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Download Squad Week in Review
We know you've had a busy week, John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani. But now that you both have so much more free time on your hands, we thought you might want to spend some time catching up on the news you might have missed this week.Microsoft seeks to acquire Yahoo!
If you've been living under a rock for the last 24 hours, you might not know this yet, but Microsoft has put in an offer to acquire Yahoo!. It's all part of the company's grand scheme to take over the world... before Google does. Microsoft has offered $44.6 billion buyout, and while it's not exactly a done deal yet, there's a pretty decent chance Yahoo! will accept the offer. And we've been meaning to ask, how's the insulation on a rock? Does it keep you warm in the winter?
Ask DLS: Recovering photos from a corrupted flash card
It's happened to all of us. You snap some wonderful vacation photos, or record your child's first steps on your digital camera, only to realize that your flash card is corrupted and you're computer can't make heads or tails of it. Before you reformat the card, take a moment to check out our list of applications for recovering photos from a bad card. All hope might not be lost. Make sure to read the comments too, because many of our readers chimed in with their favorite applications for recovering photo and other data.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
