Archive for April, 2008

Recover Deleted Files

Posted on April 30th, 2008.

Recuva is a free utility that will recover deleted files for you. This even includes pictures deleted from digital cameras and songs from many MP3 players. It isn’t always possible to recover deleted files, but Recuva is a great tool to have handy if you need to try. Give Recuva a try.
Recuva is [...]

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Friends Coming Soon To The Web

Posted on April 29th, 2008.

From TVOverNet.com: TheWB.com will Play Full Episodes of Friends and Smallville
The KidsWB.com site mentioned in the linked post is also very cool, with more content to be added in May.
Link: TheWB.com

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Amazon Says Kindle Supply Problems Over

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

The Amazon Kindle ebook reader is now in stock and ready to ship, just in time for those economic stimulus rebates people started getting today. It looks like Amazon may have resolved the supply issues that have kept the device so hard to get. The kindle is $399.00 with free Two-Day shipping. [...]

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Serious Munchies

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

Student tries Pringles found in 30 year old time capsule: “It tastes like Pringles with an added 30 years,” he said. “I ate something older than me.”

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Gom Media Player

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

Gom Player is a nice looking skinnable media player that includes lots of codecs, even handling DVD playback. The free program has a nicer interface than the capable VLC, and playback seems a little smoother. Gom also has some very cool features, like capturing frames from video files and starting playback before files [...]

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NY Times Notices TV On The Web

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

The NY Times writes about tv shows on the web: Golden Years of Television Find New Life on the Web
It’s a good excuse to post a list of some of the great “full episode” content sources available now. The list includes web sites that feature at least some full-length TV. It’s by [...]

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Teachers Gone Wild

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

From the Washington Post: When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web
Note to teachers — if you teach elementary kids in a public school, bragging about sleeping with hookers on Facebook will come back to haunt you. The same goes for teaching developmentally challenged kids and having “you’re a retard” displayed.

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Apple iMac Refresh

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

Apple updated the iMac line today with faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors and more powerful graphics.
The new 20-inch 2.66 GHz iMac, for a suggested retail price of $1,499 (US), includes:
* 20-inch widescreen LCD display;
* 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a 1066 MHz [...]

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RIAA Countersued by Single Mom

Posted on April 27th, 2008.

More of this, please: Single Mother Gets RIAA Suit Dismissed, Sues Them Right Back

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Do They Have HDTV In Prison?

Posted on April 26th, 2008.

Not exactly a criminal mastermind:
A Kirksville, MO. man was arrested on Thursday for trying to boost a $517 Viore (yeah) LCD television by swapping the UPC tag with one from a $3.16 bottle of water.

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Kung Fu Clogging

Posted on April 26th, 2008.

So! You think your death kick can match my breathing technique!

More Uncle Earl

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Mmmmmm, bacon

Posted on April 25th, 2008.

Great name for a band: Black market bacon dogs

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Install Linux from Windows With Wubi — No Partitioning Required

Posted on April 22nd, 2008.

The latest version of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu (8.04 — Hardy Heron) will include the Wubi installer, which makes it possible to install Ubuntu from within Windows. Even better, there’s no scary repartitioning of the hard drive. The Linux file system is installed as a disk image on top of the Windows NTFS [...]

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Outlook Express Breaking Up With Hotmail

Posted on April 22nd, 2008.

If you use Outlook Express to access Hotmail, this is for you:
As a valued customer, we want to provide advanced notice that as of June 30, 2008, Microsoft is disabling the DAV protocol and you will no longer be able to access your Hotmail Inbox via Outlook Express. As an alternative, we recommend that you [...]

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Flip Camcorder — Good Enough

Posted on April 22nd, 2008.

The Flip video camera is a huge success, and that’s at least partly because it’s so simple and easy to understand. The Flip doesn’t try to do everything; rather it tries to be a competent if basic video recorder — and nothing else. To see just how competent the $150 Flip camcorder is, [...]

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Grow Meat In A Vat, Win a Million Dollars

Posted on April 22nd, 2008.

The folks at PETA are planning to sponsor a million dollar x-prize for vat grown meat. As appetizing as eating animal tissue cultured in a test tube sounds, I think I’ll stick with more traditional sources. Although the soy protein “Chik’n Nuggets” from MorningStar Farms my daughter likes aren’t bad at all.

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XP SP3 On The Way

Posted on April 22nd, 2008.

Windows XP SP3: “A quick, painless upgrade”.

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Ad Supported Microsoft Works SE Arrives

Posted on April 21st, 2008.

Microsoft’s new sponsored edition of Works has been caught in the wild. The application features a square ad in the lower right corner on all screens. Since this application suite has traditionally been “given away” on new computers without ads, it seems like a step in the wrong direction. If you can’t [...]

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1960’s Era Dr. Who Regenerates On The Web

Posted on April 21st, 2008.

Dr. Who fans are recreating lost episodes of the show from the 60’s, using the surviving soundtracks combined with clever animation — or in some cases photo mashups. The original tapes were destroyed at some point by the BBC.
Read more at Wired.
Here’s a good example:

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Good Design Is Not Dead

Posted on April 7th, 2008.

What a well designed content-oriented web site looks like:
The Atlantic
Lots of white space, big fonts, easy navigation, and ads that are prominent without getting in the way. This site is all about the content, with no distractions. The design is so nice, The Atlantic can even be forgiven for calling its bloggers [...]

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Everybody likes Pizza

Posted on April 7th, 2008.

Pizza.com sold last week for $2.6 million. Is it 1999 again?

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It’s People! — a Heston Film Guide

Posted on April 7th, 2008.

From USA Today: The Charleton Heston film guide
I loved Planet of the Apes, but nothing beats Soylent Green and Heston’s famous closing line, “Soylent Green is people!”

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EU OKs Mobile Phones On A Plane

Posted on April 7th, 2008.

Coming soon to Europe: phones on a plane

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Blogging Doesn’t Kill People, Infarctions Kill People

Posted on April 7th, 2008.

In the world of “professional” journalism, three of anything makes a trend worthy of a reporter’s attention. The latest example is found in the New York Time’s Technology section: In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
I especially liked this unintentionally hilarious bit from the article:
“I haven’t died yet,” [...]

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BSG Spoiler

Posted on April 4th, 2008.

Is Starbuck a frackin’ Cylon? Katee Sackhoff answers that question in an Amazon Wire interview.

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