Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 12th, 2007
The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that'll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities (via Lifehacker)
System Contents
There is a lot of work from ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Found here
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
An average joe had his GPS stolen and set out to buy a replacement on eBay, only to find the exact same one up for sale. The seller was nabbed and dozens of stolen items were discovered at his place.
digg story
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Best Buy is taking a bold advertising campaign to its limits this week by announcing discounted game titles for the Sony PlayStation 3 as well as the Nintendo Wii consoles.
This could represent poor game sales among these titles or just the fact that the retailers are hoping to draw people ...
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
This will be a nice addition for the non-geeks out there. I already do all this at home, but I had to put everything together myself. Off the top of my head I can think of several of my friends that will benefit from this.
As a small, headless box that ...
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Don't let this happen to you! Be care what bozo's you give your credit card to :)
I thought he was entering data on a Point-Of-Sale machine. Imagine my surprise when he showed me that my name, street, city, state, zip, credit card number and expiration date had just been ...
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
A brand new video showcasing some actual Crysis gameplay was just released and it's looking mighty fine. You might even say that it's drop dead gorgeous. One things for sure, PC gaming won't be dying anytime soon with exclusive games like Crysis.
Sad to say that I definitely will need a ...
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Warner Bros plans to announce a new single videodisc, called a Total HD disc, that can play films and television programs in both Blu-ray and HD DVD. They hope to make the new generation of DVD entertainment easier on the consumer by making movies and television libraries available in BOTH ...
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
I've already showed how to Destroy your Data on hard disks.. but now here is an article that explains how to do it for memory cards. Have you sold any memory cards in the past? Nervous??
Statistically, this indicates that 78% of the cards we obtained on eBay contained ...
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
According to this article, if you use GMail, your Contact list may be vulnerable to hijacking if you stay logged into Gmail. It hasn't been confirmed by Google, but they have been notified. Fortunately, if you use Firefox and Adblock, here is a temporary solution:
=========== TEMPORARY SOLUTION ===============
Block access ...
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