KINGSTON 1GB COMPACT FLASH MEMORY for $47

Newegg has the Kingston 1GB CF card for $62 - $15 mail-in rebate. Free Fedex shipping.

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Copying Music Legally

Here are some tips to copy music legally and keep the RIAA off your back.

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Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time

Instead of playing my own April Fools Jokes... Here's a great site that shows the top 100 April Fools Jokes/Hoaxes of all time.

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ThinkGeek's Amazing New Products!

I'm sure this doesn't even need mentioning as we're all aware of ThinkGeek's great sense of humor, but don't forget to check out their new products available on this special day. I for one am gonna get me a SkyTag - Green Laser Aircraft Tracker!

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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger build declared gold master

Apple Computer's next-generation operating system, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, is now complete, AppleInsider has learned.

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AMD Unveils Virtualization Platform

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has for the first time disclosed key elements of its Pacifica virtualization technology for x86-based servers, desktops and mobile computers during a company-sponsored eventin Austin, Texas.

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Lifters : Real world antigravity?

This site has some interesting experiments with "antigravity" though your guess is as good as mine if this is actually what it is or not. There are several videos in the 'experiment' links about half way down the page.

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Build your own Hoverboard!

I have wanted one of these things for almost 20 years now (ever since Back to the Future 2). These aren't exactly like the ones in the movie, but its a start!

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Despite the lack of posts, I am still out here

To some speculation, I have not abandoned my dear to my heart tech blog. I have been writing/covering some newsworthy jems for the guys over at Gear Live. A good news and reviews site. On another note, I'm finding more and more that we are all reporting the same stories. All my favorite blogs and sites such as... Engadet, Gizomodo, Kotaku, Joystiq, and the Gawker gang to name a few blogs and I like digg.com for the occasional can't miss site, tip or deal. But now, everytime I find a story that I think is incredible or worth telling, it's already told. Shouted from the rooftop. Someone has already posted it on one of the "Golden Blogs" and it made it's rounds and lo and behold I go to submit it to Digg... and it's already there too. A day in the life. Just ranting... Anyways, blog blah blah. Read more of my editorials at Gear Live

Amazon has a Pre-Order for Apple's OS X Tiger

Amazon has a pre-order page for Apple’s next revision of OS X, 10.4, or ‘Tiger.’ While there’s no release date, the $35 mail-in rebate shows a ‘postmark by’ date of May 31st, so I would expect it to arrive reasonable soon before then. If you’re a Mac user, there’s much to recommend Tiger, from the previews, including system-wide search indexing and upgraded versions of many of the bundled programs.
Amazon lists the features as: - Expected to be available in first half of 2005. - Surf, receive RSS news-feeds, personalize content, and view Web pages in 1 place - Safari RSS consolidates most recent news and info from the Web - iChat AV multi-way video and audio conferencing with a stunning 3D interface - Open and close Dashboard instantly using function key to access Widget mini-applications
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Hypersonic Sound Will Change the Way we Listen Forever

Rarely is an invention so unique, so visceral and so simple that in 15 seconds most people who experience it realize it could alter everyday life. But that's what happens to just about anyone who steps out to the back parking lot of American Technology Corp. (ATC) here for a demonstration of its invention called HyperSonic Sound (HSS). Essentially, HSS for the first time does for sound what the laser did for light — intensely focuses and channels it so it can travel great distances without dispersing. In the demo, a technician points a speaker the size of a cereal box at someone standing 100 yards away. Amid the din of the nearby freeway, the technician plays a recording of ice cubes clinking into a glass. To the listener, the sound comes across as if it were through headphones, totally unlike a sound blaring from a distant speaker over oppressive car noise. Take two steps to the side, out of the sound beam, and you hear nothing at all. Step back in, and there it is again. "I am certain that in time, HSS will be used everywhere," says Dionyssis Angelopoulos of Athens, Greece. He read about HSS, came to San Diego to hear it and went back to his Greek company to build it into commercial sound systems. Though the technology is still years from becoming mainstream, HSS could be used to make laptop speakers that blare music to the person in front of the screen, while no one else could hear it. It could allow a grocery store to play audio advertisements that seem to come from, say, the display of Duracell batteries, yet the ad could be heard only by the shopper in front of the display. An HSS-equipped car could play one CD for the parents up front and another for kids in the back. Neither would hear even a whisper of the others' music. The technology is winning believers from Wal-Mart to McDonald's, Fox television, the Los Angeles Police Department, Procter & Gamble, the U.S. Navy and Cirque de Soleil. It is looking into whether HSS could be used to communicate instructions, midact, from the ground to a trapeze artist without the audience hearing. Companies are experimenting with HSS in TVs, rock concerts, museums, war and airport gates. Imagine hearing only your flight's announcements. In 2002, Popular Science magazine awarded HSS the grand prize for inventions. The Segway personal transporter took second. "It offers huge benefits over your standard speaker systems," says Sony executive Simon Beesley, who is working on HSS in commercial settings, such as stores or restaurants. "The technology is in its infancy, but I am sure it will very quickly expand." As it does, HSS will probably rattle the speaker industry, which has been selling a variation of the same technology for nearly 80 years. The impact could be like that of the jet engine on propeller planes or the PC on the mainframe — a major shift that ushers in an era.
Via USA Today

Toyota New Scion T2B Concept Car

The inside of the new T2B concept car unveiled at last week’s New York Auto Show is half slick, half sci-fi nightmare, featuring a multimedia dashboard that presents information in ticker tape format. It also provides access to movies and games that can be projected onto the rear glass, plus music downloads via the internet.
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Nasa's Deep Impact Comet Crusher Problems

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is on course for a July 4 encounter with comet Tempel 1, but mission officials are trying to determine why one of the probe's telescopes has not focused properly. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP) NASA's comet-slamming Deep Impact spacecraft, which is on scheduled course for a July 4 collision with comet Tempel 1, has a minor glitch with one camera, according to the space agency. After performing a test called "bake-out," a procedure that heats up the instrument to remove moisture, mission managers noticed the High Resolution Instrument (HRI) has not reached perfect focus. NASA has formed a team to investigate. It might be possible to bring the camera into full focus. "This in no way will affect our ability to impact the comet on July 4," Rick Grammier, Deep Impact project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement.

8.7 Magnitude Earthquake in Southeast Asia

"The U.S. Geological Survey raised the magnitude of the earthquake that shook Southeast Asia today to 8.7. There are unconfirmed reports of deaths on the island of Nias, off the Sumatran coast of Indonesia, the U.N. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs said." CNN.com

Walking octopuses discovered

Two little species of Indian Ocean octopus can tuck up six of their arms while running on the other two, US researchers have reported. They can use their other six arms to disguise themselves from predators, either as rolling coconuts or clumps of floating algae, the team at the University of California Berkeley and Universitas Sam Ratulangi in North Sulawesi, Indonesia found. The discovery, published in the journal Science, discredits theories that walking requires hard bones and skeletal muscle, as octopuses have neither. Via Walking octopuses discovered | TECHNOLOGY | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz