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NYT rumor - Microsoft is negotiating to buy Claria

Thursday, June 30th, 2005
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Hmmmm. Claria. Let's think, what are they now?
OK, they have a few products which basically consist of pop-up ads, targeted ads, adware programs, market research and a few other things.
What makes Microsoft interested in Claria? Dunno. This could just be nothing more than a rumor (it was first reported in the [...]

Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta update - Build 1.0.614

Thursday, June 30th, 2005
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Just downloaded an update to Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta - this now takes it up to build 1.0.614. Given that build 1.0.613 was only released a few days ago this must be a bug fix of some sorts. The documentation on the Microsoft site has been changed to reflect the new build:
"In this second [...]

Come back from “War of the Worlds”

Thursday, June 30th, 2005
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Just back from the movies - War of the Worlds .
One word - Excellent.
A really powerful and thought-provoking movie.PC Doctor PC Doctor 

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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
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I've been testing the service provided by Bloglet  for a while now and I'm ready to unleash it on the site.
Basically, Bloglet is a service that allows people to subscribe to a service that allows them to receive daily email updates of all blog entries posted on a site. What that means is that [...]

Anyone else notices that Google Earth has quite an accurate star maps?

Thursday, June 30th, 2005
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I only just noticed this now when I spotted the Pleiades:
Pleiades on Google Earth:

Title:
Pleiades

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PC Maintenance Tip - Check the drive before a defrag

Thursday, June 30th, 2005
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It's always wise to carry out a scandisk (called chkdsk) on your drives before carrying out a defrag process. Doing this eliminates any problem that might be present on the drive that might cause data loss when you carry out a defrag.
This process might take a long time - disable all screensavers and don't [...]

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