“Stacks” was Leopard’s only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy. However the way stacks are represented on the Dock (by top icon) completely ruins it. Here is the damn fine-looking solution (although this is how it should have been from the beginning).

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A new voting feature, currently being tested by Facebook employees, lets you vote items in your news feed up or down. Right now, it’s being used to make your news feed items more relevant — but the same data could be used to make a Digg clone. And Facebook has 50 million active users.

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Last month the popular private BitTorrent tracker OiNK was effectively shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. OiNK admin Alan Ellis who was arrested during the raid now launched a legal defense fund to cover the legal costs and asks form

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We’ve been fooling around with Samsung’s 64GB SSD for the past couple of days and guess what, it turns out the thing is both completely silent and really fast. Who knew? Without getting all chartngraph up in this piece, we pitted it against a couple of stock Seagate Momentus 5400RPM SATA 2.5-inch laptop drives and see what happened. It’s here……

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