Yahoo! Mail Beta Improves Performance, Nearing Launch
Widespread performance improvements have been made to the Yahoo! Mail Beta. As well, they’re nearing full public beta.
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Artist’s family asks Google to take down Thursday’s `painted’ logo
After angering authors last fall with a wide-ranging book-copying project, Google may now be alienating some visual artists as well by allegedly reproducing famous works in drawings on the search giant’s home page.
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Building a FreeBSD Build System
When you finish this article, you will have an unbeatable update system. Even mergemaster will work faster. You will have an update system in which a machine update/upgrade will take less than 10 minutes.
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Meet The New Marine One – A $6.1-billion New Presidential Ride
The aging Marine One helicopter fleet is finally due to retire. Meet its successor. After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3 Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic, $6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, starting this summer.
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Google to call itself ‘GUGE’ in China
Google said it has adopted the Chinese-language brand name ‘GUGE’ for its Chinese operations.
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Europe plans to plant first flower on the moon
Interesting article about the EU plan to land a rover on the moon. Possible experiments include planting a tulip, spiders, and robot insects.
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Google’s Da Vinci Code Quest
Google starts a quest inspired by Da Vinci Code (the movie) and offers more than ten thousand (!) prizes. The puzzles will be publish daily on Google Personalized Homepage. “Beginning on April 17th you will embark on a quest that requires skill, intellect, and perseverance. For 24 days, you will encounter unique challenges.”
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How To Make a TicTac flashlight
This person built a very handy flashlight out of an old TicTac mint box. It consists of an empty TicTac box (duh!), three batteries (that fits perfect), a small switch, a resistor and a bright LED.
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Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations
Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations.
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Call of Duty 2 Patch Released For PC
The patch for PC has finally been released and was availabe for download early this morning. I was looking on my xfire when I saw the server status say: Call of Duty 1.2. I was amazed. We were first told that the patch would be released in early 2006 at the end of 2005. This [...]
