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| Posted: 18 Oct 2010 07:54 AM PDT  Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. Emerging rivals threaten Facebook's dominance Facebook may have 500 million friends, but it also has many, many rivals - including some huge ones in some of the world's largest and fastest growing economies. More @ BBC.co.uk 2. Clean water for those who need it In August, I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro—the highest mountain in Africa, at 19,340 feet (5895 meters). I practiced by going for a three-day hike along the "Lost Coast" of California. One thing I noticed while hiking is that you're continually thinking about water. How much do you need to carry on your back? More @ Googleblog 3. Country Geek Therapy For Curing the Frazzles As much as I love computers and technology, after a long hard week I look forward to turning them all off and going outside to play. More @ LinuxToday 4. Cellphone crowd-pleasers 5. Windows browsers benchmarked: October 2010 edition Our readers enjoy our browser market share stories, but sometimes complain in the comments that we don't do enough to compare the actual browsers. We've therefore decided to do some performance tests for the top five browsers (stable and beta versions) on Windows. More @ ArsTechnica 6. Looks Like Top Gun 2 Is Cleared For Takeoff — All Thanks To Larry Ellison's Son Of all the movies made in the 1980s, Top Gun is definitely one of the best. It has everything you need in a movie: California, drinking, jets, tragedy, Kenny Loggins, cheesy one-liners, and, of course, volleyball. And it's about to take flight once again. More @ TechCrunch 7. Three Apps That Keep Linux Squeaky Clean As good as the Linux OS is, troublesome stuff sometimes happens. When it does, BleachBit and GtkOrphan can do a good job helping you solve small problems before they become major complications. Even if you manage to keep your OS in pristine condition, Startup Manager can help you alter settings without having to drag out the Linux manual. More @ LinuxInsider 8. Who Wants to Research Tsunamis at This Indonesian Marine Center of the Future? 9. Hey, That's Me Up On That Screen The opening scenes of "The Social Network," in which Mark Zuckerberg's character embarks on a manic marathon coding session with his friends, rang eerily true to 23-year-old Jared Hecht. That's because he lived through it — although not at Harvard and not in 2003. More @ NYTimes 10. Automate Your Way to Productivity Lately, I've been taking a hard look at many of the tasks that I do on a regular basis and thinking about ways that I can automate them. While some of the automation that I do require some programming, there are many things that you can do to eliminate routine tasks that don't require any specialist knowledge; they simply need a few minutes of configuration. More @ Gigaom  |
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