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Microsoft has succumb to its enemy: Apple. They have just released Seadragon Mobile, an application for the iPhone which allows users to browse images and quickly “deep-zoom”.

Seadragon is the backbone for Microsoft’s Photosynth, which allows users to take a grouping of photographs and stitch them together into a faux 3D [...]

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Firefox 2.0.0.19 - the last security fix which is coming out for the 2 series - removes the phishing website detection that used to be built in! This has been requested by Google (the phishing blacklist provider) as the browser uses an older version of the protocol used.
“Computerworld and others are [...]

Release Candidate 1 of WordPress 2.7 is available for the beta testers amongst us. Featuring a highly polished and reworked admin CP and a lot of changes, its one of the biggest WordPress releases to date.

With the release of RC1, we’re in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7.  280 commits since [...]

Fedora 10 has officially been released six months after Fedora 9. The highlighted features include OpenOffice 3.0, new virtualization features, internet connection sharing, faster booting, and a new security tool.
Read the full changelog or the article at LifeHacker for more information.
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Being productive is almost everyones goal, and normally with a few small tweaks to your Windows machine you can easily double or even tripple your productivity.

# Reduce the Number of Auto-starting Programs
As your PC ages, it tends to get filled with a lot of auto-starting programs. These programs may be things you [...]

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The kind folks over at AVG have put together a document to help those whos computers may be infected with irritating virii and spyware.
Cleaning an infected computer today has become harder than ever. To effectively clean your system you must first learn a little about what you are trying to get rid [...]

I came across this neat little site the other day where you can check if your username is registered on various sites - allowing you to quickly grab up your username on any sites you may have missed

Give it a try!

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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 [...]

Blackberry 8700c

I noticed the Blackberry 8700c for the first time today on their website.  I generally dislike the look and feel of Blackberries, but this one stands out a little.  Its subtle and I can’t put my finger on it, but I like the way it looks.  It also promises to be one of the lightest [...]

The US Federal Reserve bank has cut its interest for the second time this month, bringing it down another 0.5% to it’s lowest level seen since June 2004, 1%.  This has been done in order to spur economic activity among largely stagnant consumers.  The rate is used for a number of key measures, including what [...]

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