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I was looking through my bookmarks toolbar the other day, and saw a few interesting things I’d forgotten about. I thought I might share a few with you all!

LOLCODE: An interesting find I stumbled across awhile ago, LOLCODE is a coding language playing off of the popular (and sometimes funny) “lolspeak” and “l33tspeak” found often on the interwebz we call home. With some extra tools, such as working implementations of other languages and a few compilers, you can put this laugh out loud language to work.

Textfiles.com: A simply amazing site, featuring an archive of awesome text files from days of old. With topics ranging from phone phreaking to LSD, to lock picking to Apple II’s, and many, many, many, many more (did I mention there’s a lot more?).

Kuler: A helpful little tool from Adobe to help you find some great looking color combos for a variety of uses, including (but not limited to) websites, desktops, other various themes, and (although I shudder to say it) MySpace profiles (*shudder*).

LOTR Dwarf Rune Translator: I originally had to use this for a school project, but this is a helpful little tool for any fans of the Lord of the Rings series.

Free Media Software Suite: A free compilation of a huge number of very useful programs, from a YouTube video downloader to Audio/Video converters to DVD converters/burners, and more!

Hope you enjoyed this! Please leave some comments showing your happiness or (more likely) your disgust!

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Have you ever wished to run some cool, new operating system, but couldn’t go through the trouble of switching from PC to Mac (or vice versa), and didn’t want to mess around with Linux? Well say no more! eyeOS is an “operating system” that can run right in your web browser!

It’s got a full suite of nice applications installed from the start, and community-made applications for anything else you could need. There’s even a built-in package manager, so you don’t have to go messing around with FTP to get new programs on!

You can read more about it, plus download it for your own server here. You can see a demo of it running here.

Now, it’s obviously not a replacement for your main OS, but it’s pretty damn cool!

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Originally started by @britishtaco at a tumblr site, quickly grew into a small twitter hit. RantBlog is 100% unfiltered rants about anything and everything.  All rants are written by @britishtaco, @BMatt95, @_TDG_, @Led_VoC, or @gscal. Check it out, head on over to rants.thetechnow.com!

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This is part one of our undecided-part reviews of VPN (Virtual Private Network) services across the globe. VPN services can protect your anonymity online and also prevent hackers from gaining access to your computer. Many people also use such services to bypass censorship services or to gain access to American-only services such as Hulu or BBC iPlayer.

a href=http://www.acevpn.com/Ace VPN/a is one of those services. Ace VPN gives you free, but invite-only anonymity over the internet. There is an approximate 99.9% uptime according to their website, and seems to be reliable and good. For free users, peer-to-peer clients such as Torrents and Limewire (almost any other port besides 80, HTTP) are prohibited, as only the Premium Service can get access to that.

In addition, you can use this service in countries such as Iran to bypass the censorship practices of the regime - China, Belize, Syria, all countries are welcome to use this service.

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