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• Sony unveils 880 Blu-Ray Equipped VAIO NW Notebook
• Jobs had liver transplant 2 months ago; expected to return to work as planned
• Branson breaks ground on US rocketplane spaceport
• Widgetizing The Web: Widgetbox Hits 500 Million Impressions A Month
• Devver Promises To Speed Up App Testing For Ruby Frameworks
• Classic Computing: SAGE Protected US From 1960s Invasions
• New rumors on iPhone tethering
• How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker
• JibJab Debuts He's Barack Obama With President Watching
• Twitter: No Internet Required
• Google Maps Finally Gives Me The Feature I've Wanted From Day 1: What's Here?
• Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends' as Well
• Asynchronous image loading with jQuery
• Astronaut Jackassery Shows Our Tax Dollars Being Put to Good Use
• Lifestream Backup archives your online life
• iPhone 3GS launch has app developers...
• Man Sent to Jail For Six Months For Pirating, Uh, <i>The Love Guru</i>
• Zune HD has a Tegra processor, confirms official Zune podcast
• Apple Investors Get Used to Life Without CEO Steve Jobs as Stock Jumps 59%
• Google Product Ads Beta?
• Flip Has Little Chance In An iPhone World
• 35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers
• On the Party Circuit, With Clicks as Currency
• Report: Steve Jobs had liver transplant -
• Lower limit, safer highways?
• Galactica 1.3
• 12 Ugly And Boring Websites And The Mistakes They Are Making
• Kevin Kelly: Cracking Wall Street
• Futurebox, lightbox without the JavaScript
• Sonos CR200 controller outed by the FCC
• US 20th in broadband penetration, trails S. Korea, Estonia
• Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality
• Hoping To Avoid The iPhone 3Gs Upgrade Fee? Here's How
• Useful PHP function Nr.3
• Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ as Well
• 35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers
• A web of sound: Talk about that The Economist
• 12 Ugly And Boring Websites And The Mistakes They Are Making
• Hoping To Avoid The iPhone 3Gs Upgrade Fee? Here's How
• Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun
• SPACE.com -- Aliens Lose in Switch to Digital TV
• Wireless power: Nokia phone recharges without wires
• 35 Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers
• Run Yellow Dog Linux on your PS3
• Engineers forced to-to-to (gasp!) power cycle Hubble S.T.!
• Amazing - 10 High-Quality Free Brown Paper Textures
• Jobs had liver transplant 2 months ago; expected to return to work as planned
• Ask HN; How to gain control over Frustration?
• The Way I Work, annotated Matt Mullenweg
• Ubuntu Fades, PCLinuxOS and 64 Studio Are Fab. So Far.

Sony unveils 880 Blu-Ray Equipped VAIO NW Notebook Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:33 PM PDT Google News: Technology / Ibtimes Sony unveils 880 Blu-Ray Equipped VAIO NW Notebook  — Sony on Friday introduced its new line of light and thin computers with the VAIO NW notebook, featuring with Blu-ray technology and a 'powerful hig...

Jobs had liver transplant 2 months ago; expected to return to work as planned Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Wsj Jobs had liver transplant 2 months ago; expected to return to work as planned  —

Branson breaks ground on US rocketplane spaceport Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:52 PM PDT TheRegister / TheRegister Branson breaks ground on US rocketplane spaceport  — WhiteKnightTwo makes emergency landing Construction has begun on Richard Branson's multi-million-dollar rocketplane spaceport in the remote high-de...

Widgetizing The Web: Widgetbox Hits 500 Million Impressions A Month Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:00 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Widgetizing The Web: Widgetbox Hits 500 Million Impressions A Month  —  Widgets were all the rage last year. And the trend seems to be growing. Widgetbox, a widget creation and distribution platform, is reporting 500 ...

Devver Promises To Speed Up App Testing For Ruby Frameworks Posted: 19 Jun 2009 02:15 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Devver Promises To Speed Up App Testing For Ruby Frameworks  —  Devver, a TechStars startup , is releasing its developer service to speed up running Ruby testing frameworks. Currently in private beta, Devver ...

Classic Computing: SAGE Protected US From 1960s Invasions Posted: 19 Jun 2009 01:52 PM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo Classic Computing: SAGE Protected US From 1960s Invasions   — Dag Spicer from the Computer History Museum leaned over and unscrewed a bolt. Underneath, it read, "I am Going Mad". The operator's job was to look...

New rumors on iPhone tethering Posted: 19 Jun 2009 01:08 PM PDT Newspond / NewLaunches New rumors on iPhone tethering  — Filed under: OS, Wireless, How-tos, iPhone While I trashed Vodafone NZ's pricing in a previous post, in at least one way it's far ahead of U.S. tel...

How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker Posted: 19 Jun 2009 12:30 PM PDT ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker  — Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He's in a 10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of ...

JibJab Debuts He's Barack Obama With President Watching Posted: 19 Jun 2009 12:30 PM PDT Mashable / Mashable JibJab Debuts He's Barack Obama With President Watching   — JibJab does eCards, but they're probably best known for meme worthy videos, a prime example being their election video ditty in 2008. And if histor...

Twitter: No Internet Required Posted: 19 Jun 2009 12:22 PM PDT GigaOM / Gigaom Twitter: No Internet Required  — A lot of things make Twitter special. The 140-character restriction makes the writing more potent, because people are forced to get to the point in...

Google Maps Finally Gives Me The Feature I've Wanted From Day 1: What's Here? Posted: 19 Jun 2009 12:15 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Google Maps Finally Gives Me The Feature I've Wanted From Day 1: What's Here?  — I don't know about you, but when I look at an online map and see outlines of buildings, I get a little frustrated. I want to be able to click somew...

Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends' as Well Posted: 19 Jun 2009 11:30 AM PDT NYTimesTechnology / NYTimes Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends' as Well  — Some consumers find that their contact list gets mined and used after they provide certain e-mail information to some Web sites.

Asynchronous image loading with jQuery Posted: 19 Jun 2009 11:08 AM PDT HackerNews / Realmofzod Asynchronous image loading with jQuery  —

Astronaut Jackassery Shows Our Tax Dollars Being Put to Good Use Posted: 19 Jun 2009 11:07 AM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo Astronaut Jackassery Shows Our Tax Dollars Being Put to Good Use   — Good to know this is how Astronauts spend their time in space. Actually, I'm kinda serious. If you're up there and can't take a moment to enjoy the...

Lifestream Backup archives your online life Posted: 19 Jun 2009 10:30 AM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Lifestream Backup archives your online life  — You use a lot of social services, but what if one of them goes down? Lifestream Backup covers you by automatically backing up your data from a hand...

iPhone 3GS launch has app developers... Posted: 19 Jun 2009 10:28 AM PDT AskNews / CNN iPhone 3GS launch has app developers...  —  CNN - Found 49 minutes ago Friday's launch of the iPhone 3GS could usher in an innovative and lucrative new era for those who create ...

Man Sent to Jail For Six Months For Pirating, Uh, <i>The Love Guru</i> Posted: 19 Jun 2009 10:22 AM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo Man Sent to Jail For Six Months For Pirating, Uh, <i>The Love Guru</i>   — This is embarassing. Jack Yates has been sentenced to six months in jail for pirating the horrible Mike Meyers movie The Love Guru . It might have ...

Zune HD has a Tegra processor, confirms official Zune podcast Posted: 19 Jun 2009 10:22 AM PDT Engadget / Engadget Zune HD has a Tegra processor, confirms official Zune podcast  —  You can stop wondering what exactly is powering the new Zune HD . On the official Zune Insider podcast, host Matt Akers confirmed the rumors : yep...

Apple Investors Get Used to Life Without CEO Steve Jobs as Stock Jumps 59% Posted: 19 Jun 2009 10:15 AM PDT Techmeme / Bloomberg Apple Investors Get Used to Life Without CEO Steve Jobs as Stock Jumps 59%   —  Apple Investors Get Used to Life Without CEO Steve Jobs as Stock Jumps 59% Apple Inc. shares have climbed 59 percent since Chief Executive Office...

Google Product Ads Beta? Posted: 19 Jun 2009 10:08 AM PDT Twitter / Blogoscoped Google Product Ads Beta?  —

Flip Has Little Chance In An iPhone World Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:45 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Flip Has Little Chance In An iPhone World  — As successful as Pure Digital has been with their Flip line of video cameras - selling 150 million worth of them last year - they face a new type ...

35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Webdesignbooth 35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers  —  Firefox is a very popular browser especially among web designers. There are more than 70% of WDB's readers are using Firefox. There are few reason...

On the Party Circuit, With Clicks as Currency Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Nytimes On the Party Circuit, With Clicks as Currency  —

Report: Steve Jobs had liver transplant - Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:31 PM PDT NewsVineTechnology / CNET Report: Steve Jobs had liver transplant -  — Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple for the past six months, received a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago, according to...

Lower limit, safer highways? Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Amherstdaily Lower limit, safer highways?  —

Galactica 1.3 Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:07 PM PDT TheRegister / TheRegister Galactica 1.3  — Not a Cylon in sight Review Third-party iPhone applications are generally cheap, but we really expected a rather better price-to-play time than w...

12 Ugly And Boring Websites And The Mistakes They Are Making Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Rateyourwebhosting 12 Ugly And Boring Websites And The Mistakes They Are Making  —  o O (Tech Industry News)

Kevin Kelly: Cracking Wall Street Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:03 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Wired Kevin Kelly: Cracking Wall Street   —

Futurebox, lightbox without the JavaScript Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:03 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Thecssninja Futurebox, lightbox without the JavaScript  —

Sonos CR200 controller outed by the FCC Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:52 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget Sonos CR200 controller outed by the FCC  —  Without a doubt, Sonos makes an excellent wireless distributed audio system. If we had to nit pick (and we do), then its massive controller, the C...

US 20th in broadband penetration, trails S. Korea, Estonia Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Arstechnica US 20th in broadband penetration, trails S. Korea, Estonia  —  A new broadband survey out from Strategy Analytics shows the US in 20th position when it comes to household broadband use, well behind countries l...

Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:30 PM PDT Slashdot / Slashdot Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality  — bryxal writes "The Liberal Party of Canada, currently leading in most polls, has announced yesterday that it supports Net Neutrality, saying, 'Inte...

Hoping To Avoid The iPhone 3Gs Upgrade Fee? Here's How Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Bluebadger Hoping To Avoid The iPhone 3Gs Upgrade Fee? Here's How  — A 99 iPhone is tempting. But unfortunately, because of AT T it's not tempting enough for me. But maybe it is for you. Two developments have evolve...

Useful PHP function Nr.3 Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Webcoderblog Useful PHP function Nr.3  —

Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ as Well Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Nytimes Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends' as Well  —

35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Webdesignbooth 35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers  —  Firefox is a very popular browser especially among web designers. There are more than 70% of WDB's readers are using Firefox. There are few reason...

A web of sound: Talk about that The Economist Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT Twitter / Economist A web of sound: Talk about that The Economist  —

12 Ugly And Boring Websites And The Mistakes They Are Making Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Rateyourwebhosting 12 Ugly And Boring Websites And The Mistakes They Are Making  —  o O (Tech Industry News)

Hoping To Avoid The iPhone 3Gs Upgrade Fee? Here's How Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Bluebadger Hoping To Avoid The iPhone 3Gs Upgrade Fee? Here's How  — A 99 iPhone is tempting. But unfortunately, because of AT T it's not tempting enough for me. But maybe it is for you. Two developments have evolve...

Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun Posted: 19 Jun 2009 05:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Groklaw Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun  —  "So next time you hear Microsoft bragging that people *prefer* their software to Linux on netbooks, you'll know better. If they really believed th...

SPACE.com -- Aliens Lose in Switch to Digital TV Posted: 19 Jun 2009 05:08 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Space SPACE.com -- Aliens Lose in Switch to Digital TV  — With the conversion to digital TV, zillions of aliens won't be able to tune in.

Wireless power: Nokia phone recharges without wires Posted: 19 Jun 2009 05:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / CaTechYahoo Wireless power: Nokia phone recharges without wires  —  It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of ...

35 Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers Posted: 19 Jun 2009 05:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / SmashappsBlogspot 35 Free High Quality Desktop Wallpapers  —  Some very nice high quality wallpapers to give your desktop a new look without having to spend a penny. (Design)

Run Yellow Dog Linux on your PS3 Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / UsFixstars Run Yellow Dog Linux on your PS3  —  "Work by day, entertainment by night, the PS3 with Yellow Dog Linux provides a complete home office and entertainment system" (Linux/Unix)

Engineers forced to-to-to (gasp!) power cycle Hubble S.T.! Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Space Engineers forced to-to-to (gasp!) power cycle Hubble S.T.!  —  Hubble program manager Preston Burch told SPACE.com that a computer in the iconic observatory's new data handling unit seized up inexplicably earl...

Amazing - 10 High-Quality Free Brown Paper Textures Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:23 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Sixrevisions Amazing - 10 High-Quality Free Brown Paper Textures  —  In this set, you'll find 10 free and high-resolution brown paper textures which can be used in a wide range of ways. They have a very liberal Crea...

Jobs had liver transplant 2 months ago; expected to return to work as planned Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Wsj Jobs had liver transplant 2 months ago; expected to return to work as planned  —

Ask HN; How to gain control over Frustration? Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:23 PM PDT HackerNews / NewsYcombinator Ask HN; How to gain control over Frustration?  —

The Way I Work, annotated Matt Mullenweg Posted: 19 Jun 2009 04:08 PM PDT Twitter / Ma The Way I Work, annotated Matt Mullenweg  —

Ubuntu Fades, PCLinuxOS and 64 Studio Are Fab. So Far. Posted: 19 Jun 2009 03:43 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Linuxplanet Ubuntu Fades, PCLinuxOS and 64 Studio Are Fab. So Far.  —  As I wrote a few days ago, I replaced Kubuntu and Ubuntu on several of my home PCs with PCLinuxOS and 64 Studio. I was intending to wait a couple ...

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