Archive for September 24, 2007

AMD/ATI release register specifications; Novell follows with alpha driver

Eight days after AMD/ATI released register specifications for certain ATI hardware into open source, Novell has launched the first alpha drivers for certain Radeon hardware.

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Flickr continues to censor images of children smoking

Flickr writes, “Images of children under the age of 18 who are smoking tobacco is prohibited across all of Yahoo’s properties. I’ve deleted the image.” Photographer writes, “I uploaded it because I wanted to tell something. I wanted to show the world how living in poverty can be, what it does with small children and wanted to start a discussion.”

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1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now!!! [PIC]

It’s amazing how quickly technology advances these days…

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Watch HDTV on your Mac

Using a few simple tools provided free by Apple, a Firewire cable and your HD-capable set-top cable or satellite box, anyone with a Mac can watch beautiful HDTV (and standard def, too) on your stunning Apple display. No adapters or extra money is required, just use the free devel kit and VLC. Start streaming HDTV to your Mac right now. Here’s how.

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Team M33 release v3.71 custom firmware for PSP

Well that was quick! Just yesterday Team M33 announced that they are to take a short break before releasing their latest custom firmware, and they were true to their word, it was a one day break! Today they have released their latest v3.71 custom firmware for PSP.

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Some of the reasons for using KDE

While people are eagerly awaiting the release of KDE 4, a blogger Juan Carlos G. Torres presents some reasons for using KDE desktop. He likes the high integration of applications and the desktop, seamless access to everywhere, all the choices he has with KDE and all the amazing KDE applications. At the end he also talks about some problems in KDE.

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iPhone Dev Community to Steve Jobs: We need to talk.

If we sit here and wait, the iPhone will become a closed platform, and then we won’t have a chance to change our fate. If we don’t do something now, we won’t have a chance to later. It’s time to show Jobs that his most loyal customers are not going to hold on much longer.

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