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Clocky is an innovative alarm clock that hides from you after the snooze button is pushed. It rolls off the table and randomly relocates to a new position in the room.
When the alarm sounds, Clocky will start beeping. You can snooze once for your choosen number of snooze minutes and if you don’t get [...]

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Retailers profit from unused gift cards. Last winter, Best Buy Co. reported a $43 million gain in fiscal 2006 from cards that hadn’t been used in two or more years.
Read more @ Yahoo

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David Pogue posted this article on his NYTimes blog about how to bypass the time and money consuming prompts you get when you call someones cell and get their voicemail.
Basically, as soon as you get the prompt, hit the following key to ship the intro and carrier specific intro and get to the message leaving [...]

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The month long Mac shareware marathon is over and the final bundle of apps is live. It includes Delicious Library, TextMate, NewsFire, Disco, ShapeShifter, iClip 4, RapidWeaver and more.
Macheist contributes 25% of all proceeds to one (or all) of 8 different charities, and YOU get 10 of the best applications being offered for the [...]

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A year ago today, my office at work caught fire, destroying over $80,000 worth of laptops, servers and accessories. The fire was caused by a faulty UPS, and despite the fact that we were down for less than 18 hours, the resultant rebuilding and relocation slowed us down for many months.
The funny thing is that [...]

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CNET Editor James Kim, a well known technologist, was located today after a tragic turn of events in Oregon. Not to rehash the details of the circumstance, but we’d like to note the following details as they have become available.
MSNBC reports that Kim was located alive, but rescue workers couldn’t reach him. When they finally [...]

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Ever needed to boot your Mac to a firewire disk/drive, such as the Micromat Protege? Not a problem: hold down the ‘Option’ key while rebooting, and choose from the listed drives.
You can use the mouse to select the drive, then click the arrow pointing to the right to boot the system.

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