Friday, January 20, 2006

Yahoo, MSN, and AOL gave you up to the Feds; Google tells them to shove it

A DoJ spokesperson has confirmed that Yahoo, MSN and AOL all provided the government with search records. Google is still standing their ground, refusing to provide the data.

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Most Insane Desktop Setup EVER!!

Here is a picture (Flickr) of this guys home setup. He has multiple 30'' displays, a mac mini dedicated to his music, this guy is without a doubt hardcore mac.

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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Scammer changes name of OpenOffice, sells as his own for $29 per download.

This clever guy changes the app names - OpenOffice.org is Luxuriousity Office Suite ($29.95 for Instant Download!), GIMP is Photographer's Dream Pro ($19.99 download) on his site, and on eBay, search for "luxuriousity".

The kicker? No mention of GPL or source - a violation of GPL, I believe. Is there any way to stop guys like this?

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BlackBerry Shutdown May Hurt U.S.

Research In Motion Ltd. says its BlackBerry e-mail device is so critical that a court-ordered shutdown of U.S. service could threaten public safety and business productivity.

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North Korea Missile Warhead Found in Alaska

The warhead of a long-range missile test-fired by North Korea was found in the U.S. state of Alaska in 2003. This makes ANY threat from North Korea much more real.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Firefox 15% Marketshare In U.S. And 20% Marketshare In Europe!

Spread Firefox Announced: A new Xiti Study shows that Firefox has now more than 20% marketshare in Europe and more than 15% in the U.S. Check it out!

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iPods will gain in battery life with new Wolfson audio chip

The new chip will give up to 70 percent more listening time according to Wolfson. This means if your current iPod can play music for 14 hours (a statistic for a typical 5G iPod), with the new Wolfson chip and a similar battery the same iPod would be able to play for 23.8 hours.

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New iMac Reviewed

Ars Tecnica has posted a review of the new intel iMac.

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Sunday, January 15, 2006

Intel drops "Pentium" brand!

Intel has made a final decision to get rid of one of its oldest and most valuable brands, sources told TG Daily: "Pentium," unveiled in 1993 for its P5 processor generation, will begin to quietly disappear in the current CPU generation such as the single-core 600 series as well as the D 800 and D 900 families.

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Friday, January 13, 2006

City employee gets fired for accessing a web forum 19,200 times in 2 months

Under the username 'Sassy Sarah', he posted Web 6,622 times, while at work.

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iPod Update Causing Major Headache for Some Video Owners

The Apple iPod update that was released yesterday is causing big problems on many Video iPods. Symptoms include video playing for 20 - 30 seconds, freezing, and then continuing with no sound. Only current fix is to downgrade to previous firmware version. Link goes to a forum where issue is being discussed.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Watch Steve Jobs keynote from Macworld 2006!

Steve Jobs introduces the new MacBook Pro at Macworld.

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Sunday, January 08, 2006

Postal Employees Steal Netflix DVD's From Customers

I for one have been the victim of stolen mail and packages by postal employees and it seem the postal inspectors don't have much interest in doing anything about it. Glad to see local police stepped up on this one! Makes you wonder what else these two had been stealing from the mail.

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How does Orange County Choppers handle a computer crash? Just as expected..

I would hate to see how Paul Sr. would have reacted if it was his computer that crashed. It looks like everyone at OCC has a temper. Check out the video...

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Saturday, January 07, 2006

Google Pack is Live

http://pack.google.com/ is live.

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Homeland Security opening private mail

Last month Goodman, an 81-year-old retired University of Kansas history professor, received a letter from his friend in the Philippines that had been opened and resealed with a strip of dark green tape bearing the words �by Border Protection� and carrying the official seal of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Friday, January 06, 2006

Say goodbye to Hard Drives

With flash storage being brought up by the cellphone industry for its efficient size and energy consumption it is the next natural storage medium for laptops. Also sporting instant on capability, it seems that cost is the only thing that stands in the way of flash sending hard drives into storage along with tape drives.

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Collectors Go Bananas for Flawed $20 Bill

Story about a $20 Bill with a Del Monte sticker under the serial number and seal. With picture.

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

1 In 10 Now Use Mozilla's Firefox

"Firefox is very close to hitting a critical mass of 10 percent, which could mean a more rapid adoption rate," said Vince Vizzaccaro, vice president of marketing at NetApplications, in a statement.

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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Starz to make their movies downloadable

Nice, Lets keep the ball rolling. Come on HBO.

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A huge virus threat for every Windows PC ever made

Experts believe that this could be the biggest vulnerability that has ever surfaced for Windows PCs. Other than the users themselves.

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Monday, January 02, 2006

This year, Santa went cybershopping

Online holiday spending rose 25 percent to 30 percent from a year ago, with hot items being computer hardware, consumer electronics and clothing, according to two reports released on Thursday.

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Google Cheating on Firefox?

Google and Opera seems to be getting ever cozier with each other. Wonder what Mozilla thinks.

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Sunday, January 01, 2006

Podcasting Today

In Business 2.0 Stacy Kramer states that Podcasting could do for audio what TiVo did for Television. I agree, but with a far more better flair. With Podcasting there are as many subjects and slants on subjects as there are podcasts. Plus, and this is a big plus, you can listen not only WHEN you want, but also WHERE you want. This is big, this is REALLY big. Now on-demand has reached the audio entertainment world. There are books both free and charge available to listen on mp3 format. Listen to a book while you work, drive, eat whatever. Without disturbing anyone around you. More: do your own podcast. Share your passion. The horizon is limitless. There's no stopping the growth of Podcasting. The winner of the next Presidential election could very well be determined by Podcasting. Thousands of people are already cutting their teeth with their own podcast. Come election time, many of these will be sharing their views. Getting out information not yet available to the masses. People doing their own podcast from the comfort of their home are developing long lists of subscribers to their daily or weekly podcast. The information these people put in their podcast will go straight into the ears of their faithful listeners. What do YOU have to say?