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Paranoid Android on the iPod Touch
When I heard that you could put android on your iPhones and iPod touch, I was fascinated. I was wondering how long it would take to come out. I found out that it was already out. I started by hacking my iPod touch with red snow. I found out that you need to hack the…
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How to install GTalk with WINE
This is a step by step walkthrough on how to install GTalk in Ubuntu Hardy Heron. As usual I take absolutely no responsibility for anything that may happen, which means use at your own risk. What you need: googletalk-setup.exe, Wine First install wine! if you use ubuntu then use this command: sudo apt-get install wine…
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Google’s “Knol” Reinvents Wikipedia
Wow a new kind of Wikipedia…. only from Google. Google’s “Knol” Reinvents Wikipedia Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday December 14, @08:31AM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept. teslatug writes “Google appears to be reinventing Wikipedia with their new product that they call knol (not yet publicly available). In an attempt to gather human knowledge, Google will accept…
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Google Summer of Code Extends to Highschoolers
If only they did that for last year then I could have been working on the Google Summer of Code. Anyways its too late now for that to happen for me since i am in Grade 12. Here is the story from http://slashdot.org : Google Summer of Code Extends to Highschoolers Posted by CmdrTaco on…
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Google wins search share at expense of Yahoo, Microsoft
from PCWorld.ca: Google widened its lead over the competition by winning 58.5 percent of all U.S. searches last month, up 1.5 percentage points over September. Yahoo took second place with 22.9 percent of the search market, down from 23.7 percent, while third ranked Microsoft dropped to 9.7 percent from 10.3 percent. Ask Network remained steady…
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2007/10/23 Shuttle Launches Despite Bad Weather
Yeah the Rocket launched this morning despite bad weather. more from http://www.google.ca/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=ca&topic=t Shuttle Launches Despite Bad Weather New York Times – 3 hours ago By JOHN SCHWARTZ The shuttle Discovery thundered off the pad to space this morning on a construction mission to the International Space Station that will bring the new “Harmony” module to the…
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2007/10/22 Internet Archive Challenges Google
Is this really a good idea? article from http://slashdot.org Internet Archive Challenges Google Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 22, @09:52AM from the pistols-at-dawn dept. richards1052 writes “The Internet Archive, whose main claim to fame is the Wayback Machine, designed to archive the internet’s web history, has created a new project: the Open Content Alliance.…
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2007/09/14 Gates Successor Says Microsoft Laid Foundation for Google
Here is a crazy story from slashdot.org: Gates Successor Says Microsoft Laid Foundation for Google Posted by Zonk on Friday September 14, @11:43AM from the yin-and-yang dept. thefickler writes “According to Bill Gates’ successor Craig Mundie, there would have been no Google without Microsoft. ‘I mean, the fact is: Google’s existence and success required Microsoft…
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2007/09/02 Will the Pope Declare Google Evil?
Here is an interesting story from slashdot: Will the Pope Declare Google Evil? Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 02, @01:52PM from the and-all-you-others-too dept. theodp writes “In the next few days, Pope Benedict XVI plans to issue his second encyclical, in which he is expected to denounce the use of tax havens as socially…