The Top 100 PC Tech Innovations of All Time

Sure, we love iPods, TiVo, and fancy-schmancy digital cameras, just like everyone else. But let’s talk about advances that make a difference where it really counts: in the PC.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the_100_greatest_tech_innovations_of_all_time

Who's going to win the spectrum auction? Consumers

If Google wins the 700MHz wireless spectrum auction in January, expect Google-branded phones galore

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/whos-going-to-win-spectrum-auction.html

Ten Ways to Avoid a Google Reputation Nightmare

Google is no longer just a search engine. With your potential customers, future employers, and members of the media turning to Google for information about your business, Google has become a reputation engine.

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10 Ways Business.gov Can Help You Run Your Business - Operations and Finance - Online Merchant Network

The U.S. Federal government websites keep improving, bringing government closer to the people.
My latest favorite government website is the new and improved Business.gov.
This recently revamped site is managed by the Small Business Administration. Not long ago I spent a number of hours exploring Business.gov and asking questions of the SBA personnel via email. It all culminated in my writing an article outlining ten useful — even unexpected — features of Business.gov, such as this one

10 Ways Business.gov Can Help You Run Your Business - Operations and Finance - Online Merchant Network

The Tax Foundation - America Celebrates Tax Freedom Day®

Tax Freedom Day answers the basic question, "What price is the nation paying for government?" We divide the most authoritative figure for total tax collections by the most authoritative figure for the nation's income. The answer this year is that taxes will amount to 32.7 percent of our income. We convert that percentage into days worked, and if we started on January 1, it would take until April 30. That's when we could start keeping some of our earnings.

The Tax Foundation - America Celebrates Tax Freedom Day®

PartnerUp - Find Business Partners, Commercial Real Estate, and Business Resources

PartnerUp is a free online service which helps entrepreneurs, small businesses, and people who have an idea or are interested in starting a business find business partners, advisors, board members, executives, and skilled professionals. And, the web site helps those who are interested in getting involved in businesses find opportunities to get involved in the above capacities

PartnerUp - Find Business Partners, Commercial Real Estate, and Business Resources

Giles Bowkett: Retire Today And Do Everything

Authors Tim Ferriss and Marcia Alboher give an hour-long talk at Google about how to retire immediately or have multiple careers simultaneously

Giles Bowkett: Retire Today And Do Everything

PC World - HP Extends Market Lead Over Dell in PC Sales

Hewlett-Packard Co. (PC) has extended its lead over Dell Inc. in personal computer sales according to two industry reports released Wednesd


PC World - HP Extends Market Lead Over Dell in PC Sales

The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites

Huge list of sites listing freelance web design and developer jobs

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World map of where Wal-Mart gets its products

China dominates, Russia and most of Africa doesn't exist, and Europe is tiny

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Seth's Blog: Memo to the very small

Seth's Blog: Memo to the very small

What happens when you click on "Send Error Report" ?

Ever wondered what happens when you click on "Send Error Report" whenever a software crashes on your computer? Here is an insight into what people at Microsoft do when someone submits one such report.

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Great article on Entrepreneurship

There is a great article at Inc.com on what it will truly take to compete in the evolving global economy. And it will have an impact on businesses of all sizes, as this article so clearly demonstrates

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10 Honeymoon hotspots | 1 | CNNMoney.com

There is no better way to cap off a lifetime commitment than with a trip of a lifetime. Here's where to go for the most exceptional - and exotic - experiences

10 Honeymoon hotspots 1 CNNMoney.com

BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows XP to be retired in 2008

Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008

BBC NEWS Technology Windows XP to be retired in 2008

An anticorruption group in India is printing zero-rupee notes

An anticorruption group in India is printing zero-rupee notes designed to be handed to officials demanding bribes. The note is "a symbol to express refusal to grease the palms of officials"

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Apple delays new OS; iPhone on target

Apple Inc. said Thursday it pushed back the release of its new operating system, Leopard, until October from its target date of June

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Huston Design Patterns

These generic design patterns (with examples!) seems very interesting.

Huston Design Patterns

How to Write a Spelling Corrector

How to write a spelling check in 20 lines (very cool)

How to Write a Spelling Corrector

MJ FEATURE: 25 Best Beers In America

It's been years since anyone doubted that microbrews were more gourmet and complicated than the Buds, Millers, and Coors of the world. But as varied and tasty as micros are, there was a time some got, well, a little too interesting for their own good, sending many guys back to the cooler for something simpler, cleaner

MJ FEATURE: 25 Best Beers In America

Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - New York Times

Compare the cost of buying and renting equivalent homes

Is It Better to Buy or Rent? - New York Times

Dabbawala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dabbawallas. These men deliver thousands of lunches every single day in Mumbai... from the person's home to their office, hot and fresh.
The reported error rate is one in six million.
How is this possible? How do you create and run a service with thousand of employees, no technology and a poorly-educated workforce and have better than six sigma quality?
Simple: the dabbawallas know their customers. If they rotated the people around, it would never work. There's trust, and along with the trust is responsibility. By creating a flat organization and building relationships, the system even survives monsoon season.

Dabbawala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Download free books on your PDA or cellphone - Mobile Minute - Download Squad

The Download Squad weblog details how to find and read eBooks on your cellphone or other mobile device.
The author points out a lot of the best resources for grabbing eBooks. Some of them we've seen, but the post also suggests several tools, like Wattpad, that integrate directly with your phone and make getting books directly on your device more seamless. If you love reading on the e-go, share your favorite tools with us in the comments

Download free books on your PDA or cellphone - Mobile Minute - Download Squad

Startups in India / Startups.in/India

Good site for keeping track on indian startup scene

Startups in India / Startups.in/India

Rands In Repose: A Glimpse and a Hook

A software engineering manager's ideas regarding resumes. "The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you've got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less."

Rands In Repose: A Glimpse and a Hook

Farmers, in India, spray Coke in their fields as pesticides

Amazing video documenting the use of carbonated soda from leading brands as pesticides,. because they are cheaper than original pesticides and yet give decent results.

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Apple sells 100 millionth iPod, deems experiment a success

Has it really only been five and a half years since the first iPod rolled off the assembly line and into the initially-skeptical arms of music-loving consumers worldwide? Well since that time we've seen an entire ecosystem of third-party and DIY accessories sprout up around Apple's ubiquitous little jukebox


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Personal trainer uses Wii for workouts - Engadget

As anyone who's managed to get their hands on a Wii will no doubt have already discovered, it's relatively easy to work up a sweat and lose some pounds using Nintendo's little white box. Now, the real life activity that's required to succeed at virtual Wii Sports has been picked up on by a personal trainer from Glasgow, Scotland: Zander Urquhart found that kids and adults alike don't mind doing exercise when it's accompanied by on-screen actions by the player's Mii, and is using the Wii specifically as an exercise machine. Zander is apparently the first fitness expert to have seen the potential for the Wii in the field of personal training, but we have a strong feeling he won't be the last. Even if the idea doesn't catch on, we suspect he'll have a healthy stream of geeky customers coming into the gym as long as the Wii stock shortage continues to exist.

Personal trainer uses Wii for workouts - Engadget

The Simple Dollar » 30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows

There are some truly excellent contributions on this mostly open source list; if you see anything missing, feel free to add your thoughts in the comments


The Simple Dollar » 30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows

Asus C90 The First User-Upgradeable Laptop

Because of the way laptops are built, most people don't upgrade their notebooks like they do their desktop. Well, Asus is trying to change that with their new C90 gaming laptop. Everything from the lappie's CPU to its high-def optical drive will be user upgradeable. Asus says you'll even be able to replace the graphics card in a efw minutes.

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Top 10 Best Places to Get Free Books

In our fast paced world of email, and RSS feeds, sometimes it’s best to just slow down and read a good book…but if you’re unwilling to shell out big bucks for the latest bestseller - try out these great resources, and read to your hearts content!



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Google Voice Local Search

Google has announced a new labs project, a free 411 service. The Google Voice Local Search is an experiment, but it aims to get users fully automated access to local business information.

The GOOG 411 service holds the same information that would typically be found on Google.com, but for times when you just cant get to an internet connection and all you have access to is a cell phone or home phone, this is your next best bet.

The service is free to use, and Google does not charge businesses for connecting customers to them. It is still in an experimental form, and only available in English in the US, for US business listings. To try out the service, dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone

Google Voice Local Search

2008 BMW M3 Coupe officially revealed (35 Pics, too!)

What else is there to say? BMW has unveiled the production version of the 2008 M3 Coupe. Its 403 horsepower V8 weighs less than the outgoing M3's six-cylinder, and it goes like stink, all while cocooning the driver in the expected level of luxury. Also cool: regenerative braking provides the power to the car's on-board network.



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Search for Homes through Google Housing

Official Google Blog: Homes, not just homepages

How to Drink More Water Everyday - WikiHow

There are a variety of reasons to drink plenty of water each day. Adequate water intake prevents dehydration, cleans out the body, and promotes healing processes. Substituting water for beverages high in calories can also help control weight. Follow the steps below to make sure you're getting enough of this most basic necessity. eHow offers 7 steps for increasing your water intake, along with several useful tips.

How to Drink More Water Everyday - WikiHow

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Space 'nerd' readies for lift-off

A 58-year-old software engineer is set to become the fifth ever space tourist when he blasts off on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft this Saturday. The $20m ride will make him the 450th person to enter orbit and by his own admission "the first nerd in space"

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Space 'nerd' readies for lift-off

iPod takes bullet for soldier - Engadget

Finally, the solution for winning the war! Mr. President, one iPod for every soldier please!

iPod takes bullet for soldier - Engadget

ROGER FEDERER'S BEST SHOT EVER

Unbelievable shot made by Roger Federer during a match against Andy Roddick. Totally out of this world!!!!



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How To Spy On Google - Forbes.com

Based on the company's "help wanted" ads and its hiring activity provides outsiders with more and more clues about its intentions.



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List of company name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia’s List of Company Name Etymologies is a fascinating read that gives some insights into how company names are really created

List of company name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

10 company name types on TechCrunch: Pros and cons : The Name Inspector

The Name Inspector hopes that these name categories will be useful to people struggling with their own naming problems. They might suggest naming strategies or spur name ideas that wouldn’t otherwise come up. Good luck in your naming endeavors!

10 company name types on TechCrunch: Pros and cons : The Name Inspector

HiTask - free online task management

Web application HiTask is a task management tool designed to make organizing your tasks a breeze.
With integrated calendar, tasks, and projects, HiTask is designed with a GTD philosophy in mind. Beyond your own task management, HiTask is also designed to help you manage and assign tasks to a team. The most impressive part of the tool is its very powerful drag-and-drop interface, which allows you to drag tasks onto your calendar or onto team members to assign tasks. HiTask offers both free and premium accounts, the latter of which offers unnamed advanced features and unlimited projects and teammates.

HiTask - free online task management

How to reset iPod

1. Toggle the Hold switch on and off. (Slide it to Hold, then turn it off again.)2. Press and hold the Menu and Center (Select) buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears, about 6 to 10 seconds.


How to reset iPod

Google Retools Maps Service

Create, annotate and share personalized maps with My Maps, a new addition to Google Maps

Google Retools Maps Service

Take your work to the web with Peepel online office suite - Lifehacker

Peepel turns your browser into a virtual desktop, complete with office applications, floating windows and a file system

Take your work to the web with Peepel online office suite - Lifehacker

Add a pop-up video bubble to your site

Bubble Guru puts your talking head into a bubble that appears when someone visits your site.
Just record your message (you'll need a webcam, of course), then paste the HTML onto a web page. The next time someone visits that page, your bubble pops up and starts playing. It even stays visible as users scroll up and down the page


Bubble Guru Registration Page

Man-made Global Warming false? See the other side of the argument.

You've seen An Inconvenient Truth, and heard people talk lengths about the subject; now check out the other side of the argument. Whatever your opinion is, this is an interesting movie to watch.



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lighttpd fly light

lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, etc) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems


lighttpd fly light

The Daylight Saving change: no savings, no point

Early results are in, and moving Daylight Savings Time up three weeks appears to have produced no measurable power savings. Lots of headaches for techies and systems administrators, though

The Daylight Saving change: no savings, no point

Apple - Mac Pro

8-core or quad-core Mac Pro workstation Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world ’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised

Apple - Mac Pro

India’s Edge Goes Beyond Outsourcing - New York Times

The outsourcing of jobs to countries like India has increasingly included the jobs of Western white-collar elites. With multinationals employing tens of thousands of Indians, some are beginning to treat the country like a second headquarters, sending senior executives with global responsibilities to work there

India’s Edge Goes Beyond Outsourcing - New York Times

The Future of RSS

Because of RSS ubiquity it is now a very attractive delivery medium for all kinds of content. However because the basic format is simple and primitive, there is no way to encode semantics without building an extension.

The Future of RSS

Gadgets for Wine Geeks | productdose.com

I guess it takes a bit of a geek to appreciate the collecting and study involved in real wine appreciation, and these gadgets can only complement a geek's taste for the grape

Gadgets for Wine Geeks productdose.com

The Memory Hacker - Popular Science

Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can recreate thoughts. The chip could remedy everything from Alzheimer ’s to absent-mindedness — and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch.

The Memory Hacker - Popular Science

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Body - Brain Map

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Body - Brain Map

Explore the different parts of your brain, and discover which parts of your brain allow you to move, speak and feel anger

geektechnique.org: put flash memory into (almost) ANY iPod!

Using an adapter which enables anyone to upgrade 1G,2G,3G and 4G iPods to be upgraded with Compact Flash!

geektechnique.org: put flash memory into (almost) ANY iPod!

Core77 Design Blog

Core77 has a bit about the open source car has been making the rounds on the web over the last week, It's the world's first open-source car shown at the Amsterdam car show AutoRAI. Apparantly the schematics and drawings are available online, but I couldn't find them

Core77 Design Blog

Software lets you create cybertwin

An Australian company has found a way for bloggers to chat with their friends online without having to be anywhere near a computer or communications device.
Sydney-based outfit MyCyberTwin.com has developed an application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to simulate intelligent conversations.
While such applications, known as chatterbots, have been around for a couple of decades now, MyCyberTwin is one of the first programs to allow users to actively educate their online personas to best suit their own.
The online clone can chat on a user's behalf through social networks such as MySpace, blogs, dating sites and MSN instant messaging.
For some, it's the online equivalent of the sort of autopilot conversations people have when they've been asked the same question a million times over.
But for others, it could potentially be an effective solution to managing information gathering and dissemination for visitors to websites.

http://mycybertwin.com/faq.jsp

Vista's Speech Recognition

One of Vista's coolest features is one nobody talks about. Speech recognition is built into every copy of Vista, and it's more than just dictation. If you have Windows Vista, even the Home Basic version, you already have one of the more powerful speech recognition systems available. Here is how it works

Vista's Speech Recognition

The CNN list of "25 startups to watch" and Revision3 comes in at #9

It's getting crowded on the Web 2.0 frontier, but there are still some startups that truly stand out. Business 2.0 Magazine identifies the ones most likely to strike gold in 2007.

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web 2.0 domain name creator

Thinking of making your own web 2.0 site? Then you'll need a hip, trendy domain name for it. If you can't think of one that hasn't already been registered, try this neat little random domain name generator.
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Web 2.0 Innovation Map

This Google Maps mashup visualizes the explosion of web applications by plotting over 200 sites gathered from various sources, using WHOIS information or contact information from the sites.

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Pics: The Most Amazing Cars in the World!

The cars are master pieces of design, fantastic to look at and oh, they perform pretty well too... There's a car that costs over a million dollars, car that goes 407 miles an hour, another one that will be the fastest car in the world AND run on biofuel. Just look at the pics!



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500 Courses You Can Take Online For Free

In this site has hundreds of classes and courses from Online Universities and other websites that give free education to anyone and make learning easier and affordable. Some of the classes even givr certificates you can print and add to your resume.

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Screenshot Tour: Manage your virtual desktop with Virtue Desktops

A couple of weeks back, I highlighted Dexpot, a virtual desktop manager for Windows. This week I'll take a look at my favorite virtual desktop manager for Macs, previously-mentioned VirtueDesktops, and highlight how I use it to enhance my productivity and desktop organization.

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Massive list of sites all self learners should know about!

Large list of the best sites for people that like learning online.This is a resubmission because it got 3 votes but... 261 Votes on reddit and 728 saves on del.icio.us... I say give it another chance.

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free university lectures - computer science, mathematics, physics

information wants to be free.

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Thousands of books online

Read free full text books online

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PortableApps.com - A suite of all your favorite apps made portable

PortableApps Suite™ is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go.


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The 46 Best-Ever Freeware Utilities

There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features my personal pick of the "best of the best."

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New web 2.0 site launched for wine enthusiasts

Searching for a great bottle of wine? Vino2Vino, a new site for wine enthusiasts, has information on over 170,000 bottles from more than 11,000 wineries that you can tag, rate, comment on, or blog about. They have mashups, mobile access (via SMS), a wine wiki, widgets, rss feeds, and more.

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Simple way to multiply big numbers

this counting-based technique lets ANYONE multiply big numbers together without a Calculator. It uses lines with Representative multitudes of the value of the digits to criss-cross, forming a plaid-like pattern, one then adds the number of intersections in certain crossing points to get the product of two numbers, no matter how big...F'ing awesome!

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Google - The Best Place To Work

Google has recently been named the best place to work in America. Here is why.

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How to cross a road in India ?

This is real crazyness....But everyone should know the trick...have a look

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Commercial: You won’t believe what company this spoof of GTA is for…

Before you watch, try and guess....... Nope, You're wrong.

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I hate BLUETOOTH users that talk to themselves

This commercial pretty much sums up why people on BLUETOOTH headsets freak me out.

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Jerry Seinfeld's Brilliant Response to a Telemarketer

An absolute classic - I'm going to use this from now on!

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Mad Driving Skills

"Driving at its best." Video of some pretty impressive driving tricks.

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5 Free Online Photo Editors

Perhaps you're on vacation and didn't feel like lugging your laptop along with you. But of course you're taking pictures. You can now clean up those photos and even do more advanced image editing from any internet café. A crop of web-based photo editing programs has sprouted up over the past year, mostly based on AJAX or Flash.

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DON’T buy an HDTV without reading this first

Forking out a few thousand dollars or even just a few hundred is a serious investment and the last thing you want to do is buy an HDTV with lousy color rendition. Navigating the land mind of consumer electronics is a confusing proposition even for the seasoned gadget geeks so I created this survival guide to help you make a wise decision.

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Alpha Geek: 10 cool cell phone tricks

What has your cell phone done for you lately? Mine just updated my blog. Then it told me my friend was just a few blocks up the street. Then it showed me my Google Reader feeds. Then it told me what song was playing on the radio. Then it got me out of a really boring meeting.

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Turn any laptop into a touchscreen

If you really want a touchscreen PC but don't feel like waiting for them to appear in anything but specialty, super-expensive computers, then you're in luck. This Laptop Tablet from NAVIsis will turn any laptop into a touchscreen tablet in a matter of seconds. Just snap it onto the side of your screen and you're all set to use a stylus.

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Video Review of TapeFailure - watch your users use your site

This is a cool idea to tape users visiting your site and how they interact with your site pages. Very innovative product and doesn't cost much. Most concern would be if this will slowdown user's browsing experience.

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Slashdottit: Slashdot Clones Digg

Slashdot launched “Slashdottit” today, which turns the Slashdot interface into a Digg clone. The number of votes being counted is ridiculously huge - as much as 6*10^23 for some stories. That’s significantly more votes than Digg’s 1 million registered users could rack up.

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