Today 11.30
This episode covers the following digg stories: The world according to Livejournal, Flickr - London bomb blasts, HOWTO: Save nearly any multimedia file, New Firefox update system, Water that does not get things wet, Look mom! No parachute, Google maps transparencies, and Man Charged With Felony For Stealing Wi-FI.
Today 11.25
A list of default passwords for logins for different models of devices. Excellent reference as many forget to set passwords! ;D
Today 11.24
Motion Computing could ignite a new wave of enthusiasm for Tablet PCs with its new LS 800 model. The device is a full-featured Tablet PC running Windows XP and integrating a Pentium M processor in a case that is slightly larger than a pocket book.
Today 11.23
the chief executive of BP, said "if just 5 per cent of the world's electricity generating capacity was based on the new technology then by 2050 global carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced by one billion tonnes a year".
Today 11.23
Amazon recruited celebrities such as Harrison Ford, Jason Alexander and Moby to deliver products to Amazon customers across the United States, beginning today. The deliveries will be webcast on its Web page culminating with performances by Norah Jones and Bob Dylan streamed live on Amazon's home page.
Today 10.47
Maxtor / DiamondMax 10 / 160GB / 7200 / 8MB / ATA-133 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive...tigerdirect
Today 10.46
A great way to learn morse code is to use this new chart!
Today 10.45
A library of pre-written regular expressions that you can plug into your code. Also, features a regular expression online testing engine against inputted text or a website text. Very handy resource!
Today 10.45
TiVo said it is cutting the cost of its 40-hour Series2 digital video recorder (DVR) in half--from $199 to $99--in an effort to drive sales this summer. A representative said the dropped price will stay at $99 until August 20.
Today 10.45
Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel Corp. now embedding digital rights management within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chipset.
Today 9.30
Just when you thought you could escape cell phones by communing with nature . . . you may need to ignore that ringing in the nearby tree.
Today 7.22
A Delaware court has agreed to an AMD request for documents to be preserved in its anti-trust suit against Intel. AMD asked the court on Friday to serve subpoenas for the preservation of documents in the possession of specified third parties so they may be used as evidence in the litigation. The court granted the request shortly after.
Today 7.18
Presenting at the Power Everywhere Forum 2005 in Japan, IBM today formally introduced a dual-core version of its PowerPC 970 (G5) processor, which could find its way into Apple Power Macs in the coming months. The 64-bit chips, code-named Antares, contain two processing units per chip, each with their own execution core and...
Today 7.18
Now your Captain N costume can finally be complete! This guy makes belt buckles from actual NES controllers. A bit pricey at $30, but the geek factor is high.
Today 7.15
Job listings for internal studio Rare confirm the software giant is making games for its archrival's latest handheld.
Today 5.16
Here you will find the 'forbidden' video clips ... all the clips (eventually) that Fox CUT from the DVDs. I'm hoping that Fox will sanction this and not ask me to remove them. However, if they ask, I will remove them. So get em quick!
Today 4.45
Having 30,000 Lego building bricks at your disposal has it's advantages..."I'm scared. You've figured out how to blend Nintendo and Legos" my girlfriend said this when she found out that I was doing this.
Today 4.30
Newegg has Mushkin 1GB PC3200 Memory for $79.95 after rebate, free shipping. $10 rebate Exp 7/23/05 Great for overclocking!
Today 4.11
Store, share and transport data with ease. Micro Vault plugs directly into your computer's USB port and acts like another drive. No cables or adaptors needed, no power cord, no driver software
Today 4.10
User's of the Internet are avoiding Fileshare,certain Websites and Changing Browser's for Fear of Adware And Spyware
Today 2.30
Maddox's latest rant about blogs and the new words coined because of them: Blogosphere, Blawg, Moblog, Podcast, etc.
Today 1.37
A PhD student in the Information and Language Processing Systems group at the University of Amsterdam has programmed a Livejournal mood tracker. Pretty interesting stuff!
Today 1.35
The Belle collaboration at the KEK laboratory in Japan has observed a rare process whereby a bottom quark decays into a down quark, researchers announced at the Lepton-Photon symposium in Uppsala in Sweden this week.
Today 1.34
Sometimes an excellent software product comes to market, gets rave reviews, and then disappears. This happens regardless of a clear need and want for the product. The problem is not specific to any particular software domain; BeOS, and Lotus Improv were both great products but seem to have nothing in common apart from being good ideas that failed.
Today 1.32
You have to try to keep the mobile out of the water, after a certain amount of time you get more things to add. Via Plastic Bugs. (I got to the red boulder)
Today 1.26
Tips for minimizing DNS cache poisoning.
Today 1.22
Between 75% and 98.8% of visitors to Web sites come from searches made at search engines. If you’re going to get high levels of traffic, and the levels of ROI you’re looking for, it’s very important that the search engines can access all the information on your site. Here is how to ensure that the engines know about all your pages.
Today 1.21
Here is a great review of the Logitech Playgear Pocket Case for the PSP. PSP 411 gave it a 99/100, and they state that this is the best case on the market at the moment. Price is $20, which is reasonable, and is strong and durable. Works as a stand, shade, and case!
Today 1.19
CompUSA has the Compaq Presario SR1010z Athlon 64 3000+ Desktop System for $360 - $50 compaq rebate - $250 CompUSA rebate = $60 + $69 shipping = $129. Great deal for a solid system. No monitor.
Today 1.10
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, C|NET compiled a list representing what they consider to be the top 10 biggest trends in downloading over the 10 years they've been around.
Today 1.02
If you have been looking into using BSD as your operating system but have been afraid to make the switch because of the intimidation of BSD, this might be the answer for you. Clean install interface and easy install manager makes this a valid replacement for any other os.
Today 0.30
simple as the title ...
Today 0.21
Email programs, such as Mail.app 2.0, are starting to get "smart" with Smart Mailboxes. Here is a new product for Tiger which allows you to organize your email intelligently.
Today 0.11
As promised, Google today released 3 Firefox extensions with the anticipated Google toolbar.
Yesterday 23.33
Computer chips that use light rather than electricity to dramatically speed computing...research efforts aimed at producing nanoscale optics could make chip-scale communications devices and scientific equipment practical within a decade.
Yesterday 23.29
Amber Mac: Here's a quick overview of the free services I've used. The summary - Dropload is awesome if you want to send files under 100MB (so if you use 'em, definitely donate to this great little service!).
Yesterday 23.10
The number of people who download free serial audio programs, or podcasts, is set to explode over the next few years, according to a new report.
Yesterday 23.10
We picked the brains of gurus and geeks to come up with our 13th annual list of upstarts who are changing the game. Today's esprit de cool runs from San Diego to Beijing and includes everything from gadgets to biotech.
Yesterday 22.44
TiVo has moved from desktop operating systems to embedded system using Linux and there are a number of people trying to hack into TiVo services. Here are a few tips before you try to do that.
Yesterday 22.40
Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard is constructing a solar-powered plane to fly around the world. His aim is to support sustainable development by demonstrating what renewable energy and new technologies can achieve.
Yesterday 22.32
AMDs lawsuit against Intel might serve up some drama about high-tech personalities and offer insight into the inner workings of the chip business. Industry and legal experts agree that if AMD's claims about Intel having illegally coerced its customers are true, it could be a landmark case.
Yesterday 22.02
Most medical records are currently kept on paper, with only 10 to 15 percent of U.S. physicians using electronic medical records. This is expected to save up to $74 billion per year or 5% of health care spending
Yesterday 21.59
Mobile phone manufacturer LG Electronics has agreed to use a version of the Palm OS designed by Palmsource in a future smart phone, which might be the first phone to use a Linux-based version of Palm OS that is currently under development.
Yesterday 21.15
The company whose name is nearly synonymous with Indian tech support now intends to double the size of its customer service center in ... Oklahoma City.
Yesterday 21.15
Feedburner has announced enhancements their popular SmartCast service. Podcasters can now manage all of the descriptive data for your podcast directly from Feedburner so that podcasts will be fully described in iTunes and other directory service leveraging the iTunes namespace extensions.
Yesterday 20.55
download the performances from the artists at the live 8 concerts around the world.
Yesterday 20.25
Google, Goldman Sachs Group & Hearst Corp are investing around $100 million in Current Communications Group, a start-up that offers high-speed Internet connections over electricity lines, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Yesterday 20.23
Yahoo today launched an SMS search service very similar to a feature offered by Google. To try out the service, send a query to the short code 92466 (that spells YAHOO on most phone keyboards).A local search can be performed by simply sending a business name or type and the location such as 'pizza 90210'.
Yesterday 20.21
Wikipedia responds to London bombings with good information
Yesterday 20.17
Soon, TV stations will give up their old analog licenses and broadcast solely in digital format. This means older TV sets will no longer receive broadcast signals. Here's how you can prepare for the big changeover
Yesterday 19.33
Here's a step by step guide on how to turn your backpack into a walking wi-fi hot spot. You have the complete mechanism explained effectively.
Yesterday 19.31
Move over Wi-Fi, broadband over power lines, which allows people to get Internet access simply by plugging into the electrical outlet on their wall, could become the next super-easy way to connect to the Net.
Yesterday 19.23
Link and screen shot of the Islamic website that has claims by Al-Qaeda for responsibility of the London attack and says that Italy and Denmark are next.
Yesterday 18.32
This guy hacked a pool heater out of his barbecue grill. The device heats water 30 to 35 degrees at 3 to 4 gallons per minute flow. See link for pictures
Yesterday 16.45
"I've never walked off the set of a TV show in disgust before, but this week I did. There's a first time for everything, I guess. After enduring it for about 10 or 15 minutes it was clear that the whole situation had been a set-up from outset."
Yesterday 16.15
An organized Flickr photo collection of London's terrorist attack on July 7, 2005.
Yesterday 15.45
Instead of directing the sound for conversion to digital-to-analogue in a PC sound card, a patch for InterVideo WinDVD 5, 6 or 7 will stream the audio data directly to a .WAV file circumventing the CPPM protected AOB and VOB files. DVD-A Ripper, PPCM Ripper and DVD-A Explorer are three applications needed to complete the crack.
Yesterday 15.30
This is a link to the torrent.
Yesterday 14.30
News of several explosions across central London has quickly spread across the net as people try to get information about the chaos
Yesterday 14.15
SendThisFile enables you to easily send a large file to anyone, anywhere! It's like DropLoad but is much faster, and it has no size limit.
Yesterday 14.00
Don't know much, just switched on the TV, London tube system as apprently been shut down.Two tubes have crashed, A Bomb has blown up a bus, thats about all i know. Link goes to BBC. I don't know if it was a terrorist attack, but we'll see.
Yesterday 13.15
the Pew organization released a report (PDF) which says "18% of internet users say they have started using a different Web browser to avoid software intrusions." This was in response to the question "Have you, personally, done any of the following to avoid getting unwanted software programs on your computer?"
Yesterday 13.00
A possible photo of the Xbox 360 beta kits Microsoft just sent out to developers.
Yesterday 10.34
The much anticipated Slax Server 5.0.5 should be coming out within the next few days. SLAX SRV is a pocket operating system with many internet services ready to use. Includes DNS, DHCP, SMB, HTTP, FTP, MySQL, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSH.
Yesterday 10.32
If you could only buy six fonts in your entire lifetime, what would they be? An interesting question which can be a designers' nightmare!
Yesterday 10.22
If you use an Apache web server, learning how to use the .htaccess file is very powerful tool. If you don't know how to use, and want to learn more check out the article.
Yesterday 10.21
I am a Firefox guy, but after using this for a while, I think it might have some competition... It also claims to have more security than any other browser...
Yesterday 10.08
Post your mirrors dowloads here!
Yesterday 10.08
Experiments for NASA space missions have shown that edible meat can be created in a lab. Benefits are that with in-vitro lab grown meat, you could replace fatty acid Omega 6 with Omega 3, which is a healthy fat and also eliminate cholesterol."
Yesterday 10.04
Xmax Promises Better Options for Rural Internet Users In a world crowded with signals, xMax a new wireless-communications technique, will rise above the noise using just a whisper. xMax operates over the older 900 MHz band & offers speeds of 40 Mbps over distances of 15 miles better for rural areas
Yesterday 10.03
by Amana (it's Japanese)
Yesterday 9.57
The good news is that digg is now hitting all time traffic highs, and new servers are set to be installed next week. The bad news is that something had to give, so we've taken down the digg spy feature. It will be back up as soon as we can move to our new faster servers. Keeping digging. -Quickness
Yesterday 9.41
The world’s first 7-megapixel camera-embedded cell phone will hit the shelves of Korean shops today through the nation’s top wireless carrier SK Telecom.
Yesterday 9.40
Hardware locking via a dedicated chip is combined with "hardening" of the OS to restrict how memory can be accessed. Security will also be boosted using a technique dubbed User Account Protection, which aims to ensure that computers can be locked so that local users are not given full administrator access by default.
Yesterday 9.35
The "Near Me" is a creepy-looking robotic cat which can move its head, blink its eyes and wave its paws. Site in Japanese but the video is self-explanatory.
Yesterday 9.32
Team Xecuter’s mod means you can easily patch the PSP kernel to be able to boot anything you like without any type of software loader. This also means you can downgrade the PSP firmware.
Yesterday 9.30
The title pretty much says it all.
Yesterday 9.13
A lifelong computer programmer and open source author who both contributed to the Linux kernel and worked at Microsoft says he was blocked from gettinig the drugs he needed to combat his Hepatitis C (HCV) condition because of copyright laws.
Yesterday 8.15
A healthy baby girl has been born in the US after spending the last 13 years in frozen suspension as an embryo.
Yesterday 8.00
Mariopedia -- an illustrated listing of virtually every character, item, and enemy from the "Super Mario Universe."
Yesterday 7.00
Games like World of Warcraft can earn some people a lot of real world money, money generated by repetitive "farming". A farmers "typical 12-hour sessions can earn his employers as much as $60,000 per month while he walks away with a measly $150"
Yesterday 6.59
With IE7.0 supporting RSS as a default feature, more users are likely to use RSS. SO which RSS reader should you use as an individual and as an organization?
Yesterday 6.59
Apple Computer recently researched and developed a wireless touch-screen remote control concept that would automatically discover and communicate with existing and future consumer electronics appliances as well as the personal computer, a filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office has revealed. The...
Yesterday 6.48
A 4 thousand years old construction found in Russia
Yesterday 6.21
The previous 1.0.5 test builds (June 20, 2005) needed more work and didn't become 1.0.5, but now "they've just announced on the QA blog that all the fixes are in, and they could use some testing on the latest builds."
Yesterday 6.01
Lots of these aggregation sites for one-stop newsreading, but this one does it better than most. No nonsense, customizeable and grouped in categories.
Yesterday 5.58
A group of British scientists believes people should be viewed as "superorganisms," made of conglomerations of human, fungal, bacterial and viral cells!!!
Yesterday 5.38
Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.
Yesterday 5.34
"The world is full of free wi-fi locations so why pay for them? Skip Starbucks and other paid access locations and support local businesses and your community for free. Stop into your local free hotspot, buy a mocha, and let them know how much you appreciate the free wi-fi!" - uses google maps to plot them out in some areas
Yesterday 5.01
Not iPodder, ACTUAL iPodderX coming out forwindows soon! Check it out!
Yesterday 4.49
Digg's official podcast 'diggnation' is now listed within the iTunes podcast directory. Click this link to subscribe to the podcast within iTunes - help make 'diggnation' #1.
Yesterday 4.35
Who said tech jobs are declining? Surely not in the sunshine state of California with a 26% jump in tech jobs.
Yesterday 4.31
MonarchComputer has the NEC ND-3520A Black 16X Dual Layer DVD±RW Drive (Retail) for $38 w/ free shipping.
Yesterday 4.02
The chief of Microsoft's mobile and embedded division is promising something that seems counterintuitive: a complex suite of features in a smart phone that's cheap and easy to use and in so doing take the lead in the smartphone market within three years.
Yesterday 3.53
The new technique embeds a computer generated hologram (CGH) into an image. Usually a simple word or picture, the hologram hides in the "noise" – the random pixel-to-pixel variations that your eye usually glosses over.
Yesterday 3.49
Actor Morgan Freeman and chip maker company Intel is teaming up to deliver digital, online distribution of film and entertainment to help prevent movie piracy.
Yesterday 2.45
This site has a bunch of XBOX 360 Screen Shots (23 games, plus console, controllers, etc). Very Cool.
Yesterday 2.01
"Computer code that could be used to attack systems with older versions of Firefox has been released on the Internet, security experts have warned."-CNET News.com
Yesterday 1.09
The eBook from Project Gutenberg
