Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Google introduces Reply by Chat

Reply by chat lets you and your contacts discuss an email you've sent or received. If you've enabled the Save chat history option in your account, it also groups your chat history in the same conversation as the message you're chatting about. This way, you can keep all of your communications in context.

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Get your wireless card working in Ubuntu

Simple guide for getting your wireless card working in linux without Ndis or Madwifi

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Red Hat creates social networking site

Red Hat has created a new social networking service called Mugshot. With support for Linux, Windows, and OS X, the platform independent service integrates with a variety of desktop applications and enables users to communicate and share informtaion.

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Ubuntu Dapper Review

"To sum up my experience with Ubuntu's Dapper I will say that it is easily the most impressive Linux distribution I have used to date. The combination of speed, stability, ease of use and the excellant apt-get package manager, makes it the Linux distro to beat."

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GNU grep's new features

If you haven't been paying attention to GNU grep recently, you should be happily surprised by some of the new features and options that have come about with the 2.5 series. They bring it functionality you can't get anywhere else -- including the ability to output only matched patterns (not lines), color output, and new file and directory options.

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Outsourcing and Linux development boom in North America

A new survey of North American software developers has revealed a marked in increase in outsourcing and offshoring as well increased Linux adoption.

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Red Hat goes all out for developers

Big news for customers: No. Big news for open-source developers: yes.

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Nintendo Wii to Launch on November 6th in USA

Exclusive Cubed3 Story: Rumours are gathering at pace as to when the Nintendo Wii will launch. We have been given some exclusive details that seemingly confirm when the Wii will launch in the USA and the rest of the world. More inside...

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Netvibes announce the digg module !

Netvibes introduces a digg module. Go try it !

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McAfee Reveals 'OneCare' Competitor, Falcon

McAfee announced today an all-in-one security subscription service codenamed Falcon. Falcon will contain all major security suite components as well as PC backup and tune-up tools. It's essentially a competitor to Microsoft's Windows OneCare, expected soon, and Symantec's Genesis (also a codename), due out this fall.

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AOL subscriber has mail & $1,595.69 bill!

A broadband subscriber is convinced by an AOL rep to remain with AOL for the low price of $4.95 a month. What he wasn't told was that the $4.95 plan only covered the first three hours of service!

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Phone Number Geolocator

This is a cool little web tool that uses the Google Maps API to plot the location of phone exchanges on a map. Could be useful for finding the general location of an unknown phone number.

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AMD-ATI Merger Looks Likely

Advanced Micro Devices may be looking to buy graphics company ATI Technologies, a move that would benefit the overall graphics industry. "The synergies of this seem consistent with the recent announcements by AMD to significantly increase capacity over the next few-years."

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Why water freezes faster after heating

A common chemical process may explain a bizarre property of water that has been a mystery since the time of Aristotle ¨C how hot water can freeze more quickly than cold.

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Very Cool Javascript : Easily Add Sidenotes To Your Blog

Just by adding this javascript to your blog or website, you can easily add color coded sidenotes to your blog entries. The script does everything. All you need to do is add a single tag to your text. You can also completely style the color, borders and positioning of the sidenotes with CSS. Very cool and simple to use.

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SixApart To Launch Comet, Renamed Vox, on June 1

Apparently "Vox" is a new blogging/social network, by SixApart (the people behind MovableType, Typepad, LJ, etc).

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Gmail Gets Slicker Spell Checker?

Rather than the "Recheck" and "Done" options, Gmail now has a check/resume feature for spellchecking; it also lets you edit individual words in its own input box. Personally, I don't think anything was wrong with the old one.

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Pre-installed Ubuntu GNU/Linux laptops for nice prices

Check them out. They have a computer that looks just like the mac mini called the Koalla. Lowest laptops start at $900. Oh yeah and SOFTWARE MODEM ACTUALLY WORKS WITH OPEN SOURCE DRIVERS

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Scan to PDF in Ubuntu, Search with Beagle.

A graphical front end bash script that allows you to scan to PDF in Ubuntu. It also allows you to add meta data, that is indexed by beagle's search engine.

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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition to Include Certified LAMP Stack

The Server Edition of the June 1st 2006 release of Ubuntu will include a mechanism to set up a standardised, certified and supported LAMP server with a single command. The feature reduces the setup time for companies providing hosted LAMP services as well as making it easier for organisations to set up and maintain their own LAMP server

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Making procrastination work - a great life mod!

A Stanford Philosophy professor has developed a method for turning procrastination into productivity. "Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing..."

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New York City in 2016 (with pictures)

NYC's population will grow by one million people in the next decade. This in-depth article shows the ways the city will transform. "Green" buildings, neighborhoods redefined, and some fantastic new architecture. "A new city, built on top of the city we know. In ten years, New York City will be transformed in ways we can only guess at."

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Here's A Twist: Workers In India Fear Outsourcing

What-comes-around-goes-around: According to India's Economic Times, Indian workers employed by the country's reserve bank this week held demonstrations to protest possible plans by the bank to outsource some routine jobs to the private sector.

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How To Stay in Touch While Traveling Abroad

Helpful article on figuring out the coverage of your cellphone all over the world.

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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

The Most Important Exercise Tip

They lack six-pack abs. They could lose a few. Yet they're happy, body and soul. How are such people possible in body-centric America?

They exercise. They work out. It's part of their routine. Maybe not as often as they would like or think they should, but they do something.

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Amazing new Zelda Twilight Princess Screenshots

Apparently running on Gamecube, these show off the spectacular looking new Zelda game. A better look at the Twilight Realm and more!

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Nintendo Puts $250 Price Tag on Wii OFFICIAL

The price, $250, is half the cost of Sony's $499 PlayStation 3 console and considerably less than Microsoft's top-end Xbox 360 that sells for about $400.

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Stay Awake and Alert for DAYS on End

Eye-opening stimulant Provigil is today's wake-up drug of choice, but the experimental compound CX717 may help the bleary stay awake, and productive, for days -- yes, DAYS -- on end.

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An easy how to - Make your own DVD on Linux with Tovid

Sure, you've been able to do this by fiddling around with arcane stuff for ages. But now it's EASY. Tovid is the tool to use. There is a GUI, the command line options are so straightforward, though, that it is worth getting familiar with them.

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A Very Economical Personal Organiser! (Free)

The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDAs are too expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. With the PocketMod, you can carry around the days notes, keep them organized in any way you wish.

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India's answer to The Lord of the Rings.

An initiative of filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, New Age guru Deepak Chopra, and Sir Richard Branson.

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Snapshot of the embedded Linux market

Not content to dominate the webserver market, Linux has lately been going after consumer gadgets and devices, including mobile phones. The latest embedded Linux market snapshot offers insight into its strengths, weaknesses, and developer concerns.

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Linux Computing at MIT

MIT has a thriving Linux community. Their support groups are efficient and encouraging. And they satisfy the needs of specialized research oriented applications with Athena. They are a model of how a university-sized Linux user community, can be managed.

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Novell hastens driver updates

Linux giant Novell is to speed up the development and distribution of new and updated device drivers for its Suse Linux Enterprise products.

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Gartner: DB Market up 8% (Linux up 84%)

Linux grew the fastest of all the RDBMS platforms (84 percent), driven primarily by Oracle, and the maturation and user acceptance of the Linux platform as a mission-critical DBMS platform.

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Linux Ubuntu Drapper Dreake (download)

It's already out the new realease of Drapper Drake 6.06 Ubuntu. Click link to go to download page.

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Sun teams with Ubuntu on datacenter servers

On May 30, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Canonical Ltd. announced that the upcoming release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), aka Dapper Drake, will be supporting the UltraSPARC T1 processor on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers.

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An easy how to - Make your own DVD on Linux with Tovid

Sure, you've been able to do this by fiddling around with arcane stuff for ages. But now it's EASY. Tovid is the tool to use. There is a GUI, the command line options are so straightforward, though, that it is worth getting familiar with them.

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Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced

After oodles of entries, most of which were featured on digg, the Slashdot redesign winner has been announced.

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Clone your hard drive with open source software

This document serves as a guide for cloning your hard drive using 'dd' and 'netcat'. If you've ever used Ghost before, then you understand the general concept.

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The Vista/SUSE smackdown!

As unbelievable as it might seem, OpenSUSE actually seems to support more hardware than Vista does at this stage in its development. Linux having more hardware support than Windows -- who says we don't live in a time of miracles?!

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Track the US congress and your representatives

This site has been mentioned on numerous media outlets but still, most people aren't aware of it. People need to learn their rights.. another site is http://flexyourrights.org

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The Evolution of Honda's Asimo Robot 1986-2006

Looking at the progress Honda's made in robotics the last 20 years makes you wonder what robots will be like in the next 20 years.

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How Big Is Your Console?

For all those size queens out there, here are the dimensions for all current consoles. The 360, PS3, Xbox, PS2, PS2 slim, GameCube, Wii and Mac Mini (?) all put in facetime. Conclusions? The waffle iron isn't that big, and the Wii could fit in a large man's pocket. Hit the jump for the measured machines.

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Meet New (Random) Friends at Fo.rtuito.us

When you register at Fo.rtuito.us it randomly introduces you to another member. You have four days to interact with that member via anonymous email to see if you can become friends. If after those four days both people decide they would like to stay friends, they are added to your permanent friends list. You are then introduced to another person.

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US Marshals Switching to Red Hat Linux

The U.S. Marshals Service is switching the databases at all 94 of its district offices in the United States and its territories to Red Hat.

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Judge used Wikipedia as a Source to Blast Steve Jobs over Blogger Case

Judge Rushing cites Wikipedia as a source, a mistake which earns students an 'F' grade today. He talks about the need to disregard economics and sociology in favor of a "memetic marketplace", and allows himself some flights of technological rapture

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AMD to invest $2.5 billion in German factories

Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 maker of microchips for personal computers, said on Monday it will spend an additional $2.5 billion to upgrade and expand its two factories in Germany.

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Newly revealed da Vinci Sketches, Hidden by Monks for 500 Years

Sketches hidden beneath one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works have been revealed to the public for the first time after scientists discovered the provocative images under a thick layer of paint

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Software to Look for Experts Among Your Friends

For anyone who has hesitated before making a purchase on a Web site, uncertain which brand is preferable, Tacit Software is preparing to introduce an online service that will make it simple to pick the brains of friends and colleagues for opinions and expertise.

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Monday, May 29, 2006

Video: Master Google Calendar

Video that shows you all you need to know to start using gCal for all your scheduling needs.

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747 cargo plane drops 20,5000 gallons of water (with pics)

"The Tallahassee Regional Airport runway was the site of a demonstration Thursday of the latest in aviation fire fighting tools: a 747 supertanker.
The converted 747 cargo plane dropped 20,5000 gallons of water, while flying 180 mph at an altitude of 500 feet."

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Gmail Code Update: Gmail to Get Prices

The piece of code that really caught my attention though was the line directly below these that says "Get prices". When Gmail detects a product within an email, I'm guessing it will soon display a link on the right that takes you to a Froogle result page for that item.

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Yes, Virginia, there will be a Flash Player 9 for Linux

Emmy Huang, Product Manager for Flash Player at Adobe, announced the Adobe is developing Flash player 9 for Linux. First heard about this in the Ubuntu forums in this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=182445 : )

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Why American College Students Hate Science

Science education faces two serious problems. The first is that too few Americans perform at the highest level in science, compared with our competitors abroad. The second problem is that large numbers of aspiring science majors are turned off by unimaginative teaching and migrate to other disciplines before graduating.

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Google Trends useful for investing -- and everything else

A trip through the new Google Trends feature shows it can prove to be a valuable and fun tool for investors to find out what's hot -- Digg for example, iPods, and Stephen Colbert -- and what's not. It also puts a new type of horserace into politics, although Hilary Duff puts a whupping onto Hillary Clinton...

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New! : My USA TODAY Tech (BETA)

USA Today's new tech page in Beta, check it out tell us what you think.

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Google Notebook Helps Your Rankings?

An article that looks at the possibility of public bookmarking acting as a help to your rankings.

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Google predicts India will be largest net mkt

Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has predicted that India and not China will become the world's biggest Internet market in "about five or ten years from now, based on current trends."

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Is it Still Possible to Find Pirates Gold?

There's still plenty of Pirate Gold to be found! Even if you don't find it, you'll at least have a good time poking around some of the most exotic, untouched places left on the planet.

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One-Third of U.S. Adults Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic

73 million Americans have diabetes or are on their way to getting it. Scary!

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Robert Newman History of oil

A complete google video of the tv show where, Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil center stage as the cause of all commotion. A funny, insightful and scary piece of work.

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Google Checkout: PayPal Killer?

Google Checkout is in the making. Garret thinks it is a free shopping cart that lets website owners accept payment and track sales through Google Analytics.

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Google BlogSearch Allows Custom Back Link Checking

you can check how many Blogs are linking to any site - for any given period of time....TRY IT!!!

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Google + MasterCard = Priceless?

On the heels of googlecheckout.com comes another Google domain registration (googlemastercard.com) -- which just happens to coincide with the nation's biggest IPO since 2004. Watch for a major Google/MasterCard deal, that would enable Google to cash in on some of the MasterCard IPO mojo.

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X-Men 3 earns $107 mil in fourth-biggest opening weekend

X-Men: The Last Stand takes in a startling amount in its first weekend, including $45.5 mil on Friday, the second-biggest opening day in history.

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How Picasa for Linux came to be

"For the curious, here are a few tidbits about how it came to be."

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How to build a Linux router - Part 1

If your router is slow, resetting, or stopping internet access when you're doing torrents or downloading from other P2P sources, the router you will make from this guide will take care of all your problems. Part 1 of this guide shows you how to install Fedora Core 4 as the operating system.

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Most Popular Word on digg.com - 3,420,000 times

What is the most frequently used word on Digg.com? I didn't try everything, see if you can beat it.

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Google Hack #2

This new hack allows you to customize Google.

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Google GAPMinder

I don't know where it came from -- it's awesome!

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Cool 30sec Video of Wii gesture-drumming with WiiMote

Impressive Wii drum demo that shows just what the Wiimote is capable of

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A different kind of Wal-Mart SuperCenter

Wal-Mart has a "secret" 460-terabyte capacity datacenter nestled in nowhere Missouri, just up the road from its Bentonville, AR headquarters.

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Australian search engine 'wows' Google

Rob Pike, a senior Google engineer, tells how he was amazed by an Australian search engine tool developed by 26-year-old student Ori Allon. Pike says he sees a lot of demos of systems at universities, but "this is the first time I've walked out and said: 'Wow! We should buy this stuff'. So it's pretty unique."

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Ubuntu Release June 1st

Information on the upcoming Ubuntu Dapper release on June 1st, and the server release.

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Google Earth coming to Linux

Just after Picasa was released we find out they are also working on Google Earth for Linux also. (info is under "Picasa Port to Linux" section)

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Australian search engine 'wows' Google

Rob Pike, a senior Google engineer, tells how he was amazed by an Australian search engine tool developed by 26-year-old student Ori Allon. Pike says he sees a lot of demos of systems at universities, but "this is the first time I've walked out and said: 'Wow! We should buy this stuff'. So it's pretty unique."

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How to Make Great Photographs

"Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology." Ken Rockwell.

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A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C

A well-written and comprehensive introduction to pointers and arrays.

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The Coolest Solar Eclipse Photo You Will Ever See...

I dare you to find one cooler....

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DuggMirror Greasemonkey Script

The Digg Effect is a cruel thing. Install this script and you'll see an automatic mirror link to the story in below the description, powered by DuggMirror. Broken links begone!

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New book scanning device scans at up to 1,800 pages per hour

A new device from Atiz Innovation will scan books at up to 1,800 pages per hour. This would be extremely useful for libraries and companies seeking to put out of print books online.

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Why Redmond feels so threatened by the OpenDocument format

How strange that so much ink has been devoted in the past few months to the OpenDocument format. Various open source office productivity suites have incorporated code that allows them to save and load ODF documents. But nearly every application ever written saves and loads data in some file format or another. Why all the fuss about this one?

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Wells Fargo Introduces Envelope-Free ATM Deposit System...

In a bid to make it even easier to separate you from your money, Wells Fargo is converting 400 of it's Bay Area ATMs using digital imaging technology. This will eliminate deposit envelopes...

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Super Mario DS Sells 480,000 Units In Japan on Day 1

Super Mario Bros. managed to sell through 480,000 units in it's first day, making it the fastest selling DS title ever.

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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Free Photos for Your Web Site or Blog

Sick to death of the rotten stick figures that come with PowerPoint? Want to punch up your presentations, your blog, your Web site? Getting ready to shell out money for custom or stock photography? Don't.

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The most amazing storm pictures you will ever see

Absolutely amazing pictures from a storm chaser in Nebraska.

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What If You Could See Airline Pricing Algorithms?

Price transparency is good for the consumer, and the mere fact that a site like Farecast even gets any buzz is symptomatic of the frustration that consumers feel for the whole ticket buying process.

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Ubuntu for your grandmother.

They say its for geeks, they say its for nerds, they say its for those whose pinkie finger has the imprint of the enter key tattooed on it. We say its for your grandmother ! An article about how to install and configure UBUNTU linux so our grandmother could use it.

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AMD aims to take 15% of notebook market this year

AMD aims to see 12 million notebooks use its CPUs this year, or 15% of the global notebook market, according to industry sources. I am not sure why people buy Intel.

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Google Releases Picasa For Linux

Goggle is further embracing the open-source community by developing one of their most popular applications, the Picasa picture organizer, for the Linux platform. Way to go Google!

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KDE founder Trolltech files for IPO

Trolltech, the company whose founders created KDE, the most popular graphical Linux application environment, has filed an application with the Oslow Stock Exchange for an initial public offering (IPO).

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Underwater Volcano Erupts (video)

New videos show the first ever observations of deep submarine volcanic eruptions. Most of the Earth's volcanic activity happens underwater, anywhere from the surface all the way down to depths greater than 2.5 miles. However, this underwater activity has rarely been seen directly.

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Wii will cost less than $220

The player won't cost more than 25,000 yen, said Yoshihiro Mori, Nintendo's senior managing director, at a news conference in Osaka. The company expects to ship 6 million Wii consoles this fiscal year, and about 17 million software games for the device.

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Wii Mote May include microphone, VoIP Support

Nintendo has hinted that there are still Wii functions that have yet to be revealed. One of the latest rumors suggests that one of these functions is built-in microphone support. Throwing in VoIP support would be another incentive for the non gamers out there.

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Windows Live Local Beta Nothing To Get Excited About

Microsoft rolls out a beta mapping tool to great fanfare. But is it really all sizzle and no steak?

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Scientists to Test a Fourth Dimension of Space

Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

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Fusion reactor work gets go-ahead

Seven international parties involved in an experimental nuclear fusion reactor project have initialled a 10bn-euro (£6.8bn) agreement on the plan.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) will be the most expensive joint scientific project after the International Space Station.

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House panel votes for Net neutrality

By a 20-13 vote Thursday that partially followed party lines, the House Judiciary Committee OKed a bill that would require broadband providers to abide by strict Net neutrality principles.

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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate is Out

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Release Candidate for version 6.06 LTS of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu - codenamed "Dapper Drake". We consider this release candidate complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user.

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The Brain Holds the Keys to Unlock 'Lost' Memories

People may permanently store memories in their brains, even if they cannot consciously recall them, according to a study by Duke University Medical Center researchers.

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Smart sites to power semantic web

Much of the talk at the 2006 World Wide Web conference has been about the technologies behind the so-called "semantic web". Phrases like "increased intelligence", "next generation" and "bringing meaning to the web" are being bandied around by researchers, exhibitors and delegates alike.

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Google Calendar Gaining Traction - 0.001% and Climbing!

\"While Google Calendar is still only 0.01% of visits to the top 20 Google Properties, as Bill wrote last week, I noticed an uptick in traffic and decided to see how it\'s been faring since it was launched in mid-April.\"

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Salesforce CEO wants you to dump Microsoft for Google Hosted email

Salesforce CEO wants you to dump Microsoft for Google Hosted email

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World Fire Maps Now Available Online in Near-Real Time

For a decade now, ESA satellites have been continuously surveying fires burning across the Earth\'s surface. Worldwide fire maps based on this data are now available to users online in near real time through ESA\'s ATSR World Fire Atlas.

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Mozilla CEO: Why we\'re still shunned by corporate IT

\"Enterprises have intranets that only work with (Microsoft\'s) IE,\" Baker (Mozilla CEO) said. \"We can\'t fix their intranet

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Europe: No patents for software

The Commission said last week that computer programs will be excluded from patentability in the upcoming Community Patent legislation and that the European Patent Office will be bound by this law.

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New Linux Debugger Runs Programs in Reverse

Bidirectional debuggers are much more powerful than their traditional counterparts, which only allow programmers to step their programs forwards in time. This is particularly true for bugs whose root cause occurs long before the ill effects manifest themselves, and for bugs that occur only intermittently.

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Google: Resistance is Futile

The dominance of the collective: the whole point of Gates\' Personal Computing 1.0 was to free users from having to rely on big systems, which monitored your usage and limited what you could do. Google\'s vision, however, has always been about the benefits of collective computing.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

AMD Updates Desktop CPU Architecture

AMD on Tuesday unveiled desktop chips based on its AM2 socket, setting the stage for future products based on a new architecture.

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DS Lite trumps Xbox 360\'s trade-in value in Japan

According to Xbox Circle, a DS Lite nets a 18,000Â¥ (about $160) trade-in value at Enterking, a Japanese gaming retail chain. That\'s about $10 more than its MSRP (16,800Â¥) and roughly $25 more than the trade-in value of an Xbox 360, which Enterking lists at 15,000Â¥ (about $135).

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Wii\'s World Wide Web

Nintendo and Opera team up to take Wii users to the Internet. Learn how it\'s all going to work in this exclusive interview.

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New \"Unbreakable\" Wine Glass Introduced

An \'unbreakable\' wine glass made of a new material called Kwarx has been launched at Vinexpo in Hong Kong. Kwarx glass is handblown crystal and is supposed to retain lustre and transparency as well as being unbreakable.

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Google Summer of Code results are in! Drupal\'s 14 exciting projects

An XUL administration interface, AJAX forms creator, integration with the latest GData protocol and a Social Network Analysis tool are all on the roster of sponsored projects for the 2006 Summer of Code program. Thanks to Google for guaranteeing that 2006 will be the most exciting summer for Drupal - EVER!

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The Geek Who Took On Microsoft

Peter Quinn, The mild-mannered CIO of Massachusetts sparked a standards debate when he made it policy that state workers use open-standard formats.

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Ballmer Hints at Possible Further Vista Delay!

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has played down the recent slide in the software giant\'s share price but hinted at a possible further delay to the release of its new operating system.

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Technorati Teams With The Associated Press

Technorati and the Associated Press this morning initiated a service to connect bloggers to more than 440 AP member newspapers nationwide.

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How-To: Build yourself a front projection home theater

\"In today\'s How-To we get to play with other people\'s toys. We upgraded a home theater to a high definition front projection system. We lay it out, set it up, drill holes, nearly die in a Texas attic, and bring home the popcorn.\"

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Is Windows On a Mac Really Drawing in New Users

Yes. Check it out.

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A car that automatically slows you down

Vehicles in London could soon be fitted with technology that would automatically slow them down if they break the speed limit.

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Steal It! Ruby Code & Style

There\'s a whole world of language features that we sometimes miss out on as Rubyists, such as pattern matching, S-expressions, and external domain-specific languages. But the good news is that we can have them, too, as long as we\'re not afraid to steal a few things first.

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Microsoft Struggles to Improve Worker Morale

Microsoft has been taking action to improve its reportedly low employee morale, unveiling a series of new perks as part of a program dubbed \"MyMicrosoft\" at an all-employee meeting May 18. This comes on the heels of a Reuters report that 1,000 Microsoft contract workers were forced to take a week off without pay.

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The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time

Richard Stallman blasts the recent Sun PR move which makes Java available for inclusion on \"open source platforms,\" claiming that it is a deceptive and self-serving move which makes Java neither free software nor open source.

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PS3 WILL play used or borrowed games.

SCEE PR manger Jennie Kong blasted the rumor as \" false speculation.\" \"PlayStation 3 software will not be copy protected to a single machine but will be playable on any PlayStation 3 console,\" she told the Guardian.

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101 of the Top Free Software Utilities to use

Here is a list of the 101 top free utilities to use sorted by category-u can also sort them alphabetically if u wish-obviously 7-Zip is the best archive app

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Google users promised artificial intelligence

A search engine that knows exactly what you are looking for, that can understand the question you are asking even better than you do, and find exactly the right information for you, instantly - that was the future predicted by Google yesterday.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

How much sleep do we really need? the 8 hour myth

The eight-hours mantra has no more scientific basis than the tooth fairy, says Neil Stanley, head of sleep research at the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit at the University of Surrey in Britain. He believes that everyone has their own individual sleep needs which can be anywhere between three and 11 hours.

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New Mario Is Best DS Game Ever

When it comes to the Nintendo DS, does it get any better than nostalgic charm and tight, challenging, old-school gameplay?

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Egypt to excavate Roman city submerged in sea

The Egyptian authorities have given the go ahead for the underwater exploration of what appears to be a Roman city submerged in the Mediterranean, Egypt\'s top archaeologist said on Monday.

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Index of 500 Full Length Cartoons on YouTube

There\'s no garbage clips to weed through, just 500 full length cartoons organized alphabetically: Futurama, JLU, Thundercats, The Snorks, Super Mario, Transformers, X-Men, and more.

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Research Suggests Multiple \'Body Clocks\'

Research conducted at Oregon Health & Science University suggests that contrary to popular belief, the body has more than one \"body clock.\" Researchers at OHSU\'s Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) have now revealed the existence of a secondary clock-like mechanism associated with the adrenal gland.

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New AMD AM2 Socket CPUs Tested @ [H] Enthusiast

Even though AMD is today introducing a new processor, we are actually not getting a new processor at all. [H] Enthusiast gives the information you need to know about the AMD\'s new socket AM2 CPUs.

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Retailers Gather Data the Same Way Spies Do

\'Data mining\' provides valuable clues to customers\' spending habits.

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Racing at 6,786 miles per gallon (w/ pics)

The winners of the marathon weren\'t the fastest but the most fuel efficient. Teams had to use the least amount of fuel after completing seven laps of the Nogaro Circuit in southwest France. The first 27 teams broke the 1,000-kilometer-per-liter (2,825-mile-per-gallon) barrier, according to officials.

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Hot, spicy, and working hard to satisfy Debian users

The 7th annual Debian Developers Conference (DebConf6) brought close to 300 Debian developers, package maintainers, and other interested parties to Mexico\'s government-owned Oaxtepec Vacational Center last week.

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X-Men: Last Stand Post-Credits Scene?

At the theater this weekend, when the credits roll, when the audiences begins to filter out of the exits... keep your seat. And then, perhaps, share this little secret with a few of your friends: the movie isn\'t over.

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Google to Distribute Online Video Adsense Ads

ADSENSE Goes Video

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Opera 9 Beta 2

Opera 9 Beta 2 is now ready for download. Take a peek at what\'s to come to the world of Web Browsers. With integrated torrent support, widgets, content blocking, thumbnail preview, customized search and improved standards support, browsing hasn\'t looked so good.

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Flickr group: Soviet Union Propaganda

an extensive collection (25 pages) of Soviet Union propaganda and advertisement posters from 1917 to 1991. Flickr, once again, turns out to be an interesting resource.

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Father of the Web Calls for Net Neutrality

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has called for clear separation between Internet access and Internet content.

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FULL Mammoth skeleton found in Siberia!

Fishermen in Siberia have discovered the complete skeleton of a mammoth - a find which Russian experts have described as very rare.

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HOT: First Athlon 64 5000+ Socket AM2 Review

Review of Athlon 64 5000+, one of the first AMD CPUs supporting DDR2 memories and based on the new AM2 socket. Check it out!

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The Truth about global warming- It\'s the sun\'s fault

An astrophysicist friend of mind told me some time ago that SUV\'s and smog producing factories couldn\'t be to blame for global warming because Mars was warming at nearly the same rate. Maybe we should blame the sun that is currently hotter and brighter than its been in 1000 years.

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Banshee - the Linux Native iTunes

Want a media player that works like iTunes - including being able to sync with your iPod. And you want it on Linux? No problem. Banshee is here.

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First Photos of MIT\'s $100 Laptop

The photos in the Flickr set are the first available pictures of the working prototype of the $100 laptop from MIT.

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New Linux nVidia Driver Release 1.0-8762

nVidia\'s out with another Linux driver release. This one\'s got a few good fixes including one for the GeForce 6200 memory reporting. Get \'em while they\'re hot!

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Ironcically, Apple Mac mini is my most \'Vista Ready\' PC

Ironically, the machine that was in the best shape for Vista, at least according to the tool, was a loaned Apple Mac Mini with 1GB of memory. That system was Aero-ready, according to the tool, as long as I devoted more of the system\'s modest hard drive over to the Windows partition

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How to convert TV Series DVDs to DivX/XviD with ease using free software

Nice guide including folder structures. This is not the same as converting straight forward DVDs, but is tailored for TV series based DVDs.

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How a New Zealand actor took revenge on Amazon.com

One of world\'s largest online retailers, Amazon.com, might yet live to rue the day it took an order from New Zealand actor Peter Calveley. The 35-year-old has successfully - and single-handedly - lobbied the US Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine what many regard as the internet\'s most famous patent.

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Peter Moore talks PS3 Price, Xbox Portable Rumors, Admits He Wants a Wii

Peter Moore recently led an intimate round-table discussion where a few select journalists were able to pluck his brain on current industry issues: PS3\'s price announcement, HD-DVD add-on for Xbox 360, downplaying rumors surrounding a portable Xbox, and actually admits he would like a Wii!

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Implantable Retinas Come Alive

An advance in triggering individual retinal cells could one day lead to implanted artificial retinas for treating blindness.

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US Government Finally Considers Changing Patent System!

In the wake of high-profile lawsuits involving BlackBerry and eBay, Congress is once again talking about fixing what the technology industry says is a thoroughly broken patent system.

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Monday, May 22, 2006

Paranoid? Overwrite Data 35 Times With This Open Source Program

If you\'ve ever downloaded something on purpose or by accident you don\'t want anyone to ever get a hold of, this program is for you. Eraser is an open source data destruction program that uses the Gutmann Method of throwing on 8 passes of random data and another 27 predefined patterns to foil recovery experts.

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Issue 12 of Free Software Magazine is out

Another great issue with 10 articles on various aspects of free software. It\'s available in HTML and PDF download... for free!

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Modifying a Laptop BIOS for Fun and Profit

In today\'s hack, we will analyze and modify a laptop BIOS image for fun and profit. Note that this is stupidly dangerous: a bad flash and we\'ll end up with a doorstop, or we\'ll have to remove the chip and reflash it manually. But in either case, the outcome can be fun.

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The Future of the Internet: Yahoo\'s Big Bets for the Next 5 Years

This is a pdf link to a slide-show used in Yahoo\'s recent Analyst\'s day last week. There is some GREAT information in this presentation regarding where they see the Internet heading... in addition to some interesting analysis on their role within that future.

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3D Desktop on steroids: SUSE Linux 10.1

Mad Penguin is running a review on SUSE Linux 10.1, and includes info on the latest XGL/Compiz 3D desktop running on the popular distribution. Screenshots are included, as well as a Flash animation of the installer. Info on setting up multimedia support is included also. A good read.

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Star Wars In 3D

According to this George Lucas is sold on the idea of re-releasing Episode I in 3D with new technology.

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Amazing Pics of China\'s new 600+ foot dam

China\'s controversial Three Gorges Dam project hits a significant milestone on Saturday, when it is expected to reach its final height of 185m (607 feet). Here are some amazing pictures from the BBC

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Installing and using Linux for the total newbie

So you\'ve heard about Linux and you want to try it out, but you\'re scared you may screw up Windows or that it\'s too hard to install. Well fear no longer, here is a guide for the total newbie.

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Mirror Your Web Site With rsync

This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror.

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OS X & XP running side-by-side using dual-display and Parallels (VIDEO)

This is better then fast OS switching since you can use both OS\'s at the same time using dual-display.

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Newsweek: Nintendo\'s Remarkable Comeback

\"The Wii\'s strong showing at the 2006 expo earlier this month, combined with Sony\'s announcement of two PS3 models for the mind-blowingly high prices of $499 and $599, has prompted many of the same analysts who dismissed Nintendo to predict its continued resurgence,\" reports Newsweek.

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HOWTO: Secure Firefox/IM/email from anywhere with PuTTY

Quick, step-by-step HOWTO to set up secure, encrypted tunnels for web browsing, instant messaging, and email from anywhere. No need to set up a VPN. Great for working from hotels and coffee shops!

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Politicians Enlist Whiz Kids to Help Build Blogs and Podcasts

Veteran politicians more familiar with turntables and typewriters are enlisting twentysomething computer whiz kids to help them brave the digital world of blogs, podcasts and the Web as they look to connect directly with voters.

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Skype WiFi Phone

In July Skype will offer a WiFi Phone that allows you to use Skype WITHOUT a PC for $300. Totally worth it, so long skype keeps their calling any phone from US and Canada for free.

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How Einstein struggled with his grand theory - and the maths

Unseen papers on sale for $1.5m show scientific genius\'s failures together with his lighter side

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Sunday, May 21, 2006

Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 Guide

An amazing, thorough guide on Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06

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Fortune 500 Database : Every Fortune 500 Company Since 1955

A database of every year of FORTUNE's list of America's largest corporations

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Scientists say they have cleared technical hurdle in fusion research

Physicists working in the United States believe they have cracked an important problem facing man-made nuclear fusion, touted as the cheap, safe, clean and almost limitless energy source of the future.

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Brazil's Biggest Cultural Phenomenon - A Website, You'd Never Guess!

About 11 million of the website's more than 15 million users are registered as living in Brazil a remarkable figure given that studies have estimated that only about 12 million Brazilians use the Internet from home.

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Canada leads the world in Firefox Usage

Browser World USA Canada
Microsoft IE 85.17% 82.47% 77.41%
Mozilla Firefox 11.79% 12.81% 16.00%
Apple Safari 2.02% 3.69% 2.61%
Opera 0.79% 0.67% 2.15%
Netscape 0.15% 0.26% 0.23%

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Coolest photo you will see today

Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour. This is a five minute exposure taken from about 7 miles away from the pad. Taken with a borrowed all-manual Nikomat camera, 24 mm lens, f/16, Kodak Royal Gold 100 film. When the exposure was stopped in this shot, the shuttle was approximately 229 statute miles downrange.

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Can Ubuntu jump from community to commercial?

Anyone who follows Linux closely knows that Ubuntu is the most popular community distribution. But, is that enough for Ubuntu to make a go of it as a commercial business distribution? It looks like we're going to get to find out.

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New Sony Digital Projectors coming to a Movie Theater near you!

These high resolution digital projectors might help theaters win back those who are content to stay home and watch their 1080p's.

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Employers crackdown on surfing at work.

More companies are restricting or denying Internet access. At a Detroit health-care company workers have justify why they need the Internet and have it approved by a manger to have access granted. Employees being fired over net usage is also on the rise.
''26 percent of employers have fired workers for misusing the Internet''

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Windows System Requirements from 1990-2006 (v3.0 - Vista).

TechWeb compiled the Microsoft's stated requirements for each major Windows release since 1990's Windows 3.0. It also lists the average prices for desktop computer -- monitor included -- and portable PCs have been noted for all releases except Windows 3.0...

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Textbooks causing America to fall behind

At its core, the economic surge in India and China comes down to brains. The industries driving the region's challenge to American leadership's communications, information technology, biotech and the like can't thrive without a steady supply of highly educated, intellectually flexible workers.

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Amazing Web 2.0 Groups Service

It's Yahoo, MSN and Google Groups reloaded in a 2.0 avatar. CollectiveX is a fantastic web 2.0 group service with tons and tons of features. It uses AJAX a lot, cares for the individual as well as the group. Calendars, Email Blasts and more are included. A must try!

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Damn Small Linux 2.4 has been released!

The newest version of the 50 MB Linux Live CD has been released. Get it!

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Market Punishes Intel For AMD's Win

Intel Corp. shares fell to a three-year low Friday after No. 1 personal computer maker Dell Inc. said it would begin using chips from smaller Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., whose shares surged.

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Pearl Jam releases video under Creative Commons license

In its latest bid to show its progressive side, popular band Pearl Jam has just released its latest music video, "Life Wasted," under a Creative Commons license. That means, according to Creative Commons creative director Eric Steuer, that anyone will be able to "legally copy, distribute and share the clip" for noncommercial purposes.

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White Tea: The Rolls Royce of the Tea World

White Tea is not only much more expensive than Green; it is also higher in anti-oxidants and healthier for you.

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Friday, May 19, 2006

5 Million People Will Buy PS3 "Even If It Didn't Have Games" Says Sony

"The first five million are going to buy it, whatever it is, even it didn't have games" says Sony's Euro CEO David Reeves.

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Linux System Administration in the New ERA

I refer to the current Linux infrastructure play as the "New Era". Linux has matured rapidly and far surpassed the expectations of the smartest analysts I know.

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Not in Battle with Microsoft : Innovation Drives Google

"We don't get there by looking at what other companies are doing, in general," he said. "We get there by having really great innovation and thinking hard and working hard." ~ Larry Page

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Kubuntu is now accepting request for FREE CDs

Kubuntu, the KDE version of Ubuntu is now accepting requests for FREE Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) CDs...

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Google Music Is Close To Being Launched

Google just added "DISALLOW: /music" to thier robots.txt file which is used to tell search engines what not to crawl. Google Music is rumored to be an iTunes competitor.

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China Mobile to work with Google for phone based search engine

China's largest cell-phone carrier said it is in talks with Google to launch an Internet search engine for mobile services in China.

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How-To access your PC from school or work with a thumb drive

A how-to that shows how to use a remote access program called UltraVNC and a USB thumb drive to bypass school and work PC restrictions. Also includes a pre-made portable app. setup for your thumb drive.

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Google to donate Google Earth and SketchUp Pro to Maine

More than 36,000 students will receive brand-new Apple iBooks pre-installed with great software.(Thanks Apple) --
Google:"we're donating Google Earth and SketchUp Pro to Maine for installation on every public-school computer in the state." adding "Government agencies that would like to follow Maine's lead are welcome to drop us a line"

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GP2X (Linux based handheld gaming system) only $169.90 at Play-Asia

The GP2X plays homebrew games, Roms from NES, SNES, GB, GBA, PSX, Genesis, Atari, Game Gear, and more. It plays videos, mp3s, and shows jpgs. Bigger screen than the DS. Cheaper than the PSP, and the games are free! With a TV-out cord, you can play games on your TV.

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GP2X (Linux based handheld gaming system) only $169.90 at Play-Asia

The GP2X plays homebrew games, Roms from NES, SNES, GB, GBA, PSX, Genesis, Atari, Game Gear, and more. It plays videos, mp3s, and shows jpgs. Bigger screen than the DS. Cheaper than the PSP, and the games are free! With a TV-out cord, you can play games on your TV.

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Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes

A mountain near the Montana-Wyoming border once moved 62 miles in a half-hour in a catastrophic scenario that could be repeated elsewhere, scientists say. Rock at the summit of Heart Mountain is 250 million years older than at its base. That suggests the top and the bottom have not always been together.

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Symantec sues Microsoft on storage tech

Symantec on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing Microsoft of intellectual property theft and breach of contract related to data storage technology.The complaint involves Symantec's Volume Manager product which allows operating systems to store and manipulate large amounts of data, according to a Symantec statement

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Alert Raised for MS Word Zero-Day Attack

A zero-day flaw in the ubiquitous Microsoft Word software program is being used in an active exploit by sophisticated hackers in China and Taiwan, according to warnings from anti-virus researchers.

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Happy Sex Is Healthy Sex

Something about the computer takes away the embarrassment around sexuality and sexual health issues, freeing people to communicate more openly than they would in person.

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Colleges Vs. Students: As Cheating Goes High Tech

And at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after students photographed test questions with their cellphone cameras, transmitted them to classmates outside the exam room and got the answers back in text messages, the university put in place a new proctoring system.

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vi survival guide

A comprehensive guide to a famous text editor "vi", written in vi itself.

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Hydropower without dams, using underwater turbines

For a long time, hydropower was considered the original renewable energy resource. In many countries, hydropower represents a high percentage of energy production and an alternative to dirty coal or dangerous nuclear energy. But dams around the world also cause problems.

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Senators Propose Internet Freedom Preservation Act

ISPs would not be "allowed to "block, interfere with, discriminate against, impair or degrade" access to content or to prevent users from attaching devices of their choosing to the network. they would also be barred from making special deals with content providers to ensure speedier delivery or improved quality of service"

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Dell Responds: My Way's Not Spyware, Dipshit

Dell employees respond to the recent article found through Digg claiming that they are charging $49 to remove their own spyware. Although some of the responses are well written, one attacks the writer and calls him a "dipshit".

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The Biggest Game Developer You've Never Heard Of?

Game developer Tose has 1,000 employees, and created 1,100 games since 1979 (including Final Fantasy GBA versions, though they can't mention it in this interview!), but they're basically unknown, because they're 'game development ninjas', and 'refuse to put [their] names on the game'.

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16 Wii launch titles comfirmed, officially, 100%

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Wii Sports, Red Steel, Madden NFL 2007, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors. Among others!

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New Sources for Stem Cells

Within the last two months, three different sets of researchers have announced new sources of stem cells which may have sufficient properties in common with ESCs to allow for stem cell research to proceed unhindered. Three of the groups have independently come up with the alternative sources for stem cell replacement.

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NEW Nintendo Wii Game: Wii Hide, you Seek.

Massivly Multiplayer Online Hide and Go Seek!!! SWEET!!! Details inside.

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Not in Battle with Microsoft : Innovation Drives Google

"We don't get there by looking at what other companies are doing, in general," he said. "We get there by having really great innovation and thinking hard and working hard." ~ Larry Page

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

China Mobile to work with Google for phone based search engine

China's largest cell-phone carrier said it is in talks with Google to launch an Internet search engine for mobile services in China.

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Google Launches Blog Search By Date

"Today we launched a new feature on Google Blog Search that lets you narrow your search by date. Using this feature, you can track blog posts on your favorite topics according to when those items were posted."

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Google's 20 Percent Time in Action

Alex K. describes how he used his 20% time to add a feature to Google Reader.

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Google Earth Pollution, In 3D!

Google Earth photos get a little more cluttered: now it's user-generated 3D images.

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Google Street Maps finally hit Aussie shores

We have had the satellite maps for awhile, but the street maps have finally arrived to.

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Digg Traffic Plotted On Google Maps (Real-Time)

Now you know where all those Diggers hide out... Detailed images of Digg crowd in New York, US, Europe and the World in general. Surprised to see so many Dutch people as opposed to very few German Diggers.

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Linux on PS3...A new report by Ars.

Ars discusses possiblity of linux on the PS3 and what that will mean for homebrew and linux enthusiasts.

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Novell pioneers faster way to deliver Linux drivers

Novell says it has a faster way to get drivers into Linux users' hands. Here's how they do it.

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Yahoo excludes Mac Safari users

It is highly disappointing and disillusioning to discover tonight that Yahoo has released a preview of its new, Ajax-enabled home page with support only for Internet Explorer 6.0 and Firefox 1.5.

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Wii Set To Win In Consoles Sales?

A couple of months ago nobody, but the most hardcore of Nintendo fans and the most extreme of the free thinkers (i.e. crazy people) thought the Revolution could take any other spot than third place in the console rat race.

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Nintendo Wii @ 1.1Ghz NOT 750Mhz

We did hear more about its tech specs though. While the 1.1Ghz PowerPC CPU doesn�t compare to the PS3�s Cell processor in terms of power, it is much faster than we initially expected.

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DELL to use AMD opteron

finally, DELL goes with AMD

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Stealthier Firefox Extension (aka. pr0n mode)

Firefox extension Stealther lets you browse the web without leaving a trace of your browsing session on your computer.

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India announces plans to develop robot army

"In an announcement that you can probably expect to be repeated by rival Pakistan in the next few days, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has claimed that his Southeast Asian nation will be the latest country to pursue technologies for developing a robotic army." - credit engadget

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PlayStation X Portable (not the PSP) - play PS1 ROMs on the GP2X (Videos)

Videos of PSX games being played on the Linux based GP2X portable gaming system. Very cool!

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Google's Goal: A Worldwide Web of Books

Google executive Vinton Cerf has a collection of 10,000 books. He says Google's book-search plan will help people easily search digitized books.

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AMD Unveils K8L: Quad Core Desktops And So Much More

Moore revealed that K8L will be the first AMD processor to have L3 cache since the K6 CPU. Each core has an independent L2 cache, but the entire processor shares an L3 cache pool. The K8L will be a 65nm SOI process so AMD engineers have a bit more die real estate to play around with.

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Clinton To Cosponsor Internet Neutrality Law

Senator Hillary Clinton plans to co-sponsor the Dorgan and Snowe Internet neutrality law. Clinton announced her intentions in a release issued earlier today.

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Microsoft Wants to Control Mobile DRM Market, Starts with Japan

It appears that Microsoft may be positioning itself to make a run at grabbing control of the mobile digital rights management (DRM) market, having come to an agreement with Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile phone company to standardize that provider's phones with Windows Media Audio and Windows Media DRM.

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$9 for a 1 GB MP3 Player

Evergreen makes a screenless mp3 player for $9. USB2.0 and 1 gig SD card support are both included.

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Vista Screenshots: Sexy Way To Gobble Up CPU Power

Windows Vista's new Aero interface uses 3D graphics where a 2D graphics could do. The next thing you know - a dedicated Java co-processor would be required to run Java applets, and not just for performance sake, but in principle.

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Google details its collaboration with Nokia on a Linux Tablet

Nokia its deal with Google will drive additional volume. VOIP capabilities have been the single most-requested consumer feature.

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Open source package passes personal learning test

In the world of education, technology plays an ever-increasing role in student management and other administrative tasks. Teachers all over the world are using an open source GPL-licensed course management system called LON-CAPA, and the result are "revitalizing," "unique," and "creative," according to some of its users.

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

New Google Blog Search Interface!

Google Blog Search Now has navigation on the left side, like the new Google Search design.

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Google API Slides

Slides covering Google Maps API, Google Data API

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Yahoo missing the point of Web 2.0

This is an interesting article exploring the new look and feel Yahoo are pursuing. It makes some interesting points on why Yahoo are trying to copy desktop applications, and failing, where Google are succeeding by embracing the new Web 2.0 platform.

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Google Pages Debuts Free GADGETS Add-ons

Here is the original announcement of Google Pages

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-page-creator-review.html

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Great tool for finding .MP3's on the Internet

Finds MP3's on the Internet through google search. Try it out!! It's still in Beta but it worked good for me.

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» GWT - The future of web programming | Googling Google | ZDNet.com

A ZDNet.com Blog

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Oldest Observatory in Americas Discovered in Peru

The oldest astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere has been discovered on a hillside a few miles north of Lima, Peru, archaeologists recently reported. The site dates back 4,200 years�800 years before such artistic and scientific skill was previously known to have existed in the Americas.

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Sun puts its weight behind Ubuntu Linux

"We will be aggressively supporting the fork that Ubuntu has been doing," Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said at the conference.

"The ideals of that community are relatively familiar to us."

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Google Video to get fine tuned - finally

Google plans to announce on Tuesday changes to its Google Video service that will make it easier for people to submit video. Now people who want to post their video clips can do so through a Web-based system without having to use special software. Hopefully their next change will be to overhaul the crappy look of the site.

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Final Fantasy XIII Playstation 3 Images

Here are a bunch of images from Final Fantasy XIII for the Playstation 3. These are fresh off the presses from Japan.

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AMD Officially Launches Turion 64 X2

AMD today introduced the Turion 64 X2 series mobile processor, a dual-core mobile processor featuring 64-bit technology.

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KDE audio player amaroK 1.4 released: Fast Forward

Version 1.4 of the popular and advanced KDE audio player amaroK was released today. The long anticipated release features enhanced support for media devices like the iPod, improved visual styles, gap-less playback, an improved rating system and a revised configurability besides others.
Screenshots and more information inside.

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GIMPShop 2.2.11 Universal Binary for Mac is ready for download!

Beating Adobe Photoshop to the Intel Macs by over a year - the free open source GIMPShop 2.2.11 Universal Binary is ready for download. Grab it for your image editing needs on your Intel Mac.

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The 200GB Blue Ray Disc Completed!

Incredible 6 layered Blue Ray disc at a massive 200 gigs of storage!

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Planets Found in Potentially Habitable Setup

Three medium-sized planets of roughly the same mass as Neptune have been discovered around a nearby Sun-like star, scientists announced today.

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Unreal Tournament 2007 will be a PS3 Exclusive according to Epic Games

Epic Games' Mark Rein said the company does not have plans to release a Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 2007. This apparently paves the way for Unreal to compete with Halo 3 for the ultimate first person shooter.

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Update: Sun to open-source Java

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems Inc. at its JavaOne conference today announced that it would open-source Java but added that before it does so, company officials have to be certain the move won't lead to diverging paths in the code.

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Great website showcasing visual effects techniques.

This company has a great website showcasing its effects techniques. Just click on one of the different special effect titles to get a cool example. The Universal Capture effect is interactive!

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New Google tool compiles Java to AJAX

When you deploy your application to production, the Google Web Toolkit compiler translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

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Why do girls lose interest in math and science?

Government data show that girls fall behind boys in math and science as they progress through school. In the fourth grade, 68 percent of boys and 66 percent of girls say they like science, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Nintendo Becomes the World's First to Offer Standard Bluetooth Wireless gam

Broadcom today announced a partnership to supply Nintendo's Wii console with the Bluetooth technology that enables the peripherals to interact with the system. According to an official release, Wii will be the first videogame console in history to use Bluetooth as the standard..

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Camera basics: shutter-speed, aperture and ISO

An introductory tutorial covering basic camera exposure controls - shuter speed, aperture and ISO. Includes plenty of useful pictures showing how they affect pictures

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