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Google has introduced group chat in it's GMail chat tool (Google Talk via GMail). It lets you chat with more than one buddy at a time. There's no limit to the number of people you can chat with, and any participant can invite others to join. To get started:

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My brother gifted me a Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player. I didn't have any HD movie at home to test and the movie rental stores near my house didn't have any HD DVD movie for rent. I played the regular DVDs and they worked fine. I then rented couple of HD DVDs from Netflix. The player reported one of the HD DVD was not a playable disk and recognized the other one, but didn't play it. It didn't work. I was going to return the player, but then decided to upgrade the firmware and try.

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CNet has included Windows Vista as one of the top 10 terrible tech products. According to CNet, «Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor's reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced for PC makers deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that takes six years of development but is instantly hated by hordes of PC professionals and enthusiasts deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Windows Vista conforms to all of the above.»

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Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.10 with the following security fixes:

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I wrote 10 days back about buying DLink DWL-G120 USB wireless adapter for my Tivo. I  mentioned that the CDs and the box didn't bear any D-Link or for that matter any label at all. I submitted a review for that product in Overstock's website the next day. Overstock message said they would 5-7 days to review and publish the review. It's 10 days since I entered my review where I mentioned this label thing. Overstock has not yet published my review. Weird.

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I'm back to work after Thanksgiving break (4 days) and catching up with the backlog now. My daughter (6 years old) drew the Thanksgiving note (click on the picture below) on Thanksgiving day and gave it to us. It was about the husband turkey looking at his wife (baked turkey) with tears and said «I'm a sad turkey to say my wife was cut on Thanksgiving day. I can't wait until she's rebuilt again & she was cut by farmer Ben. (Note at the bottom says sing to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star)».

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You might have read the news earlier that KDE team released the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. Here is the instruction to install KDE 4.0 RC1 in Kubuntu:

• Remove previous KDE 4 packages if you have installed, they are not compatible (apt-get remove kdelibs5)
• Add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tsimpson/ubuntu gutsy main to your /etc/apt/sources.list
• Install kdebase-dev-kde4 kdebase-workspace-dev kdebase-runtime,
  note that PPAs aren't authenticated so you will likely get a warning
  when installing
• These KDE 4 packages install to /usr/lib/kde4 so run:
  • export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/lib
  • export KDEDIRS=/usr/lib/kde4
  • export PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/bin/:$PATH
  • export KDEHOME=~/.kde4
  
  
  

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KDE team has released KDE 4.0 RC1 today. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is
suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken
place all over the KDE codebase. For more information, refer to KDE 4.0 RC1 release announcement.

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Mozilla has released the first beta of their next generation web browser Firefox 3.0. There are lots of minor improvements and new features in Firefox 3.0 including the new Gecko 1.9 web rendering platform. Here are some of the new and improved functionality in Firefox 3.0:

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Netscape has released the first alpha version of Netscape Messenger 9. Netscape Messenger 9 is an email client based on Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 similar to Netscape browser which is based on Firefox source. Netscape Messenger 9 is available for all 3 platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). It's an alpha version, so use it with caution. Netscape Messenger is compatible with all Thunderbird 2.x addons. You can launch AOL IM directly from the messenger.

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