Archive for February 12, 2008

MacBook Air face-off: HDD vs SSD (with video)

In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple’s standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and benchmark tests to gauge the performance and power saving capabilities of each. Videos are used to demonstrate a side-by-side simultaneous boot…

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Amazing “Cloth Physics” Simulator

This is a really cool cloth physics simulator.

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The Scandal Behind the “Scandal of Scientology”

You may not believe this, but you can write something that some group doesn’t approve of and then have a quarter of your life almost ruined. I know because it happened to me.

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Mac OS X (Leopard) 10.5.2 Update Released

Now available via Software Update:The 10.5.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

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Best Buy’s pushing Blu-ray to the front

The HD DVD camp, still reeling after losing support from Netflix this morning, may feel flattened as Best Buy has announced it will officially promote Blu-ray as the HD format of the future…

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Flash on iPhone: It’s coming

“Well, we’ve just got word from a reliable source that Flash support is on it’s way to the iPhone, and it should be coming very, very soon. Speculating a bit further on our own, we are guessing that it would be pretty convenient for Flash support to be introduced alongside the iPhone SDK, wouldn’t you say?”

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Bad Form: Companies Still Send Passwords via Email

“Why is it that some companies still insist on sending me my password via email right after I create my online account? The reason I have a password in the first place is so that it doesn’t flow back and forth openly in cyberspace only to reside peacefully on multiple mail servers.”

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Scientology Raid on Clearwater, Flordia, News!

Aprox. 250 anons in downtown Clearwater

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Mashups Are Breaking the Mold at Microsoft

Microsoft is trying to be web 2.0 with their mashups. Yea right…

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Microsoft slams the door on Vista pirates

With the launch of SP1 Microsoft promised to put an end to two popular hacks used by pirates to allow a non-genuine install of Windows Vista to function in the same way as a genuine install. Testing that I’ve carried out in the lab today suggests that Microsoft has been true to its word.

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Pirate Bay Captain Speaks Out on TV for the first time

One of the most popular online communities - ThePirateBay - is known as one of the Internet’s largest file-sharing sites with free music, games and movies available for download. But the man behind the project is now facing copyright charges.

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Anon v. CoS - San Diego, CA Feb 10th Raid - EPIC WIN!

flickr Uploads. Brought to your by the Friends of Anonymous.

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