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Seems the site is down, been a while now. Could this be the beginning of the end of the mighty Facebook? Are all of our photos and stories lost forever? Will I ever finish that epic chess match against Max? Who knows? Facebook is dead. Facebook has crashed. Facebook is offline, closed for maintenance,...
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Axl Rose, frontman of Guns ‘n’ Roses, updated his Twtter page late last night with the following: “All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially cancelled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds.” At the moment nobody knows any more. His tour is currently in central America, so he is either being...
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Facebook’s messaging system died today. First of all there were issues with sending messages with errors on sending. Then the sent folder gave an error and now all messages have vanished. “Something’s gone wrong. We’re working to get it fixed as soon as we can.” – Facebook Messages Error Message Many people use Facebook...
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Google has updated its Image Search Engine and it looks really good. But while browsing today I came across 2 Trojan horse attack sites (Avast! picked up and blocked the attack). Neither image was naughty, in fact one image was of Marissa Mayer herself, the brains behind search at Google. So this post is...
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If you search for “oil spill” in Google now you are no longer greeted with gory images of wildlife suffocating and economic and environmental disaster along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Instead, you get this: BP are working hard to stem the flow of oil. Currently they are burning off surface oil and have...
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Google have got into the spirit of the World Cup. Google “World Cup” and then scroll down….. More useful are the search results for “World Cup” though, as they display all the groups plus the first two games. Here is a screen shot of the results for a search on “World Cup” at the...
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Twitter now has an annual award, or so it seems. Celebrity Tweeter, and master of words, Stephen Fry, announced at the annual Hay Festival. The winning tweet was: “I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it’ll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put...
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This was buzzed by Google’s Matt Cutt’s in response to suggestions that Google had only managed to gather the email addresses by using some sort of underhand, insider methods. But personal email addresses are visible using Yahoo too. From Matt Cutt’s Buzz; http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/06/facebook-loophole-exposes-thousands-of-email-addresses/ makes a false claim: “The other question that this raises is...
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Many people dislike being categorized based on their love of technical things, computers, games, design or just general love of knowledge. Others, generally dorks, love to categorize everything. To make life easier for everybody, someone kindly created a Venn diagram. I have lost the source, but will start seeking it. I guess it was...
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News just in that Apple’s iTunes was used by criminals to launder money from criminal activity. A gang stole around 2000 credit card details and then used these details to buy $700,000 worth iTunes vouchers, which then then used to purchase other goods to help “wash” the stoles credit card money. The gang of...
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