Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Amazing $200 inkjet - prints one page per SECOND on sale next year (VIDEO)
Secretive inventor with more patents that Edison. Spent 13 years developing the technology. Today released videos that have stunned the printer industry. Analysts have confirmed prototypes are real. Ultra-high speed $150 photo printer technology available 2007. Also promises color printers built into mobile phones, digicams, and handheld games...
Oops, iPhone Display Needs to Reboot, Runs Windows XP [PIC]
Hey PC fanboys, now you can use this shot of a Windows XP display at an AT&T store when those smug Mac worshipers tell you about how such-and-such Zune commercial was made on a Mac, and how "all media types and artists" use Macs. Windows runs the world, baby.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Save Internet Radio from the RIAA
Earlier today the new royalty rates for streaming radio stations were announced. A station with 1000 listeners will now have to pay $150,000 a year in royalties. This effectively forces independent webcasters off the air. The worst part: the rates are effective retroactively to the beginning of 2006! Help us get this senseless policy overturned!
*PIC* Kevin and Alex in GoDaddy's Super Bowl ad
Bonus points to Alex for wearing a Diggnation shirt! (Ignore the other one I submitted- I didn't pay attention to it going to a page requiring a sign in. I'm lame and hang my head in shame for that.)
Awesome photos of aquarium built at home!
This guy connected couple of aqariums with "transparent tubes" - the effect is awesome. Check out photos!
FireFox Gone Wild
Screenshot of the venerable Firefox browser when inundated with all possible extensions and add-ons.
Kid Does Something Amazing, Google Pays Attention: It's the American Dream
Hell of a story - kid has an idea he wants to pitch to Google, but can't get through by phone or e-mail, so he flies to Mountain View, CA without an appointment to sit in their lobby until they hear him out. And after three days, they do! He's got a meeting today at 4:30! I have no idea how this got missed earlier, but here it is again...
The BEST 404 PAGE EVER!
simple and fascinating. i like this one a lot! There are lots more where this came from!
Stealing IS a crime, right?
One of the web's greatest photographers, the Icelandic _rebekka, is having her photos ripped off and sold on ebay and elsewhere by http://www.only-dreemin.com . Companies need to know that posting a photo to the internet DOES NOT make it public domain! Let's shut them down!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Hack Lets You Access Pay Sites Free by Disguising Your Browser as GoogleBot
Many fee-based sites allow Google's bot free access in order to get their pages indexed. A simple hack tells the site you're visiting that you're the GoogleBot.
James Kim's Path. Google Earth Images showing James Kim's Path
A collection of Google Images that show the path James Kim on his quest to get help. The view from various vantage points shows the terrain and change in elevation he encountered.
Best Buy Secret Employee Only Website Shows Different Prices From Real Site
Have you ever found a deal at Best Buy's website only to travel to the store and find that the "sale" is over? Did the Best Buy employee show you "proof" on their "website"? It now seems that there are really TWO, separate websites — and they're identical except for the prices.
Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
Over the past weeks more and more Comcast users started to notice that their BitTorrent transfers were cut off. Most users report a significant decrease in download speeds, & even worse, they are unable to seed their downloads. A nightmare for people who want to keep up a positive ratio at private trackers and for the speed of BitTorrent transfers.
Unbelieveable Football Player's Name on ESPN.com
The title says it all. What were his parents thinking?
Man buys farm, finds vintage cars
ok, so imagine you live in portugal and your moving house. you find a lovely farm house set in a decent plot of land. the place has been empty for 15 years!whilst exploring your new property you find a large barn in the trees. the door is padlocked shut and its all rusted solid. so you grind the padlock open.........
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
I built a 535 ft. Slip 'n Slide
A Something Awful forum member gets drunk with his family and decides to build a really long Slip 'n Slide on the side of a hill. Bulldozer and front end loaders were used.
The Worst Hockey Play You Will Ever See
January 4th, 2007. The Stars lead the Oilers 5-4 with about 10 seconds left in third period. The Oilers have their goalie pulled and Dallas forward Patrick Stefan gets a clearcut breakaway from the blueline on an empty net. The rest is now hockey history.
The Most Shocking Ending in Sports History....
No. This is not from a movie. Yes. This really happened.
RIDICULOUS: Internet taxes could arrive by THIS autumn
The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful. Digg to oppose these anti-lower class and anti-economy proposals.
Just another beautiful Sunday for church....oh wait (pic)
Huh, that's weird. What's that in the clouds?
(VIDEO) Bill Gates Shows Off Microsoft's Touch Table
Billy Gates was on the Today Show this morning showing off his fancy new table. Want to see it in action rather than just in photos? Check the video for all sorts of goodness of it being used for all sorts of applications, such as playing with photos, wirelessly pulling photos off a camera, and ordering and paying for food using credit cards.
IsoHunt suspended by ISP
Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt about our lawsuit brought by the MPAA. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our ISP, or we get new hardware ready from another ISP (already working on that).
Beijing police pop up to warn internet users
Cartoon police officers are to appear in "pop-up" warnings on the internet every half hour to warn Chinese users that they must steer clear of unapproved websites.
New Features for Pownce !!
Upcoming Event Notifications, Inline Video Playback & Inline Image Previews , Display Your Social Networks & Links and New Preferences Settings
Leaked Images of new 3rd Gen iPod nano? (PICS)
We just got a couple of images sent to us from an anonymous source who claims that this is the new iPod nano that we can expect Steve Jobs to announce at the Apple Special Event taking place this Wednesday, September 5th.
Creative's credit card size media player reviewed
Creative's new Zen player may be small but it's packed with features. With a 16.7 million color 2.5" screen and support for xvid and divx, it will make a great pocket video player. It will even play AAC, making it easy for you to dump your iPod for something better!
The Linux Vault, "The Linux Wikipedia"
The Linux Vault is a new wiki project founded with the mission of creating a centralized GNU/Linux information website. It has been just created, so we are begging everybody to take part of it and make it the place for writing guides, HOW-TO's, configurations, administration tips, tricks, tweaks or whatever else related to the GNU/Linux system.
Hacker makes iPhone home screen scroll
From "lg", the same guy who brought you Installer.app, comes this new iPhone hack that lets you load as many icons as you want onto your iPhone home screen. It's still a little buggy but I have 32 applications loaded onto my screen right now and I can just flick my way to the one I want, even if the one I want is that baffling Magenta
iPhoneSIMfree begins fulfilling bulk orders, apparently will not unlock end
Are you ready for it? Looks like iPhoneSIMfree is. A number of tipsters have sent us emails that they've received announcing the availability of the elusive software unlock -- delivery on Tuesday, 4th of September. Good news right? Maybe, but here's the tell:
iPhoneSIMfree begins fulfilling bulk orders, apparently will not unlock end
Are you ready for it? Looks like iPhoneSIMfree is. A number of tipsters have sent us emails that they've received announcing the availability of the elusive software unlock -- delivery on Tuesday, 4th of September. Good news right? Maybe, but here's the tell:
The Müller Formula (or: Predictable Color Preferences)
More than half a century ago, Aemelius Müller, professor at the academy of Winterthur,
Microsoft to pay $179 million in Iowa antitrust settlement
Iowa's Polk County District Court Judge Scott Rosenberg approved the final $179 million dollar settlement between Microsoft this past Friday. The settlement itself was announced last April, but final approval had been withheld as the last details of the decision were worked out.
Storm worm" adds millions of computers to botnet
The storm worm has built a botnet of perhaps as many as 10 million PCs using a revolving strategy of current events and eye-grabbing "headlines" to lure victims into what may be the single largest operating botnet.
Brazil votes against Open XML
"The Brazilian organization in charge of technical standards has decided to vote "no, with conditions" to Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format during an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) meeting on Sunday."
Apple's 2007 Lobbying: Patent System Reform, Education Tax Breaks
Apple has spent $720,000 on lobbying the U.S. Federal Government thus-far in 2007. Topics of interest to Apple appear to be updating the U.S. patent system, and advocacy of bills to increase funding for technology in education and provide tax breaks for spending on R&D.
Five Facts About Google Phone
Is Google Phone fact or fiction? Engadget says Google’s entry into mobile phone business is for real, and the company is going to announce it soon. Scott Kirsner talked to a bunch of folks over who are intimately familiar with the effort and outlined his findings in an article for The Boston Globe.
Productivity enhancers for Thunderbird
As with Firefox, you can extend Thunderbird's functionality by installing extensions. Mozilla's official extension repository has quite a few nifty tools on offer, and which ones you choose to install depends entirely on your needs. There are, however, a few extensions that you might find indispensable no matter how you use Thunderbird.
Linux is inappropriate on XBOX Live
The word Linux is inappropriate according to XBOX Live. That's the message I got when I included the word "LINUX" in my motto on XBOX Live
MPAA says no to suing movie fans, yes to paying $15,000 for private e-mails
The MPAA is off the hook in a wiretapping case brough by TorrentSpy after it paid $15,000 for 34 pages of private TorrentSpy e-mails. Illegal? No. Shady? Like a hundred year old elm.
Monitor network traffic with ntop
Like the command-line tool with a similar name, ntop is a monitoring agent. Instead of monitoring system resource usage like top, ntop monitors network usage and provides some very sophisticated and informative data.
French blow for Microsoft's Office Open XML
"France has voted against the adoption of Microsoft's document format Office Open XML as an international standard, while Australia has decided to abstain."
“GadgetTrak” USB device tracking software
USB Drives can contain important information, such as personal details or business secrets. GadgetTrak have developed a software system that can be installed onto supported USB devices, which they claim provides a means of tracking those devices, in the event they are stolen or lost.
ISO Rejects OOXML as a Standard!
Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization.
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