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Bringing a extra battery for your laptop? Should be fine, but check with the article on SafeTravel from the Department of Transportation to see if it fits the guidelines.

The last feature that needs to be added to Google to literally replace Outlook with web-based apps.

Integrate Remember the Milk tasks into Gmail using Firefox addon

phpMyAdmin has released a bugfix version 2.11.4 - please upgrade as soon as possible.

phpMyAdmin website

If there ever was any argument for Internet Explorer - this is the perfect one against it.

When on Digg be careful

Getting a Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is not a fun problem to troubleshoot, but making them show up on a perfectly fine computer is hilarious fun to the geeks in the know. A simple registry hack + a simple keystroke and  **CRASH** there goes Windows.

Keyboard Ninja: Kill Windows with the Blue Screen of Death in 3 Keystrokes

While I do not recommend the average user to dive into the Firefox "Registry" that is about:config, some of the tweaks in this article are useful to get rid of the little annoyances that you deal with when using Firefox.

10 lesser known Firefox about:config parameters

Only supported phones are Symbian, Windows, Palm.

I would like to add MusicDock to the list. MusicDock allows you to stream XM radio to your phone - all you need is a Online Account with XM.

Listen to radio stations on your mobile phone for free

Here’s the Extensions that I have installed in Thunderbird right now, a quick description, and why I like them.

1. Habu Adds a button to your toolbar to easily report spam in the current folder to SpamCop, FTC, FDA, SEC, or Knujon.com.
   This extension is awesome for spamcop users that have quick reporting turned on. If you have your Thunderbird spam filters tuned to your email habits, 99% of the time the spam that is reported is spam.
2. Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) Searches the current folder and compares all the messages to each other and gives you the option to remove duplicate messages. It will compare by from, recipients, message id, sent time, subject, body, etc.
   I used to use the first Remove Duplicate Messages, but when the extension would not be compatible with a newer version of Thunderbird (I think between 1.5 and 2) I found this extension which runs ALOT faster and is alot more accurate.
3. syncSW ScheduleWorld is a free SyncML server that will sync your contacts and calendars with a multitude of devices and programs.
   This site is a God-send to geeks (like me) that have multiple installs of Thunderbird on many different computers and their contact list on their smartphone and want them all to be in sync. ScheduleWorld has a Thunderbird extension, Outlook plugin, Windows Mobile support (via Funambol), Blackberry, and syncs to Google Calendar, etc, etc ,etc. Gmail contacts are being reworked because of the recent update to Gmail. Still a great website!
4. Duplicate Contact Manager Checks your contacts list for duplicates and asks you what you would like to do with not exact duplicates (merge, keep both, etc).
   I personally have stopped using this extension since I found ScheduleWorld but it is useful to clean out address books.

Those of you still on PHP 4 check your upgrades today for PHP 4.4.8.

Also take a look into gophp5.org

PHP 4.4.8 Released