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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Prepare yourselves for another Flickr and YouTube guys, because Microsoft’s latest job advertisement for a project manager is indicating just that: 
Come make Windows Live the best place to share your digital memories! Heard of Flickr? YouTube? How about. Mac? [...]

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Recycle.co.uk has sold up for a record £150,000 making it the most expensive .co.uk domain thus far. 
The new owners, a venture capital firm, ASAP Ventures, acquired the domain for a new recycling venture where the site will act as a recycling swap-shop, allowing people to donate unwanted items to local people. 
Although £150K sounds like an [...]

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YouTube has announced two new features - 1) Multi-File Uploader and 2) File size limit increased from 100 MB to 1 GB. 
Multi File Uploader is quite self explanatory in that users will now be allowed to upload their files in bulk as opposed to one at a time. 
The increase to a 1GB file size limit [...]

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The vice president of Adobe Creative Solutions has confirmed that the online version of Adobe Photoshop called Photoshop Express will be ready for a beta release this year with an aim to release the completed version in 2008. 
“By late this year, we anticipate having a beta version. And next year, the online service will be [...]

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It’s only several months behind schedule but finally the Mozilla Corp. is nearing a release of the first beta of Firefox 3.0 
“With Firefox 3 Beta 1 just around the corner (release candidates coming soon), it’s time to start focusing on what it will take to ship a final product that we’re all excited about,”

 
OSNN predicts [...]

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JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) is a world reknown file format that is commonly used as a method of compression for photographic images but it’s is about to be superseded by it’s daddy, JPEG XR. 
Microsoft is the driving force behind a new format called JPEG XR (’eXtended Range’), which is set to give us better [...]

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3i, a world leading private equity and venture capital firm, brings together investors and industry formers across the global media sector to discuss the growth of social media and user generated content, its impact on traditional media and advertising models and predict the future direction for successful companies in its latest report “Engage or Die”. 
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SMS language is the English language slang used in mobile phone SMS Text Messages. It is an abbreviated form of English known as a rebus. This type of language has been alleged to not obey or follow standard English grammar; furthermore, the words used in this language can’t be found in standard dictionaries. 
The objective of [...]

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Personal computing is currently in a state of transition. While traditionally users have interacted mostly with desktop applications, more and more of them are using web applications. 
Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as [...]

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I can’t imagine what this is going to look like but come Saturday we’ll all get to feast our eyes on Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece, The Last Supper through a glorious 16 Billion-Pixel image! (no mistake - i really meant BILLION). 
The painting, which is displayed in Milan’s Church of Santa Maria dell Grazie, was made [...]

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Give your next assignment or art project a Hollywood finish with one of the hundreds of free fonts available for download @ typenow.net 
Here’s just a few fine examples of what’s on offer: 

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Facebook has been sued for bombarding the wrong people with intermittently-X-rated mobile text messages. 
Lindsey Abrams filed a federal class action lawsuit claiming that the social networking giant sends thousands of unauthorized text messages to innocent bystanders across the country - and that many of these messages contain “adult content”. 
As most of you Facebook fanatics know, [...]

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The battle between Google and Microsoft wanting a share in Facebook may be over, as Microsoft officially announces that it’s invested $240m into the social networking company. 
Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced that the two companies would expand their advertising partnership and that Microsoft will take a $240 million (1.6%) equity stake in Facebook’s next [...]

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The internet is filled with people and organisations trying to get their hands on cash anyway they can be it via:

Money Laundering
Fake Lottery Winnings
Fake Jobs
Gaining Account Information
Direct Debit Scams

The list is endless, however, the following links provide measures oh how to become a victim of such scams:

Internet scams to avoid
Cheque Scams
Top 10 internet scams
After [...]

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Who said copper broadband speed was limited to 25mbits? 
An Australian boywonder has developed a technology to make copper broadband internet handle speeds of up to 250 megabits per second, compared with current typical speeds of between one and 20 megabits per second. 
PhD student, Dr John Papandriopoulos (pictured above), who won one of Melbourne University’s top [...]

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