Archive for February 16, 2007

The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities rolled up into a single Suite

Mark Russinovich the guy who revealed to the world that Sony CDs had that nasty rootkit installed has made available a single suite of tools for download. These tools are a must have for every single windows developer.

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Windows Vista -vs- Ubuntu Edgy Eft: A side by side review.

A side by side review/comparison of Windows Vista and Ubuntu Edgy Eft. It even includes pictures so you can compare features yourself. The review covers the interfaces, networking, hardware support, application availability and cost(to own / to operate).

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Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes

Sure, feed aggregators are a dime a dozen these days, but Yahoo! Pipes can filter and process feeds in lots of fun and useful ways, no programming required. Today we’ll make a master feed of all your online activity using Pipes.

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SlySoft releases AnyDVD HD beta - Engadget

It seems that DRM just can’t catch a break these days. First the all-important processing key required to unlock and decrypt HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs was discovered, now just days later comes news that the folks at SlySoft have updated their AnyDVD “backup” software utility to allow for “on the fly remastering” of HD DVD discs, although not Blu-ray

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Top 10 Nintendo Romances of All Time

A Valentine’s Day Special — which Nintendo couples truly exude romance? We list the top Ten, from Link and Midna to Yoshi and Birdo to the Tetris Blocks. There’s been more than a little love on Nintendo consoles over the years. It’s time to celebrate that.

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BigFoot Networks Launches More Affordable Killer K1 NIC

Out of the box, the new Killer K1 differs from the original in that the K1 is powered by a 333MHz NPU (as opposed to 400MHz), it lacks the flashy “Killer K” heatsink, and support for FNApps is disabled. It does offer all of the gaming-related enhancements associated with the original, however.

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15 OS X Customization Resources

15 different applications and websites to customize OS X.

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Switched On: Radar love

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment:

Searching for nearby Zunes… None found.
Searching for nearby Zunes… None found.
Searching for nearby Zunes… “Lola” found.

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SCO tries to subpoena Groklaw blogger

The latest sordid twist in SCO’s ongoing legal assault against Linux was revealed today with a report that SCO has subpoenaed Groklaw blogger Pamela Jones. An outspoken critic of SCO, Jones has written countless blog entries with legal analysis of SCO’s lawsuits against various Linux users and vendors. Groklaw, the blog created by Jones, is widely

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Novell CEO: We’ll ‘fight’ Vista

Speaking in Sydney on Thursday, the CEO of Novell Ron Hovsepian said the company will aggressively fight Windows on the desktop. From the interview (video clips included) he said: “We’re going to attack [Microsoft] vigorously and go after their footprint as much as we can”.

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The ultimate free system tweaker for OS X

OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Expos

Consumerist.com (Gawker Media) using Flickr photos without attribution

In an ironic twist for a consumer advocacy blog, Consumerist.com is caught using Flickr photos without giving proper attribution, links or following the licenses or terms of use for the images. “…this policy would be more trouble than it’s worth. If people want credit, they can ask for it.”

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