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Scalr – A Scaleable Cloud Solution

Scalr – scalr.com
Works with Amazon EC2. Scales on the fly according to demand.

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Why Pay Roaming Charges when visiting the UK?

Fonmigo – Why Pay Roaming in Britain? – www.fonmigo.com
Very useful if you’re travelling to the UK! International roaming charges are always horrendously expensive otherwise

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Does Twitter Encourage Disloyalty?

A few days ago I read a comment from Jesse Stay in which he was suggesting that Twitter encourages disloyalty.
He feels that Twitter encourages potential blog subscribers to not subscribe, but rely on Twitter links instead to reach the content that they want to read.
I’m not so sure that this is vastly different [...]

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Geek Fuel!

Healthy Coffee – www.perkins.organogold.com
It’s always a real pleasure to drink good coffee and tea

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Subeta – Your Very Own Virtual Pet

Subeta – www.subeta.net
It’s good for a bit of harmless fun.

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How To Remove A Non-Empty Directory in Ubuntu

It’s really very simple.
Bring up a terminal window.
At the command prompt type sudo rm -r <directory-name>
So, if you wanted to remove a directory called ’spare’ that was in the directory ‘etc’ which is itself off the home directory you would simply type without the quotes ’sudo rm -r /etc/spare’
The system will prompt you for your [...]

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Charleston Co-Working Group

Wikipedia says: "Co working is an emerging trend for a new pattern for working. Typically work-at-home professionals or independent contractors or people who travel frequently end up working in relative isolation. Co working is the social gathering of a group of people, who are still working independently, but who share values and who are interested [...]

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Google Public DNS

Google has announced the launch of Google Public DNS. It’s an alternative domain name service available to any Internet user.
IT can replace the DNS that are typically provided by Internet Service Providers or Domain Registration companies

Google’s Announcement says  “Google Public DNS [can] serve many DNS requests in the round trip time it takes a packet [...]

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Emergency Cell Phone Charger

Visiting friends this afternoon, they wanted to go to their local Big Lots.
Now I’m not one for shopping unless I want something, but I thought best not to be unsociaable and wander along with them anyway.

It took me under ten minutes to go around the whole store. Just before I finished I found this one [...]

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How To Tweet From Google Wave

Using Tweety-Wave
Add “tweety-wave@appspot.com” to your Contacts.
Create a new Wave and drag and drop Tweety-Wave in to the Wave.
Then the Gadget will be automatically be opened within the  box.
Remember to enable popup(s) for the Wave webpage.
A Twitter oAuth page will appear asking you to authorize Tweety-Wave
You can tweet directly from this wave.

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Create a new private [...]

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