San Diego Reporter beaten bloody - All Caught on Tape

Video is linked in the news article. Fox Six News San Diego says investigative journalist John Mattes suffered cracked ribs, bite wounds and cuts to his face during yesterday's incident which was captured on film and ended with two arrests.

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Half Life Movie Trailer

For his second year of his four years at University, Justin Seau decided to pay homage to Half Life and make a Half Life movie trailer for his digital video editing class...

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Compilation of Movie Mistakes (NOT Bloopers)

Ever seen the "goofs" section in IMDB and wish you could go back real quick and catch those scenes? Well, these are NOT bloopers, this is a movie showcasing all sorts of those blunders in movies ranging from visible crew equipment to continuity errors.

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The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

A brief commentary on the size of our universe and the number of galaxies out there with cool space telescope images and 3D animations from NASA and the European Space Agency too.

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Ben Affleck gets drunk (and creepily pervy); picks up TV host

In this super bizarre interview with Montreal TV host Anne-Marie Losique back in 2004, a drunk Ben Affleck does stuff us mere mortals would typically be arrested for.

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RC car jumps a house!

Cool vid, title speaks for itself.

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Lost TV Series - DHARMA Orientation Video from HansoExposed.com

HansoExposed.com has been releasing small fragments of this video for about one and a half months. This is the collection of those 70 clips in one solid video. The video is a part of The Lost Experience game going on this support. More information is available in the Lostpedia: http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Video

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Amazon Unbox download store now open!

Amazon opens virtual doors to it's online movie/TV download store. Check it out!

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Inside Apple�s iPod Earbuds: What's Really Inside Your Ears

If you've ever wondered what is actually inside those famous white iPod earbuds you keep in your ears, this article has the answers. Photos show off the surprising components inside Apple's hard-to-duplicate packed-in ear phones.

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Graphics card in the new 24-inch iMac is upgradeable

The new 24" iMac incorporates a Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) connector for its video card. The use of this standard connector potentially means that the video card in the newest iMac is upgradeable.

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PC Magazine's Top 99 Undiscovered Web Sites

Think of us as the friends who are always forwarding you links to cool sites you'd never find on your own. That's who we aim to be with this list of 99 Undiscovered Web Sites, and that's who you'll be after reading it.

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MythTV Comparison to Other HTPC Software

Enter MythTV, a grand unification of personal digital video recording and home theater technology, and a magnum opus of modular design, freedom of expression and personal entertainment. At its core, MythTV is a digital video recording solution composed of several modular components that facilitate time-stretched manipulation of live television feed

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Cool things you can do on a Mac

Do you know the hotkey for instant definitions in any cocoa app? how about how to invert the colors?

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Delete ALL cookies in Firefox on shutdown, EXCEPT from certain domains.

I set my privacy settings on my Firefox to clear cookies & other data when I close my browser. Trouble is, when I needed to log into Gmail, maintain my Google search preferences, keep my Digg, New York Times, Blogger login - you name it, I had to re-submit my credentials each time. Follow these directions, & you won't have to enter them each time.

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Webwag - New Personalized Start Page

Webwag Is a new, very well designed, Ajax based start page. Like Netvibes and Pageflakes, Webwag will allow you to gather all your personalized page and search in one place. Webwag helps you to {{wag}} your web experience and to get the best use out of it.

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Digg dashboard

Original Signal offers a one page overview of the seven Digg categories showing popular headlines during different time-frames of the day. Also marks stories that you haven�t seen in orange.

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Apple's top-end laptop runs Vista better than a high-end Sony Vaio

"Apple's hardware runs Windows, and does so quite well. In fact, the MacBook Pro I bought in May is better equipped to run Vista than the Sony Vaio I bought less than a year ago."

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Hackers gain private information on all 642,720+ Second Life users

Linden Labs has forced a password reset for every one of its 642,720+ residents after it was revealed hackers gained access to the entire user database. Customer service will not begin to address password issues until Monday, September 11. (the news story link is a "blog" because that is the "official" lines of communications from Linden Labs

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How Many Diggs Does It Take To Make The Front Page?

Stuart Brown set up a nice script that logged the average Diggs it takes to make the Digg homepage. The average was quite astounding.

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How To make a Bump Key

How to make and use a bump key. Opens nearly any lock in seconds, and much easier to do than lock picking

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Secrets of Online Business Success

Here's what you should know if you are moving your brick-and-mortar to the Web or building a Web-only business.

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An Abandoned City (photos)

Here is a little photo-session of an abandoned city. When the Soviet Union collapsed, government didn �t have much funds to support some small cities around strategically import objects. People of these cities were left all by themselves.

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Disney-branded fruit and veggies (no joke)

Disney has partnered with Imagination Farms, a produce distributor that sells cartoon-branded fruits and veggies, to fill the produce aisle with Disney-brand fruit.

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20,000+ brands of beer worldwide

Worldwide, 20,000 brands of beer are brewed in 180 styles, from ales, lagers, pilsner and stouts to bitters, cream ales and iced beers. Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC.

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Genetic engineers breed a mouse that's "permanently cheerful"

The so-called "permanently cheerful" mice are offering hope for a new treatment against clinical depression. This research is significant since it is the first time depression has been eliminated by altering the genetic code in an organism.

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Subliminal advertising in spam (.gifs to prove it)

This is a great example of subliminal advertising in a spam message. The spam contains an animated GIF with four frames. The spam contains an animated GIF with four frames. One of the frames (which contains the actual spam message) remains visible for 17 seconds. The other three frames are displayed for 10ms or 40ms, and each contain a message.

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CSS Mastery: Fixed-Width, Liquid, and Elastic Layouts and Faux Columns

With liquid layouts, dimensions are set using percentages instead of pixels. This allows liquid layouts to scale in relation to the browser window. As the browser window gets bigger, the columns get wider. Conversely, as the window gets smaller, the columns will reduce in width. Liquid layouts make for very efficient use of space...

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How to install RAM in your Mac (and save big $$$)

for those that don't know, here's a quick walkthrough (with video) on how to install third-party RAM inside a Mac.

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Industry leaders give advice on how to be successful online

The founders of companies such as Netflix, Paypal, Monster, Linkedin, Hoovers Online, and Sales Force all give advice on how to be successful online. They also give advice on what you should not do.

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The new iMacs. Faster. Bigger. Brighter.

Cast your gaze on the ultimate eye-opening experience: the new faster, bigger, and brighter iMacs. Starting at just $999, the most personal of personal computers comes out packing a powerful punch. That �s thanks to the new 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor, you�ll find in each and every new iMac.

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Newegg priceTrackr

Frustrated by determining the best time to purchase computer parts combined with a few weeks of hard work yields priceTrackr. priceTrackr shows you price versus time graphs so that you can decide when it's best to buy.

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Proporta Wireless Headphones for the iPod

This innovative bundle allows you to listen to your iPod via Bluetooth headphones the perfect solution to irritating cables. You can change tracks and adjust the volume from the headset, and leave your iPod in your pocket, or your bag - or even on the other side of the room (up to 10 metres/30 feet away).

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Light-emitting shirts!

Check out this cool new technology Philips. It's amazing! They are integrating LEDs into fabric and had some jackets and a couch there. Really cool!

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Slashdot Having COWS over Ajax

Their latest posting on the topic of Ajax, COWS Ajax - Ajax Evolved, is pretty much par for the course. It breathlessly tells us about a new technology Changeable Origin Web Services (COWS) Ajax that is supposed to take all the hassle and effort out of Ajax development.

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Download the Digg Font

Ever wanted the font in the Digg logo? It's called FFF Forward, and is a free download.

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Things to Do in Customer-Service Hell

many companies � �phone trees��the automated menus that ask you to mash one button after the next�are silly mazes that have you chasing your tail. First there was GetHuman. Now there�s a new website, still in beta, called Bringo! (a.k.a. NoPhoneTrees.com), which takes a different approach.

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Top 10 high-tech vehicles for the filthy rich

10. Unnamed Balloon Car from Belarus; 9. MDI Compressed-Air Car; 8. Chimera All-Terrain Vehicle; 7. Badokadonk Personal Tank; 6. Personalized Jet Pack; 5. Sky Yacht; 4. Tesla Roadster; 3. Sebeo Aquarius: Underwater Sports Car; 2. Gold-Plated Porsche; and 1. Rinspeed Splash. Article includes photos and links.

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USB flash drive that steals passwords in seconds

The latest episode of Hak5 has a segment where they show a USB key that takes advantage of U3 technology and weaknesses in Windows autorun and LAN Manager features. Essentially this USB key steals password hashes, LSA secrets, and creates back doors within seconds on insertion. The show notes are pretty detailed.

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New Cars: Class of 2007

From the brand new Ford Edge crossover to the cutting-edge Lexus GS 450h luxury hybrid sedan, here are the new models that will define the 2007 automotive year

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Digg.com CEO Jay Adelson blog

It is still a bit empty, but looks promising (though no AJAX yet), and I am looking forward to see what Jay, Digg's CEO, has to blog about in the near future.. more digg.com news perhaps?

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How much less are you making?

"here's a handy map showing how far median incomes have dropped over the past six years. And it's good news for most of you: Compared to Michigan and North Carolina you're not doing so badly after all."

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The computer spy that steals your passwords and credit details

ABOUT three weeks ago, Cheryl Lambert bought a £179 surfboard on eBay for her daughter. Soon after, she noticed her computer started to behave erratically and within a few days it had ground to a halt. A few days after her desktop machine was unplugged from the internet, Lambert�s personal details appeared on a Russian website.

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PornoTube Breaks into Alexa Top 300 within 2 Months

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And The Best Antivirus Is�

Virus.gr tested quite a few different software companies to see how they would stack up against each other. How did the 147,000+ virus test pan out? Here are the results

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GMail Hacks/Tips

"I �ve been using GMail since 2004 and have always thought it was the best email service. With the large amount of space it offers, and the amazing features the possibilities are endless. Here are some nifty hacks/tips that allow you to get the most out of your GMail account."

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Attention, Shoplifters

With $30 billion in theft, there's a revolution in surveillance systems.

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List of free celebrity stock images

Just a simple site that holds thousands of free cutout stock images in psd format, categoriezed into athletes, actors and musicians amongst some.

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How Geniuses Work

According to conventional wisdom, geniuses are different from everyone else. They can think faster and better than other people. In addition, many people think that all that extra brainpower leads to eccentric or quirky behavior. And although geniuses are fairly easy to spot, defining exactly what makes one person a genius is a little trickier.

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Obsessive-Genius Disorder

It is a curious thing that the two greatest logical geniuses of the last century both killed themselves. Turing died after taking a bite of an apple that was laced with cyanide. Goedel died of a paradox: he thought people were poisoning his food, so he refused to eat and starved to death. Did these two men self-destruct because of their genius?

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Your Brain On Music: Survival of the Harmonious

Mounting evidence suggests that human beings are hard-wired to appreciate music. What researchers want to know now is why our distant ancestors evolved music in the first place. As evidence mounts that we're somehow hard-wired to be musical, some thinkers are turning their attention to the next logical question: How did that come to be?

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Macbook Random Shutdown Problem Solved At Last!

Apple's forums are full of people searching for a solution, now it appears that an IT Engineer from Munich, Germany has found the source of the issue.

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Gmail as an MP3 jukebox

"I tend to email myself a lot of MP3s. Today, I did it for the first time using my Gmail account, and was pleasantly surprised to find an embedded play button directly in the mail item. Clicking on it brings up a Google Video style player that streams your MP3 from Gmail�s server."

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How to Destroy a City with Photoshop

Creativity can create, and in this case, DESTROY. A great tutorial showing the power of Photoshop when it comes to image manipulation.

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How To: 53 Professional Photography Techniques

In the spirit of the Internet, I want to share my experience as a photographer so every month I post a collection of my most interesting images shot in the previous 28 days as well as a detailed description of how some of the images were shot. Some great photography tips and techniques here, apparently from portrait photographer Neil Turner.

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Police: How to keep debit and credit cards safe

"No matter how secure you attempt to make your payment card there are criminals who will continue to attempt to develop ways to take advantage of the system. However, debit and credit cards are still a safer means to making payment, when carrying cash is the alternative."

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Think Secret: New iPods, iMac due September 12

Apple will take advantage of a September 12 media event to introduce the second-generation iPod nano, an updated 5G iPod, and upgraded iMacs, sources tell Think Secret.

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Revision3 Launch Party

Revision3 is launching! What does that mean? New website, new shows, new forums, new everything!

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Dell XPS 700: Reviewed & Dissected

Dell created something of a storm when it unveiled its new range of gaming machines back at E3 this year (check our our report from the show). After some problems and delays with production, it is finally shipping systems to buyers, and we got our hands on one of the first out of the doors.

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Mike (Office Space) Judge's 'Idiocracy': Limited Release With No Publicity

"Where is it?" "Why is it delayed?" The answer is dire: the film has been unceremoniously relegated to a limited relase...BEGINNING TODAY. Seven cities: Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and Toronto.

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Hot new MTV website: YouTube + MySpace on TV

The new MTV-UK website (http://www.mtv.co.uk) website is a daring experiment in combining online social networking with television programming. It is also MTV's move into the realm of user submitted contact (http://mtvflux.co.uk/), giving site visitors the chance to upload videos that can be broadast on the television. Site run by Drupal.

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How Bands & Musicians Got Their Names..

Bands often have unusual names and here are the origins of some popular bands both past and present. One thing that you will discover if you look into this area is that RUMORS abound! If we cannot confirm an origin, we have given alternatives found in other sources.

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Apple Knows Who Stole Your iPod

Apple maintains records of stolen iPod serial numbers. Apple's iTunes software records the serial number of the last connected iPod. Apple sells songs to people that enter their billing information into the iTunes software. So why isn't Apple doing anything to prevent the sale of songs to the person with your stolen iPod?

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Adobe To Release Universal Apps Next Week?

MacRumors posts on page 2 an unconfirmed tidbit that Adobe is planning to hold an event next week that will have "universal appeal." With CS2 now 17 months old, the time may be ripe for a Universal CS3 announcement.

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Voice Recognition Goes Wireless

With a new service launched by his network provider Sprint Nextel Corp. on Friday, a user can press a button and say the recipient's name and dictate a message of up to 20 words into his Blackberry's receiver. Within about a minute, the full message appears on the screen and it can send it off with one keystroke.

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MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands

The goal is to be one of the biggest digital music stores out there," MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe told Reuters. "Everyone we've spoken to definitely wants an alternative to iTunes and the iPod. MySpace could be that alternative.

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Apple's Sound Strategy For the iPod

Consider the source of Apple's strength. Its execution of its digital music strategy has been a textbook example of how to consolidate an early market advantage. It has extended its product range and segmented the market, moving into lower-priced devices and up into video, turning the iPod into one of the fetishistic objects of the age.

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The Perfect iTunes EQ

These settings produce absolutely the best balance I've ever heard. My home computer speakers are ablaze with sound now.

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Jobs might deliver a keynote, updated MacBook Pros on September 12th?

Epected are 23-inch Core 2 Duo iMacs and updated MacBook Pros with Core 2 Duo chips at the keyote.

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Creating a Killer Panoramas in Photoshop

Believe it or not, a lot of people don �t know that Photoshop can automatically stitch photos together to create a panorama. If you continue reading, then I�m guessing you fall into the "believe it" category.

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Hacking Google Maps: A Conceptual Approach

Here is an excerpt from the ExtremeTech book, Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth.

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Play Google Video Files In Windows Media Player

Download Google Videos as AVI, I heard that Linux users had a direct link to AVI files in Google Video. Then I looked in the code from video.google.com and discovered that Google hides the link from Windows users, so they have to download Google Video Player.

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�Awesome 3D Digital Face -Could U Tell if U Did'nt Know?

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=399499 They thought this was a pic until he turned over the wireframe

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Azureus vs. µTorrent: The Showdown

BitTorrent worlds collide in the latest file-sharing rivalry.

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Web Cam Strapped to a Toy Rocket (Video)

Someone strapped a Web Cam to a rocket and launched it. I can't believe they were still able to receive the signal considering how high it got.

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150+ Digg tools by category

A large collection of Digg tools and related gadgets. Over 150 different tools spread across 13 categories such as: Online Tools, Search Engines, RSS, Mobile/PSP, Browser Add-ons, Blog, Software, Bookmarklets...

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Fix iPod Screen Scratches

Simple, inexpensive way to fix scratches on iPods.

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"Lorem ipsum" - where does it come from?

"Lorem ipsum..." is a common passage of text used in place of real paragrahs, but where does it come from? This article explains...

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Troops to test liquid armour

SOLDIERS are to begin trialling a futuristic �liquid armour� that is worn like ordinary clothing but turns into a rigid shield as soon as it is hit by bullets or shrapnel. The armour consists of material impregnated with liquid silica that has been modified using nanotechnology.

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Handy Photoshop Toolbox Reference Guide

So what does that Magic Eraser do again? Great cheat sheet for printing out hanging up.

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Apple's Secret Ingredient

If you look at what Apple's done over the last few years, there's an almost absurd amount of fresh thinking and major leaps forward. At some points along the timeline, things just seem to magically click together at the right places.

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Mac BitTorrent Clients Reviewed

"The number of user-friendly, appealing BitTorrent clients available for the platform are very few in comparison to the number of those available for Windows. In this article we will highlight the most popular Mac BitTorrent applications and compare their features."

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