August 12, 2005

Turn your old PC into a File Server

If you want to give that old computer new life on your home network, try using it as a file server for music or pictures or whatever so that no matter where in the house you are you can access your massive digital library from any computer. Hereâ??s what youâ??ll need to doâ?¦

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Xbox 360 launch: EBGames leaks game lineup!

Xbox 360 Launch Titles with Links, 22 Games at launch with 7 coming before end of November!

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Exclusive pics of TiVo Download

"Itâ??s pretty much an open secret that TiVo is rolling out a download service, and courtesy of a friendly source we were able to get our hands on these screenshots of what the beta for TiVo Download looks like."

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Views from satellite's

View the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list.

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Kryptos: The Unbreakable Code

OBKRUOXOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGKSSOTWTQSJQSSEKZZWATJKLUDIAWINFBNYPVTTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR Donâ??t know what all that means? Neither does anyone else except the one man who created it.

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Google Netcam Hack

Google: inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="

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World Trade Center Disaster Audio

WAV files of the audio from various frequencies including NYPD, FDNY, etc. during the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

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Black Hole Blows Bubble Between The Stars

A team of astronomers from The Netherlands and the UK has discovered a vast "jet-powered bubble" formed in the gas around a black hole in the Milky Way.

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Mars Recon Orbiter Successfully Launched

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla at 7:43:00 a.m EDT on Aug 12. The spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 41 aboard NASA's first Atlas V rocket.

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Intel to unveil Pentium 4 successor at IDF

Intel confirmed that it will showcase its "next generation" desktop processor architecture at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Fall.

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Batman Begins DVD Announcement

This just in from Warner Brothers, One of this years best films will be out on a 2-Disc Special Edition DVD on October 18th. Thats right Christopher Nolan and screen writer David S. Goyerâ??s retelling of the Batman origin â??Batman Beginsâ?? will be available to own!

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Biggest Computer Theft Case to Date

A contracted company is accused of taking 1.6 billion customer records for its own use, having nothing to do with the contract agreement. "The computer theft case is considered the largest the U.S. government has prosecuted to date."

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PowerBook Updates in September?

Final curtain call for PowerPC-based PowerBooks? - Apple Computer is believed to be prepping one final update to its PowerPC-based PowerBook G4 product line that could be unveiled at the end of next month, AppleInsider has learned.

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Build your own wireless hoptspot with Linux.

No need to buy proprietary software to get your own wireless hotspot, this tutorial teaches you the scripts you need to make a hotspot out of hardware you may have around and Linux.

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Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Network and Internet Access

Depending on the type of network connection you have, you might be able to tweak your connection so that the speed of your Internet, as well as your local area network. By hacking the System Registry and editing the TCP/IP parameters, you can fine-tune the values to take advantage of more reliable, faster Internet connections, such as DSL and cable

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August 11, 2005

Free Official Vista Icons Set

This site contains the all new icon set for Microsoft's new OS called Vista which will be released next year. Well over 113 "new look" .ico icons.

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10 Year Timeline of the internet.

Pretty interesting, the link has most of the major things that have happened over the last ten years. I stress "most of the major things".

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Find Out If You Are Connected To Internet2!

Use this Java applet to find out if you are currently connected to Internet2's high speed Abilene network. Also tests to see if your location has multicast enabled as well as providing bandwidth statistics.

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Google Gives Reason Why it is Built on Linux

Google Inc open source programs manager Chris DiBona said the search giant has stuck with Linux throughout the company's life, in part, because it was unhappy with the terms of another software company. Which borgware company is he referring to?

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Rising Gas Prices? Use GasBuddy!

GasBuddy lets you view gas prices for most major cities and know where to get gas for the cheapest price. With oil hitting $65 a barrel these days, it's best to find a good deal.

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Free Official Vista Icons Set

This site contains the all new icon set for Microsoft's new OS called Vista which will be released next year. Well over 113 "new look" .ico icons.

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Free HD Space Shuttle launch downloads

HDNet has partnered with two technology comapanies to provide a free 20 minute video of the Space Shuttle launch. The 1080i video is in Windows Media Video HD format.

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Explosive carrying truck detonates, leaves 80 ft crater

A tractor-trailer that was carrying 35,500 pounds of explosives overturned and exploded Wednesday left an 80 ft wide, 35 ft deep crater on U.S. Highway 6 in Utah. The truck was "pretty much vaporized", and "The entire road is gone, shoulder to shoulder..".

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Amayzing trick - the coin master

what a cool skill !

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A page of WebCams

A page full of hidden webcams.

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OS X Finally Cracked for PC's

bad_duck has posted on this French website (translated by Google) two movies showing OS X Tiger running on a Pentium-M 735/1.6GHz notebook. While the translation isn't perfect, you can grab the quicktime movie files on the page and see it running.

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Hi-res photos of nuclear weapons - Nukephoto.com

More than ten years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. maintains 10,000 warheads and nuclear issues dominate international relations. These photographs reveal the missiles, warheads, bombers, submarines, and command centers that make up the United States' far-flung nuclear infrastructure. (Thanks to http://www.designobserver.com/)

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Scientists use plastic to make steel

Australian scientists have developed a technique to use waste plastic in steel making, a process that could have implications for recycling scrap metal that accounts for 40 percent of steel production.

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Password Crackers, Encryption Tools, Penetration Tester List

A website with list of available programs, websites, and companies that specialize in security, password hacking, cracks, security publications, computer forensics and more.

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TIME's 50 coolest websites 2005 Edition

Check it out. They've splitted them in 5 categories. Arts & Entertainment, Blogs, Lifestyle, Health & Hobbies, News & Information and Shopping.

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Superhighspeed Internet is Already Here

No need for powerlines or gaslines, Verizon's been deploying FIOS (fiber-optic) internet in several states for over a year now. No latency - data moves at the speed of light, and true speeds. 15 mb down/ 2 mb up is only $50 a month.

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How to Review a Beer

"Tips to being as subjectively objective as possible when reviewing beer." Dugg this one for the DiggNation guys. ;-)

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Zap of Electricity Creates Fluid Situation

...what if there were a way to turn a liquid into a tough solid at ordinary temperatures with a mere zap of electricity -- and then have that solid become liquid again, instantaneously, simply by shutting off the current?

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Japanese Man Overclocks a Pentium 4 670 to 7GHz!

If there was a Guiness Book of World Records entry for Most Overclocked Processor, this would definitely win it. Softpedia reports that the Japanese man used a Pentium 4 670, ASUS P5WD2 mobo, and two 512 MB RAM CORSAIR PC2-5400UL modules of memory with a liquid nitrogen cooling system to achieve these results.

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Subway maps that you can put on your iPod.

Currently available: DC, NYC, Boston, and Hong Kong

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World Facts in Real Time

A site that shows the population, births per day/year, and many other interesting facts with real time meters.

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August 10, 2005

Broadband Over Powerlines at 200Mbps ........WOW

Broadband over Powerlines. BPL is basically the use of your existing powerlines to deliver high speed broadband and other data services.

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How Al-Qaeda Uses The Internet As A Weapon

This is an extremely interesting article in today's Washington Post detailing how Al-Qaeda has begun using the Internet as a weapon.

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Official Half-Life 2 Aftermath Trailer

Kinda dark, dog, and lots of Alyx.

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How to Perform the Balducci Levitation

Amaze someone by gently rising about 4 inches off the ground. This trick is often seen on tv performed by David Blain or that MindFreak guy. Check out how to do it yourself!

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Combining great graphics and CSS

To create mind boggling web design. Here is a well written tutorial outlining how you can combine CSS skills and Photoshop skills

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Article about holograhpic storage and how it works

This is a article about holographic storage and how it works.

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New hydrogen generation technique announced

Itâ??s inevitable that any discussion about hydrogen-power cars takes a turn towards the â??... and just where are we going to get all that hydrogen from?â?? angle in about 30 seconds.. Researchers in Israel may have taken us one step closer to answering that question.

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The Passion Of The Clerks

Kevin Smith is doing it again. The sequel picks up 10 years later. "It's about what happens when that lazy, 20-something malaise lasts into your 30s.

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Streaming Video Game Walkthroughs!

Are you stuck on a game and don't know where to go and what to do? Have no fear, StuckGamer Is Here! It will show you exactly what you need to do in order to get to the next mission/level. And how to do it! Its also spoiler safe!

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The Coolest Thing Ever Done With Rocks!

"A short film that is played entirely in reverse and involves the "reverse destruction" of balanced rock sculptures. There is one character in the movie that appears to magically create these sculptures. Although the film is played in reverse it appears as the man who is doing his magic is going forwards in time."

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Hack Your Life

What if you applied the hacker mindset to your everyday life? Getting things done quicker and smarter than normal people. LifeHack is updated daily with the most recently notable articles being: the art of traveling with one bag, optimizing your bathing, note taking systems, and how to get a project up and running. Send them your tricks as well!

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Short film shot with regular Canon EOS 20D SLR camera

These guys have to much free time on their hands.. They shot a complete short film with a regular still-photo Canon EOS 20D SLR

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Brit License Plates Get Chipped

Do you know where your license plate is? How long until this makes it over to this side of the pond?

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20 Years of C++!

I was surprised this hasn't been dugg, big event for the programmers! Is anyone planning to attend?

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Time Machine using Lasers

The idea by UConn physicist Ronald Mallett uses lasers to bend and slow down light so that time goes in reverse, possibly allowing time travel to the past. Cool idea...For More info watch a show about it on the Science channel "The World's First Time Machine" Aug 13, 9am

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100-Mbit Cable Internet To Hit U.S. In 2006

Broadband Internet access via TV cables can reach 100 Megabits per second as early as next year, 50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish firm said on Wednesday.

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August 9, 2005

Office Space Special Edition DVD On The Way

20th Century Fox has announced a special edition DVD of Office Space will be released on November 1st.

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Ultra Broadband through natural gas lines coming soon

10 gigabit data transfer rates through natural gas lines ( yes it is for real and rolling out soon)

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Free Paper Craft Patterns

Yamaha has some pretty amazing downloadable PDF patterns for making paper models of creatures and machines.You can download patterns to make realistic motorcycles, rare animals like the giant panda and more. Fun stuff.

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5th-generation iPods to sport Apple scroll-wheel

When Apple Computer introduces new versions of its original iPod digital music player later this year, expect them to sport more home-grown components such as an Apple-branded scroll-wheel.

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Where Google's maps will take us

We are all mapmakers now. At least, we all can be.

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Konfabulator Top Downloads + Digg Widget+ Digger Widget

Konfabulator is the best download on the net. Here is a list of the widgets every Konfabulator user must have. Plus a Digg Digger Widget (grabs submitted links) and Digg news Widget.

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NASA sets next Mars mission

Scheduled for launching This Wednesday (10th), will be a multifunctional Swiss Army Knife of a spacecraft that will scan the planet from high in its sky to below its surface.

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GTA:LVS

A team of people have undertaken the biggest modding project possible. They plan to combine Liberty City and Vice City with San Andreas. The project, called GTA: LVS, is curently 10% completed and they have put all of Prawn Island from Vice City in.

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John C. Dvorak says shrink-wrapped OS X coming.

"Dvorak: Steve Jobs eventually intends for Apple's Mac OS X to run on any x86 PC." He says it is all a plot to overthrow Vista.

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Do You Say "Pop" or "Soda"?

Using the World Wide Web to gather and process data from across English-speaking North America, I intend to plot the regional variations in the use of the terms "Pop" and "Soda" to describe carbonated soft drinks.

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Microsoft Gives Up On Genuine Advantage

A Microsoft spinster told the Sydney Morning Herald this morning that they have sent the designers back to the drawing board on Windows Genuine Advantage.

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EA publishes 25 sequels, 1 original work

New York Times has reported that out of the 26 games that EA plans to release before the end of 2005, 25 are sequels or continuations of previous franchises. EA haters....digg away!

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Discovery and Crew Safe on Earth

Discovery and the STS-114 crew have touched down safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California, successfully wrapping up NASA's historic Return to Flight mission.

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How to use Google to find warez

Finding warez (or pirated software) with Google is surprisingly easy.

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Systm is # 15 on iTunes

Systm was just recently added to iTunes and it is already #15 on the iTunes top 100 list. If you haven't subscribed yet, get on it.

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PCI card to end crash problems

RecoverPC fixes any software issue that might suddenly occur and it doesn't care what the problem was, it just fixes it. Recovery is instant, and its protection technology does not place any speed overhead on your system.

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August 8, 2005

Systm is now on iTunes music Store

Systm is now on itunes. Currently only the first episode is available(War spying Box).So Subscribe to it.

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Collection of Text Files From 1980 to 1995

An addless web site with a collection of over 58,000 text files of information on just about anything. Topics include internet, phreaking, law, humor, programming, piracy, anarchy.

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Collection of Text Files From 1980 to 1995

An addless web site with a collection of over 58,000 text files of information on just about anything. Topics include internet, phreaking, law, humor, programming, piracy, anarchy.

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Howard Stern, Others Sue Google over Ad Charges

Howard Stern isn't happy about the way Google treats people's Ad Sense budgets and he's not alone. So he's suing them!

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Star Wars TV series on the way

Not one, but two, Star Wars TV spin-offs are on the way under the watchful eye of George Lucas: one animated and one live action. At the recent Siggraph event, Lucas confirmed that the current three-minute Clone Wars mini-series will be extended into a series of 30 minute adventures.

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Xbox 360 price could rise to match the PS3

UNTIL SONY STARTED mouthing off about how expensive the PlayStation 3 is going to be, things were looking pretty purdy for the price of the Xbox 360. Now with the release coming closer and closer and speculation hitting new highs many are thinking that Microsoft will raise the as yet unannounced price of...

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Xbox 360 price could rise to match the PS3

UNTIL SONY STARTED mouthing off about how expensive the PlayStation 3 is going to be, things were looking pretty purdy for the price of the Xbox 360. Now with the release coming closer and closer and speculation hitting new highs many are thinking that Microsoft will raise the as yet unannounced price of...

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A giant octopus takes on a shark

A giant octopus takes on a shark in a video like something from a horror movie, Octopuses are remarkable creatures, and are much more intelligent than you may think.

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Extra Second Will be Added to 2005

An extra second will be added to 2005 to make up for the slowing down of the Earth's rotation. I wonder if it will affect the operating systems calendars eventually

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Google History

This is a timeline of google's history. From 1995 to this year, is a list of events and accomplishments involving Google.

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Debt Free?

I'm almost debt free! I have cut up all of my credit cards... except for one which I will keep for emergencies despite good advice from Dave Ramsey. It feels good too. I advise everybody to try Dave's methods for eliminating debt.

Laser Hair Removal

Anybody had this done? I just got a brochure from some Clinic that does this laser hair removal. It looks to require a return visit... I thought this was permanent removal. Maybe it would require at least one return visit. Somebody let me know what this process consists of... laser hair removal. Geesh!

Yahoo Domains

I received an email this morning with a user reporting his Yahoo internet domain name was sold right out from under him before renewal time even arrived. Any body else experienced anything out of the ordinary with a Yahoo registered domain name? Yahoo Domains

Free Flash Video Tutorials

http://www.freeflashtutorials.com along with www.cartoonsmart.com are great sites by a great flash freelance artist named Justin. He has free tutorials and files that teach you about all the tools in flash and get you started in drawing and animating in flash. Great for any skill level.

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Never pay for wi-fi access again!

The world is full of free wi-fi locations so why pay for them? Skip Starbucks and other paid access locations and support local businesses and your community for free.

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World's Sexiest Laptops

The most attractive laptops. Yes, Apple is on the list and no it is not #1.

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Google Urged To Drop Nuclear Site Images (AU)

The head of Australia's nuclear energy agency has called on the owners of an internet satellite program to censor images of the country's only nuclear reactor.

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Tons of Diggs!

Ever wonder how people find news so fast!? Check this nice little site out.

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Serial Sex Killer Kept Blog

Accused serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan has been keeping a blog, called "Blogging the Fifth Nail" on Blogger! (Above link is a story about, here is the blog link: http://fifthnail.blogspot.com/)

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Turn Room from Chic to Geek

Your room expresses personality. Why not change your room into the ultimate geek room? Tech Manifesto lists some top ideas and products to add to your white wall den.

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DIY Plasma Globe

requires PDF

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Sex Tips for Geeks

Your pale, you wear black socks with mustard yellow shorts and an A-Team shirt...so how you going to get laid!? Read this!

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10 Worst Things About Video Games

MAD and Gamepro Magazine team up to list the 10 worst things about video games. I especially enjoyed number 10 which has to be the most true statement made about video gaming and the media that covers it.

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Peter Jennings Dies

ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings died today at his home in New York City at 67.

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iTunes Podcast Ranking System Easily Manipulated

It looks like iTunes doesn't record how many people are actually subscribed to a podcast but rather how many times the button is pressed. This makes the iTunes ranking as irrelevant as a list because just about anyone can change the results in iTunes by simply clicking on subscribe button 20 or 50 or 100 times.

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Command N episode 9 up

The show is only up on itunes right now, Support Amber & Mikey!

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Apple sells 1 million songs in four days in Japan

It only took Apple four days to dominate the lucrative Japanese music market as the company announced on Sunday that it had already sold more than 1 million songs on the iTunes Music Store Japan...

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New Daylight Saving May Cause Tech Problems

This could effect dvd/vcr's, palm piolets, cell phones, ETC. Y2K all over again?

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First Podcast From Space!

One day before landing, STS-114 Mission Specialist Steve Robinson transmitted the first podcast from space.

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Sickest HL2 Case Mod Yet!

This is the best PC case mod I have ever seen. If you're a Half Life fan you have to see this.

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August 7, 2005

Check out what the world looks like at night

Your parents always tell you to turn the lights out at night. Well apparently over a couple million don't listen. Check out the view of the world at night.

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Why Men Can't Hear Women

Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse - women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's. The research shows men decipher female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engage a simpler mechanism.

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Check this out if you are thinking about buying any Apple product

This guide has saved me money and heartache many times. It tells you how long it's been since an Apple product has been updated. This helps you decide to buy something now, or maybe wait a few weeks for the new model.

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Make Fire From Water

Super Cool! It's on my Christmas list already. An electric candle that uses water to create....fire?!

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The Hydristor - Much More Info

This is to give you way more info than the previous digg - "Say hello to Bill Gates future nemesis". (and its from a better source.) In short, this is an invention that sounds like it could revolutionize the auto industry, buy at least doubling you gas mileage.

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BMW first to offer HD Radio

BMW will be the first automaker to offer HD Radio as a factory-installed option with it's gorgeous 2006 7-Series sedan. You'll be able to see the weather, traffic alerts, sports scores and stock reports right on the headunit.

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*THE* definitive guide to all matters TCP/IP

This "Tutorial and Technical Overview" provides an in-depth look at TCP/IP networking. The biggest plus point is that its actually readable, even for n00bs like me :-) Joel PS, this is my first post so pls don't be too harsh...

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19 year old faces 17 years in prison for videotaping movies...

A 19 year old Missouri kid, is facing up to 17 years in prison for secretly video taping "Bewitched" and "The Perfect Man" and distributing them on P2P....Shoulda chose two better movies for THAT much time.

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Hak.5 Official Release "Episode 1"

Not the trailer this time! The official release is out, great content, sweet hacks and funny as hell!

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Coolest. Pic. Ever.

Ever take a picture of yourself with the EARTH in the background?

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Learn a New Language in a few Days

This site has FREE language courses online for almost any language you would want to learn

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Ever Wanted to Learn to Program but Never Could?

This website is a very well-done tutorial on learning how to program. It uses concepts that are applicable to many languages, and its a great way to get started. Maybe best of all is that it teaches you in Ruby, the base of Ruby on Rails (the future of web development)!

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Rivers of Coke

Drug enforcement officials may soon have an accurate yet secret way to detect drug use -- the toilets of the world. Italian scientists discovered that nearly 10 pounds of cocaine residues flow into Italy's Po River every day. How is Italy's biggest river getting all that coke? From urine. Turns out that coke users...

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The Simpson's Guide to Springfield Map with Flickr Notes

Over 400 notes marking keys Simpsons history. From Moe's Tavern to the box factory. A must digg.

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Huge list of Torrent Sites

I hate spending time googling threw all the crap Torrent sites so I though everyone might like this place I now use. It rocks!

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Xbox 360 Launch: 15 Titles, 1.6M Units, $299 & $399 Price Tag

Today Piper Jaffray research firm released some information on Microsoft�s next generation console Xbox 360. According to their research, the Xbox 360 will come in two flavors.

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Ebert's Dukes of Hazzard Review - LOL

Maybe the funniest movie review I have read, ever. A quick tidbit: "The movie stars Johnny Knoxville, from "Jackass," Seann William Scott, from "American Wedding," and Jessica Simpson, from Mars."

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Get Speed Boost from Rewiring DSL Circuit

This guide is to show you how to rewire the DSL circuit from the phone Company's NID to your modem and hopefully you�ll gain about 100 to 150kbps in speed, lower Latency and even get rid of all the Filters that are attached to your phones.

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Gmail Notifier Update Aug. 4

Gmail comes through with it's first update in 2005. Version 1.0.25.0

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Free C++ IDE (no, not bloodshed)

Code::Blocks is an open-source, cross-platform IDE capable of handling multiple C++ compilers including the free MS Visual C++ Toolkit and Digital Mars. You can download it bundled with the MingW compiler as well.

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Remote-Controlled Humans

Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation will rock your world. Literally.

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Cool High Speed Photos

Some cool high speed photos involving an air rifle and some different targets. On the site click the links on the left to see the pictures.

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First Pics of PSP and Xbox 360 connectivity!!

Screenshots from an unnamed developer of the 360 dashboard importing and playing songs from a PSP. I can't wait til November!

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Xbox 360 to Pack Some Serious Power

According to a ATI worker the Xbox 360 will be much more powerful than even their upcoming R5XX series of graphic cards.

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FCC Passes Ruling Forcing ISP's To Install Backdoors

Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a release announcing its new rule expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).

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Read any book via google

Great tutorial with images about how to read any book with google.. Till it lasts thats is

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Gamepot.com gets its own podcast.

Popular gaming news website gamespot.com now has its own podcast dubbed "The Hotspot".

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Linux vs. Windows

A comparison of Linux and Windows for new users with pros and cons.

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New Claim On Location Of Atlantis!!!!

"American researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus." Cool Sonar Pic!!

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About:Mozilla Easter egg in Firefox

Mozilla's revenge for IE's joke. In IE about:mozilla gives you a blue screen, symbolizing Firefox/Mozilla products crash, where in Firefox about:mozilla gives you a little message. (Digg does not support just about:mozilla as a URL)

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Gates Sells 12M Microsoft Shares

Everyone else is cashing in on Microsoft, so why not the company's chairman? Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has sold about 12 million shares of the company's common stock in a series of transactions over a five-day period, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

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Freeware Download Site

This site contains quality freeware programs (or the last free version of the program before it went to "trial versions") available for download on their site!

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30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet

The Web is learning new tricks every day. These surprising sites and services will help you solve problems and save time--and one might even make you a star.

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Top 10 dot-com flops

The most astounding thing about the dot-com boom was the obscene amount of money that was spent.

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The Destruction of the Milky Way

Another galaxy is on a collision course with our Milky Way.

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Suppressed film of 1945 nuclear attacks to air

Sixty years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Editor & Publisher releases an extensive account of the U.S. government's cover-up of Japanese and U.S. military film footage of the Hiroshima bombing's aftermath.

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Xbox 360 Pictured, Does a Million Polygons

Pictures of Xbox's rendering demo. A PC cannot match this now, but of course will match the performance.

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Hacked Fluorescent Light Glows When Power is Removed

he "Glow-lux" fluorescent tubes from American Environmental Products shine normally when plugged in. When they are turned off or the power goes out, they glow with a dim, eery blue-green light. The tubes can even be removed from their fixture and carried around as portable light sources. Via Slashdot.

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Cool Google Maps Overlay showing SR-71 Blackbirds

See the final resting places of the US's Fleet of Blackbirds

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