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If Firefox has a flaw to get bummed about, it’s that it slows down your machine after a few hours of steady computing. Digital Inspiration has a workaround for this that (yay!) does not include any…

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One of the most common ways to guard yourself against credit card misuse is to sign the back of your card, so that merchants can check the signature on your card with that on your ID. Right? Well,…

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DJ notes that TechARP has up a look at Intel’s plans to rebrand their processors, including what must be a leaked internal chart of the old and new landscape of product names. This story doesn’t seem to have been picked up anywhere else yet. Quoting: “We just heard from an anonymous source that Intel will be rebranding their processors in 2008… These new brand names will come into effect on the first day of 2008. Intel hopes that these new brands will not only leverage the strong Core 2 brand but also make it less confusing for the consumer. At the moment, the Intel Centrino mobile platform has five different logos with brands like Centrino, Centrino Duo and Centrino Pro. Starting from January 1, 2008, Intel will consolidate the Centrino Duo and Centrino brands under the Intel Centrino brand, and rename the Centrino Pro as Intel Centrino with vPro Technology.”

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An anonymous reader sends us to a blog posting arguing that, as hardware prices fall below $250 for laptops and desktops, Linux should gain as the Microsoft tax stands out in sharper relief. “In previous years, if you were spending US$1500 and up on a laptop, the Microsoft tax you were paying didn’t seem like such a big deal. XP or Vista was pre-installed, fairly convenient… But as the price of hardware for small basic machines comes down, (think under US$250 by the end of next year), then software price starts to become a big issue. Why would you pay the price of your new laptop again just for the software, when all you want to do is really basic things?”

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Ever been in an argument that starts getting really nasty really quick? Self-improvement site Pick the Brain suggests that you put a stop to it: Firmly but calmly state: “You’re very angry right now…

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Sometimes, even though we deserve it, it can be hard to take a compliment. Productivity site Lifehack.org has this suggestion: It wasn’t luck or the goodwill of others or any other reason that you…

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You might be worried about your boss reading your email (it happens). You can’t necessarily stop this practice, but you can at least prevent Big Brother from accessing the links that you include in…

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MojoKid writes “Prior to AMD-ATI’s Radeon HD 2000 series introduction, rumors circulated regarding an ultra-high clocked ATI R600-based card, that featured a large 1GB frame buffer. Some even went so far as to say the GPU would be clocked near 1GHz. When the R600 arrived in the form of the Radeon HD 2900 XT, it was outfitted with ‘only’ 512MB of frame buffer memory and its GPU and memory clock speeds didn’t come close to the numbers in those early rumors. Some of AMD’s partners, however, have since decided to introduce R600-based products that do feature 1GB frame buffers, like the Diamond Viper HD 2900 XT 1GB in both single-card and CrossFire configurations. At 2GHz DDR, the memory on the card is also clocked higher than AMD’s reference designs but the GPU remains clocked at 742MHz”

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Daniel Cooperman of Oracle will join Apple to replace Donald J. Rosenberg. Mr. Cooperman is the company’s second general counsel appointment in the past year.

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NetBank Inc., an online bank with $2.5 billion in assets, was shut down by the government on Friday because of an unsustainable level of mortgage defaults.

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