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Looks like NASA has hit another home run and the samples returned from Space exceeded all expectations, congratulations to the NASA team, we look forward to hearing information back from scientist who get to examine these particles. [MSNBC]
I previously owned a copy of iLife05, but iLife06 had features included in it that I have been waiting for mac to come out with. The hefty price of $80.00 concerned me, but you are also getting 5 programs. The integration with a mac account, something that I use regularly anyways was also a huge plus. Finally something that works
I did not realize this but apparently there is a fairly organized group of about 5000 people that pick a spammer site a day to go after. The results have been pretty good in a sense they are fighting fire with fire. Interesting read on the S*pam King Blog that tells of one spammer begging for them to stop. I
The Bells are loosing ground and they are not happy about it. In return they want to start charging a two way toll on the net connected lines. First they charge Joe Customer for Internet access, second they want to charge companies like Google for driving so much traffic through their network lines. Seems Bill Smith, BellSouth’s CTO is on
You used to only get virus definition updates and minor changes to existing software but quietly Symantec is no delivering software updates via Live Update as well. This is good news to those that want to make sure you have the latest and greatest firewall and virus engines running on your machines. [PCWorld.com]
For those of you that are the Geeks you understand the importance of this development. It is obvious at least in this initiative that Google wants to kick the utilization of Google Talk (GTalk) into a higher playing field. For a more detailed explanation here is a quote from the original article at [Neowin.net] "Basically GTalk can now communicate with
I am looking for a programmer that has experience or can come up to speed very quickly on the software development kit (SDK) for the Windows Media Center Edition. If you have that experience you need to drop me a line geeknews@gmail.com
For those that are vision impaired there is nothing that aggravates them more than not being able to access websites that have elements that make it impossible to navigate. Most of the time what stops vision impaired people form being able to access services is word verification systems commonly called "Captcha". A long time reader of this website who happens
Do you want to understand why millions of computers are being used as bots or have been over run with spyware checkout the reasons people are shutting off the firewall provide by Windows OneCare Live. This is from the teams blog. Based on our investigation, there are four primary reasons people are turning off their firewall. 1. Do not think
It seems that these nasty companies that call my home phone line at midnight with a Fax beeping on the other end have figured out a way to bypass some federal laws. These companies send you a Fax but when you call the 800 number listed on the Fax to be removed from the list you find that these companies
The Top 10 Sources website has caused a bit of a controversy in the way they are parsing multiple RSS feeds together, and John Palfrey one of the main people behind Top 10 Sources has written a lengthy piece on the matter. I have been protecting my RSS feed for a long time, but I also am smart enough to
I have been working for about a month now with a design and programming team on the new site design for TechPodcasts.com I am really happy with it so far. I had to send the initial design back for chances as the layout was to close to another site I am familiar with, and I am not going to have
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