17 Adobe AIR Apps That Can Save Your Time

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax. It’s popularity is increasing every day and getting more lovers who are using tools developed on Adobe AIR for diversified purposes.

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Facebook users urged to track down rapist

The boyfriend of a rape victim has set up a Facebook page to track down her attacker, in what is believed to be one of the first times the social networking site has been employed to identify a criminal.

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Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked

Even with the successful recent release of Internet Explorer 8, in some underground circles there is already talk going around about the next version of Internet Explorer: IE 8.1, codenamed Eagle Eyes. Loaded with exclusive features such as a new JavaScript engine and support of Firefox extensions.

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ShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust

Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room.

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Frankie Delgado Says He And Rihanna Are 'Just Friends'

Rihanna and Chris Brown are reported to be taking some time off after their reported reunion, and many rumors have surfaced about who Rihanna is dating these days. Some of those rumors have linked her with "Bromance" and "The Hills" star Frankie Delgado, but Deglado told People.com Saturday that he and the singer are not an item.

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WeFollow: Kevin Rose's people-powered Twitter directory an instant hit

WeFollow breaks down popular Twitter users by category, as defined by the people themselves. You choose your online affiliations with three tags (say, tech, music and politics). You'll then appear on those lists, along with other like-minded Twitterers.

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Jordin Sparks Addresses Rumors Of Chris Brown Collaboration

Back in 2008, Jordin Sparks hooked up with Chris Brown for her VMA- and Grammy-nominated hit "No Air." Since then, a lot has changed for Brown in light of the incidents that took place last February, when he allegedly assaulted on-again, off-again girlfriend Rihanna.

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50 Cent, Britney Spears Have Twitter Ghostwriters

The whole point of Twitter is that you get to constantly update everyone on your list about what you're doing in just a sentence or so. Plenty of artists have jumped on the bandwagon, from Mark Hoppus to to, unfortunately, TMI repeat offender John Mayer.

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T.I. Sentenced To A Year And A Day In Prison

A Northern Georgia District judge sentenced T.I. to one year and one day in prison on Friday (March 27) for felony weapons charges stemming from his October 2007 arrest on the eve of the BET Hip-Hop Awards, calling the rapper's plea deal "experimental" but a phenomenal success.

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Outdoor Advertising Fail [PIC]

IE is everywhere. Here's the classic Internet Explorer "page cannot be displayed" error message, as displayed on the big electronic billboard at the East Palo Alto Ikea store.

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Twitter to blame for Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer's breakup!

Jennifer Aniston has reportedly ended her relationship with musician boyfriend John Mayer because he is obsessed with Twitter, it has been alleged.

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Rihanna will testify against Chris Brown

Rihanna’s lawyer has confirmed she will testify against her boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, if she is subpoenaed to appear in court. The R&B singer, who is currently fighting two felony charges of assaulting the pop princess, is currently free on U.S $50,000 bail despite allegedly causing Rihanna’s mouth to fill with blood during their fight.

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James Cameron on All Things Terminator

"We're on the fence about Terminator Salvation — the trailers look great, but McG as director? Really? Herewith, a few reasons to be hopeful...and to be afraid, very afraid."

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China, Russia call to replace dollar as global reserve currency

China and other emerging nations back Russia's call for a discussion on how to replace the dollar as the world's primary reserve currency, a senior Russian government source said on Thursday.

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Where is this store located and what do they sell? [PIC]

I wonder how many customers they get in an hour...

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Marijuana Legalization Bills Introduced In Massachusetts

A pair of bills — House Bill 2929 and Senate Bill 1801 — seeking to “tax and regulate the cannabis industry” have just been introduced in the Massachusetts legislature.

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Internet Explorer 8: How not to launch a new browser

IE8 dropped out at a market share of 1.86% by Friday afternoon, according to data provided by Net Applications. For a company with the reach of Microsoft, this was a bit of a disappointment. But browsers like Internet Explorer 7, Firefox or Safari hit their market share highs on weekends, while Internet Explorer 6, still a browser that has a fairly high market share during the week, declines.

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Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama "ignoramus"

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America.

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How to Navigate the New Facebook [VIDEO]

Wondering where all your favorite stuff on Facebook disappeared to? Find out with this informative video walk-through.

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10 Legendary Drinkers

Let’s look at the 10 most legendary drinkers who were able to carry notoriety in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other.

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VH1 Brings Back Hit Show 'Behind The Music'

The cable network is ordering about 10 new episodes of "Music," bringing back the iconic documentary program that ran for several years on VH1 starting in 1997.

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Apple's Delays Could Cost iPhone Developer $600K

A software company could potentially lose more than half a million dollars because of an iPhone app that Apple has ignored for six months.

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Apple's next-gen iPhone has video camera

Apple this year will finally introduce video recording capabilities on at least one of its upcoming iPhone models, AppleInsider has been told.

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What Facebook Will Look Like In A Few Years

Facebook unveiled their new design last week, and guess what: it sucks. It seems like every time they tweak their design, they end up making it more confusing and lame. So, we looked into our crystal ball to see what Facebook will probably look like in a few years. And this is what we saw...

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Porn DVD Comes In "New" Best Buy DVD Player

This is essentially the epitome of why it's really messed up that Best Buy will take a piece of used or returned equipment and sell it as new. The horrible / hilarious endgame is that eventually someone is going to get a DVD player with a copy of a porn movie in the disc drive.

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Facebook bug reveals private photos, wall posts

"Earlier this evening we came across a privacy flaw on Facebook that allowed users to gain access to portions of their friends’ profiles that they should not have been able to see..."

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Does Sex Put You To Sleep?

Sleep is one of the most pleasurable and mysterious areas of our lives. It is as necessary as breathing and as nourishing as eating, yet few of us feel we are getting enough of it. In our overcrowded lives, sleep has become a modern obsession, the thing we crave more than anything else. But how much do we know about this nightly pleasure?

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Did Lenovo invent Apple's Netbook?

A series of reports and rumors predict that Apple will ship a netbook this year. Lenovo suddenly "leaks" a two-year-old prototype with a unique form-factor that would be *perfect* for Apple's netbook. Coincidence?

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Body of Natalee Holloway Might Have Been Found in Aruba

Details remain vague, but 'The Juice' has just learned that authorities believe they have found the body of Natalee Holloway, the 18-year-old from Clinton, Miss., who vanished in the Caribbean island in May 2005. A Miami-based flight attendant for American Airlines tells 'The Juice' that a cadaver dog was aboard a Miami-to-Aruba flight....

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Zimbabwean Dollar Pronounced Dead

Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti told members of parliament that the country's currency was essentially dead.

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Chimpanzee pees on Katy Perry during shoot

The ‘I Kissed A Girl’ singer was posing for a magazine shoot, when the lively animal - which was on the set for the photo shoot - relieved itself on her.

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Review: Internet Explorer 8 is new and improved -- is it back on top?

Internet Explorer 8 has shipped in its final version and is ready to take on its rivals. This latest version of Microsoft's browser leapfrogs its closest competition, Firefox 3, for basic browsing and productivity features -- it has better tab handling, a niftier search bar, a more useful address bar, and new tools that deliver information directly from other Web pages and services. IE8 has also been tweaked for security and includes a so-called "porn mode," new anti-malware protection, and better ways to protect your privacy.

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New in Gmail Labs: Undo Send

"Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after. Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake. I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can't make her surprise party. I can rush to close my browser or unplug the Internet — but Gmail almost always wins that race."

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Moving Digg

Most Digg users probably don’t think about the technology it takes to keep Digg up and running. That’s a good thing. That means hopefully the site always loads when you want to use it and the pages load fast enough so you don’t give up and go somewhere else.

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Twitterville Falls For Premium Accounts Hoax

The author of the post mocks Twitter’s lack of an apparent business model after 3 years in operation, and writes that the startup’s CEO Evan Williams today finally announced plans to introduce a paid premium account scheme. Never mind that the news would have gotten broken on an obscure blog when the U.S is mostly asleep, but other things should have given away that this concerns a hoax.

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SCI FI Channel to change its name to 'Syfy' this summer

"By changing the name to Syfy, which remains phonetically identical, the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider range of current and future imagination-based entertainment beyond just the traditional sci-fi genre."

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Why Is Facebook Trying To Be Twitter?

"Facebook is driving me crazy. Only a few days after I made a post talking about how Facebook differs from Twitter and why I was changing how I use the Facebook service - Facebook decides to make major changes and become more like Twitter..."

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6 Year Old Boy with 176 IQ

Pranav Veera, 6, can recite the names of the U.S Presidents in the order they served in office. He can say the alphabet backwards. Give him a date back to 2000, and he'll tell you the day of the week . . .

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Pope: Condoms not the answer in AIDS fight

Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday that the distribution of condoms is not the answer in the fight against AIDS in Africa.

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Top 26 Sexiest Women Of The 90's [PICS]

In the latest excuse to trawl through the internet looking for pictures of hot women, Hecklerspray has come up with a list of the hottest women during the 90's. Believe us, it was not easy to keep the list down to just 26, but we somehow managed it through a potent mix of horse-trading, vote-rigging and coin-tossing.

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Digg's Rose and Adelson Talk About Diggbar, New Features

Jay and Kevin talked about the new technology they're rolling out, like a new Digg toolbar, integration with Facebook Connect and OpenID, an updated search tool and more customization features.

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50 Cent Says Eminem's Upcoming Albums 'Tie Together'

50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct was delayed to make way for Eminem's Relapse (due May 19), and the G-Unit General raved about Marshall Mathers' latest. "It's great," 50 said of the album, sitting between Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo in New York last week. Eminem announced that soon after Relapse, he'll be putting out a follow-up LP this year.

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Latest Google Chrome closes gap with Safari 4, Firefox 3.1

For the first time in...forever, speed and efficiency are becoming factors in determining the quality of Windows-based Web browsers, in a race for excellence that has never been this competitive.

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Did Google Chrome Just Get Even Faster?

One of the few Google products that isn’t a perpetual beta, Google Chrome, has just gotten a beta branch, which lets users get a taste of things to come.

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Transformers 3 Is A Go!

News leaked that 'Transformers 3' has been greenlit for July 2011. No news on Shia Labeouf, Megan Fox, or Michael Bay's involvement.

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Girls of Saint Patrick's Day [PICS]

Girls in green for St. Patrick's Day!

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Man posed as dead brother for 20 years

A 67-year-old man has been fined U.S $1,000 for impersonating his dead brother during a traffic stop.

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Where Has the Old Facebook Gone?

"The old Facebook is still there. But it’s less visible; so much so that I’d go so far that many of Facebook’s features are rendered useless. I’m not sure I want Facebook to become another Twitter; one Twitter is enough, thank you."

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5 Failed McDonald's Menu Items

Back in the day, you couldn't go wrong with the original McDonald's menu. With two entree choices -- hamburger or cheeseburger. But in 50 years of experiments, there were bound to be some mistakes. Explore five flops that went down in flames. Most of them came after the company's founder, Ray Kroc, died.

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How to Delete Any Online Account

Canceling accounts you've created on the Web isn't always easy. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to ditch social networks, online retailers, blogging services, and more.

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Unemployed? These 10 Websites Should Be Your Best Friends

We found a battery of new sites and services--such as LinkedIn JobsInsider, Recessionwire, and Uberi.com--dedicated to providing the kind of cost-cutting, job-search, and moral-support tools that can be invaluable during lean times.

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Britney Spears 'Circus' Concert Wardrobe Malfunction [PICS]

Britney Spears took her Circus tour to Tampa, Florida this Sunday night and gave the crowd more than what they actually paid for: an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction and a good laugh...

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Chris Brown Had Said He'd 'Walk Away' From Confrontation With Rihanna

An interview the singer gave on New York's Power 105 in December has cast an even more contradictory light on the singer's alleged altercation with girlfriend Rihanna, for which he has been charged with felony counts of assault and making criminal threats.

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Top Ten Hottest YouTube Women [VIDEO]

A countdown of the top ten hottest women currently on YouTube.

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Top 4 Instant Sound Effect Sites

"My goal was to present the top 5 sites that exist simply to feature a single sound effect, but instead you're getting the 'top' four. And by 'top' I mean 'only'. Hopefully some of you can post more in the comments."

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Pastor deflected shots with Bible

A pastor shot and killed during his Sunday sermon deflected the first of the gunman's four rounds with a Bible.

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Every Classic Knight Rider Turbo Boost Sequence In 1 Video! [YOUTUBE]

KITT's Turbo Boost is an awesome car feature, right? So, every box-crashing, Styrofoam rock-smashing Turbo Boost sequence ever, packed into one video must be the most awesome thing ever, right? It is.

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The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own

Here is an unranked, incomplete, yet highly tasteful and informative list of the records your music collection requires. How many have you listened to?

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20 Cool Things To Do With Your iPhone

Essential apps to add new functionality to your iPhone.

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Snow Leopard QuickTime X Interface and Other Changes

With the latest seed of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple has made dramatic changes to QuickTime Player in both interface and features. Changes to the interface has gotten the most attention with a description posted by AppleInsider. The new QuickTime X playback window appears to be minimalistic with all user-interface pieces fading away...

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Pussycat Dolls Call Danity Kane Split 'A Sad Thing'

Like the rest of us, the Pussycat Dolls watched in amazement last year as Danity Kane disintegrated on "Making the Band." Unlike the rest of us, though, they had a different perspective on things: They knew DK personally.

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5 Tools To Check The Speed Of Your USB Flash Drive (Windows)

So how do we go about checking the speed of USB flash drives? Maybe the following light and free software can lend a hand?

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Firefox 3.1 could catch up to Safari 4 in beta speed duel

With the next -- though probably not the last -- public beta of Firefox 3.1, testers outside of Mozilla will get their first chance to see in action perhaps the number-one reason customers would want to upgrade: the browser's new TraceMonkey JavaScript execution engine. Expectations have been raised quite high over the past several months, as developers have promised orders of magnitude faster execution of functionally-driven Web pages.

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New Macs, iPods aim for efficiency, cleaner environment

Through methods ranging from blog jottings by Apple CEO Steve Jobs some time in 2008 to press releases issued just this week, Apple is rather suddenly playing up the environmental friendliness of its PCs. In a product announcement this week for its latest consumer line-up, Apple contended that the Mac mini is "the world's most energy efficient desktop, drawing less than 13 watts of power when idle."

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Rapper Coolio arrested at LAX

Rapper and TV personality Coolio was arrested Friday at Los Angeles International Airport for alleged possession of crack cocaine, TMZ reported.

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Rihanna Will Testify Against Chris Brown If Subpoenaed

After Chris Brown was charged with two felony counts on Thursday in connection with his alleged assault on girlfriend Rihanna, the next question became "Will Rihanna testify in the case?"

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Zimbra Tops Google's Gmail with 40 million Paid Mailboxes

It's impressive to be able to give away 31.2 million free Gmail accounts, as Google has. It's even more impressive to get customers to pay for 40 million mailboxes, as Zimbra has reported, representing a sharp spike from the 20 million paid mailboxes reported in early 2009.

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Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users?

One of the things being considered for Twitter in the future is an extension that lets people know what’s happening in their immediate vicinity. That would basically mean that Twitter could actively ping users about local events that are going on in their neighborhood, in real-time...

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Phishers hijack 750+ Twitter accounts

Trend Micro is reporting, and Twitter confirms, that Twitter users are once again under attack by people who need to upgrade their ethics. Targets receive a tweet from someone claiming to be female, 23, and in possession of a webcam. Click the link and you end up on an "adult" site that both attempts to phish your credit-card info and slathers your computer with ads for the same stuff.

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Chris Brown Arraignment Postponed Until April

Chris Brown appeared at Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday (March 5) but did not enter a plea on two felony counts of assault and making criminal threats, stemming from his alleged altercation with girlfriend Rihanna on February 8. Rather, at the request of attorney Mark Geragos, Brown was granted a continuance in the case, meaning his arraignment has been pushed back until April 6.

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Digg Toolbox: 50 New Tools and Resources

Using these tools you’ll be able to better keep track of your conversations, visualize data in new and exciting ways, access Digg from your mobile device and much more.

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Mozilla gives its next browser an early promotion to 3.5

Well, just about as soon as we had the latest speed figures from Tuesday's nightly build of "Shiretoko" -- a.k.a., Firefox 3.1 pre-beta 3 -- it appears the Mozilla organization has thought twice about its numerology, and decided that the new edition's upgraded TraceMonkey JavaScript engine makes it at least worth half-a-point rather than a tenth.

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Metallica Frontman ‘Pirates’ His Own Album

It’s been nearly nine years since Lars Ulrich became one of the most vocal opponents of Napster and the generation of file-sharers it spawned. Not one to speak about something he has no experience of, Ulrich has just admitted downloading his own album, Death Magnetic, and it was “bizarre”.

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Eminem's Relapse Set For May Release

Does Eminem know how to make a comeback or what? He's giving his patient fans more than what they bargained for. Interscope Records announced Thursday (March 5) that Slim Shady is dropping two albums this year, Relapse and Relapse 2.

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10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS

Choosing a Content Management System can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS?

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The 5 Best iPod Car Adapters

So your car doesn't have an iPod dock. Rather than scrapping your MP3 player for burned cds, (or scrapping your car, for that matter) owners of dockless vehicles can patch together a method for streaming their MP3s through the built-in stereo.

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Windows 7 test build 'turns off' Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft’s latest test build of Windows 7 comes loaded with an option to delete Internet Explorer 8's executable file - making it unusable on the OS.

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Robin Williams Hospitalized in Florida

Comedian Robin Williams has postponed four planned performances in Florida due to health issues, according to his Web site.

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Will Palm survive until the Pre launch?

Palm on Tuesday issued the kind of preliminary earnings data that illustrates just how much the company depends on a successful Pre launch for its continued survival -- and how much the firm is betting on a win for the wildly anticipated smartphone.

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World War II: Summarized [PIC]

Incredibly funny hand-drawn picture of the entire war. Enjoy!

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Twitter Throughout History [PICS]

Apparently computers and Twitter existed since before the first human walked the Earth...

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Can't we just settle on 'netbook' already?

No matter how inaccurate or stigmatized the term, "netbook" has become the de facto name for those small PCs we see people toting around everywhere. Now could someone please tell that to the companies making them?

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World's 50 Most Admired Companies

50 companies that are loved by everyone...

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5 Ways Your Brain Is Messing With Your Head

Please be advised that your brain does not want you reading the following list, and may kill you to protect its secrets.

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This Is Going To Be Epic [PIC]

You just know it's going to be.

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Has U2 finally lost their relevance?

It happens to the best of them. In fact, it only happens to the best of them. And it seems it's finally happening to U2. We go through the six stages that every 'it' band goes through -- eventually.

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Extremely Rare Bird Photographed for First Time - Then Eaten

A species of bird so rare it was thought perhaps to be extinct was captured on video and still images in the Phillipines province of Nueva Vizcaya…right before it was cooked and eaten. The Worcester’s buttonquail lives only in the Phillipines, but had not been seen in many years, and was previously only known through illustrations.

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"Slumdog Millionaire" Kids Return to Slums in India

From rags to red carpet and now back to rags. In the week since "Slumdog Millionaire" won eight Oscars, the child actors have gone to Disneyland, arrived to a heroes' welcome in Mumbai, and tried to go back to their previous lives.

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Rihanna back with Chris Brown!

Fans of singers Chris Brown and Rihanna expressed dismay on Saturday at reports the couple had reunited just three weeks after Brown was alleged to have assaulted her. The R&B stars were spending time together at the Miami home of hip hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs -- and that Rihanna 's father was supporting her decision.

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Lamborghini Countach Walks On Water! [PIC]

Holy crap! Talk about speed...

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Twitter Has A Business Model

Todd Dagres, founder of Spark Capital and one of the VCs that poured an additional U.S $35 million into Twitter recently, finds it amusing when people talk about Twitter's lack of a business model.

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Best Home Server Software

Home computing has advanced to a point where it's practical to run your own home server, and we're running down the five best tools for the job.

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