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posted by JC @ 12:58 AM
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
How to Install, Boot and Run Linux on a USB Flash Pen Drive!
Covering how to Install, Boot and Run Live Linux on a USB Flash Pen Drive. By installing Live Linux on a Memory Stick, you can now bring your operating system, favorites, e-mail, applications, personal settings and files with you to run on any computer that can boot from a USB Flash device. It's like having a mini personal computer in your pocket!
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posted by JC @ 6:32 PM
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Firefox Cheat Sheet
This page lists most of the basic functions Firefox has, and how to access them. Great for those who forgot how to access a certain menu, or for somebody who just switched to Firefox.
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posted by JC @ 10:47 AM
China's '08 Olympic Stadium Design Reminds Me of TRANG!
To some viewers, this design for the 2008 Olympic stadium to be constructed in Beijing looks like a definitive portion of the female anatomy, teh TRANG!
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posted by JC @ 10:23 AM
Vista performs as good as XP on same hardware
CNET ran a few performance tests in Vista Beta 2 and XP on the same hardware, and results showed that Vista, even in its beta stage, can perform as well or potentially even better than XP!
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posted by JC @ 10:12 AM
Friday, June 16, 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006
How To Bond 3 ADSL Lines for Serious Bandwidth! (with Photos & Screenshots)
Using a Linux based self-built PC router (any old 486 or above), a USB stick, some PCI ADSL modems and some free software to provide huge bandwidth at home!
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posted by JC @ 12:10 PM
USB Drive Shows Space Used on Side of Drive
The Lexar Jumpdrive Mercury has been eagerly anticipated since first being announced at CES this year. As the first USB thumb drive to incorporate a persistent data display.
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posted by JC @ 1:46 AM
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" 45-degree lean explained
For those who've always wondered how it was done....
"Discover the secret behind the 45 degree lean in the Smooth Criminal video and in the live performance. Michael Jackson and two of his costume designers obtained a US patent (US5255452) in 1993 on "Methods and Means for Creating Anti Gravity Illusion".
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posted by JC @ 5:57 PM
Watercooled Motherboard from Asus
"Asus has managed to find a cooling solution for its next generation high-end motherboards, using a very small integrated pump and water reservior. The rather large radiator also works as a heatsink for the MOSFETs, which are part of the power regulation on the motherboard and generally get very hot."
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posted by JC @ 5:51 PM
More Sources say Wii Out before PS3
On top of everything else, this week industry sources have relayed that - in something of a surprise attack -- "Nintendo is planning to launch Wii before PlayStation 3." The latest word jives with publisher release calendars, whose Wii titles are scheduled in many cases for a mid-to-late October debut or, in some cases, very early November.
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posted by JC @ 5:50 PM
Active Matrix OLED Display from Toppan
"Toppan officially announced that they successfully developed a 5.5" 400x234 "Active Matrix OLED" Screen."
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posted by JC @ 5:50 PM
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Pirate Bay's popularity DOUBLES after 3 days of being shut down
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days.
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posted by JC @ 10:12 PM
Blue=Cold, Red=Hot in new, lighted water faucet.
Light Delight is the new series of taps in AISI 304 stainless steel combining toughness and safe with the effect and functionality of light. Colour varies according to the temperature of the water. The technology used to generate light takes advantage of the water flow.
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posted by JC @ 10:11 PM
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Family Guy Voice Actor's Speech @ Harvard (VIDEO)
Seth MacFarlane spoke at this year's Harvard Class Day. It's pretty funny. I am surprised he got away with some of the stuff he said.
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posted by JC @ 10:21 AM
Friday, June 09, 2006
12-in-1 NES console for the lazy retro gamer
The utlitarian M82 was an NES demonstration unit for department stores. Twelve classic NES titles jammed into a heavy, metal box built to support a heavy CRT monitor, the M82 is like a paean to the humble technology that this industry's been founded on.
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posted by JC @ 10:34 PM
Thursday, June 08, 2006
16GB USB Hard Drive is the size of a Credit Card!
PQI has unveiled a sleek credit card-thin Card Drive USB drive with capacities of 1, 2, and 4 GB - and 8 and 16 GB editions. No pricing is available on the 16GB card yet, although the 4GB is priced at $139.99.
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posted by JC @ 1:50 PM
Remote Controlled Spy Video Car with Night Vision
Drive the remote-controlled Spy Video Car into top-secret territory without being detected. See in the dark as infrared light illuminates real-time video transmitted to the eyepiece of your headset.
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posted by JC @ 12:23 PM
Remote Controlled Spy Video Car with Night Vision
Drive the remote-controlled Spy Video Car into top-secret territory without being detected. See in the dark as infrared light illuminates real-time video transmitted to the eyepiece of your headset.
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posted by JC @ 12:21 PM
The Best Google How-TO Ever
Complete guide to all the most advanced features of Google search. It demonstrates how to easily find & download mp3s and complete albums too.. heh, when will the RIAA be suing Google?
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posted by JC @ 10:34 AM
Samsung squeezes 640x480 pixels on 1.98" display
"Think your shiny new cellphone has a crisp display? Think again. Samsung is first to demonstrate actual VGA resolution on a cellphone-sized 1.98" display. Samsung says that the display shows ten times more detail than your average 40" high definition LCD TV."
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posted by JC @ 10:32 AM
MPAA Decides Not Enough People Know About ISOhunt
A week ago, they were crowing about how shutting down Pirate Bay was such a huge victory for the entertainment industry. Instead, the site was back up two days later, and only suffered additional outages because so many more people started using the site...
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posted by JC @ 10:27 AM
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Impatient Japanese make own video iPod
This iPod wannabe looks like a fan-inspired mock-up but it's real, and on sale in Japan this month!
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posted by JC @ 6:39 PM
INSBOTS: Tiny Robots Control Cockroaches
Scientists have created miniature, insect-like robots called "insbots" that can change the behavior of cockroaches.
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posted by JC @ 6:38 PM
PSP USB ISO Loader released - Play ISOs off your HDD or Thumb Drive
Dark Alex has released a new beta ISO loader which enables you to run UMD files from a hard drive (or just USB flash disk), leaving plenty of space free in your limited memory sticks for other media. Hopefully Duggmirror gets ahold of this before it gets "Dugg."
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posted by JC @ 10:37 AM
Implanting a magnet in your fingertip adds a sixth sense
The result is a kind of "magnet sense" -- people who've had the implant report that they can tell when a wire is live and when they're going through a magnet security-scanner at a store, even when their laptops' hard drives are spinning up.
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posted by JC @ 8:52 AM
How NOT to steal a Sidekick
These guys not only kept the Sidekick they found in a taxi in NYC, but then took pics of their whole family with it as well as signing on to AOL. Note: I know this is on my own website, but I have no ads and am not making any money on this. NO outside links on this page other than to these people's info.
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posted by JC @ 8:39 AM
How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
Many people prefer working with laptops instead of desktops for the flexibility they offer. Some of them would also like to switch to a free and open source operating system like GNU/Linux and have their laptop do all the things that proprietary OSes offer, such as suspending their laptops.
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posted by JC @ 8:38 AM
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
MiniPC Japan, Pentium M Powered, The Size of a CD!
If the Core Duo is still too much expensive for you, or if this is too much power for you, well MiniPC Japan propose a Pentium M Version which can support up to the M780 CPU. Here we no longer have SATA nor DDR2 Ram but ATA and DDR333 SDRAM, this for only 160x125x55mm.
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posted by JC @ 12:39 PM
Monday, June 05, 2006
A degree in hacking
The University of Advancing Technology, is marketing its new Network Security program as a way to get a degree in hacking. The school is drawing the interest of geeks who use Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, according to UAT's IT manager Raymond Todd Blackwood, and even a few who want to go to the dark side of network security.
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posted by JC @ 11:03 PM
Gummi Bears Can Also Fool Fingerprint Scanners
A Japanese cryptographer named Tsutomu Matsumoto has found that Gummi Bears make an even better fake fingerprint, and are the cornerstone of a do it yourself fake fingerprint lab that require bears, a digital camera, and a PC.
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posted by JC @ 6:18 PM
PS3 to Ship With PS2 Chipset for Backwards Compatibility
GameDaily reports that Japanese magazine "Ultra One" has discovered PS3 will include the PS2 chipset hardware to provide hardware-based backwards compatibility until a software-based emulator is complete, upon which PS2 hardware will cease to ship PS2 hardware within the PS3, possibly allowing for a small price reduction.
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posted by JC @ 3:49 PM
The Future of Personalized Start Pages
"The difference from old-style web portals are: the user can personalize them much more (with RSS, inline email, etc), the content is more interactive and potentially much more useful (i.e. gadgets, widgets), they can be collaborative, and there is Ajax pixie dust to make it more of a desktop-like experience."
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posted by JC @ 3:35 PM
Complete List of Civil Rights Violations Regarding The Pirate Bay Raid
This is a complete list of currently known civil rights violations that happened during and after the raid on The Pirate Bay, translated to English by Rickard Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party.
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posted by JC @ 7:49 AM
iPod Multi Boot the Easy Way
This article shows you how to quickly and easily install two additional operating systems on your iPod (RockBox and Podzilla aka iPod Linux) with a startup menu to choose between them.
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posted by JC @ 7:49 AM
Delorean + Mac Mini = Priceless
Totally customized Delorean suited up with a Mac Mini system. The screen is projected onto the hood! Be sure to go to the ":Why a Delorean" section to see the pics.
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posted by JC @ 7:48 AM
Sidekick III launches July 10th
"Alright Sidekick fans, here it is, the date you've been waiting for. Contrary to the many rumors floating around about the Sidekick III's release date, no, it's not June 5th, 9th, 20th, or the 26th. We obtained some very reliable inside information that T-Mobile is actually all set to introduce the latest Sidekick iteration on July 10th"
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posted by JC @ 7:36 AM
The Pirate Bay has Posted Some Stats...
"Just some stats...
... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix:
Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days
Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days
.. yawn."
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posted by JC @ 7:35 AM
Moore's Law Meets Its Match
By 2010, the "More Than Moore's Law" movement which focuses on system integration rather than transistor density will lead to revolutionary megafunction electronics.
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posted by JC @ 7:33 AM
Photoshop: Photo Retouching - Skin
This will be our first tutorial on the subject of re-touching a photograph in photoshop. We will be working on a photo of a model and using a few techniques to smooth and even out the skin.
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posted by JC @ 7:31 AM
How to Write FireFox Extensions
Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that!
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posted by JC @ 7:29 AM
Toshiba touts data density record with new drive
[Toshiba] is coming out with a 2.5-inch drive for notebooks later this year with platters that hold 178.8 gigabits per square inch, which will likely be a record when the drive hits shelves. The current record for areal density for a commercially released drive is 133 gigabits per square inch.
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posted by JC @ 7:28 AM
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Astounding Super Mario World Skills (Video)
Skeptics might say some of these moves are so brilliant that they're only possible with an emulator. There are so many mind-blowing feats of caped Mario acrobatics in this video that it must be seen.
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posted by JC @ 1:20 PM
Demonstration held in response to the raid on The Pirate Bay
A demonstration took place today in Stockholm in response to the raid where over 100 servers were seized without proven criminal offence. It was arranged by several political youth parties.
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posted by JC @ 12:09 PM
GPS golfing device tells you how far it is to the green
A new US$400 handheld golf course measuring device called the SureShot GPS designed to answer the age-old question: "How far is it to the green?" It shows distance from the tee (or wherever else you are on the course) to the front, center and back of the green, together with up to fifteen hazards.
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posted by JC @ 12:04 PM
Motion Sensing and iSight Hacks on the Mac
I went out searching for new Mac sudden Motion Sensor hacks (and discovered a few that were new to me) but in the process I found a bunch of cool iSight hacks... all are listed.
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posted by JC @ 12:03 PM
Saturday, June 03, 2006
The Pirate Bay Now Hosted in: Holland, Russia, Ukraine
The Pirate Bay (TPB) Announced in Copenhagen that the site will be hosted in 4 individual locations, Holland, Russia, Ukraine, and one additional EU nation, All a result of hosts helping them out after MAFIAA's ill treatment of their previous hardware. "The Pirate Bay is going to be stronger than ever"
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posted by JC @ 11:13 AM
Friday, June 02, 2006
Top 10 Strangest Custom Gaming Systems
Our editors have compiled a list of the "Top 10 Strangest Custom Gaming Systems" for your enjoyment. Which ones are your favorites?
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posted by JC @ 4:21 PM
Caller ID, the most widely trusted broken authentication system.
"What's worse than a bad authentication system? A bad authentication system that people have learned to trust."
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posted by JC @ 12:30 AM
Thursday, June 01, 2006
PC's That Are a Lot Smaller Than a Breadbox
A full-featured PC running Windows XP that is not much bigger than a pack of 3-by-5 index cards. It's measured in ounces (14), not pounds.
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posted by JC @ 3:10 PM
New Via mini-ITX mobo targets multimedia apps
The Epia CN is based on a 1GHz-1.3GHz C7 processor and Via's newest desktop chipset. It consumes around 16 Watts, and supports advanced media features such as an S-video port with "DuoView" dual-display capabilities.
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posted by JC @ 3:03 PM
$100 PC Increases to $130, Due In April 2007
It's not longer a $100 PC. The ruggedized, two pound Linux desktop system, with mesh networking will sell for about $130 to $140 (san shipping) to governments starting in April 2007.
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posted by JC @ 1:15 PM
ThePirateBay Strikes Back
MPA, IFPI and Antipiratbay jubilation proves impotent, as ThePirateBay.org prepares its return.
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posted by JC @ 10:51 AM
Best Buy sells couples hard drive - turns up in Chicago flea market
Henry Gerbus said Best Buy assured him the computer's old hard drive -- loaded with personal information -- would be destroyed.
"They said rest assured. They drill holes in it so it's useless," said Gerbus. That wasn't the case.
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posted by JC @ 10:50 AM
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