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Top 10 Things Developers Say: I've probably used most of these, and some of them quite recently as I've been writing a PHP user registration/protection script, and there have been a few little problems.

Error ID 1517: Do you see a lot of these errors in your event log? Try the "User Profile Hive Cleanup Service" tool to properly close your user profile when you log off/shutdown. (Now at version 1.6d)

MSN Content: Add a ton of display pictures, emoticons and winks... all from Blue Mountain!

Public IP WiFi Hotspot: Public IP provides hotspot operators with an extremely simple, highly versatile, FREE, open source hotspot solution... using a Linux LiveCD.

Hide My Ass: A free web proxy for those stuck behind firewalls and web content filters.

Going Beyond...: Microsoft celebrates being 30.

Ubuntu For Novices: A simple getting started guide for a popular Linux distro.

Alarm Clocks Are Bad To Wake Up To: I'll probably try this out and see if it actually makes any difference... although it does help if you go to bed earlier to start with!

Five Reasons Why Jack Thompson Is Right: And Five Reasons Why He's Not.

World Sunlight Map: Regularly updating imagery showing what parts of the world are receiving sunlight and which are currently in darkness. Pretty neat!

Wooden Nano Case: I'm not sure about the middle image on the bottom row... but the case sure is nice.

UFO Maps: Get out the tin foil hats, and check there are no black helicopters in your area... if you see a UFO report it to this site and you'll get your own happy looking saucer on the map!

MSN BackUp: With the latest versions of MSN Messenger you can add custom emoticons, backgrounds, winks, dynamic display pictures... and you may have paid for them, but how can you backup all of your addons so you can restore them if your computer goes down? With MSN BackUp of course!

Fooling An Entire Industry: How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry. A very good article relating to the Motorola iTunes phone.

Flash 8: For all Firefox users with the Adblock extension, you must do this for Flash to work: Tools > Adblock > Preferences > Adblock Options > turn Obj-Tag off.