Just enter your name and Google tells you who you are. Interesting results follow.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Google tells you who you are
Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP Released
Windows Media Player 11 offers great new ways to store and enjoy all of your digital media. It's easier than ever to access all of your music, video, pictures,
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$398 Laptop @ Wal*Mart Beginning November 5th
Possibly a hint of what is to come this Black Friday, but in the interim, Wal*Mart is offering a Sempron based laptop that is Vista ready beginning November 5th (more than two weeks prior to Black Friday)
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Caffeine-Stoked Energy Drinks Worry Doctors
Nutritionists warn that the drinks, laden with caffeine and sugar, can hook kids on an unhealthy jolt-and-crash cycle. But the biggest worry is how some teens use the drinks. Some report downing several cans in a row to get a buzz, and a new study found a surprising number of poison-center calls from young people getting sick from too much caffeine
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Best of the Best Web 2.0 Websites
So many great new web sites are cropping up all over the place! From Social Bookmarking Sites, to Real Estate sites, this list has only the best Web 2.0 Sites available today.
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Convert Your DVDs To iPod or PSP With This
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 / H.264 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. A Windows port is being worked on. Try out the Instant Handbrake.
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19" Widescreen LCD with DVI only $159 - NO REBATES To Mail In!
It's a Hanss-G HW-191D, with 700:1 contrast and 5ms response time. WXGA 1440 x 900. Not too shabby! for that price!
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Seagate to encrypt data on hard drives
The world's largest hard drive maker says its DriveTrust Technology, to be announced Monday, automatically encrypts every bit of data stored on the hard drive and requires users to have a key, or password, before being able to access the disk drive.
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Affordable, High-Performance Graphics: ATI's new Radeon X1650 XT
ATI is adding another member to the X1K family of products, the Radeon X1650 XT. While its name suggests the X1650 XT is nothing more than a higher clocked variation of the Radeon X1650 Pro, that's not the case. The Radeon X1650 Pro is based on a new GPU, formerly code-named RV560, that is more powerful than anything else in the X16x0 family.
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Used phones drive Third World wireless boom
With the number of cell phones in use worldwide hitting 2.5 billion and rising, recycled phones are playing a growing role in the spread of wireless communications across the developing world, where land lines can be costly or unavailable.
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Monday, October 30, 2006
Is Linux Ready for Desktop? For me personally, YES.
Over the years, this question is raised again and again. Some are telling it is ready, some are telling it is not. So, where is the truth? In this case, truth is very subjective. For me personally, Linux on the desktop was ready a long time ago, and Windows on a desktop was never ready for me. Let me tell you why.
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Call for legal copying of own CDs
Copyright laws are "out of date" and must be updated so MP3 player users can make copies of CDs without breaking the law, according to a think tank.
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SED Next-Generation Flat-Screen Display. The best of CRTs and LCDs in one.
For simpletons, this explanation will do, but for those who are brave, read on for more details on what will undoubtedly revolutionize display viewing.
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Mylo has potential, but it has holes, too
I do appreciate using Skype without a computer. To access Skype and other communications tools, Mylo has built-in Wi-Fi capability. Starting soon, the unit will come with a year of free T-Mobile hot-spot service. You also can use open Wi-Fi networks at home, work or school, though campuses that require high levels of Virtual Private Network...
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Building A LowCost LAMP Server With Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft
This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
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Napster Promo Video
Warning - Some may see this video as inappropriate, however I find it to be simply hilarious.
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Runner-Up Takes on YouTube
YouTube may be the king of online video, but if Arik Czerniak has his way, the king won't stay on the throne for long.
Czerniak is the CEO and co-founder of Metacafe, one of the web's leading independent video-sharing sites. The company is launching a new service Monday called Producer Rewards which will offer cash payouts to video creators who upload the most interesting and entertaining clips.
Read Article filed under YouTube, Google, MetaCafe.com, Break.com, Revver.com, Yahoo Video
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Meet Zod - Fedora 6 released
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, announced the release of Fedora 6 earlier this week. Named Zod, the release is available for download at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Download
Red Hat claim that Fedora Core 6 provides a noticeable performance increase during the start-up of applications such as OpenOffice.org. In addition to the previously supported x86, x86-64 and Power PC chip architectures, this release features support for Intel-based Macs. Fedora Core 6 also introduces a new GUI virtualization manager.
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In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year
Teen Web sensation MySpace became so big so fast, News Corp. spent $580 million last year to buy it. Then Google Inc. struck a $900 million deal, primarily to advertise with it. But now Jackie Birnbaum and her fellow English classmates at Falls Church High School say they're over MySpace.
"I think it's definitely going down -- a lot of my friends have deleted their MySpaces and are more into Facebook now," said Birnbaum, a junior who spends more time on her Facebook profile, where she messages and shares photos with other students in her network.
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Saturday, October 28, 2006
Bush's Onscreen 'Death' Applauded
Actors posing as administration officials and secret service agents were digitally grafted into some images of the president and his entourage.
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