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Get Dropbox !

There are many web services these days for online storage and file/folder sharing. Most are free for the first few gigs of data, after which they start charging a monthly fee. The one that is the best, and more importantly, most intuitive for non-geeks is, by far, Dropbox. What sets it apart from the rest is [...]
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Google, Firefox, and Breadcrumbs…

Google and Firefox are a killer combination if you are doing an involved search, and want to retain the information for later. Here’s how: Perform the search. Open interesting results in new tabs Save all tabs which you find relevant, using Bookmarks->Bookmark all tabs (Ctrl+Shift+D). This saves all tabs in a different folder, so that you [...]
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Oracle turns 30

Oracle, the database and apps giant which is also on an acquisition spree these days, turned 30 recently.  This article provides some interesting insights into the history of Oracle, the evolution of the Oracle Database, and Oracle’s entry into the Apps arena
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OFFICIAL: Firefox 2.0 Alpha Download

This is not the tinderbox download that has been buried on numerous occasions. This is the real deal. Installed this, and so far, so good No crashes even on Windoze; Session saver works. A host of other extensions don’t, yet read more | digg story
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riya.com : Search within photos

riya.com is a great new site which allows uploading photos, and tagging faces/objects within them much like flikr. However, riya takes this concept a great deal further by providing recognition capability, so that it can search the photos themselves for similar faces. For example, you tag one photo containing your girl friend, and it will [...]
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