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Hands-on: OpenMoko WikiReader is simple, appealing

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:11:23 +0000

OpenMoko's WikiReader is a unique gadget with a single function. The simple handheld device stores the text of over 3 million Wikipedia entries, enabling convenient offline access to the popular Internet encyclopedia. We have conducted some hands-on testing ...

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Official Google Blog: Contextual search within Wikipedia

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:56:38 +0000

We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia skin that makes it easier for you to complete your research on Wikipedia. Wikipedia allows users to register and personalize their Wikipedia environment via the configuration of options and the use of styles or skins . Just ...

Search Engine Journal found this 12 days ago on googleblog.blogspot.com

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SWITCH BACK TO THE OLD NEWS FEED!!!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

On 10/23/09, Facebook changed the layout of their News Feed, cluttering everybody's homepage with unnecessary items and disarranged posts. PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK!!! -------------------------------- Oh, and invite your friends. MILESTONES: 10,000 Members - 10/23/09 (Same Day that we started): ...

NYT > Technology found this 13 days ago on facebook.com

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Reocities: because Geocities is gone, but not forgotten

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:51:00 +0000

When Yahoo! decided to close down GeoCities, a lot of us shed a single tear for our first home on the Internet and moved on. For one man called Jacques, though, that wasn't good enough. He took it upon himself to save as much of GeoCities as possible, by writing scripts that pinged the ...

Maximum PC all RSS Feed found this 9 days ago on downloadsquad.com

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A contextual search experience for Wikipedia

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:24:15 +0000

A different specification is generated for every Wikipedia page (based on url ) by a tiny AppEngine application at http://googlecustomsearch.appspot.com . The specification defines a search engine with two facets, labeled "internal" ( Linked Wikipedia pages ) and "external" ( Linked ...

D' Technology Weblog found this 11 days ago on googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com

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Congrats, citizens of Mozilla! Firefox population surpasses that of the United States

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Over the past two months, Mozilla has been hoovering up new users with reckless abandon - nearly 4 million people per week. At 330 million, the projected number of Firefox users has actually outstripped the population of the United States (which is currently around 305 million). There's a ...

Switched found this 10 days ago on downloadsquad.com

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After the Deadline, Language Checking Software Used by WordPress, Now Open Source

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:25:33 +0000

by Lisa Hoover - Oct. 26, 2009 Comments (0) After the Deadline - Check Spelling, Style, and Grammar in WordPress and TinyMCE If your blogging platform of choice is WordPress , then you've no doubt noticed recent improvements to the way it catches spelling, style, and grammatical errors. That's ...

GigaOM Network found this 12 days ago on ostatic.com

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Google Maps Makes Real Estate Search More Visible

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:30:15 +0000

Google continues to make real estate listings more prominent inside Google Maps, and in doing so, it continues to inch closer to being a full-fledged real estate search engine. The company announced today that a new “real estate” option has been added across Google Maps. It appears under the ...

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Keep Dandruff at Bay With Aspirin [Health]

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Aspirin is a medicine cabinet staple for those prone to headaches. Combined in the right ratio with tap water, it's equally handy for keeping dandruff flakes at bay. Photo by Wikipedia With winter...

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Watch the Ares I-X rocket launch live streaming video here

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:38:49 +0000

NASA is about to launch it’s Ares I-X rocket for a test flight and we’ve embedded the live video stream below. The Ares I-X rocket is NASA’s next generation space vehicle. Live Broadcasting by Ustream From Wikipedia’s page on the Ares I-X Ares I-X is the ...

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