A Mini Gauss Gun

A little video of a small guass gun and how it works. Easy enough to make one yourself

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Gas Too Pricey? Make Your Own

By filling 15 percent of your car's gas tank with ethanol, you can bring down the price-per-gallon from $3 to about $2.40... Of course, if you don't add the ingredient that makes ethanol unfit for human consumption, you would find yourself with something else: 190 proof moonshine.

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Scientists make water run uphill

Physicists have made water run uphill quite literally under its own steam. The droplets propel themselves over metal sheets scored with a carefully designed array of grooves.

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Apple interesting in porting Solaris' ZFS

According to the zfs-discuss mailing list, Apple is interesting in porting Solaris' new (and rather advanced) filesystem, ZFS, to Mac OS X. ZFS features include a pooled storage model, protection from data corruption, fast backup/restore/snapshots/clones, built in compression, and is highly scalable.

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computer drive bay mod

Sabianq used the 5.25 inch drive bay to house 4 hard drives expanding the capacity of a computer to 1200 gigabytes.

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Real people react to Wii

Joystiq recently called people up asking for their blind opinion about the Nintendo Wii, without knowing what the product was beforehand. Not one of the respondants guessed that it was a gaming product

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Official HL2 headcrab plushies for sale

The Valve store has 1/4 scale headcrab plushies with posable hooking legs for $24.95.

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Half-Life 2: Episode One Preloading Next Week

Valve's first foray into episodic gaming will be available to download through Steam starting next week, even though it's a month away from being released. Soon you too can have all the satisfaction of having the game on your hard drive as well as all of the frustration of being unable to play it.

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Nintendo Wii: Virtual Reality

Ever noticed how we've never seen what the people in the Revolution previews are swinging at?

Imagine.

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MPAA Screwing The Wrong Guy - One Who Won't Be Extorted

The MPAA has been offering people to settle for a few grand (and many took the bait) but they now chose the wrong guy to mess with; one who sticks to his principles and who has a lot of money to cover the legal fees to fight these lying morons. Interesting case to follow!

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Mystery disturbance traced to sound wave

A group of local scientists has uncovered some clues to the source of a mysterious disturbance that rattled San Diego County on the morning of April 4, shaking windows, doors and bookcases from the coast to the mountains.

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Simple hack to disable USB drives in XP - Perfect for public machines

A simple hack to disable all access to USB drives on XP, without disabling USB mice, or keyboards.

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Da Vinci Code judgement code decrypted

The code inserted by the trial judge into the legal judgement on the recent Da Vinci Code court case has been decrypted.

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Landmine-proof robot shoe invented for special forces

People wearing the robotic shoe would be able to step directly onto an anti-personnel mine, without getting their legs blown off. It can be used by mine clearers or special forces troops.

The six-legged shoes protect the wearer by lifting up a leg if it is over a mine. The other five legs continue to support the wearer's weight.

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Digg Notifier v1.0 (Firefox Extension)

I was inspired by the DiggUpdate software that appeared on Digg earlier - and wrote this quick Firefox extension for Digg that checks the front page every so often for new stories. Very useful if you have a desk job and Firefox open all day!

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Steve Jobs says, Forthcoming Products, "The Best I've Ever Seen in My Life"

the 3 executives remained typically tight-lipped about Apple's future product plans. When pressed about what product to expect in the future, Jobs said, "I can't tell you." However, Apple's CEO didn't let secrecy stop his enthusiasm for those secret products. "The new products in the pipeline are the best I've ever seen in my life," Jobs said

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Sony to Lose $900M in 2006/2007 on PS3 Launch?

Sony Corp. said on Thursday that it expected its game division to post a loss of about 100 billion yen, hit by start-up costs for its PlayStation 3 game machine. That's almost a billion dollars Sony is looking to lose to launch the PS3. And to think that many of us thought Sony would actually learn from the mistakes of Microsoft

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Top 5 Creative Uses for Your iPod

Did you know you can play Doom on your iPod? You can also load it with unusual stuff like Wikipedia and subway maps -- even dating videos! Here's a good rundown of some unconventional ways to use your iPod that go way beyond just listening to music.

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Steal This Company!

Pirates in China didn't just copy NEC's products, they faked the entire company. "Evidence seized in raids on 18 factories and warehouses in China and Taiwan over the past year showed that counterfeiters had set up what amounted to a parallel NEC brand."

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EA: Revolution Ports Will 'Yield Inferior Software'

Electronic Arts, in announcing Madden for Revolution, have set up a specific game studio just for Revolution games, commenting: 'I don't think a winning approach on the Revolution is to port games to it', adding that EA 'didn't do that on the DS, and I think that was part of our learning process'.

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When MySpace Members Die

Awesome NY Times article about MySpace accounts serving as online memorials for people who've died. Also mentions MyDeathSpace.com, a site that tallies people with MySpace accounts that have died.

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Pizza deliver cars running on Deep Fryer Oil - Madison, WI

Leave it to the pizza delivery guy to have Madison thinking green. Glass Nickel Pizza is running 4 of their delivery vehicles on Fryer Oil Bio Diesel.

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RIAA, MPAA alert 40 university presidents in 25 states of LAN piracy

While the majority of illegal copying and distribution of music and movies occurs over the public Internet on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems, students at colleges and universities have been increasingly using programs to engage in such activity on campus LANs without using the broader public Internet.

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Apple is working on a media center - confirmed by Steve Jobs

At Apple's sharholder meeting, when asked about a Media Center, Jobs replied with "we hear you loud and clear". Interesting notes of what went down at the meeting.

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Iran has obtained missiles that can reach Europe.

Iran has just obtained missiles (Russian-made BM-25's) that have a range capable of hitting Europe. These missiles are known to be capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, and were obtained through North Korea.

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UPDATE: NYC School Raids Begin; iPods and Cell Phones confiscated

For those of you who doubted the previous article, the NYC Department of Education has been reported to actually go through with the confiscation of iPods and Cell Phones. "A new program to search school students didn't turn up many weapons Wednesday, but a lot of kids had to do without their cell phones and music."

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Your Thoughts Are Your Password

Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, are exploring the possibility of a biometric security device that will use a person's thoughts to authenticate her or his identity.

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Amateur Hacks Into US Military Computers Looking for UFO and Aliens Truth

An amateur exposed security flaws in US governmental computers to unlock the truth about UFO's and aliens. Sure sounds like they exist. Know he's going to jail or worse.

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Scientific breakthrough a step toward quantum computing

Light is the solution. It's also the problem. That's the paradox HP Labs' Quantum Information Processing Group is beginning to unravel with its research into optical quantum computing.

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Workarounds to disable Non Genuine Windows Warning Messages

This copy of Microsoft Windows XP is not genuine. Windows XP Pirates have again found workaround methods to bypass the latest Microsoft Anti-Piracy effort - Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications that notifies you through annonying pop-up messages if your copy of Windows is not genuine.

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Nintendo Wii Q & A With PR Manager Matt Atwood

We still scratched our head, so we spoke with Nintendo of America's Public Relations Manager Matt Atwood to get Nintendo's explanation of what the name was really about.

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Peter Moore Confirms Halo 3 and Forza 2 at E3

It seems Mr Moore has today revealed that the legendary Master Chief will be appearing at E3 to show off the latest game in the Halo series. Of course nothing is known about what will be shown; whether it will be CGI or in game footage, but rest assured it will be one of the biggest highlights of this years E3.

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Programmers Win EA Overtime Settlement, EA_Spouse Revealed

Software engineers have won a $14.9 million settlement from Electronic Arts, in a settlement of a California class-action lawsuit over unpaid overtime, following a similar $15.6 million settlement reached in October with graphic artists.

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"Look, no hard drive: flash only"

"Hard drives gone in a flash"

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Bethesda Shoots Down PS3 Oblivion Rumors

For those who are overly emotional, you might want to sit down while reading:

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Why Linux May Never Be a True Desktop OS

This guy makes a good case why Linux will never over take Windows.

This guy does make some good points, but I still think there is a chance for the Linux to take over Windows, without removing what makes Linux, Linux, though it is going to take some time for Linux to mature more. Though Linux has gotten better than it was a few years ago, there are still a few big hurdles with it that need to be addressed before the common user would decided to use it, though I would probibly use it if palm devices and the iPod would have some decent compatiblity, though there are consecutive issues to get this addressed also, so for now I use windows. This is not saying I like it, but its unfourtuatley what everything is made for today. I still hope for a Linux future though...

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Tutorial on creating photo-realistic grass in Photoshop

This short tutorial shows how to create nearly photo-realistic grass in Photoshop. Useful for creating a relaxing website design :)

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CONFIRMED: Revolution Controller Features Force Feedback

Nintendo of Canada's Marketing Director Director of Marketing, Pierre-Paul Trepanier, confirms in an interview with Canadian internet radio station Radio-Talbot that the Revmote will indeed have force feedback. Also discussed was that the market in Japan is actually the factor behind when the DS Lite will be released in North America.

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NeverWinter Nights 2: Hands-on Preview

The first thing that you'll notice in Neverwinter Nights 2 is the graphics, which aren't just an overhaul of the old engine but a complete, ground-up re-write.

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2GB Flash Drive under $50

Awesome deal. Newegg rocks.

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StarCraft PSP v1.2a Released!

A fast moving project working on porting Starcraft onto the PSP. Other sites for this story are: http://psp3d.com/showthread.php?t=6952 and http://pspupdates.qj.net/index.php?pg=49&aid=27924 When this is finished expect this to be a great homebrew game for the PSP.

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New Battlefield 2142 Screenshots

See what the new Battlefield 2142 will look like. HardOCP has posted the new screenshots (released today) of the game in their full resolution. Not 56K friendly.

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Video: Xbox 360 Camera Support Built-in To UNO

This is a video showing how UNO for the Xbox 360 has built-in support for the upcoming Xbox 360 camera. It shows off the menu's where you set up your camera's settings.

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Chernobyl shelter is crumbling

Birds and rainwater are inside the steel-concrete shelter hastily built over the reactor that blew up in 1986, and officials worry about what is getting out.

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Nintendo Revolution Info From Nintendo Power

The latest issue of Nintendo Power had the dirt on the new Revolution Console, check it out.

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Handy freeware programs to put on a USB stick

A list of free programs that do not require an installation and can be used directly from your USB stick or any other removable drive

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Panasonic Laptop is Waterproof and has a Drainage System

Panasonic's new ToughBook Letsnote CF-Y5 notebook features a Duo-Core processor and is designed to withstand an impact of up to 220 pounds plus a special waterproof sheet and drainage system.

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60 Billion E-mails Sent Daily

Internet users around the world send an estimated 60 billion emails every day and many of these are spam or scam attempts, business leaders said on Tuesday. Of course, much of it is spam and phishing attacks.

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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Coming to PS3 and PSP!

More Pre-E3 news is leaking out - this time that Bethesda has both PS3 AND PSP version of Oblivion planned for a November release. This further backs up Sony's insistance that the PS3 will be launching in November, and would make Oblivion a PS3 launch title. An official announcement is expected at E3.

The release for the PS3 sounds fine to me, but for the PSP???? its just going to be watered down version, with less graphics.

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Firefox backers aim to 'destroy' Internet Explorer

A group of Firefox users so determined to destroy IE that some sites now "actually block users with IE from viewing the page, informing them they must install Firefox to view the site."

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Committing Myspacecide

Great commentary about the horrors of MySpace.

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Wost Games Ever

A comprehensive list of the worst video games ever. Includes detailed descriptions of exactly what makes a game bad, or in this case, the worst.

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The Next Generation Programming Language: D

Like Java because of its nicely structured classes and uncomplicated syntax, but wish it had the power and efficiency of C or C++? Look no further than than D!

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Revolution: a return to glory?

Is Nintendo's new console the freshest thing to (soon) hit electronic entertainment?
My colleague saw it at TGS. He said he hasn't seen that much laughing and sheer enjoyment with videogames in years.
People laughing, joking and not caring what is going on just for the sheer enjoyment of the playing.

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Play Nintendo DS against a Sony PSP! (Screenshots Included)

Someone on the DSWifi forums has created a homebrew app that will allow a person to play a game using a Nintendo DS against a person with a Sony PSP (or other way around).This allows 2 people to play against each other using the Wi-fi capabilities for both handhelds! It's only the beginning... Screenshots included.

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Intel Core Duo 3.4Ghz beats P4 overclocked to 7.2Ghz!

First overclocking results with an Intel Duo Core T2600 clocked to 3.4Ghz runs faster than the current world record holder P4 670 at 7.2Ghz with less than halve the CPU cycles!

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Michigan to require "online courses" for high school graduation

Talk about wasted tax dollars. Michigan becomes the first state to require online coursework for its students, billing it as a way to bring students into the 21st century. What if the students are already there? Do students really need help learning to use online tools?

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DiggUpdate v2.0 Released

With the new release of 2.0, DiggUpdate will instantly inform you of new Digg stories that hit the front page or friends digging activity as it occurs. DiggUpdate is 100% free and open source.

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Apple blocking MySpace in their Retail Stores

Apple have began to block access to MySpace.com in it's retail stores, as too many people appear to be hogging the computers to access the cesspool.

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the TANK CHAIR, the ultimate chair

Tank Chair is a Custom off-road wheelchair that can go anywhere outdoors. Conquers Streams, Mud, Snow, Sand, and Gravel, allowing you to get back to nature, and can also climb up and down stairs.

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Classic Zelda in 3D

Zelda cubed takes the classic Legend of Zelda from the NES days and puts it into an isometric 3D world. All in online shockwave.

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A Flash Based Music Composer

You can submit your composition and listen to other ones. The drum set is so addictive

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Red Steel for Revolution High-Quality Scans Appear

For those not lucky enough to get Game Informer, we've got the next best thing. An anonymous fan has set up a minisite full of high-quality scans from the revealing of Revolution's sure-to-be-big-hit launch title, Red Steel, and Nwizard.com's got exclusive access. In addition, if you check the minisite, article pics are up and readable.

For more pictures, and the scans of the review from Game Informer, go to http://redsteel.revolution.googlepages.com/.

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Ads turn New York manhole covers into coffee!

A Gurerilla marketing campaign by the ad company Saatchi & Saachti for Folders has turned some New York City manholes into STEAMING CUPS OF COFFEE! (with pic goodness)

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1 Terabyte Wireless NAS Device

Iomega yesterday unveiled the latest two members to its StorCenter line of network storage products. The new StorCenter Wireless Network Storage 1TB and StorCenter Network Hard Drive 500GB - both are both available now.

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Air Force's Secret Drone Program Revealed

The new craft is referred to as Penetrating High Altitude Endurance (PHAE), and is thought to be able to cruise at 70,000-80,000 ft, similar to the U-2 (Global Hawk has a ceiling of 65,000 ft).

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More Details on AOL's "MySpace Killer"

Techcrunch reports, "The service will launch at AIM.com, and individual user pages will be aim.com/[username]. Functionality will be similar to MySpace - with blogging, photo and music widgets available for integration."

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Gamers more interested in Nintendo than Sony at E3

A reader's poll at Joystiq shows that readers are more excited over Nintendo's possible offerings at E3 than Microsoft or Sony's, even with the prospect of PlayStation 3 demos.

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Strategy Wiki: A New Approach to Game Strategy Guides

StrategyWiki has been around since December, but needs your help to grow. Check out http://strategywiki.net/wiki/Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time/Inside_the_Deku_Tree for an example of the great quality this site can produce!

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MOD: Unreal Tournament Using PowerGlove Mouse (video)

This guys has a killer demo of the modded glove with Unreal Tournament. He mapped the in game controls so that his thumb controls forward motion, his pointer finger controls the trigger and his arm motion controls the camera view.

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Running Windows Apps natively on OSX without Windows!

Robert X. Cringely offers an intriguing reason behind Apple's recent strategy of Boot Camp: '... I also believe that Apple will offer in OS X 10.5 the ability to run native Windows XP applications with no copy of XP installed on the machine at all. This will be accomplished...by Apple implementing the Windows API directly in OS X 10.5.'

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Microsoft Live Drive may launch before GDrive

Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. Could be accessible from anywhere, on any device.

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World Of Warcraft Getting Realm Linked Battlegrounds Soon

There has been talk about a BG overhaul. Looks like some info is out. Most of the community suspected this. Sounds like a good way to revamp and add to the game.

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Be the first to play Nintendo's Revolution!

Nintendo and AOL are running a promotion. They will pick three people at random to be flown to Los Angeles to be the first consumer in the world to play Nintendo's next-gen console, the Revolution.

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Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake Beta Available

Ubuntu 6.06, aka "Dapper Drake" has just gone into a stable Beta fase after 5 very succesful Alpha versions.
A full list of new features and screenshots and be found at the official wiki.
Downloads available as usual, but bittorent is appreciated.

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2.33 GHz Core Duo 17" MacBook Pros this Sunday?

The 2006 NAB conference is fast approaching and as any self-respectiing maclot knows, it can only mean one thing: new pro products. The Register is reporting that the new 17" MacBook Pro could debut as early as this Sunday and sport the 2.16GHz Core Duo with an outside chance of the new 2.33GHz Intel Core Duo making an appearance.

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The Pirate Bay - NEW Legal Threats! (piratebay.org)

Check out the newest legal threats to The Pirate Bay from Linotype and Prophecy House "(he also called us, talking about the antichrist)".

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Xbox 360 premium to drop $100 and HD-DVD addon only $100

More strong rumours in the link concerning price drops and games on Xbox 360

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Apple to cut iPod prices!!

Apple expects the average selling price of its iPod digital music players to decline in the current quarter from the prior period, the company's CFO said on Wednesday.

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Seagate Announces 750GB Hard Drives

3/4 of a terabyte and that's just the first 7200.10 Barracuda drive Seagate announced! We might see 1TB drives before the end of this year.

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"Hey Steve, 99¢? No Problem!" Record Biz Sing Jobs' iTunes After All

The record industry may be on the verge of waving the white flag in front of Apple boss Steve Jobs, and abandoning its demand for iTunes to charge different prices for different songs

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Iran's "super" torpedo is a joke

The U.S. Navy has been unafraid of Iran's super-torpedo since it was the Soviet super-torpedo in the 1970s. This guy dicusses all of the flaws of Iran's super-torpedo, and why no one in the U.S. military cares about it.

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MySpace foils school shooting

Five teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre were arrested Thursday after details of the alleged scheme appeared on the Web site MySpace.com

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PC Gamer CnC 3 Article Revealed onto the net!

I ran into these scans of the article about CnC 3 on a message board. I thought the interview was interesting, especially the pictures, some of which have not been readily shown on the net, so I decided to mirror them here, if anyone was interested in seeing the actuall article.

THQ announces Frontlines: Fuel of War for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC

THQ has announced Frontlines: Fuel of War for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.




The one thing thats especially intersting is this, the developers that are making this game originally were with Trama Studios:

About Kaos Studios

Kaos Studios, a division of THQ Inc. located in New York City, was formed in 2005 by industry veterans of the FPS genre. The core members of the group came from Trauma Studios, creators of Desert Combat (one of the most successful mods of all time from the original Battlefield) and the R&D team for DICE's Battlefield 2. The 50-person team includes additional members from the development teams of other acclaimed shooters, including FEAR, Medal of Honor and Doom 3. More information about Kaos Studios and its products can be found at www.kaosstudios.com.

This can be found in the yahoo article at this link as well as the digg article that was linked about this topic. There is also a discussion going on about this on the Total BF2 fourms.

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World's First Water Cooled PPU!

We are not sure what a PPU can do for you today, but the guys at the HardForum have stripped their new BFG PPU card down and water cooled it. Looks like any old GeForce 4 water block might do. What else would you expect out of them?

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New Far Cry 'Sequel' Screenshots! (CRYSIS)

Check out some new screens of this truly next-gen title, CRYSIS - the game looks absolutely beautiful.. shame I don't have a snowflake's chance in hell of running it. Yet.

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British drivers believe their nav-sat system instead of their eyes

THERE is a lucrative new sport in the Wiltshire village of Luckington: fishing stranded motorists out of a ford at £25 a time.

Since a road closure, dozens of drivers have blithely followed directions from their satellite navigation systems, not realising that the recommended route goes through the ford. Pict included.

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G4 flushes further down the toilet

The only thing other than X-Play that was still worth watching on G4, Icons, is about to be broken. I wonder how long it will be before we get profiles on Pamela Anderson or Jessica Simpson.

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Sony drops Playstation 2 price to $129

Previously it was $149 - will Microsoft follow suit by dropping the original Xbox price?

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Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on at E3

Interview with Microsoft executive gives important news about HD-DVD periphial. "We will make sure that the HD-DVD-peripheral device will meet all the requirements to enjoy high-definition DVD playback."

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First Screens Of Command and Conquer 3

Seems like someone with the new PC Gamer has access to a scanner as the first screens from the game have been uploaded:




Here is some additional Info...

Taken from http://cncden.com/
-C&C 3 to ship sometime 2007.
-Mike Verdu will be the Executive Producer.
-Jason Bender will be the Lead Designer.
-C&C 3 begins in the year 2047.
-FMV cut scenes return.
-Kane will return from the dead. But was he ever truly dead?
-Game will use an updated version of the Sage engine.
-Sides are GDI, Nod, and a yet un-named third side.
-Smarter AI (remains to be seen)
-Voice over IP support, Clan support, Observer and spectator modes.
-Single player missions/AI Skirmish
-Multiplayer: Skirmish, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, World DominationAlso, EA will be holding several 'player summits' during the development of C&C 3 so they can get feedback and ideas from C&C players.

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Apple reports 8,526,000 iPods sold in one quarter!

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 second quarter ending April 1, 2006. International sales accounted for 43% of the quarter's revenue. Apple shipped 1,112,000 Macintosh computers and 8,526,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 4% growth in Macs and 61% growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

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Thurrott upset about Windows Vista.

Paul Thurnott, who is usually excited about all things Microsoft seems very dissapointed with Windows Vista. Here is the conlusion of his review of the latest CTP. He still gives it 5 pauls though.

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Preparation for Half-Life 2: Episode 1

One of the 2 people who hasn't played Half-Life/Half-Life 2 yet? Really want to jump on the bandwagon with Episode 1? This is a great timeline that summarizes the stories of both games, and includes extra information possibly unnoticed even by Half-Life veterans. Check this out if you're at all interested in the Half-Life Saga plotline.

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First Oblivion Quest Released - Orrery

Microsoft and Bethesda have just released the very first quest for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

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LucasArts Developing Darth Vader Game

Mr. Blackman outlined a new storyline that delved deeper into Darth Vader's history.

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The Facts and Fiction of 1080p

Quite interesting article describing 1080p technology from gamers perspective

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How to get a refund for your defective game

Store policy usually means you get another copy of the same bad game. This guy found a way around that.

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50,000 Volt Tesla Coil Experiments

We could have told you more about how it works and discussed the brilliant scientist who invented it, but noooooo instead we use it to set things on fire, create sparks and illuminate lightbulbs wirelessly. (Don't try this at home.)

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Cheap costco.com Xbox 360 bundles back in stock.

For $489.99 you can get PGR3, Plug & Charge, an Extra wireless controller, and the Premium Xbox 360. This normally retails for about $520. This is a good opportunity to get an Xbox 360 if you don't have one already.

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Bugs Bunny, Mighty Mouse, Porky Pig, etc. available for iPod (Free)

The free series will feature classic public domain cartoons, including Bugs Bunny, Mighty Mouse, Daffy Duck, Betty Boop, Little Lulu, Porky Pig, Donald Duck and Felix the Cat, along with fairy tales and musicals.

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MacBook Pro graphics card underclocked

Apparently, the ATI graphics card in the Macbook Pro is underclocked. You can get extra performance out of it if you don't mind the extra fan noise.

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Good night's sleep boosts long-term memory

Brain scans have revealed how information we learn during the day is squirrelled away into long-term memory while we sleep. During a good night's rest, memories of recent events are shifted from one part of the brain to another, a process that is crucial for developing long-term memories.

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The PowerGlove (NES) Revisited

Mention the phrase "I love the PowerGlove, it's so bad" and the first thought that pops into many minds is "The Wizard" that 1989 gamer flick. Take a trip down memory lane with this memorable scene. Video clip after the jump.

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FEAR coming to Xbox 360

Inside is a photo of the newest OXM. It promises the world's first screenshots of FEAR, previously thought to be a PC-only shooter, on the Xbox 360 platform.

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Patent Lawsuit Could Stop the Xbox 360?

Lucent Technologies has filed an injunction against Microsoft that could disrupt the distribution of the Xbox 360 game consoles. This would be a major blow to the 360 in the midst of the PS3 and Revolution releases.

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Metroid Prime 3 Revolution at E3?

For many reasons, Metroid Prime 3 is considered the flagship title for Nintendo Revolution -- at least in the West, where the first-person shooter is king. And Nintendo knows it.

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McDonalds is healthy in Denmark

Fast food from McDonald's is healthiest in Denmark and worst in the United States, a Danish study comparing levels of the deadliest kind of fat, trans fatty acids, showed.

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Blue Hippo Scam Alert! The $2000+ low end desktop computer.

RAW DEAL! Worst computer deal in the history of scams. They are selling a $300 desktop computer for $2200. They are scamming the public by making it look like an easy payment plan. If the overall price wasn't bad enough, they don't even take on any risk, as they won't ship the computer until you've spent more than $600! Help expose this scam!

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Oblivion - New, Cheaper Content Next Week and Patch Announcement

'We hope to have The Orrery available for purchase next week. This plugin will cost 150pts on Xbox, and $1.89 on the PC.' Also, 'We are working on a patch/update for both the PC and Xbox 360. It is our plan to first release it as a beta patch for the PC when it has cleared our initial testing cycles internally.'

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First In-game Screen shots of a Revolution Game - Red Steel

Wow, they look amazing. Hopefully this game turns out to be pretty damn good.

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The Best Free MMORPG List (and some mmo's)

This is the best and biggest list of free MMORPG's on the Internet! Tons of great stuff here, many things you never heard of.

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It took 15 years to build a precise model of helicopter Mil 24 Hind

Over 100,000 parts were used in this model, many of them fabricated under a microscope to ensure accuracy.
Complete accuracy is followed right down to the rivets and screws whose diameter and separation are kept to scale.

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File-Upload Script With Embedded AJAX Progress Bar

This free script lets you accept file uploads through the web while displaying a progress bar. Very easy to install and modify. Excellent support provided in the project forums.

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Wait until June before you buy your Macinteltosh

The price of Intel Core Duo chips is set to plummet on the 28th of May, and there's faster chips coming along anyroadmap. Those include the 2.33GHz T2700, but this is only the start of better things from Chipzilla later this year.

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CNET's Test Results of MacBook Pro XP vs. the PC Competition!

Now that Boot Camp finally provides a baseline for a true head-to-head contest of Apple hardware vs. PC hardware, we went out and bought a 2.0GHz MacBook Pro last night. Then dug up some good PC competitors, one of which has almost identical specs. This morning, we started testing. Here's what we found...

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Apple's Fifth Avenue Glass Cube revealed

Workers are taking down the black construction barricade around the glass-cube entrance to the Fifth Avenue (NYC) Apple Store, in preparation for the future grand opening.

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ParallelKnoppix: Create a cluster in 5 minutes

"You can convert a room full of machines running Windows into a Linux cluster, and when you shut down, your Windows machines are in their original state. The computers in the cluster can be homogeneous or heterogeneous. Getting the cluster up and running takes about 5 minutes.."

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Apple release new 'Volume Limit' feature for iPod

Apple's new software update for iPod adds a setting where you can choose your maximum volume and set a combonation to avoid the kids changing it!

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Intel iBooks shipping in June

Asustek has secured a contract with Apple for "iBook notebook personal computers"... Apple has secured approximately 1.2 million units initially and will reportedly start selling them in June.. The laptops will be equipped with 13.3" displays.

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Apple Boot Camp Public Beta Announced, Part of 10.5 Leopard

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today

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Bluetooth iPod prepareing for lift off?

Stuff Magazine claim to have the inside scoop!

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Nintendo DS Lite arriving in North America in May!

The latest issue of EGM reports that the DS Lite is "due in May" on North American shores. The snippet coincides with 1Up's recent speculation, but does not contain further information that would validate this claim. Consider this a rumor... for now.

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Boot Camp or Enemy Action? What The Beta Means.

While Apple's "Boot Camp" may be a shot across the bow of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer won't be throwing any chairs over this one. Yet. The OSx86 Project has some good analysis of what the news means for us all.

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PS3 to retail at $499, developers "confirm"

West coast US developers are claiming SCEA has given them a final price point of $499 for the Playstation3. This story does point out that other Californian developers have heard nothing from SCEA so there are obvious inconsistencies casting doubt over the claim, though some are "adamant" this is the real deal.

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Who needs Boot Camp? New Apple firmware updates DIRECTLY add XP support.

Is this the world of legacy BIOS emulation we all wanted? Is this XP and Linux and Vista and all the OS goodness running on Intel Macs? It seems Boot Camp is designed only to provide XP with drivers, the new firmware update for Intel Macs adds all the support an Intel Mac needs to boot the OS!

Huh, and I thought Apple wasn't going to support people for using windows on there macs.....

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*Pics* Bootcamp on Mackbook Pro

Check out these pics from Flickr that document the install process of Bootcamp for the Mac.

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First Blue Screen of Death on Apple Boot Camp Imac

So I decided try out the new Apple Boot Camp Beta to dual boot Windows XP on my Imac. Everything went great then I got the oh so famous blue screen of death after 30 minutes of using Windows.

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Mystery alarm awakens space station crew

An alarm signalling a still-unidentified problem abruptly woke two NASA astronauts involved in a low-pressure "camp out" on the International Space Station on Tuesday.

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WRT54G V5 Hackable!!!!

Brainslayer has once again gone and done the unthinkable. Apparently he's found some time away from the FON project to continue forging ahead on getting DD-WRT into the previously un-hackable WRT54Gv5.

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Linux too bloated for $100 Laptop

The One Laptop Per Child organization will use Linux on its inexpensive machines, but apparently the OS suffers the same code bloat as Windows, the project's leader said Tuesday.

Depends on what kind of bloat you say Linux has...in a sense it does have some of that, out of the box, but this largely depends on the system, from my exprences there is little bloat in the Linux kernel, and works good with a decent speced machine, and evren ok with an older machine.

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Linux leaps toward KDE/GNOME compatibility

Linux desktop application operability took a giant step forward today, with the announcement of a technology preview of the first set of common interfaces for the GNOME and KDE Linux desktops.

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How I Work: Bill Gates

Quote - "I get about 100 e-mails a day. We apply filtering to keep it to that level. e-mail comes straight to me from anyone I've ever corresponded with, anyone from Microsoft, Intel, HP etc. And I always see a write-up from my assistant of any other e-mail, from companies that aren't on my permission list or individuals I don't know."

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Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century

Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating light beam. While his team still needs funding for the project, Mallett calculates that the possibility of time travel using this method could be verified within a decade.

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Virtualisation for the Mac Arrives

This will enable users to run multiple operating systems like Linux and Windows simultaneously with Mac OS X. This is not simply a "dual-boot" but instead gives users the ability to use Windows or any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X.

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Linux wireless hardware support search site

Will my wireless usb/card device will work under Linux?, sure there are a lot of resources but this simple and straight to the point site will make things a lot easier, hey you can contribute and make it even better.

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server catches on fire at linuxworld

way too demo a product..submitted at the slashdot lounge

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Elder Scrolls IV: Hot Coffee?

Uh oh. Seems like the developers left in unlockable nudity in Oblivion. How long until the company is sued and the game is taken off the market like GTA:SA and a "clean" version is released?

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Firefox at 10% Market Share.

Yet another source shows Firefox breaking the 10% mark. This brings IE down to under 85%.

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Finally! Lawsuit against Starforce and Ubisoft for DRM

Hate Starforce? Want to sue them? Well, Christopher Spence has already done it on your behalf. Christopher has filed a $5M class action lawsuit against Ubisoft for using Starforce DRM in their games, and if he wins, you�ll be entitled to collect if you�ve ever had your system infected by Starforce.

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High Definition TV with Frickin' Lasers

Mitsubishi is scheduled to announce an HDTV that uses colored lasers instead of lamps. This is supposed to make the sets thinner and cooler. And, instead of having to replace an expensive lamp, the solid-state lasers are supposed to last the lifetime of the set.

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Apple begins fixing MacBook Pro issues

Whining noises, AirPort connection issues, LCD flickering, and burning hot temperatures -- that's what you get being an early adopter of technology. According to this article on DailyTech though, Apple is releasing new MacBook Pro revisions that fixes the problems.

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How to:Wireless Headphones

Mod to make heavy wireless headphones work just as well with lightwieght and much more comfortable ear buds.

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PlayStation 2 emultator - PCSX2 0.9 released!

Today the PCSX2 team has released a new version of their PS2 emultator, the 0.9 version!

"Many games are now going ingame, and some are even playable"

Grab it and test it!

:D

Enjoy

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TigerDirect and OnRebate Scam

"If you purchase something from TigerDirect and try to get the rebate from OnRebate.com, Good Luck!"
It seems that many people are being denied rebates for items purchased at TigerDirect. TigerDirect points the fault at OnRebate.com and washes their hands of it.
But guess what? THEY'RE SISTER COMPANIES!

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What I Learned at Hacker Camp

It's easy to create malicious code, penetrate firewalls, and steal personal and financial information. "Ethical hacker" Andrew Whitaker can show you how.

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