Ghost hunters inspect 180-year-old NM hotel site

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The former owner of a 180-year-old adobe building hears the door of a potbellied stove opening and wood being stacked inside, but no one is there. Mysterious whispers echo in the current owner's ear. Things fall off shelves for no apparent reason. These are just a few of the strange goings-on that artist Josh Bond, owner of the Old Cuchillo Bar in the southern New Mexico ghost town of the same name, has asked the West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society to investigate on his property.

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Its a proven fact that when you have a good & understanding boss, you can perform better. Thus, it can be a motivating factor in an organization. As you get to learn so much from them, there must be a way to thank your boss for all the support and help, which made your office life so easy. There are many occasions when you can gift them something. It may be on boss’s day on 16th October, company anniversary, birthday, engagement, etc.

While choosing a gift you don’t want to be too personal or exorbitant. You know the person and something about his personal taste and interests but you don’t know what he already has or would like to have from an employee. So, there is always a risk of gifting a dozen of golf balls which will join another hundreds in his garage. So Gadgetophilia has carefully evaluated the aspects and brought out a compilation of usual and unusual gift items.

Here is a sneak peek

• Kindle
• Gold Star Paperweight
• Desktop Perpetual Calendars
• Personalized Business Card Cases
• Livescribe Pulse Smartpen

Read: Top 10 Gadgets to Gift to Your Boss

Digital cameras are one of the most talked about gadgets of all time. The passion for photography irrespective of one's skill in the actual field is contagious. So the curiosity about them is increasing day by day. Gadgetophilia, a website dedicated to gadget lovers, has always featured useful columns regarding digital cameras. But the point is, in the whole web, you don't get a really good guide that speaks about everything that digital cameras have to offer under one roof. So they have come out with a really special featured article that talks about anything and everything in a digital camera. It has various segments that cover

• Things You should consider before buying a digital camera
• Types of Cameras
• Features You should compare for selecting one
• Top 5 Digital Cameras of Our Choice
• How to take a good snap (in scorching sun light, in pitch dark and all the special cases)
• How to maintain your camera

So, I am sure you will get all it takes to understand the gadget in that article.

Read: Digital Camera for Dummies : The most comprehensive guide in the web

Nginx is a free open source web server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Nginx has grown into a feasible alternative for the much hyped Apache. It has grown over Apache with terms of low memory footprint and stability. Moreover, Nginx is gaining mommentum as an efficient and perfect for host for WordPress. It's simple configuration, rich features, minimal resource consumption and capability to avoid memory leak over time has made it a substitute for Apache. There are millions of site using Nginx and there is a large chunk considering a move to take advantage of this high performance HTTP server.

In most cases, the newbies are in the blue on the way they can make it work for them. Well, my bona fide idea would be the tutorials that provides you the step by step method to install and use the server. For this I created the list of top 10 Nginx tutorial for all who'd love to learn on Nginx.

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TORONTO - Seventeen new cases of human swine flu took the Canadian total to 51 Friday even as the government launched a Citizen Readiness Campaign to check the spread of the virus. As part of the nation-wide campaign, the government is putting advertisements in dailies and weeklies May 2 and May 4 to raise public awareness about flu infection.

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The following email was sent to all Tata Indicom (formerly VSNL) customers informing of the draconian directive from Department of Telecom, India:

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Let workers text and Twitter, business owners say

NEW YORK — When Marty Kotis looked at his company's monthly wireless bill, he found a stunning charge — for 2,500 text messages on a single staffer's phone. There was more: Another staffer had 800, and a third, 700. But Kotis, who owns a real estate development firm in Greensboro, N.C., didn't reprimand his employees, although many of the messages were personal in nature. Instead, he put it all into perspective.

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Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings. Subversion, like any other version control system, is used to maintain current and historical revisions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.

Hosted Subversion Service allows you to host your subversion server and data on a remote server which you can access securely (must-have feature) over the internet. Most hosted subversion service has a minimal free plan followed by a paid subscription.

We have previously posted comprehensive review of hosted subversion services. Today we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of hosted subversion services in details.

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Microsoft responds to EU browser antitrust charges

BRUSSELS — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday confirmed it has submitted a formal response to European Union charges that tying the Internet Explorer browser to its Windows operating system violates antitrust rules. The Redmond, Wash.-based company can also seek a hearing before EU officials move toward a final decision that can fine a company up to 10 percent of annual global revenue or order it to change the way it does business.

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NEW DELHI - The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and software giant Microsoft Corp Wednesday jointly launched a website 'secureyourpc.in', which will provide vital information to internet users on how to combat online threats. 'The more you use cyberspace, the more you become vulnerable to online threats. India will eventually have the largest number of youth population in the world and the use of PC (personal computer) will increase exponentially with time,' R. Chandrashekhar, special secretary in the ministry of information technology, said after the website launch.

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