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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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DigitalGlobe Launching Two New Satellites

DigitalGlobe, which provides satellite imagery for Google Earth and Google Maps, has announced it will launch two new imagery satellites in 2006 and 2008. Commercial satellital imaging company DigitalGlobe has announced that it will launch two new high resolution satellites in the next three years. DigitalGlobe announced details of the company’s next generation of imaging systems, WorldView I and WorldView

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Sign up for Microsoft Mail Beta – Is this real?

Here’s a post from Neowin.net about a site that’s giving Mail Beta invites out, I’m actually in Mail Beta already so I can defiantly say that this site looks very dodgy to me! We think you’re going to really like the clean new look and other features — at least we hope so! We need your feedback to make sure

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Google Lauches a RSS Reader

Google hasn now lauched a RSS Reader! Google Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web. You can: Automatically get the latest news and updates from your favorite sites. Sort your reading list based on what’s most relevant to you. Organize what you read with labels and stars. Quickly share

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Paint.NET v2.5 beta now available

Paint.NET v2.5 beta is now available to download, so why not give it a try! October 4th, 2005: Paint.NET v2.5 Beta 2 is now available that fixes a critical bug in Beta 1. If you already have a previous build of v2.5 instealled then we prefer that you install this update via the built-in update mechanism within Paint.NET. Simply click

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Google Office?

The rumours have now started to go around that Google and Sun are going to make an announcement today about a certain Google Office, is this really going to be true, is it really going to be web based, check he links below for more information! Article at InternetNews Possible Google Office Site

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Gordon Bell – Tour of the Computer History Museum, Part I

Here’s a great video you might want to check out: Gordon Bell. The name is legendary among geeks. Just read his Wikipedia page to see his accomplishments. About 30 years ago he started collecting computers while working at DEC. That little hobby turned into a sizeable Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. We were honored to be able to get

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The Channel 9 Team Is Hiring

The Channel 9 Team is now looking for Web developers who love the web and are experienced with ASP.NET, SQL, and CSS, if you think you have the experience and would like a career at Channel 9 then why not send them an email, more information bellow: Ok, I am biased but I think I’ve got the best team inside

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Google PageRank Predictor

This tool does what it says; it predicts your future Google PageRank. But does this really tell the future or is it just random, well I’ve blogged about another tool this site has already the other day, so I trust it, but then again it does say “The results will provide a prediction of the future PageRank however this should