It looks like not everything is great with Open Office. Though many of those using it are higher end computer geeks with gigs and gigs of just about everything, we also like when things work efficiently, and it does not seem that OpenOffice 2.0 is as effiicient as Microsoft’s Office package.
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A doctor at University Hospital in Geneva has developed software that allows him to download medical images to his iPod rather than having to purchase uber-expensive equipment.
The software, Osirix, was written for the Mac platform because of its powerful graphic processing power. He incorporated a feature to download the images to his 40GB iPod, as […]

Want to be on the leading edge of Web 2.0, but not sure where to start? Well, for starters, you need a name. Second, you need a snappy idea. Having trouble coming up with either? Look no futher.
Your company could be called Meebonomoink and you could offer rss-based news via maps api, or maybe start […]

This article at Forbes highlights the fact that Sony will soon start shutting down some of its CRT production facilities, concentrating more on LCD and Flat Screen TVs.
Under the plant closure program, Sony will shut down some of its CRT television assembly factories by March 2008 in order to shift its focus to the […]

Bungie is claiming that Halo and Halo 2 will have an enhanced appearance on the Xbox 360.
Bungie’s weekly update writer says he is “Counting the days” until the release of Microsoft’s next generation console. He went on to write that, “First thing I am going to do is play Halo one on my HDTV… There […]

According to this article, there is a growing list of problem games that may not allow for the Sony Playstation 3 to be 100% backwards compatible.
SCEI has published a list of nine PlayStation 2 games and 38 PlayStation games that run into problems on the new console. The SCPH-75000 will be available in Japan from […]

During the talk on multithreaded programming, Microsoft used the 3 core, 2 thread per core Xbox360 as an example. The bomb was that the first generation of Xbox titles, all of them, are single threaded. Not good.
So what does that mean? If I understand it correctly, the first line-up of games due out for the […]

It seems that an independent group of Finnish overclockers have made a bit of history today by overclocking a GPU past the 1GHz mark. The record was set on ATI’s recently-announced Radeon X1800 XT video card.

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Yes, we have all seen that you can order books and such of your Flickr Photos from QOOP, but there has never been a way to order just single prints. Well that has changed.
They now offer an option (U.S. residents only - for now) that lets you order single prints of your images in 4×6, […]

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Is one of the newest accessories for the iPod Shuffle. It’s going on sale for $50. I don’t really know what else to say… this the most pointless accessory I’ve ever seen.
Via Gizmodo

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Watch out iPod! Ok, maybe not, but still a Japanese company is exploiting the MP3 market where no other company ever has: in your toilets.
Their specialized toilets not only raise the seat when you get near them they are also heated so you won’t feel the coldness of the marble. And now, in their latest […]

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If you saw Steve Jobs give a keynote about the new iMac, then you know what Front Row is. As soon as I saw that I knew that I wanted to be able to run that on my Mac, […]

Have a hard time concentrating during work? Try using a tone generator. This tone generator generates pink noise which may help keep your mind on things. I’ve tried it out, and I think it helps. Please comment on how it works for you.

The human auditory system, which uses a roughly logarithmic concept of frequency approximated […]

Comedy Central announced on Tuesday, October 25 that they will roll out with a Broadband Network called Motherload. Motherload will go live on November 1, and will consist of content specifically for broadband, and also some Comedy Central content. There will be a total of five channels. Each week there will be 50-80 new clips.

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