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Father of 4, and married for 7 years, Shawn in a QA Technician for AOL, LLC. Author of Shawnsblog

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AOL releases development platform

Gadgets & Tech – The Boxely UI Toolkit is a next generation, standards based UI Toolkit. It is designed to enable the creation of rich desktop application interfaces with the same ease, flexibility, and extensibility as authoring internet applications today.

Submitted and Voted for on October 16, 2006 12:33am

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AOL Sponsors TopCoder Collegiate Challenge

Gadgets & Tech – Calling all college students! Welcome to the 2006 TopCoder Collegiate Challenge - the tournament that gathers the most talented college minds for an academic challenge. We are excited to announce $200,000 worth of prize money and two competitions worth your while.

Submitted and Voted for on August 04, 2006 10:37pm

AOL Founder Is Sorry For Time Warner Merger
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AOL Founder Is Sorry For Time Warner Merger

News – Steve Case, co-founder of the one-time biggest online service AOL, apologized for the company's merger with media conglomerate Time Warner (TWX) in an interview with journalist Charlie Rose.

Voted for on July 25, 2006 11:45am Commented on 1 time: 1

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Pimp Daddy Google

Gadgets & Tech – While doing a search for a Web 2.0, domain name I decided to search on “link”. Google was nice enough to try to find me a date. It also sensed I don’t make that much money and tried helping me out with that too

Submitted and Voted for on July 06, 2006 11:31pm

Rocketboom? or RocketBust?
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Rocketboom? or RocketBust?

Gadgets & Tech – Amanda fights back!

Voted for on July 06, 2006 01:18am

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You Don't Want to be a Genius

Gadgets & Tech – Despite Apples "No Blogging" policy an Apple Genius blogs about life in the position finishing it off by saying "If you're a Mac-junkie, give up now. It's bad enough as is, but being a junkie will leave you with a soul-crushing depression as you deal with none of Apple's success stories and all of the horrors."

Submitted and Voted for on July 06, 2006 01:13am

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Apple Phones Home, Too

Gadgets & Tech – Lately I’ve heard a lot on technical podcasts about the public outrage over “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” and the fact that it “phones home” every day. Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.7 last week, and ever since I installed it, I’ve been noticing Apple’s own modest home phoning behavior. In this case it’s ostensibly to provide u

Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2006 09:36pm

Perhaps The Grossest Thing You Will Ever See!
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Perhaps The Grossest Thing You Will Ever See!

Science – WARNING: Not for the faint of heart! This medical technique will turn your stomach. Make sure you scroll down and look at the pictures at the end of the article.

Voted for on July 02, 2006 01:08am Commented on 1 time: 1

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Google All Goes Live

Gadgets & Tech – A parody on where Google will be in 2022

Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2006 06:33pm

AOL Email Ad Petition Started
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AOL Email Ad Petition Started

Do No Evil – “On June 10 2006, At midnight AOL started put advertising on the bottom of their members emails. This has make it very cheap looking like our email services is free email. Members think it is also annoying and it gives the appearance that we endorse the advertising - which we don’t.”

Submitted and Voted for on June 30, 2006 03:51pm

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AOL E-mail Ad Petition Started

Gadgets & Tech – “On June 10 2006, At midnight AOL started put advertising on the bottom of their members emails. This has make it very cheap looking like our email services is free email. Members think it is also annoying and it gives the appearance that we endorse the advertising - which we don’t.”

Submitted and Voted for on June 30, 2006 03:49pm

Incredible Scientology Orientation video
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Incredible Scientology Orientation video

Popular Videos – "In other religions ... you were told that you were a one life animal, and you had to believe them - or, you got burned at the stake." Is this for real? Check it out before Scientology sues YouTube to take it down. Via Reddit.

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Vic Gundotra leaves Microsoft for Google

Gadgets & Tech – "Mr. Gundotra has resigned from Microsoft and entered into an agreement with Google," Google spokesman Steve Langdon wrote in an emailed statement. "He will not be a Google employee for one year and intends to spend that time on philanthropic pursuits.

Submitted and Voted for on June 29, 2006 02:25am

Discover Windows Live Spaces
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Discover Windows Live Spaces

Gadgets & Tech – A new web site – discoverspaces.live.com. The annotated screenshot provides a few clues about the new version, in addition to a cleaner, Windows Live looking UI. Looks like you can comment and tag photos, initiate a Windows Live Messenger session from within Spaces, see Msgr online status, and have more control over the title position. Can’t wa

Voted for on June 28, 2006 12:50am

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iPod maker admits breaking Chinese labour laws

Gadgets & Tech – After denying that it was running a sweatshop that would be familiar to Charles Dickens, Apple's Ipod manufacturer, Foxconn has finally admitted that it broken Chinese labour laws.

Submitted and Voted for on June 27, 2006 04:17am