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Google had a booth at MacExpo, not really announcing anything new, just showcasing their software for the Mac. Google’s booth was very well designed, not the best though (I would have to say Quark’s was the best), and around he front there were 6 Intel iMac’s which you could use to try out Google Maps, [...]

Yesterday Google announced what I think is the biggest news of the month, they bought YouTube. Yep, Google acquired another Web 2.0 company (remember Writely), this time for a massive $1.65 billion USD. And to think that some companies laughed at the thought that YouTube could ever be worth so much. I think most of [...]

Microsoft Connect, home of Microsoft’s betas including Vista has some interesting CSS values. The first line in the .css is commented “fix for the IE 1px-off margin error”, followed by a value called “.StupidIEMarginHack “. [digg]
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Awhile back I posted about the new search results interface Google was supposedly testing. I can definitely confirm that today. This blog post describes how to set a new cookie in Firefox that will force Google to display the new results page for you. Since the instructions are a little off (and took me some [...]

The new Windows LiveTM Messenger Beta is the next-generation MSN Messenger and, as always, it is free to download.
It has everything you already love about Messenger – your contact list, emoticons, and plenty of ways to access to your friends via text, voice and video – plus new ways to connect and share documents with [...]

I have received more (22) invites to send out for Windows Live Messenger. If you want them then post a valid msn/hotmail email in the comments and I will send one out to the first 22 commenters. Please please check your email so I don’t waste the invites. If you have already posted your email [...]

This is a pretty cool game made entirely in CSS. CSS can do some amazing things…
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A while ago I told you how I recieved an invite for Windows Messenger Live from Microsoft. A few people have been requesting invites from me so I thought I might as well dish some out. As of now I have 14 invites left. Anyone who wants one can leave their MSN email in the [...]

The long-awaited 2.01 release of Wordpress fixes uploading, rpc, caching, and permalink bugs, as well as improving support for old version of php and MySQL in strict mode. [digg]
I will be upgrading tomorrow so there will be a time in the afternoon (~ 11AM PST / 7PM GMT ) where the site will go down [...]

Microsoft has finally unleashed IE 7, preview Beta 2 to the public. So if you don’t have it already then download it try it out and trash it. I wrote a post a while ago, showing my thoughts of IE 7. Apart from having a nice new skin, and tabbed browsing it doesn’t do anything [...]