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Google has announced plans to get Google Talk and AIM talking, but with a little elbow grease you can do that and more today.
Now that Google has opened up their Google Talk servers for federation with other Jabber servers, you can use Google Talk to connect to your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo or ICQ.

Macro Linz » How to convert a physcial computer to a virtual machine
What you will need to get started
* Your two laptops (obviously)
* VMWare Workstation (version 5.5 recommended, what I used) – You may download and use a free 30-day trial of Workstation. After the trial ends, [...]

The Sockets API lets you develop client and server applications that can communicate across a local network or across the world via the Internet. Like any API, you can use the Sockets API in ways that promote high performance — or inhibit it. This article explores four ways to use the Sockets API to squeeze [...]

Konica Minolta has just announced that they’re pulling out of the camera biz. Sony will be continue to manufacture cameras compatible with Konica Minolta lenses, which furthers a partnership the two companies formed last year, and will receive some of Konica Minolta’s DSLR related assets.

PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. What are they? PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released.

Chandler, a next-generation Personal Information Manager (PIM) integrating calendar, e-mail, contact management, task management, notes, and instant messaging
Chandler is an interpersonal information manager that adapts to your changing needs.

Healthy food hot list consisting of the 29 food that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Along with each description is a suggestion as to how to incorporate these power-foods into your diet.

100-downloads.com Top-100 essential downloads of free software & freeware for Windows XP.

An extensive resource for stock photography buyers, professional stock photographers, photographic libraries, and anyone else interested in the stock photography industry.

Smart is a package manager that works on most major distros (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc), and offers “better package management for these distributions, even when working with their own packages”.