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Gmail Goggles Prevents Drunk Emails

gmailblog.blogspot.com — New in Gmail Labs: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?More… (Software)

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Google reads XKCD - decides to impliment the feature

mattcutts.com — After reading an XKCD cartoon about a youtube "virus", Google actually decided to impliment it for real.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Apple to announce new laptops next Tuesday!

engadget.com — The rumors were true folks. Apple is staging an invitation-only Town Hall event in San Francisco next Tuesday, October 14th. It's absolutely safe to say they'll be showing off new laptops.More… (Apple)

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Fix your music library:song names, album art, automatically!

blogs.howtogeek.com — With every new version of media players, we get new beautiful album art views, recommendations and all kinds of sorting by genre, year, composer. These are all based on correct information stored in the songs 'tags'. Let's fix those pesky details and get Genius and Last.fm working properly.More… (Software)

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12-year-old finds iPhone flaw while texting girlfriend

crave.cnet.co.uk — ...."all I need to do to intercept the messages from his girlfriend is to place the phone in emergency mode and wait 30 seconds for the next sickly sweet message," Kraft writes. Apple representatives did not return emails seeking comment.More… (Apple)

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Barack Obama's $3 Million Overhead Projector

gizmodo.com — I'm already tired of hearing these guys talk, but that caught my ear. A $3 million dollar projector? What does that even look like? Gearlog did some digging and found out that appropriation was requested by the planetarium to replace an awesome (but obsolete) 40-year old Zeiss Mark VI star projector with a newer model. . .More… (Gadgets)

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The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed

[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]

blogs.zdnet.com — On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn’t impact enterprise IT — because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come — the move is another symbolic nail in Vista’s coffin.More… (Microsoft)

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Locked Out of Your Gmail or Yahoo Mail? You're Screwed

nytimes.com — LOGGING on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, if you woke up tomorrow, plugged in your user name and password as you always do, but then received an unfamiliar message: “User name and password do not match”?More… (Tech Industry News)

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20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

nettuts.com — There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. They're essential parts of any web developer's toolbox. If you haven't seen them yet, you no doubt will in your future web development endeavors.More… (Programming)

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Obama and McCain Differ on Net Neutrality - Internet Policy

popularmechanics.com — It wasn't a contentious topic at last night's presidential debate, but network neutrality is the hot-button issue on the mind of PM's senior tech editor. He explores the candidates' stands on the issue in a Geek the Vote edition of his biweekly trends column.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Apple to Launch an $800 Laptop?

macrumors.com — The Inquisitr claims that some Apple retailers have already been given price lists for Apple's upcoming laptops and that there are 12 price points ranging from $800 to $3100. Current laptops are said to have only have 8 retail price points: 3 Macbooks (starting at $1099), 3 Macbook Pros and 2 Macb...More… (Apple)

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The 'Brick' is...

9to5mac.com — The Apple "Brick" is...More… (Apple)

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Huge Collection of Photoshop Tutorials from A-Z

blog.dpboards.com — From digital photography to basic design.More… (Design)

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The 5 Best Media Converters

lifehacker.com — We've all been there: you've downloaded an episode of your favorite TV show to watch on your commute or stream to your living room, but the file you downloaded isn't supported on the device you want to use it with. Once a significant obstacle to enjoying your media anywhere, this problem is easily solved by any number of free media converters.More… (Software)

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