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Below you’ll find 50 brilliant photos and stunning pictures — some pictures tell stories, some are incredibly beautiful, some are funny and some are very sad.
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It may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC’s everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available. Whether it’s molasses-slow bloatware, shameless adware, anemic default apps, or “trial period expired!” nagware, it’s time to replace stinky Win software with its superior alternatives
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We’ve got you covered with five freeware or shareware security tools for Linux boxes, Macs, and Windows machines, all recommended by Ars staffers.
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Excellent CSS techniques and examples that showcases the capabilities and robustness of CSS. You
’ll see a variety of techniques such as image galleries, drop shadows, scalable buttons, menus, and more – all using only CSS and HTML.
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SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp gave Yahoo Inc no hope of a higher takeover price, saying it was ready to go hostile or even call off its bid if Yahoo maintains “unrealistic expectations” of a better deal.
“Speed is of the essence for the deal to make sense,” Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said on [...]

Process and integrate data from YouTube into your PHP application with PHP’s SimpleXML extension
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Since there has been such a thing as Web search, Udi Manber has been working on Web search. Previously a computer science professor at the Univ. of Arizona, then a senior vice president at Amazon and Yahoo’s chief scientist, Manber is now VP in charge of search quality for Google, where he makes sure results [...]

Although there are several commercially available feed aggregators, it’s easy to develop your own feed aggregator, which you can integrate with your Web applications. You’ll appreciate this article’s fully functional PHP code snippets, demonstrating the use of PHP-based server-side functions to develop a customizable RSS feed aggregator.
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Nokia has announced plans to bring support for the Qt toolkit to the Maemo operating system used on Nokia Internet Tablet devices. Nokia is also sponsoring an Ubuntu ARM port.
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KDE on Linux has stepped up to become the software platform in the primary school education system in Brazil. That may sound like a bold claim, but the numbers are staggering and speak for themselves….
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