Archive for February 7, 2008

Danish Police Befuddled by 1G iMac

The police wanted to confiscate the author’s computer. When the author’s roommate agreed to also let the police look at her first generation iMac, they were frustrated because they thought the iMac was just the screen. They wanted to know where the actual computer was and got rather heated about finding it.

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KDE 4.0.1 Release Announcement

KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.0 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

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The Pirate Bay Interrogations

During the two year investigation into The Pirate Bay, several people connected to the site were questioned. The Swedish police allegedly used some of the harshest (Jack Bauer like) interrogation tactics to get them to talk, with surprising results.

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Sony’s Tinyest TV Ever

XDV-G200 Bravia - 3in display with high resolution

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Duke Nukem Forever confirmed for ‘08 release; PC, PS3 & 360

Developer 3D Realms has confirmed Duke Nukem Forever is headed for retail release in late 2008. Miller also confirmed the existence of an Xbox Live Arcade version of Duke Nukem 3D, with on-line multiplayer, achievements, score boards, and co-op.

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Does cable, satellite, or fiber provide more HD?

Ask EngadgetHD: “I want an unbiased opinion, and more importantly, the facts. DISH Network is looking more and more like the leading HD provider with its weekly HD additions this past fall…[Now], Comcast, is running ads stating that it has More, More, More HD. My question is simple: who has more HD channels including HD VOD?”

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Olympus Mons, the highest volcano on Mars

The image covers an area of approximately 600 000 sq km and is colour-coded according to height based on data from the Digital Terrain Model (DTM). The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged the region over 18 orbits.

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Google expands business options thanks to buying Postini

Google’s $625 million acquisition of antispam and data security company Postini is finally bearing fruit. The search giant announced a new security service today: for $3-25 per year, corporate clients can use Postini’s spam filters and security features as a means of protecting their own e-mail systems against data loss, spam, and other risks.

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Online petition ask Wikipedia to remove pictures of Muhammad

An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts.

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25 Incredible Skins and Tools for the Gmail Power User

Gmail is one of those rare things unanimously loved by everyday web users and tech-heads alike. The possibilities are endless. It can be anything from a simple email client to your central nervous system on the web. This article highlights some of the very best tips, tools and hacks hand-picked from hundreds of resources.

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Zero Punctuation: Call of Duty 4

This week on Zero Punctuation, the most requested review of all time, Call of Duty 4.

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Iron Man Uses Dell Servers, Drinks Too Much (PICs)

New Iron Man stills show that Tony Stark uses Dell servers. Does it matter? No. But if the X-Men punks have cool supercomputers in their basement, the greatest hardware tinkerer in the world should have better, bigger, badass machines, not commodity server hardware. I mean, come on, throw us a PS3 farm! Or a 2 billion Commodore Vic-20 cluster!

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