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7:20AM John Herrman | People go to such great lengths to extend laptop battery life—going blind staring at dimmed screens, developing repetitive stress injuries by ditching mice—that they miss the obvious. Like browsers, which apparently have a huge impact on battery life. More »
Is Your Browser Stealing Precious Battery Life?
7:20AM John Herrman | People go to such great lengths to extend laptop battery life—going blind staring at dimmed screens, developing repetitive stress injuries by ditching mice—that they miss the obvious. Like browsers, which apparently have a huge impact on battery life. More » 
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Remainders — Things We Didn’t Post
1:00PM Wilson Rothman | Hey Keith Richards, What’s Dangling From Your Ear?…Yahoo Tells Firefox Users to Pick “Safer” IE8…Kodak Admits It Has a Product Naming Problem…An Apple TV People Might Actually Want…Nokia, Cellular Equipment Maker to the Evil Doers… More »
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Dean Cain Wards Off Puke And Porn With Internet Explorer 8 (NSFL)
9:00AM Sean Fallon | O.M.G.I.G.P or “Oh My God I’m Gonna Puke” is a serious problem for those living with the sick and perverted. Fortunately Dean Cain and IE8’s InPrivate mode can help. Warning: video is NSFL and reading Cain’s lips is very NSFW. More »
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2:00PM Nick Broughall | So it appears that Microsoft has given up on trying to compete with Firefox on a simple feature for feature basis, and instead has opted to go for bribery in an effort to get people to download IE8. More »
Microsoft Resorts To Bribing People Away From Firefox
2:00PM Nick Broughall | So it appears that Microsoft has given up on trying to compete with Firefox on a simple feature for feature basis, and instead has opted to go for bribery in an effort to get people to download IE8. More »
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European Windows 7 Will Ship Without IE
9:00AM Jason Chen | Not that half of you will care, but Microsoft’s going to ship Windows 7 in Europe without IE8 bundled. That doesn’t mean Europeans won’t be able to get IE8—OEMs can shove them into their installs if they want, and end users can download IE8 themselves as well. [Ars Technica] More »
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Dean Cain Helps Us Overcome S.H.Y.N.E.S.S With Internet Explorer 8
7:00AM Sean Fallon | Dean Cain helps us overcome “Sharing Heavily Yet Not Enough Sharing Still” (S.H.Y.N.E.S.S) with this commercial for IE8. It doesn’t make up for Lois and Clark, but he is definitely funny in this.
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Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn
3:00AM Mark Wilson | Microsoft’s latest History of the Internet promotion is a pretty lame, VH1esque mashup of various b-list comedians cracking jokes—until those comedians talk about Internet Explorer 8’s new In Private Mode. More »
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Safari Cracked in Seconds at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition
3:40AM Matt Buchanan | At the annual Pwn2Own competition, where hackers compete to crack software as fast as possible so you don’t sleep at night, browsers were on the first day’s menu. And Safari went down in seconds. More »
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Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party
3:01PM Matt Buchanan | Microsoft seems like the last one to the new browser party that’s dragged out over the last month, but they are the first to make their entrance final with Internet Explorer 8. More »
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