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- Cool Websites And Tools [May 14th]
- The 5 Toughest Tech Questions [MakeUseOf Answers]
- Monitor Just About Any Webpage For Changes with Diphur
- 3 Best Amazon Price Watch Trackers For The Bargain Hunter
- Hot Tech Deals [May 14th]
- Control Songbird Using Your Cellphone Or Another Computer
- 7 Great Games To Learn Spanish, French & Other Languages
- tDash – Online Twitter Client That Makes Managing Unread Tweets Easy
- Keep Your Mac Running Healthily with MacKeeper [Special Giveaway]
- How to Make Your Own First Person Shooter Game for Free
- How To Batch Watermark Images with Jouba Converter
| Cool Websites And Tools [May 14th] Posted: 14 May 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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| The 5 Toughest Tech Questions [MakeUseOf Answers] Posted: 14 May 2010 06:31 PM PDT
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| Monitor Just About Any Webpage For Changes with Diphur Posted: 14 May 2010 04:31 PM PDT
But bookmarks by nature are static links. I was searching for a bookmarking web app that would let me know all of the changes in a site. I finally came across Diphur which makes bookmarks more active. Diphur monitors all sites which you bookmark using it and it lets you know when new content gets added to the site. If Diphur's core function is sounding more like what RSS feeds do, then take a pause here. Diphur can be compared to RSS feeds but it is different in many other ways.
Diphur can be set up to grab any kind of updates. Think of the Giveaways you might be missing on our site. You can set up Diphur to notify you in real time when one gets announced. Just like an early bird, you can come and participate. Looking out for any content that gets published with a specific tag; Diphur can get that for you. The same goes with any other data that you might be monitoring on a periodic basis. Now let's see how Diphur catches anything that changes on a website you have bookmarked and how you can set it up to hit the target. Diphur Works Through ChangeUpsDiphur calls the webpage updates ChangeUp(s). It is the hourly difference in content that occurs on the webpage that you have bookmarked. While performing the check and bringing the ChangeUp to you, Diphur does not consider elements like ads which get regularly updated. Images and linked content are also given a miss. There are two ways you can see the ChangeUps. First, you get notified with an email. Second, you can log into your Diphur account and click on the ChangeUp link below each bookmarked site. Let's See A ChangeUp In Action
I should warn you that the interface is nothing to write home about and is purely functional. So let's jump into the site with a registration and a log in. If you decide to add a fresh bookmark, the next page is where it all comes together.
All the fields are pretty well explained. Help is prompt with a click on the little blue query icon. For example, take the first field where you have to enter the URL of the site you want to bookmark. The explanation is concise and clear.
The first place where you can really fine tune the utility of this site is the field where you set the time range and size of the changes. You can set Diphur to monitor the website – hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. There are a few percentages to choose from in the adjoining dropdown. Percentages are about the number of updates you want to know about. For instance, 1 percent will let you know of that many changes and not all that have taken place. Any Change is the default option.
Keywords and Exact Phrase act like filters which allow you to get only the kind of content you are interested in. For instance, adding a keyword like technology will filter out those changes which do not have the word in them. You can take any of a site's tags and put them in as keywords. Diphur will update you when the posts with that keyword or tag get published.
Your BookmarksThe personal bookmarks page looks like this…
You can keep on adding fresh bookmarks or help yourself from the ones that are already there in the Popular section, or those you can get with a search. Bookmarks can be arranged according to a few Views and also kept to be read later with a click on the Add to read later icon.
Now, What Does A ChangeUp Look Like?You will receive the ChangeUp notification in your email. You can directly click from there or you can log on to your account. The My ChangeUp page is where the motherlode of information comes in. You can see that the information gets arranged according to the level of changes in the individual articles. You can click on the links to go directly to the source page. The View filters again and lets you play around with what you want to display on this page.
Diphur could be a viable sidekick to your trusty RSS reader. I especially liked the keywords function which allows me to target information related to my interests. A good thing if you want to keep tabs on a huge website or blog and get selective information. Of course, one thing I miss is a browser bookmarklet which can let me add a bookmark without visiting Diphur. Perhaps that's around the corner. But where do you place Diphur in your scheme of things? Is it a good webpage monitoring and update alert tool? Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf fan page on Facebook. Over 17,000 fans already!
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| 3 Best Amazon Price Watch Trackers For The Bargain Hunter Posted: 14 May 2010 02:31 PM PDT
Enter the world of Amazon price watching and tracking. The prices of a lot of the products available at Amazon do tend to fluctuate over time. They’ll go up and down constantly, and that’s where these websites can come in handy to keep tabs on all the price changes. Never overpay again! Shop smarter and save some dough on the way by knowing exactly when it’s the right time to buy and when you should probably wait.
AmazonPriceTracker
The useful AmazonPriceTracker is one of the best tools on the Web to track any Amazon product. Start out by simply typing in the item’s URL, ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number), or just any keywords into the text entry box right on the homepage to find the product. Once on the product’s page, basic details such as the category it’s listed in, its sales rank, and customer review rating are displayed, but what we’re really interested in is the item’s price history information. Right off the bat, the site provides the product’s current, lowest, highest, and average prices. Just below that is a helpful chart tracking the Amazon price with specific dates.
Be sure to also take advantage of the website’s price drop alert feature, which will send you an email when the price of the item drops to or below how much you’d like to spend on it. Just type in your email address, your target price, and hit the Submit button. camelcamelcamel
Another great site to check out is camelcamelcamel. Again, just enter in the Amazon URL, ASIN, or keywords to locate the product. Displayed on each item’s page is a comprehensive price history chart, tracking not only Amazon’s price, but also third party new and used prices. You can even specify the chart to display only a range of one, three, six months, or a year.
For a more detailed analysis, click on one of the tabs for everything you need to know about the product’s price changes.
The website is also chock full of a lot of useful features. As well as providing price watch and availability alerts to your email address, you can also get alerts sent to your Twitter account. Just hit the Create a price watch for this product button to type in your desired price and submit your information.
Its Firefox and Google Chrome extensions also put a Track Product button right on the pages of retailers for easy access to camelcamelcamel’s price history charts. You can read up on The Camelizer in the 3 Google Chrome Extensions to Save $$ When Shopping Online. The Tracktor
If you’re looking for a more simple alternative, turn to The Tracktor. The site takes a dead-easy approach to it from the get-go.
Once you’ve found the product’s page, just basic information about the item is displayed, along with a chart tracking new and used prices. There is a price drop email alert feature available, but you must first create an account to use it. Have any of these websites helped you out when shopping at Amazon? Do you know of any others? Let us know in the comments. Image Credit : MikeBlogs Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Posted: 14 May 2010 01:44 PM PDT
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| Control Songbird Using Your Cellphone Or Another Computer Posted: 14 May 2010 12:31 PM PDT
You’re not always going to be in front of your computer, and you probably don’t have a remote for your laptop (although there are exceptions). This tutorial will show you how to create a PC media center remote control by controlling Songbird remotely over your home network – no matter what operating system you’re using, and because the remote uses a web interface, you can use it on pretty much every platform. A laptop will work just as well as your iPhone, Android, Palm or Windows Mobile.
Step 1 – Install The Songbird Telescope Add-onFirst, we need to install the Songbird add-on. Either search via Songbird for Telescope, or simply point its native browser to http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1764
There isn’t any complicated installation process involved. The add-on will enable remote control after you restart Songbird. In the add-on settings, you can optionally set a password (so your neighbors don’t stumble upon the magic remote control) or change the access port. Step 2 – Find Out The Local IP Address Of Your Host ComputerFor your network-enabled device to find your Songbird library and the Telescope broadcast, it’ll need to know where to look. That’s why we need the IP address of your host computer. Do not use one of those online IP detection services. Your local IP address (the ‘name’ of the device inside your network) differs from your global IP address. Your computer might have more than one IP address – i.e. one for each internet connection. If you have wireless and cable internet make sure to write down the one that’s connected to the same network as your remote control. Windows - Open the command line by pressing start, and typing cmd in the start menu text field. Windows XP or older needs you to press run, and then enter cmd.
In the command line, type ipconfig and hit enter. Windows will list every available internet connection, and the corresponding IPv4 address. Mac - Open the Mac menu in the top-left corner of the screen, and select System Preferences…
In System Preferences, click on the Network icon. This will list all your internet connections, and the corresponding IP Address.
Older versions of OS X might require you to click the Advanced button before you’re able to see the IP Address. Linux - Finding your internal IP address on Linux is very similar to Windows, with one essential difference.
Instead of ipconfig, Linux uses the ifconfig command. Your IP address will still be listed per available internet connection. Step 3 – Enjoy Your Songbird RemoteOpen the web browser on your remote control-device, and point it to http://your_ipaddress:3689 – after inserting the IP address we found in step three.
Do you know another way to create a working Songbird remote? So far, this has seemed the only working method for Android phones, but if you know any alternatives, feel free to weigh in in the comments section below! Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras. Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| 7 Great Games To Learn Spanish, French & Other Languages Posted: 14 May 2010 11:31 AM PDT
Mastering a new language can be tedious work, but no one ever said it has to be boring. By playing language learning games online, you can increase your vocabulary almost without realizing it. In the past, we’ve covered 3 Innovative Ways To Learn Or Improve A Foreign Language and 18 Great Sites to Learn a New Language. In this article, I’m going to go over a few websites that offer Spanish learning games, as well as a lot of other well-known languages.
Digital DialectsWhen I first stumbled upon Digital Dialects, I was amazed. This comprehensive website offers free to use interactive games in over 50 different languages; and according to the site, language sections are updated regularly and new sections are under development.
On the main page, you have several languages to pick from in alphabetical order. Simply click the language you are interested in learning and you are taken to a page with different subjects to cover. These range from vocabulary and clothing to food and colors.
Once you’ve made your choice, you should be taken to a screen that covers all of the vocabulary words you will be learning. Click play game (with either text or audio) and you are taken to the screen where you can begin playing. LanguageGames
Moving on, LanguageGames.org offers a few games you might find interesting. These consist of a word search, crossword puzzles, and hangman. They offer all of the most common languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian. It might not sound like much, but you can spend a lot of time on this site (trust me), especially if you naturally like doing puzzles and word searches. LanguageGain
LanguageGain features games for learning Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, and Japanese. On the main page, simply click on the language you want to learn and you are taken to the page hosting the different games. The games are mostly word matches and flashcard games, but it helps you learn the language through visualization and sound. Vocabulary.co.ilThis website has multiple games having to do with foreign language vocabulary. There are word matches for English, French, German, and Spanish, as well as a common foreign phrase meaning game, a Spanish math game, and a Spanish/English color match game.
By playing a word match game you can visualize the connection between the two words in the different languages you’re learning. In my opinion, this is much better than if you were staring at the words next to each other in a book. Transparent LanguageThis website features over 100 languages, but is rather difficult to navigate. The easiest way to get to the game page of a given language is to alter your URL as follows:
Just substitute the word ‘German’ for the language you want to learn. As an example, by adding [/learn-french/games] to the end of the URL, you are taken to the French Games page. I’m sure there is an easier way of accomplishing this, but I haven’t seen it. I don’t know for 100% if all of the URLs are like this, but it worked with all of the major languages I’ve tested.
Each page features word seek, plug-n-play, unscramble, and international cafe games. Spanish Learning GamesThe last two websites I’ve found only offer Spanish learning games, but I felt I needed to mention them because they’re quite good. If you’re learning Spanish you’ll want to check these sites out. So without further adieu (oops, that’s French)… Scholastic Teachers
This website might be for the younger crowd, but nevertheless they have some great Spanish learning games. There are games to test your memorization skills, grammar, math, vocabulary, and overall knowledge and they are done quite well.
For instance, there is a game entitled Spanish-English Cycle Race where you are given words and have to match them to their equal in order to make your racer pedal faster to win the race. I got them all right on easy and still lost the race. I guess I wasn’t quick enough, but if I keep playing, I bet I will be! Apples 4 the TeacherUpon visiting this website, you need to scroll down the page to get to the Spanish section. The site also offers sign language, Gaelic, and Polish games, but the Spanish section is the most useful.
There are games to help you visualize the Spanish alphabet, counting (forwards and backwards), and the parts of the face. They are mostly for kids, but again they could prove useful to most anyone. ConclusionI hope you found this article useful and you are off learning a new language. You probably didn’t even make it this far because you’re still playing some of the games on the first sites I mentioned, but if you do read this I’d love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and comments below! Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| tDash – Online Twitter Client That Makes Managing Unread Tweets Easy Posted: 14 May 2010 10:31 AM PDT
Web-based Twitter client tDash (which was featured on MakeUseOf before) aims to help you catch up with all those unread tweets in a productive and organized manner much like an RSS reader. It is a Twitter client you don’t have to download. In fact, tDash developers have made it clear that their project was created with the Google Reader interface and functionality in mind.
Sporting a minimalistic and easy-to-navigate interface (see full-size screenshot), tDash also has its very own handy TwitPic-like service in case you want a quick way to post a picture from your desktop. Let’s see what features this smart Twitter client has to offer. tDash Won’t Store Your Twitter User InformationYour email account probably already gets enough spam so registering a new account with your email (and remembering another password) shouldn’t be the way to go. tDash knows that and uses OAuth to help you skip getting yet another account and avoid storing your Twitter password.
It Supports Multiple Accounts
Mark Users’ Tweets As Read By Pressing the SpacebarEvery Twitter user will be displayed in a sidebar to the right, like every blog is shown as a folder in Google Reader. You’ll be able to see the fresh, unread items from each user and mark each one as read (by pressing the spacebar, which will bring you to the next unread item) or all of the user’s tweets by pressing on Mark folder as read. Alternatively, you can also mark all incoming tweets as read. If you wish to see the read items, just check the Show Read box and then on Fetch now! or press ‘u’ to refresh the updates. You can customize the order in which the tweets show up first. Aside from viewing your friends’ Twitter streams, tDash also has other sections that behave as Google Reader folders and can be marked as unread/read: Lists, Mentions/DMs which is in Folders and Trends.
Easy-To-Remember Keyboard ShortcutsThis will probably win Google Reader users since the J and K keys are assigned to go to the next or previous unread tweet. Alternatively, if you don’t use Google Reader, you can still easily memorize the keyboard shortcuts for next and previous items by using the N and P keys respectively. Here’s the rest of the easily memorizable shortcuts.
One-Click Picture Tweeting & A Few More Goodies
If you’re on your computer and want to quickly send out a picture, upload it to tDash and see it instantly online or copy the shortened URL (that would be something like http://tdash.org/ABC) and share it with friends. This image-sharing service isn’t a full-blown Posterous, as you won’t see a way to email in your photo from your mobile. Nevertheless, tDash is much more capable as an excellent Twitter client than a mobile picture-sharing service. It expands shortened URLs, conversations and provides image previews, all in-line.
If you want to go to the actual webpage, simply pressing on the ‘o’ key will bring you to the site (refer to the keyboard shortcuts above). Got an URL that has your tweet going beyond 140 characters? As you send your tweet out, tDash will bounce back with a Bit.ly-ed URL, which you’ll see expanded right away in the dashboard. Native retweet is also supported in case you want to instantly retweet something without having to edit the tweet. On its website, tDash lists auto-refresh, Twitter search, and syncing across multiple browsers as features you might see brought to life soon. Until then, tDash is still a genius, easy-to-use and powerful breed between a web-based RSS reader and Twitter.com. If catching up with your unread items in Twitter isn’t something you’re looking for, check out these other Twitter clients we have reviewed:
What are your experiences with web-based Twitter clients? Let us know in the comments if you have tried and liked tDash! We NEED Your Comments!!! Please do share your thoughts in article comments. Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Keep Your Mac Running Healthily with MacKeeper [Special Giveaway] Posted: 14 May 2010 10:00 AM PDT
Usually retailing for $39.95, we are giving 20 licenses away absolutely free! Find out more on our Special Giveaway page. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf fan page on Facebook. Over 17,000 fans already!
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| How to Make Your Own First Person Shooter Game for Free Posted: 14 May 2010 09:31 AM PDT
Even after starting my first job, if I had a tough day at work, I would fire up Quake and run a few rounds – blasting beasts and creatures into oblivion. Never in a million years did I think that it would ever be possible to make your own free first person shooter games that would have the same level of detail, effects and action as those awesome first person shooters, without an in-depth knowledge of computer programming and graphic design.
How To Make Your Own Game For FreeThere’s one important thing that you must know about the free version of FPS Creator before you get started, and it is that while you can create your multi-level game using all of the features available in the full version, you can’t create a standalone executable that you could distribute to your friends to play. While this is a major drawback, it isn’t horrible if you intend to use the software much like you would a program like SimCity – you can build your game levels and then sit back and play them by clicking on “Test Level.” It is like imagining your favorite shooter game, creating it, and then having the opportunity to play the level that you’ve dreamed up.
The design area of this software is simply a giant grid. Within this grid, you place corridors, rooms, objects, enemies, items and anything else that exists within the software’s library of objects – which is fairly extensive. For example, if you click on the Segment Library in the left menu area, you’ll discover a set of common rooms and corridors, but also a couple of sets customized for a certain theme – science fiction and World War II.
All you have to do to build your levels is to double click on your selection and then place them within the grid however you want them. Press “R” to rotate the orientation 90 degrees. If you’re not sure how to do anything, just click on “Help” and open up the manual. The manual for this software is actually a very well written document that is extremely helpful if you do get stuck. However, the odds are pretty good you won’t have any problems – the learning curve for this design app is not very steep at all.
Of course, no first person shooter game is complete without enemies. The enemies are within the “Entity” library, which also contains furniture and other objects that you’ll place into the rooms. Don’t forget to click on items and lay down weapons and ammo for your character to pick up, or you’ll find yourself trying to get through a dangerous game level without anything to protect yourself!
Game design really couldn’t be any easier than this. It’s just a matter of selecting the objects that you want and placing them into the grid in the correct orientation. Here, I’ve created a very small level with a start hallway, a room with an unarmed AI character, and then another hallway with an enemy waiting just around the corner.
Once you’re done building and saving the level, just click on “Test Level” – and after the software is finished rendering all of your objects, items, enemies and other elements of your design, you’ll find yourself standing in the middle of the dangerous virtual world that you’ve created. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get through it alive.
Here, you can see my opening hallway where I laid down a weapon (an Uzi) and just enough ammo to get started. Just beyond the opening is a room, and then an menacing hallway to the right, lit only by red lights.
Peaking around the corner, I spot my harmless (I think) AI character. I peek around the corner and he doesn’t move. Walking closer to him, he crouches to the ground…this guy won’t hurt a fly. I notice that in the corner of the room, I created a staircase that climbs up to a ceiling with no opening — oops! Stairs and upper levels take a bit of getting used to, but creating corridors and rooms are a snap. As I headed down the red-lit hallway, I moved cautiously, as I knew that I’d placed an enemy just around the corner – a vicious looking science fiction female enemy character with a machine gun. Sure enough, the moment I peaked around the corner, she came after me and started shooting.
The realism of the attack was decent. There was blood splatter after every hit, and bullet holes remained in the walls and floor, as did a little bit of the gore from the fight. The realism of this game extends beyond just the shooting and blood. As you walk through your level, you’ll notice the sound effects and ambiance that you expect from professional first person shooters. You can hear your footsteps as you walk, your weapon fire and reload sounds realistic, and the attack behavior of enemies is fairly aggressive, but with enough of a pause so that if you’re fast enough you’ll be able to take them out before they take you down. Want to make your own free first person shooter games? Download a copy of FPS Creator today, give it a shot and let us know what you think in the comments section below. Image Credit : Psycho Al Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| How To Batch Watermark Images with Jouba Converter Posted: 14 May 2010 08:31 AM PDT
Watermarking is the process of overlaying an image or textual logo onto another image for the purposes of crediting the author with creating the image. Some websites and blogs use watermarks in case other sites try to steal or hotlink to their images. When other people now view these images they can attribute the proper credit to its real author. Now that you know what watermarking is you can see how it can be a bother to batch watermark say 100 or 1,000 images associated with a post. You can open each of them in Photoshop or Gimp and add the layer, lower the opacity and then repeat or you can grab a batch watermark creator application for free that will make your life much easier.
After you get it installed, launch the batch watermark creator application and you will then see a screen that looks like this:
Now the application also does conversions from one graphic type to another (like BMP and JPG) but if you click on the advanced options button we can find the option to add a watermarked image or a piece of text to every image loaded through the application. As a side note you can convert your images to another file type and apply your watermark or you can follow the instructions below for JUST adding your watermark.
In this instance I added a line of text denoting my website as you can see below:
I chose my font and size along with my color and text as you can see above. Then I clicked OK. You can add an image just as easily by selecting watermark image instead of watermark text. When using an image you can also choose to rotate it or flip it vertically, horizontally or both. Next I clicked on the big green plus sign to add a few files. You can also click the folder with the plus sign on it to select an entire folder. You can see both buttons in the screenshot below:
I then selected two images by clicking on the first and control clicking on the second:
That displays the images as thumbnails in the main window like so:
Make sure advanced options are selected in the convert to field and hit the convert button. That will bring up a box asking you where you want to save your watermarked images:
Accept the path they gave you or modify it with the browse button and hit start. It will run through each image and hopefully display this when it is complete:
In the past, we have also covered online watermarking solutions and I have also done a post on another watermarking application called WaterMarkLib. What image batch watermark creator solutions do you use? Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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Everybody loves a good deal. When shopping at websites like Amazon, you simply expect competitive prices, but how do you know if you’re scoring an item for a bargain price or actually overpaying?
If you’re in the market for a new computer, laptop, mobile phone, games and other accessories; don’t waste your time searching online. We’ve taken the liberty of locating the best deals tech deals and unifying them into a single post for your convenience.
If you use your computer as a media center (or more specifically, jukebox), you’ll sometimes want to interrupt the automated shuffle. Maybe because you’re up for something harder, or you don’t want your date to know you dig opera.
Learning a new language can be a difficult task. It takes hard work, dedication, and time. It’s better to learn multiple languages when you’re a child, but a lot of people didn’t grow up with that option. That’s okay, because we have the Internet!
Twitter streams flow in and out fast, making it really easy to miss and forget important announcements that get buried and left behind, especially if you follow very active Twitter users. Third-party Twitter clients give you a much more intricate interface for Twitter.com but aside from Tweetdeck, these clients bring tweets in that might bypass you unless you’re actively chasing after the streams.
If you have multiple Twitter accounts, you must have lots more unread tweets! Thus, tDash makes it easy to sort unread items by account. As tDash doesn’t ask you to register an account, there’s no way to link all your accounts together, but this shouldn’t be a problem, unless you own a bunch of Twitter accounts.
Ever feel your Mac starting to slowly bog down? Losing hard disk space but don't know why? These are just a few issues that every computer user has to deal with. Luckily for Mac users, there are a couple very useful apps which help keep your Macs healthy. MacKeeper is one of them.
One of my fondest memories from my college days was playing a caffeine-fueled networked game of DOOM in the engineering computer lab on those late Saturday evenings. First person shooters became an important tool in my repertoire of stress-reduction activities.
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