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December 7, 2005

Web Only Episodes Of Family Guy Coming Next Year

Sometime next year Fox will start to put out web only episode of Family Guy. They will be distributed through Myspace.com and IGN.com, likely for $1.99. Nothing however was mentioned of iTunes or iPod distribution.

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IGN gets devs to spill MORE Revolution specs, & it could launch at $99

IGN.com delivers more unofficial Revolution speculation from developers... "Developers come forward to reveal new performance details on Nintendo's next-generation console."

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Ebay filled with fake Xbox's

One box seller said his listing was just a joke. "I never (actually) thought people would bid on this, I thought most people that were spending any money on anything would read what they are buying."

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Interesting GUI Gallery

On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones.

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New Sony CD security risk found

Another security risk from a DIFFERENT batch of CDs! IT just never ends for Sony does it?

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New IM worm chats with its intended victims

A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor IMlogic warned Tuesday.

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Hate spam? Fight back!

Eat spammers bandwidth with a updated version of the Lad Vampire! Lad Vampire is a javascript page that repeatedly downloads images from scammers websites. The update includes improved visual indicators of the status of a site, a speed throttle, appends information messages to file names downloaded and saves your downloading stats!

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December 4, 2005

Worn Headers using CSS

Create fancy weathered type for your headers using a variation on known image replacement tricks.

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The Push-Button House

"The Push Button House is exactly that: it starts as a shipping container until a button is pushed, and it turns into a house. Motorized walls unfold like a flower, revealing a fully functionaly house, complete with refined, understated furnishings."

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Learn C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, And More Though Flash Videos

A man named Sean Greasley who is from the UK made quite a few flash video tutorials on how to program. C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic, Direct 3D, SQL, with more on the way. These videos combined with a book will get any novice on their feet.

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Meteor lights up night sky in Australia

A Perth astronomer says a spectacular light show in the sky last night was a meteor. Witnesses say the the sky lit up about 9:00pm AEDT, and the light was followed by a thundering sound that shook buildings. Video can be found at: http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200512/r66292_183334.ram

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Safe hydrogen storage breakthrough: catalyze it from ammonia bound in salt

Danish scientists at the Technical university of Denmark have developed a method to safely and inexpensively store hydrogen in solid form, using sea salt to store ammonia, which is then catalyzed to release hydrogen used to power clean and efficient fuel cells.

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