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Archive for January 20, 2007
Remove excessive exclamation points with Greasemonkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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First Person in U.S. Convicted for Spam E-mailing
A report on the Mercury News revealed that a man from Los Angeles has been criminally convicted of spam e-mailing and is the first person to be convicted of such a crime in the U.S. Forty-five year old Jeffery Goodin was found guilty of running a running scam that fooled users into giving out personal information.
The Ten Most Important Video Game Patents
Gamasutra takes an illustrated look back at the most important video game patents of all time - covering a broad spectrum that includes visual display, control schemes, and even game design mechanics - in today’s extensive cover story.
Gaim 2.0.0b6 Released
After two months, the newest step in Gaim development has been taken. This should be the final beta because a lot of the crash bugs were fixed.
‘Storm Worm’ Virus hits computers around the world
Computer virus writers started to use raging European storms on Friday to attack thousands of computers in an unusual real-time assault, head of research at Finnish data security firm F-Secure told Reuters. It’s been sent to hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses globally, with the e-mail’s subject line saying “230 dead as storm batters Europe.”
How to — 9 ways to find local citizen journalism blogs
So how do you find out what citizen journalists are blogging in your neighborhood? Many hyperlocal blog directories are sprouting up and existing blog aggregators are growing local searches in order to fill this emerging demand: Your favorite blogger in New York probably isn’t covering local ordinances - so local blog searches are an important tool
Zune users - Welcome to the anti-social
It has been revealed that about 40-60 percent of the songs sold through Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace will not allow sharing over the Zune’s WiFi connection, at the behest of the consumer’s best friend, major record labels.
Net Neutrality: Far from a Done Deal
Legislation and industry concessions won’t guarantee equal access to the Internet.
Mercury Meltdown Wii Interview + New Screens
Answers to the questions: Is there multiplayer? Does it have 16×9? 4:3? And more. Also, it seems the game was at one time in development for GameCube.
Joystiq destroys a Blu-Ray disc
When Joystiq saw via Game|Life that the some IGN forums goers had taken steel wool to a Blu-ray disc with no apparent damage, they thought, “we can do better than that.” So they gathered up some convenient implements of destruction and saw how their free copy of Talladega Nights would stand up to a ballpoint pen, pizza cutter and a butcher’s knife.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Review
A Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Review