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Two days ago, Yahoo! released the first publicly available consistent collection of satellite photos for the entire US at 1-meter resolution. Here’s your new chance to see your house. If you don’t know what this means, it means that Yahoo! completely retook the imagery of the whole continental United States, with a 1-meter/pixel resolution. Go [...]

According to BBC News, Google makes 12 cents every time you place a search using their search engine. Considering that over 27 billion searches were performed in January of 2006, that’s a lot of money. If my math is correct, which it usually isn’t (which explains my F in algebra last semester), they made $32,400,000 [...]

Many people think that Google should resdesign their site, in order to stay in the competition between other better looking engines, such as live. Well, they did, and it’s looking great! The new interface is currently unavailable to the public, unless you enter this cool little hack.
To do this, go to the Google homepage. From [...]

DodgeIt allows you to check disposable email addresses on the fly (without having to create one) to avoid possible spam that comes with signing up for new services.
When you sign up for something, somewhere, DodgeIt allows you to enter any name @dodgeit.com as your email address. Afterwards, visit DodgeIt.com to check that disposable email address, [...]

Google recently released Google Toolbar v4 Beta to the public. This is a big change over v3, both due to functionality, and apperance.
Custom Buttons are one of the latest features packed into the new toolbar. You can add buttons to your Toolbar that will let you visit and search your favorite websites and keep up [...]

Writely is an online word processor, allowing you to create, save, delete, and generally manage documents — online.
The best part is that you will have your writely documents wherever you go. From the site:
      

Nothing to download — your browser is all you need.
      
Collaborate just by entering people’s e-mail addresses.
      
Publish on the web or post [...]

Check out Recolored, it’s a great program that will colorize black and white photos according to the monochrome shading.
You can colorize the whole image, or just certain parts. All you do is mark the area you want colorized, and then Recolorize will colorize the selected area for you.

Check it out!
Jesse

Learning to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts to reduce your trips to the mouse can lead to a much more fulfilling web browsing experience, especially at those times that your mouse just isn’t doing the trick.
Okay, you got me. I have, on occasion (read: often), neglected to charge my wireless mouse for long enough that, when [...]

You can get a Windows Live Mail! account for free. It’s a small exploit that was discovered by someone and it really works. Alright, let’s start!
1) Open up Internet Explorer. MSN likes Internet Explorer, and hates Firefox.
2) For this to work, you must be signed out of MSN. Go to the MSN Homepage, and double [...]

Google has updated their Adsense service and now pays publishers for referrals. Google now pays $1 for each Firefox download with the Google Toolbar installed.
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