November 8, 2005

Coming tonight, NBC Nightly News, online

America's No. 1 newscast streams worldwide after 10 p.m. ET - Starting tonight, "NBC Nightly News" will become the first and only network newscast to be offered free on the Internet in its entirety.

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Neat Firefox Extension (graphical tabs)

This extension lets you view your tabs in a sidebar as a image , it is easier to find the tab your looking for since you can see it. Try it

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Torrent Finder

Best torrent search site, search top torrent sites from one page http://ts.kurtubba.com The Easy Way to Find Torrents

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Shaw Cable secretly limits BitTorrent Bandwidth

Shaw Cable, a Western-Canadian ISP has begun to roll out technology that will limit the bandwidth given to BitTorrent users and P2P alike. Considered I was guaranteed up & down speed as well as "unlimited" Data transfer, I find this a tad ridiculous.

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November 7, 2005

Google Paying for Firefox Installs

Google has updated their Adsense service and now pays publishers for referrals. Google now pays $1 for each Firefox download with the Google Toolbar installed. Sample referral badge can be seen on www.4flight.info .

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Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head

It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.

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Popular Mechanics BREAKTHROUGH AWARDS 2005

Popular Mechanics salutes the innovators who are shaping the worldâ??s future through science and technology--and new products that represent benchmarks of engineering.

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Spider-Man 3 Villain Revealed!

Get a first look at Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko in Spider-Man 3!

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Will weather control become a reality?

Following the recent wave of devastating Atlantic hurricanes that have battered the Gulf Coast and Caribbean, minds at the USAF and elsewhere are thinking of ways to influence the development of these storms, to switch them off, and possibly, turn them on.

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Get a personalized WAV from the guy known for AOL's "You've Got Mail!"

El Edwards, the voice of AOL's "You've Got Mail", is now making money on the internet with his famous voice. You too can have a personalized wav file for your favorite email client that says "You've Got Mail, Bob!".

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Google Video Downloader - Final version

Google Video Downloader - Final version. Get the download link from Google Video (http://video.google.com)

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Video Plug-In for GoogleTalk

GoogleTalk may lack features but with the addition of a video plug-in it starts to look all the more appealing. Festoon developed this plug-in and SEJ does an interesting write about it here.

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Leave yourself a secret note for the year 2025

Forbes.com can lets you create a "e-mail time capsule" that will automatically email you in up to 20 years later. Surprise the you in the future.

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Spread Firefox and Win an Alienware Computer

Mozilla is giving dual-processor, Firefox-skinned Alienware machines (price tag: $4700) to the three developers who extend firefox in ways that are worthy of such raw computing power...

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Family Guy Creator, Seth MacFarlane's 1995 Student Film

This is Seth MacFarlane's student film from 1995, entitled "Life of Larry". The short is full of flashbacks, and scenes which would eventually end up in episodes of "Family Guy". It also allowed for MacFarlane's first break into the industry. The short won a student film award from Hanna-Barbera who eventually hired MacFarlane.

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Changes to Firefox Tabs Coming

former Firefox devleoper and now an employee of Google indicates that Google has been doing some usability testing on tabbed browsing.

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First review of the Halo movie script!

Holy crap, holy crap... Holy crap. First sneak review of the script. Incredibly faithful and incredibly kickass.

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HP Pavilion P4-2.9GHz Desktop w/ 15" LCD = $299

Pentium 4 516 (2.93GHz, 533MHz FSB), 256MB DDR2-400MHz SDRAM (1x256), 40GB 7200 rpm SATA Hard Drive, 48x max. CD-ROM Drive.

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Banned and rejected PlayStation ads

A big collection of PlayStation print ads that were rejected or banned. Some of them are just incredible.

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Real Time 3D Physics Simulator App - Fun!

This is a fun real-time 3d physics simulator created by James Bromley. You can adjust gravity, pan, rotate, and play with atoms and rods. Try it out!

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Sony sued over rootkits.

the Italian group ALCEI is suing Sony over the rootkitting DRM infection. Remember Sony is just protecting you from yourself!

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First iPod-specific torrent tracker

Podtropolis is the first bit torrent tracker that offers content specifically tailored for the iPod. The site boasts "...loads of high quality content for your iPod including movies, television programs, music videos and of course music.

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