New MPEG-4 Standard Established: ALS (Audio Lossless Coding)

"Yesterday, according to the final national body ballot disclosed by ISO/IEC, the specification for this technology was officially approved as the MPEG*1 standard (MPEG-a ALS)."

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Comic books on Itunes

12-Gauge Comics has started putting issues of it's series Body Bags up as a free download on Itunes as a "comicast" with voice actors.

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Windows XP Hidden application Enabler

Enable the hidden applications and utilities inside Windows XP and make them available on the Start menu for easy accessiblity. 43 utilities have been unlocked in this new version of this simple utility.

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Best Open Source Encoder (Xvid, Divx, H264, MPEG-2) - StaxRip

With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format. As a open source application StaxRip is completely free.

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26,084 FREE Legal Public Domain Movies!

This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.

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Illustrator Tutorials

Free Illustrator tutorials with original source .ai file.

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Read Most of O'Reilly's Hacks Books for Free Using Google

Use the Google Book Search to read the O'Reilly's Hacks Series of books (or for a lot of other books, like travel guides) for free.

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Getting to know Wordpress

Wordpress is surely becoming a popular software but there are still a number of things which you might not be aware of but need to know if you intend to use the software soon.

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Digging into the Digg System

Alex Bosworth has a great post investigating the dynamics of the digg.com system. He discovered that the system is "very simple" and made up of five groups of people:

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Programmers' Tools

This site provides a listing of compilers, IDEs, editors, decompilers, debugging tools, books & tutorials for popular programming languages (C, C++, JAVA, Pascal, Basic, ...). Also contains information for Setup tools, EXE compressors anti-cracking protectors and other interesting stuff. A huge site, and seems to be updated quite often.

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Pando - Email Any Size File or Folder For Free

Pando is a tiny app that lets you email any size file or folder to anyone, free.

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Invisible Objects (Photoshop Contest)

Damn, these guys and girls are good!

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"AFTERGLOW" Is this how we will interact with a Future OS?

(Click on the Movie Link) You've got to see this to believe it! A Japanese guy uses a Laser Pointer to interact with the GUI to manipulate elements, bring up the tool bars, draws directly on the screen. Initially a Presentation Application, which may evolve into something more...

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Windows Genuine Advantage Updated; New Workaround Script

In addition to adding Mozilla plugin support, it seems Microsoft removed the chunk of code that accepted a cookie value that bypassed Windows Genuine Advantage requirements, breaking my Trixie/Greasemonkey scripts.

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An end to women's periods

A new contraceptive will soon let women stop menstruating. In 2006, a new oral contraceptive called Anya, developed to "put women in control of when or if they want to menstruate," is expected to hit the Canadian and U.S. markets

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