Archive for March, 2007

Google adding Themes to the personalized homepage

The personalized homepage has added a new feature: Themes (if you couldn’t tell by the title). Most of them will change dynamically depending on your location. Another fun little addon.

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Playing Music Makes You Smart!

Scientists have uncovered the first concrete evidence that playing music can significantly enhance the brain and sharpen hearing for all kinds of sounds, including speech.

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Top 11 Yahoo Tips and tricks

Yahoo’s new version of web mail is, without a doubt, one of the coolest and most fluid Ajax applications we’ve seen to date. For the average user it offers every major feature that you can find in Outlook or Thunderbird, and it does it with style. But that isn’t all, the Yahoo team also took the time to layer the app with embedded tricks

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79% of Americans would rather download movies illegally

US consumers are still downloading movies illegally despite the growing availability of subscription based movie download services according to a study conducted by Advanis Inc. “The industry can respond to this stubborn core of piracy in one of two ways: “It can spend its time and resources pursuing pirates, and…”

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Refining 101: Summer Gasoline (and Why Gas Prices Go Up)

Just what is summer gasoline? Twice a year, in the fall and in the spring, you hear about the seasonal gasoline transition. However, most people probably don’t understand what this actually means.

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Free land in Alaska!!!

Anderson, a little town in Alaska’s interior, has no gas station, no grocery store and no traffic lights, but it does have plenty of woodsy land — and it’s free to anyone willing to put down roots in the often-frozen ground.
In a modern twist on the homesteading movement that populated the Plains in the 1800s, the community of 300 people is off

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13 best tips for Improving CameraPhone Pictures

Really useful tips for getting brilliant shots, even if you’re using your phone’s camera.

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13 best tips for Improving CameraPhone Pictures

Really useful tips for getting brilliant shots, even if you’re using your phone’s camera.

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gSyncit for Microsoft Outlook

gSyncit works by updating your Microsoft Outlook calendar with your Google calendar entries and then updating your Google calendar with your Microsoft Outlook entries. All appointments that occurred in the past 365 days and those that will occur in the next 365 days will be synchronized.

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ROTTEN TOMATOES: The Worst of the Worst Pictures

With the trusty Tomatometer as our guide, we’ve plowed through 100 of the rankest, foulest, most misbegotten movies to hit the multiplex in recent memory. But bad films can often be their own reward; whether you’re looking for a howlingly bad time, or just looking for a list of what not to watch, ever, we’re here to help.

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