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LocatePC Tracks Stolen Computers with Discrete Emails [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 15, 2008
Windows only: Free computer-tracking application LocatePC is a lightweight application that can save you a hefty amount of money if your laptop, or even desktop, falls into the wrong hands. Running as a nondescript background app, LocatePC can quietly email you at regular intervals or, more helpfully, whenever your IP address changes. That could be a pain for those behind cable connections and...
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Entry for May 15, 2008
via Access Denied by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
... بود، حالش داشت به هم میخوردیه کیسه دستش بود،به من گفت خانوم اگه من حالم بد بشه ، شما بدتون نمیاد که؟خندیدم گفتم نه یادِ این مصاحبه های رادیو تلویزیون افتادم که میرن از ملت میپرسن نظرِ مثبتتون راجع به جمهوری اسلامی چیه؟
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AVG Free Anti-Virus 2008 Released, Much Improved [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 02, 2008
Windows only: Popular freeware anti-virus application AVG Free recently updated to AVG Free 2008. Aside from a general interface overhaul and faster performance, the updated anti-virus scanner has added several new features with a focus on web security. AVG is always at the forefront of the freeware anti-virus category, so unless you don't run anti-virus software, it's a great alternative...
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Smashing Textures Contest
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on May 09, 2008
Take a shot, send us the image and win a Canon Digital Rebel camera. In web design textures are needed in background-images and header graphics. Graphic designers use textures to transport some concrete aspects of real-life into the digital presentation. Textures are also used to create an atmosphere which fits to the main topic or idea of the site.Such textures are usually extracted from photos....
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Google Friend Connect Launched
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 13, 2008
Google released Friend Connect, a service for webmasters to add such gadgets as comments, reviews, or contact lists to their site. Furthermore, Friend Connect supports any creation from the Google gadget initiative “OpenSocial,” and also adds social features to a given site which connect the site to the social network site of a user. The latter, Google argues, holds the potential to increase...
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Dash Opens Up APIs For Its GPS Device to Developers
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 14, 2008
Dash Navigation is opening up its in-car GPS device to outside developers through an API program. The Dash already lets consumers create Yahoo map mashups on teh Web which theycan then send to their car. (Read my earlier review). Now, companies that want to create specific applications for the device, which includes a two-way data channel through GPRS as well as WiFi, can join the API...
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Touchwall: Microsoft’s Inexpensive Wall-Based Multi-Touch Interface
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 14, 2008
... a multi-touch table computer that was introduced in 2007 and which recently became commercially available in select AT&T stores. In a demo yesterday, though, Microsoft Office Labs GM Chris Pratley and Director of Envisioning Ian Sands said that the two products are completely different. Surface is a multi-touch and vision system that uses cameras to sense what is on the table, where it is an...
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The Ultimate PC Repair Toolkit in your Pocket: Boot CD on a USB Stick
via MakeUseOf.com by Dave Drager on May 14, 2008
Several times I’ve been called upon at a moment’s notice to troubleshoot a misbehaving PC system either at work or at a friend’s or relative’s home. Being the “go to” guy for these sorts of problems is both a curse and a blessing, but I guess that is besides the point.One tool that I have found to be valuable beyond compare is the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD). This compilation of software...
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Poor word choice on recruitment sign
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 14, 2008
Do any Boing Boing readers from Nashville know if this sign is real or a Photoshop job? (viaFor Your Entertainment)
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