New Feature in Mac OS X 10.4.8: Scrolling Screen Zoom
Published Saturday, September 30, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Got a Mac with a scrollwheel mouse or two finger "scroll" trackpad? Hold Ctrl and scroll that wheel around. Now you can zoom in on any point on your screen at any time. Pretty cool!
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So I order an XBox off of eBay - good price, good seller feedback. Guess what it was wrapped in. Ugh. Click for pictures.
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I happened upon this video the other day, and since then my roommates and I have watched it approximately 50 times. Enjoy...
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Vista is the first version of Windows created for a world where networks and wireless access are ubiquitous. One of Microsoft's goals in creating Windows Vista was to take advantage of that constant connectivity. Did Microsoft get it right? In a lot of ways, I think it did, and I found plenty of reasons why Windows Vista represents a breakthrough..
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Vista is the first version of Windows created for a world where networks and wireless access are ubiquitous. One of Microsoft's goals in creating Windows Vista was to take advantage of that constant connectivity. Did Microsoft get it right? In a lot of ways, I think it did, and I found plenty of reasons why Windows Vista represents a breakthrough..
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Simply Heavenly Photo of the Brooklyn Bridge at Twilight - -----walking to New York City.....This is the view thousands of New Yorkers see while walking to the city to get tp work during the morning hours.......or joggin after work
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - A technology blog - Zune to Debut at $250 on November 14
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Bink.nu | Microsoft Home Showcases New Prototypes of Technology for Daily Living
Published Thursday, September 28, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Normally, an iTunes update wouldn't be much news. But this one has lots of mentions of a "mobile phone" that can play video and display pictures. As far as we know, the ROKR and RAZR V3i can't do that.
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Slashdot | Is Microsoft Using RIAA Legal Tactics?
Published Wednesday, September 27, 2006 by Stangrunner.
David Prager Proclaims On TWiT, "Its Done, Its Done, Its Done!". Looks Like The Two+ Year Wait Will Finally Be Over.
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I was skeptical, to say the least, about this rumor, and was about to dismiss it as one more Internet hoax. But I thought I better try it out first. Well, low and behold, it works. I tried it with a Motorola v330 GSM cell phone, and it reliably opens (and relocks) the car.
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Self Ejecting MacBook Pro Battery? Battery swells and pops out!
Published Tuesday, September 26, 2006 by Stangrunner.
So I'm sitting in a staff meeting this morning and I hear a pop and then my MacBook Pro goes stone dead. I flip the laptop over and my battery fell off. Turns out the battery heated up, started to swell, changed shape and outgrew its designated battery compartment. Hey, at least it didn't catch fire. (Picture included)
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They sent a cease and desist to Podcast Ready for 'mypodder', not 'Podcast', and they have not asked them to change their name.
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Be it eggs or a hearty bowl of oatmeal, morning fare has long been branded the most important meal. Now scientists are saying it is not so important.
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Ignoring or deleting spam is one thing, but spammers will still get paid for delivering their stuff. Here's how to hurt them.
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Confirm your suspicions of somebody backbiting you in the office with the Office Espionage Kit. Contents of this kit includes a micro listening device and a couple of discreet mirrors also enable you to build a simple periscope. Yes, the kit is a little lame, but the idea is funny. The kit is probably standard issue at HP.
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This is why when you see a tanker on fire you should run as fast as you can in the opposite direction.
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Firefox Portable - the portable version of Mozilla Firefox that runs from a USB flash drive, iPod, CD, etc - now starts up even faster than before. It also has improved Unicode and Live CD support on Windows 95/98/Me. Grab a copy today.
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A list of the top 8 Google AdSense income earners. Digg founder Kevin Rose is at number 2!
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Political combat pays: "Fox News Sunday" drew its best ratings in nearly three years for this weekend's electric confrontation between former President Clinton and newsman Chris Wallace.
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Almost half of all Americans believe the November elections have more influence than market forces. For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics
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"We expect to do more to make Windows more differentiated when it's genuine, and so genuine customers get a truly different experience than non-genuine customers. Some premium features built into the Windows Vista operating system will require genuine validation." - Microsoft.
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This guy, Ryan Leech has great biking handling skills. Good body control and balance of center of gravity.
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CBS.com uses now has "netcasts" instead of podcasts. Is this because of the recent lawsuits from Apple
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Video: Steve Wozniak talks about Pirates of Silicon Valley
Published Monday, September 25, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Woz lets everyone know how accurate the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" was; "I've never had an argument with Steve (Jobs) in my life"
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In Arista v. Lime Wire, in Manhattan federal court, Lime Wire has filed its answer and interposed counterclaims against the RIAA for antitrust violations, consumer fraud, and other misconduct, alleging that the big music labels have been conspiring to destroy competition in digital music.
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INFECTIOUSVIDEOS.COM - Get Infected! Share Videos Online. How to grab a gun away
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Four amateur cave explorers in Sequoia National Park have discovered a vast cave formed 1 million years ago, a labyrinth that stretches more than 1,000 feet into a mountain and features some of the most beautiful rock formations ever seen. With Millions of crystals along its walls shimmering like diamonds
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This document covers the general concept of how LAN switches work and the most common features that are available on a LAN switch. The document also covers the differences between bridging, switching, and routing.
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I know that even in the late 70's, Long Hair was in fashion but this guy in this 1979 Apple ad has Arm Hair so thick, He looks like he's wearing a Black Long Sleeved Shirt underneath the Apple/Pascal T-Shirt. And what's with his Big Head being out of proportion to his Body? Hilarious.....
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I downloaded iTunes 7 and installed the latest iPod updater. And I noticed I something interesting. I now consistently get over 6 hours of video playback on my 5G iPod. I watched the entire 3hr 48 min Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (credits too!), the 1 hr 29 minute classic Office Space before the battery finally gave up the ghost
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How localization of your server can cripple or double your search engine traffic.
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EXCLUSIVE: Apple Trademarkdocs point to REAL reasons for Apple-Podcast row
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Using extensive documentation from the US Patent & Trademark office website, ZDNet's Russell Shaw discovers the real reasons why Apple is sending cease-and-desist letters to podcasters who use the term in their marketing.
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Now in Japan your alarm clock can set off a domino effect of objects which eventually make your breakfast
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Worried about the airline losing your luggage? No problem. Just pack a gun.
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The airline wouldn't want to be responsible for losing a gun, right? That's one photographer's solution to making sure his expensive camera equipment is watched carefully by the airline when he has to check it as luggage. He packs a starter pistol in his camera bag and declares it as a firearm.
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"As I took a right turn ... I saw a man lying on the ground in a small pool of blood. He wasn't dead." ... "the man managed to sit up and wave to passing cars. No one stopped ... No one did anything ... The only reaction came from a woman in the grocery store. In a low voice, she said, 'My God, bless his soul'"
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2 Guys Pick on the Wrong Person to Rob - They Get There ass Kicked
Published Saturday, September 23, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Most people speculate that running my PC 24/7 may cost about 10 dollars per month. However, with increasing fuel / electricity prices, this new estimation may surprise you.
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2006 Penthouse Pet of The Year Runner Up Cassia Riley makes her camera man passout during a live internet show
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A positive review by ExtremeTech on Norco's DS-1220 storage box. Twelve SATA drive racks in one box and twelve 750GB drives are included (that's 9TB of space people)!! Quite an amazing device, and somewhat reasonably priced at around $850. Come on you know you want one!
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Preclusion Motion Filed in UMG v. Lindor; Lindor Says RIAA Cannot Introduce Songs into Lawsuit if it Has Not Produced Song Files
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After twelve years of reserch and development, Guy Negre has developed an engine that could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century. A new type of engine being developed runs on compress air.
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Instead of album art it would display the contents of the screen, in real time. How lovely.
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Even Linux gurus are susceptible to the perils of exploding batteries - last night famed kernel hacker Alan Cox's IBM Thinkpad battery burst into flames and exploded. Follow the link for an in-depth story in Telsa's inimitable style and photos of the laptop's remains.
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The TWiT Podcast Network with Leo Laporte - A Cast By Any Other Name?
Published Friday, September 22, 2006 by Stangrunner.
"Say what? Macs in the mainstream -- even on a server rack? InfoWorld's Tom Yager revisits time-honored, anti-Mac objections now that Leopard and 64-bit x86 chips are in the mix."
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I received an email from my girlfriend after we broke up, and couldn't help but laugh after I noticed the ads that Gmail had provided!
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Man Jailed by Bank of America for trying to verify a check. BOA apologizes but won't pay one cent of his $14,000 in Legal Fees.
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There are many ways to make money in this world. By far the most common is trading hours for dollar, also known as a job. Trading hours for the dollar is like the worst possible method of earning a living one can make. Here's why.
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"Apple has issued a cease and desist to Podcast Ready, claiming that the terms "Podcast Ready" and "myPodder" infringe on Apple's trademarks, and that they cause confusion among consumers. Wired notes that Apple has been cracking down on use of the word "pod" by lots of different people."
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Looks like the average joe can now read about Coke machine programing. Seems that the service manual is now readily available. When are companies going to learn to guard this material better? Mirror: http://duggmirror.com/security/Coke_Machine_Service_Manual_Leaked_includes_coin_dump_function/
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Looks like the average joe can now read about Coke machine programing. Seems that the service manual is now readily available. When are companies going to learn to guard this material better?
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Quote from Adam: "As for MacCast.com "In the short term we are back and GoDaddy will closely monitor the server and notify me in advance of any issues to avoid another shutdown."
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SEATTLE - Got three bucks? That and a nickel will buy you a coffee drink at Starbucks. Starbucks Corp. said Thursday that it planned to raise prices of its lattes, cappuccinos, drip coffee and other drinks by 5 cents, or an average of 1.9 percent. The increase goes into effect Oct. 3 at all company-operated stores in the U.S. and Canada.
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THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11...
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Hidden Dimensions - Apple's Magic Sauce for Home Theater || The Mac Observer
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Sony copied the MacBook design, even down to the chiclet keyboard.
Sony Europe's site mentioned that the notebooks design was part of "Sony's Design Values" which must mean copy other company's better products. Oh well, can't blame them.
Link to the Europe site: http://www.sony-europe.com/PageView.do?section=en_EU_Press&
pressrelease=115815
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Sony Europe's site mentioned that the notebooks design was part of "Sony's Design Values" which must mean copy other company's better products. Oh well, can't blame them.
Link to the Europe site: http://www.sony-europe.com/PageView.do?section=en_EU_Press&
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Every time Apple Computer announces a new product, we hear the same question: "should I buy now, or wait?" After years of experience, iLounge's editors have a reliable answer to this question that comes in two versions: with and without an "ten-step guide to happy purchases of new Apple products." Both versions are below.
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I polled the other guys in my group and we built a damn good list of things that our IT manager did that led to him losing his $100K/year job. Note that I left a few specific things out because I don't need anyone getting pinched. If you repeat these things successfully, you too will get your team to hate you.
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Apple co-founder and portly Segway enthusiast Steve Wozniak will be appearing on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report next Thursday (September 28th)
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It's probably a bit late to call this one "getting out of hand," but, well, it is. After starting out with a rather frivolous lawsuit in the first place, and then moving on to greater heights when Shannon Derrik's mom turned down a free iPod nano delivered to their door, the debacle looks to be headed to the television via the Judge Judy show.
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The Remember Ring has a special nagging feature, using its "Hot Spot" technology that warms up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 seconds, every hour, on the hour, beginning 24 hours before that "special day," apparently honoring the anniversary of your voluntary servitude.
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Chris argues over at restiffbard.com that the fundamental difference between Windows and Mac users lies not so much in the user interface in general, but only certain specific characteristics of the UI. In particular, it's all about the "maximize" button and how it affects the user's work flow. I'm interested to read peoples personal preference.
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A security expert in New York has learned how to get free money from some ATMs by entering a special code sequence on the PIN pad that he found using legally obtained operation manuals.
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In this project, they build a little robot out of surprisingly simple, minimal parts. This project requires some materials and parts you might already have lying around the house.
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Imagine somebody has always used a free Unix clone and is now forced to use Windows XP. This is article shows how he would feel about common practices of Microsoft's Operating System.
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Although he had never heard of "model engineering," a friend of his knew of his machining talents and brought him some books on model making from England. His interest in model engines was inspired by these publications, and he scaled down some of the available plans to make smaller versions of engines he saw there.
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The shopping cart-tent combo depicted in these images was the winner in a design contest where the goal was to "to design a cart that can provide shelter and storage." Why? Well, elsewhere on the site it explains that this was a "social awareness" design contest because "homelessness is a complex issue encompassing multiple facets of society."
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A guy walks the streets of America and asks random people some pretty easy questions. A couple of these answers actually had me laughing out loud.
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A special treat for Macworld readers, we're giving you a free copy of the award-winning multiple clipboard & scrapbook application, iClip.
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McDonald's may sell breakfast all day...woooohooo!!
Published Wednesday, September 20, 2006 by Stangrunner.
McDonald's Corp. may soon offer its breakfast menu all day long as a new restaurant layout will make it easier to prepare a wide variety of foods at once, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
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I thought Oprah was smart too... or so i was told. I can't wait to show my mom this, lol.
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Using a beer can "sculpted" into a certain shape we can now all open combination masterlocks in seconds.
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People with ties to Apple say the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is well aware of the matter and that it's toiling feverishly to rectify the issues. It hopes to release an update to both the Mac and PC versions of the jukebox software -- presumably iTunes 7.0.1 -- as soon as possible, those people say.
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A perfect directory of Free Portable Applications for your USB Memory Stick! Great apps which can be taken with you.
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[Quoted from Linked Source] "Marvin P. Bush, the president's younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The company, Burns noted, was backed by KuwAm, a Kuwaiti-American investment firm on whose board Marvin Bush also served."
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Residents of this upscale property on the Upper East Side of Manhattan can use an IP telephone and touch screen to control lighting, play music and raise the temperature in their units. That's because the complex runs a single IP-based network for building-management systems and IT.
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Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? Don't worry, installing software, themes and other things on Ubuntu is actually very easy! This guide will help you understand with screenshots, instructional videos and to-the-point language.
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Apple Computer this week made pre-release versions of its next-generation operating system available to a broader developer audience. Meanwhile, the company is aware of ongoing issues with its latest iTunes release and is working on a solution.
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Gwyn Harvey has developed a new radar-activated speed bump system "that would only deploy to slow drivers traveling at an unreasonable speed." The so-called "Selective Road Humps" would likely cost a great deal more than regular speed humps, but could theoretically be justified in busy subdivisions and residential areas.
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How is this possible. Chris Angel swallows a quarter, works it down his arm, then slits his wrist to pull it out. wtf!?
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CNN.com - Missing 'Baby Abby' found alive - Sep 19, 2006
Published Tuesday, September 19, 2006 by Stangrunner.
CNN.com - Dragged woman left mile-long blood trail, police say - Sep 19, 2006
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"After discussing how my iTunes library is set up with a few readers in the comments on my First Impressions/2G iPod nano post, I figured this might be a handy tip for readers who find themselves running out of room to store an expanding iTunes library. "
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NASA engineers are checking into a baffling sight of a mystery object below the shuttle that mission control spotted at about 2:45 a.m EDT Tuesday with a video camera in the shuttle's cargo bay.
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"This week, the Senate is planning to quietly hold a vote that would pardon President Bush for breaking the law by illegally wiretapping innocent Americans without warrants. According to Senator Leahy, the bill would '...immunize officials who have violated federal law by authorizing such illegal activities.'" That's from a MoveOn.org petition.
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From ABC News: Speaking in tongues, weeping for salvation, praying for an end to abortion and worshiping a picture of President Bush � these are some of the activities at Pastor Becky Fischer's Bible camp in North Dakota, "Kids on Fire," subject of the provocative new documentary, "Jesus Camp."
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Estimates suggest there are 5.6 million vending machines in Japan which works out to be one for every 20 people. Sales from vending machines in 2000 totaled $56 billion! The most common are drink and cigarette machines followed by machines with pornography. Check out some of these in this collection...
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This video is a documentary on feral children: children raised by animals and totally deprived of human contact. Don't watch this if you get freaked out by psychological stuff.
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Niceto see they run windows, but do these computers do anything else besides solitaire? :-)
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Like all computers, Macs do have their own problems. Even the biggest mac fanatic (I'm a pretty big one) have to admit, while they are pretty sweet, their not PERFECT. Watch as Steve fumes and heads roll.
How many jobs do you think these flubbs cost?
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The napkin will contain nanofibers that are bound to certain antibodies, and when those antibodies latch on to specific elements the cloth will change colors.
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As before, its smaller-than-standard-iPod-Dock casing includes only a line-out audio port and a Dock Connector port for data transfers, and does not include a video port (unused by the nanos), an IR remote sensor, or any ability to work with other iPods. Even the prior iPod nano doesn't fit inside.
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CNN.com - Immigration raids make a ghost town in Georgia - Sep 15, 2006
Published Friday, September 15, 2006 by Stangrunner.
There exists a pretty significant interface problem with the Apple Installer program such that any package requesting admin access via the AdminAuthorization key, when run in an admin user account, is given full root-level access without providing the user with a password prompt during the install.
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"Microsoft on Thursday official unveiled its Zune digital media player but refused to provide pricing details, likely because it was caught off-guard by Apple Computer's aggressive new pricing on its video iPod line."
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"The entertainment industry has proposed that ISPs should be forced by law to monitor all customers' communications for copyright infringement, charging for anything that might be a copyrighted work."
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Piracy - it's not just for the high seas anymore. In fact, according to the MPAA, 44 percent of their piracy losses in the US come from college students.
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The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, both of which helped police, said authorities uncovered among the largest CD burning labs and movie pirating labs in the country.
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Yeah, everyone salivates over going from 100 hits a day to 10K hits a day but what happens when your CTR goes from 5% to 0.005%! Why you see your advertising revenue drop to the floor! Diggers may bring in the hits, but they don't bring in the clicks!
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J.K. Rowling says she won an argument with airport security officials in New York to carry the manuscript of the final "Harry Potter" book as carry-on baggage. "A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S."
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Police put a stop to Steven Rex Larsen's eBay business last week when they arrested the 42-year-old man on charges of shoplifting and trafficking in stolen property. Police said Larsen walked into Wal-Mart, 4505 E. McKellips Road, on Sept. 7 with a large cardboard box and headed to the electronics department. He reportedly put 48 DVDs [...]
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Soviet tank raised from being underwater for 56 years - still runs!
Published Thursday, September 14, 2006 by Stangrunner.
14 September 2000, a Komatsu dozer pulled an abandoned tank from its archival tomb under the bottom of a lake near Johvi, Estonia. The Soviet-built T34 tank had been resting at the bottom of the lake for 56 years. It was found that oil was still in the tank, and the Estonian war history club members successfully started the engine.
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Check this out, type in someone's phone number and write a short message, they call and repeat your typed message in an artificial voice. Several voices there to choose from and you get "spoof" the caller ID to display anything you want.
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iTV will enable users to view all their Apple-downloaded content on a big screen tv - movies, TV shows, music, podcasts, and photos. Several pundits noted that Apple's strategy for their Internet-connected products, including iTV, is disarmingly similar to the one Microsoft employs: closed ecosystems built on proprietary, locked-down technologies.
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Johnson announced an "entirely new store design," inspired by the Fifth Avenue store in New York, which recently had its one millionth visitor. Unfortunately, no details were revealed, but as a frequent Apple Store visitor, a little less emphasis on iPods would be nice. Also, a fondue bar, and maybe complimentary massages, that would be good.
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Ben Sinclair has done a little digging inside the files that are in an iPod game and made some interesting discoveries.
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iLounge has posted the first unboxing photos of Apple's new 80GB "enhanced" fifth-generation iPod, with brand new shots of the new device.
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iPod Owners Revolting on Apple Forums! Want search function on old 5g Pods.
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Apple geeks are revolting on the Apple discussions forums about the decision not to upgrade old 5th generation iPods with the new quick search feature despite being upgraded to allow game purchases and letter highlight scrolling. A 5th generation iPod is a 5th generation iPod, don't use a simple software upgrade to screw iPod fans.
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It's promo time! In an attempt to woo new customers ABC is giving away free copies of last season's finales of Lost, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy
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"Just got our new 'remastered' Nano today, and we immediately took it apart and posted photos online.
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You can force iTunes 7 to replace all your album art in your music library, even replacing the old-and-busted low-res album art you found via Google Images.
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Two undercover NYPD cops in a sting operation used $7,000 and the Internet to build a truck bomb big enough to blow up a skyscraper, officials revealed yesterday. In what was dubbed "Operation Kaboom," every purchase the cops made was legal - and aroused little suspicion - even driving their simulated truck bomb throughout the city.
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Firefox 1.5.0.7 & Flock 0.75 Release Tomorrow, Firefox 2.0 RC1 On Sept. 19
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The latest update to Flock 0.75 will be released tomorrow. Also, Firefox 1.5.0.7 update is set for release tomorrow, along side the update to Thunderbird. And if all goes well, Firefox 2.0 RC1 will be released on September 19th.
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62,006 People Killed, 4.5 Million Refugees Created by Bush's War on Terror
Published Wednesday, September 13, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Five years later, according the British newspaper, the Independent, the Bush administration's Global War on Terror has resulted in, at a minimum, 20 times the deaths of 9/11; at a maximum, 60 times. It has "directly killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees and cost the US more than then the sum needed to pay off the debts....
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Some genetically altered creatures are loaded with human
cells and even organs. Others glow. Vote for the freakiest.
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cells and even organs. Others glow. Vote for the freakiest.
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Things got a bit too realistic on the set of CSI: New York on Tuesday, where an actual mummified body was discovered inside the building where production was underway.
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Less than 24 hours after the new iPod nano was announced, one user has got his hands on Apple's new iPod nano, and shared the unpacking...
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Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"
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A man takes a new job in an IT shop and finds three letters in his desk from the former head of the department. Each letter is only to be opened in an emergency...
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Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have succeeded in unraveling the genetic basis of two rare congenital diseases in which afflicted persons have no fingerprints.
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The toy RC Plane that the SERIOUS RC Flyers All Have. The kicker? Only $30!
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The AeroAce has the internet on FIRE with modifications, tinkerings, and generally cool stuff regarding this unique little remote control plane. You have to get one.
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Numbers: 3,015 Americans died (military deaths) as of September 9, 2006. 2,973 Americans died during the attacks on 9/11. - "Iraq didn't attack us on that day, and our misguided policy there has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda."
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When he announced last week that he would be transferring 14 alleged al-Qaida terrorists from secret prisons and that the "tough" methods employed by the CIA had pried loose valuable intelligence from the suspects," President Bush also unveiled a bill to set up military tribunals to try the prisoners. This bill is more than meets the eye.
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BOOKMARK this Extremely Thorough and informative reference site - Contains Everthing you could want to know about TCP IP! Hundreds of pages of information
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Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, says it will double the number of stores using RFID to more than 1,000 by January 2007.
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Unless Apple has a quick change of heart, It appears that they have a link to the quicktime stream that is set to start at 10am Pacific. Currently the quicktime link opens a 404 message, but should open an actual stream at 10am Pacific.
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"Yet another masterful Emmy winning performance by Steve Jobs, which met most if not all the expectations of the Mac faithful." - GigaOm
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Have you heard that the young Bigfoot caught in Maine has been sold to a mystery buyer for $17 million dollars? Don't laugh. Yet.
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The students in the classroom with Pres. Bush on 9/11 reminisce about that day and how they view the events that followed. "'His face just started to turn red,' said Tyler, now 13 and in seventh grade. 'I thought, personally, he had to go to the bathroom.'"
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Wanted to Browse fast in windows. Remember these commands.
This will really save a lot of time of your. There are many
commands which you might have never seen or never knew.
There are certain properties of windows which you hardly know
exist in windows. Here is a list of 112 run commands.
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This will really save a lot of time of your. There are many
commands which you might have never seen or never knew.
There are certain properties of windows which you hardly know
exist in windows. Here is a list of 112 run commands.
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Its a media device that you dont watch, but everybody else does. Your belt is equipped with a video screen so everyone at the club can stare at your .....er...... belt.
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It now downloads album art for you from the iTunes Store, has a new view called Cover Flow (seriously!). Wow!
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The new product: a box to connect to your TV to play all these iTunes Movies and iTunes TV shows on it. This box supports wireless "no stringing cables" and is the missing piece. iTV looks like a small Mac Mini. It's just an internal codename, and will be renamed later.
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The Examining Room of Dr. Charles - Sometimes I Wish I Were an Asian Woman Living in New Jersey
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - It's Showtime. Or it will be in April 2007 or so
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This is one of the worst breaks I have ever seen, if you get squeamish easily don't watch.
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Found this video on youtube. Footage of a manhole cover which appears to be holding back millions of roaches. It is absolutely disturbing. This manhole either leads straight to hell or New Jersey. Since this footage is from Japan (and since cameras are huge in Japan) there are already dozens of similar videos on youtube.
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These guys hide in trees and blow an airhorn everytime someone tries to tee off. Some guy gets so angry with them that he chucks this golf club at them and starts hitting balls at them. Hilarious!
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Unless Apple has a quick change of heart, It appears that they have a link to the quicktime stream that is set to start at 10am Pacific. Currently the quicktime link opens a 404 message, but should open an actual stream at 10am Pacific.
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t least 10 stingrays have been found dead and mutilated on Australia's eastern coast since "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was killed by one of the animals last week, an official said Tuesday, prompting concerns of revenge attacks on the normally docile fish.
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Apple Keynote - AJAX enabled site with live updating, no refreshing needed.
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MacRumorsLive uses AJAX to update their page with news from the Apple Keynote every 60 seconds. Just open it once - no need to reload the page!
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VentureBeat » Digg woes - One of Digg’s top diggers, p9, has quit, and Netscape is grinning
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We really do need more commercials like these in the states! This, truly is the greatest and most effective condom commercial ever.
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This article will show you how to hack a pop machine and either get half off pop or 3 pops for the price of one. Its a pretty neat trick and there is a video as well.
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A video blogger has uploaded an unedited 30 minute video of the WTC attacks to Revver. It was filmed from their home 500 yards from the north tower. This is the first time this video has been publicly released.
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To get a greater sense of motorist-bicyclist interactions, a researcher named Dr. Ian Walker put his body on the line and went out on his bicycle, armed with a ultrasound distance meter. Now, having been passed by motorists over 2,500 times and hit twice, he reached the conclusion: drivers passed closer to a cyclist that was wearing a helmet.
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Test-driving the new Intel-powered 24-inch iMac from Apple - Sep. 11, 2006
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During the taping of Diggnation Episode 62 kevin rose threw up on alex albrecht and his couch. Probably one of the best outtakes yet.
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CNN.com - Anna Nicole Smith's son dies visiting mom in hospital - Sep 11, 2006
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The Dilbert Blog: Why Do I Enjoy Riling People Up?
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Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak has one of the most unique houses in an exclusive area of Los Gatos in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 7,100-sq foot house has 6 bedrooms and 7.5 baths and seems relatively normal.....
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New research has shown that men bond together and cooperate well in the face of adversity to protect their interests more than women, which could explain why war is almost exclusively a male business.
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In this super bizarre interview with Montreal TV host Anne-Marie Losique back in 2004, a drunk Ben Affleck does stuff us mere mortals would typically be arrested for.
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CNN.com - Schwarzenegger: Cubans, Puerto Ricans 'all very hot' - Sep 8, 2006
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This instructable is to show you how easy it is to remove some unwanted logo's from cell phones and other plastic / metal products.
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BUBBA GOES BALLISTIC ON ABC ABOUT ITS DAMNING 9/11 MOVIE By IAN BISHOP Post Correspondent - New York Post Online Edition: News
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Capt. Juan Ramon Arevalo, director of the prison known as Zacatras, said the gang members had introduced the cell phones, wrapped in plastic bags, into their bodies through their anuses. Authorities also found nine cell phone chips and one charger
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I'm especially fond of the model that features a flat ribbon cable. Not only do you get a great arm workout, but James Bond will be able to use your mouse to rappel down the outside of the building after stealing you top secret missile plans and your girlfriend
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You filthy cockaroach! Weatherman flips out on air when he sees a cockroach
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Although it's just an acknowledgment and recommendation to contact Apple Care, at least it's acknowledgment for those of suffering this annoying issue.
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The NeoOffice project has released the first free public beta of its upcoming 2.0 software. NeoOffice is a port of the OpenOffice.org codebase to native Mac OS X APIs and toolkits. The result is an office suite that is integrated with OS X core functionality.
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If you've ever wondered what is actually inside those famous white iPod earbuds you keep in your ears, this article has the answers. Photos show off the surprising components inside Apple's hard-to-duplicate packed-in ear phones.
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Check out some of the secrets of Pizza delivery drivers. You might be shocked!
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Use Gmail Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses
Published Thursday, September 07, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-ma
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UNIX provides hundreds, if not thousands, of commands with which you can manipulate a large variety of resources available in the kernel and user space. Martin Streicher, Editor-in-Chief, Linux Magazine, looks at three essential UNIX utilities that deliver the entire Internet to your command line.
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Shatner who plays fearless Kirk says he is terrified of taking up Sir Richard Bransons offer of joining Virgin Galactics first passenger flight in 2008.
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See how your site looks in various versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape, Mozilla, Firebird, Dillo, Opera, Seamonkey, K-Meleon, Konquerer and more. Counted a total of 30 setups between Linux, Mac, and Windows. Also configurable to see your site in different resolutions. Too cool =)
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What is FreeNAS ?
FreeNAS is a small (less than 32MB) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP and NFS).
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FreeNAS is a small (less than 32MB) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP and NFS).
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Mini-Microsoft: Kicking the SPSA Can Again, Raises, and the 66th Percentile
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STLtoday - News - St. Charles - Wentzville woman found guilty of assault with dead Chihuahua
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - Apple adds Core 2 Duo processors, 24-inch model to iMac line
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Check out this cool new technology Philips. It's amazing! They are integrating LEDs into fabric and had some jackets and a couch there. Really cool!
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Disney has partnered with Imagination Farms, a produce distributor that sells cartoon-branded fruits and veggies, to fill the produce aisle with Disney-brand fruit.
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How to make and use a bump key. Opens nearly any lock in seconds, and much easier to do than lock picking
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The computer spy that steals your passwords and credit details
Published Tuesday, September 05, 2006 by Stangrunner.
ABOUT three weeks ago, Cheryl Lambert bought a £179 surfboard on eBay for her daughter. Soon after, she noticed her computer started to behave erratically and within a few days it had ground to a halt. A few days after her desktop machine was unplugged from the internet, Lambert's personal details appeared on a Russian website.
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Australian researchers developing a "bionic eye" say early tests have succeeded in stimulating limited visual sensation in people suffering a rare form of genetic blindness.
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California legislators have passed a law which will force makers of wireless internet equipment to include guidance on keeping data secure on wireless connections. The legislation acknowledges disagreement in the US as to whether it is legal for someone to use another person's unprotected Wi-Fi connection.
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Cable modem speed freaks, be patient. One analyst predicts that by 2011, only 40 percent of consumers will be able to take advantage of the higher speeds offered by DOCSIS 3.0. DOCSIS 3.0 achieves its speed boost in part through "channel bonding" (using more than one channel to transmit data) for both up- and downstream transmission.
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A couple recent stories on Digg showed a site being hosted on an old Acer computer and another hosted on an old Apple Lisa computer, but here is a site that is hosted on an Apple Newton PDA. You can even view a current screen shot from the Newton.
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A wireless video streaming device, possibly slotting in to the Airport Express lineup is rumoured for launch alongside the iTunes Movie Store following Apple's realization that people aren't too interested in watching feature length movies on a tiny screen.
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Back in July, the boys here caught wind of the POWER POUCH Sports Bra by gracie's gear, and dubbed it "single most important iPod accessory to ever have been made." Well, little did they know, they were actually on to something
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Stingrays like the one that killed "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin are cousins of sharks. But unlike some sharks, which are fearsome predators with powerful jaws, the stingray is rarely a threat to humans and its small mouth is no threat at all.
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A Shelbyville man who is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 19 has asked to die by electric chair, raising the possibility that the state could carry out its first electrocution death in 46 years.
[Shelbyville eh]
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[Shelbyville eh]
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Apple maintains records of stolen iPod serial numbers. Apple's iTunes software records the serial number of the last connected iPod. Apple sells songs to people that enter their billing information into the iTunes software. So why isn't Apple doing anything to prevent the sale of songs to the person with your stolen iPod?
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Around 100 passengers and staff at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport were evacuated for 30 minutes this morning after Transportation Security Administration officials noticed a suspicious article in a passenger's carry-on baggage.
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Letterman with a bullhorn causes grief for Bryant Gumbel. "I'm not wearing pants!"
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Cool gallery of images comparing the 1980 version of the movie to the 2004 DVD release. This was probably the safest of the movies to show comparisons as people are still sore over Greedo shooting first.
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Random Macbook Shutdowns. Solved. At Last. Hopefully. « Martin Backschat’s Blog
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"I've always wanted a house with a secret passageway, hidden rooms, secret stairs. Apparently I'm not alone. There are now companies that cater to just these twisted desires, such as The Hidden Door Company."
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It is understood he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest.
He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that's when it occurred.
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He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that's when it occurred.
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Slashdot | Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In?
Published Sunday, September 03, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Bands often have unusual names and here are the origins of some popular bands both past and present. One thing that you will discover if you look into this area is that RUMORS abound! If we cannot confirm an origin, we have given alternatives found in other sources.
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Take a virtual tour of Apple Store Fifth Avenue. Choose a number and jump to that area of interest, experiencing 360° panorama's of the interior and exterior of the store.
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"We are not talking anymore about what climate models say might happen in the future.
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