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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
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
Roomba
2007-04-26 16:04:00 I recently purchased an iRobot Room ba. I tested it out and the results were good, so I purchased two more. I know have one of the mad little robots wandering every floor of my home. I had avoided purchasing a Roomba because I could not imagine that a vacuum that small could be powerful ...
Wireless Power
2007-04-26 13:07:00 Wireless power has been a technological dream for many years. The folks at Power cast hope to make it a reality by 2008 Radio waves carry power. In most applications, we use that power simply to carry encoded information. However, we can also use that power as power. The trouble has always been that loss during ... More About: Wireless , Wire , Less
Wii Deaths
2007-04-11 05:26:00 There are no known cases of human deaths resulting from gaming with the Nintendo Wii, although there are plenty of cases of television and furniture deaths resulting from excited Wii players with weak grips on their WiiMotes. One enterprising entrepreneur has even created a Wii Death T-Shirt which shows a bloody WiiMote sticking into a players ... More About: Deaths
Repair WinSock
2007-03-08 12:51:00 WinSock XP Fix is a quick little utility which attempts to fix Internet connectivity issues which are caused by a corrupted WinSock configuration. If some application has tweaked your WinSock configuration beyond repair, download WinSock XP Fix from Snapfiles.com and give it a try. It’s one heck of a lot easier than reinstalling Windows. More About: Pair , Wins , Repair
Windows Vista?s New Applications and Features
2007-03-02 13:42:00 Themes and Display The capability of Windows Vista to make full use of the newest graphics accelerators technology makes it able to display resizable icons, special window panels and previews of windows and documents. Switching from application to application with Vista is a lot easier, too, because of the Flip 3D View feature. Start Menu and ... More About: Applications , Windows Vista , Features
Flash MP3 Players
2007-02-28 14:14:00 I recently took a look at Flash MP3 players by Apple, archos, Creative, iriver, and SanDisk. I discarded the archos and iriver models immediately, as they top out at 4GB and I wanted a minimum capacity of 6GB. That left me looking at three options: iPod Nano Creative Zen V Plus SanDisk Sansa e280 Features The Zen V Plus and the Sansa ... More About: Players , Lash , Layer
Windows Vista Upgrades
More articles from this author:2007-02-27 17:24:00 Windows Vista is one of the most ambitious software projects that have ever been undertaken by Microsoft. It is more revolutionary than evolutionary, though, in the sense that it is still backwards compatible with most of the previous programs in XP. This creates a problem for Microsoft as it makes XP the largest competitor of ... More About: Windows , Windows Vista , Upgrades , Indo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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