Archive for October 15, 2007

Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, Fit–PC

Meet the fit-PC, a tiny 4.7 x 4.5 x 1.5-inch PC that only draws 5-watts, consuming in a day less power than a traditional PC consumes in one hour.

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BitTorrent: Bypass any Firewall or Throttling ISP with SSH

On some networks impossible to use BitTorrent. For example, if you’re at work, school, or connected to Comcast or a public hotspot. But there’s an easy solution to overcome this problem. By using a secure connection (SSH), you can bypass almost

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AT&T is getting LG CU920 an iPhone competitor!

Whodathunkit, AT&T are getting an iPhone competitor when they are the sole US retailer of the iPhone. Maybe they want a New Deal, Roosevelt style. Regardless, this LG phone looks a lot like the iPhone, and appears to have a touch-only interface like the iPhone. The difference would lie in the addition of 3G via HSDPA.

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The Vision and Reality of Wearable Computing

Computing’s next wave could unleash small devices that increasingly augment everyday activities with digital intelligence.

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Ten features should be embraced by game designers

Should you give players the option to save their game (and that’s entirely up to you), don’t ask them if they want to save upon reaching a designated checkpoint. Of course players want to save a game when given the privilege! ..

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Ancient Flying Vehicles [PICS]

Did the ancients have flying ships? Did the ships belong to their gods?

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Comcast Caught Filtering Political E-Mails

Disturbingly, Comcast did not notify us of this block. It took us a number of days to nail down Comcast as the cause of the problems, and then more days, working with Comcast’s abuse department to identify exactly what was going on. We’d reached that point by Thursday, but Comcast was slow to fix the problem.

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What Mac Stuff We Like to Buy From Dell - Wait a Minute, Dell!?

Isn’t Dell supposed to be Apple’s new nemesis? Are we being traitors to Apple’s cause? There’s a dirty little secret out there among Mac owners: We buy Dell monitors.

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The 6th Man on the Moon says - ‘We’ve had visitors’ and Presidents know it

Thus declared Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell on Saturday to more than 200 admirers.
“A few insiders know the truth . . and are studying the bodies that have been discovered,” said Mitchell,, who landed on the moon with Alan Shepard, said a “cabal” of insiders stopped briefing presidents about extraterrestrials after President Kennedy…strange

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Ubuntu 7.10 let’s YOU choose your level of freedom

“There’s one particular aspect of Gutsy that I think is more important than most, and that is that it allows you to choose your level of freedom. I’d even go as far to say that this is an historic Linux distribution release, because of that.”

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Myanmar restores Internet, but arrests continue

YANGON — Myanmar’s ruling generals have restored public Internet access, more than two weeks after cutting Web connections to stem the flow of images of mass protests and a ruthless crackdown that outraged the world.

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Xbox 360 Arcade unboxed and turned on

We managed to get a full unboxing of the Xbox 360 Arcade before Microsoft has even been able to send out a press release about the thing! $279.99 gets you a hard drive-free console, a 256MB Memory Card, a Wireless controller, an HDMI port minus the cable, and a disc that includes five Xbox LIVE Arcade games.

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