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New Messenger Plus! 3.60 Special Mess.be Edition

Check this out Mess.be has an exclusive download of the Brand New Messenger Plus! 3.60, this is completely exclusive to Mess.be as part of their 4th Birthday celebrations; they are also giving out around 250 Web2Messenger Invites throughout the entire day! dwergs says: Our first big birthday gift to the Mess.be fans comes from Patchou: the exclusive pre-premiere of Messenger

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When is Google’s Official Birthday

Well apparently Google’s Official Birthday is today Tuesday, 27 September 2005 thats why they have a new Google 7th Birthday Logo on their Homepage but is it really Google’s Official Birthday today because I clearly remember celebrating it on Wednesday, September 07, 2005, lets take a look back into the past and present and see what we can find out

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More Google hate appearing on the net!

I’ve been reading quite a lot of articles about Google and talking to some of the people who wrote them and to some people who have been using Google for a while now and it seems to appear to me that quite a lot of people now Hate Google! Why? well one of the main reasons is that people used

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Googling unsecured webcams

Ok here’s an extract of the article I told you about in my previous post! Googling unsecured webcams Cleverly-aliased BoingBoing reader numlok whispers: This is both very cool and very scary. Use this search string below with Google, and you will find dozens (hundreds?) of unsecured webcam feeds (most seem to be security cams).inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=” Link. More background here. BoingBoing reader

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Google maps web cam locator

Well I couldn’t find a Webcam locator using Msn Virtual Earth but I did find one using Google Maps which I have included a link to below, it’s just a shame that it only covers the United States, I wonder why none of the big web cam sites like EarthCam (http://www.earthcam.com) have any Map Web Cam Locators, there must be

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WebcamGo the biggest webcam website in the world

Well I’m always looking out for interesting web cams on the internet from all over the world and today I’ve just found one great website that has clickable maps that let you find web cams from different parts of the word, now what would be great is to have this same idea but implemented into Msn’s Virtual Earth Maps or

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First test for The Space Elevator is a success

LiftPort Group Inc, a private group, has successfully tested a robot climber a novel piece of hardware that reeled itself up and down a lengthy ribbon dangling from a high-altitude balloon at around 1000 feet in the air, this experiment is one small step to building a fully functional space elevator in the future. The location of the experiment itself

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Microsoft’s 30th Anniversary

Microsoft celebrated its 30th anniversary at its annual Company Meeting on Friday, September 23, 2005 at Safeco Field in Seattle. As I’m a bit late celebrating it, I’ll give you some links to some interesting articles about how they choose to celebrate it. Microsoft’s PressPass Article at Red Herring Article at InternetNews

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ICANN to Ban Use of “WWW”

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to ban the use of www in domain names as recent studies show that office productivity is affected by workers having to type www when surfing a website. Requiring employees to type ‘WWW’ cost companies over $25 billion last year,” said ICANN representative Emil Scharnsdorf. “The average Internet surfer takes

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Hurricane Rita misses Houston and Galveston!

Hurricane Rita hit the US Golf Coast this morning at around 0600 GMT (0100 local time) with winds of up to 120mph (193km/h) but luckily enough the winds have since dropped to around 75mph and have missed the cities of Houston and Galveston! I say luckily enough that they have missed the cities of Houston and Galveston because it would