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Archive | October, 2007
Google gPhone Talks Expand (T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint)
Todd Swarthout sent in a link from the Wall Street Journal reporting that Google’s talks with US phone carriers are expanding past the original rumored T-Mobile and they are in “advanced talks” with Verizon and Spring currently. No news on where they stand with AT&T/Cingular at the moment, but with Apple raping AT&T with the iPhone, [...]
Continue reading...Google Rolling Out Gmail 2.0
30. October 2007
Laurence Hartje sends in an interesting post from BoyGeniusReport that Google has slowly started rolling out the Gmail 2.0 release that we mentioned back in September. Aparently if you have access to the new Gmail 2.0, you can turn it on using a toggle that is sitting between your Settings and Help menu items up on [...]
Continue reading...Google Common Social Networking APIs
30. October 2007
John Hering sent in news that Google is prepping it’s launch of OpenSocial Thursday. The interesting think here is that OpenSocial isn’t another social networking service, but instead is a common set of APIs used to develop software against any social networking site participating in the OpenSocial community. Think of this like OpenID, but instead of identification [...]
Continue reading...Britney Spears Looses Custody of Kids
30. October 2007
The Superficial reports that Britney “Look at my Junk” Spears has finally lost custody of her kids. The best part I think is that in addition to Britney missing 1 or 2 court hearings because she didn’t want to go or just forgot, there were multiple reports of Britney stomping around the house sucking down [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu Power Saver Settings Could Damage Hard Drive
30. October 2007
It seems that the default ACPI (power saving) settings for hard drives while running on battery power mode could be causing your hard drive to run an insane amount of load cycles, manifesting itself in “clicking” sounds and also the hard drive’s mechanical portions to be stressed quite a bit more than normal and life [...]
Continue reading...FBI Adding Anti-war Protesters to Criminal DB
30. October 2007
When CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright left for a peace talk on October 3rd to Canada, they were surprised to be denied entrance into the country because their names were contained in the FBI’s Criminal Database; a DB typically set aside for names of “sex offenders, [...]
Continue reading...Removing Glass Doc from Leopard
30. October 2007
Matt Young just sent in a good tip from Jackilyn.com for folks running the new Leopard OS X release on Mac that hate the shiny doc. Basically the glass doc looks like this: If you think this is a bit too much “eye candy”, you can turn the puppy off by dropping to the Terminal and [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) To Get New Theme
29. October 2007
Covered in brief detail (yet to be filled out) the Ubuntu Wiki describes that every LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu, next of which will be the 8.04 release next year) should have a fresh theme to it. All previous releases of Ubuntu have had the very nicely done Human theme, but it looks like [...]
Continue reading...Intel QX9650 (Yorkfield) Not That Great
29. October 2007
If you are one of the folks, like me, that has been waiting for the Intel refresh of the quad-core chips before jumping on top of one, you were likely waiting to see how the QX9650 did before making your decision. (Double-check our previous coverage of the chips, their names and making sense of it [...]
Continue reading...Rockstar Grows Vagina, Fills it With Sand
29. October 2007
Filed in the You Just Got Your Face Owned department, it looks like the Simpsons Game developers let it fly that some parody that they included in the game of Grand Theft Auto sent the Rockstar developers into a tizzy, calling all their girlfriends and oh-no-you-didn’t-ing each other: “The game begins with Bart wanting to play [...]
Continue reading...Ninja Gaiden 2, Rated B for Baby Jesus
29. October 2007
In the screenshot above we see our favorite ninja Ryu, from the Ninja Gaiden series, kicking a guys head off… which is one of the most effective ways of stopping an enemy. In case you are loving the gore, just a quick reminder that Ninja Gaiden 2 is going to be an XBox 360 exclusive for [...]
Continue reading...FEMA Holds Fake News Conference
29. October 2007
Todd Swarthout just sent in a… story… that is awesome cripplingly stupid. Pat Philbin, pictured above, is the man that oversaw public affairs at FEMA. He apparently decided last week to announce a press conference covering FEMA with regards to California’s disaster. So far so good… The only sticking points were that the press conference was: Announced 15mins before [...]
Continue reading...Instant Jailbreak for iPhone & iPod Touch
29. October 2007
Grant Gochnauer sends in some kick-ass news that the Jailbreak hacking team has released pretty much a 1-click installer for Jailbreak. NOTE: Jailbreak installs onto your iPhone and iPod Touch, adding Installer.app and unlocking the devices disk access. This allows you to install any 3rd party app you want. This may or may not be important [...]
Continue reading...How Evolution Really Works
25. October 2007
This is a fairly compelling, scientific look at why evolution is a fact using simple computational examples. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeTssvexa9s The video basically states that in an environment with finite resources, predators will push the organisms to evolve. While the first 8mins or so explain how the process works (using simple “organisms” represented by 8 bits) by placing organisms [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Forcing Desktop Search on Users
25. October 2007
This is hilarious… and goes into the “Microsoft refuses to every do anything competent” file. The Register is reporting that Microsoft is actually forcing desktop search on everyone using the Automatic Update auto-install feature. That means if you had Desktop Search turned off, because it blows and slows down your computer, don’t worry… Microsoft will force [...]
Continue reading...GIMP 2.4 Released
25. October 2007
Chris Hunkele sent this in yesterday, it looks like everyone’s favorite Photoshop clone, GIMP, finally released it’s 2.4 version after years of development from the 2.2 stream. This is a pretty huge release as the team has been working on some major rewritten aspects to GIMP for a long time, and now they have finally made [...]
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- Britney Spears Looses Custody of Kids
- Ninja Gaiden 2, Rated B for Baby Jesus
- Class Action Lawsuit against Sony for "Green Haze" or "Green Blob" SXRD Problem
- iPhone Review (Part 1 of 3)
- Staring at Boobs Extends Male Life by 5 Years
- Manhunt 2 Banned in the UK
- There Are No Ugly Women (Maybe Bai Ling)
- Shoot 'Em Up Movie Review
- Microsoft Forcing Desktop Search on Users
- Lindsay Lohan Naked - SFW
- Class Action Lawsuit against Sony for "Green Haze" or "Green Blob" SXRD Problem (1104)
- Gears of War Movie Treatment Summary (145)
- Halo 3 Screenshots Analyzed (105)
- Time Crisis 4 Review (PS3) (79)
- Gears of War PC Problems (74)
- Mitsubishi WD-65831 "Air Flow" Problem (70)
- Which is the Hottest Java Web Framework? Or Maybe Not Java? (47)
- Dell 3008 WFP 30" LCD Review (40)
- Evolution of Water in Games, Best is Halo 3 (37)
- Britney Spears Looses Custody of Kids (30)
- Commentary: Stop Bringing Babies to R-Rated Movies
- The PC Game Market is Not Dead
- Computer Mouse to be Extinct in 5 Years… Again
- Are You a Chronic Almost-Achiever or a 95% Kind of Person?
- Guitar Hero: World Tour Supports Any Electronic Drum Set with MIDI Port
- E3: Mature MadWorld Gameplay Video (Nintendo Wii)
- E3: Street Fighter IV Extended Gameplay Video Video
- WordPress 2.6 Released - New Feature Summary
- E3: Resident Evil 5 Screenshots and Gameplay Video - Full Co-Op Support!
- E3: Mirror’s Edge Gameplay Video - Ridiculously Beautiful
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- Intel Nehalem Benchmarks: 50-100% Performance Increases
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Review (PS3)
- Blizzard Announces Diablo III includes Gameplay Videos
- Iran Missile Launch Photo is a Fake
31. October 2007
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