I’ve been a fan of Flickr for a while now. I noticed today that you can now receive email notifications when someone comments on one of your photos, or when one of your contacts uploads new photos.

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I was reading on the BBC Technology web site earlier about hackers who had stolen information from at least 45.7 million payment cards used by customers of US retailer TJX, which owns TJ Maxx, and UK outlet TKMaxx.

Hackers managed to access information from its TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods shops in the US and Puerto Rico, Bob’s Stores in the US, and Winners and HomeSense shops in Canada. The security breach may also have involved TKMaxx customers in the UK and Ireland.

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/>Many of you in the UK may be familiar with a recent broadband satisfaction survey conducted by the BBC Watchdog program.

Some of these surveys need to be taken with a pinch of salt and there is always arguments about how accurate they are, but I was glad to see my ISP – Zen Internet – coming in 3rd place with a satisfaction rating of 93%.

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LocalCooling is a 100% free application you can download which will optimize your PC’s power consumption and thus help you reduce your energy footprint. The application requires Windows XP to run.

The features it offers are nothing new. Most if not all of the features it offers, such as powering down the hard drives or hibernating the PC after a set amount of time, can all be achieved via the Windows control panel. But the application allows you to set these features in a much more user friendly way than via the control panel.

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I came across this interesting mashup of social bookmarking sites reddit and del.icio.us. A couple of students from Poland have created a web site that mashes up reddit and del.icio.us to give you reddicious!

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Last month I was reporting on the IOGEAR Digital Scribe. It looks like it may soon be available for sale? The product description page no longer shows the text ‘Coming Soon’ and I’ve noticed that it is now listed in the IOGEAR Peripherals page. There is no ‘Buy Now’ button or price displayed on the [...]

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Digital pens have been around for a while but the IOGear Digital Scribe is the first one I’ve seen that can be used on any type of paper. It captures your handwriting and stores it on the pen’s internal memory. This can then be transferred to your computer either straight away or a later date.

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We’re getting closer to the next release of Ubuntu. Feisty Fawn is due for release on April 19th. Looking at the Feisty Release Schedule everything looks on schedule as always. The development team did a great job getting Edgy out on schedule so I have no doubt the same will apply for Feisty Fawn.

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