Archive for December 21, 2007

Klaxxon Starts Where aXXo Left Off

A few weeks ago we reported that the popular DVD ripper aXXo decided to take a break and stopped releasing new material for the time being. Around the same time a new face entered the non-scene scene and whenever people searched for aXXo torrents, KLAXXON rips started to appear.

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Scientists Say E.T. Too Bored By Our Messages To Phone Home

Radio messages we’ve sent whizzing out into space over the years to try to contact aliens may simply be too boring for extra-terrestrial beings to answer, say a couple of Canadian astrophysicists. Tedious bits of math, physics and biology normally on offer may just be intellectual spam to alien minds.

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OS X Leopard 10.5.2 Update ‘Fixes Stacks!’

According to a source familiar with the latest Leopard build seeded to developers, in addition to all those meaningless “little” fixes, our source tells us that Apple has fixed Stacks by adding the missing “list view” option that should have been there all along.

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In settlement with Apple, Think Secret shuts down

Press Release from Think Secret.

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iPod Touch Comes to iPod Video

From the same developers that brought you the iPod Classic to iPod Video hack, comes it’s successor. It’s been in development for well over 1 month, and is ready for it’s public appearance.

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50+ Open Source/Free Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat & PDF

What many people don’t realize is that PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard, which means the specifications behind the format are widely published. Numerous developers take advantage of this fact and create programs that offer effective alternatives to Acrobat. Check out our list of these programs and take advantage of these tools…

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‘Active glacier found’ on Mars

The icy feature has been spotted in images from the European Space Agency’s (Esa) Mars Express spacecraft.

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iPhone gets some much needed “business street cred”

Avaya Inc. has announced they will bring iPhone support to their Avaya one-X™ Mobile platform early in Q1.

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MPAA bans anti-torture documentary poster

The MPAA has rejected the one-sheet for Alex Gibney’s documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side,” which traces the pattern of torture practice from Afghanistan’s Bagram prison to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo Bay.

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2007: The Music Industry by the Numbers

If you go by the numbers (or, really, any other indicator), 2007 was the worst 12-month period the music industry has ever seen. Yes, it was bad times all around … so bad, in fact, that no mere essay could encapsulate it all…

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Why Photographers Hate Creative Commons

An increasing number of photographers — not just professionals but high-end hobbyists also — have become disenchanted with the Creative Commons system. Here’s why.

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Google Hires People for Feedback on Search Results

Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig, where it’s acknowledged that the search giant hires individuals to look at search results pages and provide their judgment about the quality of the results.

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