Answer Desk: Jobless benefit bedlam

The recent move by Congress to extend unemployment benefits drew a heavy response from bewildered readers who have been hearing conflicting stories about who is eligible and who isn’t.

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LA Kings sign G Quick, D Drewiske to 3-year deals

Goalie Jonathan Quick and defenseman Davis Drewiske have signed three-year contract extensions with the Los Angeles Kings, locking up two key contributors to their solid start.

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AP source: Magic extend deals for Van Gundy, GM

The Orlando Magic have extended the contracts of general manager Otis Smith and coach Stan Van Gundy, a person familiar with the negotiations said Monday.

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Chargers, Lions get extensions to avoid blackout

The San Diego Chargers and Detroit Lions were given extensions by the NFL on Thursday to sell out their home openers and avoid a television blackout.

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Not only does the home tab page on the new builds of Chromium (and the dev builds of Chrome) feature not-yet-turned-on links to what looks to be an extensions gallery, but there are plenty of references (and pictures) in the Chromium boards as to what Google is planning with exte …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Democrats in the Senate have reached an agreement to extend the soon-to-expire $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said on Tuesday.

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Two years after telling the world to "kiss her fat a--" when an unflattering bathing suit photo took the Internet by storm, Tyra Banks proudly showed off her new, more streamlined figure in a New York City photo shoot Monday.

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Tens of thousands of New Yorkers have had the unfortunate distinction of collecting unemployment benefits longer than anyone in the state's history.

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excerpt: ""Over one million people are holding their breath, waiting to see if Congress helps them. Time to start making calls:

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Like you, we've been hotly anticipating the launch of Firefox 3.5 for Windows and Mac. Yet every time a browser receives a major update, it ghosts out a good chunk of those favorite, ingenious, and time-saving extensions we've come to rely on.

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Firebug is a revolutionary Firefox extension that helps web developers and designers test and inspect front-end code.

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Gmail is perhaps the greatest web app ever developed, it is very popular (over 100 million users), has a generous 2GB of free storage (a small percentage of users will ever use more than this), and very, very user friendly.

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When Assembly Republicans blocked a bill Monday night that would have extended unemployment benefits for 260,000 out-of-work Californians, they may have won the battle but lost the war.

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Firefox has been one of the fastest and most user friendly browser for anyone. I can't think working without it. Firefox extensions help web analyst to test, report and analysis the web data easily.

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There are many useful Web development tools that integrate in your browser. These in-browser tools are commonly known as add-ons or extensions. Though add-ons and extensions aren't just for Web development, many of them out there are designed specifically for Web developers.

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There is good news on the horizon for Day's of Our Lives fans as Variety is reported yesterday that the NBC and Sony Pictures TV have just struck a deal to extend the life of the show for another 18 month.

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Like Firefox, OpenOffice also comes with extensions that you can use to improve its functionality. Here, we have tested all the extensions and sorted out those that are useful for everyday use. Some of them are for general use while some are only meant for Writer, Calc or Impress.

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A bare copy of Firefox is a wonderful thing, but when you start stuffing it with add-ons it gets even better. So what are the best add-ons for power users? Here's our top 25

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Google's new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons and Greasemonkey, Google engineer Ojan Vafai said during a panel discussion on the future of Web browsers at Web 2.0 Expo in New York on Friday.

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German health insurance providers are concerned with health problems caused by the growing popularity of vampire teeth among their customers.

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"We don't have that in the beta today, but we definitely plan an extension API," or application programming interface, Sundar Pichai, a Google vice president of product management, said at the Chrome launch event here Tuesday. "It is one of the things we will get to next."

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Many stories focus on what Google Chrome means for Microsoft, Firefox, and the fate of the current online world. But what does it mean for up-and-coming Web start-ups? Here are six implications for the start-up world that I can see. These assume that Chrome lives up to its hype.

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Watch YouTube videos more efficiently with Better YouTube, a brand new Firefox extension that compiles our favorite YouTube Greasemonkey scripts into a single convenient package.

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Okay, this is a pretty cool Firefox add-on that allows you to see all images on a web page as what they are describing as a "3D Wall" of photos. It is made by the same folks who made CoolIris, an add-on I used to really like but suddenly found annoying.

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A vulnerability in how Firefox handles chrome: addresses, which are used to load specific Firefox and extensions' interface elements like windows, buttons and dialogs, could allow a malicious site to access local files in known locations.

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One of the primary strengths of Firefox is its extensions. Sure if they aren't programmed well they can end up draining memory from your system and such, but they can still be rather useful. Here are a few extensions that I consider to help my productivity greatly.

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The Firefox Web browser community has created thousands of wonderful extensions that make surfing and working with the Internet fun and productive. While many extensions are homes runs, here are a few that just don't make it out of the ballpark.

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More and more people who can afford it (which means rich!) are going down. Not that their numbers are going down, in fact quite the opposite, but when it comes to extending their homes they are, quite literally, going down. Into the earth that is. Burrowing like moles they ar …

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Cool Thunderbird Addition

Another must have, especially for RSS in Thunderbird: Stylish. It works kind of like Greasemonkey in Firefox, an add-on that allows you to set CSS styles for everything or specific domains.

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