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Wire Your House With Ethernet Cable For Better Home Networking
9:00AM Rosa Golijan | I’ve finally started watching TV on my computer, but my big annoyance since then is that my — ahem — mostly legally downloaded episodes take ages to transfer wirelessly from laptop to media centre PC. Thankfully Lifehacker’s got a DIY wiring solution for my troubles. More »
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Google Promotes Droid Day With Rare Homepage Ad
7:22AM Rosa Golijan | Hey Google! I adore your celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary and such things, but what are you doing sticking an ad on your homepage? An ad for Verizon’s Droid of all things. More »
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How Much Of Your Life Does Google Own? Dashboard Tells You
6:39AM Matt Buchanan | It’s an interesting question to consider, especially if you consider just how many Google services you might use: Gmail, Reader, Maps, GTalk, YouTube, Latitude, Calendar, Contacts and, oh yeah, Search. Dashboard shows you everything Google knows about you. More »
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µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don’t Have To…What?
4:15AM Danny Allen | This is weird: The next version of µTorrent, currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently. More »
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Atheros Wireless N For Phones Uses Less Power Than Slowass G
2:36AM Matt Buchanan | Wireless N in mobile phones — it’s happening next year: Atheros’s AR6003 802.11n/Bluetooth chip for mobile phones is tiny, has serious range and uses less power than their current wireless G chip, which is in the Zune HD. It’ll hit phones around the second half of next year. Such a long wait. [PC Mag]
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Connectify: Turn Your Windows 7 Laptop Into A Virtual Hotspot
1:50AM Danny Allen | Virtual Wi-Fi was going to be a cool Windows 7 feature to turn PCs into a Wi-Fi access-point, so devices could share a connection without special software. It missed the cut, but this free app finishes the work Microsoft abandoned. More »
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Internationalised, Non-Latin Domain Names Officially Approved
9:53AM Rosa Golijan | We didn’t doubt that they would, but the ICANN has officially approved non-Latin character domain names. The pleasant surprise is that the system and guidelines for these internationalised domain names (IDNs) look pretty solid, even if hiccups are expected. More »
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Facebook Spammer Has To Pay $US711 Million
4:39AM Adam Frucci | “Spam King” Sanford Wallace was just ordered to pay $US711 million in damages in a case about him spamming the hell out of Facebook users. Meanwhile, your idiot friends are still zombie-biting you. More »
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DARPA Challenge: Find 10 Red Weather Balloons, Win $US40,000
12:11AM Danny Allen | To celebrate the Web’s 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking’s role in time-critical communication. They will award $US40,000 cash to the first group who finds 10 2.4-metre weather balloons located at fixed locations around the US More »
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