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Whether it’s a product or feature launch or a cool new initiative, chances are that you’ll read about most news from Google on one of our blogs.

Blog directory – News from Google

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/blog-directory.html#tab0

How to Report Bugs Effectively

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html by Simon Tatham, professional and free-software programmer
A color palette is the set of colors used in the design and creation of the website. These colors should be chosen carefully because they will not only determine the overall look of your site, but they will help define your brand as well. Most color palettes consist of between two and four colors, not including basic colors such as black and white. http://webexpedition18.com/articles/how-to-create-a-color-palette-for-your-website/

How to Create a Color Palette for Your Website

Turn Your Old Router into a Range-Boosting Wi-Fi Repeater

If you're upgrading to a faster, stronger wireless router, don't chuck your older Wi-Fi box. With the magic of DD-WRT , you can turn your older wireless router into a range-expanding Wi-Fi repeater to cover everywhere you need a connection. The advent of wireless home networks grew slowly in the past decade, but reached the point at which nearly every home with a high-speed connection had a wireless router that shared Wi-Fi connections throughout the home. http://lifehacker.com/5563196/turn-your-old-router-into-a-range+boosting-wi+fi-repeater
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question328.htm

Is it better to turn my computer off or leave it on all the time

This is one of those questions where there is no single right answer. In other words, it depends on how you use your computer . There are at least three situations that force you to leave your computer on 24 hours a day: You are on a network , and the network administrators back up files and/or upgrade software over the network at night. If that is the case, and you want your machine backed up or upgraded, then you need to leave it on all the time. You are using your machine as some sort of server .
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/microsoft-services-agreement

Services Agreement

13.1. United States. If you live in (or, if you are a business, you are headquartered in) the United States, you are contracting with Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, US. The laws of the state where you live govern the interpretation of this agreement, claims for breach of it, and all other claims (including consumer protection, unfair competition, and tort claims), regardless of conflict of law principles.
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/07/use-tmutil-to-take-control-of-time-machine-in-mountain-lion/ Time Machine works best when you use it as it's designed: You simply let it run in the background and do its thing, only bothering it when you have to go back and get an old version of a document out. But if you ever want to do anything a little crazy with Time Machine ("adopting" a backup history on a migrated machine, for instance) it can be a little cranky. For those situations, says researcher Simon Heimlicher , there's a cool little Terminal command called "tmutil." The command, which was introduced in OS X 10.7 Lion, allows you to reconnect your computer to older backups if you swap hard drives or upgrade your Mac. While Lion and Mountain Lion will give you the option to inherit old backups when you migrate your machine, it's nice to be able to do it manually if you need to.

Use tmutil to take control of Time Machine in Mountain Lion

http://www.dailybits.com/100-sites-to-download-all-sorts-of-things/ These days you can find all sorts of things online, from audio books to flash files, from sound effects to CSS templates. Below we compiled a list with over 100 download sites that serve that purpose.

100+ Sites to Download All Sorts of Things

There’s a great State Farm commercial in regular rotation on TV these days: a young woman explains to someone that “they can’t put anything on the Internet that isn’t true.” Her friend asks where she heard that; they both respond “the Internet.” Just then, the woman’s date shows up, a man she met on the Internet who claims to be a French model-but clearly isn’t. That commercial underscores an ironic truth about the Internet: If you search for tips on how to conduct proper academic research using the Internet, how do you know that the tips you find are legitimate and useful? Too often, what masquerades as useful is not up-to-date, is written by a novice, or is not thorough. Fear not!

The 10 Commandments of Internet Research