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So I was sent a VMware disk image containing the recently-released alpha version of Google Chrome OS and asked to write a review. I can only imagine that I was asked to write this review because of my charm, lack of sarcasm, and tendency to write reviews that don't piss people
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For those of you who haven't been invited to beta-test Twitter's redundant waste of time new ReTweet feature, I've got the full skinny here: you're not missing much, and nothing innovative is brought to the table here at all. Twitter's Retweet (beta) feature: note the "ReTweet" link next to th
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When I was a kid, I would take foods that tasted really good by themselves and mix them all together - sometimes in a blender. And it was fucking nasty. I look at Google Wave as Google's technological way of repeating the same experiment: take Docs, Orkut, Gmail, Wikipedia, and IM, stick the
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If anybody noticed, Yahoo! Geocities officially closes today for good. But, for the geeks that recall being on the Internet prior to 2000, a piece of history was lost today. To pay tribute to what was the first web host for many of us, several popular website have paid tribute and provided archives
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My rule of thumb is this: if you have to advertise something to the point where I can't go on any site without seeing it, then its either a crap product trying to gain more exposure (after possibly several negative reviews) or its a sham. And in most cases, especially after a little research on t
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Google: If they ever make any change to their front page, it's usually just a link to a new product/service or merely swapping out their logo to celebrate some event (including April Fool's). But now the search engine giant is radically changing their entire search engine, behind the scenes at l
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Remember in the mid-90's when people were absolutely paranoid about the Internet, believing that the government knew everything about us and that these "hackers" might be able to steal our information? Those AOL trial-goers would drop dead if they saw the new project being led by MIT's Aaron Zin
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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Twitter's Population in pie chart form"][/caption] (now that we're right-side-up again...) I've complained about Twitter's spam-to-human ratio many times before but it seems that since those posts, Twitter spam has only continued to spiral
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Think deleting your web history and cookies from within your web browser deletes all traces of where you've been and what you've been doing from the prying eyes of peers and advertisers? Think again. Adobe Flash has its own private storage within your computer which is inaccessible from any brow
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Email addresses are a bit of an anomaly nowadays: they're used to identify you almost everywhere on the Internet, but they also trigger an almost immediate conclusion about your character when viewed by others. Here is a comparison of a few types of email, and what they say about you right off t
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