iPod Updater 2006-06-28 Now Available

iPod Updater 2006-06-28 includes iPod Software 1.1.2 for iPod, iPod Software 1.2 for iPod nano, and iPod Software 1.1.4 for iPod shuffle. iPod Updater 2006-06-28 contains the same software versions as iPod Updater 2006-03-23 for all other iPod models.

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16000 firecrackers = big bang!

This is mad. Were they still exploading in water?

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A Lego Crossbow!

A semi-automatic pump-action lego crossbow that took four blocks in the handle and one in the chamber. It can fire a standard lego brick about 20 yards. It's not terribly accurate, but believe me, you don't want to fire this thing at the family pet.

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The Ultimate Video Site Cheat Sheet

"Confused about all the sites out there offering video sharing services? For consumers, though, the real question is: What does each site offer and what does it cost? To help, I've made an attempt to put all these video sharing sites into some kind of digestible format."

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Verify that your virus scanner is working

The EICAR virus test is a harmless text file that is detected as a virus by most AV vendors. You can use it to verify that your local virus scanner is working (just copy the string into a plain text file), check to see if your email server scans for viruses (email yourself a copy), and test if scanners detect viruses...

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We will be able to live to 1,000

Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why.

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New Digg v3 Launched

It's was live just right now. The midi was fun to hear.

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The majority of web surfers use 1024x768

The screen resolution 800 x 600 pixels has signficantly decreased since July 2005. More and more internet users choose for screen resolution 1024 x 768 or higher. The finding has important implications for web site designers because most web sites are designed for a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. 1280x1024 is #2 in the world.

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World's 2nd Richest Man Give Away Fortune: To Bill Gate's Foundation

Warren Buffett: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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ULTIMATE Wii Size Comparison Photo Guide

Not lucky enough to see this elegant piece of design work in person? This guide compares a slick homemade mock-up in side-by-side photos with a long list of gadgets new and old. So much awesome in such a small package!

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Digg 3 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats

"Digg 3.0 will launch Monday, June 26, in the morning PST. The launch is being announced this evening, and Digg has made a number of screen shots available to me which are included in this post."

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Futurama Renewed for 13 New Episodes

Comedy Central has ordered 13 new episodes of the animated series that Fox canceled two years ago. Billy West, Katey Segal and other stars signed deals this week to return the show to TV. In getting a second life, "Futurama" is following the path taken by "Family Guy," which also found post-cancellation success on DVD and cable reruns.

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Digg-like for Design Tutorials

There are some pretty good tutorials in there, mainly in Photoshop but it touches to many web design facets. Be sure to check the Tools section, as there are some nice links there.

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Watch 120 live online TV channels for free

Here is a web site www.live-online-tv.com where you can watch over 120 free live online TV channels in your browser: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari. These tv channels are about: news, weather, education, music, funny, entertainment, games, reality, lifestyle, sport, cartoon, movies, travel, fashion, adult +18.

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Bill Gates' Piracy Confession

At the end of a Wall Street Journal interview, the Microsoft executive admitted to watching pirated videos on YouTube. What he says exhibits how ubiquitous copyright infringement has become.

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Firefox Cheat Sheet

This page lists most of the basic functions Firefox has, and how to access them. Great for those who forgot how to access a certain menu, or for somebody who just switched to Firefox.

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The COMPLETE command line list for Linux, Windows, Oracle, and MacOS

Complete list of command line tools you would need. Check it out!

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Animator vs Animation

It's a struggle between a stick figure and his creator, using items on the Flash toolbar!

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Watch TV for free

TVUNetworks let's you watch TV for free from your PC...channels include ABC and ESPN

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371 Useless Facts

useless, but good to know!

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GameSpot Readers' Choice Top 10 NES Games

GameSpot asked readers to send in their choices for the top NES games of all time. After tallying almost 12,000 votes, these were the victors. (Note, this list is different from the other top 10 list, not a dupe)

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A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives

Sometimes you need to QUICKLY erase your Hard drive. The article explains how to do it when you only have seconds, and the data needs to be 100% unrecoverable.

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Sin City Style Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop tutorial for how to get the Sin City art style in your images.

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Over 9 years of events since Duke Nukem Forever was announced.

Mario has appeared in 58 different video games, the the price of gas has doubled, and the International Space Station was constructed. The list contains tons of other fun facts and events that have taken place during Duke Nukem Forever's development. How much longer will it go on? Only George Broussard knows for sure.

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Bill Gates Leaving Microsoft in 2 years

Bill Gates will move to the Gates Foundation full time in 2 years.

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The 11 Most Ground-Breaking Controllers of All Time

GamePro.com recently compiled a list of the most influential, revolutionary, and just downright ground-breaking video game controllers ever released. Did your favorite controller make the list?

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The evolution of the Nintendo Wii remote: Before & After prototype photos

In addition to adding a speaker, there have been numerous usability changes to the Nintendo Wii remote, and the overall shape and size has been tweaked a lot as well. Check out these overlapping photographs.

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Written by a chronobiologist, this is a detailed guide to human sleep cycles, how to alter them, what they are...

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DS Lite Sells 10 Times More Than PSP

For the week ending May 28 Japanese hardware sales figures show that the Nintendo DS outsold the PSP by a factor of 10. The DS Lite sold 295,103 units, while the PSP managed to sell 27,191.

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Report: High Schools Fail To Meet Needs Of Tech-Driven World

Roughly a quarter of U.S. high schools require students to take computer science courses, due in part to a misperception that computers are for video games and surfing the Internet, says a new report.

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Top 13 Improvements to the New DS Lite

This review lists the top 13 hardware and design changes made to improve the DS Lite. The "External Extension Connection" sure looks interesting.

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Nintendo DS Lite: Huge Pictorial Review

Nintendo's popular dual-screen handheld goes on a diet and gets a makeover. Do we really need another Nintendo DS so soon after the release of the first one?

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How Holograms are Made

I always wondered how they made holograms. Cool video explaining the process.

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DS Games Respond to DS lite Hardware?

Mario greets you differently on the DS lite when booting up Mario Kart DS. Are Nintendo DS games aware when they're on a DS Lite?

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Pirate Bay's popularity DOUBLES after 3 days of being shut down

The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days.

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Big Gallery of Hubble Heritage

These photos are amazing to check out. They are worth it just save as your desktop wallpaper.

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Best Firefox Extensions volume 1-3 by c-net

Three volumes of best firefox extensions by cnet

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INSANE Mosaic! Check this out... crazy.

This is crazy. It goes on forever... please. I'm begging you. Check it out...

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Nintendo's DS Lite launch party in New York

"Wouldn't you know it, last night instead of going out and getting our social life on, Paul and I cruised over to Rockefeller Center to the Nintendo World Store for the official DS Lite launch event (it being the eve of June 11th and all)."

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Star Trek vs. Star Wars

A video on YouTube that finally answers the old Internet forum question of: Who would win in a battle between the Enterprise and an Imperial Star Destroyer? Very clever editing of the original movie/show footage and dialog, combined with CGI.

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Pioneer spacecraft are slowing down for unknown reason

There's a mystery at the edge of our solar system: Two spacecraft, Pioneers 10 and 11, which were launched to Jupiter and Saturn more than 30 years ago, are hurtling towards the edge of our solar system - but at a slower than expected rate. Called the Pioneer Anomaly, the effect of this slowing is small, but measurable, and so far unexplained.

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Rare Nintendo Prototypes Discovered

This lucky person has put up the collection for sale on eBay a piece at a time, releasing new copies of the Star Fox Championship Weekend game pak into circulation as well as prototype versions of Tetris and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past plus the second known copy of the English version of Earthbound for the NES.

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Family Guy Voice Actor's Speech @ Harvard (VIDEO)

Seth MacFarlane spoke at this year's Harvard Class Day. It's pretty funny. I am surprised he got away with some of the stuff he said.

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Astronomers Find Nearby Galactic Highway

Astronomers have discovered a long, slender stream of ancient stars racing across the northern sky. The stream is about 30,000 light-years from Earth and flowing high over the Milky Way at some 230 kilometers per second, or more than half a million miles per hour.

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Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge

This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves.

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New! Mario Kart Source

A new mod has arrived on the HL2 engine, Mark Kart Source. It is still in production, but it looks pretty cool. Can't wait to get some good ol' kart action when it is released.

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MPAA Decides Not Enough People Know About ISOhunt

A week ago, they were crowing about how shutting down Pirate Bay was such a huge victory for the entertainment industry. Instead, the site was back up two days later, and only suffered additional outages because so many more people started using the site...

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The Wii Virtual Console: How it will change everything.

The Wii Virtual Console has the potential to be one of the biggest things to hit gaming in a long time. Imagine having a huge library of great games all available to you at any time. The controller is not the only part of the Wii that is truly revolutionary. This could mean big things if Nintendo plays its cards right.

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Photoshop, Flash, Programming, & Web Tutorials

Hundreds of tutorials on photoshop, flash, css, asp, php, javascript

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Complete List of Civil Rights Violations Regarding The Pirate Bay Raid

This is a complete list of currently known civil rights violations that happened during and after the raid on The Pirate Bay, translated to English by Rickard Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party.

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Ten Products Google Should Develop

Ten new tech products Google should develop. Based on existing technology. Screenshots included!

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Nintendo Wiimote prototypes

Interesting prototypes for Nintendo's Wii controller, noticeably one has an analogue stick and another a rounded style d-pad.

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Mars Rover photograph of the earth.

Title says it all, A photograph of the earth taken by one of the mars rovers.

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How to Write FireFox Extensions

Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that!

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Unbelievable golf hole in one

Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a ball into the rough, but yet it is a hole in one. One of the most amazing golf shots you will ever see.

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10 Highest-radiation Cellphones

"set down your Moto and slowly back away..."

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Video from the pirate bay raid

Video from the ISP that hosted the pirate bay. The intro text says that this copy can't be used as evidence. Why are the police covering the cameras one by one?

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What is in Your Bottled Water?

What has driven this consumer demand for bottled water? Is bottled water safer than the water that comes out of our taps?

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That's one small step ... on Mars?

Red Planet footprint turns out to be not all that alien - Apparently some (conspiracy-hungry) people actually thought this photo was a staged one.

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USA: Russia Can't Join WTO Unless it Shuts Down Allofmp3.com

American trade negotiators have threatened to scuttle Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization unless the country shuts down the AllOfMP3.com website

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Find DS Lites with frappr Map

It's been reported by a number of sites that the DS Lite can now be had pre-street date at some big box stores. Here is a frappr map tracking where they can and cannot be found

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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.

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MPAA Gleefully Issues Press Release Detailing the "Sinking of Pirate Bay"

[PDF] The MPAA celebrates: "Huge Worldwide Supplier of Illegal Movies Told No Safe Harbors for Facilitators of Piracy!"

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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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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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