Archive for July, 2007

BitLet: A Cute Web-Based BitTorrent Client

BitLet is a cute web-based Java applet that allows you to download .torrent files on a computer that doesn’t have a BitTorrent client installed. Very useful if you want to share a torrent with your BitTorrent illiterate friends, or if you’re on a computer that doesn’t have a BitTorrent client installed.

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Google on DoubleClick merger: Everyone else is doing it, why can’t we?

Google takes to its blog to argue that the merger with DoubleClick is no big deal. After all, everyone else is doing the same thing.

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Astronomers unveil new type of active galaxy

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Swift satellite and the Japanese/U.S. Suzaku X-ray observatory has discovered a new class of active galactic nuclei (AGN).

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Bill Gates: “I Still Plan to Leave Microsoft Next Year”

Despite the company being challenged on all sides by competition, Google especially, he still plans to move on.

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Ubuntu: Brute Force Attacks

How to Block Brute Force Attacks with only 2 iptables rules. Without it your server is a sitting duck waiting for a bot to guess the right combination and hit the jackpot.

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Face it, Most People Steal Music [PIC]

Witty, and poignant…..

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The 10 Worst-Selling Handhelds of All Time

Nintendo has crushed a large majority of competing video game handhelds since first popularizing the platform over 20 years ago. Save only a handful (ba, dum, pah!), an overwhelming number of portables are commercial failures. Behold the mediocrity!

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Get Productive with the Best Facebook Apps

While most people are content with using Facebook to connect with friends and colleagues, Facebook can also help you get things done. With Facebook apps - third-party plugins - you can make Facebook into your own personal Mr. Belvedere.

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Tons of Halo 3 Promos to Hit this Fall!

For the release of Halo 3 there will be tons of Halo 3 promos including Halo Mountain Dew, a Halo car, and a Halo Burger King meal.

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DVD size limiting Project Gotham Racing 4

According to a a staff who is believed to be on the developing over at the official Project Gotham 4 Racing forums, they are having problems Fitting all the data of the tracks which was unveiled at today into the game.

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Google’s battle for wireless spectrum

An upcoming Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction is once again pitting search giant Google against the largest phone companies in the country in a public policy battle that could determine how Americans access the Internet in the future.

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Bioshock Gets a perfect 10/10 from OXM Magazine UK

To put this in perspective Halo got 9.5/10 and Halo 2 got 9.7/10

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