September 23, 2005

Supermassive Black Hole Confirmed

A supermassive black hole with the tonnage of 140,000,000 suns has been found simmering at the center of the Andromeda galaxy, accompanied by a hornet's nest of furious blue stars.

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Sony CEO confirms PS3 launch for Spring 2006

While the confirmation appears to only apply to a Japanese launch, with "European and US launches following later in the year, or early in 2007", the source is obviously well placed. Other articles/rumors suggest that US launch will be Holiday 2006, possibly later if the X360 doesn't gain significant market share.

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Microsoft already has a working prototype to counter Revolution Controller

This site reveals from MS research that MS already has a working prototype of a device for intelligent handling of computer devices through a wand like device.

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Material cost of iPod nano estimated around $90

Apple is known for wrapping fancy covers around very economically produced products, so it may not be too surprising when the company also achieves a substantial profit margin on its latest portable audio player, iPod nano.

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GoogleTalk 1.0.0.70 Released

Google has silently released version 1.0.0.70. The new version is available via "Check for Updates Now" in the GoogleTalk Menu.

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Japan Gaining Interest In XBox 360??

Interest in the XBox 360 has nearly quadrupled in Japan from 6% to 22% after the Tokyo Game Show.

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CSS Techniques Roundup - 20 CSS Tips & Tricks

20 CSS techniques, tips, and tricks that you may find handy. Topics range from rounded corners, Netflix style rating sytems, styling lists, different layout techniques, styling RSS feeds with CSS and more. A great catalog of links to help you easily get the effects you want for a site.

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September 22, 2005

Firefox Downloaded 90,000,000 Times

On September 20, 2005 at 4:33:58 EST or 9:33:58 GMT Firefox Reached 90,000,000 Downloads! Only 10 Left and if we can get in before Nov. 9Th then we would have 1,000,000 Downloads on the first day of 1.0 Release, 10,000,000 Downloads in the first month, and 100,000,000 in the first year!

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Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Benchmarks & video

Want to know how your system will handle Valve's HDR showcase, Lost Coast? Fancy some 1600x1200 screenshots for your desktop? Bit-tech have all the benchmarks, and an exclusive 3 minute video of gameplay - check it out.

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PSP on your TV!

For only $120-$150, you can play your Sony PSP on your TV! You can even use a PS2 controller.

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Google TV Coming soon?

using Google�s search and advertising technologies to enhance users� Television viewing experience trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television identify areas where use of Google�s search and advertising technology can enhance this user experience

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Web-Developers Handbook

Nice resource for developing websites. This site is loaded.

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Tracking Hurricanes on Google Maps

Here's another neat example of what you can do with Google Maps. You can choose any year and see past hurricanes or you can choose 2005 and Rita and track her as she bears down on Houston and the Texas Gulf coast. Head to high ground Houston and Galveston.

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Job Listings + Google Maps (+ other cool technologies) = SimplyHired

SimplyHired does some cool stuff like linking to PayScale for salary comparison, and [my fave] mapping job opportunities with Google Maps. This can be quite helpful if you're moving to a new city and want to know where the job is, or you just want to compare commute options or neighborhoods. Oh! I think I saw some AJAX here and there, too!

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PHP/MySQL Tutorial

For many people, the main reson for learning a scripting language like PHP is because of the interaction with databases it can offer. In this tutorial I will show you how to use PHP and the MySQL database to store information on the web and include it into your website.

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XP Codec Pack Update 1.2.4 - The Complete Legal XP Codec Pack

XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec pack which helps you to play all major audio and video formats in your standard media player. Includes FFDShow and others and is easy to install and uninstall.

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Skin Cells Converted to Stem Cells

Skin cells have been converted successfully to Stem Cells, which are, basically cells that can fix you if you break your back.

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Tokyo's Sky City (Interactive Walkthrough)

"Some Japanese architects want to change our approach to urban crowding. They think we can live in the sky, and they hope to build a vertical city twice the height of today's tallest skyscraper that would house, employ and entertain hundreds of people." What are you thoughts on the possibility of this? Would you live in it?

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A Great Link To The Best Bittorrent Sites

This is a website that I luckily stumbled upon a few months ago... it has been very helpful in finding the best site to find the torrent that I am looking for... and just a few weeks ago its new updated look is quite enjoyable... Check It Out! I hope its helpful :D...

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New CSS Gallery

There's a new CSS Gallery out there that has some nice sites on there. Really good resource for web designers in need of inspiration.

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µTorrent

µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.

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September 21, 2005

PS3 Games Lineup Revealed

This is the first large (and nearly complete) list of games being developed for Sony's upcoming PS3. The article was complied from Tech Suit reps at the Tokyo Game Show 2005 after Sony said that there were 71 publishers developing 102 different titles.

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ITunes 5.0.1 now avaliable through software update

ITunes 5.0.1 popped up on my Software Update menu today.

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Open Source AJAX Powered todo List!

The Ajax population will be one organized crew. The TODO list trackers keep on growing, and this time we have an opensource alternative called Tudu. Tudu Lists is an on-line application for managing todo lists. With Tudu Lists, todo lists can be easily accessed, edited and shared on the Web. It is a simple but effective project management tool.

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Developers Comment on Nintendo Revolution Controller

Check out this article to see what developers around the industry are saying about the Revolution's controller. Read on for quotes and details.

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HOW TO Upsample Images

This article is a great solution on how to upsample those low-resolution images from your camera phone or digital camera. The images may even be good enough for framing!

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How To: Asterisk Answering Machine

After years of frustration and living with sub-par answering machines, I've finally decided to create my own. Sure, it sounds like a daunting task, but thanks to Mark Spencer of Digium, Inc. we now have a fantastic piece of software to work with called Asterisk.

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The 28 Hour Day

This seems like an interesting concept. What if we all changed to a 28 hour day. This would be a cool life mod.

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Why are the Google founders offloading all their shares?

Between the two, they have cashed out $5,782,440,068 (yes, that's BILLION with a B) in Google stock over the past year and retain only about 140,000 reported shares between them, valued at $42M total. The question is, why are they getting rid of all their stock???

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NPR says user-controlled content organization (Digg) beats Google

The national show All Things Considered (9/20/05) featured a story about how del.icio.us and flickr-type 'tagging' and the trend of user-controlled content organization (Digg) is more useful than Google results, because content is filtered by humans.

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Gran Turismo 5 So Sweet That It Hurts!

A new HD Gran Turismo trailer, this is so sweet that you cant tell if its a real car or not.

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Huge Archive of Apple Ads

Huge 10-page gallery of Apple Print ads. From the Apple I to the Lisa, this gallery is a great resource for those interested in seeing just how far we've come. Digg It!

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The Xbox 360's Power Source: larger than the console?

Kotaku has recently posted pictures of the power source that is attached to the Xbox 360 development kits. Calling it a brick would be an understatement, because the power supply is about as big as the console. No report if this monster will find it's way onto the home versions of the upcoming console.

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Sensing the pedestrians

A radar technology coupled with a vision processing system could provide an inexpensive way for automobile designers to provide a means for cars to �sense� the presence of pedestrians and initiate automobile safety systems in advance of a collision.

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Mythbusters Myth Archive

An Obese person can get stuck on an airline toilet: Busted A Can of biscuit dough can explode in a hot car: Confirmed Etc....

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September 20, 2005

Web Design & Development Cheat Sheets

All the cheat sheets you'll ever need as a web designer, graphic designer, web developer, or anything related to it. Including a new Adobe Illustrator Cheat Sheet.

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iTunes 5.0.1 coming with several bug fixes.

as early as this week... stay tuned...

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Kevin Mitnick's Forbidden Chapter

A very interesting read on the overview of Kevin Mitnick's life as a hacker and his issues with New York Times reporter John Markoff. This chapter, originally slated to be Chapter 1 in Mitnick's 2002 book "The Art of Deception", was removed by the publisher after initial printing.

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Google to bid on AOL?

Google could try to bid for America Online to preempt a Microsoft takeover and protect the $380 million in revenue Google gets from its biggest partner, according to an analyst.

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iPod Nano - 1000 Songs on your dashboard

Ever wonder what to do with your Nano box? I turned mine into a casing and mounted it in my truck.

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Office Space: Extra Special Edition

BEST BUY: Office Space gift set...includes all your necessary supplies including the infamous RED STAPLER...finally milton will find it!

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5.1 Dolby Surround Sound With Any Pair of Headphones

Dolby® Headphone technology allows users to wear any set of headphones and listen to music, watch movies, or play video games with the dramatic surround effects of a 5.1-channel soundtrack.

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Writers Needed For New Star Wars TV Show

George Lucas has begun searching for scribes to produce scripts for his upcoming television series based on the Star Wars film franchise

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Microsoft responds to MGS4 Demo

"If we look at the capabilities of the Xbox 360 from a technical aspect, and we lay against it the capabilities from a technical aspect of the PS3... It's a wash,"

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Ajax on Rails

In a few short months, Ajax has moved from an obscure and rarely used technology to the hottest thing since sliced bread. This article introduces the incredibly easy-to-use Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework.

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Hacking Coffee Machines

Lets see, we have hacked Coke machines, Pepsi machines and a TON of other electronics in the office. What is left? How about the Coffee machine! Thats right a I-hacked reader has been messing around with a newly addition to his office, and found some pretty interesting hacks using a debug menu similar to the coke machine.

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Interview With the Creator of the Optimus OLED Keyboard

Atremy Lebedev, the creator of the super cool Optimus ninja OLED keyboard. Lebedev is planning on mass producing this thing in a year or so and sees the price at somewhere in the $200-300 range...

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Build a professional photo/video studio on the cheap

If you want to get the pro look of your still pictures or videos here is a great guide on how to build your own studio very cheap.

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Steve Jobs Says No To Raising iTunes Pricing

"If they want to raise the prices, it means that they are getting greedy," said Jobs, chief executive of Apple, at a news conference in Paris on Tuesday. "If the price goes up, they (consumers) will go back to piracy and everybody loses."

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Hardening Windows XP

A short, but good, tutorial on Hardening Windows XP Professional.

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Apple On Track to Ship Intel Macs by June 2006

At Apple Expo in Paris, Steve Jobs reaffirmed that Apple would be ready to ship Intel-based Macs by June of 2006. "We are on track to do that," Jobs told a news conference in Paris, referring to the plan the company announced in June this year. Apple first announced their plan to move to Intel-based processors back in June 2005.

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September 19, 2005

How the RIAA really treats it's artists

Time and time again we hear that the real reason for the RIAA's scare tactics and lobbying is the welfare of the artists they employ and represent. Here's a breakdown where a band not only isn't paid much but actually ends up owing money.

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Microsoft Gadgets

Microsoft blog for a new category of mini applications.

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Google Search Techniques

Learn to use Google's advanced query syntax to get results quickly

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The Black Vault : A collection of 292,208 of goverment documents

Using the Freedom Of Information Act this man was able to collect all these goverment documents ranging from FBI files to UFO documents and to Field Manuals.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

Researchers at Fudan University have discovered a way to block memories.

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System Episode 4 will be release Monday

The fourth episode of an awesome technology IpTV show will be released on Monday!

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A New Web Browser is Coming to Town

Flock is a web browser that is based off of Firefox, but, according to Wired, will introduce a whole new social browsing experience. Expected to release in the first week of October.

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USA Today writer calls Apple users "Blind Lemmings"

Andrew Kantor writes "What is wrong with Mac users and Apple fans? I mean that -- I've never seen the like. Calling them "blind lemmings" doesn't always seem strong enough."

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Tutorial: Setting up a server with SuSE 10.0

this is a very detailed tutorial about how to use the new SuSE 10.0 to set up a web, mail, and ftp server. It covers every aspect of the installation and demonstrates the setup process with the help of 50 screenshots, allowing even beginners to follow this guide. Experienced system administrators will benefit from this tutorial as well.

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Plague spreads in World of Warcraft.

Apparently there is a plague spreading throughout World of Warcraft. "Bring out your dead."

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Tivo Halts Sales

In a strange turn of events, Tivo is no longer accepting orders for DVR units via phone or web. Unconfirmed posts suggest the company they outsource sales duties to has folded. At this time, potential web customers are being directed to Order at Best Buy.

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Google Maps + Wikipedia

This is pretty cool.

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First DirectX 10 Game Footage.

This is footage is made by CryTek (the people who brought us FarCry) on the DX10 API, shown at the PDC Microsoft Conference. It looks simply amazing!

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Firefox On A USB Stick -- Now For Mac

A Windows version of the handy app Portable Firefox has been available for some time now. However, a cross-platform version has recently been released, that works on both Windows and OS X at the same time, keeping data for both operating systems in sync.

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Apple's New Tablet - the iNote.

Analyst Noah Goldblatt answers mounting speculation in the wake of the iPod nano concerning new Intel Macs and critiques AppleMatters for reports of solid state flash memory hard drives in iBooks and Mac Minis. A tablet computer to provide what an iPod video never could. Empirical analysis of Apple product strategy. Amazing.

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10 Tips To Make Your Digital Photos Better

These are the top 10 tips given by photographic professionals on how make your digital happy snaps better. It won't make you a professional overnight but it will help you along your way! (See comments if you can't see story for login)

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HOW TO play video on iPods (with video)

There's a lot of speculation about future iPods, and if they'll play video - but you don't need to wait, the latest version of podzilla (Linux for the iPod) plays video, and now video with sound. Here's a quick HOW TO on installing podzilla and a video with sound playing on an iPod photo...

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