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I have seen these around before, but this one is head and shoulders beyond what has been available.

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Search anything in everything

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Someone figured out a Google URL string that removes the ads from your searches. Personally, I don’t find Google ads intrusive, and I would rather have them present than have to pay for Google searches and features. If you disagree with me, here is the URL.

http://www.google.com/search?output=googleabout

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What is up with that car? Is it an error on Google maps? Some odd perspective shift?

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Nope, just a clever ad!


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Time to be an upright citizen! Tim Westergren(founder of Pandora) is far more eloquent than I, so I will let him fill you in on the details.


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Make your voice heard!

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In some places. Someone took the time to dissect the maps.google URL, and then went searching the world to see what was there.

1. Select a location and switch to satellite view
2. Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
3. Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery

The above shows a rare x23 zoom. It has been noted that you cannot zoom in any further than you can on Google Earth, but atleast this way you don’t have to install anything.

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That is almost like having Google down..

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As a web developer, it is often important to be able to view a site in multiple browsers. Microsoft has made this difficult to do since installing IE7 replaces IE6. I have found a most brilliant work around, so I thought I would share.

The fantastic people at TredoSoft have created an install package for IE7 that is a standalone. That means you can have both IE6 and IE7 running on one machine!

I have successfully installed it on my machine with no issues so far. If you would like to give it a try, you can find it here:

trendosoft.com

I am so hooked on this. I don’t think that it would be that interesting if you have not seen the movie, but I started listening to 12 Monkeys, and found myself very entertained.

power.listentoamovie.com

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There are lots of tools that you can use to track browsing habits, but few are as interesting as Packet Garden. The program monitors your browsing, and uses that information to render a world which you can explore. None of the information is shared, or exported, or even detailed for that matter. So, the fact that you visited teenagenymphos.com can remain your secret.

To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from internet address itself. The size of each hill or valley is based on how much data is sent or received. Plants are also grown for each protocol detected by the software; if you visit a website, an ‘HTTP plant’ is grown. If you share some files via eMule, a ‘Peer to Peer plant’ is grown, and so on.

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