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Don't Obsess About Your Credit Score

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I've read a lot of stores lately about "credit score enthusiasts" who want to get the perfect credit score or are obsessed with improving their score. While it's certainly better than not caring about your credit score at all, it almost never pays to get a perfect score.

iTunes 10 addresses 13 security vulnerabilities

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All of the holes are contained in WebKit and can be exploited to compromise systems

Microsoft hardening tool with graphical user interface

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The tool allows users and IT professionals to harden existing software against known attacks - without the need to recompile
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Save $420 On Your Comcast Bill By Being A Pain In The Butt

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Jeff in Seattle saves $420 a year on his Comcast bill by calling the company once every 6 months and demanding they keep him at the lowest competitive rate of $29.99. He threatens to go to Qwest if they don't give him that rate. He's been doing this for several years now, and it keeps working.

How to Save $420 on Your Comcast Cable Bill This Year

PCDECRAPIFIER

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Easily identify and remove crapware from a new (or old) PC. "The PC Decrapifier is a program designed to remove or uninstall a specific list of unwanted software in an unattended fashion. It can be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped with new PCs

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Military Radio Messes With Garage Door Opener

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Add this to the list of reasons why you should think twice before moving to Yuma, Ariz., where the thermometer can hit 124 degrees: nearby Marine Corps radio signals can kill your garage door opener

Foothills resident has garage door problem

Wendy's Cook: I Pulled Knife On Co-Worker For Serving Bad Bacon

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An employee at a Wendy's in Connecticut has been charged with second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, threatening and breach of peace after allegedly pulling a knife and threatening to stab a co-worker. But he claims it was all for a good reason: He was upset at the other employee for serving bacon that had dropped on the floor

Cook Arrested In Beef Over Bacon

Some Linux Distros Vulnerable to Version

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In the wake of all of the stories about the Windows DLL hijacking bug, it appears that certain Linux distributions may be vulnerable to a similar problem related to the way that Linux handles a specific variable in some cases. The bug apparently was introduced via a Debian patch last year.Read More

Microsoft cofounder drops patent bomb on Apple, Google, Facebook

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Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has filed a lawsuit against 11 tech companies for violations of his current company's patents that cover basic Internet concepts. The list includes Google, Facebook, and Apple... but not Microsoft.

Dropbox

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File sync, on-line backup, and file sharing all in one. This is one app I can't live without. "Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you've installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!). Because a copy of your files are stored on Dropbox's secure servers, you can also access them from any computer or mobile device using the Dropbox website

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