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Saving money online - shopping deals etc

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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Opera by Twitter

Monday, August 17, 2009
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Not yer average privacy policy (& what about third party cookies / web beacons?)


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How Blogger changed my life (& my new blogs)

Saturday, August 15, 2009
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Sweetter: see Twitter tweets on any website

Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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Open Word documents as read only

Sunday, August 09, 2009
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Bobby McFerrin shows pentatonic scale is universal

Friday, August 07, 2009
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Consumer products: footprint matters, packaging matters

Thursday, August 06, 2009
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Firefox: rightclick menu too slow? how to fix

Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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DIY home surveillance

Tuesday, August 04, 2009
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More critical Adobe security updates

Saturday, August 01, 2009
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