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Sites that I found interesting for September 25th 2009 through September 27th 2009:

• It’s Official: Water Found on the Moon – New observations from three different spacecraft return what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon. via @Macht_Nichts on Twitter.
• Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux – Want the same kind of facial recognition, name tagging and easy geo-location of Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac on your Linux desktop? There’s no official release, but you can fairly easily plug Picasa into your system.
• Microsoft’s Chiller-less Data Center – Microsoft today announced that its huge facility in Dublin, Ireland is running without any chillers. Outside air is drawn into the facility to cool the thousands of servers powering the company’s “Live” suite of online services for users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sites that I found interesting for January 5th 2009 through January 6th 2009:

• After an Agonizing Wait, Picasa for Mac Finally Arrives – Google announced Monday that Picasa for the Mac, a free desktop application for editing, organizing and sharing digital photos, is now available as a public beta through Google Labs.
• Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year « NewTeeVee – The amount of time U.S. Internet users spend watching video is up an impressive 40 percent year over year.
• How to wash your car properly – Not exactly tech but interesting to pass along.

Sites that I found interesting for September 4th 2008

• Google Updates Picasa And Web Albums To Version 3.0 – Google is calling Picasa 3.0 (beta) the next-generation of photo-editing software. New features include facial recognition capabilities.
• Mozilla Fires Back At Google: Our JavaScript Engine Runs Faster – Mozilla posted data from a speed test that pitted Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine against Mozilla's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which should appear in Firefox 3.1.
• Save DVR-MS Toolbox – DVR-MS doesn’t work with the new TV pack and part of the reason for this is that a published API in the Windows Media Center SDK that is broken in the TV pack and with no sign of a fix being developed the developer of DVR-MS Toolbox Andy Van Till needs to raise a business impact statement with the hope that the number of users effected makes it a case worth looking at for Microsoft.
• Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three – O2 asked adults across three different age groups — 18-25, 35-45, 55+ — to make contact with random strangers from areas all across the globe using only personal connections. By linking their shared interests, the participants were able to connect to that person in three person-to-person links.