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Acoustic Band ‘Utterly Depends’ on Piracy
Steve Knightley is one half of ‘Show of Hands’, an award-winning acoustic and folk duo from the UK. Steve says he is thankful to the people that pirate the band’s music and go out of their way to promote the band. In fact, he says the band utterly depends on them.
Mac Cloner Says Apple Software Rules Anticompetitive
Attorneys for embattled computer maker Psystar Ltd. on Tuesday alleged the rules for buying Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) Macintosh operating system software involve "anticompetitive tactics."
10 Fundamental Differences Between Linux and Windows
I have been around the Linux community for more than 10 years now. From the very beginning, I have known that there are basic differences between Linux and Windows that will always set them apart. This is not, in the least, to say one is better than the other. It’s just to say that they are fundamentally different.
Resellers Getting Signals for a Wide Range of Apple Updates?
While rumors have focused on iPod Nano and iPod Touch updates as early as September 9th, the fate of the MacBook Pros and other updates have been less clear. It appears, however, that Apple could be prepping for a wide range of product updates, with signals to at least some resellers to halt resupplies of some products.
Upcoming iPhone Game Pads To Enhance Gameplay Tenfold
TouchArcade has found evidence of two upcoming iPhone control pads that add, at the very least, an SNES amount of buttons to the iPhone.
Wikipedia Comes to the iPhone
Wikipedia Comes to the iPhone with Wikipanion. Hurray!
Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits
Next year's 10.6 reference release of Mac OS X promises to deliver technology updates throughout the system without focusing on the customer-facing marketing features that typically sell a new operating system. Here's a look at what those behind-the-scenes enhancements will mean to you, starting with new 64-bit support.
100 Best and Top Classic Website of 2008
An awesome list of some of the best and most noteworthy sites
10 Principles of the CSS Masters
When it comes to CSS, there are lots of resources and supposed "expert tips" on the web. These are from unproven, self-proclaimed "gurus" who have no street cred in the design world. While they may have valid points, how is one to know whether a CSS tip is a valid resource or just an untested hack?
Why Apple should release a touch-screen Mac
Apple is one of the major leaders in the multitouch space and yet, the company's desire to bring a full-fledged touch-screen device to store shelves has stopped with the iPhone. In fact, the most it has done in bringing multitouch to its computers is offering the functionality in the track pad on its MacBook Air.
Alleged UK Pirates Offered Free Legal Representation
Over the last year, UK residents accused of sharing games like Dream Pinball have been threatened by lawyers Davenport Lyons. Stuck in a trap of not having enough money to defend themselves, many choose to pay compensation demands - guilty or not - fearful of a much bigger punishment if things go bad.
24 Core, 48GB Linux Render Cluster built inside IKEA Cabinet
This amazing Linux Cluster consists of 6 Intel Core 2 Quad(2.4GHZ) Processors, 48GB of RAM spread across 6 GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R Micro ATX motherboards and put inside an IKEA Helmer cabinet, WHY YOU ASK? 3D computer rendering is very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up slow render problems, are usually to distribute them on to more computers
Facebook Hits 100 Million Users
Fast growing social network Facebook has hit the 100 million users mark, according to a statement today by Dave Morin, the company's Senior Platform Manager.
30 Free High-Quality Wordpress Themes
In this article we present over 30 fresh free high-quality WordPress themes. All themes can be downloaded, customized and used for free — in personal or/and commercial projects. Please read license disclaimers carefully before using the theme in commercial projects — they can change from time to time.
Shapeways Allows Materializes Any 3D Object, Star Trek Style
Imagine being able to create any 3D object you want—a World of Warcraft avatar, a chess set, a lamp, a Lego piece you are missing, a house for a train model, or a fully articulated astromech droid—, print it remotely, and have it delivered to your house in just ten days, even without knowing any 3D software. This is exactly what Shapeways does.
Dev Team Releases PwnageTool 2.0.3 Jailbreaks Latest 2.0.2FW
If you are the iPhone jailbreaking type, then you might want to know that Pwnage Tool from the iPhone Dev Team has been updated to version 2.0.3.
Human exoskeleton suit helps paralyzed people walk
By Ari Rabinovitch HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - paralyzed for the past 20 years, former Israeli paratrooper Radi Kaiof now walks down the street with a dim mechanical hum. That is the sound of an electronic exoskeleton moving the 41-year-old's legs...
Cloud computing: A catchphrase in Puberty
Fail and You... It's been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, but they all mean the same shit: Renting your quickly depreciating physical assets out because your software company is out of ideas for computer programs.
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