Archive for the ‘interesting’ Category
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
? This is pretty crazy.? I mean, who has time to take pictures of an entire book?!? I suppose it's faster than retyping it all, but geez...
Four days before it hits bookstores, I've got a copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." I downloaded it from ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
How victim snared ID thief / She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell
If it hadn't been for the distinctive suede coat, there would have been no chase through the streets of San Francisco, no heroine and, in all likelihood, no justice. But when Karen Lodrick ...
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Richard Charkin is an unrepentant thief. Charkin, a UK executive with publisher Macmillan, attended last week's Book Expo America in New York and decided to make his feelings about Google Book Search clear by teaching Google a lesson: he stole two of the company's laptops.
His point was that Google Book ...
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
Yes, Amazon already has an online on-demand movie service, but that won’t stop the world’s most famous web retailer from buying NetFlix, the movies-through-the-mail company that recently built an on-demand service of its own. At least, that’s what the Associated Press is reporting.
According to the AP, a Jackson Securities analyst ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Well, they didn't find another lifeform, but they did help find this guys laptop!
Annoyed - and alarmed that someone could delete the screenplays and novels that his wife, Melinda Kimberly, was writing - Melin monitored the SETI(at)home database to see if the stolen laptop would "talk" to the Berkeley ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
If you use Vista and Media Center to steam content to your TV, you'll want to check this out -
Yougle is a Windows Media Center plugin that lets you search, browse through , and watch videos from YouTube, Google Video, Grouper, and DivX Stage 6 from the comfort of your ...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Steve Jobs says - Let's Get Rid of DRM and I have to agree.? People would be more likely to purchase music online if they didn't have to worry about broken technologies limiting their ability to enjoy it.
But, in his letter, Jobs says the company sells the music with ...
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Last year's Superbowl Commercials in standard definition. 2007 commercials to be in Full Screen DVD quality after the Superbowl airs via Gridcasting.
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Funny short story on what someone did to his dad...
My father heard about Vista coming on the news. Since he was interested in getting it, he asked me to obtain it and install it on his computer and he would give some cash in return. I told him I was ...
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
A New York teen, dubbed a pirate by the Record Industry, is counter suing them for defamation, violating anti-trust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
In papers responding to a lawsuit filed by five record companies, Robert Santangelo, who was 11 when he is supposed to have ...
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