January 7, 2006

Commodore Returns....as a Handheld??

The classic home computer and gaming brand Commodore is back, in the guise of a handheld device sporting downloadable arcade games. Next-Gen.biz has more details.

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Getting naughty with CSS

So who says that you need to be goody two shoes with CSS? Here are some ways that you can be naughty and nice with the

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The First Look at NewsVine!

If you have missed all the buzz about Newsvine, Newsvine is a news media site that presents news, like what you would see on news sites like MSNBC or CNN, but in a much more attractive interface. Even better, Newsvine is also a community of users that can tag stories, comment on stories, chat with others, write news and add links, and a lot more.

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Google Labs Appitude Test with answers

Do you have what it takes to be a google employee by completing the test? If not, you can always check out the answers :).

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1GB JumpDrive $30; SoundBlaster Live $10

RadioShack is having a deal which will start on 1/9. Some of the items include a 1GB JumpDrive for $30 and also a Creative SoundBlaster Live for $10.

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January 6, 2006

Official Windows Vista Hardware Requirements

Straight from the horses ass.

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10 Amazing Architecture Wonders of the New China

China's current building boom is doing more than sucking up the world's supply of steel, it's creating a stage for some of today's boldest architecture and engineering. Take a tour of the 10 of the most intriguing examples.

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Indian wins $50,000 in PC design contest

Mr. Gates is said to have chosen the design for the inaugural Chairman's Award, because he felt it captured a smart trend and pushed the frontiers of PC design beyond the obvious.

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FREE Typing Test

Another cool site to find what your typing speed is.

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Unattended windows Install

Have you ever wanted a Windows CD that would install Windows by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? And have it merged with the latest Service Pack to save time? and then add all the required hotfixes, updated drivers, registry tweaks without any user interaction whatsoever?

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Worth1000.com Picture of the Day

A gallery of some of the most skillfully photoshopped images. Updated daily (obviously).

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"The Matrix" Freeway and Mythbusters Test Area

Interesting google maps satellite image of the freeway purpose built for the filming of the freeway scene in the Matrix. Also the area is frequently used by the Mythbusters for vehicular related myths.

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Google Maps gets ready for Hi-Res Satellite Images

Google Maps has added two levels of Satellite Image resolution. I haven't found any locations that have these higher resolutions yet, however. The link is to New York, and you'll notice there are two more levels available of resolution. If you zoom in, you will see the message saying there are no images for the resolution.

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Microsoft updates the Windows Vista Homepage

The Windows Vista homepage is been updated and looks a damm sight better then the previous one!

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Free Medical Books

A variety of full text books available online and sorted by specialty. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. This site offers free access to medical books over the Internet.

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Google will sell video online

Tomorrow, Friday Jan 6, Google Inc. will announce that it will let consumers buy video over the Internet from CBS, the NBA and other providers, becoming the latest company to explore the new method of distributing TV content

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Google Pack Announced

Google is putting together a bundle of software, including a google-tweaked version of Firefox (gbrowser?), Acrobat Reader, Symantec Antivirus, AdAware, Trillian, Realplayer, and all of those free google programs everyone loves, like Earth, Talk, Desktop and Picasa. Basically, an Internet starter kit for people who don't like MS.

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New WD Hard Drive Aimed At Modders

Western Digital on Thursday announced the Raptor X hard drive, a new product line geared for the modding community.

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Digg Is In The Top 1,000 Most Trafficked Site On The Internet!

Digg has now surpassed Fark.com, a similar news site which began, several years ago, and is closing in on slashdot! Digg is currently ranked as 970!

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Photos and information on new TiVo Series3 w/ CableCard & HD

New TiVo has external SATA port for easy Hard Drive upgrades. Two CableCard 2.0 slots. Internal NTSC, ATSC and QAM tuners. New TiVo remote with backlight too!

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Dell 3007WFP at $2199

The new Dell 30'' monitor is now for sale at $2199.

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RIAA's Worst Nightmare: Automatic Wireless MP3 Sharing

The Viktoria Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden, is working on a concept they call Push Music, which is software that enables peer-to-peer connections between music players, enabling people to "browse" the music collections of others and take a copy of whatever they like.

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Is It Too Early? (9/11 Movie Trailer)

I bet some people are going to be pretty mad. I personally would...well...nevermind. Just watch the trailer. Looks very..."interesting..."

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January 5, 2006

Travel to Mars in just 3 hours!

AN EXTRAORDINARY "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government.

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Easily Increase Your PC's Speed!

This rough guide gives you a few tips to increase your computers (PC only) speed, through tweaking specific settings! It really works!

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Fark's best Photoshops of 2005

A collection of user's favorite photoshoppings in 2005.

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Windows Vista: The Features

Official Microsoft Vista website provides in-depth look into Windows Vista, including a comprehensive feature list with screenshots. Excellent read.

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Apple accidentally reveals iLife '06 and iWeb(?)

No details but it's on Apple's website. iWeb is speculated to be a WYSIWYG blogging tool but no one knows. Wish they'd thought of a more clever name...

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Microsoft Flight Simulator X Screenshots

Looks like Microsoft is in for a big year. XBOX 360, Windows Vista, HD-DVD, Flight simulator. It's nice to see an american company doing well. I don't care what all you haters think... - flapbreaker

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Xbox vs. Xbox 360 on a real-world TV

Let's face it: despite all the hype about HDTV, the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of viewers are still stuck with a good, old-fashion standard-definition television.

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Microsoft goes after iTunes with Urge

In challenge to iTunes, Microsoft unveils music service and other entertainment plans.

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An amazing voice synthesizer!

Just enter your text, select a language, click play, download the wav and be amazed! Good bye MS Sam!

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Secret RSS Feed for Microsoft Downloads

How to always have the latest information regarding Microsoft's downloads.

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New iPods To Arrive with Wireless

No more wires will be needed to connect your iPod to your car stereo. The patents indicates that this technology will send music and ID3 tags to your car stereo.

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The Unofficial Digg.com IRC Channel

Join other digg users just like yourself for discussion about today's top technology stories and trends on digg.com at The Unofficial Digg IRC Channel. We hope to bring together the community of digg users and create a fixed, permanent place where all of us can discuss all the great stuff on digg. Bookmark it, digg it, chat away, and enjoy.

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Build Your own MMO Game!

Wouldn't it be great if anybody could make there own MMO game of any type or genere with little programming. Well you can Kaneva has a game engine that allows you to build. The engine seems very easy to use and supports all major graphics packages.

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Why you shouldn't trust MySpace

An article on the background of the CEO, president, and ownership of MySpace. Very informative and detailed. A good read. Maybe you'll think twice about signing up.

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Xbox 360 to get HD-Drive CONFIRMED!

Microsoft published a press release confirming the popular rumor. It will be an external drive addon sometime this year!

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XGL Eye Candy: the future of X.org

XGL may get merged into the main X.org soon. It'll bring in lots of cool eyecandy for Linux. Here are some screenshots.

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January 4, 2006

What's better than Blu-Ray or HD-DVD? A Chip Which Plays Both

"Broadcom Corp. could help PC and DVD manufacturers sidestep the choice between two high-definition recording standards with a chip that can decode signals recorded in either format."

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Tom's Hardware Guide for Bios: A-Z

Make Windows XP run faster through BIOS settings. Great for beginners and pros alike.

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Build Your own MMO Game!

Wouldn't it be great if anybody could make there own MMO game of any type or genere with little programming. Well you can Kaneva has a game engine that allows you to build. The engine seems very easy to use and supports all major graphics packages.

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The 'Wow' Signal

"He did some analysis of the data, and by all indications this powerful, narrowband radio signal was from outside of our solar system. But was it sent by an advanced civilization?"

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Extremely Useful "ISO Recorder" Power Toy for Windows

ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder.

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Get around firewalls and blocked websites at school and work

This easy to use *virtual* browser will allow you to bypass firewalls and many other security programs at work and school. It even encrypts your traffic so your network admin does not know what your doing

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Google Earth War

Cool war game using Google Earth. Players generate revenue to fund their armies. You can also start/join alliances and try for world domination. Nice idea and it's improving daily.

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Tom's Hardware Guide for Bios: A-Z

Make Windows XP run faster through BIOS settings. Great for beginners and pros alike.

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Making great PowerPoint presentations - the 10/20/30 rule

An excellent blog from a venture capitalist who details how to create effective slideshows - the right amount of slides, the right length, and the right font size. A must-read for those in the business world.

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AJAX Domain WHOIS

This awesome script quickly finds the whois information about a domain using the powers of Web 2.0. It is up for download and released open source.

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DREAD Weapon System Video

Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind.

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Giving a structure to Blogging

Blogging has been a more or less unstructured activity which flows as desired by the author...here are some suggestions on how you can give structure to blogging.

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Intel Unveils New Brand Identity

From the Intel website, new logo, new branding....(yes, we've heard of it, but this piece of news comes straight from Intel)

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Google map of open webcams

This is a Google map of unprotected/open camera streams obtained from Google searches. The IP addresses for each camera has been mapped to it's Geolocation.

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AllPeers Is The FireFox Killer App

techcrunch's take on the new firefox extension

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Torrent Search Engine Searcher Gets A Makeover

A digg favorite in the past, the Torrent Search Engine Searcher (very nice redundant name) has received a very large makeover. It searches Bit Torrent, BT Junkie, ISO Hunt, Mininova, and The Pirate Bay just to name a few. Worth a spot in the bookmarks bar for sure.

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Holophonic Sound - Audio So Real It's Scary

You've heard the Diggnation demo of surround sound through regular headphones. Just wait until you hear true three-dimensional sound that even lets you hear above and below you!

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Remove Burn-in from LCD Screen's

The Apple way to remove Burn In from Displays, works with almost any Display and yet its so simple

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January 3, 2006

Deals Search Engine

Finally a search engine which caters to the heart of the shopper and looks up deal for the object of your desire site could do with a lot more content though.

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RSS: (Really "Stressful" Syndication)

...RSS can tie people to their chairs in a constant state of hyperventilation and hypomania. Admittedly, those who have never tried RSS cannot know all the gory details I just outlined but we all have an intimately instinctive repulsion for information overload...

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Is Apple Making a Game Console?

What happens when Apple speculation and video game speculation meet: platform wars of biblical proportions! Under speculation here is whether or not Apple has any interest in reentering the console gaming arena with the expected relaunch of their diminutive Mac mini.

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MP3 in surround sound

Fraunhofer has developed a standard for surround sound MP3 that is backward compatible with current MP3 players.

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Cool Ass Watches

Now heres a company that takes watch making to a whole new level of design and innovation.

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Forgot your Windows password? No problem! : Password resetting techniques

A lot of people think that after having lost their Windows admin password, they absolutely have to reinstall their OS. Let me tell you something: They are wrong! This article provides you with needed techniques to get back in your system.

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An Exclusive, Insiders look at the PlayStation 3

"An exclusive, insiders look at the PlayStation 3" heard from the developers themselves...

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iSee: Turn Your iPod Into A Video Recorder...

"Apple's iPod revolutionized the way you to listen to music. The iSee 360 revolutionizes iPod by turning any iPod*, iPod mini or iPod nano into a full-fledged video recorder/player. Simply slide your iPod into the dock on the back of the iSee 360 and see more. Better."

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Disney ABC announce new content for iTunes. [Free + Paid]

Disney ABC announced today that it plans to add a slew of new programming to the iTunes Music Store, such as ESPN, ABC Sports, and Walt Disney Feature Animation.

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Top 20 Webmaster Bookmarks of 2005

Javascript, AJAX, CSS, Design, Search Engines, Web App, Blog, etc. Must read for webmasters.

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Free online file storage and sending

This is an extensive list of online file storage services and/or large file size email sending services. Includes any known restrictions, etc. All are free.

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Send a Robotic voice call to anyone through this website

I'm not sure if this has been on digg but I thought it was pretty cool. Just type in the phone number including area code and then a message. In the license key field put a zero "0" and hit enter. The robot voice will say your message to the call recipient.

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Blog Software Comparison Chart

This chart compares the most popular blog software. It is helpful when you can't decide which blog service you want to use. All the information is in a simple chart. Everyone should check it out before registering for a blog.

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Declassified KGB Report Claims UFOs Real

The alleged "Blue Folder" the KGB kept on UFOs has not only been declassified but the Russian Academy of Sciences considers it a credible phenomenon. Not only that, they are also very interested in further researching the phenomenon further. Does this make Russia the first government to openly acknowledge UFOs as real?

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Hacker's Hall of Fame

This is pretty cool, its a compilation of all the most famous hackers and their stories. Check it out.

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Chat with others visiting the same site

A Firefox extension and service providing a chat area at the bottom of your browser. All users visiting the same site appear in the same chat area.

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Review: Cell Phone Jammer - Drop All Cell Phone Calls 30+ feet around you

Just bought one of these things, expensive but hilarious. It actually works. I love following people around and driving them nuts. Great for the airplane after you land or I just leave it on when at a restaurant.

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Time-lapse video of the four seasons in Norway

For all of 2005 I have been taking a picture out of our living room window at random intervals. Now I have finished a video that runs through one year outside our window. All of it in about one and a half minute.

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EyeBud can turn video iPod into big-screen TV for one

Bellevue-based eMagin Corp. has developed a wearable headset system that plugs into Apple Computer's portable media device and displays video from it in front of one eye, using optical technology designed to give the picture a higher resolution and make it appear larger than on the iPod's screen.

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Xbox 360 hackers cheat at Hexic, make inroads into hacking the 360

The hacking community has beey very busy this weekend.

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Free CSS Tab menus

You don't need to be a Guru to be able to code is CSS...with the large number of free online resources available, life as a designer is quite easy!

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Ten Tools Every Admin Should Have

Are you a system administrator, or work with computers? If so, this article is a must read. Outlining everything an administrator needs to keep things glitch-free.

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Get your very own free (and legal) copy of Enemy Nations

Windward Studios have decided to release the most brilliant strategy game ever. A word of warning: you can get hooked on the thing (I played it for 3 years when it came out and now I'm back on it).

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Jet Powered Human Flight

A skydiver with jet engines strapped to his feets jumped from a balloon. He was the first human to fly a jet without a jet. Here is a video of the event: http://www.bird-man.com/video/rocket_bird_inet.wmv

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PS3 will be "late and full of bugs"

SONY MIGHT BE having a few problems with its forthcoming Playstation 3, which an industry deep throat claims is full of bugs and will not be ready for its March release date.

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20% off at AllOfMP3.com, but is it legal?

$1.50 for a new release sound too reasonable? Any lawyers out there want to shed some light on this for us? At just $0.02/meg music is affordable again.

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iTunes Global File Sharing Network Version 2 Released

Share your iTunes music and download music from other peoples iTunes libraries from around the world. Downloadable demo software for Mac and Windows. Digg this story to help build the network!

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Can You Still Build a PC for Less?

Conventional wisdom once stated that building your own PC was more than just a way to create your perfect computer it was also a lot cheaper than buying a finished system.

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Unreal stabilized JFK assassination video

Incredibly high quality Quicktime stabilized version of the infamous Zapruder assassination footage. Hoax or no? Either way the video is absolutely unreal and a must see. Caution: Extremely graphic.

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Starz to make their movies downloadable

Nice, Lets keep the ball rolling. Come on HBO.

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The Coolest Rooms on the Planet

"When it was time for architect Thomas Roszak to design his own home, he opted for minimalism in everything but technology. With features like flat-panel speakers and remotely controlled, built-in amenities - including motorized blinds, lighting, and indoor-outdoor thermostats - there's nothing to distract from Roszak's free-flowing floor plan."

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A huge virus threat for every Windows PC ever made

Experts believe that this could be the biggest vulnerability that has ever surfaced for Windows PCs. Other than the users themselves.

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Skype Phones

The IPEVO is one neat piece of equipment which helps you get the benefits of skype on a regular hand held phone. Definately worth the $30!

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