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Watch the Election Unfold Through Google's Elections Gallery

Google has been very involved with this election. They've released tools for voters to find out voting information. They've released a tool for volunteers to help recruit voters. They've provided an Election page to keep up with news, they've sponsored a project that allows kids who are not yet old enough to vote to ask questions to the next President of the United States. They've tinkered with a Google News feature that lets you compare quotes on specific topics from each of the candidates.

AEP SSL VPN goes virtual

AEP Networks has introduced the latest version of its SSL VPN product family, AEP Netilla SSL VPN Virtual Edition (VE). The pre-packaged software-only virtual appliance streamlines secure remote application access installations on virtual server offerings such as VMware ESX. Netilla VE enables enterprise customers and services providers to quickly spin-up new remote access projects on demand within an existing virtualized server infrastructure without requiring new appliance hardware. The new Netilla VE product also allows IT security managers to take advantage of streamlined hardware maintenance processes, lower data-center power consumption and improved business continuity benefits inherent in server virtualization deployments. Netilla VE is made further cost effective for service providers and enterprise deployments as a result of a bl

Last Call iPhone App Wants You To Get Drunk Responsibly

Similar to other drunk-calculating iPhone apps, Last Call determines how smashed you are by your weight and how many drinks you've knocked back. However, unlike all those other apps, it's free, it also calculates your drunkenness by the specific type of alcoholic beverage you've consumed, and it gives you options on what to do next now that you're super drunk. If you've had a few too many drinks to drive, you can press a button on the app that'll call a taxi for you. And if you've disregarded the taxi button, there's another button that'll help you to find a local lawyer for when you get that DUI, tsk tsk. [Wired]

REVIEW | A Matter of Taste: Philippe Claudel's "I've Loved You So Long"

Juliette, a middle-aged woman, waits alone, gray and taciturn -- two words that pretty well describe "I've Loved You So Long." She stands to haltingly greet her rendez-vous, her sister, Lea. We gather they've been apart a long time. Juliette's been "away," her past a talked-around negative space that's filled out as the film nurses us for two hours on a drip-feed of withheld backstory.

MEDIA ALERT: Check Point to Demo VPN-1 VE Utilizing VMsafe Technology

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Business Wire) -- Check Point(R) Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that it will demonstrate a development version of its new VPN-1(R) Virtual Edition (VE) security gateway integrated with VMware's forthcoming VMsafe API. The sneak peak of VPN-1(R) VE certified on VMware and using VMsafe will be part of a joint VMware and Check Point security session at VMworld on Thursday, September 18th at 9:00AM.

You've Got Mail! You've Got Herpes!

Meredith F. Small is an anthropologist at Cornell University and is also the author of "Our Babies, Ourselves; How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent" and "The Culture of Our Discontent; Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness." Her Human Nature column appears each Friday on LiveScience.

You've got Windows 7 questions? I've got answers

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Firemail for IPhone

I've never really cared for the touch screen keyboard on the iPhone. Sure, I've grown accustomed to it. Beats a stylus any day. But I've never become comfortable with it. Truth is, I sometimes miss my Blackberry, with the QWERTY keyboard. Even if the keys were small, I could at least feel the correct ones. I constantly find myself mashing the wrong key when typing e-mail. Try as I might to mind my p's and q's, as often as not I delete and retype o's and w's.

Firemail for iPhone

I've never really cared for the touch screen keyboard on the iPhone. Sure, I've grown accustomed to it. Beats a stylus any day. But I've never become comfortable with it. Truth is, I sometimes miss my Blackberry, with the QWERTY keyboard. Even if the keys were small, I could at least feel the correct ones. I constantly find myself mashing the wrong key when typing e-mail. Try as I might to mind my p's and q's, as often as not I delete and retype o's and w's.

Review: Firemail for iPhone

I’ve never really cared for the touch screen keyboard on the iPhone. Sure, I’ve grown accustomed to it. Beats a stylus any day. But I’ve never become comfortable with it. Truth is, I sometimes miss my Blackberry, with the QWERTY keyboard. Even if the keys were small, I could at least feel the correct ones. I constantly find myself mashing the wrong key when typing e-mail. Try as I might to mind my p’s and q’s, as often as not I delete and retype o’s and w’s.

A Personal Note: A Boy Named Finn

I've dithered for weeks over whether to write this post. As my longtime readers know, I've maintained a strict formula for what makes it onto this blog: I don't discuss my other Wired stories, or the news of the day, or how I feel about the state of the nation. Above all, I've conscientiously kept my personal life off these pages, for the excellent, time-honored reason that stories are almost invariably more interesting than the personalities who report on them. The crowdsourcing blog is devoted, simply, to crowdsourcing, in all its various manifestations and implications.

Time to go home?

We've been looking at the issue of migrants from Europe who work here in the UK and we've found that hundreds of them are leaving to go home because of the credit crunch. In Poland, the economy's doing quite and we've talked to a lot of them who say now is the time to go home and find work.

PSP Getting Dual Shock 3 Support Through 'PSP Plus'

We've seen the patents and the rumors that the Sony PlayStation Portable would begin accepting the Dual Shock 3 controller. Heck, we've even seen those too impatient to wait who've modded the experience on their own. But finally, Sony has announced a new feature called PSP Plus that will allow you to play PSP (2000 or 3000 models) with your Dual Shock 3 (or SIXAXIS?) controller. But there are a few catches...

Podcasting Comes to the ColdFusion Community

Recently, we've had, as Ray Camden calls it, a "podcasting explosion." Two very talented teams of ColdFusion developers have started podcasting on ColdFusion. (Podcasting is creating audio files and publishing them through a blog-type setting that allows people to be automatically notified when a new podcast exists.) The first team, Bryan Kaiser and Michael Haynie, are doing a very newsy community-oriented broadcast. They've taken some of the more interesting blog articles and trends in the ColdFusion world, and they both summarize and analyze the content. They've done three episodes so far. The first focused on MAX and lasted about 15 minutes, while the second went over a half hour and discussed a wide range of subjects, though the main focus of the episode was the rise of AJAX as a technology.

RIAA's Only Court Victory Declared Mistrial - Jammie Thomas will receive new trial

For all the years we've watched the RIAA's "sue 'em all" scorched earth legal campaign, they've only really won one case in court, and now that case has been declared a mistrial. A $220,000 penalty has also been thrown out, and defendant Jammie Thomas (who we've discussed previously) will now have a new trial. Of course this time around it may prove more difficult for the RIAA, given that the RIAA lawyers have to prove actual copyright infringement took place. Simply showing that Thomas made files available on the network (the RIAA's previous watermark for copyright infringement guilt) is not good enough.

Left 4 Dead

I Love a zombie film. I've been watching them for years and it is quite possible that I've seen every single one ever released, even Zombie Strippers (which, to be fair, is probably the finest example of the genre). I've always preferred the ones that see the Infected running around as if on Speed, rather than the slow ambling dum-dums that are easily out-witted, easily out-maneuvered, and easily capped. The fast ones though, they make your skin crawl; and are all over you like a harem of zombie strippers on a fifty pound note wrapped around a rare steak before you know it.

Obamania Continues on eBay

This is weird, I know, but over the years I've become a sort of collector of kitschy replicas of famous people. It started when a friend sent me a porcelain figure of JFK Jr. saluting his father, which I love and treasure. Since then, I've acquired more than my share of stamps, busts, and commemorative tabletop goods featuring icons like Elvis, the Pope, and Princess Diana. It's not like I put this stuff on display, but it is a bit of a secret problem. Picture_23_2 (The love I feel for my Prince and Princess of Wales royal marriage mug knows no bounds.) So, you can imagine how intrigued I've been to see what the great eBay might possibly offer for Obama fans. The site did not disappoint: It currently has more than 14,000 auctions listed under Barack Obama—including newspapers, paintings, dolls, stickers, and campaign buttons.

Ray Connolly revisits memories and friendships with stars as he transfers his 5,000 LPs and singles to iPod

It's been 1958 on some evenings in our house just recently and I've been 17 again. On others it's been the Sixties followed by every year until the mid-Eighties. It isn't that I've been tipping my toe in nostalgia. I've been swimming in it.

Hayden backs aggressive approach to counter Zaheer

Matthew Hayden: "Zaheer has been put under pressure a lot by myself and [Adam Gilchrist] in all the tournaments we’ve played in one-dayers. I’ve also tried to emulate that when we’ve played Tests

Business startup costs that shock new owners

Every year thousands of perfectly intelligent Americans jump into new business ventures without doing all their homework. Oh sure, they've tested the market and created a business plan. They've lined up a lawyer and accountant, purchased equipment and set up a Web site. But even though they may think they've covered all the bases, surprise expenses pop up in the most unusual places.

The Stigma of a Tech Support Background

An anonymous reader writes "Since the last semester of college I've been working as a first line tech support agent. At first it was just a way to earn some extra money; then it became a way to scrape by until I could find myself a real job. By now (almost two years in), it's beginning to feel like a curse. The problem I'm having is that no matter how many jobs I apply for, and no matter how well-written my applications are, I can't seem to get further than the first interview. For some reason it seems a lot of employers will completely overlook my degree in computer engineering, the fact that I can show them several personal projects that I've worked on, and that I can show them that I clearly possess the skills they are looking for. I've had several employers tell me to my face, and in rejection letters, that my 'professional background

TF2 Official Blog: Left 4 Dead Update

Robin Walker of the official TF2 blog writes: "Well, it's been a couple of weeks since we updated the blog, and we thought it was time to let you know why we've been so quiet. The last couple of weeks we've actually been moonlighting on Left 4 Dead. While the L4D team has been focusing on finishing up the core cooperative gameplay, we've been helping them by working on their Versus mode."

Are Your MP3s Normalized?

How many times have you been listening to your favorite MP3 songs and been irritated by having to adjust the volume every time a new track starts to play? I've had my ears blasted on quite a few occasions over the years because of variations in the loudness of tracks. If you've purchase digital music downloads, ripped CDs, or built up your music collection via other sources, there's a good chance that you've got a selection of music files that need 'normalizing'.

Editorial: Google program helps to remedy drunk-messaging embarrassment

It’s Friday night, and after spending a few hours out on the town, you stumble back to your dorm room and flop in front of your computer. You open up your Gmail, and discover the alcohol you’ve imbibed has finally given you the courage — or inspiration — to write that scathing e-mail you’ve been longing to send to an annoying, if well-meaning, friend. Or a draconian boss. Or that ex you’ve been obsessing over for months.

We've made the top 50 list of Circuit City creditors available here in Excel format, ...

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