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The regular visitors to my website would have noticed the new website structure and design that I finally got together; to say that I am proud of my work would be understating the huge pride I have in my website. Humbleness aside, I have not been the only website to recently update it’s design: TheOpenSurgery…
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Would this work here, in a busy SA street? The UK is adding loud speakers to its public camera system to allow the watching controllers to tell people to stop misbehaving. I think the first few times would scare the person into stopping, but what if they don’t understand English? Or what if the person…
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If this story had been released yesterday I would have thought it was an April Fools joke. Today, Apple and EMI announced higher quality, DRM FREE music available for download from iTunes. (DRM music will still be available from EMI, but only in lower quality formats) This has got to be the biggest step towards…
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Goggle Mail has released Gmail paper, a button on your emails that you to request a paper copy of the document from Goggle. Google prints the document (with adverts printed on the back of the paper to accommodate costs) and posts the documents to you. So all those people that miss paper in today’s modern…
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YouTube have announced the winners of the first YouTube awards yesterday. Ask a Ninja Video Not surprisingly, Ask a Ninja came out tops in the Best Series category. Two other YouTube videos that I remember as being very good, but forgot about during voting time was Here it Goes Again in the most creative category,…
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For all the users using the personalized Google homepage, they now have the option to customize the background with a theme. It seems Google finally realized that people like to make things there own, even though the plain white background has been fine for most users for almost a decade now. My personal favorite out…
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YouTube announced the YouTube Video Awards yesterday. The video-sharing website is allowing viewers to vote for their favorite video based on seven categories. Maybe I should start making more videos. [Linked from BBC]
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Google makes big news two days running; on one side being sued for copyright infringement, and the second for assisting users privacy. Here is my breakdown of the two articles: Viacom sues, YouTube (and Google), for copyrighted video clips Viacom inc. (the owners of MTV and comedy Central) is suing YouTube (Google) for $1 billion, claiming copyright infringement. …
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The BBC has anounced a partnership with YouTube to provide two channels of short-form BBC content for the online video provider. A step in the right direction for YouTube, and for the BBC, I think.
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I have heard of people using scripts and key mapping to get the upper hand in games, not cheats, just little tools to give them that last little edge over their competitor or the game AI. This little trick on the other hand seems to be taking tools to a whole new level. US gamer…
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Bluesfear an art and web development community is attempting to design the “Longest Page on the Internet” using a worm graphic designed by its community. So to all the graphically inclined people out there, signup, make 50+ posts in their forums, and wait theÂÂ five (5)ÂÂ oddÂÂ months until your turn arrives in the queue to add your…
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Samsung Electronics announced on Friday that it has increased the data transfer speed of the world’s fastest graphics memory (GDDR4) by two-thirds. This means that the semiconductor, telecommunication and, digital media company, is again leading the way in manufacturing the fastest memory chips. Using 80-nanometer production technology, the 4Gb/s (2.0GHz) is 66 percent faster than today’s fastest commercially…
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Sony in an effort to get the award for most mistakes made in releasing a new product ever, is planning on releasing a slightly different version of its new console, the PS3, in Europe this March. The Euro version of the PS3 “will not play as many old games as American and Japanese models,” says…
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Net Neutrality is still a topic of discussion in the US, and I remember having trouble explaining the concept to co-workers and friends. This video (from savetheinternet.com) is the best explanation I have seen so far.
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If there weren’t enough comparisons online when deciding which next generation console you should buy, here is another one. Carl Nelson over at Hard Core Ware posted the results of a Power Consumption test the performed using the PS3, XBox 360 and the Wii. Looks like the Wii is the best, just remember that it’s graphics capabilities…
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Buzz out loud is one of the podcasts I listen to on a daily basis, it is one of the best computer tech podcasts on the Internet and Tom, Molly and Veronica, the hosts of the show, keep the show entertaining. This February, BOL had a photoshop contest to get the best Photoshop rendition of…
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Introducing the iPhone (this one from Apple), After the release of Linksys iPhone I was sure that Apple was either; not going to release a phone for sometime to come or not going to name it the iPhone. Turns out I was wrong on both accounts. Yesterday at Macworld Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced to the…
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Fun weekend, a little crazy, but generally all good. My engagement ring was finished sooner than expected, but this allowed me to surprise my girlfriend. Yip, I am officially engaged :), it’s actually a vey very good feeling; somehow i didn’t think I would feel any different, but it feels good. And due to some…
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Tom is at it again. My good friend is taking his wife and two young daughters overseas. Permanently! I’m not sure if the UK would be my first choice if I needed to choose a different country as home, but everyone to his own. He (Tom) has decided to document the process of getting the…
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I have just finished reading an article on CNET’s website about a person who is suing Apple for making a “defective product”, the person says the Apple iPod is defective because it can cause hearing loss if you play songs too loudly with the headphones in your ears… I think many things when I read…