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Moving made simple with Moveme

moving made simple with movemeWith so many hassles and things to worry about when moving, why not hire a professional. Better yet, check out a free service called Moveme.

Moveme is based and focused on the London, UK area. It offers individuals and families an easy way to keep track of their moving tasks like changing mailing addresses, forwarding mail, hiring a moving truck and activating new utilities. The interface is clean, simple, and easy to navigate. Upon entering your current, new address and date to be moved in, Moveme plots everything down on a calendar, and schedules tasks from the current date up until the move time. Task can be viewed in a list format, on a calendar, and reminders can be sent out. Letters and forms can also be created through Moveme to inform your contacts and suppliers of your new address.

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Get community recommendations at TrustedPlaces

trustedplacesSometimes when in a new city, or even in your own city, you get stuck on where to go. It might be a gamble to try a new place without getting recommendations from people who have been there. Maybe these new places don't have a website, or none of your gang has even heard about them.

TrustedPlaces helps gather opinions from a community of real people. Each recommending places they have experienced in their daily lives. This way discovering new and interesting places doesn't have to be as risky as it once was. The website lets users recommend and review and share places you've been with friends. There is already quite an array of locations including art galleries, lounges, restaurants, car parks, clubs, hotels, and sports items.

TrustedPlaces is currently focused around the UK, with concentration on London.

Filed under: Business, Developer, Hardware

WWII computer replica rebuilt

The National Codes Center at Blentchley Bletchley north of London, has unveiled a WWII Computer replica that was once used to go sort through encrypted German messages during World War II. The replica model which was built by more than 60 volunteers using original blueprints took over 10 years to complete. The Turing Bombe computer was developed by Alan Turing, who is otherwise quite commonly knows as the father of the modern computer. The computers main job was to decrypt messages from German machines. I'm sure Mr. Turing would be proud that everyone is sitting on their computers right now, surfing YouTube, and reading Download Squad.

Filed under: Business, Design, Fun, Games, Internet, Google, Googleholic

Googleholic for July 28, 2006

google logoThis edition of Googleholic includes:
  • Strange Google Links
  • Google Hacks
  • Google's Test Automation Conference is coming up
  • Google Airport Mashups
  • Google Help
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Google's Test Automation conference

google test automationGoogles want YOU to attend its conference on Test Automation in London. This is the first conference for Google on this topic, and will he hosted in London in September 7th and 8th.

Google's goal with this conference is to create a colleague based atmosphere where participants can discuss the challenges, and discover solutions of test automation.

Google has 13 presentations lined up, on topics such as:

  • Selenium – The in-browser acceptance testing tool
  • Building Tests from Real Objects
  • Using Open Source Tools for Performance Testing
  • Testing Metro-WiFi – Automation Tools and Techniques

Now Google is on the outlook for attendees. They are asking for individuals to submit a 400 word essay on why you want to attend. That deadline is July 28th, and individuals will know if they have been selected to attend by August 4th. Good Luck!

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Graveyard Shift - zombie-busting Time Waster

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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