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• 1 2 3 Turnaround with Lyrics:

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• First Glimpse at Co-Op in Portal 2:

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• So much stuff going on in this video, you better just watch it.:
• Firefox 4 B4 Bringing Direct2D GPU Acceleration: Everyone’s bringing in hardware acceleration now which is great! But I fear Webkit probably won’t, at least for a while.
• This is the full 83-track Rock Band 3 setlist: A much better mix than Guitar Hero I’d say. But a few rehashed GH1/2 songs as well. Mostly looking forward to pro modes, overshell, and keys.
• Stop what you are doing, watch the Metroid: Other M TV ad:
• If You Still Haven’t Changed Your Facebook Places Privacy Settings, Do It Now [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]:
• Word Placement FAIL:

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• Intel Buys McAfee for $7,680,000,000: I seriously hate McAfee, but then again I only like the corporate editions of Symantec so I guess consumer level products are just horrible.
• GIF: Creeper Kittehz Alwaiz B Creepin’:
• Holy @#$%ing @#$%, Russian Nerds Have Started a Cult Around Gadget Hackwrench: HA! Gadget was pretty great!
• Marvel vs. Capcom 3 adds Viewtiful Joe and Dormammu: Viewtiful Joe lives on!
• Portal 2 Release Date Unofficially Confirmed (Update):
• New Diablo III Video and Screens Reveal Crafting:
• Gran Turismo 5 Injects Some RPG Into Your Hardcore Racing Sim [Gamescom 2010]:
• EA Says Respawn’s First Game is Still Yet to Be Decided:
• Light up your day with the first Torchlight 2 trailer:
• Report: 31 Rock Band 3 Tracks Revealed via Video:
• Borderlands and its DLC now 66% off on Steam: DLC!
• Naruto 506:
• Twenty-Four Years Of Metroid History, Narrated By Samus Aran [Metroid]:

I just finished the whole upgrade to Windows 7 shebang and started the painful process of getting my bookmarks sorted (thanks xmarks!) and then working on my keyword searches. Fortunately in Firefox they were imported with xmarks since it stores the keyword data in the bookmarks folder. Chrome did something new though.

If you’re using the release version which should be 5.something they’ve basically automated keyword bookmark entries. This is great since you usually have to find the search URL and add that info into the bookmark. However now all you have to do is browse to whatever sites you normally go to, then right click the address bar and go to Edit Search Engines… From there the defaults are on top but below it will populate a list of all sites you’ve gone to with search boxes. If you edit them you can customize the keyword from the default website.com generic keyword to excellent abbreviations.

For example, I change youtube.com to yt. Now when I hit control+L and then type “yt something” and hit enter it will search youtube for the word something. Obviously change “something” to whatever you’re searching for.

You can see what I was talking about in the edit box where the third line says URL:. You used to have to fish around for that and then paste it in there which sucked, but now Chrome has become totally badass!

My choice of keywords

yt: youtube
w: wikipedia
az: amazon

I stick to two letter abbreviations but for imdb I use imdb. I have a lot of esoteric searches I use which follow the same convention. Anyway, browsing becomes a lot speedier (and more command line feely) when you get used to the speed of keyword searching. Very tough to watch people go to a site, click on the search bar (if the site doesn’t automatically go to it) and start typing away.

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• Bleach 416:
• Riot Files For 'Defense Of The Ancients' Mark Following Valve's 'DotA' Move: FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

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• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm special edition detailed:
• Five Guys Named Best Fast Food Burger In U.S. By Zagat Guide: Clearly I must go back and re-evaluate their burger.
• Dragon Age 2 ‘Destiny’ debut trailer tears us apart:
• BLOG: 3DS Destined for 2011 Release?:
• Bioware Reveals Mass Effect 2 for PS3: Just the second one?
• Dragon Age 2 Coming in March 2011 [Updated With Trailer]:

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• Cryptic Studios Chief Creative Officer Bill Roper Announces Resignation:
• Final Fantasy VI opera upscaled, upgraded, incredible:
• Marley, INXS, Slipknot and more confirmed for Rock Band 3:
• Free Character Name Change Coming Soon: Money money money
• if u want sumthing:

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• George Lucas officially announces Star Wars on Blu-ray in 2011:
• StarCraft II Dominates Retail in July: That’s mostly impressive to me because they had less than one week in July. I wonder what the worldwide number is.

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• Rock Band 3 Achievements charted: