Apple "Leave Your Mark" Ad (used to teach about minimalism in ads)

This is one of the Apple ads back in the early 80's that was used in classes teaching Graphic Design/Marketing/Advertising, to illustrate how simplicity and minimalism is a lot more effective than your average ad...

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Apple "Leave Your Mark" Ad (used to teach about minimalism in ads)

This is one of the Apple ads back in the early 80's that was used in classes teaching Graphic Design/Marketing/Advertising, to illustrate how simplicity and minimalism is a lot more effective than your average ad...

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FBI looking to hire IT workers

Annual pay for the positions ranges from $35,452 to $135,136

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Free Online Courses at The HP Learning Center

Free online courses on Microsoft Word, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, wireless security, etc.

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Free Stock Photos Resources

An extensive list of over 50 free stock photos resources.

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100 things we didn't know this time last year

You can learn alot of stuff in 365 days. Thankfully, the BBC has compiled a list of 100 new things that have been learnt over the past year.

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Preview of the upcoming Firefox 2 browser

Here's a preview of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 2 browser including the new features/components and the release roadmap. 2006/06/27 is the release date for Firefox 2

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Anatomy Of A Hack - Step-By-Step Pen Test of a Windows Network

In this article Windows security gurus, Jesper Johansson and Steve Riley, examine in rather excruciating detail how a network may get hacked. A smaller and less detailed version was originally published in TechNet Magazine to rave reviews. Now a full chapter for their new book, it is yours for FREE. Enjoy and learn.

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Find new music to listen to

Enter the name of a band you like, and this website will graphically represent other bands that you may dig(g). The closer the bands hover to your selection, the more probability you'll like them.

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Where are we pointing our expensive security cameras?

Using the Google query "inurl:"viewerframe?mode=refresh"" -- you are provided with nearly 2,000 worldwide security cameras, most of which allow you to control the actual cameras(!). Pan, tilt, and zoom your way through computer labs in Russia and parking facilities in Japan. Cams aren't hosted on regular web servers--be patient.

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Serenity is BBC Film 2005's viewers film of the year

The browncoats have struck. Serenity has been voted BBC Film 2005 Viewers Film of the Year. Film 2005, presented by Jonathan Ross is the UK's Top Movie show!!!

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XPY - Disable Windows "calling home"

Small tool which disables the default threats of a Windows XP installation. Besides disabling Windows and some of its components to communicate with Microsoft servers, xpy improves privacy settings and your system's security.

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Complete introduction to CSS

This article will take you through the beginning stages of picking up CSS. Covering; where to put your style sheet, creating a class, common CSS attributes, applying CSS to a HTML attribute, redefining a tag, shorthand CSS, pseudo elements and media-dependent style sheets.

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DVDFab Decrypter 2.9.6.6

"DVDFab Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Express. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, Macrovision, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying." --- Fight the Power! It's your damn movie, after all...

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Windows Genuine Advantage Updated; New Workaround Script

In addition to adding Mozilla plugin support, it seems Microsoft removed the chunk of code that accepted a cookie value that bypassed Windows Genuine Advantage requirements, breaking my Trixie/Greasemonkey scripts.

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Become an Independent Programmer in 1068 Days

Gus Mueller's 7.5 tips for making it as an independent developer, in 1068 Days.

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Beyond Porno: Free IPod Content

Wired News has your back with a roundup of some of the best free iPod content on the net.

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Bender Prototype ships in Tokyo?

This home robot can do all sorts of tasks, but owners say he is sometimes irritating. He interrupts conversations and ignores demands to be quiet. One day I found him watching TV, which we never anticipated. Then sometimes he would start dancing...

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Create dynamic images using PHP

This tutorial shows you how to create a little man holding a sign that displays various messages. (You know, like those you see on a lot of forum signatures.)

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Two CBS Sitcoms Can Now Be Viewed Online

the CBS comedies "Two and a Half Men" and "How I Met Your Mother" are being offered for free video streaming this week from the Yahoo! Web site .Available through next Monday,It is the first time that Yahoo! is streaming episodes of a CBS television series in their entirety.

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µTorrent 1.3.1 Beta has RSS Feeds

What you've all been waiting for to switch from Azureus, µTorrent now supports RSS Feed reading.

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Team PI - Burn ISO on DVD-R and Run on Xbox 360

As a precurser to a possible hack to on the "unhackable" xbox 360, it is possible to download and burn the Kiosk demo ISO that is UNSIGNED...allowing for its contents to possibly be changed to homebrew code... Unhackable...my a$$

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Top 50 Inventions - Scientific & Technological

In the past half-century, scientific and technological advances have transformed our world. PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. Here, then, are the breakthroughs of our time.

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How to rip a DVD: A Tutorial

All of us have a cool movie we download from torrents, and we try to rip that DVD into our CDS. This small tutorial shows you just how to do this without messing up.

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25 most interesting webcams

as selected by EarthCam.com

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HandBreak Lite: DVD to iPod in 2 clicks...

The title says it all, kids...(mac only btw)...

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The Top 10 Podcast Episodes of 2005 - Diggnation Clip Show is #2!

A great round-up of the year's best podcast shows. Diggnation and TWIT made the list as did IT Conversations. Some other really good ones as well like the physics of superheroes!

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The Net is a boon for indie labels

"Even as the recording industry staggers through another year of declining sales over all, there are new signs that a democratization of music made possible by the Internet is shifting the industry's balance of power."

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Scientistists Discover a Gene That Regulates Lifespan

Genes that control the timing of organ formation during development also control timing of aging and death, and provide evidence of a biological timing mechanism for aging, Yale researchers report in the journal Science.

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K2 For Wordpress 2.0 Coming Tomorrow

K2, the next dominating wordpress theme, is going to be released for Wordpress 2.0.

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Microsoft TV!

Microsoft TV IPTV Edition developed specifically to deliver broadcast-quality video and new, integrated TV services over broadband networks.

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Intel unveils first 65nm processor Pentium D 955

"Today, Intel announced the flagship of the upcoming second-generation Pentium D 900, code-named Presler: The Pentium D 955 rings in the transition from a 90 to a 65 nm production process and the final stage of the aging "NetBurst" architecture."

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Intel's 4-core Extreme Edition gets reviewed

Intel's new 'Presler' chip is touted as the Pentium Extreme Edition 955. It has two cores and two HyperThreaded 'virtual' cores for the ultimate multi-tasking performance. All the pics and the benchmarks in here!

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Apple Chooses Manufacturers for New Intel Based Laptops

Apple has apparently chosen Quanta and Asustek as original design manufacturers (ODMs) for its new line of Intel-based notebook computers. Quanta is expected to manufacture Apple's high-end PowerBook line, while Asustek will produce Apple's entry-level iBooks.

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What googlers do for fun.

What do you do when you work for google and you get bored? Order silly putty of course!

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Next Grand Theft Auto will be in 1997 London

According Joystiq, there is an unconfirmed rumour that the city of London will be the next GTA setting. Due to anti gun laws in Britain the game will likely feature brass knuckles and billie clubs instead of the usual sub machine guns. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to extract revenge on Posh Spice for breaking up my favourite band.

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Amazon's Price Drop Policy

"Did you know that if the price on something you buy drops, within 30 days of your purchase date, Amazon.com will credit you the difference if you ask for it? It's a not-advertised price drop policy that most people don't know about and it's saved me tons of money over the last few years." Hope many of you find this awesome.

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New MPEG-4 Standard Established: ALS (Audio Lossless Coding)

"Yesterday, according to the final national body ballot disclosed by ISO/IEC, the specification for this technology was officially approved as the MPEG*1 standard (MPEG-a ALS)."

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Comic books on Itunes

12-Gauge Comics has started putting issues of it's series Body Bags up as a free download on Itunes as a "comicast" with voice actors.

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Windows XP Hidden application Enabler

Enable the hidden applications and utilities inside Windows XP and make them available on the Start menu for easy accessiblity. 43 utilities have been unlocked in this new version of this simple utility.

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Best Open Source Encoder (Xvid, Divx, H264, MPEG-2) - StaxRip

With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format. As a open source application StaxRip is completely free.

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26,084 FREE Legal Public Domain Movies!

This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.

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Illustrator Tutorials

Free Illustrator tutorials with original source .ai file.

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Read Most of O'Reilly's Hacks Books for Free Using Google

Use the Google Book Search to read the O'Reilly's Hacks Series of books (or for a lot of other books, like travel guides) for free.

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Getting to know Wordpress

Wordpress is surely becoming a popular software but there are still a number of things which you might not be aware of but need to know if you intend to use the software soon.

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Digging into the Digg System

Alex Bosworth has a great post investigating the dynamics of the digg.com system. He discovered that the system is "very simple" and made up of five groups of people:

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Programmers' Tools

This site provides a listing of compilers, IDEs, editors, decompilers, debugging tools, books & tutorials for popular programming languages (C, C++, JAVA, Pascal, Basic, ...). Also contains information for Setup tools, EXE compressors anti-cracking protectors and other interesting stuff. A huge site, and seems to be updated quite often.

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Pando - Email Any Size File or Folder For Free

Pando is a tiny app that lets you email any size file or folder to anyone, free.

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Invisible Objects (Photoshop Contest)

Damn, these guys and girls are good!

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"AFTERGLOW" Is this how we will interact with a Future OS?

(Click on the Movie Link) You've got to see this to believe it! A Japanese guy uses a Laser Pointer to interact with the GUI to manipulate elements, bring up the tool bars, draws directly on the screen. Initially a Presentation Application, which may evolve into something more...

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Windows Genuine Advantage Updated; New Workaround Script

In addition to adding Mozilla plugin support, it seems Microsoft removed the chunk of code that accepted a cookie value that bypassed Windows Genuine Advantage requirements, breaking my Trixie/Greasemonkey scripts.

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An end to women's periods

A new contraceptive will soon let women stop menstruating. In 2006, a new oral contraceptive called Anya, developed to "put women in control of when or if they want to menstruate," is expected to hit the Canadian and U.S. markets

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3 Useful PHP& XML tutorials

Here are 3 useful tutorial on how to parse XML using PHP.

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Systm Episode 5 - Asterisk Released

What is Asterisk? Asterisk is an insanely powerful, yet easy to use, open source voip telephony toolkit (server software) that runs on virtually any platform. It allows anyone to manage VoIP services in their own home in more powerful ways than the most expensive PBX (public branch exchange).

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Freevo - Because small is beautiful

Freevo is an open-source home theatre PC platform based on Linux and a number of open-source audio/video tools.Freevo unlike MythTV which has its own picture viewer, video player, music jukebox, etc., Freevo is configured to use popular programs like Mplayer, Xine and XMMS instead of creating their own.

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Movements of all cars in Britain to be monitored by evil sytem.

The movements of all vehicles on the roads in Britain are to be recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records of scanned number plates of all cars that use the roads. 100% Apalling.

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How much do the richest people in the world donate to charity?

Ever wonder how generous Bill Gates and Warren Buffett really are? Well it may surprise you to find out just exactly how much Bill Gates donates each year. More than you think...

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Hack Image Shack!

Welcome to the frightful exploitation of public image hosting! Here's a small Perl script designed to harvest images from Image Shack's servers and save them to your local computer. The script yields some extremely interesting finds... Quite clever, indeed!

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Dell 3007WFP 30-inch Widescreen Digital Flat-Panel Monitor

Isn't she just gorgeous to look at? Dell will be introducing their new 30-inch flat-panel display during CES

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A cool experiment - You Are Beautiful

"One early Sunday morning, we arrived at our predesignated fence. With a box of cups, and a thermos full of coffee, we set to work." These guys place a message on the fence using cups, I found it interesting how the original message "You Are Beautiful" changed over time.

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Robot Gains Self Awareness In Lab

A new robot has been developed at Meiji University in Japan that can tell the difference between its own image in a mirror, and an identical robot mimicking it.

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Myth Busters Answer A Bunch of Tech Questions from Slashdot

Over at Slashdot a while back users where able to submit questions to be answered by Jamie and Adam from the Discovery Channel's awsome show "Myth Busters". Well, Jamie and Adam came through and here are the answers to the questions submitted.

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What do you charge as a Graphic Designer

about.com's article on what you should charge as a graphic designer. A great article on what you should chagre your clients.

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Install your web server with a single install!

XAMPP will install Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl for Linux, Win32, OSX and Solaris and all you have to do is run the XAMPP install. This works great for Solaris and Win32 from my experience!

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Reuters Year in Photos

Only Reuters can bring you images like these. What a world we live in.

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Top 10 Photoshop Tutorials of 2005

A top10 list with some of the best Photoshop tutorials of 2005.

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HowTo: Score an Xbox 360 online at MSRP

This Microsoft employee figures out (and shares) how to snag an Xbox 360 online at MSRP by combining two easy to use tools - no auctions required.

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One Billion Internet Users

"Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Statistically, we're likely talking about a 24-year-old woman in Shanghai."

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Learning JavaScript Basics

This detailed article covers the basics for a beginner to learn JavaScript. Also, simple code samples along the way as you learn.

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P2P Population Nears Record High

"The P2P community is once again on the rebound, recovering from its temporary mid-year plateau."

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Anybody, free computer science courses?

OpenCourseWare Finder is a nice website with a collection of open courses including the open courses of MIT!

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The ultimate Google operator command list

This list of Google search commands will allow you to narrow your search down a bit. Did you know that you could view only stocks with the "stock:" command? That's just one of many Google operator commands.

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Chat-O-Licious - AJAX/ASP.Net realtime chat client

Here's another neat realtime chat client using AJAX and ASP.Net. Minimalistic, fast, and easy to use :)

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Space photos - landmarks

Amazing space photos of landmarks and buildings.

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The widget we all should have in our toolbox

Must try this, the coolest part is when there actually occurs an error!

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Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Part 1

In this two-part series, Seth Fogie examines the internals of WPA and demonstrates how this wireless protection method can be cracked with only four packets of data. Part 1 outlines the details of WPA as compared to WEP and builds the foundation for Part 2, in which he describes in detail how WPA-PSK can be cracked.

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use Google as a free proxy

at work? blocked site? proxy blocked also? Fear not, since google is almost never blocked! This artice shows you how to use Google itself as a real-time (as in: not via Accelerator or Cache) web proxy for shady and interesting websites! Don't Be Evil? yeah Right!

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Digg New Feature - Spyv2 Out Now

new digg.com/spy is up and running! new graphics and features. check it out!

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Top 10 PC Games of the Year

Who Made the Cut? Great Article that Outlines the Games That Made Gaming History This Year!

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Tutorial to make a Complete Design

Make a really clean sharp web design with Photoshop. This covers all the steps and you don't need any experience to do this (it'll walk you through all the steps).

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Google Earth Frightens Nation-States

Idiots in government across the world tremble before the might of Google Earth.

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Google Zeitgeist '05

Google just released their Zeitgeist 2005 with lots of fun and interesting tidbits

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Why Apple Is The New Sony

Five years ago, Apple Computer was barely an afterthought in the halls of electronics companies. Not anymore. With its best-selling iPods and landmark licensing deals with music and television moguls propelling new ways of consuming digital media, Apple now is the pacesetter.

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The new technology at the root of the NSA wiretap scandal

There's something very serious and very scary going on with the NSA wiretaps, and all signs point to something technologically massive.

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How to disable Nero Scout

How come all of the best apps eventually get bogged down with useless bloat? Ahead Software, makers of Nero, now install garbage called "Nero Scout" with the Nero suite. Scout maintains a database of all your media files, as if you need yet another indexer running all the time, hogging system resources. This tip shows how to get rid of Nero Scout.

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Trigonometry explained

Here you can find trigonometry explained in a easy way, with lots of examples and applets so you can "see" what's all about.

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Google suggest like lyrics site

Very cool lyrics site with auto suggest artist, song or album as you type in the search box. No ads, no popups and no big graphics. Just plain search box. Looks very much like the front page of Google. It's also quite fast. Almost every search I did was just over 1 sec. This one definitely goes on my bookmarks.

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Roger Ebert's 10 Best Movies of 2005

You'll laugh, you'll cry - you'll probably disagree. But that's what is so fun abuot top 10 lists. Here is a top 10 list from the top film critic. Enjoy.

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CSS Checklists an alternative to Select Boxes.

Replace that cumbersome select box with a scrollable checklist.

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Lots of PHP tutorials, beginner to advanced

A nice collection of various PHP tutorials, covering the basics, and some advanced stuff

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World of Warcraft Surpasses 5 Million

Blizzard Entertainment today announced that World of Warcraft, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has surpassed 5 million customers worldwide.

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The Most Incredible Music Lessons On the Net - All in FLASH!!!

don't pay for music lessons again! * learn how to read and write sheet music * note, piano, and guitar trainers * even and ear trainer! can you name that note?

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100K nanos a day, not enough.

In a best effort to meet demand for its top-selling iPod nano this holiday, Apple Computer is building and shipping 100,000 of the ultra-slim digital music players each day, reliable sources tell AppleInsider.

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Learning JavaScript Basics

This detailed article covers the basics for a beginner to learn JavaScript. Also, simple code samples along the way as you learn.

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Top 10 Funniest RSS Feeds of 2005

A list of the top feeds that made us laugh in 2005. If you aren't subscribed to them yet, you should be.

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The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid

InfoWorld's CTO tells tales from the trenches, flagging the most common IT mistakes that can ruin peace of mind and even careers

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Military exoskeleton prototype

Legs only at this point. The Bleex 1 carries 100 lbs yet feels like 5 lbs.

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Get an AJAX-based desktop

With all the AJAX related posts recently, I thought I'd submit EyeOS. With a PHP compatiable server, you can login to this virtual desktop system and upload files, write text documents, setup calendering and a load more stuff. Definitely one of the best uses of the technology I've seen.

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NanoArmour - 5x Stronger Than Steel

Can you say, 'Robocop'? According to IsraCast, an Israeli company has created materials made of inorganic fullerene-like nanostructures (IFs) which have amazing shock absorbing properties....

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Bush Authorized NSA Domestic Spying

A new report indicates President Bush may have authorized illegal activity by signing an order allowing the NSA to bypass all provisions of the Patriot Act and spy on US citizens without any authorization or oversight. Scary stuff!

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A Raptor is born - Most High-Tech Fighter Yet

"The futuristic F-22A "Raptor" fighter jet, designed to dominate the skies well into the 21st century, joined the U.S. combat fleet on Thursday, 20 years after it was conceived to fight Soviet MiGs over Europe."

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Own Steve Wozniak's home--only $8 Million

Steve Wozniak's home in Los Gatos California has been completely remodeled and is up for sale. Ever wanted a unique home? This could be your chance!

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Man gets $15000 Christmas present for leaving car unlocked.

Depressed and dejected, an anonymous donor left an engagement ring with a note reading: "Merry Christmas. Thank you for leaving your car door unlocked. Instead of stealing your car I gave you a present. Hopefully this will land in the hands of someone you love, for my love is gone now. Merry Christmas to you."

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Some Great CSS Tips from SimpleBits

An ongoing collection of various CSS tips, experiments and techniques.

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NBC President says 'many more NBC TV shows' coming 2 iTunes in couple weeks

"Over the next couple of weeks, in fact, we will have many more announcements about many more shows there. We see it as a brand-new business, and it will be run like any television network, with new material refreshed and replenished all the time. I don't think there's a limit as to how many shows we can have available."

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How to install open Source Digg code (Meneame)

Recently a site called Meneame (which emulated digg.com) opened it's source code up. The problem for Anglophones is that the code is written in Spanish and installation documentation is non-existant. Here's how you get it running.

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Stymie RIAA / MPAA spider bots

Beat the "Entertainment Mafia" at it's own game...

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DivX 6.1 codec released and up to 300% faster

The DivX codec has reached 6.1 and with the latest update comes some great speed improvements. DivX Labs: Single CPU will run anywhere from 14 to 80% faster than the 6.0 codec depending on the quality mode selected. At the same time, brand new support for HT, SMP, Dual Core, and Dual Core + HT CPUs allows for gains of up to 300%!

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NEW Firefox Extensions from Google [via GoogleBlog]

Google has just released two new extensions one called "Blogger Web Comments" and another called "Google Safe Browsing for Firefox."

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Gmail now has a vacation responce!

Going on vacation? No access to the Internet? No problem! Use Gmail's vacation responder to let people know you won't be able to get back to them right away.

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Google whistles a new tune

Google's getting into the music biz. A new feature launched today adds special info when people do music-related searches: "Items that can be purchased will have links to merchants for online ordering or downloading, she said. Initial merchant partners include Apple Computer's iTunes service, RealNetworks Rhapsody, eMusic, Amazon.com"

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The End of Internet Anonymity

Several computer hardware and software manufacturers, including AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Sun, have gotten together and created a chip that will be built into computers that will, for all intents and purposes, broadcast a unique identifier that anyone will be able to read when you access the Internet.

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The Coolest Why-Didn't-I-Think-Of-That website around

If you have been surfing Digg frequently, you have probably stumbled upon stories about great products mentioned on this website. This amazing site reviews the newest inventions to make your life easier. It's great for people who have an extra dollar or twenty to spend. (Unfortunatly, I'm not that person)

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New antidepressant drug increases 'brain's own cannabis'

"Researchers have discovered a new drug that raises the level of endocannabinoids the 'brain's own cannabis'providing anti-depressant effects.The new research could represent a safer alternative to cannabis for the treatment of pain and depression..."

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Gartner sees RFID as $3 billion business by 2010

"RFID technology is on the upswing as businesses start to see ways it can augment bar coding, according to a new report."

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Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005

Who else is tired of the hoards of "me too" web2 applications out there. This article lists 10 great sites that chose to innovate. Seriously enough of the social bookmarking, startpage, to-do list nonsense.

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Top Twelve Dream Gifts of 2005

This list features the top twelve dream gifts for this holiday season, ranging from gigantic monitor displays to seven foot tall robots; all costing a pretty penny. Enjoy!

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Essential Free Wireless Hacking Tools

Anyone interested in wireless security and exploiting vulnerabilities will need a good set of base tools with which to work. Fortunately, there are an abundance of free tools available on the Internet. Brought to you by Dan Hoffman, CISSP, CWNA and regular columnist for the new online magazine, The Ethical Hacker Network.

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12 CSS Articles/Tricks of 2005

Collection of wonderful articles/tricks about CSS. Really useful.

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XBOX 360 file system decoded

The anti-owner technology in Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been compromised. A technology group called Pi has decoded the filesystem, which is an important step towards stripping out all of Microsoft's anti-customer technologies and turning the Xbox 360 into a general computing platform.

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Shots Without Needles

Needles hurt. Worse, they can spread disease. PowderMed's new vaccine gun, the PMED, requires no sharps. Part of "The Best of What's New."

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300,000 360s Coming This Week?

According to Reuters Microsoft should be shipping 300,000 more 360's this coming week in North America. This is almost the same amount of 360's that were available at Launch in North America. Gamers rejoice!

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HOW TO: Control iTunes Remotely from Any Web Browser

This article shows you how to set up a simple web server in XP so that you can control iTunes remotely. Great for your home media center!

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Are Migraines All in Your Heart?

Doctors treating patients with a congenital heart defect have found an unexpected side effect of their work -- repairing the heart condition apparently relieves migraines.

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New Da Vinci Code Trailer

Columbia Pictures has brought online the first full-length trailer for The Da Vinci Code, from director Ron Howard and writer Akiva Goldsman, who last teamed-up on Oscar-winner A Beautiful Mind. You can watch the trailer at Apple in High Definition QuickTime and regular QuickTime formats!

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A social network based around your Films collection

The writer of the social network reader2.com and myprogs.net has just launched myFilmz.net. Which is a place to share film collections data and build connections with people who like similar films.

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An introduction to theming Typo

Typo is the newest kid on the block when it comes to blogging tools. Powered by Ruby on Rails with lots of AJAX goodies it's definitely worth a look. The problem however: documentation is rather limited. This article provides some pointers on how to make your new Typo powered weblog look good.

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uTorrent 1.3 Released!

The title speaks for itself

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Xbox 360, Not Too Big In Japan

The Xbox 360 has landed in Japan. Today, Microsoft's next-gen gaming console has finally been released in Sony's and Nintendo's arena, and the Japanese gamers did nothing.

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What is accessing my hard drive when I'm not using my PC?

This is one of the things I hate most about Windows - my laptop is sitting on the table, unused, and the drive just starts thrashing like crazy. Nice article explaining what software is causing it.

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Illusionist on Japanese TV proves that Solid can indeed pass through Solid

Simply Amazing! I do magic as a hobby myself but I'm baffled by the second demonstration of Solid through Solid (2 demonstations on this video)

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Dating an Apple Developer

I date a geek and I thought I was the only one that had to face these sort of situations. If you're a geek and you have a girlfriend let her in on the read. That's what my bf did and after reading this, I was a lot more understandable about my bf and his need to be with the computer almost all waking hours that he isn't with me.

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Dating an Apple Developer

I date a geek and I thought I was the only one that had to face these sort of situations. If you're a geek and you have a girlfriend let her in on the read. That's what my bf did and after reading this, I was a lot more understandable about my bf and his need to be with the computer almost all waking hours that he isn't with me.

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Great Desktop Backgrounda of anything you want

One of the best desktop sites I have found in a long time, and all photos are HUGE.

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180 ° - Upcoming Digg Competitor

180 ° news is something Digg should keep their eyes on. It's a web-based RSS reader that pulls thousands of stories from the web daily, which can be marked as important (imp'd). It's cookie based, so no logins are required. Other topics like sports and entertainment are also covered.

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Securing your Pc with True Crypt

Tutorial that explains how to encrypt your hard drives with true crpyt (freeware) to prevent someone else accessing your files / personal data without your permission.

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Get a close up view of Bill Gate's house using his technology :)

Unless you have a yacht, you won't be able to get a nice look at his house. MSN's new virutal earth zooms in pretty well at his house. Check it out!

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Paramount Buys Dreamworks for $1.6 Billion

Paramount Pictures has struck a deal to acquire DreamWorks SKG in a pact worth $1.5-$1.6 billion beating out rival suitor NBC Universal. Paramount is putting up about half the purchase price with several financial partners shouldering the rest.

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Video: Conan O�Brien iPod Ad Parody

Wednesday's Conan O'Brien show had Conan talking a bit about the iPod Video, iTunes Video store..and his iPod ad parody..check it out on macTV! [8.5mb] [Running Time: 01:20]

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Design a Complete Web Page Plus Code In Photoshop

This is a Photoshop tutorial that will take you through the basic concepts behind designing a web page in Photoshop like a pro. It includes the original file for download, plus standards compliant code that you can substitute your own images into for a complete working web site.

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Alogrithms Dictionary Online

This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann's function.

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6500 Free TrueType Fonts!

This site has 6500 free TrueType (TTF) fonts. These fonts are mostly fantastic. I'll be sure to use some of them!

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BitComet Banned From Growing Number of Private Trackers

An increasing number of private torrent trackers are banning Bitcomet because it is ignoring the private flag, and makes private torrents available through the DHT layer.

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The SMART Car!

This little vehicle is amazing, particularly when you see the Google video linked on this page of the car crashing head on into a 20-ton block of concrete at 70 MPH.

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See What it Looks Like to travel at Light Speed!

"Impossible in real life, but feasible in a computer simulation: A tour through the city centre of Tübingen illustrates what we should see when moving at such a high speed." -- This is absolutely amazing. A must see.

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Complete guide to CGI Programming

Looking to learn CGI Programming? Take a look at this open book at O'Reilly to get excellent tutorials.

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ThinkSecret.com: 13.3-inch iBook, Mac OS X 10.4.4, Plaxo for Mac

Apple appears on track to deliver an Intel-based iBook early next year, sources report, and in doing so will replace its long-standing 14.1-inch model with a widescreen 13.3-inch display. Meanwhile, the company releases a new build of Mac OS X 10.4.4 to developers while Plaxo readies the first release of its Mac client.

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NBA to create searchabe archive of every minute ever filmed

The league, working with Silicon Graphics, is setting out to create a digital archive of the entire filmed history of its games. Every minute of NBA footage will soon be searchable by the general public.

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CSS for Bar Graphs

Great write up on how to create some attractive bar graphs using CSS.

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Patriot Act set to renew without changes to protect liberties

The GOP reached a compromise to offer a 4 year renewal instead of the 7 year Bush wants. The problem is most of the Patriot Act becomes permanent upon being renewed this time and none of the changes requested by citizens were put in. This is bad legislation which goes against the Constitution.

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The Formation of a New Ocean?

A fissure in a desert in the remote northeast could be the birth of a new ocean basin according to scientists.

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Intel calls MIT's $100 laptop a 'gadget'

The chipmaker says developing countries want fully functional computers, not hand-cranked gadgets.

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Way beyond the MSConfig utility.

This utility has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor. You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically. It shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them, and it's by Sysinternals!

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Fastest Windows Password Cracker - Ophcrack 2.1

A Windows password cracker based on the faster time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. Ophrack 2.1 comes with a GTK+ and runs on Windows as well as on a Linux bootable cd.

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Gmail Clips Official Announcement [via GoogleBlog]

Gmail accounts will now have a mini RSS reader built in. Simply go to settings and choose any RSS feed that you would like to be displayed in your inbox.

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Encrypt messages like the German's did in WWII

This guy wrote a java applet that allows you to encrypt messages you type in using the german designed "Enigma Machine". basically, by choosed different letter combinations to seed your key, you can write secret messages almost impossible to decrypt. This is really neat. Definetly worth a try.

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WPA Cracking Proof of Concept Available

Better beef up Mom and Pop's WPA passphrase this Xmas before the kids down the street catch wind of these tools.

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Music Industry Goes After Lyric Sites

"The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics... MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed. Guitar licks and song scores are widely available on the internet but are 'completely illegal', he told the BBC."

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Download Google Earth For Mac OS X!

Ok, so you know there is a beta of Google Earth floating on the net. I'm sure you would love to play with it. Wait no longer my children. A VERY MYSTERIOUS person sent an email to UNEASYsilence's tipline with the download link.

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Upcoming Cinematic effects for the HL2 Source Engine

bit-tech have been to VALVe's offices again and have a really good article up on the upcoming additions to the Source engine - developed for the Day of Defeat mod. Check out some of the videos, this stuff is utterly mind blowing. Motion blur, depth of field, color correction... as if HDR wasn't good enough!

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Free Guitar Lessons for iTunes and your iPod w/ video

iPlayMusic today announced that it will make a series of 35 beginner guitar video lessons available free to iTunes users. All 35 lessons can be downloaded and played in iTunes and on video iPods.

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iTunes Signature Maker

iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration and asks you a few simple questions, iTSM will spend a few minutes analyzing your collection and generating the audio signature.

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More new Gmail features

It's only been about a week since Google introduced Anti-Virus capabilities into Gmail, and now the Googlers are now ready to start offering a few more interesting features that may raise a few eyebrows. Their "What's New" page has changed once again and outlines a few extra features that aren't yet available.

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Best Buy holding 360 shipment for sale? (Insider doc. to prove it!!)

A leaked insider document from Best Buy shows they are stockpiling 360 consoles to go on sale on December 18th. Why do I but from them again???

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Is Freenet the next BitTorrent?

Freenet sounds like the ultimate peer-to-peer system: "Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous."

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Napster's Raunchy New Commercial

Good music...hottie stripping...Surely this didn't air on television. I've read that there is a dirtier one floating around. If you've seen it, post it.

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Huge collection of old propaganda

This website has over 200 propaganda posters from the 20th century. Remember, "If you are giving it up, you are going steady with Hitler!"

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Using Math to Beat the Market

Each new program, Ballard said, is subjected to months of simulated trading before it's used to manage actual money. Ballard won't share how the algorithms work or how much income they've generated over his four-year trading history, except to say they've been profitable.

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auto-lock your computer on start-up

This little tutorial allows your computer to load windows completely on startup and then lock itself, so when you turn your computer on, you can go do whatever and come back and it'll be all ready to go! great timesaver if windows loads slowly for you.

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Nice webdesign showcase Digg sauce

DarkEye is a new breed of living web design showcase. You're in control: you rate, review and submit sites that instantly appear in front of thousands potential users. DarkEye is what you make it so start experimenting today.

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How to Tie Useful Knots

Only know how to tie a knot in a shoelace? Check out these useful knots and follow the simple instructions. Now all I need is a decent rafter and a chair.

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Removing Vocals from Songs

Well written tutorial, on the correct and efficient way of removing voice from any song.

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Web Only Episodes Of Family Guy Coming Next Year

Sometime next year Fox will start to put out web only episode of Family Guy. They will be distributed through Myspace.com and IGN.com, likely for $1.99. Nothing however was mentioned of iTunes or iPod distribution.

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IGN gets devs to spill MORE Revolution specs, & it could launch at $99

IGN.com delivers more unofficial Revolution speculation from developers... "Developers come forward to reveal new performance details on Nintendo's next-generation console."

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Ebay filled with fake Xbox's

One box seller said his listing was just a joke. "I never (actually) thought people would bid on this, I thought most people that were spending any money on anything would read what they are buying."

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Interesting GUI Gallery

On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones.

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New Sony CD security risk found

Another security risk from a DIFFERENT batch of CDs! IT just never ends for Sony does it?

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New IM worm chats with its intended victims

A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor IMlogic warned Tuesday.

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Hate spam? Fight back!

Eat spammers bandwidth with a updated version of the Lad Vampire! Lad Vampire is a javascript page that repeatedly downloads images from scammers websites. The update includes improved visual indicators of the status of a site, a speed throttle, appends information messages to file names downloaded and saves your downloading stats!

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Worn Headers using CSS

Create fancy weathered type for your headers using a variation on known image replacement tricks.

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The Push-Button House

"The Push Button House is exactly that: it starts as a shipping container until a button is pushed, and it turns into a house. Motorized walls unfold like a flower, revealing a fully functionaly house, complete with refined, understated furnishings."

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Learn C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, And More Though Flash Videos

A man named Sean Greasley who is from the UK made quite a few flash video tutorials on how to program. C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, Direct 3D, SQL, with more on the way. These videos combined with a book will get any novice on their feet.

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Meteor lights up night sky in Australia

A Perth astronomer says a spectacular light show in the sky last night was a meteor. Witnesses say the the sky lit up about 9:00pm AEDT, and the light was followed by a thundering sound that shook buildings. Video can be found at: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200512/r66292_183334.ram

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Safe hydrogen storage breakthrough: catalyze it from ammonia bound in salt

Danish scientists at the Technical university of Denmark have developed a method to safely and inexpensively store hydrogen in solid form, using sea salt to store ammonia, which is then catalyzed to release hydrogen used to power clean and efficient fuel cells.

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5 incredible things a $100 cell phone will do next year

The US has shamefully lagged behind Asia and Europe when it comes to cell phones but the gap is going to close next year.

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On the fence about the Xbox360? Checkout IGNs Xbox 360 Experience.

IGN goes over the good and bad of the console now that it has been released, as well as their experience with using it.

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Intel Processor Secret Plans Uncovered

Hardware Guide uncovered some of the Intel's future technologies and products plans.

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Firefox 1.5 - Is It That Good?

Is Firefox 1.5 that good as what people taut it to be? 1337tech.org has the numbers to prove it!

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Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki

Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation.

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Microsoft says that only 3% of Xbox 360s are defective

Joystiq is reporting that despite the buzz surrounding defective Xbox 360s, Microsoft claims that only 3% of the units sold have been faulty, which is below the industry average.

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GMail anti-virus coming very very soon....

Google is very close to introducing anti-virus to it's GMail service.

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Ctrl+Alt+Del The Animated Series

The title says it all.

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Martian Ice FOUND!

New Scientist Space Reports that Radar imaging by The MARS EXPRESS probe has discovered what appears to be Water Ice below the surface of the Red Planet.

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First Quantum Byte created!

An important step towards the creation of a Quantum Computer has been done by Austrian scientists

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Brain scans confirm that caffeine gives the brain a boost.

Researchers say the scans show that caffeine found in coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate stimulates areas of the brain governing short-term memory and attention.

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Podcast Hijacked, Held for Ransom

"In an assault reminiscent of the early days of the Internet, Podcaster Erik Marcus recently found that his RSS feed had been inexplicably redirected. The cyber-squatter is demanding payment or permanent agreement to terms, and Marcus is seeking legal redress for this new form of Internet extortion."

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Firefox Bug Causes 100% CPU Usage on Mac OS X

if you click and hold the mouse button anywhere inside the Firefox browser interface, your CPU usage will immediately jump to nearly full and The Fox will bog your system until you let go. This bug has been in Bugzillafor three years, and for Powerbook and iBook users, this bug could make Firefox drain your battery quickly.

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Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time

A very nice top 10 of the most used (custom or native) JavaScript functions! A must read!

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HOW TO: Survive worst case scenarios!

Packed full of useful information such as "How To Survive A Volcanic Eruption", "How To Navigate A Minefield", "How To Escape From A Car Hanging Over The Edge Of A Cliff" and of course "How To Cross A Piranha-Infested River".

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DirectX 10...and so it ends!

Backward compatibly with DirectX 9,8,7 isn't really necessary

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How to use MSCONFIG

A good how-to page on using the MSCONFIG function in Windows that you can send to your newbie friends and family...

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Dr Divx 2.0 Released!!!

Finally one can encode high quality Div files for free.

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Xbox does second round of 360s

Those who missed out on the early Xbox 360 mania may get a second chance this week to find the new game system in stores.

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Reactive cubes

"The Reactive Cube is an acrylic cube filled with water and light. It was designed to transform digital images into apparently physical objects. A 2D image is projected through a mass of water mixed with a specially formulated emulsion of oil."

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Front Row 2.0 to be part of Apple iLife '06

According to an unconfirmed report, Apple is set to release new versions of iLife and iWork in mid-January. iLife '06 will include Front Row 2.0 and support for a $50 optional remote control accessory

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The 360 degree LED television

"If you're looking for a new centrepiece for your new entertaining area, the new 360 degree LED display from Dynascan offers exactly that quite literally."

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How to Implement Cool CSS Box Shadows

Sweet...until the box shadow CSS property is implemented, this is a great way to make cool looking shadows around HTML elements on your site.

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New Firefox 1.5 Campaign! "Firefox Flicks"

Over at spreadfirefox.com (the official campaign designated to spread Firefox) they are getting a campaign "refresh". Just like mozilla.com with its a new design, spreadfirefox has a new campaign - "Firefox Flicks";

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Firefox 1.5 compatible version of AdBlock

I was dismayed that adblock stopped working properly during the RC releases and there hadn't been an update. Turns out that there is an update but you can't get it through the updater system in FF. Get it from the AdBlock Forum. Works great!

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Abusive New York Camera Store Threatens Blogger

"I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again." "I'm an attorney, I will sue you." "I'm going to call your local police and have two officers come over and arrest you." Just a few of the fun things I got to hear today from someone who said his name was Steve Phillips over at PriceRitePhoto.

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12 Useful CSS Templates

This girl named Monorom presents 12 useful XHTML1.0/CSS2 templates - very easy to use and carefully documented. Helped me on many XHTML/CSS issues.

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Free Audiobooks, Speeches, Video Lectures

Directory of 500+ free audio books, video lectures, historical speeches. Many can be downloaded or streamed. Good stuff to load up on that new iPod you're about to get!

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Collection of cool Google Maps you would have never thought of

This blog is dedicated to interesting and cool google maps/mashups!

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PHP iCalendar

PHP iCalendar is a PHP-based iCal file viewer/parser to display iCals in a Web browser.

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Xbox 360 as new film distribution model?

Are the Xbox 360 and upcoming PS3 "Trojan horses to get Microsoft and Sony devices into as many homes as possible"? A great article on how gaming is impacting - and could potentially, evetually revolutionize - the film industry.

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How to Detect Lies: Eye Direction and Lying

Talks about how "Visual Accessing Cues" can help in detecting a lie by looking at the person's eyes and which direction they move, depending if they are right or left handed, among other things...you decide if it works or not.

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Man beams down 5000 channels from 12 satellite dishes on front porch!

Al Jessup from Beckley, has more than 5000 TV & radio channels from the 12 dishes on his front porch, you gotta see the pic of this!

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10 rules for web startups

Read these 10 rules by Evan Williams that you have to follow to start a web based company and make it successful.

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How to start your own game company

A quick overview on some tools for creating a game company. This installment includes story and gameplay resources, 2D and 3D tools, and a selection of game engines.

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Apple release the Broadband Tuner - Speed up your broadband!

The Broadband Tuner allows you to take full advantage of very high speed Internet connections that have a high latency (5 Mbps or greater). The installer tweaks some system parameters.

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Revolution to be unveiled on May 9, 2006

Nintendo will take the wraps off the next-generation console at its press briefing before next year's E3 expo.

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The End Of Copyright

"I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of a major era in world history. It may take fifty years, it may take a hundred, but the age of copyright is drawing to a close. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it's inevitable."

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K-Lite Mega Codec Pack v1.44

A new version of the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack has been released today. This codec pack allows you to play all populair audio and video formats, such as XviD, DivX, H.264, DVD, MP3, AC3, AAC, Vorbis, QuickTime, RealMedia and many others.

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New Mac Mini to Take Center Stage in Your Living Room

The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include both Front Row 2.0 and TiVo-like DVR functionality.

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Firefox 1.5 to be released TODAY

After a host of test releases and one false start, a new version of the Firefox browser will be ready on Tuesday, according to a media alert issued by the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox 1.5 will be available for download at http://www.getfirefox.com and http://www.mozilla.com on Tuesday afternoon (PST).

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Astronaut Holds Up "For Sale" Sign During a Spacewalk

Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a "For Sale" sign refering to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that they retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire.

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DELL UltraSharp 2005FPW - Lowest Price Ever! - $334 Shipped

Lowest Ever! Dell Business has the Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1-inch Flat Panel LCD Monitor with Height Adjustable Stand for $579 - automatic 25% off -$434 - $100 off $500 code 63C1JBV4XV1VMD [Exp 12/14] = $334 shipped.

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Creating windows applications with PHP!

Win Binder is comprised of a DLL, PHP scripts and some auxiliary files which allow programmers to create native Windows applications using PHP! In just a few minutes I followed the tutorial in making a digital clock with scrolling text.

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10 Things Every New Mac Owner Should Know

"I've compiled a list of 10 things every first time Mac owner, particularly Mac Mini owner, should know about their new computer and operating system. This article should answer some burning questions, enlighten you about some features you did not know about OS X and just all around be helpful."

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Library of NASA's Best Photos: GRIN (Great Images in NASA)

Very cool site with the best photos from NASA. Check out all the spacewalk photos, and even the very first external tank for the shuttle! I dugg it...figure you might too.

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Try Ruby - Interactive Tutorial/Demo

Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!

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TiVo Beta pics leaked!

TiVo is beefing up their HME offerings by centrally hosting applications and partnering with Yahoo! Yahoo! weather, traffic, and photos are avalable - as is Internet radio (Live365) and a few new games. Also being tested is the podcaster application I previewed at Digital Life, Fandango movie tickets, and a few various games.

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A.com, B.com, C.com on the way?

Way back before the Web was born, Internet pioneer Jon Postel reserved all the single-letter domain names he could, in case they were needed for future expansion.

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Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Says UFOs are Real

Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Says UFOs are Real; Warns Of 'Intergalactic War'. He asks the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with â??ETs.â??

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Reducing Firefox's memory usage

Many people have complained about Firefox's memory use. Federico Mena-Quintero has a proposal for reducing the amount of memory used to store images, which, in his proof of concept code, "reduced the cumulative memory usage [...] by a factor of 5.5."

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XBOX360 DVD player sucks?

ArsTechnica has it that the built-in DVD player on the 360 just isn't that good, with noticeable artifacts and dithering. Obviously, this would seriously impact the 360's use as a media hub. Does anyone have any experience with this? Would this change your decision on whether to buy a 360?

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Ajax 2.0 = Ahah (Asychronous HTML and HTTP)

Ahah is a new way to generate webpages. Actually, it is more of a subset of ajax, but intended to be simpler and faster. It is backed by David Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails.

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How the THX 'Deep Note' sound came to be

"I like to say that the THX sound is the most widely-recognized piece of computer-generated music in the world," says Andy Moorer. "This may or may not be true, but it sounds cool!"

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Black Friday Online

Can't make it to the store today? Check out theses Black Friday deals that are available online now. Updated regularly.

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Regeneration Gene Possibly Found

Researchers discovered that when a gene is silenced in planarians, the quarter-inch long worm is unable to carry out a biological process that has mystified scientists for centuries: regeneration. The answer could have far-reaching implications, because similar genes are found in humans.

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Ultimate Boot CD

Probably all the diagnostic tools you'll ever need is on this one CD. Has partition tools, memory tools (such as Memtest86), boot managers, and mosty likely every kind of hardware diagnostic around.

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Artists feeling the Sony Rootkit debacle

"This is serious business," says Red Light Management's Jordan. "As managers, we've always supported trusting our fans. Copy protection has nothing to do with trust." This is my first digg, and yes...It's about Sony.

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Sony Will Present PS3 At CES 2006

Sony has decided to acquire the central stand at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) that will take place in January next year in Las Vegas. Ok...that would seem rather normal...except for the fact that the stand will have 12,000 sq. feet (aprox 3660 square meters). That's a lot. Time to take away the X360 thunder.

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Xbox 360 Gets Its First Patch Already

Yes, it seems that Microsoft is back to its old habits. We've already grown accustomed to the patching/re-patching/re-re-patching, and re-patching-some-more habits displayed over the years by the giant from Redmond. But this is too much, even for them.

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First Xbox360 Game Pirated?

It seems that it has taken those crazy software pirates only 1 day to rip the data off an Xbox360 Disc. However you still need a (nonexistant) modchip to play it.

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Bill Gates: " Xbox Live Will Become Windows Live "

"Speaking on the eve of the Xbox 360 launch, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates outlined how Xbox Live would evolve into Windows Live, using Windows Messenger as a conduit. The Xbox team showed limited Live integration with Messenger back at E3 in 2003, and even that limited showing caused something of an outcry."

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Oil Expert To Address Theory That Peak Oil Production Has Arrived

"Princeton University emeritus professor and renowned oil analyst Ken Deffeyes thinks that the all-time production peak for petroleum, or 'peak oil,' will occur on or around this Thanksgiving." --- It's all downhill from here, kids...

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HUGE Excel Guide

An amazing resource for anyone using Excel with tutorials and tips on a ton of items from the beginner to the advanced. Layout could use some work, but absolutely the first stop on the Internet for anything regarding Excel.

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Great 1920 x 1200 Wallpaper Images

It's tough to find high quality wallpaper images at 1920 x 1200 resolution, but these are some fantastic macro photographs.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Trailer!!

Check out this world exclusive Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Trailer! This is a direct link and you'll have to download xvid to watch it. :) Have Fun an Have A Happy Thanksgiving!!!

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Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 days

Learn the hard to die language, it is VERY powerful and VERY useful, it puts the phrase "don't work harder, work smarter" at it's zenith.

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Fire and Ice on camera together

A remote South Atlantic island, trapped under polar ice, is blowing its top in spectacular fashion. It is the first time that researchers have had a chance to watch an Antarctic lava flow in action.

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How To: Fix iTunes

It took quite a while for me to come around, but iTunes eventually changed the way that I listen to music (and download podcasts) on my PC. I was a long, long, long time WinAmp........

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Don't update your version of Kazaa

A court has ordered Sharman to release a new version of Kazaa by 5 December that includes a non-optional keyword filter. Justice Wilcox also ordered in a hearing yesterday that dialogue boxes appear on the Kazaa Web site "to place maximum pressure on KMD users to obtain the updated release".

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Mac OS X Tiger free video tutorials

Atomic Learning offers a variety of free video tutorials covering many aspects of Mac OS X 10.4. Here you can learn about the Dashboard, Spotlight as well as other new features.

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Mandrake Linux Free now available for download

Mandriva Linux, formerly Mandrake Linux, announced Tuesday that the ISO images of the free edition of its 2006 operating system are now available for download on public FTP mirror sites.

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U.S. Democrats offering many tech-friendly initiatives and geeks miss it

Over at ExtremeTech: "Tax-deductible tuition for technology majors. Universal broadband. Patent reform. Funding for math and science teachers, at the elementary and high school levels. Energy independence. These should be on your radar, but an effort to give them to you has been largely ignored. Wake up!"

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Breakthrough in Biodiesel Production

Japanese scientists have discovered a way to convert vegetable oil into biodiesel with a new much less expensive catalyst (10 to 50 times less expensive) than what we currently use. The new catalyst uses a common, inexpensive sugar to form a recyclable solid acid that does the job on the cheap.

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Carving a perfect home movie

DV Guru takes a look at how to make your home movies not so ho-hum this holiday season.

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Let them sing it for you

Amazing web applet that finds samples of songs from the words you input, and strings them into a song. Very interesting, and entertaining.

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First Official Microsoft Statement on Xbox 360 Freezes and Crashes

"We have received a few isolated reports of consoles not working as expected," and "With any launch of this magnitude, you're bound to see something happening."

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First Official Microsoft Statement on Xbox 360 Freezes and Crashes

"We have received a few isolated reports of consoles not working as expected," and "With any launch of this magnitude, you're bound to see something happening."

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Best Black Friday Deals

This is a breakdown of the best deals for Black Friday. This is by no means a complete list however. I labored for hours over all the websites, ad-scans, and listings i could find. Hopefully this will help other people besides me.

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