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Weddings (No Fool)
A year of weddings it seems… So far my life has had very few weddings, I have attended my parents church wedding (they were married by court originally), an uncles and a best friends. So for those of you counting I have attended 3 in my 26 years on this earth. Now within 30 days…
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Paperless office? Not with Gmail.
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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First YouTube Awards – Results
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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If only Linux was this cute.
Cute Linux in “I am an Apple, I am a PC” Parody Advert on YouTube
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360 gets beefed up
What was just a rumor yesterday has been confirmed, Microsoft will be releasing the XBOX 360 Elite version (but only in limited stock format ~100 000 units). So what makes the 360 Elite so special from its premium partner; well the 120 gigabyte hard drive (as opposed to the normal 20 gig), and the HDMI enabled…
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Google gives Backgrounds
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 Awards
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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darwinshome DNA
My websites DNA, using a cool tool found here
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Google on both sides
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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Il Divo in Johannesburg
Watching the Il Divo interview on Carte Blanche last night reminded me that I wanted to post about the their concert I attended a couple of weeks ago with my fiancé. Now that a couple of weeks have passed, I do not think I would do the group justice by writing a full review, suffice…
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Current Music: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down
Current Music: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down Hey girl you know you drive me crazyone look puts the rhythm in my hand.Still I’ll never understand why you hang aroundI see what’s going down. Cover up with make up in the mirrortell yourself it’s never gonna happen againyou cry alone and then he swears he…
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BBC YouTube Partnership
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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Auto Gamer
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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Largest graphics worm
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 the five (5) odd months until your turn arrives in the queue to add your…
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Samsung – fastest Graphics chip
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 not looking back
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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Still Confused?
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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Conspiracy Theory
I recently upgraded my blog, and started using WordPress for the new one. So to keep some sort of continuity between the old and new I reposted my initial views on the iPhone. Here is where the conspiracy comes in: In the post I included a copy of the actual iPhone, but in Internet Explorer…
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Next Gen Console Power Consumtions
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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