Obama: If I had it to do over again, I’d still oppose the surge

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iGoogle Header Remover Improves Screen Real Estate [Featured Greasemonkey User Script]

Now that iGoogle has full-screen Gmail, weather, and other gadgets, you may start accessing more of your Google services from inside iGoogle. The iGoogle Header Remover Greasemonkey user script toggles the visibility of the iGoogle logo and search box to optimize your screen real estate so you can focus more on the new and improved […]

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Email “Ding” Costs $70 Billion a Year [Distraction]

Technology is turning us all into a bunch of time-wasters according to The Observer, which reports that the beep of an email alert alone is costing the US economy …
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Speed Up Your BitTorrent Downloads [BitTorrent]

The TorrentFreak weblog wants to speed up your BitTorrent downloads with practical advice for getting around your firewall and managing your upload speed. They’re mostly beginner tips, so you may also want to try more advanced techniques as well.
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Six “Junk” Foods That Aren’t All That Bad [Food]

Men’s Health magazine brings in diet doctor Jeff Volek to point out how six much-maligned snacks or drinks—sour cream, alcohol, and, seriously, …
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Use iGoogle’s Gmail Gadget to Get Around Blocked Gmail [Gmail Tip]

The Daily Gyan blog adds to the list of work-arounds to access Gmail at places where it’s normally blocked—this time, by using the fully-functional gadget available in the …
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This Week’s Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

GrabUp Makes Screenshot Sharing Effortless (Mac)“Freeware application GrabUp automatically uploads screenshots to the internet and pastes the URL in your clipboard for quick and easy sharing.”
Dock Spaces Creates Context-Specific Docks (Mac)“Free utility Dock Spaces creates and swaps between up to five customizable Docks in Leopard.”
TuneUp Automatically Updates and Fixes Your iTunes Metadata (Windows)“Music application TuneUp […]

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And now for a little science.

Unlike the delightful Barrow sun, which I think I have mentioned on one or eight occasions, the evil Grand Rapids sun beats down with relentless ferocity. It wrenches …
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12 to Do — 7.11.08

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Tips for the Business Process Developer - Task Visibility

The most common way of notifying a participant of a task to perform is to add an entry to their task list and then send the participant an email telling them to check their task list. If the participant constantly checks their task list …
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