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Test your web design in different browsers

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free online service.

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Finally, a lifeline for India’s poor

Nothing causes as much anxiety in a family as when someone falls sick. Nearly 65% of India’s poor get into debt and 1% fall below the poverty line each year because of illness, according to National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) 2004. The answer, of course, is health insurance, but only 6% of India’s workers have it.

Read the article: Finally, a lifeline for India’s poor

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iPhone and India

How Apple, Airtel and Vodafone are ripping off Indian iPhone users.

Read the article: How Apple, Airtel and Vodafone are ripping off Indian iPhone users

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Windows 7 with UI screenshots

Ars Technica explains a first hand experience of the mcuh anticipated (if I may say so) Windows 7 with pictures of the interface.

It is somewhat a mixture of Vista and Mac.

Read the article: First look at Windows 7’s User Interface

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Testing Posterous Email Autoposting

This is a post to test the auto-post feature of posterous to WordPress blog. All I did was post this entry via email to Posterous and it published it on this blog. If the test is successful you will be reading this on wastedmonkeys.com

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Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech in 2005.

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TeraCopy – Better and Faster file copying for Windows

Do you work a lot with large files, or need to synchronize large blocks of files between two drives? For both of these applications, a free Windows application called TeraCopy is a much better solution than Windows Explorer and most of the file copying utilities out there.

Read the article: TeraCopy: A Free Way to Trounce Windows File Copying

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Google’s $4.4 trillion plan to save the planet

‘The search giant unveiled a US$4.4 trillion plan Wednesday to reduce the U.S.’s dependency on fossil fuels and embrace alternative energy. The proposal would yield a net saving of $1 trillion by 2030 and slash U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 48 percent, according to Google, which said it had been busy “crunching the numbers.”‘ – CIO

Read the article: Google Proposes $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

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Recipe for a billion-dollar website

Fundamental advise on what needs to be done to build a successful online business but something that is often forgotten, neglected or misinterpreted.

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Enhancing video using static images

Students from University of Washington have devised technichques using which videos containing atrifacts can be enhanced and improved using one or more static images of the same scene.

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