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Get shocked with Bioshock.
2007-08-24 21:45:00 Get ready for an incredible ride. This first person shooter game is one the best crafted games out there. Find yourself in the city of Rapture with music and mood set in the 40’s and 50’s filled with advanced robots and gadgets that one could imagine during its time. Along with incredible details put into ... More About: BioShock
Product Spotlight: Magellan CrossoverGPS.
2007-08-14 07:36:00 Here is GPS product that takes you everwhere. With the new pocket sized Magellan CrossoverGPS you can navigate the toughest trails, traffic and oceans. Coming in at 8.5 oz. or 9.4 oz if you get the Sport Guard? attachment and just 3.4″ by 4.3″ by 1.1″ the Magellan CrossoverGPS is very light and fits in one hand. With built-in ... More About: Gadgets , Product , Spotlight , Prod
MySpace Security Vulnerability
2007-08-10 18:51:00 There are vulnerabilities in Social Networking sites like Myspace .com where online criminals can easily take advantage and extract personal information. These password protected sites are highly monitored by hackers and vulnerabilities constitute a potentially bigger problem later on. The “Zero Day” flaw, discover by Rick Deacon a 21 year old networking administrator from Beachwood, Ohio, ... More About: Security , Vulnerability
How to Levitate ? Seriously!
2007-08-08 14:21:00 Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr. Thomas Philbin at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland published a startling discovery in the August edition of New Journal of Physics. The two physicists have managed to reverse the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect a physical force which occurs between objects which are very close together. The ... More About: Seriously
Search Engines Threaten Your Privacy and Freedom
2007-08-08 04:24:00 If you’re an active search engine user (and most especially Google, whereby accepting Google’s cookie); you should consider the ramifications - good and otherwise. The purpose of this article is to give you the straight info you need to make an informed decision. Furthermore, this article will provide you with several solutions to protect yourself and ... More About: Freedom , Internet , Search Engines , Search , Privacy
Linux Games
2007-08-02 08:03:00 The Linux Gamers’ Game List is a very useful list of games which run under Linux. The list has 371 entries at the current time, including both free and commercial software. Best of all, the page is part of the Linux Gamers FAQ and the editors clearly state “We reserve the right to refuse to list games ... More About: Games , X Games , Ames
MIT Courses Online
2007-08-01 17:15:00 The MIT OpenCourseWare project is one of the greatest things on the Internet, but not one of the most well known. OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a project which published real MIT course materials online. Anyone from anywhere in the world can download these course materials and benefit from them. You don’t get course credit or access to ... More About: Online
StumbleUpon Exchange
2007-08-01 03:44:00 My friend Luke has just unveiled a new web site called StumbleUpon Exchange . If you’re not familiar with StumbleUpon, it’s a toolbar for your web browser that allows you to rate web sites and to also view web sites which other StumbleUpon members have rated. As a visitor, StumbleUpon can provide you with almost endless amusement as ... More About: Stumbleupon , Chang , Chan , Bleu
Cheap Computers
2007-07-24 18:17:00 Data Evolutions is currently running a sale on their decTOP miniature PC. The devices are now on sale for $99. The little PC’s measure 5.5 x 8.5 x 2.5″ and weigh only three pounds. Inside that tiny case is everything you need in a basic computer, including a 366Mhz AMD Geode GX500 processor, a ... More About: Computers , Cheap
Free Long Distance
2007-07-23 14:27:00 Ooma is a startup Internet telephony (VoIP) firm with an interesting offer. They are selling a $399 Linux-based telephone. That may seem like a lot of money for a phone, until you learn that the phone provides free long-distance throughout the United States. Ooma is able to do this by using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture for ... More About: Free , Long , Long Distance
Improving LAMP
2007-07-23 13:32:00 LAMP is an acronym which defines the current “state of the market” for best practice web architecture. However, LAMP can not be considered the “state of the art” and can be improved upon. The four components of LAMP are: Linux Apache MySQL PHP Linux Linux has come a long way in the last decade, but it is not the ... More About: Lamp , Ving , Improv
Open Source Windows
2007-07-23 12:31:00 ReactOS is an open-source replacement for Microsoft Windows . ReactOS is designed to be 100% compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, including the ability to natively execute programs and device drivers designed to run under WinXP. Simply put, ReactOS is Windows, but it’s free and open-source. ReactOS isn’t a Unix-based system like FreeBSD or Linux. It’s not an emulator ... More About: Open Source , Open , Source
Remove DRM ? With a GUI
2007-07-20 12:46:00 FairUseW4M v1.3fix-2 has just been released. This release of FairUseW4M offers users a full GUI (Graphical User Interface) to remove “protection” from media which have been crippled by Microsoft’s DRM solution. The v1.3fix-2 release provides support for Microsoft’s MS DRM IBX components up to version 11.0.6000.6324. To remove DRM from your files, you first use the`mirakagi` ...
Harry Potter Ending ? Corrected
2007-07-20 11:28:00 In Secret Harry Potter Ending Revealed, we told you the story of “Gabriel”, a young hacker who claimed to have breached IT security at Bloomsbury and stolen the yet-to-be-released ending of the Harry Potter series. As it turns out, the ending which Gabriel published was not what appeared in the final manuscript. The real question is this: ... More About: Rect
SunRocket Account Holders Wanted
2007-07-20 10:47:00 When VoIP provider SunRocket closed its doors without warning Monday, subscribers were suddenly left without phone service. This was not a small number of people — SunRocket had over 180,000 subscribers. SunRocket’s assets are being liquidated by Sherwood Partners. Sherwood has made a deal with Packet8 to pick up SunRocket customers. However, this deal isn’t necessarily a ... More About: Wanted , Hold , Account
GPS + GSM = Location Tracking
2007-07-17 07:54:00 GPS (Global Positioning System) technology enables us to determine our exact location anywhere on the globe. GSM (Global System for Mobilecommunications) enables us to reliably transmit information in almost every populated portion of the planet. Together, GPS and GSM give us a new possibility — the possibility of remote tracking to location of any target over enormous ... More About: Gadgets , Location , Tracking , Trac , Loca
Sprint Nextel Cancels a Thousand Problem Customers
2007-07-11 09:42:00 Sprint Nextel recently sent cancellation notices to approximately one-thousand customers. These customers had each averaged between forty and fifty calls a month to Sprint customer service and it was costing Sprint significantly more money to provide them service than Sprint was recouping in service fees. Each of these customers has been given until 30 July ... More About: Customers , Sprint , Problem , Thousand
Secret Harry Potter Ending Revealed
2007-06-21 20:25:00 A young hacker claims to have breached security at Bloomsbury and stolen the yet-to-be-released ending of the Harry Potter series of books. Here is the post he made claiming ownership of the stunt. ***************************************** ******************* * Harry Potter 0day * ***************************************** ******************* Dear my brothers, Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that’s true. And we knew that 2 days ago. This is the end of the not ... More About: Secret , Ending
Zelune - A New Web Proxy
2007-06-05 22:23:00 Zelune has made its official release to the public; Zelune is a web proxy script similar to cgi-Proxy and PHProxy but offers a lot more speed. Zelune is coded in PHP using cURL, to optimize performance. Files Zelune offers an easy to edit library of files; it is recommended that you do not edit index.php or js/main.js. ...
What is Machinima
2007-05-13 21:01:00 For those of you who don’t know what Mach inima is I STRONGLY recommend you read this Wikipedia article. But for short Machinima refers to short movies made using real-time image rendering by a 3D Game engine. Some of the most popular game engines used for this are Hallo, Sims 2, Rome total War, World of ... More About: Gaming , Entertainment
Red Hat - low cost Global Desktop
2007-05-13 15:50:00 As I was announcing last week Ubuntu plans on launching a mobile OS and, as a response, one might say, RedHat promises light-weight OS. The project is called Red Hat Global Desk top and is supposed to be a light, low hardware-requirement operating system. Also the Global Desktop is supposed to be Red Hat’s contribution to ... More About: Software , Cost
Cleaning and Organizing Windows
2007-05-12 20:18:00 Organizing your computer benefits you, the user, and helps to speed up the computer itself. Organizing the files and folders in your computer helps you to know where your files are and enables you to retrieve them faster. It also increases the speed of your computer by allowing it to fetch specific files quicker. General Organization There ... More About: Windows , Cleaning , Microsoft Windows , Indo , Window
IBM Advances Chip Making Technology ? Again
2007-05-12 19:59:00 IBM has earned more patents than any other company in the world — for thirteen years in a row. IBM Develops Computer Chip s Full of Holes documents yet another major advancement by Big Blue. The most advanced chip technology in large-scale commercial use, which uses circuits 65 nanometers apart, loses almost half of its power to leakage, ... More About: Technology , King , Maki , Ology
First Photos of the Zune Halo 3 Special Edition
2007-05-12 15:18:00 A special edition Zune was revealed today at Halo 3. The release date is set for the middle of June. Here is the full set of photos for who’s interested. More About: Hardware , Photos , Special
9 Gbit/s - New record
2007-05-11 22:20:00 Some white-coat, huge-brain scientists in Tokyo managed to break the speed record for Ethernet data communication using IPv6. The record was reported just now by the Internet2 consortium, the organizers of the competition. The data transfer took place between Tokyo, Chicago, Amsterdam, Seattle and then back to Tokyo, covering a total distance of 30.000 km. It ... More About: Hardware , New Record , Record , Cord
eStarling - one step closer to your dream-house
2007-05-11 21:41:00 We all got tired of old, wooden picture frames and some of us even adopted one of them fancy digital frames. But what exactly is a digital picture frame ? Well for short it’s the only frame you’ll ever need, you can choose what photos to display and when so you’ll never get bored from ... More About: House , Gadgets , Dream , Loser , Step
Ubuntu Unleashed - Free eBook
2007-05-11 20:07:00 Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Ubuntu , Ubuntu Unleashed aims to provide the best and latest information that intermediate to advanced Linux users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security. Written by renowned open source authors, Paul and Andrew Hudson, it includes detailed information on hot topics in ... More About: Software , Internet , Free , Ebook
Ubuntu Studio opens up
2007-05-11 10:53:00 Ubuntu Studio 7.04 went live today. Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional. They provide a suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your only limitation is your imagination. Their aim is to assemble suites of applications ... More About: Software , Internet , Ubuntu
Google Earth - now with sounds
2007-05-10 21:01:00 Google earth is one of the greatest tools when speaking of online maps and satellite images. You can visit remote places without leaving your home, you can search local businesses and much more. Well it seems that in the future you will be able to even hear those remote places you’re visiting. This will be possible ... More About: Software , Google , Internet , Sounds , Earth
Open Office 2.2 Released
More articles from this author:2007-05-04 00:13:00 Open Office v2.2 ? a very important new release- now resolves numerous security breaches issues and introduces significant general and specific enhancements, such as… Enhanced display of text; In the Calc Module, Pivot Tables now have better support; The Base Module Several key improvements; The Mac version { X11} is now far more robust … plus numerous other enhancements! Even if ... More About: Open , Released , Open Office , Lease 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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