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While the death toll of recent Tsunami in Southeast Asia now stands at more than 85,000 dead, scientists in Israel are starting to test a new method to predict earthquakes. To date, nobody has been able to predict earthquakes reliably enough and over short enough time scales to allow the evacuation of threatened cities. Some
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Wired just now caught up with Ron Avitzur’s story about secretly sneaking into Apple’s campus and developing the Graphing Calculator for the PowerPC without any authorization.

You can find here a nice JavaScript Markdown. It’s still only a partial implementation and may only work right in Mozilla browsers.
If your scratching your head about Markdown, here’s an explanation.

Bob Wyman, founder of PubSub, wrote an entry about the way MSN Spaces is making searches for the word “blog” useless. Not that it’t going to change anything.

Google published it’s 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist.
Most popular search phrase for 2004 is “britney spears”, second is “paris hilton”, than”christina aguilera” and “pamela anderson”. The only thing that comes to mind reading this is “sad”, very sad. Are these really the things people occupy themselves with? Ooh, please don’t answer. If nothing else Google
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I’ve been hearing bad stories about HP laptops for a while now, actually I started hearing them after I bought my very own HP ZD7020 laptop. “Great” I thought to myself, I hope I won’t have to deal with all of that trouble. So far, for a little more than a year, things were
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WinRar users, take notice, A new vulnerability was discovered in WinRAR, which can be exploited to compromise a user’s system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of filenames when deleting files inside WinRar archives. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into deleting a
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SkyOS, the still tiny but promising Operating System, has announced full ports of Thunderbird and Firefox to their system.
Seems like after this piece of information hit slashdot, their site has slowed to a halt. Be patient.

John Battelle over at Searchblog has new predictions for 2005, he was actually pretty accurate last year. Some of his points are very interesting, some are abvious.

I have no idea why any serious PHP developer will use this but here is a web based PHP Class Builder. If you’re lazy enough, you’ll find use for it.

Those of us who live by the spell checker know the difficulty of typing where there is non. That’s where tinySpell comes in. It’s handy little freeware that spell checks what you write ANYWHERE on the screen as you type, doesn’t matter if its MS Word, notepad, browser window or anything else. tinySpell works
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OpenOffice 2.0 is no available for a sneak peek. Snapshot builds showing the progress toward OpenOffice.org 2.0 will be released every two weeks. Looks pretty snazzy.

Matt Kingston created a weighted list plugin for WordPress categories. It’s a very cool plugin where the font of the category name is getting bigger as the it have more posts associated with it.
You can see an example of this on his archives page.

There aren’t many new features in the instant messaging world lately, VoIP is antique, video chat is old news, the only news we heard lately is about unifying the IM protocols so all big networks will be able to “speak” to each other.
When Cerulean Studios came out with Trillian, a long while ago, it was
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Clusty is a meta-search engine which presents clustering as it’s main feature. The Clustering Engine organizes search results into folders grouping similar items together. The search term ‘pearl’ will be organizes the top 250-500 results into subject folders such as Jewelry, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Jam, Steinbeck Novel and Daniel Pearl. Clusty allows users to
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Russian scientists are selecting volunteers to be locked in a capsule for 500 days to test plans for a trip to Mars.
A team of six men will be physically cut off from the outside world to test equipment intended to make them self-sufficient for long periods.
During the 500 Days study, the six volunteers will depend
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Seems like Nintendo is issuing Flash memory Game Boy cartridges which can play MPEG4/MP3 files. The cartridges have a built-in SD slot from which the Game Boy will read the files. The unit can play back movies for up to 4 hours at the Game Boy Advance SP’s native resolution (352 by 288 pixels) as
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That’s it. It’s done!!!
After more than a year of legal wrangling, PeopleSoft Inc. agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. for about $10.3 billion, which is $26.50 a share.
The agreement, which comes 18 months after Oracle launched its hostile-takeover bid for PeopleSoft, represents a $2.50 boost in Oracle’s last offering price. The deal has the
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Penn State University issued an alert to students and staff recommending that they dump IE and urged them to switch to alternative browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, or Safari.
The university’s Information Technology Services (ITS) gave the advice “because the threats are real and alternatives exist to mitigate Web browser vulnerabilities,” ITS said in a
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All anti spam systems are in check and all deleted comments are back .

First I would like to apologies to all comment posters whose comments disappeared. It seems like one of the recent counter spam mechanisms activities resulted in several false positives and some real comment where deleted.
Everyone who uses the WordPress publishing tool knows its spam handling limitations. Only some hacks or add-ons can handle the amount
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It seems like Yahoo is adding a tool to search personal computer hard drives. After Google launched its desktop search tool and Microsoft is working on it’s own, Yahoo scrambles to catch up.
Yahoo already announced the plan, but will wait until January to introduce the free tool for searching e-mails and a wide variety of
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Many internet information sources such as technical information sites, daily newspapers, magazins and others require you to register in order to see some of their content. No need to pay, just register and fill in your details. Still its time consuming and can really bug you because all you want to do is read a
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