Archive for the ‘interesting’ Category
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 ...
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Thursday, December 28th, 2006
Seems someone over at Doom9.org may have cracked the uncrackable AACS DRM that is built into HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.? Personally I'm not a fan of DRM as I think it limits and punishes the people that purchase the product, and barely slows down the people it is intended to ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Best Buy is now offering a package and service called ConnectedLife.Home for a mere $15,000.? You get a lot of neat stuff, but you apparently cannot substitute items so you're basically at their mercy.? Plus this is Best Buy employees we're talking about...? Not sure I'd want ...
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
Interesting article on a trend of people trying to use PS3's to obtain Wii's.? From personal experience, I sold two PS3's and made enough money to buy a Wii which is what I wanted.? What's funny is that I found the PS3's while looking for the Wii's!
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
By the time my kids are old enough to want a (real) cell phone, this will probably be more mainstream.? But the technology and services are already there to track your kids position via GPS!
Many parents may have fleetingly harbored the fantasy of equipping their children with such tracking ...
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Ever signed up for a site, then immediately started getting undesirable email?? Well now there is a neat little utility you can use called 10 Minute Mail. You can create an email address that you can send mail from, reply to and read email from for 10 minutes (or more ...
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
Samsung developed a machine guy sentry that will be deployed in the DMZ between North and South Korea. Take a look at the video, it's pretty interesting!
The robot also has a speaker to warn the intruder to surrender or get a perfect headshot.
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Recently, Steve Wynn accidentally poked a hole in the Picasso painting "La Reve" ("The Dream"). He had just finalized a deal to sell the painting for a cool $139 million dollars. Good thing he is a bijillionaire or he might have been upset.
Smack in the middle ... was a black ...
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Check out this site, it's a great guide on building a content filter / firewall for your home. Once you're done you can block out adult content from your network so your kids aren't exposed to it.
http://www.filtermynetwork.com
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