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.
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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
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. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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.”
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
More of this, please: Single Mother Gets RIAA Suit Dismissed, Sues Them Right Back
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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.
So! You think your death kick can match my breathing technique!
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Great name for a band: Black market bacon dogs
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
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, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Windows XP SP3: “A quick, painless upgrade”.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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:
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 [...]
Pizza.com sold last week for $2.6 million. Is it 1999 again?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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!”
Coming soon to Europe: phones on a plane
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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,†[...]
Is Starbuck a frackin’ Cylon? Katee Sackhoff answers that question in an Amazon Wire interview.
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