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To everyone who bothered asking for a Yahoo 360 invite, please accept them. There are too many in the outstanding invite queue.

Ok, here we go again. Some interesting reads and useful software. If you find anything interesting and would like to share, email me.

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Here’s a new Sneak preview of Visual Basic 2005, need I say more?
The new RAID 6 is getting a lot of support. RAID 6 offers superior protection over RAID 5 and keeps pace
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I’ve seen reports claiming a few GMail users can see a “Web Clips” part at the top of their inbox, where you can subscribe to RSS feeds on Gmail service. The feeds will display headlines at the top of the Gmail interface.
For myself, I can’t see it as a substitute for a full blown feed
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Web-Mail bridges the gap between Thunderbird and Web Based Email Services
I recently stumbled up The Web-Mail project. Web-Mail extension creates a platform which other extensions use to integrate web based email accounts into Mozilla Thunderbird. For now it only supports the POP3 protocol - This means Thunderbird can download emails from
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Among other things three new versions of Drupal, Movable Type and Opera are here today. And don’t forget to check out the free strategy game Battle for Wesnoth.

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Ever wondered where did English’s “dirty words” come from? This entry have an answer for you.

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Chaos Wallpaper - A Wallpaper rotator for Windows with RSS feed display.
After six
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File system event monitoring is a necessity for many types of programs ranging from file managers to security tools, but dnotify — the standard in earlier kernels — had limitations that left us hoping for something better. With that in mind, meet inotify, a more modern file system event-monitoring alternative.
Inotify is a file system event-monitoring
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Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 has been released. Firefox 1.0.3 is a security update that is part of Mozilla’s ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience. It is recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

While going through threads at Blogger Forum I noticed an Adsense graphical ad for FriendCircles, it looked nice, colorful and inviting. I clicked on the ad to find exactly what I suspected. Another socializing network.
Does anyone think there is room for more of these networks? The ones that are out there are going through a
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Unlike what it seems Daily Friction was never meant to be a daily thing. Some collections may sit in “queue” for a few days until it’s published, and this is the case for today’s Daily Friction, enjoy.

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Do you have an unexplained love for the vi editor? You are not alone. Here is the Vi lovers
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If you ever tried watching video on a mobile phone you know how dissatisfying it is. The screen is tiny, the resolution is nothing to SMS home, where’s the fun in that? While watching funny and/or personal clips may still be tolerable watching a baseball game or any kind of sport is out of the
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A friend of mine just decided that his next career move would be into the embedded Linux design and development. A very interesting and growing space. Here is an interesting piece about The rise and rise of embedded Linux.
‘You can’t do control-alt-delete on a pacemaker’. The chief executive of the leading embedded-software maker explains
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Today I encountered Yahoo 360’s first glitch. For several hours I wasn’t able to login using Firefox. The logging was still available using IE. Several hours later, Firefox was back in action.

Fernando Duran claims the Windows Instant Messenger is a Virus. I must say I had the same experiences with Windows Instant Messenger and gave up on trying to remove it a long time ago. I still have two versions of the Messenger installed on my machine, version 3 and version 5.0. Why it never installed
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MSN spaces is officially out of beta and includes a few enhancements. Microsoft have an official press release about the it: “Global Availability of MSN Messenger and MSN Spaces Connects People Around the World”
One of the enhancements is the 50 new themes, providing users with more choices when deciding to customize their Space. I saw
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AOL launched a new Internet telephone service, getting into an already crowded market with various startups, cable operators and traditional phone and communication companies. The AOL Internet Phone Service includes the regular features of traditional telephony combined with services that are accessed on a PC over the Internet.
This technology, known as Voice over Internet Protocol
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If you’re an early adopter who likes to test the new and exciting features, enhancements and fixes as soon as they are avaiale, than a Firefox 1.0.3 release candidate is ready for download. There are three available versions; for Linux, Mac and Windows. Unlike previous builds of 1.0.3 this build does not break any
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Using WordPress? Ever wondered what the user levels really are? If you test them one by one, it’s really hard to see the differences between all the 10 levels. A detailed explanation of each level’s properties can be found here. Both versions 1.5 and 1.2 are explained.

Google has started using the “pre-fetch” functionality in some browsers (like Firefox) to automatically load the first search result to your browser in the background, whether or not you click on the link.
This can be annoying for several reasons. First, if you work for a company that monitors where you go on the net, it
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Yahoo began testing a hotel search site, as part of a travel service it launched last year. Now in addition to airline searches, users will be able to use the test version of hotel search and the ability to make reservations online. Consumers can customize their search by price or distance from a specified location
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Wired published an unfavorable review of the new massive multiplayer online role-playing game, “The Matrix Online”.
The Articles starts with: The Matrix movies raised the question, “How do we know we’re not in the Matrix right now?” The Matrix Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for the PC, answers that question: If we were in
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An interesting article named “The UnGoogle (Yes, Yahoo!) in Wired magazine talks about Yahoo. What is it? Where it is going? In comparison to Google. On the surface it seems that these two companies are entering an head-to-head battle, while there’s no love lost between the two companies, is it really the case? From the
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Need a ride? Get it from Google. Using its recently released Google Maps technology, developers at Google Labs are now working on Google Ride Finder - a service which allows users to locate transportation services within a given area.