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Slap Yo Face Off - Home of the Cocks

I just completed Slap Yo Face Off’s “October Surprise”. That’s right folks, November’s Slaps are up tonight. Consider yourself loved because I did it just for you.
Home of the Cocks you ask? Well, Slap Yo Face Off invades Columbia, South Carolina in this month’s slaps. Click, download, and laugh.
This month is […]

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IE7

IE7 isn’t the latest incarnation of the popular Microsoft web browser, Internet Explorer. What IE7 is, is a compliance patch for Internet Explorer that allows it to properly parse compliant Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
What IE7 does:
IE7 loads and parses all style sheets into a form that Explorer can understand. You can then use most […]

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Firefox Gets Ready for Ad Splash

eWeek:
The Mozilla Foundation is getting ready to take the browser wars to a new front: the advertising pages of The New York Times.
The open-source development group on Tuesday plans to launch an online campaign to raise money to fund the ad, along with other marketing initiatives for the November launch of its Firefox Web […]

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Nmap 3.75 Released

I got this e-mail from Fyodor last night:
Nmap hackers,
I am pleased to release Nmap 3.75, which contains dozens of
improvements over 3.70. One of the most important is a huge OS
fingerprint database — I finally got off my duff and integrated the
latest submissions you guys have contributed. We’re talking OpenBSD
3.6, WinXP SP2, Windows Longhorn […]

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Sidekick II Yahoo! Messenger Bug

In my review of the Sidekick II I mentioned:
Another good addition to the Sidekick II is Yahoo! Messenger. It’s a free download for the Sidekick II that opens your mobile instant messaging capabilities up to more people. However, I have a hard time staying logged in to the Yahoo! service and I suspect there are […]

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Sauce Reader 1.9 Beta Released

Nathan of Synop kept his word when he commented on my SharpReader vs. Sauce Reader review:
Sauce Reader v1.9 will be out in the next day or two and improves the memory management dramatically.
Last night I was notified by Sauce Reader that an update was available. I installed the update and noticed that Sauce Reader’s […]

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Google Releases Desktop Search

Google has been working on this for a little while but nonetheless it’s a good thing, http://desktop.google.com/
This tool allows you to:

Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly
View web pages you’ve seen, even when you’re not online
Search as easily as you do on Google

Reuters says:
The Google Desktop offering takes direct aim at Microsoft Corp., […]

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Microsoft Releases Fixes for 21 Vulnerabilities

Yesterday I caught word that Microsoft had sent out its monthly patches to their Windows operating system. I went to Windows Update and noticed a “cumulative patch” and a patch for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Office XP. Apparently if you’re a Windows XP user and you’ve installed Service Pack 2 you […]

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Blogging on your Resume’

My wife, Carri, has been working hard on her resume’ lately. Actually, we’ve both been working on it and have been enlisting help from friends and family to review the content of the resume’. The resume’ itself is solid and if I were an employer I’d hire her.
I’ve been planning for quite some […]

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SharpReader vs. Sauce Reader

A while back I mentioned that I had been looking for and found an RSS aggregator (newsreader):
For about a week now I’ve been hunting for a good RSS aggregator. I really didn’t want a web based RSS aggregator because they are usually a pain to manage. I looked hard and heavy and found SharpReader. It’s […]