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Don't try this with dial-up.

Posted by Stephen Meuse April 7, 2008 12:35 PM

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George W. Bush once claimed that the French couldn't understand the American way of doing business because they had no word for entrepreneur. Well, the president may have to eat his words (apocryphal though they may be) after viewing this proof that Gallic technology and innovation have gone far beyond anything Google has been able to achieve.

This kind of application does require quite a lot of bandwidth to work smoothly, however, and should your browser crash mid-download, it can leave you with quite a little mess to clean up.

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