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GBuy Inches A Little Closer

June 16th, 2006
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Garett Rogers is at it again and this time he realized that Google added a CNAME record for checkout.google.com which would correspond to GBuy. He found that the record points to checkout.l.google.com which has many different IP addresses associated with it. The multiple IP addresses will help Google balance the load that the servers will be receiving from the traffic.

He found this to be important

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Final Opera 9 Due On Tuesday

June 16th, 2006
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OperaWatch is reporting that the final version of Opera 9 is expected on June 20. Opera has a special event in Seattle, Washington then and there is supposed to be a new product released.

It isn't confirmed that the product to be released is Opera 9 but many people are starting to think that it will be. I have been following the release of the "weekly"

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It looks like HP has finally invented a feature that is unique only to them. The HP R927 digital camera has added a feature that will make people look thinner.

It doesn't look like there is much science behind it other than vertically compressing the image. By doing this the camera hopes to shave 5-15 pounds off of the object. Remember, this doesn't just

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UPDATE: This trick does not work anymore. They have taken down the page you need to use in step 5.

Neowin has published a great trick on how to get your @Live.com addresses today without waiting until Tuesday, which is the official release date. Here is the trick:

  1. Go to https://accountservices.passport.net/reg.srf register an passport account with a NON-HOTMAIL/MSN email address
  2. Sign in to
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Google is now letting users take control of their calendars by putting them on any Web Site. Here are the few steps that you need to do to put a calendar on your site:

  1. Goto the Google Calendar Homepage.
  2. On the left side of the screen below your list of calendars select "Manage Calendars".
  3. Select the name of the calendar that you want to display.
  4. Click on the
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Max sent me a tip and told me that the Fold.com site has the countdown pictured above. Does this mean that Fold.com isn't folding like everyone thought it was going to? They had a "For Sale" page up before and popular sites like TechCrunch wrote about how Fold.com was throwing in the towel.

It looks like this was some kind of publicity stunt so that

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