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You gotta be kidding me! Amazon has been granted the patent for Search-Request URL . source: download-squad.com "You're not supposed to be able to patent anything that's obvious. That's a gross oversimplification of complex US patent law..."   So it says on Download Squad's post about US Patent office's rejection to Amazon's One-Click patent. Is it not obvious that the box noted by No. 14 in the above diagram (part of the original patent) is nothing but...
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Sometimes it becomes hard to find things that otherwise seem blatantly obvious. I was searching on Google to backup the search engines my Firefox and realized that this information isn't easily reachable. Of course hardcore Firefox users would tell you this even when they're half asleep, but me; I don't fall in that category. So here is what needs to be done. Get to the profile folder of Firefox, for typical installations it would be following on xp & Vista. xp ยป C:\Documents and...
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Yesterday, Microsoft released a refreshed build of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows xp that no longer requires WGA check. If you're wondering why Microsoft decided to do it or why now? Mary Jo Foley has pretty much nailed it . It's obvious that it's in Microsoft's best interests to let pirates install IE 7 more easily (not that it was impossible) to improve its marketshare rather than let Firefox gain over it due restrictions enforced by Microsoft itself. So all you pirates out there...