Archive for January 23, 2008

Milky Way’s antimatter linked to exotic black holes

Legions of tiny black holes created during the big bang may lurk at the centre of the galaxy, radiating antimatter

Proposed EU ISP filtering and copyright extension shot down

The EU is looking at ways to give Europe’s creative sector a boost, and, unsurprisingly, the business side of the creative sector is looking back at the EU with an eye to tightening its legal grip on users, ISPs, and copyrights.

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Patapon priced to move

Sony slaps a $19.99 tag onto upcoming action-rhythm game from Loco Roco studio to get it spinning in as many PSPs as possible.

DMC4 demo drops January 24

Capcom confirms free sampler featuring new hero Nero and his Devil Bringer superpower will arrive on XBL, PSN this Thursday.

Silent Hill Origins spooks PS2

Previously PSP-exclusive prequel set to haunt Sony’s legacy console with tweaked controls.

Telstra sets up hotline ahead of CDMA closure

A telephone hotline has been established to assist Telstra’s mobile phone customers make the move from CDMA to Next G.

Nearly 100 fixes planned for Apple’s second Leopard update

Apple Inc. is in the latter development stages of what could possibly be its most significant ‘dot release’ of Mac OS X ever

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WordPress now offers 3 GB of space for Free!

Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform have dramatically increased the online file storage capacity for free WordPress.com blogs. How dramatically? Well bloggers used to get 50MB of space for images and documents. Now they can upload up to 3GB. For free.

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Lifehackers Exclusive Line of Productivity Software

Not only do the editors here at Lifehacker feed your head with a feast of posts every day, every once in awhile we put our programming chops to good use and build custom software for our readers. If you’ve missed any of the Lifehacker Code line of applications, scripts, and plug-ins, here’s your chance to get caught up.

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Mac OS X 10.5.2: Optional Translucent Menubar; DVD/CD Share

Some screenshots of the new features found in the Mac OS X 10.5.2 seed have been detailed by BabyGotMac.com. Amongst the new features:

- Transparency in the menu bar is now optional and can be set in Desktop Preferences:

- DVD/CD sharing preferences, allowing you to share your optical driv…

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Call of Duty 4 overtakes Halo 3 as the top game on Xbox Live

The top games for the week of January 14th have been released, and it looks like Halo 3 is now second to Call of Duty 4 as the top game on Xbox Live. It’s about time.

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New iPod nano in the pink!

There it is, just as we thought. The 8GB iPod nano now in pink anodized aluminum. A fitting new member to bear the third-generation nano’s pastel palet. The perfect color to celebrate Valentines Day or uh, cancer. Two hours of downtime for this? Still waiting on the official announcement.

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