FBI looking to hire IT workers

Annual pay for the positions ranges from $35,452 to $135,136

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Ten Failed Tech Trends for 2005

At year's end, newspapers, websites, and tech publications are full of predictions of future trends. ExtremeTech decided to take a look backwards at 2005, and figure out which hyped trends failed to materialize.

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Circuit City to do an Xbox 360 Re-Launch

For those of you who were not able to get a 360 yet, we have some good news. They have informed us that some time in January Circuit City will be having an Xbox 360 Re-Launch just like Best Buy did on Dec. 18th. They could not give us the exact date, but they did say when you see the Xbox 360 system in their ad, that's the day to go!

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HBO to release video content for iPod?

Reuters reports that HBO's chief executive hopes to make a deal with Apple for supplying iPod/iTunes Video content at some point in the future.

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Happy Holidays: We've Lost All Your Critical Data

Over 200,000 employees, time share owners and customers. Included in the data were every identity thief's dream starter kit: names, social security numbers, bank account numbers and credit card numbers. To apologize, Marriott has agreed to spend the $100 or whatever to give everyone impacted a free credit monitoring service.

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Trade your CDs for an iPod

45 CDs = 512 MB iPod ShuffleÂ
65 CDs = 1 GB iPod ShuffleÂ
85 CDs = 2 GB iPod NanoÂ
110 CDs = 4 GB NanoÂ
130 CDs = 30 GB iPodÂ
175 CDs = 60 GB iPodÂ

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The strange truth behind Super Mario Bros. 2

The US version of SMB2 was actually a rehash of a Famicom game called Doki Doki Panic. �The Lost Levels� was the original SMB2.

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Opera buys Opera

OSLO, NORWAY� Amidst mounting speculation of an all-out bidding war between Microsoft, Google and the Korean bakery down on 3rd, Opera Software announced today that it inadvertently purchased itself in a $0 million recursive merger set to complete on Monday.

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50 all time best gadgets

How many of the gadets do you own or have owned? Pretty good read.

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The GOTY 2005!

Gamespot finishes up its "Best and Worst of 2005" with the coveted Game of the Year award. I was rooting for it all along!

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Netflix wins first round in online DVD rental war

The companies switched places in market value over the course of an intense, yearlong price war, with Netflix -- which has no debt -- now worth $1.5 billion, compared with Blockbuster at $684 million and more than $1 billion in debt.

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers

Must read if you are a new or pro programmer.

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HowTo: Score an Xbox 360 online at MSRP

This Microsoft employee figures out (and shares) how to snag an Xbox 360 online at MSRP by combining two easy to use tools - no auctions required.

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The 10 Best Tech Podcasts of 2005

Probably the 10 best tech podcasts in the world?

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Is Slashdot dying?

A look at the average number of comments per story over the last 7 years reveals that community activity on Slashdot is declining. Are sites like digg and del.icio.us killing Slashdot?

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use Google as a free proxy

at work? blocked site? proxy blocked also?
Fear not, since google is almost never blocked!
This artice shows you how to use Google itself as a real-time (as in: not via Accelerator or Cache) web proxy for shady and interesting websites! Don't Be Evil? yeah Right!

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Google Now Supports UPC Code Lookup

Google has added yet another feature to integrate an existing third party web service. If you enter a UPC code, it automatically references a link to the UPC Database project to perform a lookup. Way cool!

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Extremely Safe Browsing

A guide on how to run Firefox on a Virtual Machine within your OS. This means the browser is completely isolated from your system meaning it's very very secure.

Perfect for protecting your Credit Card etc.

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More artists take a stand against DRM

The battle between artists and Sony BMG over the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection on audio CDs just got even more interesting as some more artists have decided to act.

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Top 10 Funniest RSS Feeds of 2005

A list of the top feeds that made us laugh in 2005. If you aren't subscribed to them yet, you should be.

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Hackers find first Xbox 360 cracks

Only weeks after the introduction of the Xbox 360, hackers appear to have cracked their way into the software that runs the Microsoft game console.

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Official: access gmail from your mobile..!!

yeah i know there have been other althernatives.. but now its official from google..!

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ThinkGeek.com Clearance Sale

Sales on items such as the VersaCharger, MP3 Sunglasses, DiscHub, Digital Camera Binoculars, USB 2.0 portable hard drive, and Mimobots USB flash drives (I want one sooo badly!).

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Sex for an Xbox 360?

Craigslist ad purported to be from two female gamers who would do anything to get the next-gen console.

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Bush Whips Out iPod During Interview

Ever wondered what the most powerful man in the world listens to in his spare time? In a rare departure from formal media interviews, George Bush has revealed what is on his personal IPod. Andrew Wilson reports on the President's favourite tunes.

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New Da Vinci Code Trailer

Columbia Pictures has brought online the first full-length trailer for The Da Vinci Code, from director Ron Howard and writer Akiva Goldsman, who last teamed-up on Oscar-winner A Beautiful Mind. You can watch the trailer at Apple in High Definition QuickTime and regular QuickTime formats!

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Apple may announce iPod with integrated Satellite Radio capabilities

Some of the earlier reports described the device as an �iPod radio� which does suggest that Apple might have integrated satellite radio capabilities into the device. This doesn't seem too far fetched considering that there have been negotiations between Apple and Sirius Satellite Radio over the past year...

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Incredible 2D Halo Game Released!

"And here the greatly awaited day, the release of Halo Zero in its final version!" The 2D adventure boasts a single player with multiple skill types, along with a strong multiplayer mode. Worth a shot from anyone who has a few minutes!

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XBOX 360 Bestbuy december 18th... with number of units for each store

title says it all

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Time Magazine's List of 50 Coolest Web Sites

The title describes it all. Check it out!

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10 most popular Ubuntu sites on the net

Are you a Ubuntu user? Then you should definitely visit these top 10 sites which have a wealth of information on using and troubleshooting in Ubuntu.

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Wiki Prankster Unmasked

It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility.

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8GB Stick of RAM!!!

Samsung presents a new memory module of 8GB... cool, I'll take 4 please... because even though my PC has a Dual Core (thank you AMD), it suffers quite a bit with only 1Gb of RAM (Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Sorenson Squeeze and some other applications that eat up a lot of resources).

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The truth about Xbox 360 "short supply"

Brian Crecente, editor in chief of the gaming Web site www.kotaku.com, says a rumor is floating around that some of the stores employees are actually personally buying up 360s � buying up a lot of the pre-orders and then selling them on eBay...

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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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Beginning of the End for Music DRM

"Real Networks today announced the availability of a web-based version of its Rhapsody music service. Finally, there is a listen-on-demand authorized music service with deep major label catalog that Mac and Linux users can use." "this announcement is the implicit rejection of DRM that it represents"

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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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'Podcast' named Word Of The Year 2005.

The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have selected "podcast" as the Word of the Year, beating bird flu and rootkit. It will be in the dictionary in 2006.

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To turn off computer or not to turn it off??

The question about whether it is better to shut down your computer at the end of each day or to leave it up and running has been raging for years, with concern for both the computer hardware and saving electricity factoring into the debate.

Continues on the site....

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Halo 3 Slated For June '06 Release

Microsoft's much desired Halo 3 is now set to be in your homes by June 6th 2006. I wouldn't bet too much on it, but it's nearing.

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NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox

According to Dan Turner "NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts. The official line is that the newest IE vulnerability was the proverbial straw, and now NASA's standard browser is Firefox."

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Highly anticipated 360 title filling four discs worth of space

Without adding the HD-DVD drive 360 could have some disc problems. With only holding 7gigs certain games for 360 may have multiple disc. Including a certain anticipated one.

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Apple's Mac OS X and Safari web browser gain market share

It may not be by a whole lot, but its a step in the right direction!

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Top ten uses for altoids can with an ipod

It has been fun to watch all of the simple ideas of using an altoids can with an ipod. This website makes light of the attention that these simple ideas have been shown, through a top ten list.

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Best Buy's response to Xbox 360 bundling complaints

A lot of gamers at best buy got screwed due to scams by the managers to exploit buyers who were eager to get thier hands on a 360. Looks like best buy is comming clean...

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Alek's Christmas Lights Webcam You can control!

Use the christmas webcam to view 26,000 christmas decorations & lights and also CONTROL them - i.e. YOU can turn them ON & OFF via your web browser - heck, you can even inflate or "melt" Frosty the Snowman ... but don't get the Santa Hulk angry.

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Gillmore Gang

Podcastus interruptus by ZDNet's Steve Gillmor -- Just posted the latest Gillmor Gang with Riya's Mujal Shah, with whom Doc Searls the Attention Bunny and I had a spirited conversation at 1AM several weeks ago in Mike Arrington's TechCrunch kitchen. The Gang was interrupted after an hour by a crash of TimeWarner's 800 servers, and by the time we restored the connection, [...]

foXpose - Exposé for Firefox 1.5

If you've downloaded FF 1.5 you need to try out this FF 1.5 only extension. It shows thumbnails of all the open tabs with a click of a button. Really cool.

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