January 14, 2006

Pirating Sirius Radio

Sirius Radio is being pirated onto FM frequencies. Surprise surprise!!

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INSANE hi-res textures for Half-Life 2

these textures are amazing! they make the game look just as good as Unreal Tournament 2007. If you have half life 2 this is a must. sample pics are near the middle of the page.

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Jon "DVD" Lech Johansen unveils de-AACS website DeAACS.com

Jon cracked CSS (the DVD drm) and it appears he expects AACS (Advanced Access Content System) to be cracked as well. He notes, AACS does not prevent piracy, "that�s not the primary objective of any DRM system. Anyone who has read the CSS license agreement knows that the primary objective is to control the market for players."

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10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained

A nice summary of common misconceptions of copyright law. The one I wish was true, but isn't, is "If I don't charge for it, it's not a violation."

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All iPod Hacks on one page !

All major iPod hacks in one page ! I felt everyone should have a read of this !

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Price Deathmatch: Apple MacBook Pro vs. Dell Inspiron E1705

A run down of the cost of a MacBook Pro vs. a Dell with the same hardware.

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A look inside the Headquarters of Pixar.

A place where people work in custom designed cottages, and where Steve Jobs proposed a building with one bathroom, to drive foot traffic to a central area all day long.

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LEGO Life Size Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite - 10,000 Bricks!

Nathan Sawaya is a professional LEGO artist and former LEGO Master Model Builder and he spent 3 months constructing a 10,000 piece, life size (6-foot-tall) replica of Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite almost entirely out of dark gray LEGOs.

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15 Tech Concepts You'll Need To Know In 2006

"Scientific and technological breakthroughs can take years to develop, but when they leave the lab and enter the world at large, word spreads quickly. Here's a look at the advances you'll be hearing about in the coming year." Including technologies such as IPTV and Ajax.

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January 13, 2006

Video: 15 minutes with the MacBook Pro

Watch this walkthrough of the MacBook Pro with an Apple Rep. In this exclusive video, watch for: - Real-time performance of various apps - How the breakaway magnetic power plug works - Overview of the Mac�s ports, including Expresscard 34 slot - How the built-in iSight works - How the Apple Remote is Mac-assignable

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Deleted PS3 Comments from Sony Insider

We dont have a controller, there is no network code and there is no box. Its still the size of a normal PC.The poly counts are not really any higher, im not seeing sub surface scattering, im not seeing much HDR lighting. (or they are faking it), I�m not seeing next gen fluid dynamics or object dynamics. When is it coming out? No one knows.

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Top 100 essential downloads

Check out top-100 essential downloads of free software & freeware for Windows XP all in one page..

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The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet

The title sa.....you know the rest.

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Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software

Excellent tutorial on how to pull apart software and modify it

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iPod remote first look (w/pics!) - received it today

It looks like the Apple iPod FM remotes are starting to make their way into customers hands. Here's a forum thread from someone who received their FM remote with a short first look review and some pictures of the remote and its packaging.

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Change the Text on the XP Start Button!

Change Text on XP Start Button For Windows XP Home and Professional Versions

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RFID Cooking

"The pan reads the (RFID) card you show and "tells" the cooktop what to do 16 times a second to perfectly monitor each cooking step and perfectly reproduce the most difficult recipes." Very cool.

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January 12, 2006

More ways To Speed Up Windows XP

Some of these I've never seen before. The first tip which creates a batch file to speed up boot times knocked 20 secs off my boot time!!

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the web developer's handbook

Huge collection of links essential for web developers and designers. You'll find references to accessibility and usability web sites, css galores, web tools, ajax articles and how-to, typography resources and so on...

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Long List of Free Stock Photography Websites

Here is a long list of free stock images directories. These stock photography sites are free, however some require you to cite the Photographer.

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Ten Tips for Easy Motherboard Upgrades

Extremetech's helpful list of motherboard upgrade tips.

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*THEE* Greatest Digital Artwork and Wallpaper Site

This site has a massive collection of wallpapers. Everyone looks spectacular, a must see!

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Department of Homeland Security Video Shows You How To Use Hacking Tools

The January 4, 2006 Dept. of Homeland Security Daily Infrastructure Report Highlighted a free online video and that shows the viewer the exact tools and procedures they need to hack into a person's computer.

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No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go

If you've been counting on being able to run Windows on those new Intel-based Macs, Apple's not about to make it easy for you -- at least not if you're attached to Windows XP.

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10 websites you should know about

10 websites you should defiantly know about.

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Listen to almost any song for FREE

I built a little application that searches through thousands of directories full of music that people have uploaded for use on their blogs... Basically this lets you listen to pretty much any song you can think of. (courtesy of radio.blog users) For the source code, email me at thedtenaciously@gmail.com

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January 11, 2006

VIDEO: TiVo Series 3 First Look

We got some quality hands-on time with the TiVo Series 3, TiVo�s HD-capable DVR. The Series 3 unit has some cool new features, including a single-color, two-line OLED LCD display on the front of the unit that shows you what�s being recorded. We interviewed Bob Poni of TiVo about what we can expect in the Series 3.

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NIKON to discontinue all ANALOG Cameras !!!

I just can't believe it.... Nikon will discontinue all the analog camera line... can this be true ?? The PR comes from Nikon in the UK, but I just can't believe it...

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100 Awesome Findings on Google Maps

A big array of links that show different locations around the US, including government buildings, differnet locations, transportation, bridges and waterways. Very cool!

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Update the look and feel of Windows XP

XPize is a GUI enhancer for Windows XP and above. It replaces most of the non-XP icons, avis and bmps that Microsoft has always overlooked. The installer simply automates the process of replacing resources in critical system files, making your XP's look better.

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WoW Event Crashed 27 Servers

Blizzard shoves more skeletons in the closet. 27 World of Warcraft servers crash, leaving thousands of gamers stuck in their own realms.

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LifeHacker explains multiple subdomains

"Subdomains are a great way to split up different kinds of content - like your default homepage, your blog, and your music collection. To set it up, you have to edit httpd.conf (the Apache configuration file.)"

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January 10, 2006

Unbelievable CGI woman

Modeling in 3dsmax, Low and high-poly sculpting in zbrush, textures in Photoshop and rendered in mentalray. http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=308052

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How to Improve Your Logo

"Logo "touch-up" is one of our most frequent requests. Our final work must be more effective, more visually appealing, and most importantly, recognizable as a revision of the old logo. How do we go about this? I wrote this guide both to offer potential business clients insight into our graphic design process and to help aspiring graphic designers." quote take from the site, i didnt write this :)

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ItsAStart.com - Your Entry Point to the Internet

This site is great as a homepage. You can add all your RSS feeds, local weather, email, stocks, google searches, sticky notes etc. The neat thing about this site is the RSS you and everyone else add are then searchable. You can then add the results of the search as it's own RSS feed.

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50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing

*Constantly* updated list of most powerful extensions for Firefox. All of them grouped into categories: Firefox Tabs, Website Links, File Downloads, Web-page Behavior & Navigation, Privacy / Security, Web Searches, Your Music / Video, Your Email, Your Bookmarks, Other Popular Services.

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Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident

"...This secrecy was threatened in early 1974 when the astronauts on Skylab pointed their camera out the window and took pictures of a facility that did not officially exist. They returned to Earth and their photographs quickly became a headache for NASA, the CIA, and the Department of Defense. That story has never been told before."

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Father of LSD nears the century mark!

Do you think Google will google will do a special graphic for him?

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Top 100 Digg Stories of 2005

See what the top 100 dugg stories of last year were.

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JavaScript + CSS = Nice Picture Display

Nice piece of JavaScript and CSS to display a picture in response to a click on a thumbnail. More attractive than just popping up a window or loading the picture raw in the browser. Instead the whole page is shaded down and the image is loaded in the center of the page.

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It's confirmed ! Half-Life 2: Aftermath Coming April 24

We're currently targeting April 24th for the release of both Aftermath and Platinum.Platinum will include HL2, HL2 DM, CS: Source, DoD: Source, and Aftermath.

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The Most Popular Myths in Science

Chewing gum does not take 7 years to digest, that dog you just kissed has a cleaner mouth than you do, plus much more from LiveScience.com

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A New Year For Google Video [via GoogleBlog]

Official announcement from Google about Google Video's new features. Video Store, Add to Webpage, Download to destkop/PSP/iPod and more...

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Download videos from Youtube, Google Video and iFilm directly !

A really simple website to download all the videos from Youtube, Google Video and iFilm DIRECTLY to your computer. Just type in the video's URL and go! You don't even need any Firefox add-on or follow complicated manual steps. It also explains the easiest way to convert .flv files to other formats with CinemaForge.

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Steve Mallette's Response To The "Digg Controversy"

"Yesterday an unfortunate incident occurred on Digg where a patently false accusation was made against me. Due to its inflammatory nature it was voted �thumbs-up� evidently without much investigation by many digg readers."

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FM Radio Enabled iPod Announced

Apple has announced an add-on remote to enable FM radio reception on the iPod. The iPod can also dispaly Song and station information by utilizing RDS.

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New Product / Gadget show to Debut from Revision3

We are pleased to announce a new partnership in what will likely become a new regularly scheduled show for Revision3 called "InDigital: Your Life in Gear". The first installment will be released tomorrow, January 11th, 2006.

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January 9, 2006

O'Reilly writer Steve Mallett has stolen digg's code

I spent some time researching Steve Mallett's latest creations: iTunesLove.com, 180n.com, and linuxfilter.com. It seems he has copy-and-pasted digg's CSS and HTML directly into his own digg clone sites. Then decided to SPAM O'Reilly sites on digg. Don't worry, I have proof.

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Professional Photography, step by step.

This article has what to do step by step, with examples. You'll learn a lot. This is for everyone who doesn't have $2500 to spend on a camera.

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Have you ever really seen Bill Gates Mad?....2 Scrary examples

Although all the videos clips are cool, you should take a look at 2 particular clips from a compilation of Videos of MS. You can tell that Bill is seething inside. "Stone Silence" is his response of choice...(the timeframes to watch for are: 00.22 to 01.12; and 05:00 to 06:26)

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A peek into movie theater economics

So how do the theaters make their money?

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Over 6500 tutorials on 500 categories

Tutorials for: 3DS MAX, AutoCAD, Blender 3d, Bryce 3d, Cinema 4D, Database, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, Lightwave 3D, Maya, MM Fusion, MS Office, P2P File Sharing, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop(a lot), Premiere, QuarkXpress, CSS, HTML, Web Designing, Web Hosting, Java, PHP, Python, Visual Basic, Visual C, and many more.

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How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes

Overview for anyone interested in getting started with Google Maps. Walks you through step by step signing up with google, adding the code and customizing your new map.

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Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by step

Nice walkthrough/tutorial on making a good CSS page.

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