Music Industry Goes After Lyric Sites

"The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics... MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed. Guitar licks and song scores are widely available on the internet but are 'completely illegal', he told the BBC."

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Download Google Earth For Mac OS X!

Ok, so you know there is a beta of Google Earth floating on the net. I'm sure you would love to play with it. Wait no longer my children. A VERY MYSTERIOUS person sent an email to UNEASYsilence's tipline with the download link.

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Upcoming Cinematic effects for the HL2 Source Engine

bit-tech have been to VALVe's offices again and have a really good article up on the upcoming additions to the Source engine - developed for the Day of Defeat mod. Check out some of the videos, this stuff is utterly mind blowing. Motion blur, depth of field, color correction... as if HDR wasn't good enough!

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Free Guitar Lessons for iTunes and your iPod w/ video

iPlayMusic today announced that it will make a series of 35 beginner guitar video lessons available free to iTunes users. All 35 lessons can be downloaded and played in iTunes and on video iPods.

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iTunes Signature Maker

iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration and asks you a few simple questions, iTSM will spend a few minutes analyzing your collection and generating the audio signature.

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More new Gmail features

It's only been about a week since Google introduced Anti-Virus capabilities into Gmail, and now the Googlers are now ready to start offering a few more interesting features that may raise a few eyebrows. Their "What's New" page has changed once again and outlines a few extra features that aren't yet available.

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Best Buy holding 360 shipment for sale? (Insider doc. to prove it!!)

A leaked insider document from Best Buy shows they are stockpiling 360 consoles to go on sale on December 18th. Why do I but from them again???

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Is Freenet the next BitTorrent?

Freenet sounds like the ultimate peer-to-peer system: "Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous."

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Napster's Raunchy New Commercial

Good music...hottie stripping...Surely this didn't air on television. I've read that there is a dirtier one floating around. If you've seen it, post it.

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Huge collection of old propaganda

This website has over 200 propaganda posters from the 20th century. Remember, "If you are giving it up, you are going steady with Hitler!"

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Using Math to Beat the Market

Each new program, Ballard said, is subjected to months of simulated trading before it's used to manage actual money. Ballard won't share how the algorithms work or how much income they've generated over his four-year trading history, except to say they've been profitable.

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auto-lock your computer on start-up

This little tutorial allows your computer to load windows completely on startup and then lock itself, so when you turn your computer on, you can go do whatever and come back and it'll be all ready to go! great timesaver if windows loads slowly for you.

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Nice webdesign showcase Digg sauce

DarkEye is a new breed of living web design showcase. You're in control: you rate, review and submit sites that instantly appear in front of thousands potential users. DarkEye is what you make it so start experimenting today.

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How to Tie Useful Knots

Only know how to tie a knot in a shoelace? Check out these useful knots and follow the simple instructions. Now all I need is a decent rafter and a chair.

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Removing Vocals from Songs

Well written tutorial, on the correct and efficient way of removing voice from any song.

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