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Microsoft joins the Free Software Revolution

April 21st, 2006 · 3 Comments

This week, Microsoft announced that the Express editions of it’s popular Visual Stuido line of development tools would be made avalable free of charge and free of royalties from now on.  This is great news for starting developers, hobbyists and enthusiasts who up until this point had to pay for the privilege of developing in [...]

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Tags: Development · Downloads · Programming · Tech News

Google Scraper

April 21st, 2006 · No Comments

A new search technology is available for those of you who feel that Google is getting just a little too creepy…. SCROOGLE!
This search engine does a proxy-protected scrape of Google, and returns the search terms to you. Nice I suppose if you feel you need to hide your searches from the (ahem) fine folks [...]

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Tags: Google · Internet

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