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Apple TV connects your computer to your TV
2007-03-22 11:40:00
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhuanet) — Looking to take advantage of a niche in the video market provided by Internet download movie enthusiatists who are not “techies” and don’t understand the intricacies of hooking up a computer to a television, Apple Corp presents Apple TV. Apple TV is a box that can connect computers and TVs without ...
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The multicore era is upon us
2007-03-17 21:37:00
Intel and AMD are fighting for supremacy in a multicore era, who knows what powerful processors will be made in the near future. Megahertz will take you only so far. Desktop processors topped the 1GHz mark in 2000, 2GHz in 2001, and 3GHz in 2002. Nearly five years later, we’ve yet to see a chip leave ...
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One Terabyte hard drive ported to Dell, Alienware systems
2007-03-17 01:27:00
I always wanted to have 1 Terabyte HDD now it’s possible with the new systems from Dell and Alienware. Dell revealed today that it will be the first computer builder to offer a one terabyte hard drive as an option in its systems. Using Hitachi’s recently announced Deskstar 7K1000, Dell’s own XPS 710, as well as ...
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Windows Mobile 6 free to PDA manufacturers issuing upgrades
2007-03-07 20:41:02
It looks like Microsoft’s making it a little bit easier for manufacturers to release updates to Wind ows Mobile 6. The company is giving free licenses to any vendors who issue upgrades for their devices.read more | digg story
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Let Robots Sweat the Boring Stuff
2007-03-07 20:41:02
If it’s bad for humans to be reduced to robotic inauthenticity, isn’t it preferable that real robots should step in to execute our mindless tasks for us? But what happens when robots start to develop emotions of their own?read more | digg story
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Trolltech Becomes the First Corporate Patron of KDE
2007-03-07 20:41:02
Trolltech, the Norwegian company behind the Qt toolkit has become the second Patron of KDE. Patrons of KDE may display the “Patron of KDE” logo on their website and any other material for as long as they are a Patron of KDE and will be listed on the KDE e.V. website, if they so wish.read more | digg story
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Compiz will be installed by default in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
2007-03-07 20:41:02
Updates today have made compiz a dependency of ubuntu-desktop, which means it will be installed by default with Ubuntu feisty fawn. Although this doesn’t mean it will be enabled by default it’s certainly unfortunate for the beryl project who’s primary goal for their next release was to be included in Ubuntu.read more | digg story
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Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
2007-03-07 20:41:02
In February’s edition of the Top 10 0 Alternative Search Engine s list, there are 32 new search engines. Also R/WW announces its first “Search Engine of the Month” for 2007 - GoshMe, a meta-meta-search engine. The top 100 is made up of search engines that exhibit superiority to Google - not as a whole, but in just one particular area.read more | digg story

Simple hack keeps Netflix Watch Now from tracking your minutes?
2007-03-07 20:41:02
  Remember how back in the day — before software developers got wise to this sort of thing — you could extend the life of some shareware indefinitely by simply winding back your machine’s calendar every so often? Well according to tipster “Livesunkept” (a pseudonym, we suspect), a similar jury-rigged hack is all it takes to vastly extend your monthly allotment of viewing hours for Netflix’s new Watch Now streaming video service. Normally Netflix keeps track of how long you’ve been watching, and correlates that number to the fee you pay each month, subtracting from your bank of minutes based on your subscription level (i.e. an $18 plan might give you 18 hours of streamed viewing). Always looking for a way to beat the system, Livesunkept discovered that if you disconnect your network adapter after a given movie has finished downloading (usually 15 to 20 minutes), and then clear your cache and cookies before reconnecting it at the end of the fl...
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Apple adds Ms. Pac-Man iPod game to iTunes Store
2007-03-07 20:41:02
New iPod games have been few and far between in recent months, but Apple just added another one to its iTunes Store. Ms. Pac-Man is the game, and it’s a faithful conversion of the classic arcade game. Ms. Pac-Man has four unique maze designs, and 256 levels to chomp your way through. The game also features the animated intermissions from the original arcade game, for added authenticity. There’ll be three game modes too. Original is, well, the original in all its pixelly glory. Normal mode has been specially tuned for the iPod, while Easy is… We’ll let you guess that one. As with all iPod games, you can opt to use your own tunes as the soundtrack, or have the game’s own sounds instead. And there’s a high-score table to boot. We weren’t too keen on iPod Pac-Man, due to its fiddly controls, so here’s hoping Ms. Pac-Man has corrected that fault. We’ll let you know when we’ve had a good play. In the meantime, check out our pick ...
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Geek Squad Charges $415 Dollars To Replace A Hard Drive?
2007-03-07 20:41:02
…and makes customer retrieve data files himself. Geek Squad : Price to diagnose was $69.00, OS Install $129.00, Back up transfer $99.00, NO Guarantee. Estimated repair time seven to ten days. “Seven days later, they hadn’t even looked at the machine. After 8 days, they’d begun testing the laptop…” read on for more.read more | digg story
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Run Windows Vista for 120 days without activation key
2007-03-07 20:41:02
When you first install Wind ows Vista , you can run it for 30 days without entering a product key. This is the evaluation period, but what happens if your thirty days runs out before you buy an activation key; if you’re not sure you want to buy one; or if you were only trying out Vista and don’t plan to buy it, but have some files you need to get off of that computer? Well, as Dwight Silverman found out the hard way, on day 31 Windows boots up and gives you a warning message that you’re running a version of Vista that’s not “genuine.” Then Internet Explorer opens up and asks if you’d like to purchase an activation key. Silverman was able to figure out how to open a few programs and move a few files around through the Internet Explorer interface, which was necessary because he wanted to clean up the PC before returning the evaluation computer he’d been using. But it turns out there’s an officially supported way to turn that 30 day e...
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