windows, who have never attempted to use Linux but are interested in giving it a try."

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Four countries order 4 million OLPC laptops

Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have EACH ordered a million Linux laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, DesktopLinux.com reports.

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Four countries order 4 million OLPC laptops

Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have EACH ordered a million Linux laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, DesktopLinux.com reports.

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Finally a device to cure Hiccups

The Hic-Cup, a patented Class I medical device, allows hiccup sufferers to enjoy 100% drug-free relief from this plaguing condition.

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Personal Wiki Application As Easy As Notepad -It is FREE

Zulupad is a personal wiki application for both windows and osx. The great thing about ZuluPad is that it combines the best parts of a notepad with the best parts of a wiki,

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3 out of 4 women now prefer a plasma tv to a diamond... THANK YOU GOD

i think 100 out of 100 men agree with this

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If You Want to be Rich: First, Stop Being So Frightened

Felix Dennis, publishing tycoon, has written a guide to becoming a multi-millionaire. All you need is thick skin, cunning - and a work ethic. I am convinced that fear of failing in the eyes of the world is the single biggest impediment to amassing wealth. Trust me on this. Consider carefully this shortlist of what it will take...

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MAJOR Google Talk UPDATE! With Voicemail+Music status+File transfer

Finally Google Talk with voicemail, file transfer capabilities and show what music track you are playing in your client!!!

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WINE Version 0.9.18 Released: Better Game Support

WineHQ has just announced the release of WINE v0.9.18. In this release they've got better Direct3D and memory management fixes. Word from Linux-Gamers is that you should be able to play WOW and HL2 with little tweaking!

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Dreamweaver Killer: Cross Platform Open Source (Javascript, HTML, CSS) IDE

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure Error and warning notification.

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Lots of New Secret Google Services Uncovered

Accounts created from within sandbox.google.com are not "real" Google Accounts - the subdomain and associated accounts are used for testing new or experimental Google services. I managed to find and add the following services to my "sandbox" Google Account - all of which aren't currently available to add to your "real" Google Account.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 Released

Thunderbird 2A1 has some great new features!

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Opera reveals version 10 vision - CNET News.com

"Hot on the heels of version 9's release, the browser company gives a preview of its plans for the next incarnation. "

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Top five things Microsoft can learn from Linux

Last week, SJVN listed the top five things Linux can learn from Microsoft. Well, it's a two-way street. Here's SJVN's list of the top five things that Microsoft could learn from Linux.

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Flash Player 9 Heading To Linux

Adobe developer Mike Melanson has been tracking the development progress of Flash Player 9 for Linux users. A recent post on his Penguin.SWF blog listed the APIs being used in this version of the software.

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MAJOR Google Talk UPDATE! With Voicemail+Music status+File transfer

Finally Google Talk with voicemail, file transfer capabilities and show what music track you are playing in your client!!!

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Google launches 'Google Help'

"Those of us in user support had a pet peeve: there was no single place that held all of Google's help information at your fingertips. So we decided to build one -- and now you can visit Google Help to find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions for just about every Google product and service."

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25 of the best extensions for Firefox - Have It Your Way!

The following is a list of the best 25 extensions for Firefox. They have been classified into three board categories: those that add additional enhancements to the browser and improve a user's experience, those that add additional enhancements to certain web sites, and ...

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Collection of Interesting Google Links

A collection of some interesting and strange google links that most people probably have not seen. Some are fun and some interesting.

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Huge Collection of Programming and Computer Cheatsheets!

This website contains a large collection of quick reference materials ranging from HTML and CSS to Python and Perl. All of the links are up to date and all of the cheatsheets are free to download.

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Towards one laptop per child

Countries which will initially receive the laptops are China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria and Thailand... The $100-laptops, which are designed for rough usage, will be Linux-based and have a 500 MHz processor, a 128MB of DRAM, and a 500MB flash memory.

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Experiencing déjà vu? Here's why

Researchers believe they have found a key insight into d
éjà vu, the eerie sensation of seeing something that has already been experienced. Experiments suggest that déjà vu can be triggered independently, without a real memory to prompt it.

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VMware slams XenSource-Microsoft deal

VMware has slammed Microsoft's tie-up with open source virtualisation developer XenSource, announced earlier this week, calling it a "one-way street," and accusing XenSource of betraying its open source roots.

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Dual-booting Windows and Linux the easy way (Linux.com videos)

An excellent step-by-step videos-based guide. There is no longer a reason to have any machine in the house/office which is Windows-only.

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India's biggest life insurer opts for Linux

All of LIC's 2,048 branches, 100 divisional offices, seven zonal offices, head office and subsidiary offices will be covered by the deployment. Along with this all of LIC's desktops will also simultaneously be converted to Linux. Approximately 60,000 users and five to six thousand servers will migrate to RHEL.

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Companies selling preinstalled Linux and no-OS

I am putting together a list of companies that sell pre-installed Linux and no-OS computers.

It is aimed at the lower priced desktops and notebook/laptops.


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AMD Throws Out Quad-Core Challenge To Intel

AMD says that it will release true quad-core processors by mid-2007, distinguishing the chips from packaged two dual core design that Intel has announced will be released this year. AMD's quad-core product will differ from the Intel offering because it will four distinct processors on a single die rather than two dual-cores packaged together.

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AMD Throws Out Quad-Core Challenge To Intel

AMD says that it will release true quad-core processors by mid-2007, distinguishing the chips from packaged two dual core design that Intel has announced will be released this year. AMD's quad-core product will differ from the Intel offering because it will four distinct processors on a single die rather than two dual-cores packaged together.

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Debian 'etch' Release Update

There is an update for the next Debian release plan. According to Marc Brockschmidt Etch will carry 4.0 as version number and should be released on December 4, 2006. "Please note that as of now, RC bugs and problematic transitions are our main concern. There has been progress, but we still need to lower the number of release critical bugs further

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Joe's Goals- Free Online Goal Tracking

free online goal tracking. exactly what it says. very easy to use. i love it. =)

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"Why do people keep putting important data in spreadsheets?"

FTA - "stupid users are putting important data into spreadsheets and running their businesses with them. Oh, those stupid lazy users, if only they'd learn to put their data into normal form and enjoy all the benefits of a relational database."


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Croatian government adopts free software policy

The Croatian government has decided to adopt a free software policy and move entirely to Open Source. Proprietary software leads to too much dependence on suppliers, which can damage the market competition..OSS makes the government's business more transparent, it will save tax payers huge amounts of cash and strengthen domestic industry.

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Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever.

Frustrated that Skype doesn't allow free international calls from international locations? Gizmo does, free! You can even buy a Call in line for $3 a month so your friend can call you from their landline. Available to Window, Mac, and Linux users!

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New Google Video Feature: Link within a Video

Now you can email links to specific points inside a video! All you have to do is add the time you'd like to share to the end of a video's URL. We support hours (h), minutes (m), and seconds (s).

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French Linux-powered robots? Oui!

A French start-up is creating an autonomous, easily programmable, household service robot. The walking, talking, WiFi-enabled bot will stand nearly two feet tall, will move with 23 degrees of freedom.

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VMware slams XenSource-Microsoft deal

VMware has slammed Microsoft's tie-up with open source virtualization developer XenSource, announced earlier this week, calling it a "one-way street," and accusing XenSource of betraying its open source roots.

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Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg's HomePage Content

When folks think of Digg, they're often misled into believing that the content seen on the homepage is representative of what a wide base of Internet users think is news-worthy and important. The numbers tell a different story - that of all stories that make it to the front page of Digg, more than 20% come from a select group of 20 users.

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Speech Recognition for Linux

Wizzard Software Releases WizzScribe SI For Linux - Revolutionizes Server-Based Speech Recognition By Eliminating Training

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Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ

Review: The distro's usability and active community earn it high marks; its long-term support will appeal to businesses.

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New Vista build looking more and more like Mac OS X

Mac users can stop being smug now. The Vista review screenshots show Vista Build 5472 incorporating a lot of OS X-like features. It also ditched various irritating user prompts, and made the whole thing run fast. The one thing Apple does still have dominance in is media -- the article basically says the Vista Media Center is still buggy.

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ABC Does Firefox Extentions

"Feast your eyes on the following collection of free tools, ad-blockers, performance tuners, and tabbed-browsing enhancers. The basic browser works fine by itself; add some of these and you can truly harness the Internet's power."

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Freeswitch: The New Open-Source Telco Switch

The project is sure to grab the eye of major equipment vendors who have been looking for sometime at an open-source carrier-grade switch. IBM demonstrated a fault-tolerant version of the Asterisk open-source IP PBX last year.

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Google Not A "One Trick Pony" Search

Google Tips and Tricks. Nice concise listing of the google operators. For example a google search for "1 mile in feet" will return "5 280 feet", or "safesearch: sex education" will omit adult oriented sites.

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Which Browser is King? Firefox 2, IE 7, or Opera 9?

Firefox, Microsoft, and Opera have all come out with new browser version in the past couple of months. Which upgrade is the most significant? And which browser has the features and usability you're looking for?

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Google Exec Challenges Berners-Lee

"A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence."

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Google's unknown artist has huge following

The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos that decorate Google.com's otherwise Spartan Web site on special occasions.

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Open source in the national interest

Now if you're a CIO tasked with saving money and resources for a large or small enterprise, wouldn't it seem prudent to follow the lead of an organization tasked with saving taxpayers' money and lives? Yeah. Me, too.

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Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system--

Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system--
so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs' Analyst's
Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux
desktop distributions.

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Is your Windows systems slow to log-off or shutdown?

Microsoft has a utility called UPHClean which helps unload the user session quickly and completely at log-off or shutdown. I've tried it and it's significantly reduced the amount of time it takes to shutdown my laptop at the end of the day.

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Instructions to install NTFS-3G in Ubuntu Dapper

Brief tutorial on installing the new NTFS-3G in Ubuntu Dapper. NTFS-3G allows Linux users to read and write to NTFS drives

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Novell ships Suse Linux 10

Novel has unveiled Suse Linux Enterprise 10 the world's first major Linux distribution to offer support the Xen open source virtualization technology.

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Comcast Censors ABC's Nightline

Think there's no reason for Congress to pass net neutrality laws? Consider this: Comcast recently censored ABC's Nightline on its Comcast Broadband TV service by deleting the part of the broadcast that said a Comcast technician was sleeping on a customer's couch instead of installing residential broadband.

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Trick : Cheapest broadband, DSL and Cable internet.

Articles tells us about a cool way to get the cheapest broadband access. At around $10 a month .. year after year.

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Free 10 Week Online AJAX Course by Sun Microsystems

A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and toolkits....

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275 Excellent Free Website Templates

Site also includes 60 free logo templates, 63 free banner templates, 84 free newsletter templates, website arrows, abstract images, and much more. Fantastic resource.

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Google Music Search!

I was Googling for an artist and noticed a separate sub-search section for just music. It's pretty cool if you haven't seen it yet. Has: artist info, album info, reviews, and lyrics (most of the time). Try it out!

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5 Tools To Bulletproof Firefox

Here are five essential tools for securing Firefox by disabling JavaScript and Flash, sniffing out suspicious sites, foiling phishing, preventing peeks at private data, and preparing powerful passwords.

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Linux Pre-installed on a AMD 64-bit Based System for $300

Technalign has said that they have partnered with Britt Systems in Florida to provide a 64-bit AMD 2800+ computer for under $300.00.

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Emurse : Create and Track Your Resumes

When finding your perfect career, don't leave the most important parts up to chance. Writing a great resume and keeping it up to date is essential. Getting your foot in the door requires an organized approach and maybe even a little bit of networking. Wouldn't it be swell if you could do that all from one place?

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Free Linux Disks (not Ubuntu)

TheLinuxStore.ca has started a new project. A project that will give away free Linux disks of your favorite distribution (SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, Debian, Knoppix). Have a look, give feedback, donate to the cause, request a disk.

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Even Shorter Sudoku Solver - In Python

The current shortest Python sudoku solver program is 178 bytes long and fits on four lines with no line longer than 80 chars.

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How to make ice that sinks

Ice is supposed to float, but with a little heavy water, you can make cubes that sink. You won't want to make much (it costs about $15 a cube), but you can probably make your costs back with the bets you will win.


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List of Books Banned by the Catholic Church

This is a huge list of books banned by the Catholic church; in case any of you heretics wanted to start a reading list.

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Hack almost any Nokia cell phone

This site will give you the codes to unlock your Nokia cell phone, plain, fast and simple.

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Computers Outperforming Investors

Many mutual funds that make their trades based on the recommendations of a proprietary computer model, known as quantitative or quant funds, have outperformed their benchmarks in the last three years. And investors have noticed.

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eWEEK Labs Bakeoff: Linux Versus .Net Stacks

Talk about your Romeo and Juliet: Neither the open-source nor the Windows communities seem to be able to accept a marriage of open-source server components and Windows operating systems.

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Unnamed Math Program 0.8.4

Ump is a program in which all sorts of calculations can be done, from the simplest to the more advanced. It handles complex numbers and matrices of those.

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Lotus Notes tuned for Linux

IBM plans to unveil on Monday a version of its Lotus Notes desktop collaboration software for Linux.

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Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting

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HOW TO: Record Videos Of Your Desktop

Have you ever wanted to take a video of your sleek desktop, with your customised icons, window manager, GKrellM, and whatnot? Or make a video of cool XGL effects? Or a video tutorial to teach a few friends how to use a certain application? If you have, then this tutorial is for you.

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12 Web 2.0 StartUp Gems - Useful Services for Free

A wide range of google AJAX / Web 2.0 Services offered by innovative Start Ups
Will be fascinating to watch how they progress

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Move an Entire File System on a Live Unix System

Copying a live file system can be risky, especially if there are open files. You should also be careful to ensure that you don't accidentally overwrite a partition, or existing files, with the files you are trying to copy. With some careful thought, you can effectively migrate files reliably to take advantage of more space, even on a live system.

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Instantly Start Your Operating System

Forget Live CDs! Check of Linux Bios. When you start your PC, you have an OS running. You might have seen a Bios that's aware of your mouse. That's nothing. You can run Firefox from the Bios. Software to flash your Bios at this page. Instant On is here today.

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Massachusetts holding tight to OpenDocument

State is sticking to its plan to standardize on OpenDocument, says the incoming CIO, describing the move as irreversible.

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The best way to learn Linux online!

I have been using this for the past week and it is by far the best way I've found to learn Linux. There are "courses" and "exams" that you can skim through or take full advantage of. If you want to learn Linux and have no idea where to begin, I suggest you start here.

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Installing your own webserver, and why you'd want to

A great tutorial on installing an Apache (and all the trimmings) webserver on your own computer, and what benefits it brings. It's designed for people who wouldn't normally consider doing it, and wouldn't know where to start - It's great for Digg's new non-geek audience!

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How to concentrate on writing

Professional writer gives ten tips to improve concentration and get the copy written. Would work for other forms of writing and brain-intensive work too, such as coding.

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New Venture of FireFox Creator: A Firefox PC Operating System?

If you had a development cycle for a Firefox OS, and you had 10 percent of the computers in the world going out with Fire OS on it, then we would see some improvements in this corporation in Redmond.

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Amazing clone of Basecamp, 100% free

activeCollab is here to provide free alternative to Basecamp, great service developed by 37signals

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Wikipedia founder launches political site

"Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection."

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Apple ranks No.2 on PC buyer survey

Apple is expected to make major inroads in the PC market this back-to-school season, according to one report.

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Google Video Secret Categories

Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.

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An Openoffice.org thesaurus for Ubuntu 6.06 and Debian Sarge

Actually, this is a Debian Package that works well on my 6.06 desktop. I downloaded it and it installed in a few second. Just another development in moving Openoffice.org further into the mainstream for all users and especially those seeking industrial strength.

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New Web Based Operating System Built as a Science Experiment

Experimental "Web operating system" that a small team at MIT created. YouOS is an online platform with a window-based, graphical user interface.

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Find out where your senator stands on Net Neutrality

Expands on the old list somewhere and tells you what to say to your senator, etc. Great!

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New Internet Tech 153,000 Times Faster Than Modem

A new data transfer protocol for the Internet fast enough to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds, the California Institute of Technology said today.
The protocol is called FAST, standing for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

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Want to learn Chinese, China wants to teach you

"China launched a Web site, www.linese.com, on Saturday offering free Chinese lessons and materials to promote the study and use of the language abroad."

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Real-Time Eye Tracking

"For those who want to build their own real-time eye tracking system, downoad the open-source code here." Check out the video.

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Nokia Selected as Primary Provider of Free WiFi in NYC Parks

"Nokia has been selected as the primary provider for mobile services in the free WiFi networks in New York City parks. Parks include Central Park, Union Square Park and Corona Flushing Meadows and will feature the network infrastructure owned and managed by WiFi Salon."

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Google Video Secret Categories

Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.

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Negroponte: $100 laptops due next year

...One Laptop Per Child initiative -- which
aims to produce a $100 laptop computer for distribution to children in
developing countries -- features a hand crank that generates the two
watts of power the machine needs to operate. It uses a Wi-Fi mesh to
connect to the Internet, and runs open-source software (Linux).

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Dvorak predicts Microsoft's iPod Killer to be flop

"We saw this coming a mile away. Better than iPOD? That
�s not the key. The key is to be �hotter� and �cooler� than iPOD. No easy chore. Microsoft is not up to this challenge. Go for the portable gaming device, not this!"

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The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Linux Box

Start with the ultimate AMD64 motherboard and build on it to create a masterpiece of your own... Linux syle!

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Google: A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor

Google is as much about infrastructure as it is about the search engine.

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Ubuntu Gamers Arena

Latest drivers list , latest games , all for Ubuntu

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Toyota Homeâ??building 21st century comfort and luxury into houses in Japan

"Concentrating the knowledge and technology of the Toyota Group to the housing business, Toyota's house making is based on the "Skeleton & Infill" approach. Based on careful consideration of customer lifestyles, three different structures have been developed for the Toyota Home line-up."

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Toyota Homeâ??building 21st century comfort and luxury into houses in Japan

"Concentrating the knowledge and technology of the Toyota Group to the housing business, Toyota's house making is based on the "Skeleton & Infill" approach. Based on careful consideration of customer lifestyles, three different structures have been developed for the Toyota Home line-up."

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15x15 - Your chance to be famous

Using Warhol's "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" statement as a premise, 15x15 advances the statement into the 21st century; with new media technology anyone and and everyone can be world famous... for 15 seconds.

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