Google Web Accelerator

I ran into this while searching on google, it seems they are now releasing a web accelerator that is supposed to speed up pages for Broadband Users. Its currently a Google Labs product, though many google products are in a sense in perpetual beta, so it could have bugs. I've not personally tried it, but it's worth a look. It even works with Firefox.

Google Web Accelerator is...
• Designed for Broadband – Web pages load even more quickly on DSL and cable connections
• Easy to use – Simply install and enjoy faster web browsing in seconds

Apple Planters!

apple planters!
Originally uploaded by shawnwall.

Lol this is hilarious, old macs made into flower/plant pots!

Teenage boy blows up the house with deodorant

...And that caused a can of Sure deodorant to explode with such force that it not only blew out windows but cracked a wall and even, briefly, lifted the roof off the bungalow.

OMG, I knew that deoderant was flammable if you put a flame near it, but that must of been an extreme ammount of deoderant to cause THAT!

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Apple Named Hardware Company of the Year by PC World Magazine

PC World magazine on Wednesday issued its 2006 Hardware Company of the Year award to Apple, which had five products land on its list of the 100 Best Products of 2006: the iPod nano (#4), Boot Camp (#10), the Mac mini (#35), the iPod (#36), and iTunes (#43).

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Half Life 2: Episode one Released

Valve have now released the first half life 2 expantion, HL2:EP1, Playable on steam NOW

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ThePirateBay closed on order from the White House

US Government ordered the close down of PirateBay according to Swedish television. The request came originally from US Government and ultimatley MPAA.

The Swedish police then acted on direct order from the Swedish government, even though the police knew that they didn't have the law on their side.

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The Internet isn't free!

Awesome Interview with Tim Berners-Lee.

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How Sony Failed to Connect, Again

Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company's consumer electronics divisions gathered for an unusual meeting in the tiny Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters of digital media start-up Kinoma.

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ThePirateBay Strikes Back

MPA, IFPI and Antipiratbyrån jubilation proves impotent, as ThePirateBay.org prepares its return.

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25+ tips to get started with Dapper

Ubuntu 6.06 is here! Get started with over 25 tips to tweak, personalize and otherwise polish the diamond that is Dapper Drake. Tips include installing multimedia codecs, adding extra repositories, adding a Windows-like "Start" button, and much more!

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Best Buy sells couples hard drive - turns up in Chicago flea market

Henry Gerbus said Best Buy assured him the computer's old hard drive -- loaded with personal information -- would be destroyed.
"They said rest assured. They drill holes in it so it's useless," said Gerbus. That wasn't the case.

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Wall Street says sell your Sony stock

Ok, it's an upgrade from their previous advice of 'Strong Sell,' but it's interesting to note the phrase "a lack of visibility in Sony's games division."

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Nice gallery of real castles for sale around the world

For the same price as a 2 bedroom apartment in San Francisco you can get something that would house an army and possibly did.

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How to: Make a Vacuum Cannon

Make a simple cannon out of some tube and a vacuum cleaner.



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Bacteria Eats Chocolate And Excretes Electricity

University of Birmingham microbiologists have found a bacterium that excretes electricity-generating hydrogen when fed sugar, and have made electricity from waste chocolate headed for the landfill.

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Bacteria Eats Chocolate And Excretes Electricity

University of Birmingham microbiologists have found a bacterium that excretes electricity-generating hydrogen when fed sugar, and have made electricity from waste chocolate headed for the landfill.

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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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