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Bill Gates: “Buy a CD and rip it.”


Here’s something interesting I found via our sister site, the Apple Gazette. In a recent bloggers’ convention within Microsoft’s headquarters, Bill Gates discussed digital rights management (DRM) and gave his opinion on its current state and the future. It seems Gates is sympathizing with the end-user, particularly with the notion that DRM can be too […]

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Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine Vol. 4 – Review

I mostly picked up this trade paperback out of my undying love for Ghost Rider. The presence of Wolverine was just an added bonus, really. This trade collects the Wolverine segments of Marvel Comics Presents #62-71. Marvel Comics Presents originally contained four stories per issue, so as a result, each Wolverine segment […]

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Flickr Extends Upload Limits

Flickr, the most popular photo uploading and sharing site has just recently given all of it’s users an increased upload limit:
For basic users, Flickr has quintupled the monthly upload limit from 20MB to 100MB; even more impressive, those of you with Flickr Pro accounts can now enjoy unlimited monthly uploads (up from 2GB).
Just when I […]

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Wiimote control for Google Earth

J.Coulston has recently configured the Wiimote with GlovePIE to work as a control for Google Earth. You can’t aim the cursor across the screen, but by using the tilting sensor he is easily able to navigate through the Earth with the program.

This is very nice, maybe soon enough one of your teachers will control his […]

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Samsung announces new 3D aceleration memory

Samsung, the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, has recently unveiled a new type of memory: OneDRAM, which will help increase the processing speed between processors. This sort of memory is ideal for mobile devices or gaming consoles, and Samsung expects that the first products with this new type of memory will arrive during […]

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Wii Classic Controller Review

Today I was lucky enough to pickup the Classic Controller for the Wii. I wasn’t thinking about purchasing it yet, but since it was available (and much isn’t) I decided to get it alongside with a Wii Points Card. So as soon as I got home, I was off to grabbing a piece of gaming […]

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Wii Outselling PS3

According to the site Videgame Charts, the Nintendo Wii has sold 2 million units worldwide, while the PS3 hasn’t event sold 1 million. Part of this could be due to supply, but I am also sure that the price tag on the PS3 has something to do with it.
Now, if I could just find a […]

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Dreamhost Gives Free Hosting to Non-Profits

If you are the webmaster of a non-profit organization, or you run one yourself, you can now get Dreamhost’s “Strictly Business” Shared Hosting account for free. Just fax them the payment page for your account with your 501(c)(3) papers as proof of your non-profit status.
That is a pretty good deal with 500GB of storage space […]

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MacHeist Bundle

The folks over at MacHeist are trying to raise some money for charity this week. They are offering a bundle of 10 apps, normally valued at close to $300 for only $49. If they reach $50,000, they will unlock Newsfire. If they reach $100,000, they will unlock TextMate.
A great deal if you are a Mac […]

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Casino Royale - Review

It has been eleven years since Goldeneye, the last good James Bond film, in my honest opinion. While the other Pierce Brosnan offerings had their moments, they felt more like generic over-the-top action films with the character of James Bond shoe-horned in as an after-thought, to the point of feeling like a self parody. It’s […]

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Cheapest PlayStation3

If you think the price of the PlayStation3 is too prohibitive, you can always resort to options. Here’s the cheapest PS3 we’ve seen, so far.

Simply get a PS2 and a Playstation 1. Add ‘em up together, and what do you get?
[via Byteburn]

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Wizard Interviews David X. Cohen on New Futurama

Futurama is on its way back with an expected season premier in 2008 as well as some DVD movies and episodes to tide fans over. What to expect? Well, David X. Cohen, writer and producer, spills the beans in an interview with Wizard Entertainment. He doesn’t give too much away, as one […]

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Three Rankin-Bass Classics: Reviewed

Rankin-Bass, outside their stop-motion holiday films, never really reached the same level as Disney or Don Bluth when it came to animated fantasy films. Yet, they did manage to create three of my all-time favorites. And, so, here are my reviews for their three best accomplishments, but sadly, only two of them ar […]

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Wii breaks sales record in the United Kingdom

It seems like the Wii is also gaining a lot of momentum on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, since they’ve just beaten the previous console sales record established by the XBox 360:
Nintendo has reported sales of 105,000 Wiis over the weekend, smashing the record of 70,000 set by the Xbox 360.
Even though […]

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Sony says PS3 manufacturing problems are all solved

After an amazing streak of bad luck (and a terrible release campaign), Sony is claiming that all manufacturing problems have been solved, and that they are back on track to fulfilling their “1 million consoles by the end of 2006″ promise.
“We will continue to utilise airfreight delivery for PlayStation 3 to assure a steady stream […]

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Microsoft’s XBox Tech Support shouts at customers with problems

Lately there have been some problems with Microsoft’s tech support. In fact, someone already made a lawsuit against them because of their poor service and failure to comply with the warranties they issue.
Basically, what happened is that a person bought an XBox 360, and two weeks later it bricked, so he phoned the XBox tech […]

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