February 17, 2006

Digg Adds 'Email This' Feature to all Stories

Cool new feature! I linked to a frontpage story on digg after you click on the "Email This" link. Obviously, you can see this for yourself when clicking on any post, but at least by posting this as a story, people can find out about it thru their feeds (if it makes the frontpage).

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Google finally has an online application

After previously only accepting resumes via email google finally has an online application.

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Transform an Xbox into the ultimate media center (the complete guide)

This step-by-step guide (complete with pictures) that walks you through the steps how to easily soft-mod your Xbox. Don't throw away your old Xbox as it can still be converted into arguably the best media streamer on the market. Follow this guide to turn your virgin Xbox to a pimped out, play-anything-you-throw-at-it media monster.

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Pirates Beware: Microsoft Fights Back

Microsoft's new installation includes invalid product key detection

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Science for Insomniacs - Coast to Coast AM Is No Wack Job

With its strange brew of alien abductees, spirit seekers and scientists, the show keeps night owls glued to their radios in the post-Art Bell era.

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Getting rid of common annoyances in Windows Xp

hate little popups in windows xp, this shows you how to get rid of them

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How To Sanitize Word Documents Before Publishing To A PDF

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has issued guidelines for how to remove extraneous data from Microsoft Word and other documents prior to publishing them as Adobe PDFs.

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AJAX based ad-free CD-cover search engine

This is the absolute best CD cover search engine I've seen so far. Beats FindMyCover and all the others hands down. No ads, beautiful design, AJAX-based and fast. So, forget the other sites and bookmark this beauty.

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MySpace users to get their own cell phones

The social networking site MySpace, hugely successful among teenagers and twenty-somethings, is about to become more ubiquitous with the launch of a cellular service that will let users read and post to the site for free.

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"BLACK" for Xbox leaked onto P2P networks (correct link)

Electronic Arts has suffered a serious blow as it watches the eagerly-anticipated Xbox FPS BLACK leak out across peer-to-peer networks and downloaded by an untold number of home and professional pirates.

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Hack: Build your own wireless music player

Take a $40 wireless router, a $15 USB audio adapter, and a $12 LCD kit and combine them into a wireless music player that hooks up to your stereo and does everything the $200 networked music players do. Awesome!

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Canadians Psiphon to Break Great Firewall of China

"More than fifteen years after the Berlin Wall was shattered with hammers and bulldozers, a Canadian-designed computer program is preparing to break through what activists call the great firewall of China."

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Firefox Has A Built-In Calculator - JavaScript Console.

Mozilla Firefox has a built-in calculator, known as the JavaScript Console. This post describes how to use it.

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Amazon plans to take on iTunes, iPod

The world's largest online retailer also plans to sell its own-branded portable music players and a subscription service that would offer deep discounts and preloaded songs to users of its music players.

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The undertaker is measuring the the Big Four record labels

The epic death march of the music industry has entered the final valley. Here's why hip startup Tunecore is the sign of the end for the RIAA members.

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