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Blindsided. Apple is beta testing a new piece of software called "Boot Camp" that will make it easier for you to run Windows on an Intel-based Mac, and apparently they plan on featuring it in the next version of OS X, Leopard. If you have an Intel Mac and a copy of Windows XP, Boot Camp makes it easy for you to create a partition on your hard drive for each operating system and gives you the

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For a $2500 flashlight, you might think the makers of the Flashcam might want a name that would fit a piece of technology as opposed to a pornography website. Not so apparently. Never-the-less, the Flashcam nearly compensates for its outrageous price tag with a gig of memory, audio/video capability, an LCD screen, infared, and a bright as hell "85000 candle power light." Cool, but not $2500

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The folks over at IGN are raving about Toshiba's new SED television technology, which they say will put LCD and plasma to shame. At first glance, the SED TVs look very similar to plasma/LCD technology. The form factor of the unit is slim and it look like it should be just as light. The picture quality, however, sets the SED technology apart from the rest. IGN reports a 10, 000:1 contrast ratio

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I have always been a fan of Fuji's digital cameras. They have good picture quality (in all but low-light situations), good design, and come at a decent price...if only they would give up those cursed xD memory cards. The V10 looks to be another Fuji I would love to have. And, like all cameras I say that about, right now it is only available in Asia (Korea). A quick look at the Fuji website shows

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OK, so I am a bit late on the Bloggie bandwagon this year, but it's never too late for a shameless plug. If you like Waiting for Response and it enriches your life with fascinating news and a touch of bitterness please go to the Bloggies site and vote for us (I am especially fond of the "Best Kept Secret" category). If you don't like the site, well that really hurts my feelings - vote for me

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"So what type of music do you listen to?" Ugh, what a dreaded question. If you have trouble defining what is in your iTunes library, check out the iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM). This tool analyzes your music collection, asks a few questions and then generates a short audio clip that attempts to summarize your music taste. Now, you don't have to let people know that you are a music snob, iTSM will

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I can't afford to give drunk uncle Jim a digital camera for Christmas this year, so maybe I will get him something he can actually operate (and believe me, he is a pro) - this camera-shaped flask. It even includes a funnel so you do not spill a precious drop. How's that for conservation?via Book of Joe

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This may be a bit of a diversion from the normal subject matter around here, but it is a worthy cause none-the-less. One of Carole King's reps emailed me about an Ebay auction they are doing for Mercy Corps, a charity that "exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities." You certainly can't go wrong with that. Also, my

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For those cases where being religious isn't as important as showing how religious you are, let me introduce to you the USB Digital Holy Bible Key Chain. Only suckers carry the Bible text on an ordinary secular USB drive. Get "The Complete And Beautiful King James Translation of The Holy Bible" on a bitchin' gold keychain for the low low price of $29.99. I wonder if the church still takes a 10%

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If you are a geek whose heart is as black as your makeup (or a necrophiliac), you should check out this coffin-shaped mouse. There is a downfall though - gamers need not apply. Straight from the manufacturers website, "Due to need for higher response times and resolution, it is not recommended for intense gaming requirements." Now tell me, besides gamers, who else is going to spend $120 on an

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ThinkSecret is reporting that the next version of the Mac mini may come equipped with a built-in DVR functionality. This seems to be the next logical step after Apple introduced Front Row in October. Add in the rumors of a built-in iPod dock, and you have one fine looking media center. If they keep the price point below $700 - and add these features - look for it to be a hot item. Also, look for

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If you play pool enough to justify spending $50 on a laser for your pool cue, hopefully you are good enough to know where you are going to hit the ball anyway. So who is stupid enough to still want one? That's right--I am.via Red Ferret

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FischerSpooner loves it and so should you! The Portable Telephone is an unholy marraige of cell phone technology and good old land-line design. Artist and phone hacker Tristan Perch created the phone to be fully functional. The gutted cell phone inside the casing allows the phone to both send and receive calls. The cool part, though, is the ringer. Tristan hooked the cell phone up to the "

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I have to admit, I loves me some Shuttle PCs. I know there are much more affordable, expandable options out there, but there is just something about the small form factor that gets my attention. Now, Shuttle is coming out with a media center PC, packaged standard with a 1.73 GHz Pentium M, a 250 GB hard drive and Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (if you are into that sort of thing). All this

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If you have an iPod nano but despise it because it gets more dates than you do, check out these felt nano cases (yes, felt). Dress your nano in your aunt Evelyn's fantastic taste in curtains--and die a little inside.via Shiny Shiny

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In response to Death Cab for Cutie's scathing commentary towards Sony laptops, Sony has boldly stated that their new F-series Vaios do NOT have a "lack of color here." OK, well that may not be the point of the song, but it certainly is the point for the F-series laptops. With the glut of alike laptops now filling the market, Sony has tried to take a page from Apple's book and introduce color to

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I saw this this Lifehacker a little while back, but for some reason waited until now to do it. New to the site's sidebar is a cool little Google Maps mod called gVisit. gVisit displays a Google map with the location of your website's visitors giving you a visual of whether your blog is city-wide or world-wide. So, go ahead and click the link that says "Last 20 Visitors" on the bottom of the

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If you have a Wi-FI network and leave your data naked (for shame!), it might be due to the price or know-how involved in enabling security. Well, today Google has you covered. Go download Google's free VPN (Virtual Private Network) and secure your network. This along with all of Google's side projects (Maps, Earth, Talk) are building a large loyal following for them. If they do indeed come

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I admit, there are times when Steve Jobs really annoys me. He can be uber-secretive, overzealous and sometimes even megalomaniacal (see the ThinkSecret lawsuit). However, most of the time I find myself impressed with his foresight and even (gasp!) common sense. He seems to find ways to connect with consumers where others just can't. Take the balancing act he seems to accomplish with iTunes.

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From Ubergizmo is a USA Today story on the Serenity Panel, a solar-powered video screen for tombstones. In the spirit of investigative journalism, I decided to check the merits of such a device against a comparable item. Unfortunately I was too lazy to walk to the graveyard up the street, so I had to settle for the Tombstone pizza that had been sitting in my freezer for a couple months.So,

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The iPod nano is certainly a hot little number. If I had one, I would probably softly caress it and whisper sweet nothings into its headphone input. I would never let any harm come to it. Which is why I am glad the crew at ArsTechnica did it for me. The stress test and later autopsy they performed on the nano was probably illegal in 13 states, but flippin' fantastic. For such a frail looking

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Is the XBox 360 going to launch on the busiest shopping day of the year? According to Playfeed, rumors indicate a November 25th release date for the system. I have often thought that Microsoft has a sadistic side, and this would only verify my suspicions. Forcing notoriously reclusive gamers into this much human interaction in order for them to score a console had to be someone's sick joke. I

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With Microsoft sitting on the fence between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, its looks as if the 360 will ship with a standard DVD drive. This means at least the first crop of 360 games will be on DVDs (and most likely all of them. I doubt even MS would alienate the early adapters if they decided to later add next-gen DVD support.) Apparently some game developers are now saying that because of this,

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Could the "Don't Be Evil" company become a soulless behemoth like Microsoft? That's what this article from the NY Times seems to postulate. It seems Google is hiring the best engineers and programmers available (how dare they!), and only leaving the "scraps" for other Silicon Valley companies. Although Google has become a bit more corporate after it went public (well, duh!), it still is the huge

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Because you haven't heard from me in a few days, I thought I might get all of you fine readers caught up on what exactly I have been doing.I have been doing some intern work for Treehugger for a few weeks now, helping to put together fine contests such as this (you should get something together and enter). Also it looks as if I will be contributing to RealTechNews in the near future. Fear not, I

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Anthony Williams, the Mayor of the District of Columbia is apparently hopping aboard the blog bandwagon. In my opinion, I can't see the careful, censored writing of a politician as ever becoming a popular or enjoyable read. If Marion Berry were still in office, though, this might be one of the best read blogs in existence.

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ArsTechnica has an interesting article on AJAX, the love child of DHTML and JavaScript. AJAX allows sites such as Google Maps and Flickr to forego the need for page refreshing in order to change information (think of the scrolling effect in Google Maps as opposed the the constant refreshing of Mapquest). With the success of these sites, I expect to see more and more either converting or coming

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Now that is the type of screen I like to see on the back of a digital camera! Sanyo's new 6-megapixel camera has the clean, uncluttered design that sets good cameras apart from mediocre ones. Most of the normal button functions you might find cluttering the backside of most cameras are handled on-screen. If this interface works, you could see lot of other companies doing this in the future.

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If the rumors are true, Google in the near future could have the capacity to start a Wi-Fi revolution. There are reports that Google is trying to amass itself a "nationwide high capacity data network." One particularly interesting theory is that Google could start a free Wi-Fi network funded by ads such as those that appear on the Google homepage and through AdSense (Google's advertising program)

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If you do a lot of 3D modeling, you know how frustrating it is to sit and wait for your model to render. Why not harness the power of multiple computers to do the job? Oh yeah, right.....that money thing. Well, what if you could build a render farm from your old and even (gasp!) found computers? Extremetech has a great in-depth article on how to do this step-by-step. Good luck, and happy trash

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I was gearing up to write about a small victory for Blu-ray in its next-gen DVD battle with HD DVD. Unfortunately I am getting more convinced as time goes on that small victories pre-release probably do not further either side much at all. Although, in my opinion, Blu-Ray is clearly the superior format, this battle probably will not be won via quality. The victor will be whichever format can get

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This box is for bananas: B-A-N-A-N-A-S.The Banana Box promises to keep your banana safe from any squishing and/or bruising that might occur in the transport of said banana. Also, the clever design erases any doubt as to what might be inside. As much as I want to say this is ridiculous, some small part of me wants one.via ShinyShiny

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The Register is reporting that Firefox lost market share in July for the first time since it was released. Most of the market share went back to Internet Explorer, who gained market share in the same period. Although the slip was not that significant (from 8.71 percent to 8.07), it does come as a shock for such a rapidly growing browser. A couple things strike me as odd here. First and foremost,

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ArsTechnica is reporting that Sony is considering pushing the PS3 back from mid-2006 to early 2007 depending on the strength of the XBox 360's release. Sony may be wandering into dangerous territory by giving the Microsoft marketing machine a full year's head start. All it will take is one "hit" on the 360 to make the console huge before Sony is even on the market. On the other hand, if the 360

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In a hurry? Impatient? Just feel like being rude? Here is something to try next time you step onto an elevator. Go directly to your floor. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.via BoingBoing

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Sometimes a "normal" phone ring isn't enough. No, I am not talking about ringtones here, you can hear a MIDI version of "Welcome to the Jungle" just about anywhere now. I am talking about something that can bring on stress-induced headache far faster than any simple ringtone could. This "telephone signaller" turns your house into a your own mini-rave every time your land line rings. With all of

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The new Dashboard feature of Tiger is nice, but sometimes I would rather just have the RAM it uses. I need every bit of performance I can muster up when working on memory-intensive programs such as Photoshop. That is why I found this tip so useful. It allows you to turn Dashboard on and off with ease. I just wish Apple would have allowed you to do this through the interface.via macosxhints

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I haven't really spoken about the plethora of information that has started to come forth about the new Windows operating system (now named Microsoft Vista, not Longhorn) for a few reasons. Among these are my total lack of enthusiasm for a new Microsoft operating system and the great availability of the information about it elsewhere online. However, ExtremeTech has a good write-up on the one side

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I have often talked about how much fun it would be if I ever had a child to dress him/her in outfits that would scar the child for life. Take this cute little baby shirt for instance. However, the iPod Baby is where I draw the line. At some point, inflicting serious emotion pain on your child stops being fun, and it is time for someone to call a social worker. I still haven't seen that point, but

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Mighty Mouse is indeed on the way. Apple has continued its dizzy spiral towards conformity and decided to release not just a two-button mouse (gasp!), but a mouse with right and left click, a scroll sphere (not a scroll wheel), and "force sensing" buttons on the each side to alert you of any Jedi intrusions into your home or place of business. Actually the "force sensing" side buttons are a

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With uber-megapixel cameras eating up more and more space with each picture, we have come across a need for ridiculously huge amounts of storage in the tiny tiny cards we use. Luckily, the industry seems to be keeping pace with our megapixel fetish by steadily increasing the available sizes in most formats, and in particular through SD. Hopefully, this 4 GB SD card will keep us occupied for a

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It's always a pain to manually track down all the album artwork you are missing in iTunes. That's why Fetch Art is such a great idea. Fetch Art will automatically download and add the album artwork for the songs in your iTunes library for you. If you have a color iPod, this is something you need.via LUX.ET.UMBRA

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The teastick is perfect for loose-leaf tea lovers who like to drink one cup at a time. Just scoop the tea with the teastick, close it and dip it in your mug of scalding hot water. It's looks to be just as convenient as teabags without the childish humor associated with them.via Lifehacker

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Samsung has struck a deal with XM to form a line MP3 players work double duty as MP3 players and satellite radio receivers. The best part about this may be the podcast-like support that Samsung is incorporating into these players. You will be able to record satellite radio programs for later play on the MP3 player.I am glad to see someone finally working to add innovative functions to MP3 players

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Konfabulator is now Yahoo(!) Widgets and free of charge. So if you have RAM to spare and do not have Tiger, check it out for both Mac and PC here. If you need a refresher on what Konfabulator is/does, check out this previous post.via ArsTechnica

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The internets are abuzz with speculation that a video iPod is finally on the way. Of course this type of rumor mill has been running full throttle before with little result, but this time the speculation has a little firmer ground to stand on. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is in talks with record labels to sell music videos through the iTunes music store and could unveil a new

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Following a modding theme for today, someone has posted instructions on how to place a regular old flash drive into a Lego brick. It doesn't look overly complicated or overly expensive, but it still looks super-cool. I wish I had thought of this first.via hack a day

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If you have an old Atari 2600 lying around, Make Magazine has a great suggestion on what to do with it: turn it into a PC. Unfortunately, you have to actually go out and buy the zine to get full instructions, but Make is one of the few magazines that is consistently worth the money, so stop being such a cheapskate a go get it already.via LostSinner

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The "Touch-Me" table is an admittedly very cool idea. I don't know if a bedside table that lights up would have a practical use, but for some reason that makes it all the more appealing. I only hope that in the future, they expand this into an entire line of inappropriately named furniture to include the "Grab-Me" loveseat and the "Are You Done Yet?" armoire.via MoCo LoCo

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Eco Ware is a series of bamboo-based biodegradable tableware. In addition, unlike most biodegradable tableware, it looks good enough to entertain with it. The best part is, after 5 years or so of use, Eco Ware can be safely buried in the earth next to that guy your parents "accidentally" ran over when you were a kid.via Inhabitat

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Engadget has great write-up on Peerflix, an online DVD swapping service. Instead of trading your DVDs in to your video store or selling them on eBay for a miniscule amount, you can now send a DVD of your own + $1.36 (for Peerflix fee and shipping)and, in return, receive that Glitter DVD you have had your eye on for quite some time. www.peerflix.com

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There is nothing quite like watching an extraordinarily violent movie in-flight to gage the reaction of those around you. This is why I am super excited about the upcoming releases of Sin City and Pulp Fiction UMDs for the PSP. You never know when the gray-haired grandmother quietly sitting next to you will put down her Reader's Digest and become a Tarantino fan.via I4U

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If this prototype OLED keyboard goes into production, in the words of Donald Trump, "It's gonna to be huge." The OLED keys are completely customizable and apparently are able to change based on the program they are being used in. The product website is in Russian, so I would suggest going to OhGizmo to check out some more info and pics. via Gizmodo via OhGizmo via Gearlive

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Lifehacker has a write-up on how to customize your finder in OS X with launch buttons for any program. You could put these in the dock to get the same effect; but you want to be special, don't you? Check it out here.

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When a massive power failure hits your area, create fun out of the chaos with this new stun gun/alarm/flashlight. Use the flashlight to find your friends in the dark and watch them cry with laughter (and immense pain) as you send 80,000 volts down their spines. As your friends try to regain control of their muscular functions, sound the 130db victory alarm to let them know that you are truly

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Wired has an article up on vlogging, or video blogging. Vlogging is supposed to be the natural evolution of podcasting, but I don't know if I am entirely buying it. First and foremost, vlogging sounds like a bizarre Swedish sexual act. Second, let's face it, the people who will first adopt this are not the ones you might want to see face to face (or face to computer screen as it may be).

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If you care in the least about ecological/environmental issues, this is going to make you fall into a downward spiral of depression. Give a small amount of information on how much you consume, where you live, and what type of transportation you use and it will tell you how many Earths it would take to sustain a population where everyone is as destructive as you are. Fun!via Lockergnome

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If you are running XP and want to tweak the performance by eliminating some automated Windows services, Extremetech has a good article on how to get rid of these mostly unnecessary services.

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There is a lot of buzz recently about a possible Motorola smartphone modeled after the RAZR with functions similar to that of a Blackberry titled the RAZRBerry. Get it? Anyway, if this pans out with all the features given here, Motorola might give the Treo a good fight. I am definitely keen on the design cues of the RAZR, and having both Bluetooth and EDGE are great. The only thing I do not

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I have a confession to make: until last week I did not have an iPod. I know, I know, heresy. I am glad that I waited, though. If I already had an iPod, there would be no reason for me to upgrade to a color screen. I could tell you about the new podcast support or battery life or a number of other features, but the real reason to upgrade your old iPod is the screen(unless you already have an

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Created solely for Smurfs and Vern Troyer, this hydrogen powered "car" can travel around the world using less electricity than a light bulb, and spewing not monoxide, but water as a byproduct. Though with a top speed of 30 mph, it might be best to stick to the country roads.via Treehugger

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OK.Look over to the right sidebar of the site.Scroll down just a little bit.Do you see the orange button that says "XML"?Click it.You now have Waiting for Response on your RSS reader.Please tell all of your friends and family to do the same.

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iPod Photo is dead. Long live iPod Photo!Well, it's not quite that dramatic, but after Apple's recent iPod updates, there will be no more iPods labeled iPod "Photo." Apple has finally decided to go full color on all full size iPods, making them all now photo-capable. Unfortunately this does not trickle down to the still monochrome iPod Minis and obviously not to the screenless iPod Shuffle

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The Supreme Court (a.k.a. the Supremes) brought file-sharing to a halting crash earlier this week. By shutting down Grokster they brought down the only viable file-sharing service on the "internets."The problem is, they didn't actually shut down P2P file sharing. The case simply said that Grokster is liable for its users violations because it promoted illegal file sharing. Not only that, it

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Ars Technica has a good write up of the recently released Konfabulator 2.0. If you are unfamiliar with Konfabulator, it is not an Arnold Schwarzenegger character (Ahnold!) but rather something you might actually want to look at. Konfabulator was the new Mac "Dashboard" before there was a "Dashboard." It uses "widgets" to display information such as weather, stocks, battery life, etc. to you from

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The NY Times is reporting that as sports video games have seen a boom in recent years, televised sports have seen a decrease in viewership from 13-34 year old males. This post from Ars Technica points to the increased realism of the games. I can buy this, but it might also have to do with the three and a half days it takes to watch a game. I can play three complete games of World Series Baseball

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This snippet over at Lifehacker shows a neat little trick on how to set whatever page you are currently viewing as your homepage simply by dragging and dropping the favicon (the icon next to the URL) to the "Home" button. Simple? Yes. Unnecessary? Probably. Glorious celebration of laziness? You bet!Tricks of the Trade via Lifehacker

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For the budding sustainable architect prodigy in your life comes a product sure to both get them excited about green technology and pummeled every day in the school yard (oh those were the days). The "Power House" is a model "green" house that includes sustainable attributes from solar panels to sauerkraut. Please keep this seemingly harmless educational tool far away from me: I can only see

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There is one thing I can tell you about this new phone from Samsung without hesitiation: it will never hit American shores. I can say this with a great degree of certainty because this is always the case whenever a phone makes me drool like this. Samsung's newest phone is a slender 5MP cameraphone with all the usual great features built in to most Korea-only phones: EV-DO support, memory card

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It is always surprising to see my dear city of Cincinnati follow a question such as: "What's hot today?" An article from the Cincinnati Enquirer concerning the launch of a public/private WiFi network here was summarized in Wi-Fi Net News last week, which I guess is "hot." It is set up on a sponsorship model where businesses sponsor particular hotspots and are given credit both through signage in

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Please don't think that this is turning into yet another Google blog, but it has been very hard to ignore them lately. Yesterday's Wall Street Journal (subscription) reported that Google may try to travel in Paypal territory by offering a web payment service. If one company right now has a name trusted enough to go against the well-earned reputation Paypal has achieved, it certainly is Google. I

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If you are anything like me, you probably wasted most of your promising childhood alone and indoors playing the original NES. Now, as an adult, you can revisit the hours wasted pointing a laser gun at your television as Duck Hunt is now online. Clay pigeons beware!via Real Tech News

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So I am out of the country for the week, and most likely will not have access to the "internets". I will be back updating next Monday, so please my dear readers (all 3 of you) don't shed a tear, it will be OK. It's only one week of withdrawal.

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OK, I think I may have to check this out - solar powered web-hosting "data centers." Right now, these are mostly small scale operations, so the overall energy impact is minimal. Hopefully these small companies can show the big boys how potentially profitable solar power can be. As solar technology gets better, and it becomes more available, we may see larger companies move into this territory and

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Everyone please welcome Microsoft into the tabbed browsing fold. It is amazing what can happen when Microsoft starts to get competion: they get off their duffs and try to look respectable. And if I may quote Death Cab for a second: "here's the kicker of this whole shebang:" you have to go download the MSN search bar for IE to get the option of tabs. It only goes to show that Microsoft is

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The newest virus craze sweeping the nation (and the world for that matter) attracts potential victims by purporting news of Michael Jackson's suicide and a providing a link to his suicide note. Oh silly people, that's not his life passing, but his career.Oh, and as usual this only affects Windows machines...Mac and Linux freaks, click away!via BBC Technology

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OK, so maybe not at all comparable to Shoeless Joe in the Black Socks scandal, but it seems to be a betrayal none-the-less: Apple and Intel are getting together (or as the kids now say "hooking up"). Oh Apple, I thought you and IBM had a good thing going. Did IBM not treat you right? Apparently IBM isn't man enough to serve Apple's needs.When it was announced that Apple would be using Intel chips

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Why does it feel like this should have been done two or three years ago? Coming soon to a PC near you (and possibly Mac...please Apple, it's OK to adopt this even if it is not your own) Wireless USB promises to replace all the Bluetooth compatible accessories you never bought. It looks as if it will have a range of at least 10 meters, and once I finally decide to figure out the metric system I

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As you may have noticed, I have been gone for a bit; but that only means that I have tons of stuff to tell all three or four of you about. I'm going to catch up on some interesting stuff, and hopefully get caught up to today's "news." And by "news" I probably mean more unsubstantiated rumors.

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Google seems to be adding some type of service just about every week or so now, and the latest is the Google homepage. It is nothing too revolutionary or groundbreaking, but it does what Google does best by taking a boatload of information and presenting simply and cleanly. You have a view of your G-Mail, news, weather, and movies all at once without clutter. It is very similar to many services

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Here's an interesing tidbit from my friend Dan at LostSinner.com about the upcoming consoles. He seems to think that the PS3 might be in trouble as well as also the new mini GBA (which I super-promise to write about very soon)."In case you haven't heard: Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have all come out with the specs on their new systems. It looks like Sony may trump Microsoft on a technical level

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Escaping from the technical and software aspects of the new consoles for a second, where have all the good designers gone?Microsoft, with its long tradition of pleasant design interfaces (ha!), really really tried hard on this one. After all, this machine is supposed to be a media hub, either carefully assimilating itself into your home electronics or completely setting itself apart to show how

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OK, I guess I have to say something about the release of the big two consoles and the one not-so big console (sorry Nintendo, we had some great times, but it's just not working out baby) just officially announced.It looks just from specs that the PS3 is going steal the graphics throne from Microsoft, and that, combined with Sony's clear software dominance, is going to make it hard to beat. As

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I really wish the death of AOL would go a little quicker; I am really sick of seeing those damn CDs that come with my subscription of Spin. Maybe I should just learn to enjoy things while they last. It is a small comfort to me to see them trying to throw every cheap service they can think of at the public in order to justify paying over $20 a month for dial-up.Anyway, The Register is reporting a

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Apparently, Atom Films and ABC News are offering movies for download specifically formatted for the PSP. I honestly am too excited for smugness here. I hope this trend of free content for the PSP continues and more content is formatted. Come on Homestar Runner!via I4U5/5 And now a video beatbox tutorial as well. Kick it!

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So this isn't anything to get excited about; in fact, it is pretty ugly. The real story here is why on earth you would name this line the SLAPPA Shockshell Case. Seriously, SLAPPA? You can keep a straight face while marketing this? If so, bravo...bravo indeed!via I4U

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So we are just over a week away from the announcements of XBox Xenon and the PS3 and already both systems are claiming superiority. Kotaku is claiming that an "inside source" is saying the PS3's computing capabilities will be up to 3x that of the Xbox's. This is coming on the heels of Big Willie Gates' proclamation that the next Xbox might be the one to overtake Sony in the lopsided "console wars

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Tiger Direct, the online hardware store and occasional infomercial, has sued Apple over the Apple's latest line of operating systems named after large cats, Tiger. Apparently you can copyright an entire subspecies of animals. In that case, I am totally copyrighting the platypus.via Ars Technica

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This is a really neat idea:Already out in Australia, and soon in the UK, the ROAMia is a recyclable video camera. It's nothing too fancy, but then again it's not supposed to be for about $40US. I would be so much happier about this if it wasn't so freaking ugly. As (I guess) a children's product that can be forgiven somewhat, but wow...it is ugly.via I4U

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Oh, England...first the Industrial Revolution, and now this: a concept PC that draws all the power it needs from an ethernet cord.Although it has some work to do to break into the desktop PC world (sacrifices have to be made in order for your desktop to draw less power, and we...well, we are not too good with sacrifices), it could have some niche cpu possibilities where wall socket power is

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If there is one thing that holds back my complete adulation for my Mac Mini, it is the difficulty of upgrading it. Mainly, whichever hard drive you get (40 or 80GB) is still not going to be enough for the massive amounts of software I would like to install. Enter MicroNet and their miniMate.The miniMate is a (up to 400GB!)hard drive/USB hub/Firewire hub for the Mac Mini that replicates the Mini's

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My third favorite type of tablet (behind Tylenol chew-tabs and the 10 commandments...praise the Lord!) is the tablet PC. Up until now, it has not been practical to go out and spend twice what you might spend on a "light and thin" laptop with twice the power of a tablet. Although the announcement of a seven inch tablet (sooooooo hooooottttttt) might not make it any more practical to buy one, it

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I don't know why I love scooters, but I do. It is the epitome of chic geek, I guess. Anyway, this one on Treehugger looks pretty damn cool. From what I understand (from my intense research consisting of reading the write-up on the site), not only does this new scooter look cool, it has better power and handling than previous scooters. For all of you muscle scooter fans, this one has your name

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Do you like creating music, but the keys on a keyboard are just too hard to figure out? Are you too "avant-garde" to create music yourself? Let hampsters make music for you!Hack A Day has a hampster controlled midi apparatus up. Imagine all the fun you and your friends will have until PETA finds out. Well, just no one tell PETA.via Hack A Day

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If you have ever tried to search for an apartment on Craigslist, you know the most frustrating part is sometimes not knowing exactly where the apartment is. You could actually call the listings or look up the addresses, but that would make you the type of person who does REAL legwork. If you want to take the lazy (or as I like to call it "efficient") approach try this.All Craigslist postings are

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The Mozilla store is having a 10% off sale for the next week or so. For all of you who are using Firefox, this is a great way to support the effort. For all of you who are still using IE, you obviously hate yourself. Go here http://www.mozilla.org to make it all better.Mozilla storehttp://www.mozillastore.com

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You know just how huge the PSP is (and is going to be) by the plethora of PSP hacks already out there. This is one of the best that I have found. Its not only very useful, its very easy.Instructions are here:http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=419642#419642

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Be on the lookout for 14 inch widescreen iBooks later this year, and 15 inch widescreen iBooks next year.So far, this is only speculation, but I would be very suprises if Apple did NOT do this.If they could keep the prices around what the iBooks sell for now, these could be very successful, and I might just have to buy one.via CNEThttp://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-5660146.html?part=rss&tag=

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Shocking news about the always trustworthy Windows operating system:As usual, someone went through great pains to mock-up both a somewhat convincing Microsoft email and linked website with promises of "Urgent Windows Updates". The real genius is that when downloaded, the virus acts exactly like any other Microsoft update, it brings your computer down in a blaze of glory.via the BBChttp://

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