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General Tech News Feeds (Updated every hour)

TechCrunch:    03/10/2010 Why AOL May Just Abandon Bebo Rather Than Sell It

   03/10/2010 How The iPad, And The Slate Computer, Will Evolve In The Next Two Years

   03/10/2010 How To Use Video SEO To Jump To The Top Of Google Search Results

   03/10/2010 Deja Vu: Eyeblaster Files For $115 Million IPO, Again

   03/10/2010 BoomStartup Gives Utah Its Own Startup Incubator

   03/10/2010 Google Reader Makes A More Visual Play

   03/10/2010 CA Acquires Cloud Monitoring Company Nimsoft For $350 Million

   03/10/2010 hi5 CTO: Zynga Is Mediocre. It Isn’t Social, It Just Discovered An Opening For Spam

   03/10/2010 Technical Glitch Leaks Special SXSW Foursquare Badges Early

   03/10/2010 Blippy Gets A Facebook-Inspired Redesign And An Important New Privacy Feature
CNet News:    03/10/2010 European Parliament slams digital copyright treaty

   03/10/2010 FTC wants more input on Google-AdMob deal

   03/10/2010 Cooking up Google Apps at campfire event (photos)

   03/10/2010 Woman, fearing apocalypse, tries to halt collider

   03/10/2010 Attention shoppers: Target offers mobile coupons

   03/10/2010 Microsoft Outlook makes friends with MySpace

   03/10/2010 Firm: Toyota, industry need more rigorous testing

   03/10/2010 Apple tops Consumer Reports' tech support survey

   03/10/2010 Twitter to block malicious links

   03/10/2010 Europeans rally behind the 'NoMix-tech' toilet
PC World Headlines:    03/10/2010 Is Apple Your Overlord? The EFF Thinks So

   03/10/2010 Android Dominates, Windows Mobile Plummets, iPhone Stagnant

   03/10/2010 Panasonic Sets the 3D HDTV Bar At Best Buy

   03/10/2010 Bing Gains Again -- Should Google Worry?

   03/10/2010 Newegg Ships Fake Intel CPUs, Gets Egg on Face

   03/10/2010 Apple Holds Second Place in U.S. Smartphone Share

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   03/10/2010 Time to Nix Government-Funded iPhone Apps

   03/10/2010 Apple Needs to Build a Mac Mini on Steroids

   03/10/2010 Brizzly Gobbles up IPhone Twitter Client Birdfeed
Slashdot:    03/10/2010 OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June

   03/10/2010 Google Opens Apps Marketplace

   03/10/2010 Digitizing and Geocoding Old Maps?

   03/10/2010 Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat

   03/10/2010 The Lost Film That Accompanied Empire Strikes Back

   03/10/2010 OpenSSH 5.4 Released

   03/10/2010 Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed

   03/10/2010 6 Smartphone Keyboards Compared

   03/10/2010 Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot

   03/10/2010 Code Bubbles — Rethinking the IDE's User Interface
Info World:    03/10/2010 Chambers: How I'll make Cisco into IT's biggest player

   03/10/2010 HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash

   03/10/2010 Top free troubleshooting tools for Windows

   03/10/2010 iPhone SDK revealed: Is it evil?

   03/10/2010 SharePoint on a VM: Can Peter rescue a nonprofit in peril?

   03/10/2010 IT gives Windows 7 the green light

   03/10/2010 Afraid of outside cloud attacks? You're missing the real threat

   03/09/2010 Google opens Google Apps Marketplace
Gizmodo:    03/10/2010 Complain About Cellphone Use During A Movie And Get Stabbed With A Meat Thermometer [Wtf]

   03/10/2010 Absurdly Simple Ocean Pumps Could Thwart Hurricanes [Science]

   03/10/2010 Google Prettifies RSS With Tablet-Ready Google Reader Play [Google]

   03/10/2010 Brizzly: The iPhone New Best (Free) Twitter App [IPhone Apps]

   03/10/2010 ASUS Cine5 Crams Five Channels Into Slender PC Speaker [Asus]

   03/10/2010 It's Time to Declare War Against Apple's Censorship [Rant]

   03/10/2010 Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: Two Birds With One Stone Edition [Remainders]

   03/10/2010 DIY Cleanroom [Projects]

   03/10/2010 You Will Have the Power of a PS3 In Your Pocket In 3 Years [Powervr]

   03/10/2010 Shooting Challenge: Monotone [Photography]
LifeHacker:    03/10/2010 Deep Water Bath Fills Your Tub to the Brim [Stuff We Like]

   03/10/2010 Twice-Monthly Half Mortgage Payments Might Save You Money [Personal Finance]

   03/10/2010 Google Reader Play: Fullscreen Playback of Popular/Recommended Reader Items [Google Reader]

   03/10/2010 How to Skip Commercials in Windows 7 Media Center [Windows Media Center]

   03/10/2010 Set Google Calendar Alerts to Gentle Reminder Mode for Less Intrusive Reminders [Google Calendar]

   03/10/2010 Kiwi Monitors Your Running Apps, Performs Actions Based on Their Status [Downloads]

   03/10/2010 Keep Your Daily Momentum Going With a 10/15 Split [Work]

   03/10/2010 HTML5 vs. Flash: HTML5 Isn't Always Better [Flash]

   03/10/2010 Headmagnet Generates Intelligent Flash Cards [Flashcards]

   03/10/2010 Get the Most from Your Point-and-Shoot Camera [Photography]

Fun and Games

Contest of the week

Get the Contest of the Week medal added to your profile getting the highest score on:

Trapshoot 2
Played: 50

Play Now

....::::::::::: TOP 3 :::::::::::....

Player: dilbert
Score: 3205

Player: sparks
Score: 2471

Player: Andy
Score: 1876

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... to Saturday midnight!

Arcade High Scores

Game	Score	Date	User
Trapshoot 2	2471	03/10	sparks
Trapshoot 2	1876	03/10	Andy
Billy Hatcher And The Many Eggs	105	03/09	Andy
Bubble Bobble The Rival	2450	03/09	Andy
Trapshoot 2	3205	03/09	dilbert
Curveball	24635	03/08	Andy
High Wheels	125	03/05	dilbert
High Wheels	122	03/04	sparks
High Wheels	108	03/03	Andy