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PHP 5 Installer for OS X


OS X is awesome as we all know or don’t know, but want to know, but with all the ease that Apple gives its users in installing applications some of the develpment stuff that programmers need isn’t as easy to install. Some people go through hell and back to install a workable PHP package on […]

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BitTorrent - wear it if you love it

Now here’s a nice BitTorrent T-Shirt. It’s going to set you back $14.95, but I think it’s money well spent from all that money you saved downloading illegal music, movies, games and pr0n. Heh.

If you’re asking what BitTorrent is, you have much to learn you geek wannabe. But since we are nice people at Forever […]

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The Sims 2 - 1 million copies in 10 days

Well, to be honest I *hate* The Sims series. It’s extremely boring and I can’t play it for more than 15 minutes. But that is just me and I gotta admit that it’s amazing the way this games sells! “The Sims 2″ sold 1 million copies in 10 days, being the best release ever for […]

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In Dash PC - Runs on Linux

This tiny PC fits in your car’s dash, where a CD player or cassette player would normally go. It runs on a small version of Linux, and can play movies, MP3’s, Ogg Vorbis files, basically anything a regular desktop PC can. The device uses a flash memory drive rather than a spinning hard drive in […]

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Original Apple 1 for sale

Someone’s selling an original Apple 1 on ebay

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50 Greatest Shooting Games

“Way of the Rodent”:http://www.wayoftherodent.com/ has compiled their list of the 50 greatest shooting games of all time, whether they were in the arcade, or on any of the consoles.
The top of their list is made up of some old favorites that pale in comparison to modern shooters, but they deserve credit in their own right […]

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The Wiki Hits the AP

Today, I came across something surprising in my friendly city newspaper — a story about Wikis. It was an AP story out of New York.

The article specifically mentions Wikipedia, perhaps the largest and most well-known Wiki project as well as the use of wikis for idea organization in companies.

At its core, a Wiki is an […]

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Vivendi could delay Half Life 2 for 6 months

Following the big court fight between VU-Games and Valve, GameSpot reports that Vivendi Universal has the power to delay Half Life 2 release for another 6 months after the final version of the game is done. This is what senior vice president of VU, Eric Roeder, stated on August 27, 2004 in court filings:

Valve has […]

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6GHz has been broken

Two guys broke the 6GHz barrier for desktop processors with a Pentium 4 originally clocked at 3.6GHz and lots of liquid nitrogen.

The system can calculate PI in 25s and scores 18508 on 3DMark 03 with a Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition. Oh, the PI calculation is of 1M digits.

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Astro Boy: Omega Factor Review

Astro Boy: Omega Factor is a platform/shooting game for the Game Boy Advance. Created by Treasure, who also created Gun Star Heroes for the Sega Genesis, Ikaruga for the Dreamcast/GameCube, and Radiant Silvergun for the arcade/Sega Saturn. They are widely respected as one of the very best action game companies, with Ikaruga/Radiant Silvergun being regarded […]

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WriteThis: A Writer’s Tool

Do you love to write? I know I do. But, sometimes, the creative juices just ain’t flowin’. So what is a geek girl to do when she experiences writer’s block or just needs to sharpen up her mad skillz in fiction writing?
She gets Rasmus Rasmussen’s freeware WriteThis. From the site:

The tool generates writing exercises, based […]

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Showing actual write speed in Nero

If you use Nero Burning ROM, you’d notice that the write speed that’s displayed when burning stuff is constant at the write speed you selected. Well, you can change it so that it updates to show the actual write speed in (almost) real-time if you are open to simple registry “hacking”. Yes, we are such […]

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Firefox logo tweaked

The Mozilla Firefox logo just got furrier in recent nightly builds. Here’s the normal and the new tweaked version in a “before and after” graphic:

The nose also has more detail and the colors seem to be more washed out compared to the deeper tones of the original.
Like these small tweaks? I certainly do.

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PS2 Vibrator

For all the guys out there who have girlfriends that continuously nag them to stop playing those damn video games here is the perfect “accessory” for her. It’s called the “Trance Vibrator”, but all it is is a glorified PS2 Vibrator.
I would show more pics, but if you are reading this from work your boss […]

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Good News for IT Women Who Like Good News

According to an article on VNUNet.com, IT prospects for women are looking good. In fact it notes that women in IT are achieving higher pay raises than men across all sectors.

From the ACM TechNews Abstract:
The Chartered Management Institute’s (CMI) 30th annual national management salary survey indicates that salaries and opportunities for female IT professionals […]

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OOP in PHP5: Slideshow

Interested in seeing how Object Oriented Programming works in PHP5, but don’t feel like reading a boring article or going through a lengthy book? Then you can checkout this short 24 slide slideshow to get the gist of what is going on. This is really good for those of you in the crowd who are […]

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