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These are my delicious links for July 28th through July 30th:

What are zombie cookies and how can you kill them? – Zombie cookies are Flash cookies that are resurrected unbeknownst to you when you're browsing the web. An Adobe site exists to delete them, but you can install a Firefox addon that will improve your privacy all round.
How 100 million Facebook users ended up in a list on BitTorrent – A fifth of …

Technology bookmarks for the last couple of days from Sciencetext Tech Talk

Start Menu 7 – A neat and expandable replacement for the standard Windows 7 Start Menu with lots more options and more powerful search feature. There’s also a pro version with even more, definitely one for menu geeks.
20:20:20 rule for 20:20 vision – If you're using a computer all day, take a 20 second break every 20 minutes and look at objects …

These are my delicious links for July 9th through July 14th:

Pirate Party MEP forced to leave ACTA meeting – An elected member of the European parliament was squeezed out of an ACTA meeting, according to TorrentFreak. Surely, the secret negotiations surrounding this treaty are now beyond a joke…
Microsoft security updates, again – Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least five security vulnerabilities in computers running its Windows operating system and Office …

Hacking Truths recently posted about an email scheme that lets you track down your lost mobile phone (cell phone) by simply emailing details including your name, address, and phone’s IMEI number (which you diligently noted down before you lost the phone) to an odd address cop@ vsnl.net. IMEI is International Mobile Equipment Identity number.

I did a quick search for this suspicious-seeming approach to phone retrieval and found lots of blogs in …

Tech links accumulated from July 5th onwards, apologies for the delay:

Judicial review of the Digital Economy Act – UK Internet service provider TalkTalk is taking the Digital Economy Act to court to prove that its forced passing into English law was illegal. The law intended to protect copyright holders has many critics who suggest it will do nothing but stifle creativity and civil rights.
Are you sure you’re logging into your own Wireless router? …