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ergbvregon Arduino, open-source electronics prototyping platform

Yes it's great - but what exactly is the news part? It has been widely available for several years.

ergbvregon How Much Will the Post Office Put Up With?

Virgin mobile phones mailed one of those Love Heart candies to business as apart of a "we love our customers" campaign. Unfortunately they got crushed by the post - resulting in white powder filled envelopes being mailed to lots of US business in the middle of the anthrax scare.

ergbvregon Opera: Still competing, still growing (Interview with CEO)

Tabbed browsing.

Fast page rendering

Customisable search

Button to toggle images

Password manager

Mouse gestures

Easy per-site config for cookies etc

-Yes I know FF has these now or has plugins for them. But Opera had them first.

ergbvregon Opera: Still competing, still growing (Interview with CEO)

Today 3% market share - tomorrow the WORLD !!!

Posted from Opera, been using it since version 3

ergbvregon Iowa 911 Call Center Nation First To Accept Emergency Txts

About time. Many people's lives have been saved by being able to send a text to a friend from somewhere in the backcountry / offshore where they couldn't make a call but there was enough signal for a txt.