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TagFetch is a search enging that uses tags to search, and gets results from various sources including Blogs, Delicious etc. I'm looking forward to being able to customize the search "modules". I guess that will come when the Login/Signup goes live!

My LinkedIn profile finally has its own friendly url. There's a chap on LinkedIn with my name, "Josh Downes" and he pinched the url with my full name, so I had to settle for just my surname :) Could have used "Joshua Downes" but haven't used that for soooo long I'm not sure if anyone would find me! :) Here's the LinkedIn profile: Josh Downes

The NME-360 enables the XBOX 360 to play backups of the original games. I've not yet confirmed if there are any catches.. but it sounds good for pirates so far...! read more  |  digg story

This Flickr mashup is a flash clock that uses images from FLickr to display a digital clock Here you go: www.quasimondo.com/cloc...

Tamper Data is a great Firefox extension that lets you look a the HTTP data that's being sent by the browser. You can also modify it if you want. Here it is: Tamper Data extension

Just added this FF extension to my collection so that I could use a real-time tram timetable which (for some wierd reason) was only available on the mobile version of the site. Here it is: Firefox wmlbrowser extension

I think I might get the Panasonic DMC-FZ7 - it looks and sounds great (from the reviews) ! By th way, if you've not heard of it, dprieview.com has amazing in-depth digital camera info and reviews.Read more at www.dpreview.com/review...

This is Realplayer 10 for Ubuntu linux . It's the debian package, and it works for me (I'm running Ubuntu off a Live CD) And this is my first post from a system running on a Live CD ( Ubuntu of course) :)) /Josh

Bumping locks This vid shows how locks can be "bumped" with a bump key (?). It seems most modern locks can easily opened like this.

Robbie Williams interesting new single "Rudebox". Here's the video clip from his website: Robbie Williams - Rudebox video clip stream And here you can download the clip: Robbie Williams - Rudebox video clip download