Also in Apple's movie rental deal yesterday with Fox: Apple will license its FairPlay copy-protection technology to Fox for DVD movie releases. This will allow DVD purchasers to easily -- and legally -- rip movies to their computers for playback on iPods and iPhones.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Fox to allow DVD ripping to Apple's iTunes
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Top 10 Free Windows File Wranglers
You spend a whole lot of time each day moving, copying, trashing, browsing and otherwise fiddling with all the files stored on your PC, and you should have the most efficient power tools to get those jobs done.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Credit Card Processing Fees Up 117% in Last 5 Years
In 2006, 7 million U.S. businesses accepted credit cards and paid roughly $30 billion in processing fees, which banks mostly pocketed. Banks are creating new credit card reward programs for their customers, but the catch is merchants are picking up the bill.....
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
AT&T Program Change: Drop EDGE from your iPhone plan, save $20/month.
As of yesterday, AT&T allows you to drop the $20/month data/EDGE feature from your iPhone plan. If your EDGE coverage sucks or you work around WiFi, keep your minutes and ditch the data. You lose Visual Voice Mail but you still qualify for Apple tech support and 2-Year warranty coverage.
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Bush receives early holiday gift: copy of Constitution
A human rights group is encouraging people to give President Bush an early holiday gift: the US Constitution, and a polite letter asking him to read it. Every time someone signs the online petition, the organization will send a copy of the Constitution to the White House as a "seasonal reminder that the Constitution needs to be upheld not destroyed
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Monday, November 05, 2007
Ten Ways to Defeat Brain Drain
Those of us who feel we are busy all the time can experience burn out, exhaustion and fatigue from spending long periods of time in focused concentration. I like to refer to this as Brain Drain. This, if gone unchecked, can result in feelings of depression, stress or anger if you continue to push after the drain has set in
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
101 Ways to Fight the Stress Out of Your Life
Most of us are feeling the strain of stress: stress at work, stress at home, stress to meet a deadline, stress to live up to someone's expectations. Stress as a matter of fact and health, has been linked to obesity as well as many other issues.
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Sphere: Related ContentCancer-Proof Your Body
Recent research reveals 8 stealth strategies to keep the killer at bay. It's time to raise your carcinogen shields -- and your overall health -- using these smart anti-C moves.
Read the Men's Health article.
Monday, September 17, 2007
10 killer ways to feel like a million bucks (even if your bank account says otherwise)
Not convinced yet? There are plenty of studies tying health to wealth (and vice versa), on a national and a personal level. Rest assured, though, this isn't The Secret. If you really want to know a secret, here's one: thinking good thoughts about the universe will only make you more disappointed when they don't come true. But that's another thought for another post. Instead, here are some tried and true suggestions for feeling better.
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100 Tips to Improve Your Life
While not specific to creative professionals, the list includes tips that are likely to boost overall effectiveness and the impact you are able to make with your ideas. For this reason, I re-post the list and encourage you to browse...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
US Health Insurance Costs Rise Nearly Twice as Fast as Pay
The cost of health insurance in the United States climbed nearly twice as fast as wages in the first half of 2007, with family coverage costing employers around 1,000 dollars (714 euros) a month, a poll showed Wednesday.
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Dollar Hits All-Time Low Against Euro
The U.S. dollar hit a record low against the euro and was lower against other major currencies in European trading Wednesday morning.
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Bottle makes dirty water drinkable in seconds
Military chiefs are excited because the bottles, which can distill either 4,000 litres or 6,000 litres without changing the filter. The bottle can clean up any water - including fecal matter - using a filter that cuts out anything longer than 15 nanometres, which means that viruses can be filtered out without the use of chemicals.
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'Wing' Portable Windmill Charges Cellphones and Laptops Outdoors!
How great would it be to have your own personal wind turbine that you can carrying around with you outdoors? The portable, umbrella-like 'Wing' personal windmill produces enough electricity to power cell phones, laptops, and lamps, and can be used for camping, road trips, or in developing rural areas with no access to an electricity grid.
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Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should
It's a shame when a great program is not heard about by most people - especially when it's free. Here are the top 10 freeware software that many people still haven't tried, but definitely should.
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7 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Retirement
"Confession time: I didn’t start planning my retirement when I was young. I didn’t give it much thought, because when you’re in your 20s, retirement seems like something you can worry about much later."
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Turn Your Windows PC into a Media Center Powerhouse On the Cheap
After installing a $70 capture card in your computer and a bit of freeware third-party software, you've got all the tools you need to record television shows on your PC's built-in Media Center, extend that Media Center to your Xbox 360, schedule recordings and stream TV over the internet.
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Super-Easy Ubuntu Setup From Windows - For Windows Users Eager To Try Linux
Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system, this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation.
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7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make
The brain isn’t a flawless piece of machinery. Although it is powerful and comes in an easy to carry container, it has it’s weaknesses. A field in psychology which studies these errors, known as biases. Although you can’t upgrade your mental hardware, noticing these biases can clue you into possible mistakes.
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Cellular freedom: bill would cut early termination fees, hidden charges
Introduced late last week to the US Senate, the Cell Phone Empowerment Act of 2007 would force cellular carriers to provide detailed coverage data while making it easier for consumers to opt out of their cellular contracts.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Apple Sells 1 Millionth iPhone
Seventy four days out from launch, Apple has has sold 1 million iPhones.
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7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable
Scientists call it the Naked Photo Test, and it works like this: say a photo turns up of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations. Bestiality, perhaps. Ask yourself how many people in your life you would trust with that photo. If you're like the rest of us, you probably have at most two.
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Fix a Frozen System with the Magic SysRq Keys
You finally got your Linux environment to crash. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing, nor do the F-keys. So you reach for the power button. STOP! Using the power button to reboot usually causes more problems than it solves. The Linux kernel includes a secret method of restarting your PC should it ever stop doing it’s job.
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40+ Free Windows Apps For You
This post is the part 2 of my earlier post 20 Open Source Windows Apps For You, i got lot of feedback for that post and my readers suggested some excellent programs to be included in that list. So here i am listing all those programs which i have missed in my earlier post. Do check the earlier one for the complete software list. The list is in rand
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Heavy Internet users unplugged by US cable company
Cable Internet and entertainment provider Comcast "has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet service, arguing that excessive downloaders hog Internet capacity and slow down the network for other customers," the Washington Post reported.
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Religious Leaders Accept Science, Pray for Solution to Global Warming
Religious leaders from all over the world met at the mouth of a melting glacier in Greenland today to say a silent prayer for the planet, appealing to mankind to address the impact that humanity is having on life on Earth. Science and Religion in Agreement? "I don't think we have any differences on this," says Cardinal Thomas McCarrick.
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Monday, September 03, 2007
Harvard releases innovative P2P video software
Internet television more complete than ever. The serverless Tribler software combines BitTorrent, YouTube, and LiveLeak, VLC player, codecs, and intelligent taste recognition into one understandable package. Scientifically, Tribler introduces a download economy beyond tit-for-tat: P2P sharing becomes P2P trading on a bandwidth market. Win/Mac/Linux
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Papers Please: Arrested At Circuit City
"Today I was arrested by the Brooklyn, Ohio police department. It all started when I refused to show my receipt to the loss prevention employee at Circuit City, and it ended when a police officer arrested me for refusing to provide my driver's license."
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Magnetic refrigerator that needs no electricity
A group of researchers at the Technical University of Denmark’s project laboratory in Risø have discovered a cooling method that uses magnetic materials instead of electricity. The invention will allow for refrigerators to replace existing electric refrigerators in homes and businesses with a fully environmentally friendly power source.
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Vista users in Swedish community can't get online
An entire section of Swedes are apparently going without simply because they're using Windows Vista. According a local newspaper, Vista users in Lund can't connect to the internet due to a "bug" that prevents Vista from playing nice with their Linux-based ISP.
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The Linux Vault, "The Linux Wikipedia"
The Linux Vault is a new wiki project founded with the mission of creating a centralized GNU/Linux information website. It has been just created, so we are begging everybody to take part of it and make it the place for writing guides, HOW-TO's, configurations, administration tips, tricks, tweaks or whatever else related to the GNU/Linux system.
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Why Americans Became a Nation of Consumers Instead of Citizens
IT’S Labor Day weekend, so let’s talk about labor. Around 140 million people are employed in the United States. They are engaged in work like governing, manufacturing, health care providing, retailing and researching. This gigantic army of laborers, argues Robert B. Reich, has morphed into a nation of consumers and investors, rather than Citizens.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
How to add Multimedia Functionality to ubuntu
ubuntu does not come with much multimedia functionality because of legal issues so you may find that many files do not play. To fix this, you need to install some codecs and players form the restricted section.
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
How Credit Scores Work
In this article, we'll find out how this formerly secret number is used and how it affects how much you pay for credit, insurance and other life necessities
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Top 9 Fitness Myths -- Busted!
Think you know the facts about getting fit? You may be surprised to learn how many are really fiction. Fitness Myth No. 6: If you're not working up a sweat, you're not working hard enough.
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Complete List of FREE Xbox LIVE Downloads
Here is a complete list of all the cool, free Xbox LIVE downloads available right now on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
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The 10 Best Foods You Aren't Eating
Want to do your body a world of good? It's as easy as expanding your grocery list.
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No More Hard Drive: 100 Free Apps to Go Online-Only
Why is it that despite the fact that you can do virtually anything from anywhere through the Net, most of us are still tethered to our computer because of the need for access to basic desktop software? In this article, we highlight 100 free webware apps which will help you cut the cord from your computer and its traditional desktop software.
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
Computer Security Expert Testifies RIAA Can't Identify Users by IP Address
Points out that "Many computers can be connected to the Internet with identical IP addresses as long as they remain behind control points such as routers, firewalls, proxy servers, or similar technologies."
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Turn a flashnight into a handheld burning laser!
DIYer Kipkay extracts the laser from a DVD burner and mounts it in a small flashlight to create a handheld laser burner that can light matches and burst balloons.
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How to Rip Netflix "Watch Now" movies to your hard drive!
A user in the Rorta forums has a detailed step-by-step guide for saving previously-mentioned Netflix "Watch Now" movies to your hard drive so you can watch it sans-DRM and browser restrictions. The method requires Windows, IE6 or above, Windows Media Player 11, and FairUse4WM.
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
iPhone hacked to run NES !!
just a month ago it was a closed system . . . now it's running Zelda and all of your other favorite NES games . . .
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Toshiba releases 3 new HD DVD players under $500
As the format battle rages on, today Toshiba announced three new HD DVD players: the HD-A3, the HD-A30, and the HD-A35. Michael Imperioli, star of The Sopranos and recent Toshiba HD DVD commercials, is not included.
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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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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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Saturday, January 06, 2007
SanDisk introduces 32GB Flash-based notebook drive
The hard drive is a critical component of every modern computer system. It loads and stores practically everything about the computer, from the OS to all the programs to every data bit and document. Yet the hard drive is based on a mechanical spinning disk system that is ultimately prone to failure, usually due to the stress of heat and motion.
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HOW TO - Ubuntu + MythTV = Free Tivo and an EASY Setup
For the past 4 days I've tried setting up KnoppMyth, Freevo, and MythDora on my Asus Digimatrix. Nothing worked, either wouldnt install correctly, or I would get a black screen instead of the channel I was watching. I finally give the handy dandy Ubuntu a whirl, and it works FIRST try, right out of the box!
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Online Sex Offender Map
Parents can use this tool not only to check their neighborhood, but those of ex-spouses, the child’s friends, school and daycare areas. Some areas will also allow you to view additional details of the sex offenders.
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How Americans Spend Their Time
In 2007 the average adult will spend 65 days in front of the TV; 41 days listening to the radio; a little over a week on the Internet; a week reading a daily newspaper; and another week listening to recorded music.
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The "most connected" Americans watch the most network TV
New findings from CBS Research show that Americans with a broadband connection and digital television are most likely to watch traditional network television.
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Microsoft Crosses 10 million Xbox 360s Sold
Bill Gates and Robbie Bach are expected to announce at the Consumer Electronics Show that Microsoft has sold more than 10.4 million Xbox 360s since the launch in November, 2005. That means Microsoft has also hit its targets for sales of consoles during the holidays.
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Watch thousands of movies and tv shows for free.
Movie Spider, is an awesome **free** movie on demand, web site.. The company has developed technology,, that crawls the net
24 hours a day, without human intervention, looking for the latest movies, tv shows and films..
The site curently has 2000 movies, 6000 tv shows, and 3000 cartoons. their spider's are addng about 500 new shows a day.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Listen to 1,001 Albums for FREE
Great list of 1,001 albums that you can listen for free!
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Four out of five smokers 'hate the habit'
I just quit AGAIN. I quit last new years for 8 months but made the mistake of "having just one". I quit again this news years, what a nasty and addictive habit. F you Marlboro.
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Home Depot CEO Gets $210M Severance for Sucking at Job
Robert L. Nardelli, the CEO of Home Depot, who came under heavy criticism for his pay package and failure to lift the chain
’s stagnant stock price, has abruptly resigned. He will receive about $210 million in compensation from the company, including the current value of retirement and other benefits. Who would blame him for quitting?
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Apple to Launch LED-based Notebooks in Q2 2007
Apple and HP are planning to introduce LED backlighting to the displays of their notebook computers. Both system builders are expected to bring portables with the new backlights to market in the second quarter of 2007 that would dramatically improve the image quality of the LCD screens attached to the computers.
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Firefox - A $50,000,000+ Cash Cow
Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitchell Baker on Tuesday disclosed how much money Mozilla made from their Firefox web browser in 2005: $52.9 million. If you're wondering how Firefox makes any money, then this article will tell you.
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TWIT makes Time Magazines Top 10 Podcasts
This Week in Tech (TWIT) made Time Magazines top 10 list for best podcast of 2006. Unfortunately the others don't seem truly representative of the majority of podcast listeners. It almost looks as if the author just took a snapshot of what iTunes shows as their top podcasts. Anyways congratulations to the TWIT cast.
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I want my SED TV
Canon and Toshiba had hoped to start production of SED TVs in early 2008. However, a lawsuit may end up pro-longing the much anticipated SED TV to the market place. SED is like a normal CRT TV, but flat screen and thin like LCDs and Plasmas.
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Video Games Console Evolution
Although this is not in a precise chronological order, this pictorial gives a pretty good idea about the video game consoles evolution in the last decades
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Amsterdam mulls the Linux desktop
Amsterdam has decided to give the Linux desktop and OpenOffice a try. In late December, the city -- previously a Microsoft-only operation -- announced plans to spend 300,000 Euros (roughly $400,000) on testing Linux and other open-source software in its housing department and in the Zeeburg borough office in 2007.
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The OC is cancelled!
Fox.com reports that its canceling its once popular OC. Finale to air February 22. It was never the same after Marissa Cooper was killed off.
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How to go to M.I.T. for free
Online 'intellectual philanthropy' attracts students from every nation on earth.
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Blockbuster Reaches 2 Million Online Users
Movie rental company Blockbuster Inc. said that it reached a year-end goal of 2 million online subscribers. Blockbuster Chairman and Chief Executive John Antioco credited Blockbuster Total Access, a plan that gives online customers the option of returning DVDs through the mail or exchanging them at stores for free rentals.
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Warner Bros. new "Total HD" disc tries to settle Blu-ray/HD DVD war
Warner Bros plans to announce a new single videodisc, called a Total HD disc, that can play films and television programs in both Blu-ray and HD DVD. They hope to make the new generation of DVD entertainment easier on the consumer by making movies and television libraries available in BOTH formats on a SINGLE disc.
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ExxonMobil reportedly paid groups to discredit global warming
ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming
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HD DVD, Blur Ray format war over
LG has ended what could have been a long and bloody battle
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300 TB hard drive by 2010; Entire Library of Congress...No Compression!
It will also be enough to store 6,144 50 GB Blu-ray discs. That would be hundreds of thousands of standard DVD discs, millions upon millions of CDs and probably billions of photos. There are concerns about losing 300 TB of data to a hard drive crash and Defragging tools had better dramatically speed up, or a defrag might take days
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