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    Spectacular Meteor show due in UK

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004362716,,00.html Just watch out for that ugly looking plant in the garden!
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    CDBurnerXP Pro - 3.0.109 public beta

    http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ MajorGeeks Mirrors The first public airing of 3.0 beta - previous betas were for donators only Freeware / donationware. Despite the "XP" in the name, it's not just for XP.
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    Infuriated by speed cameras?

    http://www.ukspeedcameras.co.uk/game/camerakiller.htm Ready, aim, fire - of course, we cannot condone real-life damage to speed cameras, though if you'd like to see some... http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm So many, that it's in two sections, one for the ever-popular method of burning, and...
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    Pizza delivery

    http://www.aclu.org/pizza/ I promise, no shockwave flash shocks - but you do need speakers on to experience.
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    321 Studios - throw in the towel

    Just as CloneCD was forced to emigrate to Antigua, the relentless legal pressure on 321 finally sees them shutting their doors, despite paying considerably more than lip service to reminding users about the legalities of making a backup, and not making it easy to copy something with CSS...
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    Kodak EasyShare version 4.0

    www.kodak.com/go/easysharesw This is actually sort of CD-R software, as it does have write capabilty - reportedly using the Sonic write engine. I wonder if this causes problems for Nero 6, which does not get on with Prassi/Sonic engine at all. Some additional printers are included in "One...
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    DvdInfo Pro - free/adware/shareware

    http://www.dvdinfopro.com/ 2.60 is freeware 3.07 (current 3.xx) is ad-sponsored (though said NOT to have ad-ware) / shareware I refuse to call something "donationware", if that so-called donation is required in order to enable a wanted feature, or disable even relatively benign...
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    Traxdata ONES - new cheap CDR-Soft

    http://shop.traxdata.fr/boutique/fiche_produit.cfm?type=promotion&ref=ONES2_FULLDL&ret_prom=0&code_lg=lg_us The PDF document, is one page and in French, so don't waste time there - what you see is what you get, and though a demo-activation is avaialble from the french part, I can't find the demo!
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    Mobile phone attracts lightning?

    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=13259
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    Too hot

    Another warm day - actually, my pillow needs hanging out to dry aftyer last night - still, only a couple more days of this heatwave, and no sign yet of the awful flying ants. This is Britain, we complain when it's too hot in the summer, when it's too cold in the winter, when the wrong kind of...
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    I'd like to see the insurance claim for this!

    http://www.az-zbum.com/cars.shtml
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    Liteon 1213S - was it a good choice?

    Today, I finally made up my mind (or what passes for one) and got a DVD Writer. The SOHW-1213S, since it was only £4 dearer than the 812S The one thing that does worry me, is that there seems to be a lot more firmware hacking for the 812S (speed adjust, strategy adjust, DL conversion) than...
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    What kind of Star Trek character are you?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/quiz/crewman.shtml The first time, I ended up as Security officer By making the most obviously wrong choices... eg. I'll go out and .... AARGH!, or there's trouble, I'll stay at my console (the one normally manned by an important character) - you take the role of...
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    EncSpot is back

    http://guerillasoft.co.uk/EncSpot/index.html While Gspot is handy for a variety of codecs, Encspot was the definitive MP3 codec and quality identifier. However, while it took a long break, some challengers arrived, and fell, and more arrived. http://burrrn.net/mrq/ - Mr Question Man - now is...
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    Mozilla security hole, and a far quicker reaction to it than Microsoft!

    Mozilla shell: protocol vulnerability There is a patch for existing installations, and a 0.0.1 update to the installs 1.7.1 Mozilla suite 0.9.2 FireFox 0.7.2 Thunderbird
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    And another browser update - Netscape 7.2

    http://channels-stage.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp Except it still seems to be pointing to 7.1 !!! Not sure there's much to recommend Netscape, it's a rather more polished version of Mozilla, but they also tend to polish away a few features you might want.
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    How to be a DVD Pirate

    First, know your target market.. http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13152675,00.html
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    Spampal (shouldn't that be spam enemy?) update

    http://www.spampal.org/ 3rd July, Full release is 1.57, beta is 1.62 - Beta 1.62 supports running as a Windows service
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    Video card (no-name Nvidia NV18) help please

    Just got hold of a (very cheap) card from a computer fair... ANV18A2P-128M or A4-NV18DDR-A2-ZH Green PCB, Made in China, silver unfanned heatsink, large sized RAM chips (JT). In the bag, was a jumper, which may have come from. 1. J11 - near the video out 2. J10 - near the AGP It may have...
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    Photocopier rage

    http://www.2dorks.com/video/CopierProblems.wmv
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