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Air Force One Flight Plan Ends Up Being Leaked On A Blog

Japanese Air Traffic Controller Blabs About Air Force One Flight Plan On Blog To Impress Friends
By on Monday, 12. September 2011

For obvious security reasons, the flight plans of Air Force One, and any other type of transportation the president of the United States takes, are kept top secret. Apparently one traffic controller in Japan didn’t see this as very important because he saw the information appropriate for his blog.

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Tumblr User Growth Increases By 218 Percent In The Past One Year

As Other Larger Network Sites Overshadow It In The News, Tumblr Quietly Yet Quickly Slips From 4.2 Million Users To 13.4 Users
By on Friday, 2. September 2011

Tumblr is one of those blogging sites that makes posting very simple. The site says it all in one statement: “Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be.” Tumblr has been growing [...]

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Download Squad to be Shut Down

AOL & HuffPo Are Consolidating Sites & Have Decided to Take Down Popular Tech & Software Blog
By on Tuesday, 12. April 2011

It’s yet another casualty in the popular blog shakeup that was the AOL and Huffington Post Acquisition. Popular software download and software blog Download Squad is being shut down.

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What You Missed on e-Potpourri This Week

Week Ending 21/03/09
By on Sunday, 22. March 2009

Somewhat of a slow week on EP this past week on account of us having several issues aside from the sites to deal with – if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know what they are – nevertheless we featured a few gems that you may have missed. From a [...]

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What You Missed on e-Potpourri This Week

Week Ending 14/03/09
By on Sunday, 15. March 2009

Here’s a brief roundup of what you may have missed on our sister site, e-Potpourri, this week – week ending 14/03/2009. From designer loungers to Space Invaders ice cube makers, designer rocking chairs inspired by the human form to eco-friendly reusable shopping bags that fold-up into a grenade.

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EP Site Updates & New Features

See True Democracy in Action
By on Thursday, 27. November 2008

We are aware that many of the regular readers of TFTS also visit our sister site, e-Potpourri, so we thought we would offer a brief update here concerning a number of new features that we’ve added to EP that allow you to see true democracy in action (the coding of [...]

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Walyou Added To TFTS Links Page

By on Friday, 17. October 2008

It is, it has to be said, once in a blue moon these days that we add a site to your Links Page but, when we do, we like to offer up a brief heads up here by way of a posting just to let you know that we have [...]

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‘Elite Blogger’ Interview With Yours Truly Now Available Courtesy of Elite Choice

By on Monday, 19. May 2008

Those of you who are regular readers of TFTS (or, for that matter, our sister site e-Potpourri) may be interested in an interview just published by Elite Choice with yours truly – completed as part of their ongoing ‘Elite Blogger’ series – in which I talk freely about TFTS and [...]

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Geek Alerts Added To Our Links Page

By on Monday, 28. January 2008

Every now and again we like to offer you, the reader, another means of escape from these very pages by offering a brief heads up concerning an external site that, for one reason or another, we’ve steadily grown to favour, and in this respect it gives us great pleasure to [...]

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Geek Chic – Brazil’s One Stop Technology and Gadget Portal for Women

By on Tuesday, 13. November 2007

Every month here at TFTS we like to offer a heads up concerning a technology/gadget site that, for one reason or another, has served to catch our attention, and this month we have great pleasure in featuring an exclusive interview with Veridiana Serpa, the owner and author of Geek Chic, [...]

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