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Facebook Redesign

As Facebook users noticed, yesterday the new design was launched.  While it does look better than the design I remember looking at a month or so ago I still don’t like it that much.  But don’t get me wrong there are things that I do like about the new design but I think some of [...]

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Thoughts on Twitter

I have been using Twitter for over a week now and I thought I would share my thoughts on their downtime.  It seem’s like whenever Twitter goes down people go crazy and start bashing the service.  Maybe it is because I don’t rely on twitter the downtime is not that big of a deal.  I [...]

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Facebook’s New Profile Redesign

Facebook invited some bloggers to their HQ to show off their latest profile redesign.  The guys over at TechCrunch covered it, check out the article its pretty interesting.  I just wanted to give my thoughts on some of the images that were released.
I’ll admit my facebook profile is cluttered and I don’t use third party [...]

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Google Health

While doing my morning reading of news I stumbled across Google’s “Factory Tour of Search” on TechCrunch.  It turns out that Google released their Health application today.  It has been known for a pretty substantial amount of time that Google has been working on this.
Google Health allow’s people to have greater control over their medical [...]

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Facebook’s Profile Redesign Soon?

While browsing Techcrunch I came across this post on Facebook’s latest profile redesign.  The tab’s on the top look pretty interesting.  It also looks like the application’s have their own tab, this would be awesome as most of the time their annoying to me.  But anyway my thoughts on the one picture of this new [...]

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Nice Website for Free PDF’s

My dad came across the website PDFoo.com and let me know that they have free PDF books.  I actually have two C programming books from PDFoo, i’ll be reading those on top of The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie (been hearing that this is an awesome C book).  You do have to login [...]

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Facebook Now Has Chat

This morning I logged on my Facebook account and found their new chat waiting for me.  From what I have read on other websites Facebook mass approved everyone last night who didn’t have chat already.  Chat was launched a few weeks ago to some select networks, primairly major college networks.
Something that I think would make [...]

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Uncensored Blogging Service by The Pirate Bay

The guys at The Pirate Bay launched Baywords, an uncensored blogging service.  They also run another “uncensored” service, BayImg, that hosts user-uploaded images.  Baywords aims “to protect freedom of speech and your thoughts” as long as you don’t break any swedish laws.

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Google heads into web services with App Engine

As reported by TechCrunch earlier in the evening, google is taking on Amazon’s web services with their new App Engine.  Registrations are currently limited to the first 10,000 developers to sign up but that is only for the preview release.  Google didn’t give a timeline for when it will be out of preview so it [...]

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