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Archive for August, 2008
Google minus Google 0
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Inspired by an article in NYT about Google becoming a media company, I decided that something had to be done. So I created a way to Search with Google without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube.
Timo Paloheimo has built the search engine using Google’s Custom Search Engine and has filtered [...]
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Facebook and Dell are teaming up with a new Cloud 0
Cnet have announced that Dell and Facebook are prepping a ’significant’ announcement.
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So what, exactly, are they doing together? Well, we already know Dell provides servers for Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook, but what other plans the two have hatched together beyond that is unclear. The event is scheduled for next Tuesday, but other than sending out [...]
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Another Eee PC from Asus, this time with a Hard Drive! 0
Here comes another version of the Asus Eee PC. This one is being thrown into the 900 series and will come with a Hard Drive. This new version hasn’t been announced by Asus yet but it has been spotted on the FCC website getting it’s wireless certification.
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Pictures from the FCC website show an Eee with [...]
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LG confirms 8Mp cameraphone plan as details leak 0
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LG has confirmed it will release an eight-megapixel cameraphone this year – even as details and juicy pictures emerged online of what the release is expected to be: the KC910.
The cameras on phones are now beginning to rival some of the latest compacts, not only does the camera on this baby come with manual focusing [...]
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Amazing Photography from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China 0
Click on the photo above to see some fantastic photography from the Beijing Olympics 2008, everything from the ecstacy of winning to the pain of losing, and it is all stuff I bet you didn’t see on the tv coverage!
UPDATE (26/08/08): Appears the link is no longer available, sorry!
Categories: Mistfits & Humour
Booooooooo RIAA 0
Here is a screenshot from the current muxtape.com homepage:
Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA
Have any artists complained or is this just the RIAA on their high horse?
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Reduce your bandwidth bills using Apache’s page compression 2
By using the mod_deflate (link) module of apache you can quite easily reduce a 30k page down to 3k worth of transmitted data, and guess what it is extremely simple to enable!
To enable the module (apache2) try something like:
# cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/deflate.load .
Then add the following line to your apache.conf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain [...]
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Piracy 0
Now I’ve got to site through an unskippable anti-piracy advert every single time I put the disc into my dvd player, even though I own a legit, shop-bought copy for fucking fuck’s sake
One day when every has really had enough and every one stops buying their products completely, these companies might, maybe, possibly, doubtfully, get [...]
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Text Internet Marketing Launches Free Express Web Test 2
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Leading online marketing specialist Text Internet Marketing has launched a revolutionary new website diagnostic tool which will be invaluable for all website administrators.
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Text’s Business Development Manager, Graeme Hastings commented: “Unlike other internet marketing agencies, Text Internet Marketing does not believe in shrouding services such as web design, SEO and pay-per-click campaigns in mystery,” adding [...]
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