Hot Stuff in Tech
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Defrag and optimize your brain...
Here and I was trying to cram as much in there as I could...
Who would have thought that the idea of reading too much could actually hinder your thought processes. Hopefully, I have been ignoring the correct data all along.
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Who would have thought that the idea of reading too much could actually hinder your thought processes. Hopefully, I have been ignoring the correct data all along.
Enjoy.
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Don't paint your car, skin it.
Developed by the aptly named promotional company Decently Exposed, the AutoSkin is a digitally coloured skin for automobiles. You can have high resolution artwork emblazoned on the skin which is then bonded to the car and indestinguishable from normal paint other than its at photographic reproduction quality.
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Wal-Mart selling Nanos
"He won, we lost. Now we have Nanos in the stores," Fitzsimmons said, referring to the latest, smallest version of the iPod.
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Gigantic Game of Geometry Wars and Halo 2 on Side of Best Buy Building!
They hooked up a projector and Xbox to a car battery while campingo ut for the 360. Several near-collisions by those driving through the parking lot who had to grab a peek at the gigantic gaming set up were witnessed. Images included.
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The 360 degree LED television
"If youâ??re looking for a new centrepiece for your new entertaining area, the new 360 degree LED display from Dynascan offers exactly that â?? quite literally."
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Beginners Guide to Securing a Pc
This guide gives tip on various tools everyone should use to secure his pc. It suggest antivirus, antispyware, autostart and process checkers and more. But, it will tell you to not run a firewall. Curious ? check it out.
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Half Life 2 Survivor Preview
Half-Life 2 Survivor was recently shown off in Japan. It features a right hand joystick for movement, a left hand joystick for aiming and shooting, a left foot pedal for ducking, and a right foot pedal for jumping. It also has an IC card slot where you can insert a memory card to record your game progress.
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Firefox 1.5 compatible version of AdBlock
I was dismayed that adblock stopped working properly during the RC releases and there hadn't been an update. Turns out that there is an update but you can't get it through the updater system in FF. Get it from the AdBlock Forum.
Works great!
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Works great!
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Possible Miniature Solar System Discovered
"Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the birth of the smallest known solar system. Peering through ground- and space-based telescopes, scientists observed a brown dwarf â?? or failed star â?? less than one hundredth the mass of the sun surrounded by what appears to be a disk of dust and gas." Pretty cool stuff!
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The Truth About Nintendo
Interesting read regarding market share and financials...pretty much what everyone thinks is wrong (this is part one, part two is also out)
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
FireFox 1.5 Released - Get it here!!
Sony knew about rootkits 28 days before the story broke
BusinessWeek reports that Sony knew on Oct 4 that its DRM system was built on rootkits and exposed its customers to danger of opportunistic infections from other malicious programs. The story wasn't made public until Oct 31, and Sony didn't recall its infected CDs until November 11 - five and half weeks later.
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Podcast Hijacking: A threat to podcast infrastructure?
Could your podcast's RSS feed be hijacked? Colette Vogele describes how it happens and some suggested solutions, as well as options for legal recourse.
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Only pay for the channels you want
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to suggest that cable companies could best serve their customers by allowing them to subscribe to individual channels instead of packages of several stations
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Pong is 34 years old today! Happy Birthday Pong!
It wasn't first videogame (that was arguably SpaceWar) but it was the first commercially successful videogame and started the videogame revolution. How far we've come!
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Monday, November 28, 2005
Windows XP Crippling P2P Programs
Bit-torrent downloads seemingly slow? Windows XP SP2 limits half-open connections (SYN) to a maximum of 10 (the previous limit was over 65,000). This is supposed to slow down certain viruses because their spreading strategy is to try to connect to a high amount of random IP numbers.
Read how to detect the symptoms and fix the problem.
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Read how to detect the symptoms and fix the problem.
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Google Adsense Update
"International publishers can now refer users to Firefox plus Google Toolbar through the AdSense referrals feature. To add a Firefox referral button to your site today, visit the 'Referrals' tab in your account."
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Free Audiobooks, Speeches, Video Lectures
Directory of 500+ free audio books, video lectures, historical speeches. Many can be downloaded or streamed. Good stuff to load up on that new iPod you're about to get!
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Sony rootkit author asked for free code to lock up music
"First4Internet ripped off code from at least two free/open source software projects for the malicious rootkit program they supplied to Sony.An old newsgroup post from a First4Internet programmer offering cash if someone will do his homework for him."
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China vows to put man on the moon by 2020.
"Fresh from its second manned space mission, China's space program wants to be able to put a man on the moon and build a space station in 15 years." Very cool! Check it out!
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Setting up the Parallel Virtual Machine
Parallel Virtual Machine is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer.
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SkyOS: Beta 9 Released
SkyOS released beta 9 of it's operating system: "This release features new core components like the integrated mouse gestures, new Font system and API, new applications (Pixel Image Editor, ...) and various driver/system updates as well as more than 200 fixed bugs reported in our bug tracking system."
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Portable USB Drive Apps
List of utilities that can be run from a USB drive. Editors, graphics programs, network, repair, and diagnostic tools included.
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One Terabyte iPod for $500! .. within next five years
Munster has been covering Apple for years, and is most often right on the mark.
This would be way cool.
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This would be way cool.
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Windows Vista OS may ship earlier then expected
With speculation of a ship date for Windows Vista ranging in the second part of 2006, word has surprisingly surfaced that it can be expected much earlier. BusinessWeek has received a copy of the internal blog of Chris Jones, who is a top Windows executive. The blog states that the code for Windows Vista will be completed by August 31.
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NBC May Sue Tivo for iPod and Sony PSP Plans
Despite the fact that it is legal to record free TV broadcasts on your VCR, DVD recorder, and Tivo, there are rumblings at NBC that they might sue Tivo for allowing those same episodes to be recorded on portable devices, namely the newest iPod and Sony's PSP.
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10 simple steps to stop being a PC n00b
Struggling to impress your friends after buying your new PC? This humorous guide takes you from gamer to lamer in 10 easy steps. An essential read for anyone looking for some added 1337 (or a bunch of laughs).
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Netflix Experiments With Advertising
Netflix has begun incorporating third-party advertising onto their envelopes. Beginning last week, DVDs to certain customers in certain geographic regions were targeted with a Memoirs of a Geisha ad and this week Aeon Flux arrived at my door step. Also this week, I participated in an online customer survey specific to that envelop flap.
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Saturday, November 26, 2005
Systm episode 1
If you are not keeping up with the tech world I thought I might help you out. So her you go I will start puting out a weekly Tech video for free of what is going on. This Weeks will be the first episode of systm. It has been out for a while but I might as well start somewhere.
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Cool New Hack for google video!!!!
I was looking on Digg and saw that you can now Put Google Video on you site or blog just by putting a little bit of code in and then you can watch all you would like on you site. But I am not going to Give the code to just anyone. I desided that if you would like the codew for it I will only give it to you if you have sign up for the Newsletter. You can sign Up for it by sending an Email to me at Hotstuffintech@gmail.com. And head the E-mail with the Title of "I want a newsletter."
Nintendo Revolution download service interface unveiled?
Revolution Report recently came across a patent filed by Nintendo which may possibly be related to the Virtual Console function of the company's next-generation console, code-named Revolution. Images inside article.
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MIT's $100 laptop to run Redhat
The $100 laptop designed by the MIT and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association, previewed at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference in Tunisia last week, will be using a Redhat Linux variant as its operating system.
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The origin of Google
the original Stanford presentation authored by Larry Page. a piece of history that Stanford is clearly proud of. includes the basis of the Google PageRank algorithm. fascinating stuff !
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Friday, November 25, 2005
DS Pommels PSP by 3-to-1 in 2005.
This article on About.com uses data from GameRankings.com to compare the games that came out in 2005 for the PSP and Nintendo DS.
Quote: "Defining a quality game as one rated better than 79% on GameRankings.com, Nintendo has released more quality games than Sony in the past six months by a ratio of nearly 3-to-1."
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Quote: "Defining a quality game as one rated better than 79% on GameRankings.com, Nintendo has released more quality games than Sony in the past six months by a ratio of nearly 3-to-1."
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Sony Will Present PS3 At CES 2006
Sony has decided to acquire the central stand at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) that will take place in January next year in Las Vegas. Ok...that would seem rather normal...except for the fact that the stand will have 12,000 sq. feet (aprox 3660 square meters). That's a lot. Time to take away the X360 thunder.
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Black Friday Online
Can't make it to the store today? Check out theses Black Friday deals that are available online now. Updated regularly.
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Reducing Firefox's memory usage
Many people have complained about Firefox's memory use. Federico Mena-Quintero has a proposal for reducing the amount of memory used to store images, which, in his proof of concept code, "reduced the cumulative memory usage [...] by a factor of 5.5."
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How a Lucky Guy came to acquire one of Douglas Adams's old Macs
Files left on an Apple Mac IIfx won on eBay, gave this guy an incredible surprise....that this was indeed Douglas Adam's old Mac!!
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XBOX360 DVD player sucks?
ArsTechnica has it that the built-in DVD player on the 360 just isn't that good, with noticeable artifacts and dithering. Obviously, this would seriously impact the 360's use as a media hub. Does anyone have any experience with this? Would this change your decision on whether to buy a 360?
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Worlds first USB Beverage Chiller soon to the market.
Just seconds after plugging the chiller into your computer�s USB port (no external outlet needed), the coldplate chills to 45 degrees Fahrenheit, the perfect temperature for keeping your beverage chilled.
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Friday, November 18, 2005
No posting for a week....
We will be taking a one week break for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We will be back on Monday, November 28. And We will BACK on full steam till another one week on Christmas. I will still be starting a weekly poll though.
Apple iTunes security flaw discovered
A critical vulnerability has been found in some versions of Apple's popular iTunes that could allow attackers to remotely take over a user's computer, according to a warning issued Thursday by a security research firm.
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Where not to buy your electronics.
So basically the big powerhouses (Wal-Mart, Best Buy) are the places you should not shop at. Shop at small places like Amazon(?!). Funny that they don't mention newegg.
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Xbox 360 motherboard up close
A great overview of the 360's motherboard. Also gives a good explanation of the use of serial and parallel links on the 360.
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Move the Firefox Tab Bar
Some people prefer it at the top, others at the side or even the bottom. This guide on Mozillazine tells you how to move it away from the top to either side or the bottom!
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Building a Weblog with PHP and MySQL
Top 25 Inventions of 2005
Time Magazine has brought to use the greatest inventions of this year. From the cloned dog, to an airless tire. Cool read.
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Rootkit in diggtree
I was running RootkitRevealer tonight when I found that diggtree(a program the uses flash and RSS to get digg news) contains a Rootkit, here is were the Rootkit file is stored C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\DIGGTREE.EXE-208EB221.pf the maker of this program is Zak Ainsworth. Kevin Rose was telling people to get this program for another way to get digg storys. I am outraged and I am also wonder what other weird things digg might be doing.
Popular Science honors Tiger's Spotlight search
Popular Science has honored Apple's Mac OS X Spotlight search technology in its 'Best of What's New' roundup for 2005. "Most desktop search tools are perpetually a step behind, periodically snooping your machine to find new and changed files. But Spotlight, ... updates the instant anything changes because it's built into the core of the OS.
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The Best Geek Novels - Top 20
An Introduction to Tiger Terminal, Parts 1-5
(links to all parts) In Part 5, Mary Norbury-Glaser looks at how Tiger Mac OS X runs regularly scheduled commands and scripts to execute recurring jobs, like system maintenance and backups. She compares the "old" way, using the Unix tool called cron (for chronological), with the new Tiger method of using the launchd daemon.
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WPA Password Generator
Steve Gibson has created a generator at grc.com/pass that makes "unbreakable" WPA passwords.
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PS3 controller design here to stay, according to Sony exec
According to Japanese gaming-mag Famitsu, a Sony exec. has denied rumors that a redesigned PS3 controller would be unveiled at this January�s CES in Las Vegas.
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FakeAP
Black Alchemy's Fake AP generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points. Hide in plain sight amongst Fake AP's cacophony of beacon frames. As part of a honeypot or as an instrument of your site security plan, Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables.
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Find 100% Compatiable RAM for your System
Nifty little site tells you exactly how many slots you have left remaining, and exactly what type of RAM you need.
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FlashVNC Released
FlashVNC is a Flash Player based client that connects to a TightVNC server. It's built on the greatly improved Flash 8.5 player with Actionscript 3.0. +1 for Flash as a RIA.
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See what Google knows about your site with Google Sitemap
Here is a quick guide to set up your site on Google Sitemap. After a quick (less than 5 minutes) setup, you're ready to see interesting stats like what keywords your site shows up under and much more.
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Apple Computer shares hit all-time high
NOV. 16 2:28 P.M. ET Improved availability and continued upbeat demand for iPods on Wednesday prompted a Bear Stearns analyst to boost his earnings estimates for Apple Computer Inc., sending shares to an all-time high.
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The 100 Best Computer thingies of 2005
How to Read 12 Digit UPC Barcodes
Most barcodes are 12-digit UPC barcodes, with ten digits at the bottom of the code and one small number to each side. Impress your friends by asking them to select a random item from the kitchen with a removable label and cut the numbers off of the UPC barcode; you can then proceed to read the numbers encoded in the lines.
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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
"Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars�it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color"
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MIT's $100 Laptop Launch Video
"UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte Unveil $100 Laptop Prototype at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia" (requires real player)
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Manipulating XML at the command line with xmlstarlet
"...provides us with an introduction to network monitoring with Big Brother, an excellent tool for enterprise-level monitoring solutions...introduction to command-line XML manipulation with the xmlstarlet utility. I also wrote a brief review of SuperTux, a highly addictive, Mario-inspired screen scroller."
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Google Base now in public beta
An ambitious new Google service lets anyone upload almost anything to a publicly searchable database, Google Base has the potential to make instantly available a vast sea of content including -- but not limited to -- recipes, job ads, photos, DNA sequences, real estate listings and individual standalone databases.
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Microsoft's upcoming releases will be 64-bit only
Although it might not affect the common user, MS plans to release Exchange 12 and variants of the Longhorn server as 64-bit only, among other products.
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Beautiful shots of the Xbox 360 blades interface
Super high res shots on a Dell 24" LCD monitor of the menu interface.
Not really groundbreaking news, but this guy takes close-ups of the buttons and text, and wow is it ever crystal clear!
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Not really groundbreaking news, but this guy takes close-ups of the buttons and text, and wow is it ever crystal clear!
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The Intel iBook To Be Announced At Macworld 2006
Not the PowerBook, the iMac, the Mac minis, or the PowerMac, but the iBook will receive Apple's first Intel chips in January!
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Beautiful shots of the Xbox 360 blades interface
Super high res shots on a Dell 24" LCD monitor of the menu interface.
Not really groundbreaking news, but this guy takes close-ups of the buttons and text, and wow is it ever crystal clear!
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Not really groundbreaking news, but this guy takes close-ups of the buttons and text, and wow is it ever crystal clear!
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What is World Of Warcraft?
Leeroy Jenkins makes his first prime time television appearance tonight, on Jeopardy. "This role-playing game out in 2004 returns to the "World" of Azeroth, where heroes like Leeroy Jenkins do battle."
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Sony's Official Apology
Here is the statement from the Sony/BMG website trying to make amends and telling customers what they intend to do.
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No more .99 songs on iTunes
Need Content For Your Video Ipod?
Great website that shows you all the latest video content for owners of the video ipod.
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Pics ofNegroponte's $100 Laptop
HUGE Incompatible list for 360 games!
I'm sure you aren't too sad because "Chessmasters" isn't going to be playable on the 360, but DOA Xtreme beach volleyball?!
Microsoft has gone too far this time... Look at the huge list of games that didn't make the cut
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Microsoft has gone too far this time... Look at the huge list of games that didn't make the cut
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Mercedes TV Demo turns into 3-Car Pile-up
A mishap during a Mercedes demo left many wondering if they had hired the same team behind some of Bill Gates� botched Windows presentations. The new Mercedes S-Class has a sophisticated radar-based braking system that can automatically prevent accidents. But with cameras rolling and photographers standing by, that system literally "crashed!"
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Sony Talkman is Finally Released
PSP-Hacks has written on article on Lik-Sang shipping Sony's talkman translator software you won't be able to find this product on North American retail shelves so if your in the USA unfortunatly you will have to order off an online retailer.
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'Only 80 Games a Year Will Succeed'
"A new report on the risks involved in game publishing and development has been released suggesting that, in the next generation, as few as 80 games a year will turn a profit."
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United States, United Nations reach Net agreement
The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit here have inked a broad agreement on global Internet management that will preclude any dramatic showdown this week. ICANN no longer controls the DNS.
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All web sites in the Simpsons are actually real
Fans of The Simpsons will know that many amusing web site names are mentioned in the show such as whatbadgerseat.com, dorks-gone-wild.com and my favourite; springfieldisforgayloversofmarriage.com.
Don't forget to check out sexyslumberparty.com too which isn't on the list!
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Don't forget to check out sexyslumberparty.com too which isn't on the list!
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PS3 May Cost TWICE as Much as XBox360
Manufacturing costs combined with high-priced hardware are contributing to speculation that the PS3 will retail at more than twice as much as the XBox360.
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MIT to launch $100 laptop in 2 days
The MIT Media Laboratory expects to launch a prototype of its US$100 laptop in November.
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iPod nano now does video too !!!!
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Final Fantasy XIII and Dragon Quest IX for PS3 and Xbox 360 announced.
Square-Enix President Yoichi Wada confirms that the next final fantasy title will be multi-platform.
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Democrats want High Speed Net Access for All Americans!
Can all Americans get High Speed Internet Access? Check out what the Democrats are proposing.
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MPAA: pirated DVDs are "NEW DRUG ON THE STREET"
In an announcement released today the Motion Picture Association of America claims pirated DVDs have become "The New Drug On The Street." Give me a break...
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People who play video games exhibit traits similar to those of drug users
The same physiological responses that trigger a smoker's craving may also be at work in the brains of people who spend a lot of time playing video games. Depending on who you ask, this is unbelievable or obvious.
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Sony Confirms It: No DRM For Future PS3 Disks
Last week, there were many rumors floating around the Internet regarding a certain patent belonging to Sony, which, if adopted, would have linked the individual copies of software with the hardware.
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Portable Nintendo 64 (with "How it was done" pics)
Not new, but new to me. Check BenHeck.com for more of his portable systems and other console hacking. Also seen on the front page, a new project to be released soon.
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New World of Warcraft Patch Stops Cheaters...Again!!!
I am in the process of installing a massive new World of Warcraft patch, and decided to read the details of the patch. By now, you probably know that you can get by WoW's previous cheater sniffer with the use of Sony's Rootkit. Could this be Blizzard's answer to Sony's Rootkit? Click for patch details...
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Firefox 1.5 going live today!!
Neowin has got the story that Firefox 1.5 is going live today (11/15/05).
"On November 9th 2004, Neowin was one of the first to announce the official release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. We get word from resident Firefox aficionado supernova_00, that Firefox 1.5 is slated to be released sometime today."
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"On November 9th 2004, Neowin was one of the first to announce the official release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. We get word from resident Firefox aficionado supernova_00, that Firefox 1.5 is slated to be released sometime today."
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How the Internet would look under UN Control - Scary!
As United Nations (UN) officials meet tomorrow in Tunisia to plot strategies for a new worldwide Internet governance structure, an "Issue Brief" from the 350,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) warns that such schemes could choke political freedoms and soak taxpayers.
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Free Software Downloads
This is a Shareware and Freeware Site with tons of software and online tools also.
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MIT's $100 Laptop to be Demoed Wednesday @ U.N. Tecnology Conference
A working prototype of the much anticipated MIT $100 laptop will be shown off at a U.N. technology conference on Wednesday. While there is still much development to be done, production could begin in late 2006 or early 2007, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Quicktime Alternative 1.66 Final Released!
QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. (H.264 supported)
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How Apple, Microsoft, and Sony cash in on piracy prevention.
"The crux of the debate is this: When you buy a song, an album, or a movie, are you buying the content only in the form it comes in? If you purchase a song from Apple's iTunes store, should you be able to play it on any hardware you want? Not according to Apple..."
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Adobe's New Antipiracy Site -- must see.. very funny!
Adobe launched a new, MUST SEE, antipiracy site. While it's supposed to be about antipiracy, Adobe made it humorous with hilarious videos. Does Adobe think piracy is funny?
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Move over 007, Self guard SG-210 security system is here
Starnex Korea has introduced portable Audio and Video recording system the "Self Guard (SG-210)" which can store and compress Audio / Video data with a Camera and Microphone. Now starts the interesting part the Camera is just the size of a button.
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Google is watching you
They know what you've searched for, they can read your gmail, if you signed up for adsense, they know your social security, and home address, which they can map to a satellite map, they can dig up your posts to alt.images.binary.erotica, and they know which sites you've clicked off your google searches - what's next?
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320GB Hard Drive for $129.99
At Office Max thay are havin a deal where you can get Western Digital 320GB Hard Drive:
# Store up to 320GB of data at 100MB per second
# Rotational Speed of 7200 RPM
# 8 MB Buffer
# 1 Year Warranty
The catch is you have to pay $159.99 then you get $30 mail in rebate.
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# Store up to 320GB of data at 100MB per second
# Rotational Speed of 7200 RPM
# 8 MB Buffer
# 1 Year Warranty
The catch is you have to pay $159.99 then you get $30 mail in rebate.
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Monday, November 14, 2005
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Sony Patents Anti-Rental Tech (for Blu-Ray and PS3)
The patent describes a process by which every media disc is shipped with a unique registration key. The first time the media disc is inserted into a player, that key is read and the disc is registered by the player, then the original key on the disc is rendered unreadable. Any attempt to play a registered disc in another player will fail.
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Logitech Super xbox 360 remote
Google Registers A Few New Domain Names
The folks in Mountain View have registered a few new domains in the past couple of days: GoogleMagazines.com, GooglePapers.org, GoogleMicrofilm.com, GoogleLibrary.org, and more.
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Warner Brothers Releasing 100 Classic Television Series for Free
4800 episodes of classic Warner Brother television series will be available early next year in a ad supported service called In2TV.
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Avid Free DV
Avid Free DV is feature-streamlined, standalone software which includes basic video and audio editing capabilities, up to two streams of real-time effects and support for both Windows XP and Macintosh OS X platforms. And its all FREE!! a perfect solution to adobe premiere.
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Twit now with google adsense
I stumbled on twit and saw that twit now has google adsense at the top. I thought they said no ads were going to put on twit. Check it out right below were it says this week in tech. I kind of approve of this cause we don't have to pay. Click away.
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List of Sony CD's with root-kit
A list, albeit not a complete list, of CD's with the root-kit from Sony and BMG.
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FOX says you can get shows from friends
go to this page and click on number 8, it says Our recommendation is to ask co-workers, friends, family and neighbors for anyone who may have taped off-the-air the show you are looking for. This could mean that bit torrent is all right!
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Keep Track of TV Torrents with TVTAD
"TVTAD is an RSS feed reader with support for unlimited feeds. It will automatically download newly released TV episodes that have been added to your favorites." It's free and It works with any BitTorrent client (like uTorrent).
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A tower for your Mac Mini
Check out this setup from Japan�s Greenhouse, which adds a hard drive enclosure, speaker system with subwoofer, and, of course, the obligatory USB and Firewire hub.
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Sony PSP 2.50 Hacked!
The 2.50 firmware on the Sony PSP has been hacked in a similar fashion to the 2.0 hack. Expect a down grader to be released soon.
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NOVA scienceNOW Videos
From booming sand dunes, to supercomputers, to dinosaurs...very interesting videos on many subjects.
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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Apple's next move...media domination?
New Linux live CD for security professionals
Arudius (formerly Securinix) is a live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware (Minislack) and Linux Live scripts. It contains an extensive set of software tools used by IT security professionals for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis.
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$0.03 cents a song totally LEGALLY?
Well i always new about Allofmp3.com but i didnt think that this was legal in the US. Well this article proved me wrong. its not worth it to pirate music anymore. Also i dont the that the RIAA gets a peice of this action.
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Setting up your router/firewall properly
Many Internet users are not aware of how to configure their router or firewall in order to use applications like Peer-to-Peer file sharing (PtoP), Internet Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, and Instant Messaging such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MS Messenger.
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Xbox 360 Backwards-Compatible Titles Revealed
Today, at last, Microsoft opened up about which Xbox titles you'll actually be able to play on Xbox 360. Along with a compatibility Q&A on the official site, Microsoft released an initial list of Xbox games confirmed to be compatible -- more than 200 already.
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Friday, November 11, 2005
Skype introduces VoIP phone
Soon after I read about the new Linksys Wireless-G IP phone (WIP300), I looked around to see what was available...
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Microsoft Delays Windows Vista Beta 2 to 2006
Microsoft will soon delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 from December 7, 2005 to sometime in January or February 2006.
The big question now is whether this will jeopardize the final ship date that was supposed to be in Summer 2006.
The big question now is whether this will jeopardize the final ship date that was supposed to be in Summer 2006.
Pandora streaming radio caches to your TEMP folder!
Start playing some tunes on Pandora Radio (www.pandora.com), go to your temporary folder (to find out where this is on Windows, type ECHO TEMP in a command prompt) and look in /plugtmp. All the "access-#" files are MP3 files cached from Pandora.
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ATI Catalyst 5.11 released
The newest ATI Catalyst drivers are here, with a handy speed boost in OpenGL games, especially on X1800 cards. But you won't find them on ATI.com for another 24 hours - they have been released to a bunch of tech sites ahead of time. These aren't leaked though, just officially Limited Edition until tomorrow. Grab 'em while they're hot.
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Apple compiles first Mac OS X 10.4.4 builds
Engineers at Apple Computer have recently compiled the first builds of Mac OS X 10.4.4, the fourth in a series of several maintenance updates planned for the company's Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system over the next 10 months, tipsters tell AppleInsider. While few, if any, details of the operating system update have yet to surface.
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
GoogleTalk 1.0.0.75 Released (New Features)
A new version of GoogleTalk (http://talk.google.com), Google's Instant Messaging application has been released.
New features include a diagnostic mode available from the Start Menu.
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New features include a diagnostic mode available from the Start Menu.
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Nintendo Revolution will be cheapest next gen console
The Revolution remains the most mysterious of the three next-generation consoles. With only the barest of system specs, and no tech demos, little is known about the device--or what is so "revolutionary" about it. So far, its most innovative features are a unique controller and repeated statements by its maker, Nintendo, that it will appeal to a vast untapped market of nongamers.Go Nintendo!
via gamespot
via gamespot
Steve Jobs and Disney kiss and make up...
Nearly two years after Pixar topper Steve Jobs first announced that the CG animation studio was parting ways with Walt Disney Pictures, the entities appear poised to kiss and make up.
via IGN
via IGN
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
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I think we have now fixed the problem posting begins soon
