Any university student who has ever purchased a used textbook knows that there are sometimes strange surprises hiding between those pages. Usually they come in the form of messy scribbles, but in one student’s case the unexpected gift-with-a-textbook-purchase was a bag of cocaine.

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Controversial postings by New York police officers on a Facebook group titled “No More West Indian Day Detail” have raised questions about racism — and also about limits on free speech.

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With the unveiling of its new online music store, Google upped the ante in its ongoing battle against Apple and Amazon’s cloud-based music services, with fast syncing and free songs.

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There’s some websites out there that offer free books, everything from the classics to the latest best-sellers. Here are the places I always check before I buy.

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This week Matt reviews an open source WiFi network scanner for Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) while Darren convinces a Windows server into treating a VPN connection as a service.

If you’re looking to post your phone number online — for a dating site, if you’re selling something on eBay — you can get post a free disposable link to your phone number on Babble.ly.

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Apache, an open-source computer program that helps users manage their servers, works on Windows and Linux computers. If you wish to use Apache to help maintain the server for your domain, you must register your domain name, set up your website and… by Breann Kanobi

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People lose touch with each other as time passes. Old friends move away, we leave our hometowns in search of work or for school. After a few years, you may want to reconnect with some old acquaintances but may not know how to find them or where… Recent Article published on 3/3/2011 by Patrick Gorman

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For those on the go, a fax machine isn’t the most portable piece of office machinery to carry around. Travelers who need to receive faxes might find themselves out of luck unless a fax machine is nearby. Luckily, those who reside in the United… Recent Article published on 7/20/2010 by Shawn Farner

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Email is such a quick communication tool that sometimes we get hasty in its handling. Act too fast, and you may accidentally delete an important email. Do not despair. Deleted emails are not physically erased until the trash has been emptied…. Recent Article published on 1/31/2011 by Sinea Pies

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