Google Labs has come up with Accessible Search that is designed to identify and target search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users.

Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your search. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the most accessible pages in that result set.



Google Accessible Search looks at a number of signals by examining the HTML markup found on a web page. It tends to favor pages that degrade gracefully pages with few visual distractions and pages that are likely to render well with images turned off. Google Accessible Search is built on Google Co-ops technology, which improves search results based on specialized interests.

To make your website more useable you need to follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines which explains you how to make your Web content accessible to people with disabilities.


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Microsoft is offering free computer games to play with and ofcourse it requires Windows Genuine Advantage check before you can download it.

Microsoft Carioca Rummy:



The object of this unique card game, popular in countries like Argentina and Chile, is to get rid of all of your cards during each round. The player with the fewest cards at the end of the game wins.

Microsoft Match-Up!:



If you liked Solitaire, you'll love Microsoft Match-Up! Match-Up! is a fun new game for Windows XP that tests your memory and matching skills. Flip the cards and match the images while racing against the clock.



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Cybercriminals use lure sites to attract webusers to sites they have invisibly infected with exploit code. This exploit code is then used to infect users computer with spyware and malware.

If you want to check the url againt any type of exploits beforehand then LinkScanner just that for you. It is online free service that will visit the URL you entered in a controlled environment and will inspect the link in real-time for whether it is hiding any exploit code and, if so, what exploit and displays the result it to you.


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McDonald is fighting back in the ongoing fast food breakfast war with a new billboard in Wrigleyville.



The billboard features a real sundial whose shadow falls on a different breakfast item each hour until noon, when the shadow of the McDonalds arches are dead center.

The billboard, which went up near the intersection of Clark and Addison on Friday, is the latest in a campaign aimed at urging Chicagoans to turn to McDonalds for breakfast.

"McDonald’s invented breakfast in the quick service restaurant industry," says Rob Jackson, McDonalds marketing director

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TouristRemover is a free online photoeditor software that helps to remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos.



The software takes multiple photos from the same scene and the its blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements.
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HP has developed a miniature wireless data chip that could provide broad access to digital content in the physical world.

The experimental chip, developed by the "Memory Spot" research team at HP Labs, is a memory device based on CMOS (a widely used, low-power integrated circuit design) and about the size of a grain of rice or smaller (2 mm to 4 mm square), with a built-in antenna. The chips could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and could eventually be available in a booklet as self-adhesive dots.

The new chips "could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and could eventually be available in a booklet as self-adhesive dots," HP reported.

The chip has a 10 megabits-per-second data transfer rate and is 10 times faster than Bluetooth wireless technology and comparable to WiFi speeds. Storage capacity ranges from 256 kilobits to 4 megabits which enables it to store a very short video clip, several images or dozens of pages of text.
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If you wanted to learn the techniques of drawing and not sure where to start then you should check DrawSpace. It has many online tutorials for Beginners, Intermediate to Advanced levels. You can either view these tutorials online or download it in the form of Adobe PDF file to your computer for later viewing.



First you need to register as a member which is free, to again access to online tutorials. The free membership allows you to view only one lesson per month unless you are prepared to pay $20 for every quarter of a year for the lessons.


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ColorPic is free tool for windows with has loads of features for Grabing color palettes from your favoruite websites, photos and icons.

When the cursor is moved across the screen, the color picker displays all types of information about the color where the cursor is on. It displays Hex and decimal values of the color and also displays the hue,saturation and RGB values of the color. The desired color is selected by clicking on that spot, the color will be stored in colorpic which you can later use it with Mixer to get a desired websafe color code.


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Vonage has had couple of bad months lately. There was the botched IPO leading to plenty of angery shareholder customers, later with few new patent lawsuits. The stock didn't do well which many predicted well before the IPO.

Now, spyware researcher Ben-Edleman has released a article which quotes that Vonage ads seem to show up in an awful lot of spywares including one of the major spyware providers.


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AllThe-Logos is an online database of logo designs. It includes more than 90,000 companies and organizations brand logos, team sports logos, country flags and insignia as well as signs, general usage logos and much more.



The final logo images can be downloaded freely in GIF image format but if you need the vector format of the logo it costs you $15, which you can use it to make further changes to the logo using Adobe Illustrator software or Corel Draw.
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Yahoo new syndication Yahoo Finance Badges will enable publishers to embed live financial information, Stock Charts, News and Quotes into their sites and blogs.

The Badges is available for free, and publishers can choose from one of three formats to display: quotes-chart-news, quotes-chart, or just quotes. After selecting a format, the publisher picks the chart type to display and can include with upto three stock symbols. After that a theme can be assigned.



The Badges wizard then generates the IFrame code, which can be pasted into the blog or a website.

Further Yahoo may integrated ads into the Yahoo Finance Badge and share the advertising revenue with the publishers.


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Skype Phone Converter makes any regular phone into a VoIP phone.
Once the Skype uConnect Converter is plugged into your Computer USB port your phone will work just fine like it always did, but pressing the * key twice will immediately activate Skype feature, allowing you to free calls from Skype. All it required is a Broadband Connection.

This is perfect for North Americans and cannada as SkypeOut is free to call in these countries, and still a better deal for anyone else because of skypes low calling rates. When you buy a Skype Phone Converter you also get a free 30 skypeout min voucher.

Accepting skypein calls is also easy Your phone still rings just the same as it would if you were accepting a regular call.

Package comprises:

* VoIPvoice UConnect USB to Phone Converter module
* USB extension cable
* line cord(RJ-11 connector to the phone line)
* telephone cord (RJ-11 connector to the Nortel M9417)
* CD-ROM with the VoIPvoice software.



This adaptor costs around $59.99 and is available here.


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