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Shut Down the Internet!: Music is dying and Bloggers are guilt!

Willian Shatner Singing to George Lucas: Captain James T. Kirk with a comedy side that you never saw before...

Oscar open-source 2007:The best softwares chosen by SourceForge.net community.

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August 4th 2007 @ 13:42

Posted By: Renata - Category: media, internet, open source

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Tell eBay to Stop Allowing the Sale of Dog Fur, Live Dogs and Cats, in China

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I already talked to with about this here at my blog, but it's a really important subject, so, here I am again.

There's a website out there, really nice, where you can find a charity you trust and want to support: Charity Navigator

There you can browse by categories, find out more about your favourite charity financial health and even browse by best rated charities.
Well, my favourite charity is Peta and I will talk a bit about a campaign they have to free cats and dogs on eBay Chinese Website.

Photos of live animals for sale in China posted by eBay sellers show conditions that one wouldn't wish on one's worst enemy, including chaining animals to cages on the streets, keeping puppies in wire-bottomed cages (in the U.S. and other countries, such housing is prohibited by animal welfare laws for humane reasons - wire hurts!), keeping puppies in a rusty, barely lit cage with bone-dry empty bowls, and cramped, extremely crowded conditions.

You can join PETA in asking eBay - the world's largest online marketplace - to prohibit the cruel sale of cats and dogs - as well as items lined with dog fur, which are illegal in the U.S. - on its Chinese Web site.

You can contact eBay officials now and politely encourage them to do the right thing and stop the sale of cats and dogs on their Chinese Web site.

This post was sponsored by: Navtej Kohli - a philanthropist and a business owner.
Read more about Kohli and his work:
Kohli's Blog
Kohli at TypeKey
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July 28th 2007 @ 14:24

Posted By: Renata - Category: internet

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Famous Geek Quotes

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"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0"

"1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d"

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

"I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly"

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."

"The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be."

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."

"To go forward, you must backup."

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

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July 19th 2007 @ 18:12

Posted By: Renata - Category: internet

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Web Directories to Generate Backlinks

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All researches show that search engines are the most used forms to find something on the internet.
Nowadays, the most part of the traffic (business, information or leisure) is generated by search engines and web directories.

Web Directories were the first search engines to be created. Sometimes also known as web catalogues, they have as a characteristic the organization and categorization by topics. Those topics follow a logical structure and they can be organized based in subcategories and details. As an example, you can have an Sport category, with a subcategory Football, and this one can have two categories: professional and amateur. And so on.

If you are looking for a powerful human edited web directory that lists quality, family-friendly, and spam-free web sites, you should try Alive Directory. The web sites are organized in a comprehensive category structure and if you submit your website, you can feature it on the first page. Web directories are a strong way to generate back links for listed web sites. They still are widely used and are very important in the search tools market.

So, what are you waiting for? follow the link and submit your website.

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July 17th 2007 @ 14:38

Posted By: Renata - Category: internet

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Credit Card Services

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If you run a business, sooner or later, you will need to accept Credit Cards from your customers. In fact, most of the customers prefer to pay through credit cards. So, having one merchant account is a important step to grow your business.

To make it possible, you will need a Merchant account and in that case, then you might want to take a look at First Data. You can apply on line at their site for an account. They have different schemes of merchant accounts with different business plans.

First Data is a leading provider for the best possible rates for, Credit Card Processing and Merchant Account services is a leading provider for low-cost on line internet credit card processing merchant accounts for both Low Risk and High Risk merchants.

They offered you customer service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in 150 languages. You can have many more like credit card processors, high charge backs, low charge backs and one of the largest credit card fraud, loss prevention and charge back departments in the industry.

The website is fast and easy to navigate and its sales team works hard to find your business the best possible bank rates for merchant account processing services. They offer a wide variety of merchant products and services, to fit your business. Solutions that they offer:

e-Commerce
Retail store front
Phone and mail order
Wireless Merchant Account
Terminal Solutions for restaurants
Tele check

And they have a promotion: If you do decide to apply for your new merchant account before July 18, 2007 they will pay your merchant account application fee, LinkPoint payment gateway license, and if you have a credit card machine, they will reprogram it for free.

So, what are you waiting for? Business acceptance of credit cards is vital today for any business

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July 13th 2007 @ 01:25

Posted By: Renata - Category: internet

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The Wind

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With everybody talking about ecology, Live Earth, natural resources, here's an advertising that made us stop and think.

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July 10th 2007 @ 15:43

Posted By: Renata - Category: internet

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A Geek (Family) Code

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-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12

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July 4th 2007 @ 13:16

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The Worse Tomato Joke Ever

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July 4th 2007 @ 08:00

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Carnival of Funny Videos

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July 2nd 2007 @ 09:36

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A Real-World DRM

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What if there was a form of DRM on our everyday household objects?

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July 2nd 2007 @ 09:13

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Are you Alone?

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Sometimes in your environment, as school, work, is not easy to find someone to date, because all the great person are already committed or just doesn't want to date anyone, they just prefer to be alone.

So, how meet someone to spend your life with? You could look for dating services. There are thousands of dating sites out there but, at JustSayHi.com you can meet someone of your dreams, and the good thing is it's free

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July 1st 2007 @ 18:09

Posted By: Renata - Category: internet

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