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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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Gene Simmons rocks Times Square with Guitar Hero II
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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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Best Digital Cameras under $300
Seven of these cameras cost about $250 or less. Two (from Panasonic and Kodak) are so close to $200, they’re practically impulse buys.
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Wesley Snipes Arrested at Orlando International Airport
Actor Wesley Snipes was arrested Friday morning as he arrived at Orlando International Airport. He is accused of trying to cheat the government out of nearly $12 million in false refund claims and not filing returns for six years.
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ATI’s Market Share Is Falling
According to Jon Peddie Research, ATI
’s market share has fallen 5% to an overall 23% for the third quarter when compared to the 28% the company held during the second quarter of this year. It would seem then that ATI’s success as a subsidiary of the #2 chip maker will depend on AMD performance in the CPU race.
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Democrats Will Try to Block Congressional Pay Raises
Members of Congress are in line for a pay raise effective Jan. 1 unless they block it, and Democrats said Thursday they intend to try. "It is unconscionable that members of congress would get yet another pay raise while the minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour for the last 10 years."
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Boot MacOS X86 from USB Pendrive
Have you ever dreamed about carrying in your pocket,
your favorite OSx86 install. And boot it everywhere.
When dreams come true... Full tutorial @ MacGeek's blog :-)
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Kazaa Founder Takes On Network TV
Kazaa and Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom is developing a secretive Internet television venture called The Venice Project, which analysts say could threaten the viability of network TV. The video-sharing service stands to knock network affiliates out of their middleman positions.
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