Are you running your own company? Are you still generating invoices manually using Excel? If so – Simple Invoices is a simple, community developed, free/open source, web-based invoicing system that can be easily installed on most webservers and will keep track of all your invoceing needs. If you dont have a webserver handy – no [...]

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If you’ve noticed a bunch of commenters (such as me) have an image next to their name – this is called an avatar and it helps to identify you. We use the gravatar service, so you can sign up with the email address you use to comment here and upload an avatar which will automatically [...]

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After the alleged source of 70% of the internets spam was shut down it is back on the rise again!
Matt Sergeant of Symantec-MessageLabs has stated that in recent days spam levels have once again climbed to a startling 37% of the original capacity. It is expected that with the passing of another couple weeks spam [...]

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The top torrent client is finally available for MAC users with the release of uTorrent for MAC. Its still in beta, but it looks neat and clean and comes with its signature lightweight footprint. If you haven’t used uTorrent before there are plenty of guides available, otherwise head over to the download page.
Now the lightweight [...]

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The latest version of Apple’s iPhone software (246MB) has been released and is available via iTunes (also recently updated). It has a short list of fixes, including fixes for the recent security issues but little I’ve actually made use of.
First impressions are that it has stopped the connection-dropping I was sometimes experiencing. Still no copy [...]

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The latest data from Mars indicates that there are city-sized ice glaciers on Mars –
Scientific American is reporting that ‘data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris.’ Data from the surface-penetrating radar on MRO revealed that two well-known mid-latitude features are composed of solid water ice. [...]

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Facebook has taken down several Italian neo-Nazi pages from the main site after public outrage. Seven different group pages, all based in Italy, had been created on the site with titles that incited violence against gypsies, according to a Reuters report.
“Facebook supports the free flow of information, and groups provide a forum for discussing important [...]

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Lifehacker has a fantastic guide on many ways of reducing your PC’s boot up time and by doing so reducing the amount of junk thats running when you use your computer.
You just hit the power button your PC, and now you’ve got enough time to brew a fresh pot of coffee for the entire office—because [...]

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Up to 75% of the internets spam has allegedly been shut down! McColo, a hosting provider allegedly responsible for up to 75% of the spam we receive was cut off by their upstream provider –
Thousands of pieces of spam were stopped in its tracks on Tuesday when a hosting site known for relaying spam was [...]

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The latest incremental update to Firefox 3 has gone live, with few relevant changes but some important security fixes. The highlighted changes are –

Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Official releases for the Icelandic [...]

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