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Stupid Windows 7 trick: unlock the secret God Mode folder
Filed under: Windows , How-Tos So, what exactly is God Mode in Windows 7? Well, for starters, it’s not really a mode

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What were the most-pirated TV shows of 2009?
Filed under: Video , P2P 2009 was the biggest year ever for TV piracy.

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What were the most-pirated TV shows of 2009?
Umoo boasts virtual trading without much risk
Umoo is a virtual stock-trading platform that is, admittedly, a little late to the market. There are several virtual stock-trading games, including a prominent app from Marketwatch called the Virtual Stock Exchange .

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On-demand site Fizy offers huge rock selection
Just days after the news broke that EMI is suing Grooveshark, another contestant popped into my in-box. Today, it’s Fizy , which offers essentially the same features as Grooveshark, Meuzer , and JustHearIt : search for a song name, and Fizy will compile audio and video results from public sources around the Web
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Two cool search start-ups: Wowd and Yebol
Here at CNET, we’ve been busy covering the latest big new products in search, notably Microsoft Bing and Google Squared , but there are also up-and-comer search companies doing really interesting work.
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Yahoo 360 to close on July 13
After almost two years without providing any support, Yahoo has finally decided to shut down its blog-centric social Web site Yahoo 360 Degrees completely on July 13. During its more than four years of existence, the site has never actually been out of the beta stage. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) In an e-mail to its members, the company said, “We will be officially closing Yahoo 360 on July 13, 2009, to focus our efforts on making your new profile on Yahoo the place where you connect with the people who matter to you most

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Zensify for iPhone aggregates your social networks
Track and update all your social networks under Zensify's single roof “All your networks are belong to us.” That could be the tagline for Zensify , a new iPhone app that lets you view, update, and share content from multiple social networks. In other words, Zensify aims to take the place of standalone apps for the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr–or at least to save you the time of bopping from one to another just to read and post updates.

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iLook struggles to make Outlook more social
Improving Outlook is no easy feat given that it’s notoriously anti-social when it comes to social networking.

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iLook struggles to make Outlook more social
Mozilla’s Jetpack to bring next generation add-ons
Mozilla Labs has launched a new project called Jetpack that could drastically change how users interact with Web sites and manage third party add-ons. In a nutshell, it enables developers to create code packages that can be toggled on and off without the end user having to restart their browser

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Yahoo’s iPhone app gets spoken search
Now you can speak a search term as well as type it. (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) On Tuesday, we reported that Yahoo pulled the plug on the Java version of its revamped mobile application, with the assurance that it would continue to develop for iPhone and other mobile platforms.

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