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Fring add-ons automatically appear in the program's menu (left), and provide access to Facebook (right) and other ...
Access to add-ons does not require downloading a new version of the Fring client. Instead, users need only open the client's Manage Add-Ons menu (above left), which will be continually updated with new add-ons as they become available, according to the company.
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Scans unlock violin sound secrets
A medical X-ray technique developed for lung patients is helping scientists unlock the secrets of the Stradivarius violin. CT (computerised tomography) scans of several highly prized instruments suggested that wood density may hold the key to their unique sweet sound.
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Google silencing Obama critics? Memo to New York Times bloggers: ur doing it rong [Great Moments In Journalism]
"Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama?" asks New York Times reporter Miguel Helft today, in what reads like the Gray Lady's attempt to do Valleywag-style... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Willcox Library takes steps to protect children during Internet use
The Elsie S. Hogan Library is taking steps to protect children who use the Internet there by limiting their access to harmful material.
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Safari, Firefox Post Market Share Gains Against Internet Explorer
Chicago (IL) - Recent updates and media buzz surrounding Safari and Firefox apparently helped the two browser to gain market share at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a new survey released by Net Applications.
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NC House bill bars video-game style sweepstakes
A House committee approved a bill Tuesday would apply North Carolina's new video poker ban to an online sweepstakes that allows participants to play games resembling slot machines.
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'Giggles the Clown' back in Grand Junction
GRAND JUNCTION (KJCT) -- After serving 15 months in the Bent County Jail in Las Animas, Colorado for attempted internet luring, Giggles the Clown is out on intensive supervised parole and living back here in Grand Junction.
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Trojan Lurks, Waiting to Steal Admin Passwords
The Coreflood Trojan program has used a Microsoft administration tool to infect corporate networks.
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Senior Calendar
Senior computer clinic — 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays (July 2, 9 and 16) and 9:30 to 11 a.m. Thursdays (July 3, 10 and 17). Austin Free-Net offers a clinic at DeWitty Center, 2209 Rosewood Ave. No reservations required. Free. 236-8225, ext. 14; www.austinfree.net.
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Contextual Advertising Misfires Hit Presidential Campaigns
Contextual advertising, which aims to deliver ads based on the content of a web page, is big business. And as part of their online marketing strategies, politicians have been buying up ads across the major contextual ad networks like Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network. But much like the example of contextual advertising [...]
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"Microsoft deliberately damaging PC gaming?"
I think they're roughly the same, just one has DX10. Mmm.
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Microsoft deal steps up rivalry with Google
Microsoft turned up the heat on Tuesday in its technological rivalry with Google as it announced the purchase of a private Silicon Valley company that has developed one of the most promising, and controversial, new internet search tools of recent years.
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Job seekers can improve their odds by harnessing two online tools
It’s common knowledge that networking is an essential step in finding a new job, especially in these tough times. What’s less well known is that there’s an easy way to harness technology to improve the odds that your networking yields better results.
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Mad Catz Closes Out Year With Reduced Sales, Net Income
Mad Catz Interactive Inc., a San Diego maker of computer peripherals mainly for video games, reported net income of $3.2 million for its fiscal year ended March 31 in a report on June 30.
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Recent Original Stories
"The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first alpha release of the KDE Desktop Environment, version 4.0. The release is a basis for the integration of powerful new technologies that will be included in KDE 4. It has been given the codename 'Knut'."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Aug 2005 14:26 UTC
With Vista, Microsoft is addressing what's become a sad truth for most people: PCs run more slowly over time . Vista will automatically de-fragment hard disks, make better use of memory to more quickly load programs, and include a new performance control panel that will identify performance bottlenecks, according to the company.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 1st Jul 2008 23:03 UTC
Even if one is built and actually works, I don't see *Personal* Computers as we know going away so soon... for 'super computers', it may change the game completely, but for personal computing it means much more the power, it needs to be affordable, common and also it needs personal computing software... looking at the past 20 years, PCs are just a natural and gradual evolution of the mainframe ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 1st Jul 2008 23:03 UTC
QC has proven somewhat good at math but the technology is so young and untested, it will be a long, long time before it's on the desktop.
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by the controversy about the incendiary comments of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and by false Internet rumours that he is a Muslim, as well as Internet whisper campaigns about his patriotism.
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Features and Case Studies
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
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Inside 'Neopets' Creators' Ambitious New MMO
The as-yet-unnamed project from Meteor Games creatively blurs the line between massively multiplayer action and social networking.
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Petrol prices hit out-of-town shopping
LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are cutting back on trips to out-of-town retail parks due to rising petrol prices and doing more of their shopping on the Internet, according to the latest retail trends survey from Experian.
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'Best of The Who: Rock Band Edition' Detailed
Full track listing for The Who downloadable compilation revealed.
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Summer Gadget Guide
His backpack loaded, his hiking boots laced tight-Roger Bischoff was heading uphill to rendezvous with a satellite. It was a Saturday in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, and Bischoff, 37, a test manager at Microsoft, had promised his wife a communiqué halfway through the hike.
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Microsoft buys search startup Powerset
Microsoft announced today it has agreed to buy Powerset, a promising search start-up, as Yahoo's shares slipped below $20 for the first time since February, when Microsoft made its unsuccessful bid to take over the search giant.
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