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Fabulous Flashcast! Praised for Exposing Online Casting Scam Site and Their Owner, Offers Advice to Avoid Scam Sites
Fabulous Flashcast is taking one more step at exposing on line casting scams. This time it's Star Search Casting.com, Elite Casting Network.com and Hollywood Profiles.com, allegedly all one man operations, and apparently owned by Jonathan Parker of Ventura California.
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Google launches privacy link to quiet critics
LOS ANGELES -- Internet search giant Google announced at the weekend its privacy link decision on its corporate blog and public policy blog to make peace with privacy advocates, The Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
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Golf
For Darren Anderson, it's not just about selling golf clubs any more. Anderson, who has operated his Custom Golf store on Summer Street in Stamford for 18 years, has added an entirely new dimension with the addition of the Motion Golf, a computerized swing instructional system.
Stamford Advocate |
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Recent Original Stories
After his departure from Apple, Steve Jobs created NeXT Computer, a company which has had a large impact on the design of operating systems today.
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Recent Original Stories
Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the Web now that it no longer resembles Tim Berners-Lee's early vision: Is the Web still the Web if you can't navigate directly to specific content? If the content can't be indexed and searched? If you can't view source?
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FLOWERY FRIEND
Ultimate garden gadget, self-powered luggage, an electo-broom, happy hard drives and a personal driving spy. Live Luggage Power-Assisted Rolling Suitcase $1,365; us.LiveLuggage.com Rolling suitcases have been saving the shoulders of frequent...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th May 2007 10:15 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Microsoft has released patches for 19 vulnerabilities , 14 of which are critical, hitting at holes in Excel, Word, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer, cryptographic technology and the whopper of them all, the zero-day vulnerability in the DNS Server's use of RPC. The DNS remote code execution vulnerability affects server-grade operating systems, including Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, ...
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Recent Original Stories
Jim Gettys from the OLPC team has responded in a long weblog to Theo de Raadt's concerns over the use of the Marvell chip in the OLPC. Gettys explains why the Marvell chip was chosen and how the team is working on open wireless firmware.
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Recent Original Stories
"When Windows first shipped, 20 years ago this month, it was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders, Apple and Xerox PARC. Now, it's the operating system used on nearly 95 percent of all the desktops and notebooks sold worldwide.
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Recent Original Stories
Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the Web now that it no longer resembles Tim Berners-Lee's early vision: Is the Web still the Web if you can't navigate directly to specific content? If the content can't be indexed and searched? If you can't view source?
OS News |
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Aid group stopped on way to Mexico; computers confiscated
Corvallis City Councilor Mike Beilstein was stopped at the border of Texas and Mexico on Thursday morning along with other members of Pastors for Peace who were attempting to cross into Mexico on their way to Cuba.
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Study: Laptop use tied to higher student scores
At any moment during the school year, 40 percent of Henrico County high school students are using their county-issued laptop computers. Students say they are learning more.
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
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Family, pets safe after house burns
A two-alarm predawn fire in north Corvallis displaced a family, but firefighters saved half the house, a computer, wedding dress and some furry residents.
Corvallis Gazette-Times |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Dec 2007 22:57 UTC
"The software development kit for Google's Linux-based Android mobile phone operating system has been out in the wild for a over a month now, plenty of time for developers to form opinions of the platform and assess the capabilities of the API. The verdict from seasoned mobile software programmers is somewhat mixed ; some are even expressing serious frustration."
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Recent Original Stories
""Microsoft is dead" , wrote Paul Graham late last week in one of the silliest columns I've seen in a while. Graham is a smart guy, and probably the one most responsible for you not getting entirely inundated by spam.
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Linked by Flatline on Thu 12th Apr 2007 17:55 UTC
A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept program that hackers could use to exploit Windows Vista digital rights management processes to hide malware.
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Kelso council eager to revamp city's outdated Web site
The city of Kelso’s Web site may have seemed pretty cool in the mid-1990s, but today it has city leaders cringing.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Dec 2007 14:24 UTC
"All promised features were cut from Vista." This is a commonly heard complaint about Windows Vista on the internet. While there certainly is a lot to complain about when it comes to Windows Vista, the mythical 'cancelled features' certainly is not one of them. Let me explain why.
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Linked by David Adams on Fri 4th Jul 2008 15:47 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
This article by Shane Schick looks at changes Steve Ballmer should consider making at Microsoft now that Bill Gates is out the door. A couple of the most interesting: making user education a priority and establishing an open source project.
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First city of the future
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Summer session numbers heat up
Kendra Stokes sat in the grass, kicked off her flip-flops and squinted at her laptop. The sky over the Memorial Union Quad was brilliant blue, and the sun reflected off her computer screen, making it hard to read.
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"STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE"
Stuff white people like, according to "Stuff White People Like" (Random House): Film festivals, yoga, gifted children, snowboarding, expensive sandwiches. Also: Plaid, music piracy, beards, high school English teachers. First a blog by a PhD dropout...
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Recent Original Stories
After years of being relegated to server racks and the desktops of ultrageeks, Linux is finally making some headway as a viable alternative to Windows on the consumer desktop. That's the optimistic message delivered by a newly energized contingent of Linux proponents.
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Rants and Raves
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Indian cos losing more on US bourses; value slips below $100 bn
Going to Big Apple no more seems to be a value-adding proposition for Indian companies as those listed both on the American and Indian bourses have seen an additional erosion of about 7 billion dollars in their US market capitalisations in the ongoing downslide.
Hindustan Times |
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