Monday, April 23, 2007

Ars: A look at personal music-streaming service MediaMaster

Everything is moving online: Our e-mail and its storage, our photos, our home movies, our data backups... even our applications have begun to move online. But what about our music? Sometimes, we're away from our home computers and don't have a digital music player with us. Sure, there is Internet radio, but, well, we know where that's going.



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Milestone: One Million Blu-Ray Discs Sold

"The Blu-ray vs HD DVD format war reaches another milestone, with sales of Blu-ray Discs reaching more than one million sold since the format launched less than a year ago. According to Home Media Research, Blu-ray locked up 70% of high-definition movies sales in the first quarter of 2007..."



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If You Eat Well, a Single High-Fat Meal Causes More Harm Than Stress

A new study published in this month's edition of the Journal of Nutrition demonstrates that a single high-fat meal in an otherwise healthy lifestyle causes a person to have a stronger adverse physiological reaction to stress than when eating a balanced diet.



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USB BB gun sports barrel-mounted webcam, ensures home security

USB BB gun sports automatic firing, manual reloading, and the ability to fire based on commands given remotely on a PC. Moreover, the weapon actually packs a webcam on the barrel, allowing users to login via computer, tilt / swivel the gun with simple mouse flicks, and fire away if you spot any intruders within its broad line of sight.



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Child porn case shows that an open WiFi network is no defense

A man convicted of possessing child pornography argued that his unsecured wireless access point means that the evidence against him should have been thrown out. An appeals court disagrees, demonstrating why arguing that "my WiFi network was open" isn't a great legal strategy.



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Google Pays Over $1 Billion to Website Publishers!

Google's revenue share is bigger than ever this quarter and has been responsible for a 1.13 billion dollar payout to AdSense publishers. The chart has more.



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Top 10 Artificial Technologies Ready to Create a Real Human Being

The pace, at which, scientists are doing experiments with the artificial body parts, somehow it seems like we would be able to create a real human being very soon in the near future.



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Is Facebook the new Twitter?

Facebook has added a number of enhancements to its 'status' functionality which include features which are strikingly similar to the micro-blogging service, Twitter.



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THAT Chick Can Hold Her Liquor! Woman Arrested with .47 Blood Alcohol Level

The Washington State Patrol says 54-year-old Deana Jarrett was arrested Thursday afternoon for being an imminent threat to public safety after she was arrested with a blood-alcohol level of .47 last week.



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Convert any PDF File into a Graphical Image

PDFfiller converts any pdf file into a graphical image and allows the user to add text anywhere. This web site is designed to allow you to fill out any pdf form on-line.The process is really simple. Just upload the file or specify the location of the form. When the file is loaded, simply click on any place on the form and start typing.



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TheSpecialist's HDDHackr v0.90 - Upgrade Xbox360 with cheap 120GB PC drive

TheSpecialist released the update of HDDHackr many of you were probably waiting for. With the release of an official 120GB drive by Microsoft you can now use this tool to make your own 120GB Xbox360 HDD using a Western Digital BEVS-LAT drive (that's a cheap SATA 2.5" PC/laptop drive):



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Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries, Study Finds

This chart depicts the public acceptance of evolution theory in 34 countries in 2005. Adults were asked to respond to the statement: "Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals



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Upgrading Ubuntu From Edgy to Feisty (6.10 to 7.04) :: the How-To Geek

Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) is the latest version of Ubuntu. Here’s the quick list of new features for your enjoyment, but you should really upgrade to see everything for yourself



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BBC Documentary: Who's More Powerful - Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?

BBC Doc on the two computer giants.



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Man Sues Library After His Sons Find Book On Lesbian Lovemaking

A man is seeking $20,000 after his sons found a book on lesbian sex at a public library. The library has since removed the book from circulation. In an e-mail, the father said that God was speaking to his heart and helped him find the words that removed it. He said the teenagers found it while looking for material on military academies.



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Why do Straight People Hate Gay People? A response.

A painfully insightful article from an elderly homosexual.



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Sex Positions Poster for Youth AIDS

Agency: Cliff FreemanClient: Youth AIDSSex Positions Poster for AIDS Awareness



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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Men to be spanked in new town

CONSTRUCTION has started on the world's first Woman-town, where disobedient men will get a spanking.



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Marijuana Compound May Fight Lung Cancer

The compound "seems to have a suppressive effect on certain lines of cancer cells," explained Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.



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Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like

In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature of space and time? After analyzing different perspectives, Sparling offers an alternative idea: space-time may have six dimensions.



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30 Things You Can Do To Make Your Offline Life Easier

Ever thought about changing your locks so that you only have to carry one key? Or changing your billing cycles so that all your bills are due on the same day? Check out this list of easy ways to make your life easier when you're away from your computer.



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EliteTorrents Uploader Faces 5 Years in Jail

A man from Columbus, Georgia has pleaded guilty to two felonies connected to the distribution of copyright works via the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker, which was shut down by the FBI in 2005. As a major uploader he faces 5 years in jail plus a $250,000 fine.



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Xbox 360 Laptop mk2

Behold, the Xbox 360 Laptop mk2! It may look a bit like its first generation sibling, but don't be fooled. This Xbox laptop is a bit thinner, significantly lighter, and has some essential upgrades if you're gonna build one yourself. You are going to build one, aren't you? Because that's the best part about it we're going to show you how to make it



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College advises students to push back against the RIAA

Only one student at North Carolina State University responded to the RIAA's offer for an early settlement, meaning that 23 others are likely to be sued. But the university is advising students to push back against the recording industry.



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Save Internet Radio!

The founder of Pandora and others have created the SaveNetRadio coalition. The Copyright Royalty Board has raised rates by 300 to 1200 percent. Sign the petition to stop this madness!



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Web 2.0 takes on the flu

WhoIsSick.com tries to harness websurfers' willingness to share how they're feeling in the hope that it will let people know what bugs are coming to a neighborhood near them. The site uses Google Maps to power its geographic features.



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Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney

Looks like he's reached his boiling point. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.



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MySpace to Expand Into Television

MySpace owner News Corp., whose Fox network uses the social networking site to stream full episodes of hit television shows, plans to launch a service allowing users to "host" streams of shows on their home pages, perhaps propelling a rapid chain of viewer endorsements.



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Wal-Mart dethrones Exxon on Fortune 500 MegaSuperGiant Company List

With more than $351 billion dollars in revenue, the magazine ranks Wal-Mart slightly ahead of the energy giant. Wal-Mart is on top for the fifth time in six years.



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7 Little Known Ways To Drastically Improve Your Learning

Whether you’re heading into exams or haven’t seen the inside of a textbook in years, how you learn is going to have a big impact on your life. Unfortunately most people have pretty ineffective strategies for learning. Here are a couple tips for how to maximize the amount you learn so you can use more of it later.



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Surprise! Men DO work as hard as women!

Everyone from economists,sociologists & Oprah knows that women work more than men. Their longer combined hours, at the home and office, stop men from taking naps on the couch and cause fights that end with men sleeping on the couch. According to new study, those longer hours are a myth, because it's just not true that women carry a heavier load.



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Internet radio dealt severe blow: Copyright Board rejects royalty appeal

The Copyright Royalty Board has rejected an appeal of last month's ruling governing royalties paid by Internet broadcasters. The new rules will now take effect on May 15. Internet Radio is not officially in big trouble.



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Sony pegs European PlayStation 3 sales at 800,000

Sony grabs some positive PR with impressive European sales numbers for the PS3.



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Sony copy protection taking heat again: now DVDs won't play

Reports continue to filter in about DVDs that refuse to play on standard players from Toshiba, LG, Pioneer, Sony, and others. The culprit is titles that utilize Sony's ARccOS copy protection scheme, such as Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," The Weinstein Company's "Lucky Number Slevin," and Sony's "Casino Royale,"



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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Child hacks his own school's network

A high school student gets charged with computer crime because he hacked his own school's network to show them the lack of network security.



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Comparison between four of the biggest Linux distributions.

This article compares four of the major distros, from an impartial point of view and try to show some of the facts that make them different, so you can read and choose which better suite your needs.



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Bush asks Congress to loosen surveillance rules

"The administration says the changes are intended to help the government deal with national security threats better by updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to bring it into line with rapid changes in communications technology." So I guess they want me to go to Gitmo, for that J-Lo video download.



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How Your Tax Dollars Are Spent

Do you wonder what your tax dollars buy? As the deadline for filing federal income taxes rolls around again this year, you may well wonder where those hard-earned bucks you've forked over to Uncle Sam actually go. The answer might surprise you.



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This is How We Catch You Downloading

All over Europe thousands of people are being threatened with court action for allegedly sharing games like Dream Pinball 3D on P2P networks. Now, documents obtained by TorrentFreak show details of the anti-piracy company's techniques for identifying alleged file-sharers on the internet...



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25% Of Americans Say They Have No Savings At All, Including Retirement

If you have less than 25k saved you're in good company, or at least, there are lots of you. 50% of workers 35 to 44 have less than that amount saved. 1/3 of those aged 45 and over did too. 25% of people surveyed had no savings at all. No savings account. No retirement account. No investments. Nothing. Zero. Bad Idea.



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Auto X-Prize senior director explains how a 100+ mpg car will become real

You've seen the draft rules for the Auto X Prize and one of the first competitors (from Team Velozzi) for this 100+ mpg production-ready vehicle contest. Now, Neal Anderson, senior director for the prize, explains what the group was thinking when they came up with the rules, how they'll judge the vehicles, and the different races the cars will run.



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How To: Stream Video from Your Webcam to the Internet

By connecting a typical webcam to an old laptop or PC running the appropriate software, you can set up a streaming video feed that you can access from anywhere on the Internet. It’s easy to do and you’ll be able to peek into your home from anywhere you have Internet access. We’ve even peeked in on our pooch from a cellphone.



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21 guidelines that will help you write better HTML

Markup is the technical foundation of front-end code. In one way or another, it influences or is influenced by design, content, accessibility, CSS, DOM scripting, and more. The quality of your markup will affect the quality of related code, and even the cost of implementing or maintaining that code. Your markup might be good now, but following...



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Scientist find the Obesity gene?

Scientists say they have identified the clearest genetic link to obesity yet. Read on for more info!



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Why should we have eight hours' sleep?

A tiny minority of us get eight hours' sleep a night. But do we really need that much?



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Would you believe this iPod was drawn in MS Paint?

If you thought MS Paint was only good for drawing simple shapes or resizing images, think again. This user managed to draw a picture-perfect Apple iPod, complete with reflections and shadows



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Study: Abstinence Classes Don't Stop Sex

Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex within a few years as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress....However, Bush administration officials cautioned against drawing sweeping conclusions from the study.



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Wi-Fi equipped iPod on the horizon?

Apple will bring out an iPod with Wi-Fi wireless connectivity on board during the latter half of the year - if the latest whispers coming from Taiwan's electronics manufacturer community are to be believed, that is.



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Einstein was right: space and time bend

90 years after he expounded his famous theory, a $700m probe has proved that the universe behaves as he said. The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of NASA's most complicated satellites, confirmed 'to a precision of better than 1%' the assertion Einstein made - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.



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Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion

Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal.



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Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo player on the way

Samsung says another Duo HD BD-UP5000 dual-format Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo player on the way.



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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Ten Things You Can Do to Help Save the Earth

Going green is easier than you think. There are little things you can do every day to help reduce greenhouse gases and make a less harmful impact on the environment. Taking care of the Earth is not just a responsibility -- it's a privilege. In the spirit of Earth Day, HowStuffWorks came up with 10 things you can do to help save the Earth.



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Stanford Report: What Do Users Do On The Internet?

We asked each of our 4000 respondents to select among a list of 17 common internet activities and tell us which they did or did not do. This is what we found.



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Have less than $25K in savings? Get in line

A new survey finds you're in good company with colleagues of all ages when it comes to saving for retirement.



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Google corners nearly two-thirds of US search market - Fortune

The latest search market share numbers are in from Hitwise: in the four weeks ended March 31st, Google (GOOG) racked up fully 64.13% of all US searches. That’s up more than 10% since March 2006, and, if trends hold, Google’s share will pass the two thirds mark by August.



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Gene Simmons rocks Times Square with Guitar Hero II

The legendary Gene Simmons (of KISS fame) rocked hard in Times Square promoting the newly released Guitar Hero II for Xbox 360. The nation's (supposed) top Guitar Hero masters were invited to perform in NYC's Virgin Megastore, and the top hero would be gifted with an autographed guitar and the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play with Simmons.



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Nintendo sends David Letterman A DS and Brain Age

I didn’t realize just how old David Letterman was! Nintendo saw fit to send the talk show host a gift on his birthday. They also sent one to his mom!



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Final Version of Internet Channel Available Now

I’m happy to say I have the final version of the Wii Opera browser on my console right now. You can download it too - just go to the Shop Channel and hit that update button.



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EJSChart - 100% pure JavaScript Charting Solution

EJSChart is canvas-based with many interactive features such as zooming and auto scaling. The product has been in development for some time but the web site has just been established. It features interactivity, axis scaling, zooming, scrolling, ajax-driven data, and much more. Entirely written in JavaScript !



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Where has all the antimatter gone?

Matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang but somehow the antimatter disappeared resulting in the Universe, and everything in it, including ourselves, being made of the remaining matter.



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Flash Gordon coming to Sci Fi Channel

First Battlestar, now Flash Gordon...if this one is done right, Sci-Fi channel might have a viable formula for GOOD remakes on their hands. Eric Johnson from Smallville will star as Flash.



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Team Fortress 2: PC Gamers VS Xbox 360 Gamers..It Works

The Cross Platform multiplayer aspect of Team Fortress 2 is perhaps one of the most interesting, and now, it is technically finished. Let this be a benchmark of truth when the game ships to see if Xbox 360 owners can actually pwn harder than PC gamers with their little keyboards and mice.



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The end of the dollar???

We need more than $2 billion of foreign investment per day just to keep the wheels from coming off the cart.



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Poll: 60% of Americans await recession

Most say a recession in the next year is somewhat or very likely; more than a third view their own finances as 'shaky,' newspaper reports. The poll of 1,373 adults conducted for the Los Angeles Times and financial news wire Bloomberg found that 60 percent of those surveyed said recession was somewhat or very likely within the next year,



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New York emits as much CO2 as Ireland

New York City produces nearly 1% of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions - an amount that puts it on par with Ireland and Portugal - according to a city study.



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Dead Rising 2 confirmed, now under development for Xbox 360

Good news for gamers, bad news for zombies. Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has just announced that Dead Rising 2, the sequel to Capcom's zombie massacre-ing game Dead Rising, is currently under development for the Xbox 360.



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Atheist divorce rate is Lower than Christian

Christians believe they hold the monopoly on family values and morals, but studies now prove that they divorce at a MUCH higher rate than Atheists.



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R.I.P. PlayStation 3 20GB is officially no more

Straight from Sony, the 20GB PS3 will no longer be offered to retailers for sale in North America. The decision was made based on consumer and retail demand favoring "the 60GB model 10 to 1."



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OLED TV's Will be Here in Three Years!

Toshiba and Matsushita have announced that, within three years, they plan to introduce organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for use in televisions.



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ocropus - a state-of-the-art OCR for Linux - finally! (sponsored by Google)

The OCRopus engine is based on two research projects: a high-performance handwriting recognizer developed in the mid-90's and deployed by the US Census bureau, and novel high-performance layout analysis methods. OCRopus is development is sponsored by Google and is initially intended for high-throughput, high-volume document conversion efforts.



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Opera 9.2 released

Finally! 9.2 is launched today. 9.2 is not only an important update with bug fixes and the new Speed Dial functionality, it's also a milestone in spreading Opera to new users around the world: Opera 9.2 for Windows ships with 31 languages.



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Cedega 6.0 released!

Cedega, which allows Windows games to be run on Linux, released version 6.0 today.



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Huge collection of free high-quality linux ebooks

"Linux Complete Command Reference", "Java Programming on Linux", "the SlackBook", "Running Linux", "100 Linux Tips and Tricks", etc...



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Hank Aaron doesn't plan to celebrate if Barry Bonds breaks homerun record

Hank Aaron doesn't plan to be at the ballpark if and when Barry Bonds breaks his home run record. "Uh-uh. No, no. I'm not going to be around," Aaron was quoted as saying in Tuesday's editions of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.



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The scoop on The Coop: an Early Review of Mozilla's Social Networking Tool

An early prototype of The Coop, Mozilla's new social networking component for Firefox, is now available for user testing. Announced earlier this week, The Coop is designed to integrate support for social networking features directly into the Firefox browser interface. At the present time, the available prototype is extremely limited and simplistic



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How To Create Icons Without Text!

Great and easy way to improve the look of your desktop icons. Gives a Mac feel to it.



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Jackie Chan and Jet Li Team Up to Star in "Forbidden Kingdom"

I thought Jet Li was done with martial arts epics? Thankfully, he's a liar. This movie will have as a basis the same Chinese legend that spawned Dragonball Z, and will have stunts/fights choreographed by Yuen Woo-Ping ("The Matrix", "Crouching Tiger", "Kill Bill").



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2007 will have more SPAM than HUMAN EMAILS!

"Spam volumes are growing faster than expected due to the success of image-based spam in bypassing antispam filters and of email sender identity spoofing in getting higher response rates," said Mark Levitt, the VP in charge of IDC's Collaborative Computing and Enterprise Workplace research. "Instant messaging, joined by free and low-cost VoIP....



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The World's Most Dangerous Internet Sites

Online security is a nightmare these days, with all the viruses, phishing, drive-by downloads, pop-ups, and other malware out there. How bad is it? Researchers set out to chart the Internet's worst domains. Their report looked at 265 top level domains (TLDs) worldwide and came up with some telling numbers...



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Diabetics cured by stem-cell treatment

In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.



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Guitar Hero 1 will cost you $97.76 at this rate on the Xbox 360.

Today, 3 Track Packs were released on the Xbox 360's Marketplace. The 3 track packs feature 3 songs a pop. Each pack is 500 MSP ($6.25), which puts each track at $2.08. These are Guitar Hero 1 tracks which, when compared to the 47 songs on the PS2 release of Guitar Hero at $40, are .85 cents a track. At this rate, Guitar Hero 1 will cost $97.76.



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Cheney Sticks to His Delusions

"Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein." -- Cheney still doesn't. That's the Veep for ya: living in his own political fantasy world where facts have no merit.



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Digg Nominated For a Webby Award - Vote Now!

Digg has been nominated for a Webby award, create an account and vote for Digg and your other favorite websites!



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Google - The Ultimate Money Making Machine

This article compares Google to Starbucks, making the case that Google has almost no friction as a business - whereas Starbucks has to deal with geography, maintenance, marketing and people. But in the decade to come, will there be a better business model than Google's current Internet model?



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Millions of PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace

Sometime around 10:30 pm PST tonight, MySpace began blocking videos embedded on MySpace pages that originate from Photobucket. This is a major blackout, affecting millions of embedded videos.



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Millions of PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace

Sometime around 10:30 pm PST tonight, MySpace began blocking videos embedded on MySpace pages that originate from Photobucket. This is a major blackout, affecting millions of embedded videos.



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Ghost Rider Creator Sues Everybody

Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich is so angry his head might actually catch on fire. Stating the rights to Ghost Rider reverted to him from Marvel back in 2001, he has named Marvel, Sony Pictures, Columbia Tristar, Relativity Media, Crystal Sky Pictures, Hasbro, Michael De Luca Productions and Take-Two Interactive in a joint lawsuit



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MGM and United Artists Join iTunes Store

MGM and United Artists movies have started appearing on Apple's iTunes Store this evening. United Artists and MGM have now joined Lionsgate, Paramount and Disney in selling movies on Apple's iTunes Store.



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Cablevision to continue fighting the good fight over networked DVR

Cablevision believes that the networked DVR is a product worth fighting for and decides to appeal a District Court ruling that the device infringes broadcasters' copyrights.



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Can you tell 128kbps AAC from the original? Take the test!

Apple just announced songs at 256kbps, but I wondered how many people could even tell 128kbps encodes from the originals. I whipped up this little app in the hopes of finding out just how good the average Digger's ears are, or how good Apple's encoder is, depending on how you look at it. So get out those Sennheisers and listen carefully!



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Gaming on Linux

Too many people think you can't do it, it's too complicated or there are just simply only crap games available. Bit-tech looks to clear the FUD and goes into what's available for those wanting to game on Linux.



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HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web

If you’re hard at work day in, day out, chipping away at the rock face of professional web development, it’s sometimes easy to get lost in the details—and when we’re talking about an organization that moves as slowly as the W3C, you can be forgiven for taking your eye off the larger picture. David Andersson gets us up to speed on what may soon be c



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Nearly 75% of People Say $4 Gas Would Alter Their Summer Travel Plans

According to a recent poll, 74% of people stated that if gas prices were to hit $4 per gallon this summer that they would be forced to alter their vacation plans. This scenario would be catastrophic to the many vacation hot spots that rely on the revenue generated from June through August to sustain them for the remainder of the year.



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Google Earth maps out Darfur atrocities

As of today, when the 200 million users of Google Earth log onto the site, they will be able to view the horrific details of what's happening in Darfur for themselves.



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A critical look at Ubuntu Feisty beta

A Linux veteran (since 1993) gives a rather balanced review of Ubuntu Feisty beta. To me, this is one of the first *real* reviews I have seen of Feisty.



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OLPC (one laptop per child) Linux based OS ready for download

Apparently, the Linux-based Sugar OS from the One Laptop Per Child project is now available via a bootable LiveCD ISO, and according to user reports, works quite well.



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Linux Is Going To The Indianapolis 500!

The Linux community is going to put a Linux sponsored car in this year's Indianapolis 500... and you can help! Today marks the launch of Tux500.com, a community-powered marketing effort!



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Zune 2.0 details LEAKED !

A MS employee has leaked various details such as: Zune 2.0 and Flash Zune will be out THIS YEAR, Zune 2.0 is like Gen1 though thinner and a large HDD, Flash Zune is video compatible, it's screen covers 75% of it, and will have WiFi, etc.



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Ten Things You Can Do to Help Save the Earth

Going green is easier than you think. There are little things you can do every day to help reduce greenhouse gases and make a less harmful impact on the environment. Taking care of the Earth is not just a responsibility -- it's a privilege. In the spirit of Earth Day, HowStuffWorks came up with 10 things you can do to help save the Earth.



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TIME TRAVEL: Experiment May Prove It's Possible

This test could tell us whether particle interactions do indeed move both backward and forward in time, a phenomenon known as retrocausality. If they do, we’ve taken a step forward in working out what could one day become the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity...



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Microsoft redefines Vista capable

Microsoft redefines "Vista Capable" after a lawsuit filed last week alleged bait-and-switch behavior.



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