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From Around the Web

3 Easy Ways To Restart Your Computer Over The Internet – Occasionally useful, especially for folks who developing or testing web apps and folks for download torrents at home while they’re at work.

Google Wave: A Complete Guide – Mashable runs down the features that have Google fan boys squee-ing with delight. So long Yahoo Mail, it looks like there’s a new most popular e-mail service in town!

How alternative search engines like Wolfram Alpha and Cuil can succeed – Is there room in the market for search engines that are nowhere near as good as the big names, but that nevertheless yield good results?

Prey – Prey is a simple and lightweight program that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.

Reading and Writing to Excel Spreadsheets in Python – Dev Explorer provides a brief introduction to using Excel and Python in tandem.

Seven Reasons Why Wordpress 2.8 Is Better Than Ever – While investigating whether or not I should upgrade my Wordpress installation, I came across this article. I’m not entirely convinced, yet.

The Web’s most Dangerous Keywords – Which is the most dangerous keyword to search for using public search engines these days? It’s “screensavers” with a maximum risk of 59.1 percent, according to McAfee’s recently released report “The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms“.

Tech News

Around seven million people in the UK are involved in illegal downloads
Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all
Microsoft to Netbooks: Stay Tiny Or Pay the Price
Pirate Bay Judge Indeed Handpicked
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology