Archive for November 20, 2007

Road to Mac Office 2008: Entourage ‘08 vs Mail 3.0 and iCal 3.0

One of the most anticipated applications in Office 2008 is the new Entourage. While some users can use alternatives to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, most of the users of Entourage are required to use it to access an Exchange Server for their mail and calendar. The reason for that has a lot to do with Exchange itself.

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Impressions of Fedora 8

Distowatch maintainer reviews the innovative Fedora 8 and concludes “Although Fedora 8 isn’t perfect (which distribution is?), it comes a lot closer to delivering a superb desktop experience than one would expect from a company whose business is focused almost exclusively on the server market. Great job overall and a well-deserved 8.5 out of 10

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Year One: GameCube vs. Wii

A comparison of the first years of the Nintendo GameCube and the Wii. Spoiler: Nintendo learns from the mistakes it made with the GameCube, and comes out swinging.

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AMD’s Phenom Disappoints the Enthusiast…and Lots of Other Folks

As stated on page one, the Phenom is a disappointment. It comes close to meeting a clock for clock battle at 2.4GHz or so, but still just does not do it. Phenom has not caught up with what Conroe had to offer so many months ago. As the clocks scale, Phenom begins to look even worse against the new Intel Yorkfield processors.

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Wholesaling of D block spectrum okayed by FCC

Landing an agreement to create a worldwide mobile broadband standard with the freed up 700MHz band isn’t the only good news going on in the spectrum world, as the FCC has also waived a previous regulation that would require winners of the D block segment to not wholesale more than 50-percent of its capacity.

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Google Magazine?

An interesting patent was granted to Google on November 8, titled “Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications.”

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Nintendo replaces DS Lite, asks no questions

Every corporation on the face of this Earth needs to learn from Nintendo, and NOW.

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Unreal Tournament 3 Ships for PC, PS3 Version Coming Soon

Yes, you heard right. The PC version of Unreal Tournament 3 is now available. Simply head out to your favorite software store, and drop $49.95 for the regular version or $59.95 for the collector’s edition.

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Top Pirate Reveals Warez Scene Secrets, Attracts MPAA Lawyer’s Attention

Last week, a senior member of the warez scene took part in a rare interview. In it, he reveals some interesting things about this shadowy world but the question is: Did he reveal too much? MPAA pirate-chasing lawyer Espen Tøndel now says that The Scene will be “brought to justice”.

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Universal vs. YouTube and MySpace takes its first casualty: Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor describes how Universal’s desperate, potentially devastating lawsuit against YouTube and MySpace has prevented him from launching an innovative new website: “We are challenged at the last second to find a way of bringing this idea to life without getting splashed by the urine as these media companies piss all over each other’s feet.”

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Anti-Piracy Outfit Pirates TorrentFreak

The infamous Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN has infringed TorrentFreak’s copyright and blatantly copied a quote from one of our articles without attributing the source. TorrentFreak is thus considering legal action against these copy/paste pirates, where they may face a fine of up to $975,000 and several years in prison.

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Top Ubuntu Linux Games

If you’ve switched to Ubuntu (as I have) or any other Linux distribution, you may consider the following free (and in most cases open-source) games, as they’ve been favorites of mine for some time now.

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