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A Transparent Laptop Screen?

July 6th, 2006
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Wouldn't it be cool if you could see through your laptop? There is a video of a user who appears to have accomplished this with their laptop screen. While this is obviously a "hoax" it is still pretty cool to see. The person must have hooked a camera up to the back side of the laptop and have the live image displayed on desktop of the computer. I

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When I was in the Firefox Build's forum today I noticed that they are looking for testers to try out the new Firefox Preferences. They currently only have it implemented on the Trunk build because it isn't exactly complete. Things like the new feed reader preferences are not adjustable in this build yet. Waldo, the person implementing the new feature, is looking for feedback on errors that people may have and said "I'll

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$1.5 Million For A Bed

July 6th, 2006
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This bed is truly amazing because it can levitate in midair using magnets which sounds simple enough. However, it is not quite that easy and it took Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars 6 years to develop this bed that will run you $1.5 million. That may be out of your price range by a little bit so Ruijssenaars made the same bed that is scaled to 1/5th the normal size

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Microsoft has finally launched ActiveSync 4.2 just two months after entering the Beta program. While this is great and has some good improvements it is still disappointing that it only supports PC synchronizing via USB cable, Bluetooth, or infrared connection. Back in ActiveSync 3.8 you could synchronize using Wi-Fi or a LAN as well. However, those features were said to be

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It looks like the people over at The Hive managed to scrounge up a screenshot of the new non-Aero Windows Vista Theme. When I had heard that Microsoft had been working on a new theme I was expecting to see more than just a color change. I thought that they would have made it look more like the Aero theme just without the glass effect

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Google Pack Goes Global

July 6th, 2006
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The Google Pack is a bundle that Google put together awhile back to give users access to all of their software in one simple download. In addition to containing all of Google's software the package also includes Norton Antivirus, Mozilla Firefox, and Adaware. All of which helps users browse faster and safer.

Starting yesterday Google started offering the Google Pack in Australia,
Austria, Brazil,

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Hopefully some of you were able to receive our message that we were performing some sudden maintenance to the site. We were down for the past few days because we were switching hosting providers and we also had to transfer our domain (and what a pain that was). We are back for good now, and with some of the free time we had

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