Happy October

I love this time of year. It's finally cool here and this has been a great weekend. I'm loving the new 6MB cable connection I just had installed. It's soooo fast.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

FREE tutorials articles that are both inspiring and motivational towards the adobe photoshop cs software. Become a photoshop guru TODAY!

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Ebert Gives DOOM One Star

According to Mr. Ebert, 'watching "Doom" is like visiting Vegas and never leaving your hotel room'. Hopefully he's wrong and IGN is right, but I have my doubts.

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FLOCK REVIEW: Flock, Under Those Feathers

Everything you ever wanted to know about Flock, the Flock team, the new features, why you should use it and why you want to stay away from it. And did I mention there's TONS OF SCREENSHOTS.

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Star Wars Animated GIF

"Hereâ??s the original Star Wars movie in 168k."

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Forget BluRay - HVC has 3.9 Terabyte Disks

Yes, 3.9 Terabyte!One HVC disk can hold a theoretical maximum of 78 dbl-layer BluRay disks. And 1Gbps transfer speeds?! It's amazing how technology just marches on...

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Windows Services That Can Be Disabled

One of the most effective ways to secure a Windows XP workstation is to turn off unnecessary services. This reference sheet lists each Windows XP SP 2 service, describes each service's function, specifies whether you can safely disable the service, and outlines the ramifications of doing so.

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Finally an FM Transmitter for the iPod nano - the nano iTrip

Early this morning Griffin announced the latest addition to their iTrip FM transmitter line - the iTrip for iPod nano. In the new nano version of the iTrip, the unit now uses the iPod's high resolution LCD for the display of FM frequency information. Check out the sleigh design.

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Level3 has fallen over - major internet outage!

Apparently Level3 is having some major problems with their network at the moment. From the information available at the moment this appears to be a US wide outage. Keep your eyes out for more information as it becomes available.

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Bill Gates: Both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Are Doomed

Why is the XBOX 360 going to use regular old DVDs? According to Gates, the two next-gen optical formats are the last we'll ever see and will be very short lived.

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Skip Classes and catch up with Podcast

Purdue University has it setup to skip/miss classes and catch up with Podcast.

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Flock available to download

Flock Developer Preview Download (0.5pre) is ready to download, but only for a selection of people. This is a mirror of the page which have password, but available to everybody. Enjoy!

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1st city in Canada to provide WIFI for FREE...almost all city covered!

Also named Smartest City in North America by Cisco Systems. Take a look at the videos: Case History Wireless City

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China Blocks Wikipedia

News is coming in that at least in Shanghai, you can no longer access Wikipedia. Under fire recently over the quality and accuracy of some articles, Wikipedians living in China are shit out of luck.

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NEW Google Earth 3.0.0693 Beta (October 20, 2005)

A newer BETA version of Google Earth is now available as of October 20, 2005. The change log consists of mainly "many minor bug fixes."

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How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax, Pt. 1

A great simple guide on how to start creating your very own AJAX applications.

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Wilma Breaks Record: Most Intense Atlantic Storm Ever

Hurricane Wilma's confirmed pressure readings Wednesday morning dropped to 882 millibars the lowest minimum pressure ever measured in a hurricane in the Atlantic basin.

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Confirmed: Xbox 360s playable at Wal-Mart today!

Joystiq has discovered that Wal-Mart has a playable Xbox 360 on display with demos of Call of Duty 2, Kameo, and King Kong.

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Powerbook update; Powermacs hold 16 gigs of ram!

Wow this is mighty impressive ! Upgraded resolutions to powerbooks, Powermac "Quad" released. Keep up to date with this live feed.

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Powerbook update; Powermacs hold 16 gigs of ram!

Wow this is mighty impressive ! Upgraded resolutions to powerbooks, Powermac "Quad" released. Keep up to date with this live feed.

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Cingular to shut down Pay-As-You-Go Service!

To all you Cingular Pay-As-You-Go users, from now 'til 90 more days, your cell will be either be disconnected or charged 2.5 cents PER MINUTE, because a federal judge found Cingular to be infringing a patent under Freedom Wireless.

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Apple's Aperture site is up!!

It just came up a few minutes ago, for good this time. Check it out.

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An outstanding animation of 2005's 21 hurricanes from NASA

You have to check this out. Click at the image at the top of the page to watch.

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Make a newspaper out of your favorite feeds.

Here's a cool example of how to take all of your favorite RSS feeds and create a simple newspaper out of it. Uses all freeware software. Batch files can even be used to print it out at the beginning of each day.

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Spike Buys Star Wars TV Rights

Spike TV has engineered the biggest movie purchase in the net's 22-year history, ponying up between $65 million and $70 million for a six-year exclusive deal covering all six of Lucasfilm's "Star Wars" movies

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Apple allows product trade-ins

Apple released this site for any recent orders of iMacs, iPods, PowerBooks, or PowerMacs. You can trade in you recently purchased product for the new version of it.

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Keep Internet out of UN control, says US

The Bush administration is backing a US Senate resolution to stop the UN in its plans to try and move some control of the Internet away from the US

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Google File Search Final released

The tool that uses google to find movies, mp3, ebooks, torrents and other files has finally left beta status behind and is available for download.

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RIAA Salaries Revealed!

The RIAA is making PLENTY of money while "defending artists rights" - Jack Valenti took home $1.4 million, executive vps Simon Barsky and William Murray banked $380,351 and $379,559 respectively, executive vp and general counsel Fritz Attaway received $285,263...

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The First Music Video Filmed Entirely Using Cellphones

The new video from the goofy power-pop band The Presidents of the United States of America was shot entirely using an array of Sony Ericsson cellphones. Quite an achievement and the result is pretty interesting.

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Free Visual Basic.NET Book on-line from Microsoft

Get a jump start on programming with this free title from Microsoft.

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How-To: Transfer Video from Tivo to Ipod

I moved recently and don't have my old Tivo. I miss it. Anyways, the downside is this is a slooooow transfer... enjoy!

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The Physics Behind Billiards - A Multimedia Guide

Improve your pool game by watching over 100 high speed videos showing the physics behind billiards. Download dozens of detailed PDF instructional files as well.

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Jobs Speaks: Hints Apple Phone - What's Next for Apple

Jobs says he's happy with Apple's part of its first telephony experiment. "There are more phones yet to roll out," he says with a sly smile, adding, "Cingular has been great to work with."

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PirateBay Quake-ifies itself

Apparently the leaked Quake 4 is real and Pirate Bay changed their little ship to honor it. Click the ship it takes you straight to the download!

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Official Windows Vista Build 5231 Screenshots

The latest of build of Microsoft Windows Vista was released to beta testers not long ago. This build carrys a new tag, idx03, that has not been seen in previous builds. Screenshots have just been posted at a tech community. They are definitely worth a look! (Note: These screenshots are OFFICIAL, unlike the ones in the story posted last week.)

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Transparent Aluminum

It appears that transparent aluminum has made the jump from trek fiction to fact.

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How to Guess Someones Password

Techniques based on human habit and keyboard layout to guess a password. Interesting technique.

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The Video iPod: What you need to know

Every time Steve Jobs gets on stage to announce products, there's a flood of information. First, there's what Jobs says. Then, there's what the Apple press releases say. And then there's all the information that Apple doesn't broadcast right away, but trickles out gradually in interviews and on its Web site.

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Tidy up your iTunes mp3 Collection

Got a huge collection gathered from various (legal and illegal!) sources? This guides explains how to fix track tags so they don't show garbage, how to remove duplicates and how to add album art to your tracks (iTunes doesn't do this automatically)

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Windows Media Player 11 on Vista screenshot

the first screenshot of windows media player 11 on windows vista.

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Kevin Rose on Web 2.0 Show Ep4

Kevin talks about a whole heap of stuff about his projects and also web 2.0

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Trojan Pretends to be Skype Update

The Trojan horse, a variant of IRCbot, arrives in an e-mail purporting to be an update to Skype, the popular Internet telephony application. Once opened the malicious software displays a phony installation error message. It then blocks access to security updates and installs a back door on computers, MessageLabs said in a statement.

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Time Mag loves the Mind Blowing Revolution Controller

Time Magazine has listed the Revolution controller as one of five things that will “blow your mind” in an article looking at five of the “coolest things out there”. The selection represents the new wave of technology that will change the way we travel, eat, listen to music, communicate and play in the 21st century.
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IMDb Turns 15

The Planet's Biggest Movie Database celebrates 15 years

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iPod with Wi-Fi in the works.

Apple is working on a wi-fi equipped iPod with networking capabilities and the ability to directly interface with Airport Express base stations for streaming of iPod audio -- and even downloading of music from the iTunes Music Store, grabbing Podcasts, et cetera.

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Free Windows Editors, Compilers, Etc...

This site is a resource for programmers. Here you will find continually updated lists of free tools, including programmers text editors and IDEs, C/C++ compilers, tutorials, debuggers, installers, and other miscellaneous things!

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GIMPShop for Windows - FINALLY!!

Direct Download link: http://www.plasticbugs.com/blogimg/gimpshop_2.2.8_setup.exe I've been waiting for a LONG time for this.

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How Apple Does It

Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world's most innovative company

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Virtual WiFi, Simultaneously Connect to Several WiFi Networks With 1 Card

What would you do with simultaneous access to several WiFi networks?

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EFF Cracks Secret Service Code

Laser printers apply a code to every document that is printed allowing documents to be tracked to their source. EFF has cracked the code so you can see what exactly this info contains.

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Slashdot is losing its edge to digg.com

Digg.com is quickly reaching Slashdot when comparing daily visitors according to Alexa's Traffic Rankings (see link). Slashdot isn�t as cutting edge as it used to be: stories get barely 200 replies. Maybe that CSS update was too little and too late.

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Gaim 2.0.0 in the works, will support Google Talk voice

Gaim developers have provided a status update which says that 2.0.0 "makes drastic changes to huge parts of Gaim---especially status, includes three new protocols, and does a bunch of other amazing stuff." Also Sean Egan, now a Google employee, is "working on making it as easy as possible for other clients to use Google Talk's voice features."

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Why Apple hasn't used Intel processors before

When Steve Jobs announced the plan to move Macs to Intel processors, Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe, joked, �The only question I have, Steve, is what took you so long?� Good question! Here's an extensive article about the circumstances that kept Apple and Intel apart until today.

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Explanation of how the MySpace worm worked

A step-by-step guide by "Samy", the guy who created the MySpace Javascript worm that was featured last week. Includes code samples and explains how he got around the limitations of MySpace's script-stripping engine.

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Project Net Tools - FREE

IP Address Scanner, IP Calculator, IP Converter, Port Listener, Port Scanner, Ping, NetStat, Trace Route (2 ways), TCP/IP Configuration, Online - Offline Checker, Resolve Host &IP, Time Sync, Whois, NetSender, E-mail seeker, Net Pager, Active and Passive port scanner, Spoofer etc..

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Mark Cuban: "Get Your Blogspot Shit Together Google"

"It was exactly two months ago I wrote about problems that Icerocket.com and really, the entire blogosphere was having with Splogs created and maintained on Blogger.com, with a blogspot.com URL. Well the Shit hit the fan today."

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Top 10 Ajax Apps (part1)

Here are 10 badass Ajax Apps

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Apple to Release Photoshop Rival

According to an unconfirmed report, Apple is planning to announce a professional photo retouching application, during the special press event scheduled for October 19th...

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The ultimate eBay search tool

You don't have to suffer EBay's clumsy search tool anymore, this tool will deliver results and nothing else. I implements AJAX and is a great example of a great user interface.

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Hurricane Center Runs out of Names

If one more storm forms, as is likely, 2005 will tie for the record and the last name on the list will be used. Tropical storm Vince became a hurricane Sunday in the far eastern Atlantic. The only name left on this year's list is Wilma, then the National Hurricane Center will switch for the first time to Greek names such Alpha, Beta, and Gamma.

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Bindows�

The leading object-oriented platform for developing AJAX applications. Whether you prefer to strictly follow OOP best practices or use the latest RAD flavour of the month, Bindows� provides you with the tools for developing efficient and flexible Rich Internet Applications.

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The Revolution Begins now! (1up.com)

Great story from 1up.com detailing everything known about the Revolution and what it will mean for the next-gen of gaming.

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Apple Seeds 10.4.3 Intel to Developers

We've received confirmed reports today that Apple has recently seeded OS X 10.4.3 for Intel to ADC members. Overall this update seems to focus on the polish, as opposed to the core of the operating system, which seems to indicate that progress on the final version of OS X for Intel is proceeding well.

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Terragen 2 is coming out soon!

Terragen is open-source program that creates photo-realistic images of terrain and mountains....best thing of all it requires absoluteley no skill either.its available for mac,windows,and I believe linux as well. heres the link for the mac IDE http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/img/screenmacx.jpg

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Car that runs on Air, yes Air!

This car runs on air as the fuel. And you don't have to change the oil for 50,000km. It is one of those little city cars but its cool. They say that it cleans the air as you drive. Now that is really cool.

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µTorrent v1.1.5 released

The new version (v1.1.5) of µTorrent has just been released adding support for proxies, ipfilter.dat, a bunch of fixes and such.

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What to expect after Firefox 1.5 ?

Well..the Mozilla developers are having lots of cool ideas like Javascript 2.0, Python scripting support, tagged bookmarks instead of classic ones using bayesian algorithms and more goodies. Read on.

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