Archive for December 30, 2006

Fuel Cell powered laptops run for a month

The dock can power a laptop eight hours a day, five days a week for a month. Apparently the boffins are working on a miniature version which can power a laptop for more than 15 hours “on a coffee cup’s worth of fuel”. Although it is not clear how much fuel there is in a cup of coffee.

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How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer

A Photo-Journalist speaks: “We’re continually being told the Internet empowers the individual. But as an individual creative worker myself, I’d argue that all this Utopian revolution has achieved so far is to disempower individuals, strengthen the hand of multinational businesses, and decrease the pool of information available to audiences.”

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150 Developers Working On GTA4

Wow, they really want to show off after the hot coffee embarassment

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Rapidshare.de is dead… Let’s switch!

Unfortunately all drives of RapidShare.de are full right now. In the future, RapidShare.de’s direction will point even more to conventional webhosting. This means that uploads will be possible again very soon, but only premium users with a paid account will be able to upload their files…

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Miranda IM 0.6 Final

Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation. Just unzip and run! This also makes it ideal for users that want to run their messenger client from a removable storage such as an USB memory stick…

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Beyond Windows Vista - Windows Fiji and Windows Vienna

Now that Windows Vista is released, Microsoft is going to focus on future versions Windows. In 2008, a Windows Vista R2, currently codenamed ‘Fiji’ and then in 2010 Windows ‘Vienna’ is to be released.

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Halite BitTorrent Client 0.2.7

Halite is a open-source BitTorrent client and is based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. What makes Halite stand out is its remote control interface allowing you to monitor and control the program from a mobile phone. Hailte is written in unicode so it will only run on Win2k or higher.

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New Blog Launched For Xbox 360 Gamers with SDTV’s

A new blog has been launched covering the Xbox 360 world as seen through the eyes of an SDTV owner. It’s pretty new, but it will review games and give viewers ideas on how well games will look on standard def sets.

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Make Bad Speakers Awesome

This handy little chip basically creates an equalization that is anti-your speakers frequency response.

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New Xbox 360 Premium Consoles For 332.95

Deal of the day site Midnightbox.com is selling the Premium Xbox 360 Console for only 332.95 (+$5.00 shipping) for one day or while supplies last. No rebate to mess with, just a savings of about 60 dollars!

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A Site Deticated to the Ancient Art of Video Game Speed Runs

A speed run is a video of a player striving to complete a video game in as fast a time as they can manage. Sound easy? It’s not! A large number of tricks are usually used, possibly skipping whole areas of a game in the process, and there will always be mistakes. Super Mario Bro.s for example was beaten in 5min 5sec. whats your best?

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PS3 at 1,300 dlls in Mexico!!!

If you think that the cost of the PS3 on the US is really high, Look at this!!

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