Thursday, January 12, 2006

New Network Could Compete With Cellular Phone Service

Boeing Co. on Wednesday announced its biggest satellite order in nine years, valued at more than $500 million and less than $1 billion, to build the backbone of a new hybrid satellite-cellular communications network.

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CSS Star Rating System, Part 2

Creation of a 5-star rating system using only CSS and a list of links and default average results (including half-values).

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CSS Shorthand Guide

There is no official guide for each and every CSS shorthand property value. So let's work together and put one together shall we?

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

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CSS Help Pile - Good CSS Design Sources.

Collection of the best CSS resources on the Internet.

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Increase your Google Ad Sense CTR

A great summary of a forum thread discussing ways of increasing the Click Through Rate (CTR) of Ad Sense ads on websites by using images to attract attention.

A must read for any website owner.

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Yahoo! Pirate Map using Flash

cool example of customizing Yahoo maps with Flash

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CSS Effects, Standard Compliant Browser Code, Hover Event with CSS ...

This website features a multitude of CSS effects and code for standard compliant website design. Some nifty stuff including: CSS horizontal/vertical navigation list, PNG degradability in IE, CSS element hover effects, Gradients...

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See Google Requests Around the World

A neat visual depiction of requests submitted globally to Google around the world on August 14, 2003.

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use Google as a free proxy

at work? blocked site? proxy blocked also?
Fear not, since google is almost never blocked!
This artice shows you how to use Google itself as a real-time (as in: not via Accelerator or Cache) web proxy for shady and interesting websites! Don't Be Evil? yeah Right!

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AOL may have gotten the better of Google

Before he issues his next diatribe against this week's AOL-Google deal, billionaire Time Warner investor Carl Icahn might want to check out the public reaction to the news. In the blogosphere, at least, the consensus seems to be that Google got the short end of the deal.

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One More Way to Screw Cingular, Free 411 Service

Boing Boing is reporting today on a new advertising based 411 service that works from both your land line and cell phone. For listening to a 12 second advertisment you can get your 411 calls for free at 800-FREE411.

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How does Google Index?

An oft asked question, Google answers the steps it follows while indexing etc.

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Digg Is In The Top 1,000 Most Trafficked Site On The Internet!

Digg has now surpassed Fark.com, a similar news site which began, several years ago, and is closing in on slashdot! Digg is currently ranked as 970!

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Texas to get broadband over its power lines

Two Texas companies have announced a plan to offer high-speed Internet service over the power grid.

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Is It Too Early? (9/11 Movie Trailer)

I bet some people are going to be pretty mad. I personally would...well...nevermind. Just watch the trailer. Looks very..."interesting..."

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Google Button on Cellphones

Motorola announced that it will integrate a Google icon onto internet-optimized phones so users can connect to the search engine with one click. Brilliant!

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Google: Where's the stock split?

As it inched above $450 per share Thursday, Google's stock looked more like a pricey Tiffany's diamond than a good bet for ordinary investors.

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Google Pack Announced

Google is putting together a bundle of software, including a google-tweaked version of Firefox (gbrowser?), Acrobat Reader, Symantec Antivirus, AdAware, Trillian, Realplayer, and all of those free google programs everyone loves, like Earth, Talk, Desktop and Picasa. Basically, an Internet starter kit for people who don't like MS.

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Google will sell video online

Google Inc. will let consumers buy video over the Internet from CBS, the NBA and other providers, becoming the latest company to explore the new method of distributing TV content

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Supreme Court refuses to hear Univ. of Texas spam case

The U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to hear an appeal of a case by an Austin-based online dating service that claimed it had a First Amendment right to send unsolicited e-mails through the University of Texas’ computer system.

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Monday, January 09, 2006

Annoy someone on the internet and go to jail

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

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