Over 300 Gorgeous Icons (they're free, licensed under creative commons)

Handy for anyone who wants to add some pretty icons to an app or website



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Apple in talks to bring lyrics to iTunes

A proposed deal between Apple and media company Gracenote could soon see the iPod maker serve up song lyrics through its ubiquitous iTunes Store. The move would be part of a industry-backed push to stifle proliferation of unauthorized websites that currently dominate the market, often offering inaccurate lyrics and never compensating artists for...



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Only 244 copies of Genuine Windows Vista sold in China

Microsoft spent millions of dollars advertising its next generation OS 'Windows Vista' in China, in fact the IT juggernaut threw up the biggest Vista Ad on the 421 meter high Jin Mao tower in Shanghai China.



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Adobe uses 'photoshop' as a verb ON THEIR OWN SITE!

Found by searching for 'photoshopped' on adobe.com internal search. This is result #12, right next to the ones where they're ragging on the general public for doing this exact thing. C'mon, guys, couldn't you do a basic search of your own site first? Ugh.



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Hi dear, I found this diskette that you were so frantically looking for...

Check out this picture :)



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New US Passport Design is, um, Incredible?

The new U.S. e-passport will incorporate updated security features and a new design. This design will reflect the varied landscapes of our country and each page will include a quote reflecting the hope and success that is the United States of America. They sure crammed in as much imagery as they could. Pretty incredible.



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Quake Lifts Island Ten Feet Out of Ocean (with photos)

Ranongga island in the South Pacific Ocean was raised ten feet higher after it was hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. National Geographic has some photos by William West and a short article about it.

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100 Million iPods Sold

Apple has sold it's 100 millionth iPod today!

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Huge Robotics Competition - FIRST Championship 2007, April 14th

2007 FIRST Competition is coming up next week, so I wanted to get things started with a How Stuff works article. Some of the information on this article is out of date, just go to http://www.usfirst.org for the most updated information about the competition. Check out the webcast on NASA http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/webcasts/reg

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Apple TV versus Mac Mini on Xbench

Matt wiped his Apple TV's drive and ran a clean install of 10.4.9, just to throw it to the Xbench dogs. It came out surprisingly well, with a 55.75 score, about half that of a medium-range Intel Mac mini.

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Thinkgeek's 8-bit Tie prank should become reality!

As usual, some of my favorite April Fool's Day Internet pranks have come from Thinkgeek.com. But there is one product that deserves to become a reality: The 8-bit Tie! Let's start an email campaign to see if we can convince Thinkgeek to actually produce it!

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