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Something Awful Diggs G4TV A New Hole.

This is from Digg.com:

"Todays SomethingAwful update deals with G4TV's dismal state of affairs as the worse representative of gaming available. As usual with somethingawful remember it's a entertainment site not a serious news reporting site."

The story's an interesting read, athough I think the writer was a little harsh on Kevin Rose, for more info click the link below.

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Getting Ready For Tiger

Is your Mac ready for a smooth transition to Tiger? Maybe you're in need of a Spring housecleaning anyway.
Check out these tidy tips from Derrick Story, then roll out the red carpet for Mac OS X 10.4.
The article includes an optional series of useful and prudent tips for those of you getting ready to update to Tiger, click the link below for more info.

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RockXP - XP Product Key Backup and Recovery

RockXP is a great little application that allows you to retrieve the Windows XP product key that you used when you installed Windows XP.
This is handy if you need to reinstall but have "misplaced" or "lost" the CD cover with the serial sticker.
In addition, the program lets you save the product activation to a file, and even enables you to recover usernames and passwords contained in the Windows Secure Storage.
Click the link below for download details.

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Free Online .GIF Editor

This is a great .GIF editor and the best part is it's free.
You get all the standard features including setting the size, cropping portions of the image and changing how the image looks and behaves.
I'd say it's worth a click.

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Get Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Free

Here's a freebie for all the super geeks out there, you can get you hands on a copy of Microsoft's new Visual Studio 2005 Beta for free, including shipping by clicking the link below.

Just fill out the form, and yes it must be real info, and make sure you put your occupation as a developer (after all aren't we all developers), and click submit.
Here's the link.
Thanks to Scott for the tip.

iPod a 'life-changing' invention: CNN/Money

CNN.com has a good story on how the iPod not only revolutionized the way we listen to music, but also probably saved Apple from extinction, here's an excerpt:

"Apple's iPod made it to CNN/Money's - 5 inventions to change your life. So how did the iPod -- which is, essentially, just an update of the long-forgotten Walkman -- capture about 70 percent of its market, and turn once-fading Apple Computer into the hottest company in Silicon Valley? Only by being brilliant in every way."

Click the link below for the full story.

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Microsoft Talks Longhorn

Another Digg.com posting:

"As Microsoft approaches a major milestone in the development of Longhorn, company executives are talking more about the features of the Windows XP successor, which they say will be easier to use, more secure, and less costly to manage than earlier versions of Windows."

I think I read that correctly did it say a Windows OS will actually be secure? For more info visit the links below

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Hacked Highway Sign Sets Speed Limit At 100 MPH

An electronic highway sign on Interstate 75 in Michigan told drivers: "Speed limit 100 mph go go go." For months, the signboard in Genesee County had been alerting commuters to construction that starts this month. Someone hacked the sign, which is controlled by a computer through a subcontractor.

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Please Help Stop the RIAA

This from Digg.com, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF), pioneers in the fight for strong consumer fair use laws is attempting to stop the RIAA and their lawsuits by circulating a petition and garnering as many signatures as possible.
Once the EFF get 100,000 signatures, they will deliver the petition to the Senate and House Commerce and Judiciary Committees.
Please visit the link below and sign and try to help, especially if your from Canada where the RIAA is hoping to strike next.

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Using Gmail as a Spam Filter

Using a neat forwarding trick between the Gmail and another email server, you can use Gmail to filter spam and forward only good email to your regular email address. The added advantage to this system is full email backup and online search on Gmail.

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Tiger Unleashed

Today Apple has changed it's homepage to countdown the days till Tiger is released on April 29th. As of 8:45 am the Apple store is down. According to Apple "Mac OS X v10.4 â??Tigerâ?? will go on sale Friday, April 29, at 6:00 p.m. during special events at Appleâ??s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers."

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REVENGE OF THE SITH Officially Gets A PG-13 Rating!

On May 19th, fans of all ages will see the final installment of the STAR WARS saga with EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH. However, for first time ever it will be rated PG-13! The MPAA is expected to release an official statement or press release sometime this week.

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Top Spammer Gets 9 Years in Prison

Here's an update from a previous posting:

A Virginia judge has sentenced spammer Jeremy Jaynes to nine years in prison for sending over 10 million e-mails a day with the aid of 16 broadband lines. Because the case marks the first felony prosecution for spam, however, Judge Thomas Horne postponed the sentence while the ruling is appealed.

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Convert any format to any format! Insane!

If your like me at some point you have stumbled across some wacky file format that you just cannot figure out and would love to convert the file to something you can actually use, well save the cursing because I found this on Digg.com today:

"This site is crazy; using their products, they offer tutorials on how to convert just about ANY file format to ANY file format. Try it out."

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The Apple Never Falls Far From The Tree

From Digg.com:

This site has many of the popular apple commercials in quicktime format. Old and new they're here. There's even a commercial with Bill Gates praising Apple. It also has some other rather strange commercials such as Leonard Nimoy singing about the Hobbit.

Happy viewing

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Firefox, Mozilla Bug Exposes Data

Both Firefox and the Mozilla browser suite are vulnerable to attacks through flawed JavaScript engines, a security firm reported Monday.Firefox and Mozilla users can try this test that Secunia has created to confirm that their browser is vulnerable.

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Hackers Write Spyware For Cash, Not Fame

Another Digg.com Posting:


More than 70 percent of virus writers are now writing spyware under contract, one more piece of evidence that hacking has evolved from mischievous hobby to money-making criminal venture, a security firm reported Monday.

Click the Digg News link below for more info.

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digg adds blogging features

I love Digg.com, and they've added a feature which allows users to automatically upload stories found on Digg to their blog, which is how this story was posted, cool eh.

New to digg today: the ability to digg stories to your blog. Choose a story that you wish to blog, then click "blog". digg will instantly post that story to your website. If you donâ??t like the way a story is worded, you also have the ability to rewrite your blog post. Supported blogs: Typepad, Live Journal, Blogger, Moveable Type, and WordPress. (note: you must be a registered user to see these features)

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Maxthon, The Next Mozilla?

As many geeks know when it comes to web browsers there are at least half a dozen or so good options.
Windows users usually go with either Internet Explorer (IE) or Mozilla Firefox, and I was no different, until a friend urged me to check out Maxthon for my surfing needs, and I must say I am impressed.

The first thing that struck me about Maxthon was how similar it looked to IE, however that's where the similarities ended.
One of the first features I look for in a web browser is tabbed browsing, which is something that first converted me Firefox two years ago, and of course Maxthon has this feature but uses it in a much better way than Mozilla by having the tabs reside in the browser window and not in the taskbar. Also like Firefox, Maxthon has a built-in pop-up blocker called Ad Hunter, which also blocks those irritating pop-under ads.
I love RSS, and Maxthon has a built-in RSS Reader, which makes reading your RSS Feeds easy, without having to launch a third party application. Adding feeds to your RSS Reader is done through dragging and dropping the information into the RSS reader.
Mouse Gestures is a something I have never really used before Maxthon, but after using it for a while you begin to appreciate the time it can save. Once enabled Mouse Gestures allow you to perform a variety of functions by holding the right button on your mouse and moving your cursor in a certain direction. For instance an up or down motion will refresh the page, move it the left and you can go back to a previous page and moving it in an "L" shape will close the window tab your have open.
There are of course many more features that I love about Maxthon like page zooming, simple collector, web services, password protecting tabs, URL aliases, more than 400 plug-ins, 300 + skins and an external utility bar which allows you to start third party programs with one click of a mouse from within your browser.
Maxthon also uses very little in the way of system resources, in fact the benchmark tests I ran showed Maxthon used about 60% less RAM than IE, that in itself to me is a good enough reason to give it a try.
For more information about Maxthon visit www.maxthon.com, or you can download Maxthon here.
Give it a try, and let me know what you think about Maxthon by posting in the comments section.