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General

Conspiracy & Trade Secrets

While I was reading the paper this morning, I came across these two cartoons. Either there is some conspiracy going on here or someone leaked trade secrets.

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Browsers

Deleting Firefox Auto Complete Values

I am working on a project where I have to add several new job postings each day into a data base through a simple web form. Often, the job duration, application due date, city, or company are the same as previous ones. As a shortcut, I simply type in the first two or three characters […]

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Browsers Google

Google Preloads Firefox Searches

ZDNet has an article that states Google now pre-loads websites for the top results of searches made using Mozilla browsers. Reza Behforooz, a software engineer at Google, announced on Wednesday that the search engine now pre-loads the top search result into the cache of Mozilla browsers. “Now Google’s faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla […]

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General

Dry Cleaning

Mary dropped off my dry cleaning today. They charge 4.50$ for each tie and six-something for suit coats. I’m having two ties and a coat cleaned and it cost more to clean two ties than it did to clean an entire suit coat. Seems a bit backwards to me.

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Google

Google Weather and Movies

Google is really on a roll. First it was their Google Maps that took the Internet by storm. Now they’ve released weather and movie services.

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General

Fingerprint Logons

Someone here at the Faculty of Management just bought an IBM ThinkPad T42. It’s hard to find anythign cool about laptops nowadays, but this one manages to implement something.
Fingerprint security.

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Browsers

Netscape 8.0

Netscape has released a public beta version of Navigator 8.0.

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Google

Google Maps Goes North

It looks like Google has extended its map database north of the 50th parallel.

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General

Michael Jackson a Drunk?

Todd Dominey pointed out the oddity of E! Online’s pseudo-logo for the Michael Jackson trial.

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Browsers

Firefox 1.0.1 Now Available

Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0.1 of its most popular browser, Firefox.