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Googlebombing ‘failure’


Google tells why failure brings up the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush.
Google’s search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce […]

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htaccess Cheatsheet

Need help with htacces? Check out this cheatsheet.
Redirect Visitors to New Page/Directory
Redirect oldpage.html http://www.domainname.com/newpage.html
Redirect /olddir http://www.domainname.com/newdir/
Block Hot Linking/Bandwidth hogging
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]

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Metal Gear Acid 2 to have Stereoscopic Vision

I thought that PSP stood for Playstation Portable, but it appears it’s not, according to Konami anyway.
Metal Gear Acid 2 is set to have compatibility with this device to provide you with “3D” Stereoscopic graphics.
Even though there’s a high chance that I’ll get this, I wouldn’t be caught dead playing with it in public, I […]

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PSP Downgrader halted - WAB dissolved

This is a dark day for the PSP community, thousands of fans awaited eagerly for team WAB’s promised downgrader. We were even given a downgrade movie to prove that the project existed but now, due to reasons they do not explain, the collaboration with PSP-Dev has halted and team WAB has dissolved.
PSP-Dev clarified that they […]

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Revolution Controller Revealed

Geeks and Geekettes I present to you, the Revolution Controller:

I know what you’re thinking, and yes it does look like a remote control.
Where’s the analogue? Well… it doesn’t have one in it’s “simple” form… you have to turn it into Nunchaku form to get it (courtesy of 1up):

It does have those gyroscope functions everyone was […]

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Microsoft Gadgets

This has to be fake…there is no way Microsoft could be this crazy.
Have you ever wondered how new technologies get developed in Microsoft? Wonder how a cool idea goes from incubation to release? Well, we’re excited to announce that we’ve started a blog designed to bring you closer to the process with the Gadgets blog […]

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AJAX Instant Messaging

It is not any where near perfect yet, but meebo.com is interesting. It is AJAX, it is Instant messaging, and it seems to support the major clients.
I tried it out, and it was not perfect. I had one window for me sending information and one window to recieve it…for the same conversation. It is a […]

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Fast Cable Connection, But Don’t Try To Really Use It

Techdirt has a hilarious little blurb on their site making fun of the speed competition various broadband providers currently have.
It seems that many broadband providers have realized that they get attention for playing the “speed game.” They keep announcing faster broadband speeds, even if sometimes the announcements are a bit misleading. BroadbandReports calls Canadian cable […]

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Rebuilt New Orleans Could be Cutting Edge

It looks like Katrina could have a little bit of a positive spin on it after all of the devistation they might rebuild New Orleans, bigger, better, faster, and more technologically advanced than ever before.
Ugly as she was, Katrina may have given BellSouth a rare opportunity: the chance to turn one of the oldest cities […]

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UMD Emulator V0.8

Humma Kavula and friends have done it again. They’ve released their newest software which seems to take the place of their very famous program: Fastloader. This program basically emulates any UMD iso you have using the PSP’s RAM so no flashing is required. The difference is that instead of choosing a game from on the […]

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Hearing Passwords

Apparently, some computer scientists at the University of California Berkeley have found a way to decipher what your password with a computer, simply by hearing it. When they typed a 10 digit password combination, the computer returned 75 different possibilities. What that means, is that they should be able to break 1 […]

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Internet Careers

Which Internet Career are you pursuing?
As the Internet evolved new jobs started appearing. While this comes as nothing new to anyone it does raise the question mark over your head about which career you want to follow in the vast Internet.
About.com has an article explaining each career and they put it down to seven of […]

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Mario’s Birthday

I missed Mario’s Birthday. It was yesterday, and I was on dial-up and did not notice the news.
Mario celebrated his 20th yesterday, and many took part in the celebrations.
Joystiq, Stirman , and Cube-Europe just to name a few.
I wish I would have known. I would have thrown on some Mario and had an […]

Filed under: Games

Google Blog Search

Finally, Google has released a Blog Search tool. I don’t know how effective it is, but it was able to find all my articles pretty easily.
Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our […]

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Original Google Search?

It looks like thanks to the Internet Archive, we can still view Google’s first search page. It looks mighty ugly, but atleast it is there for the world to see.
Click here to see the original Google Search Page.
I doubt we would have as much respect for Google if their homepage still looked like that.

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Microsoft Office 12 Screenshots

Neowin has a few screenshots from the next version of Office. It is expected to Beta sometime this year.
A new feature named “galleries” gives users a visual representation of the kinds of formatting choices they can make in their documents. The galleries also offer “live previews” in many instances, so you can see exactly what […]

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