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Collection of cool Google Maps you would have never thought of

This blog is dedicated to interesting and cool google maps/mashups! It’s amazing what you can do with Google maps.

My favorite is the one that answers the question you’ve argued since you were a kid - Where exactly would you come up if you dug a hole throught the earth.

There are some more practical ones such as demographics and site visitors.

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Games consoles: Why the Revolution is better than the Xbox360…according to IGN

IGN breaks down the top 10 reasons why the Revolution will be better than the XBox 360
I’ve always been able to resist the urge to get a games console but reading this list just reinforces that Nintendo are going to make it very hard for me to come up with anymore excuses.
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Apple Mac - Intel Macs in February/March? And no iWork updates?

As a Mac user here at Qwertyrash, I look for clues about what Apple is up to. Now I’ve just seen that Apple Australia are offering MS Office at half price with new Macs


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Blog tips - Blog power

In my ten years of developing websites and generally hanging around the internet, I’ve never seen such a powerful tool as blogging, for bringing traffic to *any* site and keeping it.


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The danger of making predictions - Alsin 2001 says sell Apple

The real issue when reading Alsin’s 2001 article recommending ditching Apple, is that he was absolute in his advice. No one predicting the future can be absolute. Be skeptical of anyone giving absolute advice about the future.


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Writing tips - Why 42? and how to use it.

In Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the computer is asked for the meaning of life. It eventually answers “42″.

Douglas Adams claims this was a figure simply plucked out of the air. Despite this, many have hypothesized on why he chose 42.


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Gadgets - Cool It Systems - USB Beverage Chiller

Finally someone’s found a decent use for computers!The CoolIT USB Beverage Chiller is the only way to keep your drink cold while you’re at your computer.


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Time management - Happy the person with only 24 hours in their day

“Chris, have you been sniffing the Merino again?”


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Writers tools: Dictionary, Rhyming, Crossword Puzzle Solver, Scrabble, Thesaurus, &Quotations

Writers check out this site with a zillion different word search tools:
Rhyming - Crossword - Scrabble - Quotations & Cliches - Anagram - Computing - Law - Synonyms - Antonyms - Related - Spelled Similarly - Similar Sounding - Substring - In Definition Of - Connections - Intersection
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Musings - The pen is mightier than the keyboard

Raj over at Blogspinners comes up with a rather insightful inisght tha the pen and paper is - and I’d add, always will be - the best tool for writing and planning.It seems that no matter how many times I come up with a new (digital) routine for planning and recording my blogs, I eventually find myself going back to paper and pencil.


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