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Instead of fighting about property lines and whose dog is keeping everyone up at night, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign want you and your neighbors to get together and share your WiFi signal in a method that supposedly delivers better performance to each individual user.

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There has been quite a collection of applications that have been ported to run on USB flash disks. Most of these applications seem innocent enough, however some are deliberatly developed to get around IT software use policies in the workplace such as P2P filesharing applications, instant messaging applications, FTP clients and podcast managers to name a few. Although these can be seen as a moderate security risk in the wrong hands they are more of a nuisance. However a new breed of applications are making their way to a USB drive near you that you should be more concerned with.

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Who needs to pirate books / steal from the library with a list of free resources like these?

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Has XHTML, PHP, FLASH, AJAX and many more resources. Definitely worth a look at this site.

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This series covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows or Linux, through to building a live Web-based content management system. Learn it, or be chained to Wordpress FOREVER!

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Extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money.

www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html

An amateur exposed security flaws in US governmental computers to unlock the truth about UFO’s and aliens. Sure sounds like they exist. Know he’s going to jail or worse.

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This copy of Microsoft Windows XP is not genuine. Windows XP Pirates have again found workaround methods to bypass the latest Microsoft Anti-Piracy effort - Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications that notifies you through annonying pop-up messages if your copy of Windows is not genuine.

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A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through the Western Union Holdings money transfer service.

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If you have developed an AJAX based web application you would know how many JavaScript files are required per webpage. If you use the prototype or dojo toolkit library you would know how big those JavaScript files can turn out to be.

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