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Pawtucket River Bridge ban begins Wednesday 2007-11-21 22:54:00 The state willban heavy trucks from the weakened Route 95 Pawtucket River Bridgebeginning Wednesday and continuing indefinitely, the Department ofTransportation said yesterday. Kazem Farhoumand,the DOT’s acting chief engineer, said the state will ban vehiclesweighing more than 22 tons from the bridge. The weight limit might goeven lower depending on the outcome of a continuing analysis ofinspection data, Farhoumand said. source ...

General Motors' all-electric Volt to reach consumers in late 2010 2007-11-21 22:39:00 GM is hoping to use this momentum and high level of interestin its vehicles to push the electricmotor-powered Chevrolet Volt to customers by the endof 2010. General Motors is quite confident these days. The companyrecently priced its highly-anticipated full-size hybrid SUVsand showed off a conceptversion of its full-size hybrid Chevrolet Silverado. GM CEO Rick Wagoneralso noted that his company will releaseone hybrid per quarter for the next four years -- lofty goals indeed. more here ...

ImgBurn - burn CD/DVD images 2007-11-21 22:06:00 ImgBurn is a free tool that enables you to burn CD/DVD images withease. All the latest drives are supported (including booktype /bitsetting on many of the major ones). Advanced functionality can befound in the ImgBurn context menus.more here ... Dvd

InfraRecorder CD/DVD burning 2007-11-21 19:50:00 InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows.It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to useapplication interface and Windows Explorer integration. http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ ... Dvd

Pitaschio - freeware which makes it convenient to use Microsoft Windows 2007-11-21 19:48:00 The Pitaschio includes a large number of useful functions.Snap a window to other windows when moving and resizingRestrict a window position to inside of the screenAlways keep a window above all other windowsMinimize a window to the system trayUse small icons in the desktopDisable Windows key, Insert key, Alt key etc.Lock the mouse or keyboard while cleaning themTake statistics about mouse and keyboardCalculate Moon's ageControl the sound volume using the mouse wheelDisplay the sound volume level on the screenhttp://pitaschio.ara3.net/ ... Microsoft

Border Patrol goes zero tolerance 2007-11-20 12:50:00 End of 'catch and release' strains courts and jails, but proponents applaud effort. source ...

The largest, global online database of lost, stolen and seized property 2007-11-20 12:48:00 http://www.trace.com/ ...

Pidgin v2.2.2 2007-11-18 19:04:00 Pidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General PublicLicense (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it and to modify it,but if you distribute your modifications you must distribute the modifiedsource code as well.http://www.pidgin.im/ ...

Launcher 1.5.8 - personal shortcut manager 2007-11-18 19:00:00 Launcher is an easy-to-use personal shortcut manager to launch allkinds of files and programs. Drag-and-drop operations are supported;this means that when Launcher is in "Manage Items" mode, it is possibleto configure shortcuts by "dragging" files from e.g. Windows Desktopand then "dropping" them into Launcher. One can create an unlimitedamount of user defined sub-folders and item (e.g. program) shortcuts.Launcher resides in the sys-tray. more here ...

Thanksgiving Superfoods 2007-11-17 22:20:00 Tired of spinach, bored with broccoli? Experts say there’s a newgeneration of superfoods that promise to do double or triple-duty whenit comes to preventing illness. more here ...

Add to Search Bar 1.6 for FireFox 2007-11-17 20:49:00 Make any pages' search functionality available in the Search Bar (or "search box")...Just make a right click with the mouse pointer on top of *the page's* search box and choose "Add to Search Bar..."https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682 ...

TomTom beats Garmin in battle for Tele Atlas 2007-11-17 20:40:00 TomTom’s victory comes as a surprise, as it was the smaller ofthe two navigation companies, with a market capitalisation of $9.1bnagainst Garmin’s $18.5bn.source ...

T r u e C r y p t - Simply the Best 2007-11-17 19:32:00 Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux# Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.# Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive.# Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.# Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here).2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).# Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: LRW.http://www.truecrypt.org/ ...

Really Erase a Hard Drive 2007-11-15 21:00:00 You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing ofthe sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in systemfor the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on. ...

Vmyths - Hoaxes, myths, urban legends 2007-11-15 20:52:00 Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them.http://www.vmyths.com/ ...