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Mean Fiddler becomes Festival Republic

It’s been reported by efestivals that The Mean Fiddler Music Group has sold most of its venues, and rebranded itself as ‘Festival Republic’. The venues – the Borderline (300 capacity), Jazz Café (300 capacity), The Garage (500 capacity), the Old Fiddler, Harlesden (600 capacity), G-A-Y Bar (310 capacity) and G-A-Y Late Club (300 capacity) – have been sold to Mama

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Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 less than 10 days away!

Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 is less than 10 days away and I’m so excited I can’t wait. I’ve got most of the stuff I am taking now. Just got to wait for my tent to be deliverd as well as the tickets as I won the tickets in the Windows Live Sessions Fan Competition last year so once Microsoft/MSN have

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Windows Live Hotmail gets updated to 5GB of space

Great news Windows Live Hotmail Users and Fans, the Windows Live Hotmail Team have launched a new update to Windows Live Hotmail.  This newly released update features many new features and improved performance which people will be really happy to see, some of my most looked forward features have been included like duplicate contact merging, vacation replies and an option

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+44 drop out of Reading and Leeds Festival 2007

It’s been confirmed by NME (however still no word from mean fiddler) that+44 have cancelled their appearance slot at the Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals. The band are also cancelling their upcoming European tour dates to focus on the follow up to their 2006 debut album ‘When Your Heart Stops Beating’. In a statement the band said: “We want

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New Halo 3 and Xbox Windows Live Spaces Themes

Windows Live Spaces has teamed up with Xbox! So you can customise the look and feel of your Windows Live Space with two all-new Halo 3 and Xbox themes. Show your true gaming spirit and pimp your Live Space with either one of these fantastic backgrounds. Simply click on the link below and your profile will be updated. If you don’t already have

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Paint.NET v3.10 Beta 2 is now available

Paint.NET v3.10 Beta 2 is now available. Check it out at http://www.getpaint.net Changes include: Changed: Increased max brush size to 500, as per forum members request Fixed: Some layout issues with the Save Configuration dialog and the DDS configuration control Fixed: In some cases, undoing an action that removed a layer would result in the un-removed layer not showing up

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Perfect 10 Porn site sues Microsoft

Soft-core porn site Perfect 10 is suing Microsoft, claiming that their MSN search engine is providing links and images to sites that are illegally hosting its content. But Microsoft isn’t the company’s first target, as it recently lost similar cases against Google, Amazon and A9 search, all of which it is appealing. The suit was filed on Tuesday in a

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LEAKED: Windows Vista SP1 analysed in-depth

It’s no secret that there’s a leaked beta of the Windows Vista SP1 (service pack 1) floating around, but no-one has of yet has really taken the time to analyse it in detail to find out what it really does. So James Bannan from APCMag has made it his mission to trawl through the registry and file changes in SP1 to find out as