Saturday, April 29, 2006

YouTube Updates Site With New Features

YouTube: "You'll notice lots of new and redesigned things on the site, much of which is from direct feedback we received from you" Redesigned video watch page and video player, Your playlists, your videos and your favorites are now one click away, Subscribe to friend's uploads, and a popularity tab.

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Thursday, April 27, 2006

PS3 backwards compatibility to be handled via software emulation. Good luck

It looks like the PS3 will be using software to emulate the PS2 on the PS3, instead of the hardware solution used to emulate PS1 games on the PS2. The PS2 actually included PS1 hardware: This was a large selling point at launch when gamers could play all of their PS1 games.

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Live re-enactment of Super Mario Bros.!!

These guys at Gordon College really put some time into making a real life version of everyone's favorite video game. You have to just see this one.

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Casio Exilim EX-Z1000, 10MP In Your Pocket (Pictures)

Casio presents a pocket digital camera with one of the highest resolutions available for this type of cameras. They pack a 10.1MP sensor in a 92x22.4x58.4mm and 139g box, and other than this high resolution you also get a 2.8" screen and 3x optical zoom.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

How to go from Windows XP to Mac OSX

Here's a guide that outlines some basic and interesting things about Mac OSX that will make any Windows user completely at ease if you ever end up having to work on Macs.

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Color Wheel - ver 2.0.1

Online color wheel. Great for picking color palettes.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Panasonic Laptop is Waterproof and has a Drainage System

Panasonic's new ToughBook Letsnote CF-Y5 notebook features a Duo-Core processor and is designed to withstand an impact of up to 220 pounds plus a special waterproof sheet and drainage system.

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Monday, April 24, 2006

64 bit Firefox!

This guy uses the Firefox open source code to build 64 bit versions of Firefox for the public! The difference in speed for me is incredible. Also has downloads for Thunderbird 64 bit.

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Friday, April 21, 2006

The largest laptop?

This thing is mighty big.

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Why Winternals Sued Best Buy

By now many of you have heard via Slashdot, arstechnica, Digg, or your local newspaper that Winternals Software, the company I co-founded with Bryce Cogswell in 1996, filed suit in Federal court against Geek Squad and Best Buy for illegal use of the Administrator's Pak.

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Miller Beer to be first to use High Tech (Cold Can) Technology

Lowers Temp. by 30° Fahrenheit in just three minutes.

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Seagate Announces 750GB Hard Drives

3/4 of a terabyte and that's just the first 7200.10 Barracuda drive Seagate announced! We might see 1TB drives before the end of this year.

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CSS Navigation Techniques

A very cool gallery of CSS drop-down menu

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Big Brother is Listening!

Whistle blower speaks with Richard Stiennon and Barrett Lyon about AT&T's funneling of data and voice traffic into the NSA's analysis centers. A chilling podcast!

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picotux - the smallest Linux Computer in the World

Only slightly larger (35mm�19mm�19mm) than an RJ45 connector.

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GOOGLE EARTH + USB FLASH + GPS = SPY GADGET

The Portable GPS Tracker is pretty small so you could either always carry it on you or use it in 007 spy mode by planting it on a person or vehicle you want to monitor. You may be wondering how you retrieve the stored info and secret routes, well that�s where it gets really cool.

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Microsoft to upgrade Xbox 360 CPU

Microsoft will upgrade the CPU used in its Xbox 360 games console early next year, the CPU's manufacturer announced today. The new CPU will be built using technology that can reduce heat and power consumption, as well as potentially increasing speed.

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

gTranslate - Translate any text in Firefox

"With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text."

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Automatically email yourself file backups

Pretty cool back up method on always preserving your emails.

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How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?

We learned that good design is based on the C.R.A.P., and when Creative Directors tell you that your design is crap, they�re actually giving you positive reinforcement.

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Turn your Camera Phone into a Scanner

A new free service that allows you to take a camera phone picture (or any digital picture) and turn it into a searchable PDF file. If you have a camera phone with at least one megapixel of resolution, ScanR is great for turning things like whiteboard images and paper drawings into something more usable.

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Dell's XPS gaming notebook gets dual-core CPUs

Dell today upgraded its flagship XPS notebook with Intel's Core Duo chip and a new 512 MB Nvidia graphics processor. A special edition "Formula Red" device offers virtually any performance component money can buy today.

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AOL To Launch Myspace Killer

AOL may be preparing to launch a Myspace-type social network sometime in the next few weeks, says Dave Winer.

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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Unofficial Google Calendar Homepage Module

Ever since Google Calendar was released I've been looking for a module that will display the calendar in the Personalized Google Homepage. An unofficial module (adapted from a previously written 30 Pages module) has been released until Google writes their own "official" module. It was written by Paul Russell.

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World's First Fanless Noiseless Computer Case

The TNN 500A is the world's first absolutely noiseless computer case. It includes a high performance aluminum computer case with an absolutely noiseless cooling solution that does not require the use of a fan but instead uses HSC (Heat Source Contact) Power Technology along with other innovations.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

How To Make a TicTac flashlight

This person built a very handy flashlight out of an old TicTac mint box. It consists of an empty TicTac box (duh!), three batteries (that fits perfect), a small switch, a resistor and a bright LED.

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Google Calendar Is Launching Tonight

It looks like Google Calender could be launching tonight! The official Google Calendar logo was found on Google's servers and calendar.google.com redirects to the actual CL2 login screen now.

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Monday, April 10, 2006

Quake 3 in a Browser

After putting Half-Life, Quake 1, Doom, and other gaming classics in a browser, Necromanthus has now started work on a Quake 3 version. It is still a work in progress, so there are no weapons or bots to play against yet, but it features the first level with a similar look to the original.

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ThermalTake MiniFridge Mod

"So with all the focus on making a cold computer case, I decided to make a case into a drink dispensing refrigerator just in honor of the hard core overclockers." Via Makezine.

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Asus unveils Dolby-driven laptops

Asus this week lauded its latest laptops' successful attempt to win the thumbs-up from audio specialist Dolby. Announcing two new machines, Asus said one comes with the Dolby Home Theater stamp of approval, while the other ships with "gameplay transforming" Dolby Digital Live technology.

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270 Free Mini Pixel Icons

"These mini icons are designed at 14x14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commerical)."

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Lower Firefox's Ram Usage With This Simple Hack

This Firefox 'hack' brings the ram usage to less than 10MB whenever you minimize Firefox. IE7 and Opera both have this implemented by default and so should Firefox. This is a great way to help with the memory leaks.

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Sunday, April 09, 2006

Finally... Vista FULLY Installed on an Intel Mac

A member at the OSx86 Project Forums has finally gotten Vista to fully install on his Intel Mac. There are still a few glitches, but he's posted his instructions along with several screenshots!

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HOW TO - Run Windows Media Center on a Mac

Media Center for Mac is here with working TV on a Macbook Pro!

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First 300Mbps WiFi Products To Be Shipped

Dubbed the RangeMax Next series and supposedly already shipping, the NetGear's 802.11n offering claims to deliver speed up to 300Mbps, which we believe is not possible to achieve in real world performances. But it's still pretty amazing, considering that it's wireless and it's actually faster than 100Mbps wired Ethernet.

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Kanguru's 64GB King Kong Flash Drive

Kanguru has dropped the bomb on the USB 2.0 flash drive market with a whopping 64 GB of storage space on a flash drive about the size of a pack of gum. The drive is called the Kanguru Flash Drive Max.

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Friday, April 07, 2006

iAlertU - The MacBook Pro Remote Activated Alarm System VIDEO

Watch this video for the iAlertU software that acts like a car alarm for the MacBook Pro using the remote and the motion sensor in the MacBook Pro to alert you if your laptop is being stolen. It's pretty cool.

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Ubuntu Live on Mac Mini with Ease!

Linux fans like myself will be more excited to learn that the new firmware updates to the Intel Macs also allows for the booting of one of the most popular distros with ease! This post includes a picture of a Mini running x86 Ubuntu without the hacking that such an act has taken in the past- from Apple noise to desktop in less than a minute!

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Leaked shots of Sony's PSone emulator for the PSP

Here are pics of the forthcoming PSone emulator download store for the PSP. According to the screenshots, games cost will $15 each and will even be able to do multiplayer via WiFi networking.

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HBO is tattling to your ISP if you download torrents of The Sopranos

HBO sent my ISP, Charter Communications, a letter stating that they believe I've been downloading "copyrighted television programs through a 'peer-to-peer' service, including such titles as The Sopranos." Scanned copy of the two-page letter included.

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Portable Firefox 1.5.0.1 Released!

Portable Firefox 1.5.0.1 was released today! This updates Firefox to 1.5.0.1 and adds the ability to use local homepages.

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$8.50 MP3 Player

Japanese Co. Evergreen Cheap MP3 DN-2000 Player

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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Graphics Shootout: 17 Cards for a Better Gaming PC

How much video card do you need? Which ones deliver the most bang for the buck? In our sort-of annual graphics card roundup, we take a look at 17 cards that cost from $80 to $600 (from extremetech).

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Monday, April 03, 2006

This mic is so small, its eXtra-Super-Damn-Tiny

Lectrosonics brings to market the tiniest microphone in the world, with a cool name to boot. The eXtra-Super-Damn-Tiny, or XSDT, has an almost microscopic 1x1 mm frame. This self-contained microphone runs on AA batteries.

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15,000 layer Photoshop file.

Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours. The attention to detail is amazing in this 10 foot wide poster.

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PlayStation 2 emultator - PCSX2 0.9 released!

Today the PCSX2 team has released a new version of their PS2 emultator, the 0.9 version!

"Many games are now going ingame, and some are even playable"

Grab it and test it!

:D

Enjoy

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Sunday, April 02, 2006

Awesome robot wrestling clip!

Awesome video of (Japanese) robots wrestling!

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Phishers Setting Hidden Traps on eBay

Click on an eBay auction listing, and you could get an unwanted result: a fake eBay login page, created by scammers looking to pilfer your username and password.

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Saturday, April 01, 2006

List of the April Fools Jokes for 2006

Wikipedia has a list of all of the big pranks that have happened. The list is growing fast, enjoy the hilarity.

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Awesome Review of Online Feed Readers

Techcruch review quite a number of online readers listing the features available for each. The "Feature Comparison Chart" lays out which reader does what. Check it out!

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Google Earth April Fools Joke

The folks at Google Earth have added some "visitors" as an April Fools Joke. Check it out before they decide to leave...

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Google Earth April Fools Joke

The folks at Google Earth have added some "visitors" as an April Fools Joke. Check it out before they decide to leave...

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