FileDropper: Best Free Uploader Ever. 5 gb File? No Problem!

This is simple, allows huge files and is totally free. Bookmarked under "something I'll probably use at least once a week"

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FileDropper: Best Free Uploader Ever. 5 gb File? No Problem!

This is simple, allows huge files and is totally free. Bookmarked under "something I'll probably use at least once a week"

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Scientists Invent Room Temperature Superconducting Material

The implications of the discovery are enormous and could transform the way people live by cutting power usage from everything from refrigeration to cell phones.

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Identifying Manipulated Images

New tools that analyze the lighting in images help spot tampering.

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How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong

While Apple's tactics may seem like Industrial Revolution relics, they've helped the company position itself ahead of its competitors and at the forefront of the tech industry. Sometimes, evil works....

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101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site

What may have worked a few years ago when could be outdated today, so it's important to constantly improve your Web site. However, a massive overhaul is just too much work to undertake at one time.

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IBM builds optical switch for multicore chips

IBM today announced that its scientists have built a switch that can control the flow of information on a chip using pulses of light instead of electrons.

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The Top 10 Weirdest Rock 'n' Roll Deaths

Rock stars have a flair for the dramatic, sometimes resulting in strange deaths.

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Some "Organic" Products Cause Cancer

A new study commissioned by Organic Consumers Association finds that some leading "organic" brand personal care products that are not USDA certified contain the carcinogenic 1,4-dioxane. Click through to find out which "organic" products are safe, and which could cause cancer.

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Firefox 3 beta's new features [Slideshow]

Review gives screenshots that demonstrate some of the cool new features of Firefox 3, and also highlights some areas that still need work.

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20+ Excellent Resources for High-Res Desktop Wallpapers

If you have to stare at something for 8 or more hours a day, why not make it something interesting? Divided into five helpful categories, with introductory descriptions and sample screenshots, here are over twenty of the best collections, communities and other resources on the web for finding excellent desktop wallpaper.

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Frozen Waves ( pics )

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Optical Allusion

Can you tell which it is?

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Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux

You can have Windows apps running right on your Linux desktop and sharing the same desktop files. It's relatively painless, it takes only a little bit longer than a Windows XP install, and it works just like virtualizing Windows on a Mac with Parallels Coherence -except it's free. Here's how to do it.

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Bird Brains Suggest How Vocal Learning Evolved

In all three groups of birds with vocal learning abilities -- songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds -- the brain structures for singing and learning to sing are embedded in areas controlling movement, the researchers discovered.

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The True iPhone Anti-Christ Is Here! Repent! (PICS)

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, the definitive iPhone knock-off! 99%-exactly like the real thing except for the front and back cameras, and the sign of the Anti-Christ: the inverted Apple!

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Google Sky Released!

Now you can explore the universe without Google earth...

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How to Keep the Woman in Your Life Happy

Honestly guys, while women can be very complex, most don’t require much to keep them happy. I asked both single and attached women alike, “What does it take to keep you happy in a relationship?” In no particular order, here’s how they answered in the form of ten helpful tips.

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Solar-Powered Paint Could Produce 4,500 GW-Hrs a Year!

4,500 gigawatts is about a third of the generating capacity of the entire world...so I think it's safe to assume that every single publication (and there are lots) running this story has overlooked a pretty glaring typo.

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Forget Facebook. The web's platform is Mozilla's Firefox

The most interesting topic discussed in our meeting was just how compelling Mozilla's Firefox will increasingly be as the platform for much that happens on the web. Forget Facebook, MySpace, the iPhone, and other so-called platforms. Firefox could well prove to be the most disruptive web platform on the market. Here's why.

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Genuine Persian Prince Favored For 'Prince Of Persia'

Both international and U.S. audiences overwhelmingly favored David K. Zandi, motion picture executive, actor, champion equestrian, model, and honest to goodness Persian prince. David has also studied both fencing and sword fighting, so the only way he could be better suited for the role is if he actually possessed control of the Sands of Time.

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New mini laptop to cost under $300

Since The ASUS Eee PC got popular, competitors have emerged, including Elonex, Everex, ECS, Acer, MSI, HP and others. Most have introduced aggressive pricing, but struggled to approach ASUS's $400 entry-level price point. Now, Norhtec plans to ship a sub-$300 laptop called the Gecko! Click for details.

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Spectacular Northern Lights in Iceland - Breathtaking

Wow, nature at its most beautiful and stunning. You gotta see this to believe how wonderful a phenomena this truly is. Please Digg It and Share with others - thanks

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Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service

Facebook has been testing a new instant messaging service and will be launching it to the public soon, perhaps in the next week. Our understanding is that the service will be built in to user’s Facebook pages and allow them to web chat with their Facebook friends.

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Skype 2.0 Final for Linux is out!

Today we’re proud to announce the general release of video calls in Skype 2.0 for Linux. As you may already know, the best things in life are often free and now you can make (and receive) free, great quality video calls on Linux.

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Is there another planet in the solar system?

"This isn’t as silly as it seems at first. No, I’m not talking Nibiru or any of that other nonsense (and it is nonsense), I’m talking about an actual planet, Earth-sized or so, that could be orbiting the Sun well beyond Neptune."

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Scientists identify 25 new longevity genes

Scientists at the University of Washington and other institutions have identified 25 genes regulating lifespan in two organisms separated by about 1.5 billion years in evolutionary change.

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Gun stops bullets in mid-air

Scientists have figured out how to stop a bullet, albeit a very tiny one, in mid-air.

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Useless Body Parts

From wisdom teeth to ear muscles to male nipples, the human body has a number of "useless" parts. Check out these anatomical extras that humans still have but no longer need.

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Play Windows games on Linux with PlayOnLinux

If you are an avid gamer, you probably dual-boot your favorite Linux distribution with Windows, because that's where you find most new cutting-edge games. But what if you could run your Windows games on Linux? PlayOnLinux is an open source Python-scripted front end that helps you install and play tons of Windows-only games.

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20 Incredible 'Firsts' in the World of Photography [w/PICS]

If we take a look at the state of photography today, such as the advances of digital camera, artful image manipulation by photoshop, and even the role of paparazzi in media - and the pervasiveness of photographic images in our lives, it is easy to forget that the first photograph ever was taken just 180 years ago.

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Scientists Find Virus Infection that Fights Brain Cancer

"The brain cancers we look at are very nasty," said Anthony Van den Pol, a scientist at Yale University and a study author. "This virus is pretty good at killing all of the tumor cells."

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Body Noise—What it Means, What to Do

Most body noises, although embarrassing, are harmless, but occasionally they’re a signal that something’s not quite right. Here, we decode what your body is telling you—from top to bottom—and what to do about it.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 finally running in Wine

Wine is one of the fastest developed open source applications. A new Wine version is released every two weeks. One application that users have been wanting to run on Linux for several years is Adobe Photoshop.A couple of hours ago Louis Lenders managed to install and run Adobe Photoshop CS3!

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Gandhi: The Mission Statement That Lead to India's Freedom

Great article about Gandhi's mission statement and inspiration. Includes the story of how it was shaped, how it affected his life, and India's independence. The first part of his daily mission statement: "I shall not fear anyone on Earth."

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What’s This “Linux” Thing and Why Should I Try It?

very useful article,,,certainly

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Super-Easy Ubuntu Setup From Windows - For Windows Users Eager To Try Linux

Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system, this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation.

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10 Universities With Free Online Courses

College site Education Portal has a handy list of the colleges that offer the most comprehensive course material online, including open-course trailblazers like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University, and programs like Stanford's lecture podcasts on iTunes U.

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Karate Chop in Slow Motion

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Don't Eat Anything That Doesn't Rot

Consumers are getting duped by the food industry, paying the price with their health.Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan argues that what most Americans are consuming today is not food but "edible foodlike substances."

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Telling smokers 'age' of lungs helps them quit

Smokers are more likely to kick the habit if they are told how “old” their lungs are in reality.

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Extremely Impressive Shiny Balls [PICS]

The enormous 34ft diameter shiny ball pictured above goes by the name of ‘la géode’. this stunning metallic structure houses a 1000m² hemispheric imax screen at the ‘cité des sciences et de l’industrie’ in paris. it was designed in 1983 by french architect adrien fainsilber and then realised by engineer gérard chamaillou.

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Quantum Logic Clock World's Most Precise Clock

An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most accurate clock, based on a single mercury atom. Both clocks are at least 10 times more accurate than the current U.S. time standard.

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Tiny huge 1 terrabyte optical disk

Who needs Blu-Ray when you can have this?

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Catch malaria — and get $4,000

The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute will pay volunteers as much as $4,000 to be bitten by mosquitoes infected with malaria.

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LED Breakthrough...2X More Efficient than ANYTHING

LEDs are fantastic. But for a long time, they've been fantastic more because of what we think they can do than what they actually do. We've been pretty sure that LEDs can produce warm, white light at efficiencies far beyond even the much-touted compact fluorescent bulbs. But we've yet to actually see that.

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Bottled Water Vs. Tap Water

Chemicals, contaminants, pollution, price: new reasons to rethink what you drink and beware of bottled water.

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The Underground Tunnel Beneath Niagara Falls [PICS]

Imagine a tunnel more than ten storeys underground, a hundred years old, bricklined, wet, and completely inaccessible save by descending through a narrow slit in its ceiling thirty feet above the floor, and then returning up the same rope you came down. This tunnel exists in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

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New Rugged Dell -- the 'Anti-Air'

Dell unveiled today its latest (and probably greatest) rugged laptop, the XFR D630. The device is the polar opposite of the Apple MacBook Air. The D630 is thick and ugly. The Air is thin and pretty. The D630 is "IT-Friendly." The Air, well, isn't.

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1 Awesome Gmail tip You Don’t Know about. Seriously.

One email for every purpose and track/block spammers.

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Twining Motion Of Vines: amazing stop-motion photography

This movie shows the extreme twining movements of morning glory vines. Shortly after germinating, the young plant begins what appears to be a hunting motion in which the shoot tip rotates in a nutational movement. This swinging around of the tip is thought to help the plant bump into a support. The images were captured at 10 min intervals.

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7 Reasons to Drink Green Tea

The steady stream of good news about green tea is getting so hard to ignore that even java junkies are beginning to sip mugs of the deceptively delicate brew. You'd think the daily dose of disease-fighting, inflammation-squelching antioxidants--long linked with heart protection--would be enough incentive, but wait, there's more! Lots more...

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Pidgin 2.4.0 released

Every bodies favorite open source free software multi-protocol instant messaging application just got a big update. It's first since 12/7/2007

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