GMail's new special features

Google's GMail has always been a trendsetter and it has come up with some cool features via its GMail Labs.This posts discusses of various GMail Labs features

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Web 2.0 Sites a Thriving Marketplace for Malware

Malware is big business, and groups like the Albanian hackers are trying to cash in, using the latest Web 2.0 tools: social networking profiles, blogs, and other publicly available media and Web pages. The digital desperados are moving more and more into wide-scale advertising and brand building on public sites and networks

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Adobe Launched The Free Public Beta Version Of Acrobat.com

The free beta version of Acrobat.com provides a good mix of services to help businesses share and collaborate on documents, with chat and conferencing features as well.

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25 Excellent Ajax Techniques and Examples

If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications.

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Adobe Launched The Free Public Beta Version Of Acrobat.com

The free beta version of Acrobat.com provides a good mix of services to help businesses share and collaborate on documents, with chat and conferencing features as well.

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@ $399 per Player Blu-ray format may not dominate for years

Blu-ray stomped HD DVD to become the standard format for high-definition movie discs, but years may pass before it can claim victory over the good old DVD. Noemi Velazquez, a 44-year-old warehouse worker, can ex plain why. She took one look at the $399 price tag of a Blu-ray player at a Best Buy store in Glendale, Calif., and kept going.

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BlackBerry Twice as Popular as iPhone

An IDC report found that RIM - the company who makes the Blackberry - grabbed 44.5% of the market for the first three months of 2008, up from 35.1% in the previous quarter. Apple's iPhone came in second place with 19.2% of the market in the first quarter, a drop from 26.7% the quarter before.

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Movistar Nabs iPhone in Spain

Apple's relentless quest to spread the iPhone to every corner of the universe has officially nabbed yet another carrier. Movistar has been announced as an official partner for Spain, though no clues have been given about the launch date

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Why Macs Still Aren't Right for Most Businesses

There's no doubt that the Mac is a great machine. But, Is Apple too flashy? Is it more trouble than it's worth for the basic computing tasks? It seems that Apple's quirks don't alway suit small businesses ...at least not yet.

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Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use

On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner Cable executive told the Associated Press.

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ASUS Eee Box: $269, mid-July, with Linux

ASUS is finally getting official with the Eee Box, and it should be one of the most feature-rich basic Linux systems yet: a $269 starter model packs 802.11n Wi-Fi, a 1.6GHz Atom chip, and an 80GB hard drive. Look for it in mid-July... shortly after Microsoft drops Windows XP support for most systems.

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To Counter Google, Facebook Opens Its Code

In a bid to keep software developers in its orbit, Facebook is making its code open-source.

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Apple Back-to-School promo to offer free 8GB iPod touch

People briefed on the promotion Monday confirm that this year's incentives will be the electronics maker's most compelling ever, offering a rebate good for a $299 8GB iPod touch. Students will also have the option to apply the $299 credit towards the $399 16GB iPod touch or a $499 32 GB iPod touch.

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Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use

You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance? Time Warner Cable Inc. customers - and, later, others - may have to, if the company's test of metered Internet access is successful...

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Take Me Off Your List

Michael Fertik wants to wipe your personal details off the Web. He's finding out just how difficult it is to protect privacy.The Web is populated by people-focused search engines like Intelius, Peoplefinders or US Search that peddle personal data: the value of your house, criminal records, salary information and employment history.

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New Filings Reveal Damage of Bell Canada P2P Throttling

Just how bad it is Bell Canada's P2P traffic filtering? Not bad at all, so long as you're happy having your 5Mbps DSL link operate at half the speed of a dial-up modem. That's the assertion of a group of small Canadian ISPs that are asking Canada's telecoms regulator to intervene and force Bell to call off its deep packet inspection dogs.

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Windows XP tweaks(PART I)- Startup Tweaks

Many people who own those windows boxes are affected by performance issues.In these series of planned posts, the author tries to give windows XP's tweaking tips for its users.This si the first one in this series of post and deals with startup tweaks.This part of tweaks are for a bit of advanced users as it required editing of Registry keys.

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Guinness World Record (Actual Page)

Help make a Guinness World Record By Downloading Firefox 3 within 24hrs of its release!

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New comments system crashes Opera.

Opening an article comments page on the newly redesigned Digg.com site crashes the browser back to desktop.

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Firefox 3 RC1 Now Available

I was actually expecting to still see beta 5 when I went to the developers page, but was happily surprised.

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Firefox 3 On Track To Be Speediest Browser

Now that Mozilla's locked down Firefox 3's final feature set with Friday's push of release candidate 1, it's official: while Firefox 3 boasts some great new features like a smart address bar and better bookmarks manager

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Digg no longer crashes Opera Browser!!! Fix in place!

The guys at Digg have rolled out their fix for Opera users to enjoy the new comment system without crashes. Turns out to be a JS Exploit in Opera (many were quick to blame Digg), Opera have fixed this also in their nightly build, but Digg's fix covers current users as well. Thanks Digg team!

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Top 10 Firefox 3 Features

The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. It's time to spotlight the biggest improvements that will make "Gran Paradiso" the browser to beat.

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Does running Vista make you feel safe from malware?

“PC Tools maintain that Vista is not immune from online threats. Further research and analysis has confirmed our contention that additional third-party protection is absolutely necessary for all Windows Vista users”...

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If you got this email 11 years ago, Researchers want to know

Researchers at Cornell University want you to check your 1997 emails. They've been tracking an email chain letter about US National Public Radio that was first sent sometime that year, by asking volunteers to send them old copies of the message.they're also tracing an email petition about the most recent Iraq war,first sent in 2003

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Top 5 Web Browsers That Aren't IE, Safari, or Firefox

Those three browsers take up a collective 97.1 percent share of the market. But what about the rest of us slobs who protest anything corporate, reject anything mainstream, and don't even know why? There is surprising amount of excellent web browsers that get no love at all. And these are our five favorites.

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Firefox community to set Guinness World Record

Firefox community to set Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours

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Free Open Source Counterparts of Windows Software

I will be giving information on my personal favorites (which would generally mean BETTER) open source replacements. There are however other choices as well, so drop a line or two if our choices differ!

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The Five Best Start Pages

Whether you use it to keep up to date on the latest news or as a launching point for the rest of your browsing, you want to find a solid start page to fit your surfing habits. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite start page, and at over 350 comments later, we're rounding up the five most popular answers.

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Google Defends Open Source from 'Poisonous People'

Fitzpatrick and Collins-Sussman, two long-time open source gurus now plying their trade at Google believe in open source projects that maintain a small "bus factor." That would be the number of contributors who could be hit by a bus before a project collapses. A simple means of maintaining a small bus factor is baring names from source code.

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Why BitTorrent causes so much latency and how to fix it

Anyone VoIP or online gamer who has a roommate or a family member who uses BitTorrent (or any P2P application) knows what a nightmare it is when BitTorrent is in use. I decided to do some research on this and ran a series of tests which resulted in some very interesting data.

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Windows XP tweaks(PART II)- Startup Tweaks

Many people who own those windows boxes are affected by performance issues.In these series of planned posts, the author tries to give windows XP's tweaking tips for its users.This is the second one in this series of posts and deals with startup tweaks.This part of tweaks are for normal users also in contrast to the part I of series.

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