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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

NBC and ABC Shows Promoting Firefox

Not long after "Surface" characters started using Firefox, "Invasion" proved once again how strong the Firefox community is.

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Sunday, December 25, 2005

Top 40 Pictures of 2005

The 40 most important and interesting pictures of 2005, according to Reuters news service. There are some really interesting pictures in this collection. Check it out!

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Works From This Years LegoFest 2005 - Pictures Inside!

You can tell these guy don't get out much. But hey, atleast they are having a good time !

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50 all time best gadgets

How many of the gadets do you own or have owned? Pretty good read.

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Xbox360 fails to outsell Gamecube in Japan

Gamasutra report 'The Xbox 360�s second week on the charts, though, has been even more disappointing than the first, with the console, showing 8,623 units sold, failing to outsell even the GameCube.

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 #  posted by John @ 10:03 AM

Infinite Bandwidth Everywhere for Free

What originally started as a community-supported 802.11b wireless network in Sonoma County, CA has grown into several projects whose purpose is to encourage the building of wireless community networks.

This site is the central repository for our software, ideas, and general information.

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Friday, December 23, 2005

Sony Store Continues To Sell Root-kit Infected Cd's

Contrary to Sony's statements, Sony's own retail outlets continue to sell DRM crippled, root-kit infected corrupt CDs because they are still "allowed" to.

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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Wireless Hacking At 30,000 Feet

To a typical traveler, the biggest security threat is thought to be somebody reading data off their computer screen. What they don't realize is that a savvy wireless hacker can exploit their systems without their knowledge... from several rows away. Article by Dan Hoffman, of 'Essential Free Wireless Hacking Tools' fame (1855 diggs and counting!).

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Friday, December 16, 2005

Dell Recalls 22,000 Notebook Batteries!!

The specific notebook batteries being recalled were sold with the following Dell notebook computers: Latitude D410, D505, D510, D600, D610, D800, D810; Inspiron 510M, 600M, 6000, 8600, 9200, 9300, XPS Gen 2; and Dell Precision M20 and M70 mobile workstations.

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 #  posted by John @ 11:31 AM

Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Approaches 250,000 Dollars!

Created by Penny Arcade, no "Administrative Fees" or other nonsense is collected; all gifts and donations go directly to the hospitals for distribution to sick kids. This is what the holiday spirit is really about. Digg this and spread awareness!

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 #  posted by John @ 9:59 AM

Dell trialling Mozilla Firefox on PCs

the Dell Corporation is shipping PCs in the UK with Mozilla Firefox on the desktop

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 #  posted by John @ 9:44 AM

FOUND: Digital camera, picts uploaded to Flickr, help find rightful owner

Lady finds digital camera, doesn't know who it belongs to so her husband uploads the photos to Flickr in hopes someone knows one of the subjects of the photos. Take a look at let them know if you recognize anyone.

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 #  posted by John @ 5:41 AM

Mac OS X 10.4.4 Nearly Ready for Release

The development of Mac OS X 10.4.4 Update appears to be in the final stages at Apple Computer, as tipsters say the latest developer builds of the software are accompanied by only a few outstanding issues. According to sources and reports already present on the Web, Mac OS X 10.4.4 stands to deliver over 120 bug fixes to "Tiger" operating system.

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Man gets $15000 Christmas present for leaving car unlocked.

Depressed and dejected, an anonymous donor left an engagement ring with a note reading: "Merry Christmas. Thank you for leaving your car door unlocked. Instead of stealing your car I gave you a present. Hopefully this will land in the hands of someone you love, for my love is gone now. Merry Christmas to you."

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 #  posted by John @ 5:40 AM

ThinkGeek.com Clearance Sale

Sales on items such as the VersaCharger, MP3 Sunglasses, DiscHub, Digital Camera Binoculars, USB 2.0 portable hard drive, and Mimobots USB flash drives (I want one sooo badly!).

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 #  posted by John @ 5:40 AM

Own Steve Wozniak's home--only $8 Million

Steve Wozniak's home in Los Gatos California has been completely remodeled and is up for sale. Ever wanted a unique home? This could be your chance!

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Thursday, December 15, 2005

How to make Your Own Copy-Protected CD

"Here�s a great gift idea just in time for the holidays: Make your friends and relatives their very own copy-protected CDs using the same industrial-grade passive protection technology built into XCP and Macrovision discs."

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 #  posted by John @ 6:27 PM

Windows 95 Still On Some Homeland Security Computers

A recent extended downtime of Homeland Security computers only added to a list of issues the department is having with their network. Also included are system reverted back to Windows 95 after a failed Windows 2000 upgrade and databases only being linked to certain computers, meaning data must be entered repeatedly on different machines.

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Monday, December 12, 2005

Hello World On 2.01/2.5 Firmware Through GTA

Hello world demonstration by Fanjita. What does this mean? Firmwares 2.01 and 2.5 have been successfully cracked. Homebrew will be rolling in for these firmwares in the coming days, with an EBOOT loader very soon. Once again, the PSP hacking scene is winning against Sony.

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 #  posted by John @ 7:01 PM

Photoshop Experts Reveal Their Secrets in Tutorial Archive

Professional (book cover artists) come together to show you how to "paint" in PhotoShop in a series of tutorials.

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 #  posted by John @ 6:46 PM

Meteorite hunter digs up 1400 pound meteor rock worth an estimated $3mil

He is harvesting his cash crop with the cooperation of his farming neighbors.

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National Geographic Printable Photo Posters

25x33 inch posters for you to download, print, and post on your wall. "Now full-color posters of National Geographic's classic photography are yours for the taking."

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Sunday, December 11, 2005

Gamers are better at multitasking

Gamers are better at multitasking than baseline humans. A researcher at Oregon State U is measuring the "switching cost" of going from one task to another, like paying attention to your mobile phone and to the road in front of you.

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 #  posted by John @ 6:05 PM

Speed camera nabs senior citizen for exceeding posted limit by 770

"No word yet on what modifications retiree Adalat Khan performed to his Toyota Land Cruiser in order to trip the lights fantastic at 800 mph in a 30 mph zone, or how the area coped with the sonic boom when the senior speedster made his improbable run into the record books." [via Autoblog]

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 #  posted by John @ 5:22 PM

English teacher in Japan writes his own blog about cultural hilarity

This teacher is part of a program that sends Americans who qualify over to Japan to teach the people there English. He writes his own blog about the cultural differences. Needless to say it is absolutely hilarious. A definite read for all you Japanophiles and in honor of the first Diggnation from Japan. (With hopefully more to come)

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Open Office Easter Egg

"In any cell type in =Game("StarWars"). A small, space invaders style game will appear."

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 #  posted by John @ 5:21 PM

Paramount Buys Dreamworks for $1.6 Billion

Paramount Pictures has struck a deal to acquire DreamWorks SKG in a pact worth $1.5-$1.6 billion beating out rival suitor NBC Universal. Paramount is putting up about half the purchase price with several financial partners shouldering the rest.

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 #  posted by John @ 5:21 PM

Best Puzzle Game Ever ( How smart are you? )

First two levels are very easy. At level 3, the game really begins. It contains some picture and some hints. Usually your web page title is a lot of hints. I am sure you will enjoy it.

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Monday, December 05, 2005

Costco now selling high quality "Ultimate Arcade" Machine

At $2500, this machine is MUCH nicer than the crappy $400 machine sold at Target. Comes with 81 killer games. IN STOCK at most Costco locations!

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 #  posted by John @ 12:29 PM

First X-Men 3 Photos Revealed!

USA Today has your first look at photos from 20th Century Fox's X-Men 3, coming to theaters on May 26, 2006.

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 #  posted by John @ 12:28 PM

Inexpensive and Abundant LEDs

Need a bunch of leds for your modding project?, read how you can stock yourself with all the leds you might need.

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 #  posted by John @ 12:27 PM

CNN "Pipeline" Live Feeds Now Online

Did you cancel your cable to rely exclusively on Bittorrent? Now you can get CNN's live feeds via the web, too.
This is their big entree into live net distribution. They will reportedly offer four live feeds of various news events, with one weekday feed featuring a live news anchor exclusively on the web.

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 #  posted by John @ 12:17 PM

Xbox 360 backwards compatibility is crap

With the exception of Halo, XBox 360 backwards compatibility is crap. Just try popping in other titles by Micrsoft like Fable and you'll get lag and lockups

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Thursday, December 01, 2005

Apple Files Patent for New Digital Camera

Apple patent references a digital camera. Will Apple surprise us at Macworld?

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Apple releases Security Update 2005-009 for Mac OS X Tiger

Update included:

apache_mod_ssl
CoreFoundation
CoreTypes
curl
iodbcadmin
OpenSSL
Safari
sudo
syslog

Use "Software update" or download directly from http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2005009tigerclient.html

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Expect Powerbooks by January

Apple could introduce its first laptop computers based on Intel Corp. chips as early as January, which, together with robust sales of video iPods, should drive earnings higher, Citigroup said on Wednesday.

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Dr Divx 2.0 Released!!!

Finally one can encode high quality Div files for free.

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Ctrl+Alt+Del The Animated Series

The title says it all.

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Skype ver2.0 with VIDEO beta released

Skype 2.0 beta with free video calling has been released. Go on over and check it out.

oh and PriceRitePhoto can lick my ass

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 #  posted by John @ 7:48 AM

Firefox Hack - Make Firefox 1.5 run any extension, the easy way.

Shows you how to modify the about:config file so Firefox will run older extensions without having to manually modify each extension.

Just check it out.

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