Archive for August 29, 2007

UK iTunes opens Video Store

The title says it all. The new TV Programmes section brings such classic American programming as SpongeBob Squarepants, South Park and Kim Possible and possibly British shows inluding Bam’s Unholy Union and Jongleurs Unleashed. £1.89 per show.

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Help-Key: Fake Photoshop the Fat Nano™ in Five Minutes for Apple’s Lawyers

Right now there are many people on Digg claiming that the image we’ve been using of the forthcoming iPod Fat Nano™ is a Photoshop job. They would be right. They’re crying foul, but we never said it was anything but a fake, as we had to have something to show what the new Fat Nano™ will look like, since Apple’s legal guys told us we had to pull the

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Half-Life developer: Wii more valuable than 360, PS3

Half-Life creator and founder of Valve software, Gabe Newell, strongly hinted at plans to develop games for Nintendo Wii, calling his current exclusion of games on the system as “an obvious hole in our strategy.”

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Linux and real-time Java power German traffic lights

A major European vendor of city-wide traffic management systems is porting its flagship traffic light controller to Linux and real-time Java. Signalbau Huber says its Actros controller will better meet safety-critical requirements after moving to Sysgo ELinOS/PikeOS 4.1 with Aonix’s PERC real-time Java runtime.

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Xbox 360 HD DVD Addon and 9 HD DVD Movies for

Amazon.com is going crazy with HD DVD deals and you can purchase the Addon, 3 Movies in cart for less than 184 shipped and you get 5 movies via rebate as well as KingKong which is included with the drive itself. DVD Addon works out of the box with Windows Vista (driver Support) but requires PowerDVD, WinDVD or Nero or an Xbox 360 for playback.

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Easter Egg in Leopard

The Think Different ad text is written on the new jumbo-sized TextEdit icon

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XBMC needs your help - Developers needed for Linux Port

This isn’t new news, but its really important for many people. The people who made XBMC are trying to port it to Linux (the language used will let them do Mac easily too). They need more developers with Linux experience. If you love XBMC and would like to see it work as a full DVR, PLEASE Digg this to help catch the attention of Linux devs.

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ISPs to Rural America: Live With Dial-up

You can’t get there from here. That old New England saw is an apt metaphor for the state of high-speed rural broadband. While many telecommunications carriers are posting record profits this year, millions of U.S. homes and businesses still have no access to broadband — and that’s no coincidence.

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FotoFlexer Raises the Bar on Online Photo Editing

Fotoflexer says they incorporate their own artificial intelligence algorithm to figure out the right way to alter images. And whatever it is they’re doing, it works. For hardcore image manipulation, desktop software like Photoshop will always have its place, but online editors are free, easy to use and a lot of fun.

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Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

Our list of the new and/or undiscovered Web sites that have grabbed our attention this year. You’ll see a large collection of Web applications and tech sites, excellent blogs, offbeat social networks, and, as always, a handful of addictive Flash games for those slow days at work.

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