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Now that DVD movie download services are taking off, with Apple, Amazon, and Wal-Mart all in the mix, Target complains that online DVD download services will hurt it’s retail store sales. Well, of course online DVD download services will hurt Target’s sales, if only because their competitors are providing a better variety of services than [...]

Not long after the rumors were flying regarding a potential YouTube buyout by Google, we have confirmation. Google now owns YouTube. The acquisition was made at a price of $1.65 billion in Google stock. Well, congratulations to YouTube on this deal. I guess now the video site will survive a bit longer after all. Now [...]

Well, we all knew that the name Dual Shock was out when Sony lost that lawsuit and subsequently made the announcement that the PS3 would not have rumble support in it’s controller. So now the controller will be called SIXAXIS instead of Dual Shock. The name was chosen because of the six degrees of freedom [...]

The Sony battery fire issue is fairly recent news to the masses. It only started to become well covered by the mass media in September. However, it turns out that Sony has known about the issue for a long time, since December in fact, when a Dell laptop fitted with one of them exploded. They [...]

One of the plugins I use for this blog is Jerome’s Keywords, which I’d highly recommend, as it’s an excellent tagging solution. One problem I have had with it though, is that it currently doesn’t always include the keywords in the RSS feed (it does for some people, and it doesn’t for others, so it [...]

The Nintendo Wii version of the Opera browser will be available free for download through the Wii’s shopping channel until June 2007. After that point, it can be purchased for a yet to be disclosed amount of Wii points. The Nintendo Wii version of Opera has the same support for web standards as the desktop [...]

Why someone hadn’t thought of this sooner, I’ll never know, but now it’s finally here. A webcomic about web 2.0. Geek and Poke (a play on the old BASIC system calls PEEK and POKE) makes fun of the latest happenings in web 2.0 culture, including the top social networking sites, the blogosphere, and the most [...]

This isn’t really big news, but still handy nevertheless, and I’m pretty sure I haven’t mentioned them on this site before. My Two Cents has this article on several solutions for running Windows on your Linux PC, including dual booting, emulation, full OS virtualization, and API virtualization (WINE).
Howto: Several ways to run Windows applications on [...]

As you may know, one of the key features introduced with the new 64 bit CPUs is the no execution (NX) bit, which is a very helpful tool in preventing buffer overflows. What you may not know is that in Windows XP, this bit is not necessarily enabled by default. The PC Doctor has a [...]

If you’ve ever wanted to explain RSS to your technophobic friends, this is an excellent resource for learning how to explain it in terms they can understand. Which is a good thing, because it will get them to read your blogs more regularly, and probably make them more productive in their daily web browsing.
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