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The attempt to set a world record with the number of downloads for Firefox 3 today seems to have caused a crash to all Mozilla websites.

I guess someone made a mistake and deleted PayPal’s CSS file, as this is what I’m getting when trying to access the website in any browser:

I was just trying to login to PayPal and there it is! The PayPal homepage stayed like this for at least 10 minutes - I wonder how many people were affected by this. Screenshot:

I’m not sure if Google is testing new things or these are some special kind of ads only provided to certain publishers.
I just saw a very weird AdSense ad on weirdomatic.com. Here’s a screenshot:

The interesting thing was that you could only click the girl’s face and hands (on the laptop keyboard, as well as the [...]

Microsoft has big plans in store for its Windows Vista operating system. The company released a release candidate version of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista in mid-November. SP1 is supposed to address a number of performance-related issues with Vista and includes a number of security update and bug fixes that have been rolled [...]

Microsoft Corp. is pulling back from a system that disables programs on users’ computers if it suspects the software is pirated, opting instead for a gentler approach based on nagging alerts.Microsoft said late Monday it will roll out the new version of Windows Genuine Advantage with the first “service pack” for Windows Vista, due in [...]

Yahoo! and Adobe are bringing pay-per-click ads to Adobe’s Portable Document Format so that publishers can serve up ads inside PDFs distributed on Web sites and over e-mail that are contextually relevant to the content.
The text advertisements appear in a panel to the right of the content in the PDF and are subject matter [...]

Microsoft Corp. is raising its Silverlight rich-media delivery software to a new level — in name, at least. Instead of calling the next release of the cross-platform browser plug-in Version 1.1, as previously planned, Microsoft will bestow a Version 2.0 name on the upgrade, according to a blog posting today by Scott Guthrie, a general manager [...]

All right, Gmail 2.0 doesn’t crash or slow down browsers all the time, nor does it affect everyone the same way, but it has been causing problems. But first, the relatively good news.
You may recall I wrote earlier that Google had sped up it’s data storage “counter,” that always increasing number on their login page [...]

Not a Windows XP SP3 beta tester, but can’t wait for the official release? Or just like to stay on the bleeding edge? There’s a way you can get access to it via Microsoft Update. It does involve editing the registry, but it’s not that difficult.
Here’s all you need to do. You need to create [...]