Dell's version of the iMac

It seems Dells version of the iMac is heavier, chubbier, and 2x the price

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isohunt under litigation by MPAA + CBC Interview

Quoted "I'm glad CBC gave me the opportunity to voice our stance, what we do and why the MPAA is after us. Media distributions are converging and decentralizing at the same time on the internet, and it's an issue the general public should be aware of, many of which doesn't know what P2P or BitTorrent is yet."

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Nintendo Wii to Launch on November 6th in USA

Exclusive Cubed3 Story: Rumours are gathering at pace as to when the Nintendo Wii will launch. We have been given some exclusive details that seemingly confirm when the Wii will launch in the USA and the rest of the world. More inside...

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Entire community wiped out in 10 months (with before and after pics)

Human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday released the first-ever satellite images of the effect of the Zimbabwean government's controversial Operation Murambatsvina, which left 700 000 people homeless last year, according to a United Nations report.
(Via: http://www.mg.co.za/)

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AOL subscriber has mail & $1,595.69 bill!

A broadband subscriber is convinced by an AOL rep to remain with AOL for the low price of $4.95 a month. What he wasn't told was that the $4.95 plan only covered the first three hours of service!

Now this is really ironic, and I thought AOL was trying to KEEP its customers, not scare them away; He'll probibly never go back to them again!

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AMD-ATI Merger Looks Likely

Advanced Micro Devices may be looking to buy graphics company ATI Technologies, a move that would benefit the overall graphics industry. "The synergies of this seem consistent with the recent announcements by AMD to significantly increase capacity over the next few-years."

Is it just me, or is this merger rumers just appearing out of the blue; the combination sounds odd having a CPU company and a GPU company come together, but in the end it seems to be a lucritive deal for both of them, if it happens.


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Google: No Plans for Our Own Web Browser!

During a conference call with Wall Street analysts, Schmidt dismissed speculation that the company aimed to tie together its Web search and other services to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the world's dominant Web browser.

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Why water freezes faster after heating

A common chemical process may explain a bizarre property of water that has been a mystery since the time of Aristotle ¨C how hot water can freeze more quickly than cold.

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Very Cool Javascript : Easily Add Sidenotes To Your Blog

Just by adding this javascript to your blog or website, you can easily add color coded sidenotes to your blog entries. The script does everything. All you need to do is add a single tag to your text. You can also completely style the color, borders and positioning of the sidenotes with CSS. Very cool and simple to use.

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Windows Vista - Deleting a shortcut is just a few clicks away....

This is pretty funny. I hope that they fix this.

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Taiwanese invent wi-fi "flying" mouse

A micro system technology laboratory recently unveiled a wireless flying mouse, which can be moved and rotated in the air for 3-dimension object manipulation. With the 3D device mounted on wrist, users can play interactive computer games and make presentations wirelessly.

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The Vista/SUSE smackdown!

As unbelievable as it might seem, OpenSUSE actually seems to support more hardware than Vista does at this stage in its development. Linux having more hardware support than Windows -- who says we don't live in a time of miracles?!

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Ultimate Vista and Office 2007... At An Ultimate Price

There's no word better than "ultimate" to convey the impression that you're getting nothing but the best. However, when it comes to Microsoft's new software, whatever you end up getting is going to cost you heaps. And all those bits and bytes can be yours for just US$679, the price of a fairly handy desktop computer.

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Help Fight DRM

Join the Action Alert Network to stop DRM

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Baby born with 3rd arm (with terrifying picture)

The boy, identified only as "Jie-jie," also was born with just one kidney and may have problems that could lead to curvature of the spine, local media reports said. Jie-jie cried when either of his left arms was touched, but smiled and responded normally to other stimuli, the reports said.

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Amazingly High Rez photos of the sinking of an old carrier to make a reef!

The Oriskany, a decommissioned aircraft carrier, was sunk 24 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., on May 17 to form an artificial reef. The sinking of the 888-foot ship took 37 minutes. NICE photos.

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Why Google makes everyone else nervous

Today the maverick company, adored by online shoppers and Internet surfers, has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces in the business world. Its secret sauce: a technology that lets business customers link targeted ads to search results and Web content.

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Lego Aircraft Carrier Complete!

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is done! 16.4 Feet long. 200,000 Bricks, movable elevators and radar dishes, electric lights on the flight deck, in the hangar, and inside the aircraft, motorized catapult!!! Cost in the 5 Digits



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Top 10 Most Common Passwords

Life these days has become largely dependent on passwords - whether we're checking our emails, tranferring funds or shopping, passwords have place. We're constantly bombarded with horror stories of fraud, and phising sites. Why is it, then, that users on websites opt for the same, consistent, insecure passwords time after time?

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A third of us are TV pirates: survey

Over a third of broadband users are now regularly downloading pirated television episodes on their home internet connection, according to Whirlpool's latest survey of over 16,000 of its members.

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XBOX Live Now The World's Largest Platform For High-def On-demand Content

"Xbox Live, the first and only unified online games and entertainment network, is now the world's largest platform for high-definition on-demand content, surpassing 24 million downloads following the launch of Xbox 360 in the US on November 22, 2005. " Can anybody say "WEBTV 2.0"?

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Apple Deja Vue: will they pull it off this time?

This is the dawn of the post-PC era, and Apple is leading it while Microsoft is clinging to the PC model even for the living room.

Will Apple get a second chance for market leadership?

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Starcraft RTS in 3D?

Snowflake Entertainment held a fansites Q&A to discuss details of their ambitious Project Revolution - a Starcraft to Warcraft 3 total conversion mod. It will allow players to experience Starcraft RTS in 3D using the Warcraft 3 Engine. Read the Q&A transcript.

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Super Mario DS Sells 480,000 Units In Japan on Day 1

Super Mario Bros. managed to sell through 480,000 units in it's first day, making it the fastest selling DS title ever.



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Ghost Ship Found Adrift in the Caribbean

After four months at sea, ghost ship with 11 petrified corpses washes up in Barbados.

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Cooling chips the micro-way

IBM's working on smart ways of keeping processors cool.

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Researchers develop OLED illuminated surfaces

Imagine a house without a single light fixture - but instead walls, ceilings, furnishings, and accessories all sources of light. Thanks to research at Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC), almost any surface in a building can become a light source with OLEDs.

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Geneticist claims to have found 'God gene' in humans

An American molecular geneticist has concluded after comparing more than 2,000 DNA samples that a person's capacity to believe in God is linked to brain chemicals.

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SCIF Security Rooms: If These Secret Walls Could Talk . . .

The walls have quarter-inch metal shielding. The floors are either 8-inch-thick reinforced concrete or contain metal plates to thwart eavesdroppers. Vaultlike doors guard the entry. Copper foil is stuffed into the corners to prevent transmissions. Ventilation shafts have metal baffles or bars to stop any "Mission Impossible"-style intruders.

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Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End

"Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989, envisioned a platform on which everyone in the world could communicate on an equal basis. But his vision is being threatened . . ."

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How to Make Great Photographs

"Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology." Ken Rockwell.

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DDR Whack-a-Mole

"Drew and Calvin built this DDR whack-a-mole game for their EECS 373 class. It's powered by a Freescale MPC823. The processor controls eight servos with pictures of their friend Malav. The game runs for 20 seconds and then reports how many Malavs you've stepped on."

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Lab focuses on alternatives to gasoline

Formally called the Mobile Automotive Technology Testbed, or MATT, the bare-bones chassis plays a vital part in the research at Argonne National Laboratory into new ways to power vehicles.

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Hand Shadows To Be Thrown Upon The Wall

A Gutenberg project reprint of the 1858 classic: Hand Shadows To Be Thrown Upon The Wall, by Henry Bursill. Some great classic illustrations of this tried and true home entertainment.

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Analysis: First Amendment Applies to Internet

Friday's ruling is also significant because it addresses whether private e-mail is protected from subpoenas. "The court correctly found that under federal law, civil litigants can't subpoena your stored e-mail from your service," said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Bram Cohen warns against net neutrality 'absurdity'

Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, talks about Network Neutrality. He comes out in favour of a two tier Internet under certain circumstances. For extra audio of the interview, BBC Newsnight podcast dated 26 May at:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=136697142&s=143444

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THE LED MEGALIGHT

This is a homemade LED flashlight with a PVC body that is easily bright enough to blind you, and uses only one special LED (a Luxeon III). The light projected is a smooth, clear white illumination with no "rings" in the projected light like those cast by normal flashlights.

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Apple Recruiting Game Developers for a Secret Project

Is Apple finally supporting gamers?

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Mini Humanoid Robot than can sit up, stand on one leg

A miniature humanoid robot, the "HRP-2m Choromet," has been developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan and four venture companies.

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Complete List of Free TV Web Sites!

This article has a complete listing of free TV Web Sites. Includes links to Web Sites that show Martial Arts TV, Asian TV, Adult Content, Sports, and News. Really good posting with all links you will ever need for free TV in one location!

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A Gun That Only Works In Owner's Hand

So, what if you're being attacked, your hand is shaking and you grip the gun differently as a result? What if you're wearing gloves? What if you're hands are cut off and you have to shoot the gun at the advancing attacker with your feet? That happens ALL THE TIME in movies and games!

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AllofMP3 Declared illegal

Popular Russian online music download service AllofMP3.com has been declared illegal by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), and prosecutions are reported to be underway. The Moscow-based service, whose market share at 14% comes second only to iTunes in the UK, has been accused of not paying royalties to artists.

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This is a test of Microsoft Word 07’s Blogging features

This is a test of the blogging features of Word 07’ Beta 2’s features, and it seems all right. It seems to look fing in word, but I’ll see soon enough if it works fine with blogger.

XM Pulls FM-Enabled Radios from Kiosks & Online Store

As further investigation showed that only satellite radio receivers with an FM-Modulator were the units being pulled. On XM's Online Store, most units were listed as "Out of Stock"

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Motorola Q Reviewed (Verdict: Excellent)

"PC Mag got a Motorola Q, and already posted a review, saying: excellent phone, great for e-mail and Web surfing, very thin, and is easy to use with one hand. The review praises voice quality of the smartphone, calling it the best Verizon phone they've tested. They also liked the Q's ability to transmit stereo music over Bluetooth." - gizmodo

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Times New Roman - THE END?

Earlier this year, Microsoft released betas of Office 2007, and the first thing reviewers noticed, besides the new interface, was that Times New Roman had been deposed as the default font with something called . . . Calibri? But what will happen to Times New Roman?

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Strict Net neutrality passes House Committee, but fate is rather uncertain

"This particular 'Net neutrality bill would make it an antitrust violation to block impair, discriminate or interfere with anyone's services or applications or content..."

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Apple developing new Mac for education

Exclusive: Apple Computer is working feverishly on the design of a new Macintosh computer that the company hopes will strengthen its position in the education sector when it goes on sale later this year...

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Gmail Code Update: Gmail to Get Prices

The piece of code that really caught my attention though was the line directly below these that says "Get prices". When Gmail detects a product within an email, I'm guessing it will soon display a link on the right that takes you to a Froogle result page for that item.

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Yes, Virginia, there will be a Flash Player 9 for Linux

Emmy Huang, Product Manager for Flash Player at Adobe, announced the Adobe is developing Flash player 9 for Linux. First heard about this in the Ubuntu forums in this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=182445 : )

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Why American College Students Hate Science

Science education faces two serious problems. The first is that too few Americans perform at the highest level in science, compared with our competitors abroad. The second problem is that large numbers of aspiring science majors are turned off by unimaginative teaching and migrate to other disciplines before graduating.

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Noticed a new process? Could it be spyware?

We've all had it, a new process appears in the task manager and we dont know wheather its our own doing or the work of spyware, well now you can check!

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PSP MOD Chip!!!

Soon we will all be playing 2.7 games with homebrew!!! It's called "Undiluted Platinum" and it will act as a flash replacement system for your PSP.

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New evidence that AIDS appeared in U.S. in 1969

The patient died in 1969 of an illness that baffled his doctors at Washington Univ. They published a paper in 1984 suggesting that his symptoms resembled those of AIDS. Two months ago, molecular biologists at Tulane Univ. examined stored specimens of his tissue for signs of the AIDS virus and found that he was apparently infected with it.

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How to open your Xbox 360 easily without marking it

This simple tutorial gives a real practical info on a rather hard problem. To remove the Xbox 360's shell there are no screws... read on

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Carbon Nanotube Computers

Researchers at IBM have overcome an important obstacle to building computers based on carbon nanotubes, by developing a way to selectively arrange transistors that were made using the carbon molecules. The achievement could help make large-scale integrated circuits built out of carbon nanotubes possible, leading to ultrafast, low-power processors.

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Build a 15,000 rpm Tesla Turbine using hard drive platters

Here's a project that uses some of those dead hard drives you've got lying around. In the Tesla Turbine, air, steam, oil, or any other fluid is injected at the edge of a series of smooth parallel disks. The fluid spirals inwards and is exhausted through ventilation ports near the center of the disks.

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Man Raised By Chickens is Discovered!!

A man locked in a chicken coop had little contact with humans during most of his life. He is said to have been imprinted by chickens, picking up the habits of the birds such as clucking and pecking for food.

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Wozniak Honors Top Inventions Of 2006

The 25 inventions selected as finalists in the History Channel Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge range from the head-slappingly simple to the mind-bogglingly complex.Steve Wozniak awarded the grand prize.

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Study: Drinking daily can bring health benefits -- for men

I had to put my beer down to post this... drinking reduces the risk of heart disease but the beneficial effects seem to work differently in men and women. They found that for men drinking daily seems to have the biggest positive effect on health while in women the amount of alcohol consumed may have more of an impact.

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SaveTheInternet.com Hailed before the Senate.

Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott testified before the Senate to day on behalf of SavetheInternet.com coalition members Free Press, Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America.

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Why NSA spying puts the U.S. in danger

A former NSA analyst's take on the NSA's warrantless spying: "The case involves fundamental issues related to NSAâ??s missions and long-standing rules of engagement. What's even more dismaying is the lack of public reaction to this."

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Peter Moore talks PS3 Price, Xbox Portable Rumors, Admits He Wants a Wii

Peter Moore recently led an intimate round-table discussion where a few select journalists were able to pluck his brain on current industry issues: PS3\'s price announcement, HD-DVD add-on for Xbox 360, downplaying rumors surrounding a portable Xbox, and actually admits he would like a Wii!

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14 year old kid becomes millionaire through online scamming

Akin is, like many things in cyberspace, an alias. In real life he\'s 14. He wears Adidas sneakers, a Rolex Submariner watch, and a kilo of gold around his neck.

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Father of the Web Calls for Net Neutrality

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, has called for clear separation between Internet access and Internet content.

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Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands

Article describing how to repair Windows XP when your PC is inaccessible from the standard boot procedures, and you have to use the recovery console as your last resort!

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Fanboy buys TV rights from BBC & releases DVD himself

What do you do if your favourite comedy series never comes out on DVD? You could do as Craig Robins has just done - buy the rights and release the thing yourself.

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Flickr group: Soviet Union Propaganda

an extensive collection (25 pages) of Soviet Union propaganda and advertisement posters from 1917 to 1991. Flickr, once again, turns out to be an interesting resource.

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Iowa Engine Company : Making Gasoline Obsolete

While much of the world fumes over escalating fuel prices, a small company in north central Iowa is quietly hoping to make gasoline obsolete as an engine fuel.

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Halo 3 Multiplayer Already Being Tested

In the latest Bungie Weekly Update, Frank O\'Connor has revealed that they are already testing the multiplayer mode of Halo 3.

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kkrieger game: great procedural graphics in just 96 K (that\'s K, not M!)

\"The \'official\' minimum specs for .kkrieger: chapter 1 beta are:\r\nA 1.5GHz pentium 3 / athlon or faster. 512MB of RAM. \r\na GeForce4Ti (or higher) or ATI Radeon8500 (or higher) graphics card supporting pixel shaders 1.3, preferably with 128MB or more of VRAM. some kind of sound hardware. DirectX 9.0b.\" Simply amazing.

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\"Google hacking\" attacks rising

New Zealand web sites are more vulnerable to \"Google hacking\" than many people realise and \"hacking\" attacks are on the rise, according to a recent study by Massey researchers.

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OS X & XP running side-by-side using dual-display and Parallels (VIDEO)

This is better then fast OS switching since you can use both OS\'s at the same time using dual-display.

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Ajax Tabs Content script

A tab content script that combines Ajax and CSS to let you display a selection of external content on the page, inside a DIV and via CSS tabs. For each tab, you can also dynamically load external .css and .js files associated with the external page if desired.

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Microsoft: No XBOX 360 Price Drop Planned

Microsoft has said that a price drop won\'t take place. \"We have no plans to make any price adjustment. ... we have a great value proposition.\"

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USB digital TV tuner roundup

There was a time when adding a digital tuner to a desktop PC was cumbersome, and adding one to a notebook was impossible. Not anymore - these guys have put three USB DVB-T tuners through their paces to see if any of them are worth the money.

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Technology could put more advertisers in your games

In-game advertising -- a marketing frontier long on the periphery of most brands\' radar -- is poised to take its place center stage.

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Skype WiFi Phone

In July Skype will offer a WiFi Phone that allows you to use Skype WITHOUT a PC for $300. Totally worth it, so long skype keeps their calling any phone from US and Canada for free.

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Macy\'s installs iPod vending machines for those who carry around $300 in ch

Macy\'s plans to install 180 iPod vending machines -- made by a San Francisco company -- nationwide by fall, its chief executive said Friday.

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No Engines! A Barrel Roll while Pouring Iced Tea

I\'ve heard rumors about a pilot who demonstrated that you can pour a drink in the cockpit while doing a barrel roll and not spill a drop. Thanks to the magic of YouTube and an email tip, I have finally seen the video.

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My Interview and Job Offer From Google...

Very interesting read on a one guys job interview with Google and subsequent job offer from Google. Think he took the job? Think again....

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Star Wars In 3D

According to this George Lucas is sold on the idea of re-releasing Episode I in 3D with new technology.

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Mirror Your Web Site With rsync

This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror.

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Installing and using Linux for the total newbie

So you\'ve heard about Linux and you want to try it out, but you\'re scared you may screw up Windows or that it\'s too hard to install. Well fear no longer, here is a guide for the total newbie.

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Video Games ARE Good For Children

\"Playing computer games may actually be good for children, according to a government study that found no proof that even violent games triggered aggressive behaviour.\"\r\n\r\nThis is ironic...

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Zelda Twilight Princess: Twilight Realm\'s New Look

Magazine scans and video of Zelda: Twilight Princess\'s new look for the twilight realm have surfaced. No longer black & white, the area now has a hazy, over saturated look.

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Xbox 360 Faceplate Face-Off @ [H] Console

An Xbox 360 faceplate is just a faceplate, right? Nothing but a $20 piece of plastic that spices up the looks of your console. If you subscribe to that school of thought you\'d be wrong. We take a look at 7 faceplates and what you get for your hard earned money. The results might surprise you.

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Politicians Enlist Whiz Kids to Help Build Blogs and Podcasts

Veteran politicians more familiar with turntables and typewriters are enlisting twentysomething computer whiz kids to help them brave the digital world of blogs, podcasts and the Web as they look to connect directly with voters.

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It's official: Apple say no 12" MacBook Pro is coming

Dave Chartier was wondering if Apple would produce a 12" MacBook Pro to replace the 12" Powerbook, and was told on the phone by Apple that "a 12-inch MacBook Pro ain't gonna happen."

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Scientists say they have cleared technical hurdle in fusion research

Physicists working in the United States believe they have cracked an important problem facing man-made nuclear fusion, touted as the cheap, safe, clean and almost limitless energy source of the future.

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320GB Western Digital Hard Drive for $99 (no rebates!)

Office max a nice little sale on western digital hard drives.

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1964: Build Your Own LASER!

An article from Popular Science Magazine 1964, Build Your Own Laser! "It may sound like science fiction" but it's really science fact: You can build a working ruby laser. A ruby laser is a source of coherent light. All of the light waves in the pencil-thin, bright-red ruby laser beam are in phase or in step with each other."

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Manhattan Apple Store Fullscreen QTVR

Jook Leung famous VR photographer from New York was at the opening of the new Apple store. A new landmark in New York

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The fight against V1@gra (and other spam)

"spammers have hardly given up, network managers must still face down the pill-pushers, get-rich-quick artists and others who use billions of unwanted e-mail messages to troll for income. "For the end user, spam isn't that much of a problem anymore," said Matt Sergeant. "But for the network it definitely is."

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Afraid Of Re-installing Windows XP?

This site has a very useful tutorial if you have an old and slow XP machine with hundreds of programs and you want to re-install. This site will show you how to save your old partition in a virtual machine, and have a nice, new install of Windows.

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Nintendo DS Lite Mania!

"To be able to run homebrews, emulators, backups and the like, you'll need two things. First you need a passkey to boot into DS mode."

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Windows Media Player 11 w/ Urge Review - Nice features, but it's no iTunes

Microsoft's new Windows Media Player 11, released in test form last week, looks and works little like older versions of the company's music and video organizer -- starting with its front-and-center placement for Urge, a new music store from MTV, designed to compete with the iTunes Music Store.

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Hotel TV Hack for Free Movies

"Here's a tip for those of you that stay in Marriot hotels. Marriot has installed a PPV system nationwide called "On Command". As far as I can tell, there is a radio frequency module attached to the TV that signals some master hotel unit to order movies and add charges to your hotel bill." I'm sure this is illegal.

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Stock Charts: Nintendo vs. Sony

Sony's stock continues to decline in the wake of E3, while Nintendo is flying high. Apparently investors are not impressed with the PS3.

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How to Hollow Out a Light Bulb

When I was growing up I had a keen interest in the sciences. Mostly because of the cool gear that scientists used. Well, not only did I not have the money for those sorts of thing but I had no idea where to even buy them if I could. One of the better improvisations I was able to do was to hollow out a light bulb and use it for other things.

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LED Touch Sensor Project

JustDIY proves that LEDs can be used for more than lighting, but also as an input device. "This is a collection of the work this user has done using the bi-directional properties of LEDs. he have also included links to information found on the subject and the project by an NYU research that inspired him."

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TV Theme Songs (Open Directory)

Includes such classics as Monty Python's Flying Circus, Futurama, The Jeopardy 'thinking' music, and the Super Mario Bros. show.

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MySpace.com Is Just So Last Year, For Teens

MySpace's notoriety could be a turnoff for young people who are looking for an online community of their own, said Amanda Lenhart, a senior researcher for the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Lenhart has studied teens' online behavior since the late 1990s. "Teens will go where their friends go," she said.

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Mac OS X: What Are All Those Processes?

Have you ever looked at Activity Monitor and wondered what all those background processes are? This website has a nice list of each background process or dameon, and tells you exactly what it does. It's always important to know what's going on inside your computer.

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Canada leads the world in Firefox Usage

Browser World USA Canada
Microsoft IE 85.17% 82.47% 77.41%
Mozilla Firefox 11.79% 12.81% 16.00%
Apple Safari 2.02% 3.69% 2.61%
Opera 0.79% 0.67% 2.15%
Netscape 0.15% 0.26% 0.23%

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Coolest photo you will see today

Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour. This is a five minute exposure taken from about 7 miles away from the pad. Taken with a borrowed all-manual Nikomat camera, 24 mm lens, f/16, Kodak Royal Gold 100 film. When the exposure was stopped in this shot, the shuttle was approximately 229 statute miles downrange.



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Mac Os X driver for the XBox 360 controller

A driver that allows to use the XBox 360 controller with Mac Os X.
Allows to use Force Feedback, comes with source, universal binary and a Preference Pane.
As I don't have 360 I didn't test it. Can some of you comment on it's usage?
-- Note to self, I searched for a copy of this story and didn't find any... read it first on TUAW.

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Apple shunned superstar chip start-up for Intel

A chip start-up that created a high performance, low power processor compatible with existing Mac software had been working closely with Apple for many months. Why then did Apple pick Intel instead?

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World's First Hard Drive - 1956

Presenting the world's first hard drive, first introduced in 1956 -- IBM's 5MB Random Access Memory Accounting: RAMAC



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MacBookPro Burns Women's Leg, AppleCare Suggests "RTFM"

Man drove home with wife while watching DVD on MBP, burned women's leg, Picture included.



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Bad News for Nanotechnology : Tiny Toxins

Preliminary studies suggest that some types of nanoparticles might pose a health hazard.

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Damn Small Linux 2.4 has been released!

The newest version of the 50 MB Linux Live CD has been released. Get it!

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Suround Sound from an mp3?

MP3 Surround enables high-quality surround sound at bit rates comparable to those currently used to encode stereo MP3 material. It is backwards compatible to stereo MP3; a legacy MP3 device plays back MP3 Surround as high quality stereo.



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IM Worm installs own browser: The Safety Browser

A new IM hijack that installs its own browser called (as you might have guessed) the "Safety Browser" which is anything but! Changes your homepage, loops music on your desktop every time you boot up and spams the infection link via IM and IRC. Oh, and enables popups by default...!

With a name like that, it would sound REALLY suspicious to me....though some people may be dumb enoguht to click on it, though



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Market Punishes Intel For AMD's Win

Intel Corp. shares fell to a three-year low Friday after No. 1 personal computer maker Dell Inc. said it would begin using chips from smaller Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., whose shares surged.

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How to create your own game company

Months ago I wrote an article on starting your own game company for Download Squad. I finally got around to a follow-up, this time more focused on the business end of things.

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Ars Technica's MacBook Review

Ars Technica reviews the 2.0GHz white MacBook: "Apple has thrust themselves back into a state of competitiveness when it comes to the consumer laptop space, and even offers prospective users features that other computer manufacturers cannot."



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a random gnome's random lair: An old Sam & Max video

a random gnome's random lair: An old Sam & Max video

This is a rather simple post. It's all about the canceled Lucasarts game, that used to go under the name of Sam and Max: Freelance Police. It would have been great. It would have included dozens of mini-games. It even had a trailer (which I uploaded for your viewing pleasure). Now it's dead. Not quite? Well, let's just wait and see....

And here are some of the sam and max videos that I found also on google video, including the on in the original post:

a random gnome's random lair: Oh no! More hand-picked free games.

a random gnome's random lair: Oh no! More hand-picked free games.

The last time I presented you with my favorite free games, I strived to achieve collage-perfection. This time I tried something easier. Photo-manipulation, using the most advanced digital tools. You can see the results on the nice hand-crafted (ahem) pic, that's right above this paragraph. But, I digress. Nobody is here to read about my artistic and/or technical endeavors. You are all here for the games.

Well, the games that made it to this list, were carefully hand-picked in my rather picturesque cyber-garden. They are not shareware titles, trials or mods. They are all full free (100% legal) games, and each and every one of them has given me at least a few hours of clean-godly-gnomish fun. (America's Army is not included, and no matter how many of you moan, it will never be. I hate this game). Well, without further ado then, on to the list...

PlayStation X Portable (not the PSP) - play PS1 ROMs on the GP2X (Videos)

Videos of PSX games being played on the Linux based GP2X portable gaming system. Very cool!

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NEW Nintendo Wii Game: Wii Hide, you Seek.

Massivly Multiplayer Online Hide and Go Seek!!! SWEET!!! Details inside.

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How-To access your PC from school or work with a thumb drive

A how-to that shows how to use a remote access program called UltraVNC and a USB thumb drive to bypass school and work PC restrictions. Also includes a pre-made portable app. setup for your thumb drive.

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XM Satellite Radio responds to the Stupid RIAA lawsuit.

XM Radio basically tells the RIAA to shove it! They won't be bullied around by the RIAA and they'll fight them!
"We will vigorously defend these radios and your right to enjoy them in court and before Congress, and we expect to win."

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Parallels Desktop RC out !

Parallels Desktop (known before as Parallels Workstation) hit the release candidate !

Again fix some issues like USB, networking or sound.

Go get it !

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Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes

A mountain near the Montana-Wyoming border once moved 62 miles in a half-hour in a catastrophic scenario that could be repeated elsewhere, scientists say. Rock at the summit of Heart Mountain is 250 million years older than at its base. That suggests the top and the bottom have not always been together.

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Nintendo: Sony steals our ideas

Handbags at the ready - Nintendo UK boss lashes out at Sony's new motion sensing controller

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Alert Raised for MS Word Zero-Day Attack

A zero-day flaw in the ubiquitous Microsoft Word software program is being used in an active exploit by sophisticated hackers in China and Taiwan, according to warnings from anti-virus researchers.

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Wii Set To Win In Consoles Sales?

A couple of months ago nobody, but the most hardcore of Nintendo fans and the most extreme of the free thinkers (i.e. crazy people) thought the Revolution could take any other spot than third place in the console rat race.

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Football Players Who Beat Up The Nerd Are Charged

The football players who beat up the "nerd" for using a laptop in a restaurant have been charged with assault. Revenge Of The Nerds!

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DELL to use AMD opteron

finally, DELL goes with AMD

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Nintendo Wii @ 1.1Ghz NOT 750Mhz

We did hear more about its tech specs though. While the 1.1Ghz PowerPC CPU doesn't compare to the PS3's Cell processor in terms of power, it is much faster than we initially expected.

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A New Blue Frog?!

It looks like a group of programmers has already stepped up to the plate to resurect Blue Frog. They've already applied on SourceForge, and are talking about having P2P components. Let's see if we can't lend them a hand!

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RIP: Last Male of a Species Died Today

"Any time we lose a species it diminishes us all."

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What the PS3 controller should have been?

With all the commotion surrounding the Wii and PS3 controllers at E3, it's hard not to get the feeling that motion tracking is the only new controller innovation out there.

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Stealthier Firefox Extension (aka. pr0n mode)

Firefox extension Stealther lets you browse the web without leaving a trace of your browsing session on your computer.

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UK PS3 price: £425! ($802 USD)

What are Sony thinking?! £425, with no core console available. And Sony still describe it as a 'bargain'!

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Merrill Lynch: "Xbox 360 to top PS3"

Analysts at Merrill Lynch believe that the Xbox 360 will win the next console war, because of pricing. The report states: "The PS3 will not only be significantly more costly than Xbox 360 at launch, but will continue to operate at a cost disadvantage for several years..."

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India announces plans to develop robot army

"In an announcement that you can probably expect to be repeated by rival Pakistan in the next few days, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has claimed that his Southeast Asian nation will be the latest country to pursue technologies for developing a robotic army." - credit engadget

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MySpace's Growth is its Own Undoing

"It got too fake," 18 year old Summer Stoker said. "You have all these people saying they want to be your friend. It's just a waste of time."

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MacBook vs. 12" iBook: Just what does the extra $100 get you?

The 12" iBook G4 was $999; the new MacBook starts at $1,099. I thought it would be interesting to see just what that extra $100 gets you. Short answer? A *lot*, although you actually lose a few things as well.

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Systm Episode 6 Released

The much anticipated Episode 6 is now out.
"The 2006 Maker Faire presents the do-it-yourself community with thousands of finished projects and inspired ideas."

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PS3-like controller is heading to the PS2 and PC

The motion detection found on the PS3 is heading to the PS2 and PC. Gamers can combine the control options of a mouse, keyboard, joystick and more onto a single multi-functional controller.





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The Games Nobody Lines Up to Play

Humorous look at what could be at E3

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LeapFish.com - How valuable is your domain name?

We have created a rating system which is based on various factors and ratings you may find individually for a domain name. This system is called a CVS (Combined Value Score). The CVS is created by compiling a score derived from several different factors and running them through our formula to end up with a number. This is your score.

Apparently the site is down because of the large ammount of people trying to get on to it....



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Bridging the gap between Office and OpenOffice

OpenOffice 2.0 the free, open source office suite -- has many features that are very similar to Microsoft Office. The trick is knowing how to use them.

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AMD Officially Launches Turion 64 X2

AMD today introduced the Turion 64 X2 series mobile processor, a dual-core mobile processor featuring 64-bit technology.

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MacBook Allows Right-Click Using Trackpad

Apple's latest models feature something new! The ability to right-click using the trackpad. But what about the MacBook Pro?

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FIRST Robotics on Lehrer News Hour (Public Television)

RealAudio - An annual competition of robotics expertise presents high school students with real-life scenarios and obstacles to overcome in the design and use of robotics technology. (5.16.06)

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E3 2006: Battlefield 2142 Hands-On

May 10, 2006 - BF2 came onto the scene mid-last year and proceeded to dominate the PC multiplayer gaming arena. Almost a year and several expansion packs later, DICE and EA look to repeat on their success with the Battlefield franchise. Although it was the first multiplayer game we saw at E3, it has overshadowed all others (that we have seen so far). To be fair to its competition, we should have seen other titles first. In a nutshell, BF2142 is everything BF2 was…and then some. All the familiar tactics, gameplay, and all-around multiplayer gaming goodness is back. This time around, we embark in futuristic combat.

Set 136 years in the future, the game is based on the premise that the world has entered into a "New Ice Age." Politics and religion are no longer the basis for conflict. Rather, opposing nations must now compete for limited land and resources (as much of the world is now frozen over). The two opposing sides to choose from is the European Union (EU) and the Pan-Asian Coalition (PAC). Removing the United States from the equation, the game focuses on the conflict between Europe and its neighbors of the East. Both vie for control of what little land is still left. As the people of both continents are pushed into smaller and smaller pockets of land, the fight becomes one for survival.

E3 2006: Battlefield 2142 Hands-On

E3 2006: Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption

May 11, 2006 - We were very excited to see what the Petroglyph guys were going to do with their recent Star Wars RTS Empire at War. And while the title scored big in terms of offering an authentic Star Wars feel, the nature of the license limited some of the variety that can be achieved in a completely original property. Thankfully, the developers have decided to add loads of new units and an entirely new faction for the expansion pack. Additionally there are quite a few gameplay additions that are sure to shake things up and add a little more variety to the experience.

Beginning after the destruction of the Death Star, Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption introduces the Underworld. This new playable faction is led by Tyber Zann, one of the worst criminals this side of Jabba the Hutt. Leading his hordes of scum and villainy, he'll try to capitalize on the power vacuum created by the destruction of the Empire's most powerful weapon.

Looks interesting, I'm hoping that this expansion gives EAW the kick in the right direction it needs to be a successful RTS.

Google Calendar Notifier 2.1 Released (Firefox Extension)

I would like to thank everyone on Digg for a successful release of version 1.3 a few weeks back - I have taken all of your suggetions and bug reports into consideration for this current version. The best news of all: Multiple Calendar Support!

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Review of Google's Desktop 4

The most recent version, Desktop 3, released last winter, was maddeningly close to being very cool. It struck me that how Google addressed its shortcomings in Desktop 4 would say something about the maturity of the company.

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Life After the Video Game Crash

The PS3 is too expensive, the 360 isn't selling outside the USA, and 75% of homes don't have an HDTV. Could this spell disaster for the gaming industry? This article makes a good case.

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Sound Neutralzing Technology 'Confuses' Abusive/Racist Chants at Stadiums

During tests of the prototype system, volunteers were surrounded by loudspeakers simulating the sound of a chanting crowd and were asked join in. But one speaker replayed the crowds chant with a short delay. When the delay was greater than 200 milliseconds the volunteers found it too difficult to chant coherently

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Dvorak: Consumers Lose in DVD Format War

By the end of this year, we'll see exactly which next-generation optical media will be on our desktop computers. Or will we?

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SkypeOut now FREE for US & Canada!

Yes. It is really very, very free. There's no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.

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Sony PSP brings camera to party

"One really impressive peripheral on show today is the upcoming PSP camera. It's behind glass at the show, but the pic gives an idea of how cool this thing is gonna be when it arrives in September..."



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Microsoft Gets It

"I never thought I'd actually write those three words. However, I'm not talking about operating systems or Windows Media. I'm talking about games�and not just about the Xbox 360, but let's begin there, anyway."

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Guide to mounting Windows partitions under Kubuntu

A short guide with pictures on how to put windows partitions on your desktop.

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Canned Oxygen Goes on Sale at 7-11

Is this a new trend since bottled water?

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Google Image Ripper

no more thumbnails,straight to the good stuff

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Choose Intel Mac boot drive via remote control

To select your Mac boot drive with the Apple Remote simply press the remotes 'Menu' button just after you hear the startup chime of your Mac. Then when the startup drive selections appear use the 'forward/backward' buttons to select the corresponding volume and then press 'play' to boot from that volume.

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Huge XBOX Dashboard update due this month!

It will feature a download manager for 6 parallel downloads in the background. Also mentions that there will be a lot more features in there but it will be a surprise and he wont talk about it.

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Sony Executive Recommends Wii As Second Console

GamePro sat down with Sony Computer Entertainment executive Phil Harrison at E3 earlier this week, where he re-iterated a sentiment made by Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Interactive Entertainment Peter Moore, where he said that buyers of of a next-generation console should also buy Nintendo's Wii system.

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Nintendo Wii Graphics On Par With Xbox 360?

The article explains that most companies have been mislead to underestimate the technical capabilities of the Wii. The source for the article also makes a bold statement by saying: "the Wii will be visually on par with the Xbox 360 and may even exceed it slightly."

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Gtalkr Shuts Down

Looks like Gtalkr will never make it out of BETA, it shut down yesterday. Guess what?! Its founders have joint Google!

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Engadget.com - A Visual Breakdown.

How much advertising is there on the Engadget.com site? And how much screen space demands Weblogs Inc.? Take a look at this comprehensive breakdown.

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Microsoft Office 2007

As previously reported by Neowin, Word 2007 will support blog posting. To add to this, Microsoft has commited to having the HTML posted from Word be very very clean.

In addition, Office 2007 will run both on Windows Vista and Windows XP. The article below gives a more detailed first look including screenshots of what Office 2007 currently looks like under Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. The new UI is a major departure from the past.

Many developers are wondering whether this UI should be adopted elsewhere. Microsoft has begun using the orb-like UI (from the Windows Vista Start button) in other applications as well despite there being no mention of it in the Windows Vista UI guidelines.

As previously reported by Neowin, Word 2007 will support blog posting. To add to this, Microsoft has commited to having the HTML posted from Word be very very clean.

In addition, Office 2007 will run both on Windows Vista and Windows XP. The article below gives a more detailed first look including screenshots of what Office 2007 currently looks like under Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. The new UI is a major departure from the past.

Many developers are wondering whether this UI should be adopted elsewhere. Microsoft has begun using the orb-like UI (from the Windows Vista Start button) in other applications as well despite there being

As previously reported by Neowin, Word 2007 will support blog posting. To add to this, Microsoft has commited to having the HTML posted from Word be very very clean.

In addition, Office 2007 will run both on Windows Vista and Windows XP. The article below gives a more detailed first look including screenshots of what Office 2007 currently looks like under Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. The new UI is a major departure from the past.

Many developers are wondering whether this UI should be adopted elsewhere. Microsoft has begun using the orb-like UI (from the Windows Vista Start button) in other applications as well despite there being

As previously reported by Neowin, Word 2007 will support blog posting. To add to this, Microsoft has commited to having the HTML posted from Word be very very clean.

In addition, Office 2007 will run both on Windows Vista and Windows XP. The article below gives a more detailed first look including screenshots of what Office 2007 currently looks like under Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. The new UI is a major departure from the past.

Many developers are wondering whether this UI should be adopted elsewhere. Microsoft has begun using the orb-like UI (from the Windows Vista Start button) in other applications as well despite there being no mention of it in the Windows Vista UI guidelines.

I've In the beta presently and I can vouch that the new UI of the Beta One Refreshed is very clean, and much more organized than the past versions of Office. It will take some time to get used to it, but eventually it will become faster to use the new interface than the old, clutter UI of past versons of office (I'm not a Microsoft Fanboy, I still dont care for Windows, though that doesnt mean Im a MS Pessamist).

Armed Assault E3 Info

Parker got a chance to talk with Jiri Rydl from IDEA Games and got a hands-on demo of Armed Assault at E3 2006. Here is what he thought about it (build was 75% complete).

Operation Flashpoint fans have been waiting five years to get their hands on the next version of the popular combat game. Unfortunately, the tactical warfare game wont have a true sequel. At least not anytime soon. Fortunately, Bohemia Interactive Studios, the studio behind the original Operation Flashpoint (OFP) and the expansion Resistance, has a new modern warfare game in the works. Armed Assault (ArmA) will be the next warfare game from BIS featuring an enhanced VBS1 engine.

Armed Assault takes place on the fictional Atlantic island of Sahrani. The island is constantly under the threat of war due to the Communist northern region of the island. The single player game will attempt to provide a soldier's view of the conflict. You are a member of a small (around 100 member) detachment of U.S. soldiers keeping peace on the island. This is not a Call of Duty or Battlefield 2, where the player can perform tremendous feats of heroics. You are just a private waiting to be sent home when the island suddenly erupts in violence. In my talks with representatives from BIS it has been emphasized that the game is not about heroes, but about the average soldier and his experiences in a conflict he has no control over. It was also noted that even though the game provides drivable cars, boats, tanks, and aircraft there is no single super character that is expected to use all of them in the single player campaign. The game's focus - realism...

WWIIEC EXCLUSIVE: Armed Assault

Is Google The New Microsoft?

In a few short years, Google has turned from a simple and popular company into a complicated and controversial one. In depth article by the Economist.

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Windows Media Player 11 Beta Released For Download

Softpedia has the download a few days before Microsoft will have it officially.

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Consoles aren't the only thing at E3 - the PC had an awesome showing too

While E3 is often thought of as a console gaming show, much of the show was devoted to new PCs, both on the show floor and at events like eFocus, held the night before.



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Massive Play-test of Wii Games

HEXUS had the chance to take a number of Wii games for a spin, and by the looks they had more fun than should be allowed. It looks like the fun-factor of Wii will easily make up for its lack of power compared to PS3/XBox 360.








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Vonage USB SoftPhone Kit Leaked! (pic)

Our Bothan spies sent us some shots of a USB-key based Vonage SoftPhone that will be available in June. This thing consists of the USB key containing the software and a headset. You plug it into any PC-no Mac support, apparently-up comes your home phone and voicemail et al.



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Record-breaking laser is hot stuff

The record for the fastest rise in temperature has just been topped.

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Duke Nukem Forever: 8 Years and $7.5 million later it's almost done!!!

3D Realms' Scott Miller says he believes that Duke Nukem Forever will be so popular that it will make back the $7.5 million they've spent making it in the first day or 2 of it's release. "...once it comes out, if it's as successful as we think it'll be, we'll make that money back in the first day or two of sales."

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Wii-mote to automatically customize the look and settings or various games.

Effectively, each person in the household could have their own controller, which is tied to their own gaming preferences and will ensure that the Wii automatically customises the look or settings of various games, depending on which controller is used to switch the machine on or join a new game.

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Sony PS3 - from hero to zero?

The PlayStation 3: too late, too expensive and not enough horsepower?

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Will's Wii first impressions (CNET review)

[Red Steel] definitely proves that FPS games can work well on a console; the Wiimote-nunchuck configuration is the first console control scheme I've seen that comes anywhere near the control of a keyboard and mouse...Guns are aimed and swords are swung with the Wiimote, and even actions such as opening doors require a gentle shake of the nunchuck.

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Will Wright: USD 600 PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS Lite

Quotes:
"I am working on a book right now."
"Six hundred bucks; that is a lot of money. I'm rooting for Nintendo."
"I am playing with my DS a lot. I am playing Brain Age and Sudoku."

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Super Mario Galaxy (HUGE) Boss Battle Video

Video from the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii featuring a boss battle on the scale of Shadow of the Colossus boss battles.

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First Man-Made Nanoscale Fractal Molecule Created

A man-made, nanoscale structure developed by University of Akron researchers that could lead to new types of photoelectric cells, molecular batteries and energy storage options is being featured in the latest edition of the international journal Science.

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Sony gave Developer 10 Days To Design Warhawk's Tilt-Sensitive Controls

"The development team knew for awhile to expect something surprising from Sony with the new controller, and it came up with design ideas over a long period of time, but it was only in the past 10 days or so that it was able to actually physically implement the idea and get the game running with the new control scheme."

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Mini Machines (w/pics)

today's advanced micromachining techniques give scientists the ability to fabricate complex objects on a scale never before possible. And things just keep getting more interesting. See for yourself in this gallery of tiny wonders, from miniature submarines capable of sailing through your blood vessels to tiny eyeglasses for houseflies.

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49% of MP3 player owners own an Apple iPod

In-Stat consumer survey data shows 49 per cent of MP3 player owners own an Apple iPod. The rapidly growing worldwide market for Flash-based and hard disk drive (HDD)-based players is to jump from 140 Million units in 2005 to 286 Million by 2010.

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Internet Explorer usage keeps going down worldwide

OneStat.com today reported that Microsoft's browsers have a total global usage share of 85.17 percent. The total usage share of Microsoft Internet Explorer decreased 0.65 percent since January 2006. The total global usage share of Mozilla is 11.79 which is 0.56 percent more than at the of of January.

Here is one of the charts that was on the page:

The most popular browsers on the web are:

May 2006 January 2006 Difference
1. Microsoft IE 85.17% 85.82% -0.65%
2. Mozilla Firefox 11.79% 11.23% +0.56%
3. Apple Safari 2.02% 1.88% +0.14%
4. Opera 0.79% 0.77% +0.02 %
5. Netscape 0.15% 0.16% -0.01%

so it seems that Mozillia is gaining ground, abet slowly, as well as IE is slowly shrinking..

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Nintendo president Iwata explains the Wii's strange name.

A good Q & A with Nintendo's Satoru Iwata that gives insight into the Nintendo game plan for this generation of consoles. He definitely shoots some of the rumors down.

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Nintendo's Wii Steals Show at Expo

The Wii is stealing the show at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show.

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Can A Computer Read You Like A Book?

MIT scientists can calculate what will happen in various social situations, say, landing a date, or getting a job or a raise? They can do it, with 90% accuracy.

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Web 2.0 is just getting started

"For those who are wondering, Web 2.0 is just getting started. Yeah, I said it. Witness the frenzy at marquee venture capital firms. Given the piles of money they're deploying, we've probably got three to five more years of new deals ahead of us."

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News Flash: Apple to hold press event next Thursday 5-18-2006

The event is scheduled for Thursday, May 18th at 10am ET, the day before the Mac maker is will to open a new 20,000-square-foot retail store at 767 Fifth Avenue at 59th Street in Midtown, Manhattan.
Details will follow.

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HD Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

Coolest video mario in HD!!!!!!!!!!

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First trailer of new Super Smash Brothers for Wii

Don't miss out on the first trailer for Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii

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The Engadget & Joystiq Interview: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto!

Just a few minutes ago Vlad from Joystiq and I got to sit down with Miyamoto-san and talk to him about what's up in the world of Nintendo, how the Wii's could to change gaming, and how he feels about the Sony, Microsoft, and high definition gaming!



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Joystiq Video of Wired Spore event featuring Will Wright and Robin Williams

It's a big honking file, but we have video of the Spore Wired Event from last night as well as interviews with both Robin WIlliams and Will Wright. Enjoy!

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Sony's President Backpedaling on PS3

From the Article - "The only difference is HDMI - and at this point, I don't think many people's TV's have that. The ultimate result, to my eyes anyway, is there's not a discernable difference between what you get between HDMI and other forms of high definition."

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Darwin's "abominable mystery" Solved?

Researchers have proposed an answer to Charles Darwin's "abominable mystery": the inexplicably rapid evolution of flowering plants immediately after their first appearance some 140 million years ago.

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Silicon Valley tinkerers are determined to make a better cell phone.

A group calling themselves the Homebrew Computer Club some of the members are veterans from the original club. They are sick of proprietary cell phones, and want to make a highly customizable, open source style phone.

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New Gmail Feature: Gmail Pictures

Gmail Pictures (which isn't yet available) will be rolled out to accounts slowly very very soon. It lets users choose avatars for their email conversations with people, almost like avatars in instant messengers.

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Live from E3: Fun Wii Facts Confirmed

Smaller Wii tidbits confirmed, including info on the bundled remote, battery type, virtual console, third-party licensing, and more.

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Watch CNN Pipeline For Free !!!

No joke, Come on and get it while it lasts...I found the URL for one of the Pipeline channel a while ago, but thought to share it with you guys. The programing is also good, so it's just like CNN (only for free and no commercials either). Maybe someone else could find the other channels ;)

Well, it used to work, though I never got it to work :(.

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