Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Wii stomping the competition - thousands of geeks exclaim, "told you so!"

News report from Yahoo. The Nintendo Wii is outselling both the PS3 and the Xbox 360, according to new statistics. Nintendo sold 436,000 Wiis during January 2006, beating out the second place PS2 and the third place Xbox 360.



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The Evolution of Yahoo!

Take a look back over the last decade to see how the world's most popular website has evolved. From a simple web directory into a massive news portal loaded with hot features.



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3 quick ways to watch TV shows for FREE

a "How To" guide that will teach you how to find TV programming to watch on-demand or via BitTorrent download so that you can watch your favorite TV shows whenever you like.



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How to build an inexpensive and powerful Vista PC (around $500)

For everyone out there claiming that you need a very high-end PC to run Windows Vista, this article shows that you don't need to break the bank to enjoy Vista to its fullest



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Why Does Vista Use All My Memory?

Windows Vista has a radically different approach to memory management. Check out the "Physical Memory, Free" column in my Task Manager...



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The Truth about Switching to Ubuntu

A very accurate and honest description on what it really feels llike to switch to Ubuntu (most of it applies to Linux in general).



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How to Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive

yes... this rocks! Windows Vista install in less than 5-10 minutes. The slowest part of the install will probably be the computer waiting for you to type in information in the setup fields, and even that can be automated using the Windows Automated Installation Kit.



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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Add music and movies to your iPod from any computer without iTunes

Everyone loves the iPod. Not everyone loves iTunes. It's not that iTunes is a bad application, but it does limit what you can do with your iPod. This week I'll show you how to free yourself from the one computer, one music library shackles of iTunes using alternative software for managing the iPod.



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Monday, February 19, 2007

AnyDVD HD released

PROBABLY THE MOST significant product of 2007 has just been released to little or no fanfare, AnyDVD HD. What it does is to rip out the DRM infection from HD-DVDs so you can watch them in accordance with your rights.

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Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On Linux

This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system into a VMware virtual machine with VMware Converter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server. Vmware Converter comes in handy if you want to switch to a Linux desktop, but feel the need to run your old Windows desktop from time to time.

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Surprise! Mall Shooter Didn't Own Video Games

The 18 year old mall shooter from last week has been shown to have no motives regarding video games, despite what Jack Thompson would like you to believe. "Detectives as of Friday had found no evidence that violent video games may have influenced Talovic. In fact, Talovic did not even own a computer or a video-game system."

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Five Things You Can Do With Your NES Other Then Playing Games

Your old NES system can be used for much more than just playing games. Examples include turning it into an alarm clock, DVD player, and more

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Blender 2.43 released, with new website

Blender is an open source tool for 3D-modeling, rigging, animation, fluid and object simulation and rendering. All of that and some more, in under 15MB. Check out their website and this great piece of software.

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HOWTO: Install and Boot OS X On a Flash Drive

This is a resubmission of a story I posted back in November that didn't get much notice. Step-by-step tutorial on how to install and boot Mac OS X from a flash drive. Requirements: 30-45 minutes, Pacifist, a 1GB flash drive or larger, and an OS X Install disc.

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How I Hacked Your LinkSys Router Which You Probably Bought at Best Buy

In a world where we all shop at the same stores and buy the same wireless equipment it is very easy to unintentionally hijack someone
’s wireless connection. Here's how this guy did it - by accident....

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Apple, Jobs played hard ball with carriers

Apple's entry into cell phone market will not only revolutionize the handset market, but is also changing the way mobile carriers to do business. A new Wall Street Journal report claims that Apple has forced AT

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How Identity Thieves Clone Your Credit Cards

This is why you should always pay cash when eating out. A waitress uses a special device to extract data from the credit card
’s magnetic strip — includes name, address, etc. It only takes minutes to prep, and seconds to steal.

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Beware the HDMI Cable scam

I recently aqcuired an HDTV and PS3. The PS3 doesn
’t come with an HDMI cable, so I went searching the internets and Best Buy for the best cable. Monster Cable seems to have the most hype. There are a few other cable manufacturers as well. I was about shell out $100+ for a cable until I read this…

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Retailers *CONFIRM* new Xbox 360 model on the way! Date and price inside!

You can
’t keep a good rumor down. Just weeks after Microsoft stamped down talk that an HDMI-enabled Xbox 360, codenamed Zephyr, was in the works, the rumors are back. Retailers have confirmed that the new SKU is in their systems, set for a May 1 release for $479.99. In addition to the new video interface, the system would also pack a 120 GB HDD....

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SNES Outselling PS3 on Amazon.com!

"It appears that everyone's old video game flame known as the SNES is outselling Sony's Playstation 3 on Amazon.com." Put that in your pipe and smoke it Sony! :)

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The Getting Things Done phenomenon – Top 5 sites plus resources

In the last few months, the GTD (Getting Things Done) phenomenon has exploded across the net, and there are now plenty of tools, and apps that help people do exactly what they're looking for! So I've decided to list off a bunch of tools, that some people may like to play around with. Here are my top 5 GTD web sites plus some other resources.

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One World, One Region. Flash just about any DVD Drive to be Region Free

"We believe region coding to be an unnecessary annoyance, which interferes with the legitimate use of technology. If content suppliers wish to fight piracy they need to make the content available in the form the consumer wants, and at a price that reflects the actual cost. We strongly believe that piracy is immoral, but so too is greed"

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The cost of leaving your PC on

"Between my server and my Windows Media Center home theater PC, I have at least two PCs on all the time at home. Have you ever wondered how much it's costing you to leave a computer on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?"

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'Bionic' eye implants could help restore sight to the blind

US researches have been given permission to implant a prototype 'bionic' eye in 50 to 75 patients, which could help restore their sight. "What we are trying to do is take real-time images from a camera and convert them into tiny electrical pulses that would jump-start the otherwise blind eye and allow patients to see."

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Wikipedia Breaks Into U.S. Top 10 Sites

"Wikimedia Foundation Inc.'s popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks Inc. Wikipedia sites ranked ninth with 42.9 million unique visitors last month, ahead of the sites from The New York Times (number 10), Apple Inc...."

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