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Sites that I found interesting for November 11th 2008

• Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread – Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors. That simple act, multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has given rise to a new early warning system for fast-spreading flu outbreaks, called Google Flu Trends.
• Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes? – CSS tips n tricks
• Google Brings Voice, Video Chat to Gmail – To start using the Gmail voice and video chat tool users must open a Gmail chat window, click on the "Options" menu and choose "Add voice/video chat." Users will be instructed to install a 2MB plug-in.
• AVG Free Forum :: Information And Alerts :: PC crash after AVG update 9 Nov 2008 – I've been a long time supporter of AVG but this last week I've had several good files misreported. This forum entry tells you how to recover your machine if one of your core files got quarantined (hasn't happened to me).