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Firefox released fifth version silently and without making much news about it. Still many firefox version 4 members are not yet upgraded to it. Many people found that browser is not auto-installing the new version. I'm one of from these people who never got their version auto upgraded. With this upgrade i guess things will be fixed. There are more than hundreads of things planned and released by mozzila. Version 5 seems to be the one released with complete HTML5 support and few other enhance
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This took me by surprise today, but the google logo on the homepage today is a fully playable version of pacman around a level that spells out google, and if you click insert coin (where the i'm feeling lucky button usually is) the Mrs pacman gets added as well and you can have a two player using the arrow keys for pacman and a,s,d,w for mrs pacman. The problem I found after having a quick game though is that none of the keys used to play pacman would work on the google search bar after play
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New Layout And Look Of The Forum
I've just noticed this morning that the Forum site layout has been changed - new look and feel of blue... looks much more professional but takes a bit of getting use to i guess i notice that clicking on the Forum link (between 'Astahost: Open Discussion & Free Web Hosting' and 'Members') sends me to astahost.com home page, i was expecting a quick fly to the forums' home page... great work though guys
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Apple's Steve Job Dead At The Age Of 56
[quote]After much speculation of Steve's health problems, Apple's Steve Jobs has passed away at the age of 56. Thought Apple has not yet disclosed the cause of death, I don't think I really care since his achievements should be the highlight of his death and not the cause A part of Apple's statement on Steve Jobs [quote]"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably b
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What Are You Doing On Internet?
Sure I know you are browsing and posting right now Seriously, I'm talking about online business. Besides serving ads on our blog, many people also provide service or products online. I'm a Chinese language instructor, and now I'm building a website for it, will move my courses online soon. That's what I plan to do on internet. The courses will be the same but the teaching method will change a lot. I have put a lot of time and efforts into this reform of my business, I feel
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So I've decided to extend my coding knowledge further and am wondering which direction I should take, the Microsoft .NET route with C# or the JAVA route. From what I've been able to ascertain, C# offers greater efficiency when it comes to computer resources, however Java actually uses a lot more resources for its graphical interface side. It's not so much web content I'm after, if it was then Java would be the obvious choice, but if I learned C# then I would be able to create a
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So I discovered today a curious game named Foldit. To quote from the site: [quote]Knowing the structure of a protein is key to understanding how it works and to targeting it with drugs. We’re collecting data to find out if humans' pattern-recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more efficient than existing computer programs at pattern-folding tasks. If this turns out to be true, we can then teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins faster than ever![/quote] S
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Workflowy - To Do List Application
I was looking for custom to-do list application and found workflowy. It lets you use your own way of managing tasks and keeping track of them. As of now it is free of cost and there is no limit on how many tasks you can write custom way or by how many times. This app is basically a web based text interface with node based structure for managing the tasks. You'll find that workflowy is easy to use even for notepad based tasks. But it's not meant for note taking and should not be used for
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Leech Downloader Sites - Download Installer Scams
I'm sure you're aware of sites like softonic, download.com and few others. Most of the time these downloader sites rank higher than original software site and gets most of the traffic for the download keyword for that software. Take case of screenshot captor software for example. Softonic made subdomain of this software and hosted this free software on their servers. They added one good review with link to original site. But they're doing competitor analysis and dumping and trashing
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Well, being as how I'm adventurous and like to pursue alternatives to those stupid pills doctors like to chuck at me when I'm not feeling good, I've found a little thing online called The Master Cleanse, also known as The Lemonade Diet, which really isn't a diet at all, but rather it's a sort of detoxification of the body. I've done a ton of research on the whole thing, reading people's blogs that were doing it, and Youtube videos of people that are in the process of
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This is one more service that stops web tracking and ad tracking on your browser. This add-on basically stops advertisers from doing anything that tracks your location, and other information. this add-on is capable of blocking ads, trackers, behavioral ads, quantcast, alexa and compete trackers. You can use this add-on for blocking these services and also improve your downloading speed. By blocking these ads and trackers your browser makes less HTTP calls and you get to see more content and less
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Backpager - Online Wysiwyg Editor
I was looking for stackoverflow style WYSIWYG editor. I found such with backpager. Not yet tested on IE or chrome. But using it on firefox 5 as of now. It looks like has similar editing features to that of stack over flow's editor. You can see the preview immediately using this editor which is good and makes it similar to MCE editors. I think the layout is also good and shows preview in right hand side and left hand side seems to be with code. So those who are looking for such online editors
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Learn Computer Programming With Finch
I remember old Qbasic kits where you can program using qbasic and the simple hardware kit. You use to program the kit in qbasic and run it to flash ROM. Then that kit used to function as per your programming. Be it flashing some LED or some calculation or tricks based on your programming input. We dont live in that world anymore and the hardware and software is much more sophisticated than before. You get plenty of options to deal with hardware using modern software (programming language). [ur
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5 Reasons To Stay Away From Google+
Okay. You can skip it if you have no respect to anyones privacy(including your own) and have nothing to hide from world. Or want anyone to take control or look at your profile, data or other information. For the rest read on if you are waiting for google+ profiles. 1. [b]No Private Profiles[/b] - Facebook offers privacy by masking your profile for unwanted users or people. That way your images and data is only accessed by friends or family in the friend list. Google+ has no such feature and in
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I found [url="https://typekit.com/"]typekit [/url]while working on one clients theme. I noticed one query made to the typekit server for the font. Then i checked this site and found that it is serving fonts for the users. It also caches the font for the nearest CDN and the show it to users from there. I think this is one good idea to save on speed loading. By making queries to nearest CDN the speed remains high and you get fonts without any issues. In case of low speed, alternate font from the f
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An Increased Number Of Spam Posts And Topics On Astahost Forum Lately
I might be wrong in my observation, but I am experiencing an increased number of spam posts and topics on astahost forum. About a month ago, I never saw a porn related post on this forum but a few days ago, I saw 2 such posts which were there for a few days. In addition to these highly objectionable posts, I have also experienced an increased number of posts used for link spamming. Sometimes totally unreadable posts are found with a huge number of links in them. Maybe this is because people have
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I dont know if there is any thread for this already. So i decided to post this. I have found this concept on another forum and wanted to see if anyone knew anything about it. I found that this is open source virtual currency which can be generated using your computer IDLE power or by trading with others. I have seen few services accesing bitcoins lately. The current rate for the bitcoins is somewhere 15-20 USD. This looks like a good money but it is hard to earn bitcoins as the distribution by t
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The amount of myCENTS earned by a post can change. It is possible to get an average of around $ 0.30 for a post. This happens when the post is on topic, offers a reasonable amount of information and when the post has a sort of lenght. Like a lenght of 1/4 of a computer screen offers probably $ 0.05 to $ 0.10. A lenght of 1/2 of a computer monitor offers probably $ 0.10 to $ 0.15. A post with a lenght of 3/4 of a computer screen offers probably $ 0.30. It is possib
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If you keep track of your old and new files and want them to open instantly then there are some desktop search and launch type of programs. I'm not talking about something like launchy but more of software that indexes the files and applications. Ans run them whenever some shortkey or mouse button clicked. These type of softwares vary from spyware to simple freeware. Google desktop used to be one choice for many folks as it was not only keeping log of local files but also internet search his
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Another Good Thing Gone -- Microsoft Is Buying Skype
Sad story- [indent]Microsoft is reported to announce a deal to buy Skype as it battles to stay relevant online world dominated by Google and Apple.[/indent] [indent]According to Technology website All Things Digital, an unnamed sources saying Microsoft would reveal the acquisition early Tuesday.[/indent] [indent]The deal was estimated to have a price tag of dollar 8.5 billion, that would be Microsoft's most expensive acquisition to date. [/indent] I won't be suprised if Skype will be
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Duck duck go is getting popular these days due to it's relevant search results and privacy. Most of the search engines track personal data (like google) and then use it against users for ad display or release some public data disrepecting their privacy. Google released data related to adult keywords and put shame to few countries for searching some banned adult stuff on google. In case of duckduckgo they don't track your keywords and your personal information (like IP, region, search pat
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[b]How to post a manual[/b] There are several ways to post a manual. The first option mentioned here is the option to write a tutorial. A tutorial can be completed and be posted in the tutorial section. Another option is to write a manual. A manual can be posted in several posts. There are several differences between a complete tutorial and a manual in different posts. A tutorial has to be complete when the tutorial is posted. The idea is that a moderator will read the tutorial. If the moderat
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Due to copyrights matters, lots of vedios are removed from youtube. What's left on youtube are mostly rubbish now. Youtube has been blocked in my region, So, it's not a big loss for me. But for many of you who have been enjoy youtube vedios, I guess it's really sad. Trying to protect copyrights on internet is a foolish thing in my opinion. It's like standing in the middle of the fload telling the water-- "I'm right, you are wrong". It's not that I don't
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Windows Blue-screen-of-death (bsod) Viewer
Hey everyone, just sharing this really neat tool. A few months back, my laptop had a virus in it's HAL.DLL that kept giving me a BSOD about 10 minutes after each reboot. On another PC, I searched the internet for help - and up popped this neat program. [url="http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html"]NirSoft's BlueScreenView[/url] [quote]Description BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the informatio
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What Does Your Boss Do All The Day?
[quote]Recently, researchers asked the chief executives of 94 Italian firms to have their assistants record their activities for a week. here are the results-- The average Italian boss works for 48 hours a week and spends 60% of that time in meetings. The most diligent put in another 20 hours. And the longer they work, the better the company does. Bosses often complain that they get bogged down in day-to-day operations. How much time they spend thinking about anything is hard to measure. But
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Bypassing Network Proxies Without Cgi Proxy
Ok, I've recently managed to get VPN working at home and thought I would share this method with everyone as it took me a while to find software and configuration controls that actually work. First of all though I would like to point out, THE FOLLOWING METHOD WILL BYPASS PROXY FILTERS ON YOUR LOCAL NETWORK SUCH AS AT SCHOOL OR AT WORK. THIS IS NOT THE INTENDED PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED ON ANY NETWORK WHERE YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION FROM THE NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR B
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Electrocorticography is a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI). Have a look here : [url="http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/8/3/036004"]http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/8/3/036004[/url] These guys used this technique, with some electrodes directly inside the cortex zone, and were able to make a cursor move on a computer screen, by means of only thinking power. Before that, they make a guy play space invaders with the same technique! Or course, it's a just starting technique, a
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As I saw before I login my Yahoo email on the login page, I saw some new feature. I saw Facebook and Google buttons which the visitor can login his Yahoo email with his Facebook or Google account. I was pretty much confused when I saw Google on Yahoo... ain't they are the biggest rivals on the internet?
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World's Longest Single Word Domain Name!
I guess this is the longest single word domain name. [url="http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com/"]http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyr...iogogogoch.com/[/url] This is Welsh and it means [b]"St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St Tysilio of the red cave"[/b] Nils
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3=2 ! Ramanujam's Proof!.... Can U Find Any Flaws?
[note=szupie]Copied from [url="http://hishamthu.blogspot.com/2005/12/ramanujams-proof-can-u-find-any-flaws.html"]http://hishamthu.blogspot.com/2005/12/rama...-any-flaws.html[/url][/note] [quote]Ramanujam's proof!!.... Can u find any flaws?? Can U Prove 3=2?? This seems to be an anomaly or whatever u call in mathematics. It seems, Ramanujam found it but never disclosed it during his life time and that it has been found from his dairy. See this illustration: -6 = -
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Microsoft Security Essentials Free Is Out Now
Microsoft Security Essentials, code named Morro, a free antivirus was released yesterday. MSE comes with all those features that other free antivirus gives. Also MSE installer size is only 5 MB (Vista/7) and 9 MB (XP). Very low on system resources. PC World free antivirus comparison says that MSE is not bad. It is as effective as AVG free. [url="http://www.pcworld.com/article/170674/free_antivirus_software.html"]http://www.pcworld.com/article/170674/free...s_software.html[/url] I tried this an
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Top 10 Ways To Break Your Laptop
[url="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10314608-64.html"]http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10314608-64.html[/url] I guess spilling stuff on the laptop (#1) would be the most common, but my personal favourite is #9. [quote]The List: 10. Sorry, honey, I punched the laptop: "Striking a laptop computer with a fist, even while (the laptop is) closed, will jostle the logic board and stop the computer," said Joseph Kouyoumjian, president and founder of MicroReplay. Estimated repair cost:
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Gmail Introduces Priority Inbox
i've always liked gmail only for one thing - it offers the best spam protection ever, and i have never seen an unwanted mail appear in my inbox till now. as for the other features, i never really had much use for them because i dont get too much email anyway. just a few notifications from social networking sites and of course -the invoices from computinghost. but im sure there are some of us who receive a lot of emails daily. some receive over 20, some over 50, and some get even above 100 e
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I was watching "The Human Footprint" on Discovery, I tried to record as much information as possible. This is what we consume, as human beings, in our entire lifetime, as individuals. Hence: The human footprint. [quote][b]The Human Footprint[/b] infancy/childhood -3,769 diapers -1,898 crude oil used for each individual in childhood -715lbs of plastic -4 1/2 trees if diapers were reusable, washing: 22,455 gallons of water serve all of American population:9.2 million cows milk consum
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Text Any Phone For Free Online
So my friends , in my daily journey over the internet i find a nice website.I think for some of use is useful.Let´s see. Check this out. [quote]Here is the link [url="http://www.txtdrop.com/"][color="#FF0000"]txtDrop[/color][/url] txtDrop is a great free online website in which you can txt any phone for free, and the individual you txt can txt you back, and have an actual conversation. Your txt's goes to their phone, however their txts go to your email.[/quote]
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Google is now testing a new VoIP service called Google Voice. It has a ton of features including voicemail, call screening, text messaging (for mobile phones only), call forwarding, selective phone ringing, call recording, group (conference) calling and a few more features. The best part: It allows you to call all US phone numbers for free!! (I'm in Canada, so this isn't exactly really helpful). The service is completely free and you cannot sign up for it at the moment. Google
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Google Launches Android Into Space! (literally)
Yesterday a few Employees of Google launched Android into space. And by that I mean they attached the Nexus S mobile phone, powered by Google's very own android, to seven different weather ballons, and let them fly. The phones were equipped with custom gps apps witten specifically for this stunt. They had the high quality cameras running the whole time, and an unedited video to show for it. The ballons reached a predetermined height of 100,000 feet, before exploding, dripping the phone bac
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The 10 Most Expensive Iphone Apps
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone App Store is most popular for its free and cheap apps. As a result, most apps and casual games are available for 99 cents or less. But there are plenty of expensive apps in the App Store, too, and people do buy them. [url="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-most-expensive-iphone-apps-2009-8/10-xa1-17999-1"][b]Click here to see the 10 most expensive iPhone apps →[/b][/url] The most expensive app in the U.S. App Store today is called [url="http://itunes.apple
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Build Your Own Custom Linux Distro [on Suse Studio]
Hey, I just want to share something I've learned few days ago. Maybe, somebody already know this but I still want to share. Here we go. On Suse Studio, you can build your software and everything you need depending on your own style. So, you can customize your software and have it your own name for branding. If you're interested, take a look for it and try making your own Disto. [code]http://susestudio.com/[/code]
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This has taken me the best part of two days to solve and now I've got it working I feel so relieved I think I'll share the solution for anyone online who has the same problem. After constant googling I came up with either useless solutions that state the obvious or contain responses from people who offer no help what so ever. The problem was I installed Apache 2.2.17 and PHP 5.2.14 on a x32 Vista Home SP2 HP Laptop. When I tried to start the apache server it wouldn't work. It did
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Breaking Captchas Could Soon Become Illegal
According to a story at Wired.com, Threat Level Blog (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/hacking-captcha/), a US federal judge has decided to let a case involving a ticket reseller to go forward and has set a trial date of March 1, 2011. This case involves a “shady” ticket reseller called Wiseguy Tickets and Seats of San Francisco that buys bulk tickets from companies such as TicketMaster and then resells the tickets at a much higher price. The problem is that TicketMaster and other sell
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Man Jailed For Shouting At Parrot
EDINBURGH, Scotland – A 19-year-old Scottish man who admitted to threatening his grandmother’s parrot for interrupting his sleep, was ordered by the courts to apologise with chocolates. Stefan McKinsley, 19, pleaded guilty the following Monday to a breach of the peace after his grandmother phoned police Friday at 2:45 a.m. and told them the teenager was intoxicated and hitting the parrot’s cage, Britain’s The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Prosecutors said McKinsley, who threatened the bird wi
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I was thinking to register a .asia domain. It was on sell at $8.99 at Computinghost last month. Looks great. But I wasn't sure which name is better-- I had several ideas on my mind. Also, MyCent was not enough to pay for that. So, I waited, thinking the domain and accumulate Mycent. Now MyCent nearly enough, I jumped in computinghost to register. Guess what? It's not on sale anymore, it's now $18 I saw on other sites the .asia domains are still on sale, only computingho
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Microsoft Silverlight Technology
Microsoft has released a new development platform (I think it is) called Microsoft SilverLight. It is supposed to bring rich, interactive, streaming media into a cross-browser, cross-platform environment. (Personally, I think they are ignoring Opera). The development team is working hard to get this running on Firefox as well as Internet Explorer. They are adding support for "major, leading browsers" quickly and efficiently when possible. Macintosh users (for Mac OS X) can also downlo
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[quote]Secret - Hidden Command Line Switch Instructions - Go to "Start", "Run" and Type defrag c: -b to defragment the Boot and Application Prefetch information. Notes - Windows XP will run this automatically every three days or so, during system idle periods. BootVis will evoke this when you run the "Optimize System" function. There is no need to manually run this unless you wish to immediately optimize a newly installed application's load time. Secret -
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Seo - Article Marketing, My New Chosen Strategy
today I discovered how beneficial article marketing can be. To all you newbies to the SEO games (don't worry i'm prety new myself) I would advice you focus more time on article marketing rather the commenting on blogs. I had heard about article marketing before but I didn't think it could be that good and I thought it would be time consuming and although it can be time consuming it gives you a vast amount of options that you can do with it. For example you can make a blog copy the
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found this great site today which alows you to watch tv on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. You can watch over 50 channels and real ones too not those silly web ones. I know it's for the UK and i'm not sure if it will work for america but it's worth a try, right? Anyway The streaming quality is pretty good and I would recommend it. Im not sure how well it works on actual computers though as for me it's slightly laggy but on iPhones iPads and iPod touch's it's runs very sm
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Lately, a few of my friends have been talking about this program called Hamachi. If you don't know, it basically allows you to start a network with a bunch of your friends. It basically is like having all your friends on your LAN. You can share files, play games, etc. as if they were there! You can also play games with them LAN style instead of over the Internet. It's pretty cool! Check out the hamachi website at [url="http://www.hamachi.cc"]http://www.hamachi.cc[/url] [N]F
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When the iPhone 4 came out everyone kept calling it the iphone 4g. I assumed they called it this simply because it was the one after the iPhone 3g (or rather 3gs). Well today I discovered that 4G is actually something. It's a faster version of 3g. Apparently it uses a technology called WiMax which I heard about a few years ago on BBC's tech chow, Click. Basically I think wiMax is like like Wifi but it's long distance. Apparently the next iPhone is going to be 4g ready so that should
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Four Ways To Open Task Manager
[quote]As you probably know, Task Manager is what you use in Windows to view (and kill) currently active processes. There are several ways you can easily open Task Manager so I thought I would list four easy ones here: 1. Ctrl + Alt + Del > Click Task Manager. This is the most commonly used method. 2. Right click on the Task Bar and select “Task Manager” from the popup menu. 3. Ctrl + Shift + Esc. 4. Start > Run > taskmgr. This is handy for making a shortcut. T
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[quote][list] [*]Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. [*]The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.) [*]Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. [*]The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick. [*]There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. [*]The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners
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Have You Tried The Sixth Generation Ipod Nano?
September 1, 2010 was the release date of the Apple iPod Nano's sixth generation device. In my country the release date is on the 20th, and I have already seen a few people getting excited about it. Has anyone over here already bought and used it? The iPod craze might have slowed down a bit after the iPhone came out, but I'm sure there are still a lot of fans out there who want to get their fans on every new Apple product? This sixth generation iPod Nano is much smaller than the previo
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Hi... Did you know that you can test your sites with different browsers with only one appliance called BrowserBox? If you don't want to install various web browsers to your system just to test your developed sites, then I think you have to test this appliance. I haven't yet tested this appliance but if you feel you want to test it, common and let's try it together. [code]http://my.opera.com/browserbox/blog/2010/08/15/browserbox-0-1-released-14-browsers[/code]
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This is not an copied material but a survey which we the school student conducted in our near by town! This article contains all our views and points and the conclusion as per the survey conducted by us. NO OFFENSE! As soon as a student comes to class 11 or 12, his tension increases. Not only does he have the pressure of performing well in his school semester exams but also in the entrance exams. He has to prepare himself to face the challenge of getting admission to a prestigious coll
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When the iPhone came out, there were many so-called 'iPhone killers'. Yet the iPhone has managed to hold its charm over the rest of the market. Every Apple product manages to garner such attention and so is the case with the iPad. It has managed to grab quite a few eyeballs since its release, and although it hasn't been released worldwide yet, the lucky people who were able to buy it have expressed satisfaction. However, as is the case with every Apple product, there are a few cons
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Has anyone seen the new asus slate, and for that matter, is css coming out with an update for touchscreen computers, or should they?
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Today, I recieved an e-mail from [b]CNet[/b], one of the top IT news and information Websites, discussing a recent technological issue from a social perspective. It was fun to read, and it was even more fun to consider what you guys might think about it. Here's what the e-mail said: [quote]Good news--fast Internet connections aboard U.S. commercial airline flights will be coming to you sooner than you think, as two companies just last Friday won licenses for airborne communications servic
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Ms Catches Hacker Selling Source Code...
i have just read the slashdot story [url="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/01/30/0432257.shtml"]http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/01/30/0432257.shtml[/url] and the *hackers* side of the story [url="http://illmob.org/"]http://illmob.org/[/url] Im no expert on US law, but doesnt this whole think stink of entrapment ??? In one part of this story, someone contacts this hacker, and asks for MS source code (for money) the hacker replys saying he no-longer has it, but ts already everywhere on the internet
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21 Year Old Hacker Gets 5 Years Sentence
According to recent news on Wired.Com, [b]Jeanson James Ancheta[/b] a 21 year old hacker was sentenced to almost 5 years behind the bars in federal prison. Apparently he infected well over [b]400,000[/b] system belonging to [b]China Lake Naval Air Facility[/b] and the [b]Defense Information System Agency[/b] headquartered in [b]Falls Church, Va[/b] and used them to setup a massive botnet which he could lease out to third parties to use for mass spamming and further hacking. [quote name='Wire
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[img]http://www.jokefrog.com/pictures/1400.jpg[/img] A wife decides to take her husband to a strip club for his birthday. They arrive at the club and the doorman says, "Hey, John! How ya doin'?" His wife is puzzled and asks if he's been to this club before. "Oh, no," says John. "He's on my bowling team." When they are seated, a waitress asks John if he'd like his usual and brings over a Budweiser. His wife is becoming increasingly uncomfortab
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Hi @ all. Google's ChromeOS will be open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.Netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.They're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds.Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips.Google Chrome OS is a new project, sep
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Well, For all you living in a rock for the past 6 years, you may not know that were starting to work the kinks out of a box 5 feet below the ground in front of your house/apartment, that needs 10-20$ a month at most to maintain, and can power 3-5 houses?! A Fuel Cell. A hydrogen Powered Generator. But theres somthing special about it... A fuel cell when using Hydrogen fuel gives off two items 1. Electricity 2. H2O ( Water) But what if, you do this, Connect a pump to take the wat
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Hello to all I'm a newbie here, it's good to see that astahost.com is such a great forum with so many people and discussion going on here. I'm still playing around with the idea of what kinda forum that I am going to have one day, probably a link exchange interchange Eventually, I come out with [url="http://onfreelinks.com"]http://onfreelinks.com[/url] Please sign up as a supporter to make us link altogether. TQ
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[center][img]http://images.apple.com/ipodshuffle/images/features_hero_20090311.jpg[/img][/center][left]Apple never stops surprising me by it's remarcable products. Now they've released the new Ipod Shuffle. I'm really thinking about aquiring one .[/left][left][quote][left]Small size, 1.8" tall x 0.3" thin to be exact. To create the world’s smallest music player, we moved the controls from iPod shuffle to the earbud cord. This allowed us to make the new iPod shuffle
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For the next 2 weeks or so, TrialPay will be offering "The Big Bundle". Basically you donate $29.99 to the American Cancer Society and you get $799.01 worth of savings, software and other products. These products include $20 flowers, Foxit PDF creator, 1month of Skype unlimited US/Canada calling, 6 months Picnik premium, [b]1 free domain[/b], RoboForm Pro, Diner Dash, Bejeweled 2 as well as other software and a variety of gift certificates for retail businesses. Other o
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[quote]This site makes a generalized guess based upon your apperant health. (It doesn't take into account that you were skinny as a rail for 30 years, then put on a massive amount of weight over 10 years, it assumes you were ALWAYS fat!) Anyway! I have 3 more years left and I'm out of here! Whoo hoo! later suckas! LOL Oh, and I get to die on Friday 13th! YEAH! How is that for timing?? (That is if I don't get hit by a mortar round or IED here in Iraq betwee
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Free Art And Graphics For Game Designers From Opengameart
[quote]OpenGameArt.org is a community that brings like-minded coders and artists together for the purpose of creating Open Source video games, by providing a human-edited, searchable database of freely-licened art resources. Source: [url="http://opengameart.org"]http://opengameart.org[/url][/quote] If any one of you are engaged into game development. Then you might be in search of game backgrounds, sounds, sprites on regular basis for your games. Then opengame art is the place for you. The co
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There are some exciting new entrants lined up to enter the smart phones world. Each bragging there features unheard of before. So here I present all those top smart phones due to be released this year. Pick your choice. It doesn't matter if you don't want to, just think you had money and had to buy any one from these, then which one would you go for? To help ease that a bit, I have described all the features for you. So start picking the choice. I will try to keep the reviews as unbiased
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What Is The Best Search Engine
when i first got my computer it had the standard S.E (search engine) internet explorer my friends told me this was a bad s.e as it has been out for so long that all the hackers have found out all the cracks for it. this sounded possible true so i installed mozilla after being recomended it. I have no problem with any of them other than the usual rubbishy ads which is a pain in the *** but now i have downloaded google crome. can any-1 tell me the best of the 3 or sujest a better 1 that gives me
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What Would It Be Without The Internet!
Today i sat down and thought what would i be without the internet we wouldnt be able to[list=1] [*]get infomation [*]e-mail friends [*]chat on things like MSN,YAhoo [*]We wouldnt be able to do many THINGS! [/list] But then we wouldnt [list=1] [*]get addicted to websites or online shopping [/list]
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Nero has released their first free edition. Anyone can download it. It is not OEM version. It comes with basic burning capabilities, no video editing, playback etc. You can download it from the link below : [url="http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php"]http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php[/url] I really appreciate the move made by Nero. Have your say on Nero 9 free edition.
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I don't know if this counts as me 'discovering' something today, but I was looking around for presents for my sig. other and I was searching for something along the lines of a digital picture frame or a locket. Well, guess what: some smart people decided to combine the two of them and came up with a digital photo locket. J&R has it for about $32 after shipping. I'm not too sure about the battery life though, but it seems like an interesting gift idea. The link can be f
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New Wordpress Navigation Plugin
Wordpress navigation is the only thing in wordpress which lacks plugins. The navigation is quite hard to customize. But I found out a very cool plugin that creates a dropdown nav bar. It is 100% seo because you can see all the links on your nav bar as "href" links in the page source code. It is very customizable through CSS Style. Here is the link [url="http://pixopoint.com/multi-level-navigation/"]http://pixopoint.com/multi-level-navigation/[/url] There is another plugin called N
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News: Messenger Live 8 Coming Out Of Beta
For all you M$N Messenger fans, the good news is that some sites have somewhat confirmed the Public release date of WLM 8. Tho no one mentioned M$ in the updated news, its believed that it could be true. [b]Windows Messenger will be made available to the public in 8 days, Friday 16th June 2006.[/b] WLM 8 (if released) will be the first software package to come out of the Beta stage of the Windows Live Range. If anyone can confirm this news in relation to M$, then please be kind
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Are you ready for IE7, is your site. Just want to read about it? go here. [url="http://eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1837712,00.asp"]http://eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1837712,00.asp[/url]
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(For reference purposes, in this article, W7 refers Windows 7 Beta) Recently, W7 has been released for download. Initially the download was released yesterday (Friday), but the massive amounts of traffic trying to access the download crashed Microsoft's servers rather quite promptly so the download was delayed to sometime today. To download W7, you must have a Windows Live ID (@hotmail.com; @msn.com; @live.com emails will all do). Go to the Windows product page located at [url="http://www.
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I did not think that I could play Total Annihilation kingdoms anymore until I found this cool program called warzone! Enjoy The WarZone is a gaming lobby for playing multiplayer versions of older DirectPlay 7 or earlier games. While similiar in concept to GameSpy and the old, now defunct MSN Gaming Zone, it specializes in older games, is completely free and contains no ads, adware, or spyware. Moreover, it includes the DirectPlay Router Bypass feature, allowing games to be played without
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Due to antitrust regulations and stuff I don't really understand, Microsoft is releasing a version of Windows 7 which is browserless. This version, called Windows 7 "E", is to be released in Europe only. Everyone else in Canada, US, Australia, any other non-European countries will receive the standard editions of Windows 7 (Home premium and Professional) with the Internet Explorer 8 browser included. I think that this is a great option for Microsoft in order to help balance out th
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What exactly are the rules pertaining to promoting a site hosted here, i see alot of links posted that promote other hosting services, software, ect..... I just want to promote my web site, and do it in a tasteful way without being consitered spam
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Recently, Facebook has allowed you to link your Facebook account with profiles/accounts on Google, Yahoo!, Myspace as well as any openID (most notably myOpenId, which has its own separate option). As of right now, I am aware of the fact that by being logged onto Google or openID, you can be automatically logged into Facebook if you linked your accounts. This does not work with Yahoo! (a message states that), and I did not have a chance to test Myspace because OpenDNS blocks it. I think
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Human cells are producing energy constantly. Nanotechnology is capturing that energy to do useful things. Last year the University of Georgia had made great strides with it by using zinx oxide which is nontoxic. Now at the [url="http://<http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/02/01/scientists_buil.html>"]University of Edinburgh[/url], a nanomachine has been created that runs by itself. Maybe eventually our own body could power an iPod through nanotechnology.
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Today on 12:00PM EST, Facebook is allowing their users to vote on how the governing documents will sound like. The choices are either to go for the proposed revised documents or keep the old documents to govern how Facebook is going to govern the site. [quote name='"Facebook Site Governance Vote"']On February 26, Facebook announced plans to make site governance more transparent and democratic. Since that time, users and experts around the world have been providing comments on the new
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Add Resume And Download Manager Support
Add Resume and Download Manager Support to Megaupload.com This tutorial is genuine and verified. Requirements: Flashget 1.65 (tested on this version) 1. Open the link of megaupload.com given to you. Now wait for the timer counter to get over. 2. When the Download Now link becomes visible copy the link. 3. Open Flashget and select Edit>>Paste URL and the link will get copied. Now the link originally given in the form of [url="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XXXXXXXX"]http://www.megau
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Will Wolfram Do What Cuil Could Not Do
Cuil was launched with much fanfare last time with lot of hope to give Google some competition. However that went down as fast as it came up. So will Wolfram will be able to do something special. They are calling it as "a computational knowledge engine which computes answers using data from public and licensed databases." Presently it is released to a selected set of people. So watct out the space.
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Windows Vista Vs Windows Server 2008
Hi, I've been messing with Vista last six months on a very good PC (P4/1.5Gb) and the experience was really bad. It's not a notice that Windows Vista has become one of the worst MS creations, finally I've returned to XP. But, for somehow, I've received a DVD of Windows Server 2008 and thought what if I try it as a workstation? Found the time and did it. Well, Server 2008 is not a rival of Vista, it's a rival of XP! WS2008 installed just with the necessary for a desk
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Tv-links Watch Free Anime, Shows, Movies And More!
Yep, I just recently found this amazing site. It lets you watch free streaming videos FULL!!! Visitors can watch most anime here and they're updated frequently. Also, there are cartoons and shows that are on TV that you might've missed. They also have old shows which are already cancelled and has all seasons. What is more is that you can watch movies there even the ones that have just been released. I haven't checked out the sports section but there is one. You should g
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Notice from qwijibow: Coppied and pasted from [url="http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html"]http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html[/url] correcting hostiong credits. [quote]Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. It is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before. Google Web Accelerator use
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A very weird thing happened at the Tokyo Zoo: [quote][img]http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/cpress/20060118/capt.k011802au.jpg[/img] TOKYO (AP) - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a nine centimetre dwarf hamster, the other is a 1.2-metre rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster - whose name means meal in Japanese - to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice. But instead of indulging, Aochan d
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According to Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA may be in fact produce their own processor. They speculate that it may come in the form of a VIA-NVIDIA partnership. What do you guys think? Good idea? Vote in the polls. I personally think this will spice up the market for all. Source: [url="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-x86-NEC-CPU-HD,6985.html#BOM_comments"]http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-x8...ml#BOM_comments[/url] xboxrulz
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Lying: The Best Way To Switch Windows Users To Linux?
Apparently, if you lie to people, they would really think KDE4 is Windows 7 ... lol. [url="http://www.builderau.com.au/program/windows/soa/Is-it-Windows-7-or-KDE-4-/0,339024644,339294810,00.htm?feed=rss"]http://www.builderau.com.au/program/window...00.htm?feed=rss[/url] xboxrulz
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[img]http://images.apple.com/home/2008/images/ipod_nano_2_20080909.jpg[/img] [quote]The Genius Feature Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The Genius feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a Genius playlist for you. It’s like having your own highly intelligent, personal DJ. Upgraded Way to Find Your Music It’s even easier to find the song you want to hear. Now you can view your album art in
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Opera mobile was good, but this is much better. It comes with full flash enabled, javascript and everything else. You can watch videos on youtube and other flash sites. It's really a fully enabled browser. Now opera mobile, it's quite good, but it has one major limitation. It's java based and for some reason that makes it unable to run flash or javascript. It is quite annoying, especially as mobile youtube is so limited. But skyfire really works as the on the go alternative to your
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The problem with Proxy servers.... 1) they usually only work with http, getting one to work with MSN messenger is neer impossable ! 2) although they stop the site you are browsing from knowing who you are, your Internet service provider still knows exactly what you are doing. 3) i hate proxies. What if.... What if you first ran a local filter proxie, it doesnt do anything major, it just scrubbs any identifying info from your web traffic, things like browser identification, cookies, revelai
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By 11p Eastern Time, Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging. This execution was ruled by the government of Iraq. No video was shown on live television but just reports of it. However, reporters say there are videos and pictures taken before, during and after the execution. It was breaking news in CNN at Larry King Live. Obviously these videos taken at the execution of Saddam Hussein will be published in most video blogs. To me it's a clip that's worth checking out. I'm in favo
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Welcome, My one PC is not working fine i want to restore my old file, i made backup in pen drive but how we restore my old file in my system, what is the path to restore the file, i have complete c: drive backup in which i have installing my windows. when i store file by system restore it send error report, there is any way to restore my old file, restore point and backup i think that both are different, there may be problem but i cant resolve it. thanks
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Read this> [i]Anti-government protesters have left Bangkok's main airports after an eight-day siege that has paralysed government and stymied tourism. They packed up bedding before handing over both the international and domestic airports to the authorities. The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) called off the protests and after a court banned Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics. The protests have left thousands of tourists stranded in Thailand. The country has
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This is the moment every Apple fan has been waiting for. Finally a solution to the bad Intel chipsets for the Macbooks. Also for a complete revolution in the Apple hardware. Let's take a look in what Apple has in store for us this time around! So what's new about these Apple notebooks? Macbook Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn 2.0 GHz or 2.4 GHz 1066 MHz FSB 160 GB, 250GB or 320GB 5400RPM Hard Drive or 128GB SSD 2GB DDR3-1066 RAM NVIDIA GeForce 9400M IGP 2 USB 2.0 8x SuperDrive Mini Displa
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Difference Between Bad Sector And Boot Sector.
hi all, I read so many article related to this topic but overall in confusion what is basic difference in between bad sector and Boot sector in Hard disk , if any sector have bad then what is the first precaution that bad sector should not come. what is the first stage that i find, the bad sector may occurs. somebody says that if virus is running continuously in your system then there is a chance to come bad sector. what is it correct? i think that this is not correct virus could not corrupt th
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System Is Crashed - Hardware Problem
Dear all, i am working on my IBM Thinkpad R52, for internet i am using airtel card, and windows XP2 with other software also, what i have problem when i dial for connect to internet, my screen is blank, i reboot the system and system is working fine, after some time again this problem is come my screen is blank. it may be work fine whole day or it may blank after sometime , i solve this again by restarting my laptop but my data each time lost, when without airtel card to internet system is work
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Iron Man, for the non-geeks out there, is said summer Superhero from the 60s and from the same company (Marvel Comics) that gave us Spiderman, The X-Men and The Hulk. And since he’s the new hero on the block, the film takes the traditional formula to get its message across; Introduce the hero, his life, have him suffer some kind of disaster/trauma leading to gaining powers, decides to fight crime, fights crime, saves the girl & then gets outed to the rest of the world. So, by applying the
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