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I'm sure that by now you've heard all about Gmail's recent downtime, but this one's new for me. Today I logged in on my Gmail account as usual and got this weird error message. By clicking "OK" all seems fine except for a few buttons that look a bit weird, until you try to click a message and do the ... Full story

On-My.TV is a customizable online calendar with almost every single TV show currently airing in the major TV networks. This very simple online tool allows you to quickly create a user account and customize which shows appear on your monthly calendar. It also let's you know if there are any new shows added to ... Full story

Power Twitter is a simple but highly recommended Firefox addon for twitter fans who want to view all the information right there without jumping tabs or windows. The addon works a lot like the popular Greasemonkey scripts, changing twitter's web interface in order to improve the user ... Full story

The Pirate Bay foursome, founders and administrators of one of the biggest Bittorrent trackers in the world, were handed today a guilty verdict with 1 year in jail included. "The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws," the court said in a statement. "The court has ... Full story

Walker, Texas Ranger star actor and martial-arts master Chuck Norris says that the Texans want an independent state and that he's the man to run the place! After being the Texas Ranger Norris volunteered to run as Texas' first president, after discussing the possibility of the state seceding from U.S. control during a rant on CNN.com's political ... Full story

Google Image Search is massively used image search engine that up until now only allowed you to search by keyword and resolution. While this is suitable for most cases, sometimes you need a bit more specification of the type of image, specially when the image has to go along with some sort of context of if ... Full story

Managing a Linux System is definitely not an easy task, specially if you're not using more than a CLI (Command Line Interface). There are a lot of commands to remember and settings to change along the multiple processes running on your server. This is where Webmin comes in. After instalation it integrates itself with your server's ... Full story

Live.com just got three new handy features in what appears to be an attempt to once again compete with Google's search engine. Nevertheless, these features are pretty handy if you're fond of Live Search and welcome a bit more functionality: Currency Conversion A feature that should have already been implemented a long time ago, since it completely ... Full story

Smart Youtube is WordPress plugin that lets you easily embed videos and playlists from Google's popular free video service right in your blog's posts, comments or RSS feeds. The plugin requires almost no configuration and all you have to do to insert a video on your post and/or comment (if said feature ... Full story

As you may have noticed by now the blog recently (like 5 minutes ago) got a new face, which I hope pleases all current readers and new-comers. In addition, the new interface should provide a more useful access to the information provided here, as well as a log to the Authors' twitter accounts, which brings me to ... Full story