Stay Out of My Life, Google Street View! [COMIC]

Google Street View gets up close and personal.

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Mozilla Updates Firefox 3.1 With Lot More Goodies

Mozilla Corp. on Friday launched the second alpha of Firefox 3.1,adding new video support and boosting the speed of some JavaScript computations.Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2, code named "Shiretoko," will be the last in a short series of alpha editions; Mozilla has set a late-September code freeze for Beta 1, & will be available for the general public in Oct

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WTF Is In My Salad? (IMG)

Holy crap....Check it out....I would be furious if that happened to me....WOW!

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On iTunes 8 and hunches; also iPhone 2.1 for Tuesday

We have received word that iTunes 8 is finally confirmed for Tuesday's special event, and that it's also expected that iPhone 2.1 will land as well with some hidden features we don't know about.

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iPhone Might Be Able To Replace All Your Remotes

The iPhone makes for a great universal touchscreen remote for everything from your AC to your living room blinds to your music collection.

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First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsof Ad Makes No Sense

Besides the slick and probably expensive editing designed to make Jerry Seinfeld look like the more awkward of the pair, there's not a whole lot of special effects in this clip. In fact, there's not really a whole lot of anything, including laughs, info or pimping of Vista. It's kinda like Seinfeld's really long, really rambling Amex Superman ad

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FlashlightDVR (Not Real DVR) portable flashlight

The Swann FlashlightDVR™ is a heavy duty, real working flashlight that also allows you to record video and take photos during the day or at night. Featuring strong aluminum construction the has 128MB of built-in memory and supports mini-SD cards up to 2GB Monitoring & recording concealed in a portable flashlight

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Google Chrome, a browser by Google

This had been rumored for some time but now it's official -- Google is working on their own (open source) browser."Comic book" surfaces on the Web that introduces a browser called Google Chrome and names several Google developers.http://tinyurl.com/56uctc

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Got A Pirated Copy of XP? Expect to be Nagged

Microsoft is introducing a new "feature" to Windows XP Professional. If you try to update with a bootleg copy, you'll see a few changes... Such as, the desktop background will be reset every 60 minutes & changed to a plain black background. Not to mention the addition of what Microsoft calls the "persistent desktop notification."

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It's official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1

Comcast has finally announced that it will introduce 250GB per month bandwidth caps for all residential customers this fall. It insists that this is the same policy it always had, but with clearer limits.

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Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it's also become the

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Get “I Am Rich!” for $999.99 off the cover price

No Jailbreak required! That’s right, now you too can pretend you were $999.99 richer a few minutes ago! Sure, it may not have I Am Rich’s secret piece of advice that may or may not have made you even richer, but I am 99% sure that advice was “Do not waste your money on expensive crap like this”.

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101 Classic Computer Ads [PICS]

Boing Boing Gadgets has compiled a nice set of 101 classic computer ads.

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TWIT cartoons by Beltane

This is an homage to our favorite tech guy and all the other Twits.www.toondoo.com Leo has seen the first few of these and liked them and said I should share them.http://www.toondoo.com/ViewBook.toon?bookid=64215

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Youtube to hand over all user histories and IP addresses!

Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user's names, and IP addresses to viacom.

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Oh Yes... There Will Be Blood

The same could be said about the Movie Bambi Vs Godzilla I and II

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Trash those records, now we have tape!

Back in the day, audiophiles listened to music on tape, but they were hard to change. Here's an orphaned tape format RCA was eager to sell you: 4 tracks of bliss in one easy-to -load, huge cartridge

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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

In what is proving to be yet another high-profile Metro Wi-Fi failure, MetroFi, a San Jose-based startup that raised over $15 million from Sevin Rosen and August Capital, is close to shutting down, according to WiFi NetNews and MuniWireless, two blogs that follow the MuniFi industry closely.

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Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7

New data on Comcast’s interference with BitTorrent traffic shows that the company misinformed the FCC this February. Comcast has always argued that BitTorrent upstream traffic was only blocked during periods of heavy network traffic, this turns out to be a lie.

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The Fight to Own Yahoo: Five Possible Scenarios

Rumors are flying that Yahoo is teaming up with AOL, the long-suffering Internet division of Time Warner, as a way to stave off an unwanted merger.While many industry watchers still believe that Microsoft will gobble up Yahoo eventually, chances are it will have to pay a lot more for its meal. Here are five possible scenarios to consider.

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