List of Freeware Programs to Solve 450+ Common Problems

Extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money.

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Hundreds of FREE user manuals

Did you ever buy a second-hand camera, printer, watch etc and it didn't come with the user manual? Maybe you lost your manual. Never fear, this site has hundreds of manuals for all sorts of gadgets and they are all totally free in pdf format. No registration, no mucking around!

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Top 5 Things You Should Never Buy

This is a nice roundup of the most-common things to avoid buying next time you walk into a Best Buy. Some of it may be obvious, but most of us have bought into at least one of these (c'mon, admit it).

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Google Calendar Is Launching Tonight

It looks like Google Calender could be launching tonight! The official Google Calendar logo was found on Google's servers and calendar.google.com redirects to the actual CL2 login screen now.

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Mirrors to Reflect Light into a Town Without Sun

Rattenberg, Austria, famous for its glassblowing, gets no sun at all for several months in the winter because of the high latitudes and surrounding mountains. They will soon install 15 mirrors about a quarter of a mile away to reflect sunlight into the town during the dark months. (Article from Scientific American)

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Creepy But Creative Photoshopping

What happens when you combine creatures with fruit and vegetables?

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Thousands of Free Video Game Soundtrack Downloads, with Mass Downloading

A great page, with thousands of free video game soundtracks, with everything from Mario, Zelda, Halo... chances are, if you can think of it, they've got it. Now if you register, you can recieve free mass downloading, as well!

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Smart glasses switch focus in an instant

Researchers created a prototype pair of glasses that use liquid crystals to change focus in a fraction of a second -- from distance vision to reading glasses and back again.

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The selling of a wonder drug

Four years ago, almost no one had heard of it. Today, it is a household name and women with early-stage breast cancer are going to court for the right to get it. Yet the drug is not actually licensed for use and the clinical tests, while promising, don't yet prove it will ever save lives. How did Herceptin become a cause celebre?

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Gum That Makes Brushing Obsolete

The Wrigley Gum Company has paired up with the U.S. military to create an anti-bacterial chewing gum that actually cleans teeth so soldiers wouldn't have to stop what they're doing to brush their pearly whites.

If the military signs on to it, there's a good chance it will end up in your medicine cabinet one day.

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Check this out, it maps where you are with your IP address.

It seemed to be pretty accurate

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Craziest Computer Case Mods

Case mods or computer case modifications are the ultimate display of geek chic, creativity and hardware prowess! Many of them are pieces of art, whereas others are just plain weird. Here is a collection of the craziest of the lot.

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Questionville.com -> Digg taken to the next level as a Q&A site.

Finally after 3 months of hard work Questionville.com has been released. Inspired by digg and taken to the next level, qv features a rated answer system. Finally a digg style site without the same old stories... man I'm tired of everyone ripping off digg and not doing anything new with the idea... anyway enjoy :) ps we need content... �

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75 Helpful Web Design Resources

A bunch of web design resources with descriptions.

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Giant C-5 Military Jet Crashes in Delaware

An Air Force C-5 cargo jet crashed and broke into pieces Monday while trying to make an emergency landing near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Air Force officials said.

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A radical fix for airlines: Make flying free

Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive of Ireland's Ryanair (Research), Europe's most profitable airline, wants to make air travel free. Not free as in free from regulation, but free as in zero cost. By the end of the decade, he promises, "more than half of our passengers will fly free."

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Prisoner of Redmond: If you thought Microsoft was evil, read this

Robert X. Cringely reveals the true reason why Paul Allen of Microsoft fame left the Redmond company, even though it was on track to become an extremely valuable stock. Considering Microsoft's track record and behavior over the years, this should not be surprising, but if true it is beyond pall!

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