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Google Watches You Shower

I was a little disturbed to see ads for recipes appearing next to emails to my girlfriend while replying to one of her emails through G-Mail. The reason it disturbed me was that we had not discussed food or recipes at all in the email and the only...

Network-Related Timeouts

Something that constantly baffles me about Windows XP's networking is the ridiculously long timeouts before an attempt to connect is considered as having failed. Why, in this modern age of relatively high-speed networks, are Microsoft still assumi...

Anytime TV - A Case Example of How Not to Do It

Any Australian internet users would, I'm sure, have recently been exposed to a bunch of ads talking about iiNet users having unmetred downloads on Anytime TV. I was excited to hear about this both because I'm an iiNet customer and because I think ...

A Big Thank You...

Thank you Sony / BMG for protecting hard working artists from their fans. Had you not laden all of your recent releases with ridiculous piracy counter-measures, who knows how many legitimate music buyers would have been able to simply do whatever ...

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Safari for Windows

While I'm not a fan of the "It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell!" attitude that His Steveness has toward Apple's development of Windows versions of its apps, I was looking forward to trying Safari for Windows because of its f...

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