Archive for February 13, 2007

Tangler To Untangle Web Communication?

Tangler is essentially a forum, but with capabilities outside the realm of a traditional forum platform.

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Mac POS App Checkout releases 1.1 Update

Checkout today received an update which adds support for receipt printers and cash drawers. More flexibility with templates, available in four more languages, new “tax” and “sold products” reports and improved payment system makes this app the must have when opening a new storefront.

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Intel Terascale CPU does 4GHz with 80 cores

New info on this Intel project shows actual CPU design including floating point units, networking logic and even clock speeds and power consumption data.

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How to Get Rid of DRM Effectively: Open Letter to Steve Jobs and the RIAA

The New York based intellectual property law attorney Bennett Lincoff shares this opinion and suggests a licensing system that would benefit both consumers and the music industry.

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Network-Attached Storage With FreeNAS

This tutorial shows how you can set up a network-attached storage server with FreeNAS. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD operating system and supports CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication, and software RAID (0, 1, 5). It comes with a powerful web interface and uses very little space on the hard drive - about 32MB.

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WiFi Radar - Pinpoint wireless access points and (ab)use them right away

WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles. It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it.

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3D Mario Clone Released

Sanik has released for the PSP a 3D Clone of the Super Mario Bros 1 Game from the Nes, the game uses a wraparound screen and adds a new dimension to 2D games.

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Star Wars: Force Unleashed release date confirmed!

The first next-gen only Star Wars Game, Force Unleashed, will be coming to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in November of this year. You’ll start the game off as a Sith with a load of Force powers. You’ll also be able to control Rancors and even play as Vader himself.

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Intelliflix (a Netflix competitor) WANTS you to copy their DVDs.

At least this is how I interpret this. If not, I think they are sending mixed signals.

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Microsoft to deliver patches by the dozen

Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release a dozen security bulletins, including a “critical” one for its own anti-spyware and other security products.The bulletins, part of its monthly patch cycle, will provide fixes for an undisclosed number of security vulnerabilities, Microsoft said in a note on its Web site Thursday.

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Firefox 3 To Support Offline Apps

An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand. Robert O

Wii Virtual Console - 2/12/07 - Kid Icarus, Kirby’s Adventure, Ice Climber

Kid Icarus (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points), Ice Climber (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points), Kirby’s Adventure (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)

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