Friday, February 17, 2006

New free emulator for OS X can do Windows and Linux and is Universal

Check it out! Q is a new Cocoa implementation of the open-source emulator QEMU. Its optimization for OSX includes being a universal binary, support for CoreImage, CoreAudio and OpenGL. Who needs to wait for Microsoft?

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Build Yourself a Simple Amp (Pictures)

Maker Writes:"I wanted a simple small amp for my ipod to leave in the garage." This is a fun little project to do. A step by step guide on how to build yourself a simple amp.

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Verizon's response to: "We're Ending Google's Free Lunch"

When I read the original article many posted about sending a complaint to Verizon. I did just that and this is the response I got back from them. This is their side of the story and is interesting.

Original:http://digg.com/technology/Verizon:_We_re_Ending_Google_s_Free_Lunch_

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How To Block Fasterfox To Save Bandwidth

A tutorial to help website owners save bandwidth and reduce server loads by blocking Fasterfox from pre-fetching links on web pages. (add code to robots.txt)

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How To Block Fasterfox To Save Bandwidth

A tutorial to help website owners save bandwidth and reduce server loads by blocking Fasterfox from pre-fetching links on web pages. (add code to robots.txt)

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Hack: Build your own wireless music player

Take a $40 wireless router, a $15 USB audio adapter, and a $12 LCD kit and combine them into a wireless music player that hooks up to your stereo and does everything the $200 networked music players do. Awesome!

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Sleep on major decisions

Scientists say that for complex decisions, it is best to sleep on it. I have followed it several this several times. Now scientists have confirmed that I am doing the right thing. However, I have not slept on the decision to sleep on the decision to submit this story to digg.

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Download 9 Mozart symphonies for free

Danish national radio released 9 mp3s (at very high quality: 256kbps) with 9 Mozart symphonies in honour of the musician's 250th birth anniversary. Download for free.

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God of War and SOCOM 4 on PS3

SOCOM 4 is confirmed to appear at E3 and is likely to be a PlayStation 3 launch title.

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"BLACK" for Xbox leaked onto P2P networks (correct link)

Electronic Arts has suffered a serious blow as it watches the eagerly-anticipated Xbox FPS BLACK leak out across peer-to-peer networks and downloaded by an untold number of home and professional pirates.

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Does AT&T owe YOU $21,000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), based in San Francisco, filed the suit against AT&T for giving the NSA direct access to its databases of communications records, including whom their customers had phoned or sent e-mail to in the past. The suit was filed Tuesday in the United States District Court of the Northern District of California.

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Canadians Psiphon to Break Great Firewall of China

"More than fifteen years after the Berlin Wall was shattered with hammers and bulldozers, a Canadian-designed computer program is preparing to break through what activists call the great firewall of China."

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Finally: Official DS vs DS Lite comparison pictures! (including brightness)

No more concepts, no more CGI, someone who went to the DS Conference in Japan yesterday (Feb, 15, 2006)

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Students at MIT give flying car a shot

An SUV with retractable wings could make 100- to 500-mile jumps and carry two people and luggage on a single tank of gas.

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Apple removing the iTunes phone 100 song cap?

Could Apple soon offer the ability to purchase a software upgrade that removes the 100 song cap of the ROKR and SLVR? If this screenshot and the code snippets that led up to it are true, these phones could finally become appealing.

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1.2 petabytes of storage

This story is about an inventor called Michael Thomas who claims to have a 1.2 petabyte hard disk in the pipeline. He expects it to be ready 'in about four to five years' at a cost of '$750'.

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Real-time Train Google Maps Hack

Mackers' Dartmaps is a great example of a real-time application making use of Google Maps.
The DART is frequent train service in Dublin, Ireland.

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Man in Vietnam hasn�t slept in 33 years.

64-year old Thai Ngoc had a fever in 1973, and after that he never went to sleep again, not even for a quick nap. He even had a medical examination, but doctors gave him a clean bill of health.

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Getting rid of common annoyances in Windows Xp

hate little popups in windows xp, this shows you how to get rid of them

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Microsoft says "screw you" to EU

The European Union is about to impose a $2.4m per day fine because they say Microsoft hasn't released technical documents as part of their antitrust settlement.

But Microsoft says they've already handed in the 12,000 pages of technical info the EU asked for, and that the EU is creating problems by not understanding what they were asking for.

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