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Google Adds Transit Layer to Google Maps

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Google Adds Transit Layer to Google MapsThe other day Google added another cool and useful feature to their Google Maps: they've added a "transit" (trains only at the mo) layer for several cities, including London, Cape Town and Jo'burg - yes, I was surprised about the last two too. Whilst the Cape Town and Jo'burg maps aren't likely to be of much use to most people, ...
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Google Search Is Changing

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Google Search Is ChangingI've just noticed Google rolled something else out when they rolled out the Gmail themes: they've now added a "Promote", "Remove" and "Comment" button to each search result: (Of course I was going to demo by searching my own name ;-) ). It will be interesting to see how this affects search results and the profits online marketers make. If ...
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GMail Gets Skinned

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GMail Gets SkinnedThe Official Gmail Blog are reporting that GMail is about to get a major face lift, that is if you want it to. They're introducing some pretty cool looking skins (30 or so of them apparently) so you can change your Gmail look to suit your needs. Apparently, you'll be able to change your themes via the Settings -> Themes ...
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No More Internet Withdrawal

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I've just check the BT website and apparently our phone line has now been fixed. Woohoo!!! We can now get calls and use the tinternet at home again. Pity it took them 3 days to even bother looking into the problem :-(
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SA Top Sites and Blog Top Sites Gone AWOL

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I can't be the only one to have noticed this, but it appears www.satopsites.com and www.blogtopsites.co.za have gone AWOL. First www.blogtopsites.co.za disappeared about 2 weeks ago and now today www.satopsites.com has stopped responding. Both have disappeared without any warning. Anyone know what's happened?
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Get Your Joost Invite NOW

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Get Your Joost Invite NOWIf you're quick you can get yourself an invite to try out Joost - the IPTV P2P software. I've got my invite and I'm now about to give it a spin and see how good this really is. Check out whats on - looks quite impressive. Oh, and one quick warning from Joost... So all those in SA with capped ...
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Shmaak.php For Your Posts

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Shmaak.php For Your PostsNot too long ago I registered my two blogs with Amatomu - a South African blog portal run by the Mail & Guardian newspaper, that attempts to correlate and link to as many South African blogs as possible. If you've got an interest in what other SA blogs have to say, it's worth a peruse. Anyway, Eish!! made a valid ...
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Directions: New York to Dublin

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You've got to love Google for having a sense of humour. If, for some unknown reason, you wanted directions to get from New York (USA) to Dublin (Ireland), Google Maps will gladly provide them for you, including a useful little tip... check out step 23 (Screenshot).
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Googe - Huh?

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Googe - Huh?As has become a bit of a tradition - Google (UK) has changed their logo to reflect the day's celebration: I noticed this this morning and thought - "How odd, they've left off the 'l' - the BIG L on Big L day". Well, The Register soon picked up on this too and even managed to get an official response ...
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E-Pizza

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E-PizzaOh I'm such an internet whore... I've just ordered (21:07) Claire and I pizza online, for delivery. I think I'll go grab another beer, sit back, relax and wait for my dinner to arrive. Update: (21:22) Just received my confirmation email from the store. Update: (21:43) Dinner's here. Chow time.
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