March 11, 2006

DIY PVR and HDTV Modded Into a 1952 Philips TV Console

Maker writes: "I started out with a 1952 Philips TV console that I picked up for $40 at an estate sale." Check Out The Pictures.

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Worst Web Design Techniques Featured on Web Pages That Suck in 2005

Here are the "winners" of the "Razzies for the Web."

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Geek threat: we'll take you down

Computer technicans are threatening chaos at fast-food outlets, supermarkets, banks and airports unless they get a pay rise.

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Apple officially declares the end of the iMac G5

"With immediate effect, the following product and it's relate configurations are "End of Life" (EOL) and no further orders can be taken," Apple explains.

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HOW TO BYPASS the NEW Microsoft IE ActiveX "Activation" problem (via MSDN)

If you're a web developer who's site uses interactive Flash or Java Applets, you'll want to read this... Just because Microsoft lost the patent suit, doesn't mean you, or your users need to suffer the consequences... Dynamically creating your OBJECT, APPLET, & EMBED tags via JavaScript will bypass Activation Requirement.

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Free Xbox Live Weekend Finally Confirmed

Everyone gets Gold access to Xbox Live for 72 hours for free!

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March 10, 2006

Porn site loses 17 million names, emails and IPs of its users

Seventeen million customers of the online payment service iBill have had their personal information released onto the internet, where it's been bought and sold in a black market.

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GeForce 7900 Drives Down the Cost of Speed

The latest review from ExtremeTech

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Cool Flickr Hack

Try it out! I dare you to find a boring photo. A new site called Flickr Leech allows you to search massive quantities of thumbs all singled out for their "Interestingness." Even a year ago today was interesting.

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Usenet comes under fire for piracy

Usenet has become the newest battleground between the entertainment industry and digital music and movie pirates.

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March 9, 2006

New iTunes Season Pass for TV Shows

In addition to the Daily Show and Colbert Report being added this morning, the iTMS has introduced a new method for purchasing whole seasons of TV shows as they come out (instead of just the last season.)

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Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab

Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

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SED TVs to hit the market in 2007

SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) TVs are the next generation to plasma and LCD and have been in the pipeline for several years. Now, makers Canon and Toshiba are ready to start making them next year. Canon and Toshiba say the introduction of SED next year is as significant as the introduction of CRT 50 years ago.

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Video: Intel's Version of the Origami (very cool!)

Check this video out of Intel's UMPC.

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The $39 Experiment

Tom Locke, decides to mail 100 random companies to ask for free stuff. About 15 out of the 100 sent him stuff, and a few just said 'no'. Interesting experiment.

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Microsoft finally unveils its Origami Project RIGHT NOW!

With powerful processors, big, bright displays, easy input options, and support for the latest connectivity standards, Ultra-Mobile PCs are ready for your life on the go.

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The Most Lifelike Text-to-Speech Applet I have ever heard!

Type in your text and hear it spoken. Very clear and "normal" sounding. Clear the "oddjack" cookie after three entries to do more.

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Liquid Water On Saturns Moons!

NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.

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Comcast to up speeds to 16Mbit down / 1Mbit up

According to a post on Broadbandreports.com, Comcast has begun to rollout speed increases for its gold package to 16Mbit down / 1Mbit up. Finally!

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March 8, 2006

Why Aren't You Using RSS?

A newbie's guide to the wide wonderful world of RSS.

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µTorrent 1.5 released!

This is a big version release for µTorrent, the popular and lightweight BitTorrent client. The major additions are Peer Exchange and Protocol Encryption, in combination with optimizations to download speed and hard disk accesses. changelog: http://www.utorrent.com/download/1.5/utorrent-1.5.txt

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Mollio CSS/HTML Templates

"Mollio is a simple set of html/css templates. The aim was to create a set of page templates that use css for layout as well as some sample basic content which has also had some css applied. It's definitely a work in progress. More sample content and layouts are planned to be added."

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Simple ways to increase your cleverness

Experiments by the BBC Programme 'Get Smarter in a Week' show that making simple changes to your lifestyle can help with memory, decision-making, & confidence, by improving your brain's functioning.

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Free ebooks for your iPod,PDA and PC

Download free ebooks on a huge list of categories ranging from fiction,espionage,pulp,science and games for iPod,PDA and PC...(worth digging)

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33 ways to use your MAC in your HOME THEATER

There's some pretty sick software apps on this list- some I've never seen before. If you're a mac user you gotta check 'em out.

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March 6, 2006

Possibly the fastest way to publish information online

This AJAX based site lets you post any text and then creates a short url for you...without even logging in. And you can choose your own urls too. Quick and neat.

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Mac OS X hacked in less than 30 minutes

Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who in less than 30 minutes won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.

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Rainbow Six Xbox 360 screenshot. WOW

Looks awesome doesnt it

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DNA Computer

Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.

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Package Tracking With Google Maps

I've just published an update to my universal package tracking tool that now enables you to view a map of your package�s progress as it travels across the country in addition to an RSS feed of shipping status.

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