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Mac OS X only: Freeware application RapidoSerial stores and secures your software licenses in an easy-to-access database. When you dig into your pocketbook to pay for a great software package, the last thing you want to do is lose the license key you purchased. RapidoSerial aims to make sure that you don't. For a web-based alternative, check out previously mentioned Keyfiler. If you've already got a tried-and-true method for storing your software licenses, let's hear it in the comments.RapidoSerial [via read more »
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Instead of putting the onus on you to choose the best keyword, just-launched semantic search engine Powerset can find the answers you seek on the Wikipedia using natural language. Type things like "what is a life hack" or "paintings by Salvador Dali" and Powerset extracts those answers from Wikipedia and lays them out on an attractive page. CNET reports:
Powerset's natural language search technology is based on patents licensed exclusively from PARC and its own proprietary indexing. Powerset's engine has read 2.5 million Wikipedia pages and extracted "meaning" from the sentences, creating a navigation and semantic layer on top of the popular Web encyclopedia.
In my tests, Powerset was slow to respond (no doubt suffering from launch overload), but you can check out a video of Po read more »
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ICONlook offers a pretty handy interface for searching and downloading icon files, whether for replacing out-of-place icons on your system or adding some graphical polish to a site. The engine's reach is somewhat limited at this point, but it helpfully provides a link to the license type for each result, when known, and seems to lean toward free and Creative Commons sources to begin with. Until Google adds icon files to their filetype:x capabilities, ICONlook is a good bet for designing your desktop.ICONlook [via Download Squad]
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A licensed alcohol & drug counselor I admire, Larry Bouchard, likes to tell addicted clients, "If you try to fill the hole in your stomach with the wrong stuff - food, money, gin, dope, sex, work, shopping, gambling, pills or even roller coaster rides - you can never get enough." read more »
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Until now, the only way photographers who posted their pictures on Flickr could get paid was by means of a private negotiation between them and those who wanted to use their ''all rights reserved'' work. Things are about to change. Flickr has just signed an exclusive partnership with Getty Images, the world's leading owner and distributor of photographs and multimedia content. The company is best known for its licensing method, that allows subscribers to earn money depen... read more »
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Thought you'd made it clear on your driver's license that you were an organ donor? Turns out, you hadn't actually consented; your family could still override your wishes. Beginning Wednesday, a new system to register donors will eliminate that layer of red tape. read more »
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Amazon.com has just launched two new pay services for firms. Checkout, the first of the two, offers different features, such as the 1-click experience. Whenever people are searching for something to buy on an Amazon.com partner website, they are given the possibility of placing the order without leaving the page.
The fact that a product they are searching for is under license from Amazon.com gives shoppers a greater confidence in the safety of their transaction. In order not to make small co... read more »
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The fact that a product they are searching for is under license from Amazon.com gives shoppers a greater confidence in the safety of their transaction. In order not to make small co... read more »
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Call it a license to thrill. Sexually active New Yorkers looking to wise up before turning the lights down can verify their partners' sexual health status with a simple glance in their wallet. read more »
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