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Ten Cool Gadgets You Must Add To iGoogle 
Sandra Hajda via MakeUseOf.com on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Who hasn’t noticed those little RSS subscribe buttons (Add to Google, My Yahoo, Netvibes) popping up all over the web like Starbucks in the suburbs? If you’re like me, you were drawn into the gadget-rich world of iGoogle by just one of these button
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Picking a "GeoWeb" Map Canvas...
(unknown author) via Dave Bouwman on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Every project is different, so it makes sense to revisit the available tools and select
the right one for the job. Here's the landscape as I see it. But first...
Guiding Principal: Keep it simple!
I think this should be everyone's starting position, but it's important to reiterate
the importance of keeping things as simple as possible - both for you as a developer
and for th
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Twitter Tweaks: 5 Tools To Make You An Elite Tweep
Jimmy Rogers via MakeUseOf.com on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
If your Twitter experience has been a little hum-drum recently, check out these tools to help you make the most out of the biggest microblog network out there!
Twitter Classification Script for
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Cooliris For iPhone: Surfing The Web With 3D Experience
Damien Oh via MakeUseOf.com on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Jackson has previously covered the Cooliris plugin for the various browsers. In this article, I would like to discuss more about
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Cubic Explorer Saves Your File Management Sessions [Windows Featured Download]
Jason Fitzpatrick via Lifehacker on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Windows only: Cubic Explorer is a robust Windows Explorer replacement. Among the features power users have come to expect from Explorer alternatives you'll find tabbed windows, bookmarking, bread crumb navigation, file previe
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5 Excellent Sources To Download Free Text Fonts
Mark O'Neill via MakeUseOf.com on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
When I was a little innocent computer newbie, still finding my way around a keyboard and gasping with delight at the internet (”WOW! HOTMAIL!”), I made a few really bad mistakes while learning. One of them (which I still cringe about to this day) was ba
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Get One Year of PC Magazine Free [Magazines]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Publisher Ziff Davis has printed the last edition of PC Magazine and announced it would go online-only, but fans can get a free one-year "subscripti
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Web Site Asks: Is Obama President?
(unknown author) via WSJ.com: Business Technology on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
Do we need a Web site to inform us who the president is? There is one, IsObamaPresident.com, which displays a single word, “Yes,” along with a countdown clock to inaugural day.
The site has lots of political-themed company, including
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WPF Themes Released
rudi via dotnet.org.za on Thu, 06 Nov. 2008
Want free themes for your WPF projects? Introducing WPF Themes…
A week or two ago I made a quick post about how to convert a theme from silverlight to wpf… After this post, I had a few emails of people asking for the source… I decided to release t
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Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Ricardo Peres via ASP.NET Weblogs on Thu, 06 Nov. 2008
Great news! Microsoft has released a collection of free charting controls for both ASP.NET and Windows Forms! The only inconvenience is that they only work with .NET 3.5 (is it really an inconvenience? :-)), but they look great and offer the most commonly required functionality, at no cost.
Related links are:
Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 download:
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Gmail Backup Archives Your Email Account [Featured Download]
Jackson West via Lifehacker on Tue, 04 Nov. 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux: Gmail Backup saves and restores complete archives of your Gmail email account using Gmail's built-in IMAP capability. The Windows version comes with a simple graphical interface
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Where to Download "The Goods" for PDC 2008
habibh via MSDN Blogs on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
At last week’s PDC conference, the attendees were given a 160 GB USB External HDD that contains a slew of content which includes a number of SDKs, whitepapers, etc. This content is collectively known as "The Goods". The great news is that most of this content is available for download. Below, I have listed what is included in "The Goods" and where you can download it.
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Windows 7 Screenshots
LarryLarsen via Channel 9 on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
You might have noticed that the version of Windows 7 given out at PDC is a pre-beta developer preview. You might also notice that this copy looks a lot like Vista. No doubt you're wondering what different parts of the post-pre-beta Windows 7 will look like, so we've secured and uploaded some Windows 7 screens
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Google Arabic Transliteration
(unknown author) via www.google.com on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
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Now, it's even either to right in franco-arab than in actual Arabic letters. We're screwed..
Google Arabic Transliteration
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Microsoft Debuts Windows Azure
(unknown author) via Microsoft Watch on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
News Analysis. Today, Microsoft announced new Web-based service platform, Windows Azure, at its Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles."
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PDC 2008: New .NET Logo
Scott Hanselman via Scott Hanselman's Computer on Sat, 25 Oct. 2008
It's official. There's a new .NET logo. It's 'the wave' and it's a nice refresh of the now 8-year old original .NET logo. Here's the logo on a light background and a dark background, oriented both horizontally and vertically.
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Bill Gates founds a new tech company
Mary Jo Foley via All about Microsoft on Wed, 22 Oct. 2008
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has founded a new company (some time in between sleeping and working countless hours for the Gates Foundation and a day a week for Microsoft).
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New signs point to Windows 7 debuting earlier than expected
Mary Jo Foley via All about Microsoft on Wed, 22 Oct. 2008
Could it be that Windows 7 is even earlier than even the most optimistic date watchers are predicting and that it's on track to RTM before mid-2009?
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category OLPC
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Michelle Obama Meets World's Biggest Obama Fan
Amanda Scott via Obama HQ on Tue, 14 Oct. 2008
During her visit to Minnesota yesterday, Michelle Obama got to meet one special volunteer. Igor wears a t-shirt with "World's Biggest Obama Fan" written on it, which is fitting considering he is one of the world's tallest men. A resident of Rochester, Igor is 7-feet, 8-inches tall and spends five hours a day volunteer
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category November
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