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Today, I recieved an e-mail from CNet, one of the top IT news and information Websites, discussing a recent technological issue from a social perspective. It was fun to read, and it was even more fun to consider what you guys might think about it. Here's what the e-mail said:QUOTEGood news--fast Internet connections aboard U.S. commercial airline flights will be coming to you sooner than you think, as two companies just last Friday won licenses for airborne communications services. This me
Ms Catches Hacker Selling Source Code...
i have just read the slashdot story http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/01/30/0432257.shtmland the *hackers* side of the story http://illmob.org/Im no expert on US law, but doesnt this whole think stink of entrapment ???In one part of this story, someone contacts this hacker, and asks for MS source code (for money)the hacker replys saying he no-longer has it, but ts already everywhere on the internet on p2p irc etc etc.the guy then replys saying that he will pay the hacker to download it for him, and
21 Year Old Hacker Gets 5 Years Sentence
According to recent news on Wired.Com, Jeanson James Ancheta a 21 year old hacker was sentenced to almost 5 years behind the bars in federal prison. Apparently he infected well over 400,000 system belonging to China Lake Naval Air Facility and the Defense Information System Agency headquartered in Falls Church, Va and used them to setup a massive botnet which he could lease out to third parties to use for mass spamming and further hacking. QUOTE(Wired.Com)"Your worst enemy is your own intel
Man Jailed For Shouting At Parrot
EDINBURGH, Scotland – A 19-year-old Scottish man who admitted to threatening his grandmother’s parrot for interrupting his sleep, was ordered by the courts to apologise with chocolates. Stefan McKinsley, 19, pleaded guilty the following Monday to a breach of the peace after his grandmother phoned police Friday at 2:45 a.m. and told them the teenager was intoxicated and hitting the parrot’s cage, Britain’s The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Prosecutors said McKinsley, who threatened the bird wi
A wife decides to take her husband to a strip club for his birthday. They arrive at the club and the doorman says, "Hey, John! How ya doin'?" His wife is puzzled and asks if he's been to this club before. "Oh, no," says John. "He's on my bowling team." When they are seated, a waitress asks John if he'd like his usual and brings over a Budweiser. His wife is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and says,"How did she know that you drink Budwe
Top 10 Ways To Break Your Laptop
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Hi @ all.Google's ChromeOS will be open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.Netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.They're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds.Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips.Google Chrome OS is a new project, separa
The 10 Most Expensive Iphone Apps
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone App Store is most popular for its free and cheap apps. As a result, most apps and casual games are available for 99 cents or less. But there are plenty of expensive apps in the App Store, too, and people do buy them. Click here to see the 10 most expensive iPhone apps → The most expensive app in the U.S. App Store today is called iRa Pro: It's a dashboard to access and control live feeds of video surveillance cameras, and it costs $900. The company that m
Lately, a few of my friends have been talking about this program called Hamachi. If you don't know, it basically allows you to start a network with a bunch of your friends. It basically is like having all your friends on your LAN.You can share files, play games, etc. as if they were there! You can also play games with them LAN style instead of over the Internet.It's pretty cool! Check out the hamachi website at http://www.hamachi.cc[N]F
3=2 ! Ramanujam's Proof!.... Can U Find Any Flaws?
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Microsoft Security Essentials Free Is Out Now
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Well,For all you living in a rock for the past 6 years, you may not know that were starting to work the kinks out of a box 5 feet below the ground in front of your house/apartment, that needs 10-20$ a month at most to maintain, and can power 3-5 houses?!A Fuel Cell.A hydrogen Powered Generator. But theres somthing special about it...A fuel cell when using Hydrogen fuel gives off two items1. Electricity2. H2O ( Water)But what if, you do this,Connect a pump to take the water and put it th
Google is now testing a new VoIP service called Google Voice. It has a ton of features including voicemail, call screening, text messaging (for mobile phones only), call forwarding, selective phone ringing, call recording, group (conference) calling and a few more features.The best part: It allows you to call all US phone numbers for free!! (I'm in Canada, so this isn't exactly really helpful). The service is completely free and you cannot sign up for it at the moment. Google wil
World's Longest Single Word Domain Name!
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Hello to allI'm a newbie here, it's good to see that astahost.com is such a great forum with so many people and discussion going on here. I'm still playing around with the idea of what kinda forum that I am going to have one day, probably a link exchange interchangeEventually, I come out with http://onfreelinks.comPlease sign up as a supporter to make us link altogether. TQ
Apple never stops surprising me by it's remarcable products. Now they've released the new Ipod Shuffle. I'm really thinking about aquiring one .QUOTE Small size, 1.8" tall x 0.3" thin to be exact.To create the world’s smallest music player, we moved the controls from iPod shuffle to the earbud cord. This allowed us to make the new iPod shuffle dramatically smaller, but not just for dramatically smaller’s sake. It’s also easier to use, with the controls lo
For the next 2 weeks or so, TrialPay will be offering "The Big Bundle". Basically you donate $29.99 to the American Cancer Society and you get $799.01 worth of savings, software and other products. These products include $20 flowers, Foxit PDF creator, 1month of Skype unlimited US/Canada calling, 6 months Picnik premium, 1 free domain, RoboForm Pro, Diner Dash, Bejeweled 2 as well as other software and a variety of gift certificates for retail businesses.Other options in
QUOTE This site makes a generalized guess based upon your apperant health. (It doesn't take into account that you were skinny as a rail for 30 years, then put on a massive amount of weight over 10 years, it assumes you were ALWAYS fat!) Anyway! I have 3 more years left and I'm out of here! Whoo hoo! later suckas! LOL Oh, and I get to die on Friday 13th! YEAH! How is that for timing?? (That is if I don't get hit by a mortar round or IED here in Iraq between
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There are some exciting new entrants lined up to enter the smart phones world. Each bragging there features unheard of before. So here I present all those top smart phones due to be released this year. Pick your choice. It doesn't matter if you don't want to, just think you had money and had to buy any one from these, then which one would you go for? To help ease that a bit, I have described all the features for you. So start picking the choice. I will try to keep the reviews as unbiased
What Is The Best Search Engine
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Nero has released their first free edition. Anyone can download it. It is not OEM version. It comes with basic burning capabilities, no video editing, playback etc. You can download it from the link below :http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.phpI really appreciate the move made by Nero. Have your say on Nero 9 free edition.
I don't know if this counts as me 'discovering' something today, but I was looking around for presents for my sig. other and I was searching for something along the lines of a digital picture frame or a locket. Well, guess what: some smart people decided to combine the two of them and came up with a digital photo locket. J&R has it for about $32 after shipping. I'm not too sure about the battery life though, but it seems like an interesting gift idea. The link can be fou
New Wordpress Navigation Plugin
Wordpress navigation is the only thing in wordpress which lacks plugins. The navigation is quite hard to customize. But I found out a very cool plugin that creates a dropdown nav bar. It is 100% seo because you can see all the links on your nav bar as "href" links in the page source code. It is very customizable through CSS Style.Here is the linkhttp://pixopoint.com/multi-level-navigation/There is another plugin called NAVT but there are two problems with that.1. It needs java script i
News: Messenger Live 8 Coming Out Of Beta
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Are you ready for IE7, is your site. Just want to read about it? go here.http://eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1837712,00.asp
(For reference purposes, in this article, W7 refers Windows 7 Beta)Recently, W7 has been released for download. Initially the download was released yesterday (Friday), but the massive amounts of traffic trying to access the download crashed Microsoft's servers rather quite promptly so the download was delayed to sometime today.To download W7, you must have a Windows Live ID (@hotmail.com; @msn.com; @live.com emails will all do). Go to the Windows product page located at http://www.microsoft.
I did not think that I could play Total Annihilation kingdoms anymore until I found this cool program called warzone!Enjoy The WarZone is a gaming lobby for playing multiplayer versions of older DirectPlay 7 or earlier games. While similiar in concept to GameSpy and the old, now defunct MSN Gaming Zone, it specializes in older games, is completely free and contains no ads, adware, or spyware. Moreover, it includes the DirectPlay Router Bypass feature, allowing games to be played without disa
Due to antitrust regulations and stuff I don't really understand, Microsoft is releasing a version of Windows 7 which is browserless. This version, called Windows 7 "E", is to be released in Europe only. Everyone else in Canada, US, Australia, any other non-European countries will receive the standard editions of Windows 7 (Home premium and Professional) with the Internet Explorer 8 browser included.I think that this is a great option for Microsoft in order to help balance out the
What exactly are the rules pertaining to promoting a site hosted here, i see alot of links posted that promote other hosting services, software, ect..... I just want to promote my web site, and do it in a tasteful way without being consitered spam
Recently, Facebook has allowed you to link your Facebook account with profiles/accounts on Google, Yahoo!, Myspace as well as any openID (most notably myOpenId, which has its own separate option).As of right now, I am aware of the fact that by being logged onto Google or openID, you can be automatically logged into Facebook if you linked your accounts. This does not work with Yahoo! (a message states that), and I did not have a chance to test Myspace because OpenDNS blocks it.I think tha
Human cells are producing energy constantly. Nanotechnology is capturing that energy to do useful things. Last year the University of Georgia had made great strides with it by using zinx oxide which is nontoxic. Now at the University of Edinburgh, a nanomachine has been created that runs by itself. Maybe eventually our own body could power an iPod through nanotechnology.
Today on 12:00PM EST, Facebook is allowing their users to vote on how the governing documents will sound like. The choices are either to go for the proposed revised documents or keep the old documents to govern how Facebook is going to govern the site.QUOTE ("Facebook Site Governance Vote")On February 26, Facebook announced plans to make site governance more transparent and democratic. Since that time, users and experts around the world have been providing comments on the new documents
Add Resume And Download Manager Support
Add Resume and Download Manager Support to Megaupload.com This tutorial is genuine and verified. Requirements: Flashget 1.65 (tested on this version) 1. Open the link of megaupload.com given to you. Now wait for the timer counter to get over. 2. When the Download Now link becomes visible copy the link. 3. Open Flashget and select Edit>>Paste URL and the link will get copied. Now the link originally given in the form of http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XXXXXXXX - copy this link and paste in the
Will Wolfram Do What Cuil Could Not Do
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Windows Vista Vs Windows Server 2008
Hi,I've been messing with Vista last six months on a very good PC (P4/1.5Gb) and the experience was really bad. It's not a notice that Windows Vista has become one of the worst MS creations, finally I've returned to XP. But, for somehow, I've received a DVD of Windows Server 2008 and thought what if I try it as a workstation?Found the time and did it. Well, Server 2008 is not a rival of Vista, it's a rival of XP!WS2008 installed just with the necessary for a desktop it
Tv-links Watch Free Anime, Shows, Movies And More!
Yep, I just recently found this amazing site. It lets you watch free streaming videos FULL!!! Visitors can watch most anime here and they're updated frequently. Also, there are cartoons and shows that are on TV that you might've missed. They also have old shows which are already cancelled and has all seasons. What is more is that you can watch movies there even the ones that have just been released. I haven't checked out the sports section but there is one. You should go
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A very weird thing happened at the Tokyo Zoo:QUOTETOKYO (AP) - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a nine centimetre dwarf hamster, the other is a 1.2-metre rat snake.Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster - whose name means meal in Japanese - to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice. But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair h
According to Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA may be in fact produce their own processor. They speculate that it may come in the form of a VIA-NVIDIA partnership.What do you guys think? Good idea? Vote in the polls.I personally think this will spice up the market for all.Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-x8...ml#BOM_commentsxboxrulz
Lying: The Best Way To Switch Windows Users To Linux?
Apparently, if you lie to people, they would really think KDE4 is Windows 7 ... lol.http://www.builderau.com.au/program/window...00.htm?feed=rssxboxrulz
QUOTEThe Genius FeatureSay you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The Genius feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a Genius playlist for you. It’s like having your own highly intelligent, personal DJ.Upgraded Way to Find Your MusicIt’s even easier to find the song you want to hear. Now you can view your album art in Cover Flow. Or just press and hold the Center button to browse by album or artist. W
Well, being as how I'm adventurous and like to pursue alternatives to those stupid pills doctors like to chuck at me when I'm not feeling good, I've found a little thing online called The Master Cleanse, also known as The Lemonade Diet, which really isn't a diet at all, but rather it's a sort of detoxification of the body.I've done a ton of research on the whole thing, reading people's blogs that were doing it, and Youtube videos of people that are in the process of d
Opera mobile was good, but this is much better. It comes with full flash enabled, javascript and everything else. You can watch videos on youtube and other flash sites. It's really a fully enabled browser.Now opera mobile, it's quite good, but it has one major limitation. It's java based and for some reason that makes it unable to run flash or javascript. It is quite annoying, especially as mobile youtube is so limited. But skyfire really works as the on the go alternative to your cu
The problem with Proxy servers....1) they usually only work with http, getting one to work with MSN messenger is neer impossable !2) although they stop the site you are browsing from knowing who you are, your Internet service provider still knows exactly what you are doing.3) i hate proxies.What if....What if you first ran a local filter proxie, it doesnt do anything major, it just scrubbs any identifying info from your web traffic, things like browser identification, cookies, revelaing DNS
By 11p Eastern Time, Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging. This execution was ruled by the government of Iraq. No video was shown on live television but just reports of it. However, reporters say there are videos and pictures taken before, during and after the execution. It was breaking news in CNN at Larry King Live. Obviously these videos taken at the execution of Saddam Hussein will be published in most video blogs. To me it's a clip that's worth checking out. I'm in favor
Welcome,My one PC is not working fine i want to restore my old file, i made backup in pen drive but how we restore my old file in my system, what is the path to restore the file, i have complete c: drive backup in which i have installing my windows. when i store file by system restore it send error report, there is any way to restore my old file, restore point and backup i think that both are different, there may be problem but i cant resolve it.thanks
Read this>Anti-government protesters have left Bangkok's main airports after an eight-day siege that has paralysed government and stymied tourism. They packed up bedding before handing over both the international and domestic airports to the authorities. The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) called off the protests and after a court banned Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics. The protests have left thousands of tourists stranded in Thailand. The country has lost million
This is the moment every Apple fan has been waiting for. Finally a solution to the bad Intel chipsets for the Macbooks. Also for a complete revolution in the Apple hardware.Let's take a look in what Apple has in store for us this time around!So what's new about these Apple notebooks?MacbookIntel Core 2 Duo Penryn 2.0 GHz or 2.4 GHz 1066 MHz FSB160 GB, 250GB or 320GB 5400RPM Hard Drive or 128GB SSD2GB DDR3-1066 RAMNVIDIA GeForce 9400M IGP2 USB 2.08x SuperDriveMini DisplayPortBacklit L
Difference Between Bad Sector And Boot Sector.
hi all,I read so many article related to this topic but overall in confusion what is basic difference in between bad sector and Boot sector in Hard disk , if any sector have bad then what is the first precaution that bad sector should not come. what is the first stage that i find, the bad sector may occurs. somebody says that if virus is running continuously in your system then there is a chance to come bad sector. what is it correct? i think that this is not correct virus could not corrupt the
System Is Crashed - Hardware Problem
Dear all, i am working on my IBM Thinkpad R52, for internet i am using airtel card, and windows XP2 with other software also, what i have problem when i dial for connect to internet, my screen is blank, i reboot the system and system is working fine, after some time again this problem is come my screen is blank. it may be work fine whole day or it may blank after sometime , i solve this again by restarting my laptop but my data each time lost, when without airtel card to internet system is worki
Iron Man, for the non-geeks out there, is said summer Superhero from the 60s and from the same company (Marvel Comics) that gave us Spiderman, The X-Men and The Hulk. And since he’s the new hero on the block, the film takes the traditional formula to get its message across; Introduce the hero, his life, have him suffer some kind of disaster/trauma leading to gaining powers, decides to fight crime, fights crime, saves the girl & then gets outed to the rest of the world. So, by applying the ab
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Orkut.com Auto Scrapper - Scrap Ur Friend List In One Go
hi fellas,as most orkutters know that u cant scrap ur whole friend list in one go. i cant keep my friends up to date with myself (since they dun know whats a blog) so i have to scrap them all individually. having 100+ friends i decided to use an autoscrapper and came across Scrapboy.bugged up with Scrapboy's bulky interface and huge download size, i decided to code my own auto scrapper for Orkut.com If you don't know what it is, hit the following linkhttp://www.captainron.uni.cc/orkutter
Dominos Delivery Marketing Scam
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Omg I can't believe he died. He was so funny, Did anyone know about this or is interested? 50 years old is a young age to die at, hope he lived a full life and enjoyed it to the max. I like watching a lot of his movies, his brand of comedy was unique to his experience. I think once i get enough credits I will make a post on my site about him and his roles through out his life.Does anyone remember any movies or role he played that they liked?I liked Guess Who a movie with him and Ashton ku
In Apple's latest update to its Macbook Lineup, to be released in the last week of September, Apple plans to add multi-touch features that have proved to be popular in its other products, namely iPhone and iPod Touch. Although everything still remains as speculation since Apple hasn't spoken publicly about the planned features. Here's what I heard. Multi-Touch feature is a must but in what form it'll appear remains to be seen. While most people are hoping for a touch screen, it s
What I Learned About Dark Knight
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Google had just published another new service, it is called google web accelerator, it's an accelerator for your web surfing, so you can save time surfing the internet, it looks a very great service when you look at it generally, but for the first time google made a very bad service, it does nothing new than the old accelerators, to make it appears like a very good brand service they put a warning that this service is only for broadband ADSL internet connections, not for dialup internet conn
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Cuil - The New Non Google Killer
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Something Similar To Ezyrewards
Hi guys, been looking for how to get myself a free domain, and i stumbled accross something kind of like ezyrewards, but with far more offers, so its far easier to get a free proper .com domainIts called domain lagoon, only been around a few months, but it works and doesnt scam you.Click Here to see it
I have been learning many things through out my life, whether I wanted to learn the lesson or not. Well today I'm want to tell you about what I learned about drinking. I'm sure at this point your think WFT is he talking about what can you learn from that. You see in my case I never drank so when I first did I didn't have anyone to tell me the do's and don't of drinking. So today I will share with you what I learned and I learned it the hard way. First of I'll tell
I heard about firefox 3..anybody is using it!a friend of mine told me it is not so secure..is it true?and it has a lot of bugs.. =/i'm using firefox 2.0.0.15 and never gave me problems.. i think i will keep it for now.
Hitachi Sets SATA Drives To Only 1.5gb/s
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Well, on July 1, 2008, Canada celebrated its 141st birthday. As a Canadian it was wonderful! It was hectic at Canada's Wonderland (yes, I work there) and I've never seen the park THAT packed before. EVER!xboxrulz
Pen Drive Ram On Windows Vista
I recently viewed the homepage of Windows Vista on Microsoft's site. It says that Windows Vista can use a pen drive (USB 2.0) as additional RAM to speed up the memory. My question is that we use RAM because the hard disk is SLOW. We do have a swap file, but we don't use it much because it slows down performance! So, how can it be that the USB Pen drive be as fast as the RAM? Its max. speed is just 153.3kbps So won't that be slow too? How can that act as additional RAM?
What Are: The 100 Oldest Websites
ever stop by a site and wonder how old is this **** well here's a list the 100 oldest sites around that are still on the netWho knew you could register domain names in 1985? Rank Create date Domain name1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM11= 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM11=
You are probably thinking from the get go that this is something that I should be discussing in the software forums, but honestly, it is something that I just discovered and its something new that I just learned, so it fits right in here as well. At least, technically it does!Anyways, I loaded up my Mozilla Firefox browser a few days back and an upgrade notice popped up. Normally, I don't think I have enough time to deal with the download and installation part so I just close it down wit
One of the most popular Google programs, and maybe one of the most dangerous, Google Earth, is getting a new version. What's more, this time it is released for all supported operating system simultaneously. You can download it here.Besides various OS support, it is also multilingual with French, German, Spanish and Italian now supported. Also, these countries are now more detailed in Google Earth and advanced search is now available.Next, Google has increased the percentage of the land cover
Girl Wins Texas 1a State Hs Track Title
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/...tory?id=3390402Pretty interesting If she could train a bit for a few other events she could do well in a Heptathalon or Decathalon some day.She competed in the long jump (second), high jump (first), discuss (third), 100 meter dash (second), and 200 meter dash (first)Being the smallest class in Texas it's not world class competition but it's certainly a hugely impressive accomplishment in my opinion.
Google is looking for people to participate in Project Virgle, which will establish a permanent human colony on Mars in 2014. A long-term plan has been put in place, however this may change with further information: http://google.com/virgle/plan_1.html.To apply as a participant, you need to fill out the questionnaire on this page: http://google.com/virgle/application.html. You must also submit a YouTube video of why you want to live on Mars here: http://youtube.com/projectvirgle.This planet will
101 Css Techniques Of All Time
It seems that a lot of people on these forums are farily new to creating websites, so I thought I'd pass this link along, since I think many people will find it very useful.Its a entry from someone's blog that covers the most useful, or coolest, or most popular CSS techniques being used right now.It covers things like rounded corners, image wrapping, creating shadows and transparency. Each entry has links to step-by-step tutorials with how to implement the technique.From the site: QUOTE
Get A Free Dns Domain That Ends With .co.cc
CO.CC - http://www.co.cc/Domain Mapping is the process of pointing a registered domain name to a blog or photo album. Domain mapping is more than domain forwarding (Free domains that are ending with .tk and .co.nr), because your permalinks and URL contain the address of your domain (www.you.co.cc), and not a sub-domain (example.zxq.net).You can map a CO.CC domain to your blog or photo album. In order to use domain mapping, you must create and modify A, MX, and CNAME records. CO.CC supports free
New Roller Coaster Announced At Canada's Wonderland
The name, BEHEMOTH, was chosen for the 2008 roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland (located in Maple, Ontario, just 30km from Toronto). News broke out about the construction early during the season as visitors reported that there has been construction near The Italian Job Stunt Track in Action Zone.Statistics:Length: 1620.9m (1.6km!!)Lift Height: 70 mAngle of Descent 85 degrees!Ride Length: Approximately 3 minutes, 10 secondsSpeed: 125km/hRide Capacity: Approximately 1,545 guests/
Today Forbes reports something unthinkable, something no one saw coming. Something so big, one wonders, WHY IS APPLE W/ INTEL IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!?Today, Forbes reports that Apple Inc. just picked up P.A. Semi for $278 million. P.A Semi was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl. Dobberpuhl was the lead designer for the StrongARM processor which became Intel's XScale when DEC Corporation folded. The company had 150 employees during the purchase, many of them had experience designin
http://www.jingproject.com/its very cool and is for Windows and Mac you onlly need a PC and a e-mail you can also take vidios through it so yea share your opinions about ithttp://www.screencast.com/users/Naro2212/f...e6-d4e7649d9436
This is way off topic from hosting and web design and such, but it is something new I have learned about and for that reason I will share it. decently I have come to learn that the plant Salvia Divinorum could cause psychedelic effects if smoked. At first I thought that was very weird since I remember in the past while working with my Uncle I had panted a flower called Salvia (working in the landscaping field). However, I researched a little about the plant, and it is a seperate flower. However,
Picnik, An Online Photo Editor
If you think that Photoshop is too expensive to purchase, Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a bit too bulky, and the GIMP a bit hard to use for editing photos, then I'm sure you'll find Picnik to be a better application. If the above doesn't apply to you, give Picnik a try anyways URL: http://picnik.comPicnik is an excellent tool for editing photos, especially if they are already online. This is because Picnik can import photos from popular photo hosting sites, including Flickr, Ph
Check out Microsoft Live!'s new Virual Earth. Its in an early development stage and currently we can tour only Seattle(Microsoft's hometown) and San Francisco. But its really amazing. They've stitched high resolution sattelite pictures along with thousands of actual photographs taken on the streets in various parts of the city. Just walk on the streets of Seattle or drive through in a sports car as if you were actually there! Its just too good!Take a look at it:http://pre
Microsoft's Virtual Server & Wsus
Where I work, we're having some bandwidth problems with so many clients needing to run Microsoft Updates. I've recently been playing around with some pentest tools targeting a series of testbed platforms running the same software deployed within our network. A lot of this kind of testing presents very alarming results and really brings out the significance behind keeping your Windows system up to date as frequently as possible.However, this is a little cumbersome when you have hundreds o
I'm not sure if this is the right forum but...I recent stumbled about this new site: Aviary. Here is the description from their about page:QUOTEAviary is a suite of rich internet applications geared for artists of all genres. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for everything. ... we are creating a complex ecosystem for artists and providing the world with free, capable collaborative tools and an approach to collaboration and rights management that will
Ok i will give you the definition if you don`t now:A BitTorrent tracker is a server which assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent (protocol) . It is also, in the absence of extensions to the original protocol, the only major critical point, as clients are required to communicate with the tracker to initiate downloads. (Clients that have already begun downloading also communicate with the tracker periodically to negotiate with newer peers and provide statistics; howeve
Its seems that Plextor has passed over the fisic limit of speed DVD burning rate. The Manufecters had an agreement about maximum speed to DVD burning that was 16x ( 21MB/s]. This limitation existed because wasn't possible increase the speed over the 11.000 rpm without damage fisicly the DVD. But Plextor announced a new DVD+- RW - PX-760A that attchive the 25MB/s what is equal to 18x speed. Plextor says that this speed can be used by +/- R certificated DVD 16x in the market. Also will be abl
Blu-ray Wins The High-def Dvd Race
As most people know, there is two versions of High Definition DVD's, the Blu-Ray Disc (Sony) and and the HD DVD (Toshiba). It was announced that Toshiba will now be stopping production of HD DVD, which means that the Blu-Ray disc will now step up as the new HD format.Source found at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2264907,00.aspQUOTEAn impending end to a format war over next-generation DVDs boosted shares in both victorious Sony, in the Blu-ray corner, and Toshiba, in the losing H
Vixy.net: Online Flv Converter
I found this site about a month ago, and I've found it very userful. Basically, its an open source web application that allows you to convert a flash video (like the ones on YouTube) to MPEG4 online and download it. There is also a downloadable application that does the same thing. Its in its beta stage, and can be pretty slow from time to time, but its definitely very useful. Also, if you want to Rick Roll somebody on your iPod, this is how you're going to do it.Here is the offical
I feel that PHP FOX and other commercial social networking scripts are way too costly for any new social networking site and that adds to the fact that these scripts need to be modified to help the site stand apart from being a clone of the more established players in the business.I tried using PHP IZABi ,the script is slick and easy to use ,not to forget its fast but most of the important addons(modules,themes,hacks) are paid ,hence it doesn't fit the bill.Instead of looking at stand alone
Wifiber Technology - New Wireless That Is Faster Than Fiber!
[note=szupie]Copied from http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/new-wir...ter-than-fiber/[/note]QUOTENew wireless "WiFiber" tech faster than fiber?Virginia startup GigaBeam set their sights high with their new wireless system: they're taking on fiber. They dub the tech "WiFiber," and are positioning the product as a replacement for fiber optic pipes in situations when they're too expensive, too harmful to the environment, or just too slow to deploy, and they're claimi
Asteroid Could Collide With Mars On Jan. 30, Astronomers Say
QUOTEMars could be in for an asteroid hit.A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a one-in-75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday in Los Angeles."These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track … threatening asteroids," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The asteroid, known as 2007 WD5, was discovered in late November and is simila
Ok, the news has been spreading since this morning when Microsoft announced that they will buy one of the largest search engine companies in the world, Yahoo! Inc. It has been speculating that they had a really close relationship due to the Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger integration. Now that Microsoft is forking over $44.6 BILLION USD in cash and stock, one may wonder ... what will Microsoft buy next? The whole Internet?More on Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/news
Doctors say that the Nintendo Wii is a great way for people with recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery, and even combat injuries. It goes to show that the Nintendo Wii is definitely more than a gaming machine for teenagers.It has already seen inroads to gyms to get kids working out instead of sitting down in front of their PC/Mac/XBOX 360 or their PS3 playing their video games without at least getting active.Doctors say that some patients don't have full finger motions, so using the
Canadian Dollar Parity With The American Dollar
Yes, the Canadian Dollar's highest peak was $1CAD = $1.08USD. This type of thing never happened after the 1970s as the Canadian Dollar was approximately 90 cents American until 6 months ago when the Canadian dollar (and possibly other currencies as well) skyrocketed. What does this mean? Buying power. However, little do happy Canadian shoppers know, the high dollar is impacting people like me. Yes, it impacts the manufacturing and export sectors, but the less known aspects it hits
9/11 May Have Saved America And The World?!
Could the mods please move this to the right place, just deleat it if you don't like it.I AM NOT SAYING 9/11/2001 WAS GOOD IT JUST WAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF AND MADE SOMEWHAT BETTER!This not made up spam. You will learn that everything I have to say is very true.OK like my title? Well it got your attention.OK so starting a few years ago pollution was made illegal in the U.S. to slow down global warming. Turns out it is doing just the opposite. By cutting down on pollution we are making eart
Today Microsoft has officially launched their answer to iPod, Zune. Looking at it, it looks suspiciously like its counterpart, iPod; almost exactly the same design. The Zune is a 30GB music player with a few different that Microsoft considers their competitive advantages. Support more format - one of the advantage Zune have over iPod is the ability to support multiple popular music file formats than iPod.Wireless sharing – you can wirelessly share Zune to Zune. Zune lets you spontaneously sh
Yeh well, today I just thought I'd look around my PS3 And well I found that you can watch videos on Youtube!At first I thought...Meh this wont go to well,But once it started playing it was fantastic. Its also better because you can turn on the sound louder because its connected to your TV Hehe get your parents annoyed!I just thought I'd say to people who got a PS3 <---- GET THE MOST OUT OF IT!This is why I PS3 sooo much!
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