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Learn all the Facebook Chat Symbols

Cool free Facebook smiley face pictures and keyboard text emoticons – keyboard Text face smiley. Smiley is the emoticon icon to express your happyness, sadness or whatever you feel. We’ve got free cool emoticons smiley icons here! You can use them on social networking sites like facebook or myspace in some chat, icq or msn. [...]

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Microsoft Bing search engine review

So we have all heard of this new entry into the search engine market called “Bing” or more like Microsoft second crack at gaining more search engine dominance against Google and Yahoo. Microsoft over the last month has been hyping this new search engine as the next revolution in search as its search engine market [...]

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Google Chrome and Firefox Speeds Blow Past IE and Opera!

This is not going to be a surprise to users of the browsers, but a recent ZDNet test has finally laid the debate to rest. When it comes to speed, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox blow the proprietary competition away. The ZDNet Test is based on industry standards for javascript. It was performed using Microsoft’s [...]

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Clickjacking Chrome and Firefox

If you are a user of either the Chrome or Firefox browsers, or even SeaMonkey, another Mozilla browser, you have probably experienced clickjacking, and didn’t know what had happened. We didn’t know what it was called either, until we stumbled across an article a couple of days ago, and things began to (literally) click into [...]

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Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC

Microsoft has released the latest update for IE 8, the latest version of Microsoft’s well known web browser. This version is Internet Explorer 8 RC or Release Candidate 1, and is reputedly getting close to a final release for the new browser. Rumors have it that this version was delayed to provide more security, but [...]

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Mozilla Delays Firefox Beta 3.1

Mozilla Corporation has pushed back the release of the third, and possibly final, beta for Firefox 3.1 by a week to February 2. The setback won’t affect the final release date for Firefox 3.1, according to the company, but was necessary to address a large number of remaining bugs – referred to as “blockers.” Among [...]

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Mozilla FireFox Adopts Chrome Tabs

Picking up on a popular trend, Mozilla has announced a slight modification to how the tab bar on Firefox will work. Google, when it introduced the Chrome browser, has instituted a new wave of innovation in web browser design, and the way tabs are handled is one that is easily identifiable. Originally, when you right-clicked, [...]

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What sets Google Apart

Google, while it is considered to be the leading internet search engine, uses far more than search queries to draw people to use their services. Google, perhaps more so than any other provider of its type, has endeavored to make Google the one-stop home page of its members. Google Reader, the Google answer to MyYahoo, [...]

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Lycos to Drop Lycos Mail, Tripod

Lycos (latin for spider), is one of the wordwide web’s oldest search engines, rivaling Yahoo as one of the original search monsters. From there, it grew into a free email site, and provided website urls to anyone interested in setting up their own web page, using theiur Tripod services. In February, LYcos email and Tripod [...]

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