Nintendo DS Lite US Street Date Broken: Now Available

Reports from several site say Nintendo DS Lite units are available at some Walmart, Target and other stores and shown by these posts.

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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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Levels of HTML knowledge

6 levels of HTML knowledge among people, spanning from next to nothing to those who write the actual HTML specifications. Quite a funny read and not to be taken to seriously.

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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!

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MintyBoost! - Small battery-powered USB charger

This project details a small & simple, but very powerful USB charger for your mp3 player, camera, cell phone, and any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge!.The charger circuitry and 2 AA batteries fit into an Altoids gum tin, and will run your iPod for hours: 2.5x more than you'd get from a 9V USB charger!.

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The Pirate Bay Raided: Exclusive Interview

Rickard Falkvinge, head of the Swedish Pirate Party talks with WiredFire about today's raid and what really happened.

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How Big Is Your Console?

For all those size queens out there, here are the dimensions for all current consoles. The 360, PS3, Xbox, PS2, PS2 slim, GameCube, Wii and Mac Mini (?) all put in facetime. Conclusions? The waffle iron isn't that big, and the Wii could fit in a large man's pocket. Hit the jump for the measured machines.

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"PS3 too expensive," 88 percent say, as Wii dominates Japan

88 percent of gamers surveyed by Famitsu believe that the PlayStation 3 is too expensive, with 69 percent saying that that they are most looking forward to the Nintendo Wii this fall and winter. In the quest for who gets to be #2 in Japan, 21 percent said that they were looking forward to the PS3, while only 7 percent cited the Xbox 360!

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Wii + 360 is the Preferred Package

Joystiq is running a poll with interesting results: at last count close to 50% of gamers will run with a Wii and a 360, and another 25% will go with just a Wii. The PS3 is taking a hammering it seems after E3. Is it price, functionality, delays, or all of the above?

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35% of Software in the World is Pirated

35% of the packaged software installed on personal computers (PC) worldwide in 2005 was illegal, amounting to $34 bln in global losses due to software piracy.

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X-Men 3 earns $107 mil in fourth-biggest opening weekend

X-Men: The Last Stand takes in a startling amount in its first weekend, including $45.5 mil on Friday, the second-biggest opening day in history.

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9800 Free Fonts

9800 fonts free to download with a nice preview feature.

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25 Worst Tech products of all time

25 of the worst tech products ever made. Topping out the list was AOL!!

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Mario Through The Years: The Building of A Nintendo Legacy

GameDaily tribute to the world-famous stereotype, Mario, taking a brief (yet detailed) look back at his gaming history. They track Mario through the years of Platforming, Karting, RPG'ing and all the other random Mario franchise game genres. A really good read...

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14 year-old charged $22,000+ library fine for six-day overdue book

Thanks to a merger of two library computer systems, a 14 year-old boy was charged $22,840 for a book that was overdue by six days. Solid work by the QA dude on that merger!

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XBox 360 - HD-DVD Pics

IGN got some new HD-DVD pics of what the device will looks like. From what can be seen, it looks like the device will run off of USB 2.0 and be powered via AC. Not too stylish, but if it's cheap, I'm on board! :)

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Schools block MySpace access; kids fight back with Hacks

"This particular student, despite having some glaring writing deficiencies, is correct to point out that students can hack their way around most such blocks "whit the right research," and entire websites have sprung up to help them do just that."

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Web Development Cheat Sheets

A nice assortment of cheat sheets for web developers/designers, including CSS, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, and more! You can print them out easily to use as a quick reference.

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Windows System Requirements from 1990-2006 (v3.0 - Vista).

TechWeb compiled the Microsoft's stated requirements for each major Windows release since 1990's Windows 3.0. It also lists the average prices for desktop computer -- monitor included -- and portable PCs have been noted for all releases except Windows 3.0...

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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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Watch 900+ live television channels and 3800+ online radio stations

"If you want to watch Online TV, or listen to online radio stations, of a simple and FREE way you are in the correct place, our live Television channels database is the biggest worldwide."

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Time Dilation: Frontiers of Time Perception

When a person's life is in danger, a phenomenon known as 'time-dilation' can occur. This is when, during a car crash for example, time seems to slow down or become frozen. In these cases the internal clock speeds up when facing a potential catastrophe, so as to take in more information more quickly and function more effectively in an emergency.

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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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about your URL

Providers all sorts of information like loading time, uptime, Cacheability, Readability etc. Its a Keeper...

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The biggest hacking incident in the web-hosting history

Yesterday the Turkish cracker going by the handle "Iskorpitx", succesfully hacked 21,549 websites in one shot (plus 17,000 as our last update) and defaced (on a secondary page) all of them with a message showing the Turkish flag (with AtaTurk face on it) and reporting...

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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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New Vista Photo Gallery Screenshots!

The Microsoft Blog has some new screenshots and an overview of Windows Vista's Windows Photo Gallery, which houses both photos and videos. Vista's Photo Gallery is also full of wizards for all of the important media management tasks. It will have wizards for mobile device synchronization, CD/DVD creation, photo printing, and e-mail. - ars

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Historical Sounds in MP3 Format (Excellent)

Great historical speaks and ounds in MP3 Format (include Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein,Robert Frost, etc)

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Google Video to get fine tuned - finally

Google plans to announce on Tuesday changes to its Google Video service that will make it easier for people to submit video. Now people who want to post their video clips can do so through a Web-based system without having to use special software. Hopefully their next change will be to overhaul the crappy look of the site.

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"LOST" with No Repeats Next Season

It's a plight that Lost fans know all too well — you tune in on a Wednesday night praying for a new episode only to find a random repeat from nearly a season earlier, or else a lengthy and unexpected clip show. ABC is hoping to eliminate that experience.

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Picture history of Yahoo's home page (1994-today)

CNet has a picture history of yahoo's homepage transformation over the past 12 years. Interesting to see how they implemented newer technologies over time.

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The DOD to release video of Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on 9/11 today.

Judicial Watch announced today that Department of Defense will release a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that allegedly shows American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on 9/11. what will the tin hat foil wearers have to say? i can't wait to see.

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Firefox continues to gain ground

The Firefox and Safari Web browsers are gradually becoming more popular, while Internet Explorer (IE) may be starting to lose some of its lead, according to experts.

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Timeline of the use of CGI in films.

Pretty cool actually...shows a cool evolution of technology in general, if you think about it.

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Hi-Res Photo: The International Space Station (3032 x2064)

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. After departing the ISS, the crew of Discovery captured this spectacular vista of the orbiting space city high above the Caspian Sea.

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Sony's Blu-ray Goof

A reporter from PC Magazine showed up at a Sony event in NYC where the company was displaying their new AR laptop and mobile pc. While there, Sony was playing a Blu-ray DVD, "The House of Flying Daggers." But when the reporter ejected the DVD, it was really a DVD-R! Sony wasn't too happy.

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Digg Office Complete

Kevin Rose has just posted some pictures of the new Digg office on flickr. The office looks amazing, check out these pictures for a behind the scenes look at Digg.

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BBC: Nintendo Steals the Show at E3

If success was judged by the size of the queues at this week's E3 games expo, then Nintendo would win hands down.

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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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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.

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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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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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Nintendo signals death of Game Boy

It may have occupied the sweaty palms of nearly 200 million more people than the Nintendo DS, but it seems the Game Boy family has finally reached the end of the lineage.

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Video: Duck Hunt on the Nintendo Wii

nuts, they should've added the gloating dog .

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Do 15 Things to Live Until Age 129

Live to 129. "Take heed: Your lifestyle choices are very significant. While there is no way to ultimately defy death, that isn't an excuse to start indulging in vices and neglecting your health. There are plenty of ways to keep the grim reaper at bay — and many of these "secrets" result in an improved quality of life."

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PS3 to be $830/$999 in Australia at launch

CNet reports the official pricing of the two PS3 SKUs in Australia - 20GB version will be $830AUD and the 60GB version will be $999AUD. This is compared to $499/$650AUD for the Xbox360. With a probable price for the Wii being $350-$400AUD you could almost buy 2 consoles for the price of one.

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Gamers Not convinced of Price vs. Performance of Playstation 3

The system "is as expensive as I expected, and that is to say it is outrageously expensive," Chris Kohler, a free-lance video game journalist and avid game player who lives in San Francisco. He said that Sony had not made a sufficient case that the console's features justified the cost

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Nintendo Wii Virtual Console Images

Gamers Reports have some images of the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console interface and say it works very well. It even makes games like Mario 64 look better than usual.

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Take a Tour of Nintendo's E3 Booth

An extensive tour of Nintendo's booth at E3. A lot of new pictures of The Wii and some of its accessories.

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First Super Smash Brothers News for Wii!

Pit, Solid Snake, Zero Suit Samus, Meta-Knight all playable in Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii.

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Bill Gates Unveils Live Anywhere at E3

Engadget's live coverage of the event details Bill taking the stage to introduce Live Anywhere, an Xbox Live interface for Windows Vista and cellphones

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Sony PS3 $499US version will NOT have HDMI port

Link is to a PDF document hosted on Sony's site. The third page lists the differences between the two versions. The cheaper version does NOT have Memory Stick, HDMI, or wireless.

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First picture of the new PS3 controller!

New PS3 gaming controller.

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Nintendo Comments on PS3 Controller!

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

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PS3 price announced.

Today at their pre-e3 press conference Sony announced the price of the PS3. It is $499 for a 20 GB HDD and $599 for a 60 GB HDD.

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PlayStation 3 Controller Loses Vibration

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 3 controller has lost its vibration functionality because it interfered with its sensors.

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WhoLinks2Me.com Shows who is linking to you + more

Great little site, saves you typing separate queries in all se's. Shows ranking in other sites aswell

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Error Message Gallery

Various user-created error messages from Windows. Read if you need a good laugh!

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EXCLUSIVE Vista Build 5381 Screenshot Gallery

Exclusive and extensive! View the screenshots from Windows Vista Build 5381!

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Write anything you want on a LED SIGN

One day, Ian was given a LED sign. From January 2000 to May 2000, Ian and his friend Dave reverse-engineered the sign and put it on the Web. This sign allows you to write text and upload small images and get it displayed on the net through a web cam. Similar to the HP Laser Jet cam featured on digg before.

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Exploding Flowers

Watch wildflowers burst open at faster than .3 milliseconds, spraying their pollen everywhere! The flowers have a trigger hair on one petal that insects set off when they land. I just saw a talk about this tonight, and had to share the amazing videos! More videos are available from the journal Nature.

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Females Don't Always Go for Hottest Mate

According to Darwin, a female will choose a high-quality male in order to inherit dad's allure. However, this is not always true.

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Superman - The first issue (1938)

In June, 1938 Action Comics comes out with the first issue of Superman. Here you can see it in 15 pictures. Rare and fabulous.

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Bill Gates Doesn't Want to Be Richest Man

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told an online advertising conference Wednesday that he'd prefer not to be the richest person in the world.

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First ABC, Now CBS announces that it will ALSO offer shows online!

This time, CBS has joined the party by unveiling a service called "innertube"—an ad-supported video channel available directly from their web site.

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Top 5 Dead Hard Drive Projects

What do you do when your hard drive dies or is so small it is no longer useful? Easy, rip it apart and make something cool out of it! Here are 5 ideas to get you started. See project VIDEOS and PICTURES. (Includes the never before seen Hard Drive Oscilloscope)

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Download Google Videos As AVI Files

You can download Google Videos as AVI without additional programs or extensions.

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Pre-E3 Nintendo Wii Round Up

E3 is creeping right up on us now, and when May 10th finally hits us we'll be overflowed with Gaming news, especially coming from Nintendo's direction. And we at Gamers Daily thought it'll be best to create two articles, one article what we know about the Wii before E3 and another article after E3.

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Bluray vs. HD-DVD To Be Decided by Porn Industry

Just as in the 1980s, when the Betamax and VHS video formats were battling it out for supremacy, the pornography industry will likely play a big role in determining which of the two blue-laser DVD formats — Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD — will be the winner in the battle to replace DVDs for high-definition content.

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Convert HTML to PDF with PHP

Handy for PHP developers looking to generate PDFs from their HTML content: dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter written entirely in PHP5. It has no dependencies on external libraries (e.g. html2ps) and it supports CSS 2.1.

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How to make your own version of Star Wars

Tutorials on how to do different effects such as light sabers, cloning, energy balls, and so on using After Effects. Brought to you by the guy behind Ryan vs. Dorkman.

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Jon Stewart Praises Colbert for Speech

"It was balls-alicious," Stewart said. Colbert made fun of his mixed reception at the dinner, re-running the tape of one of his jokes with the audience barely reacting. He described this as "very respectful silence."

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Sony expects loss of 100 billion yen loss on PS3 launch

With the expensive Blu-ray drive and Cell processor technology Sony can't help but lose a lot of money on each console sold. Sony expects the segment to hemorrhage 100 billion yen ($871.6 million) in operating losses during the business year as it prepares the PS3 for launch.

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See what the US looks like when the oceans rise 3.5 meters

Say half the Greenland ice sheet melted in the next 100 years, the oceans would rise 3.5 meters. Say goodbye to South Florida and the southern tip of Manhattan.

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Abandonia - Home of Abandoned DOS Games

A throw back to the games of yesteyear. Here you can find and play some of the best games from the world of DOS. Enjoy.

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ABC Launches Free Online Episode Streaming

Starting today, you can stream episodes of ABC's LOST, Desperate Housewives, Commander in Chief, and Alias for free at ABC.com. The ad-supported episodes will be available for at least a two-month trial period.

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