Wednesday, November 30, 2005

A Game to make you cry

Dragging clouds through the sky. That's the most exciting activity you can do in Cloud, a new computer game where you play a young boy who flies through the air above a small group of islands.

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Monday, November 28, 2005

IPTVshows

A growing list of IPTV shows. It has lots of shows. The usual suspects and a lot more!

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Windows XP Crippling P2P Programs

Bit-torrent downloads seemingly slow? Windows XP SP2 limits half-open connections (SYN) to a maximum of 10 (the previous limit was over 65,000). This is supposed to slow down certain viruses because their spreading strategy is to try to connect to a high amount of random IP numbers.

Read how to detect the symptoms and fix the problem.

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Sunday, November 27, 2005

Mininova.org TV Torrents organized for you!

Basically a frontend for mininova.org. It organizes all the TV show torrents into different series with links to that episode database listings, newest show and much more. Check it out!

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Hundreds of Free Textbooks on one website

This is a collection of free textbooks from around the web. The site is non-commercial, easy to browse or search, and has links to hundreds of free books and educational sites in a variety of subjects. Users can leave reviews of the books in the registration-free comment fields.

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4GB DVD to 700mb AVI File Tutorial

Contains all necessary applications, directions, and steps. Step by step process. Even has a tutorial for adding subtitles. Very useful tutorial that really works.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

UPS & USPS Package tracking with an RSS feed

The christmas season is approaching and UPS will be delivering tons of packages. This page interfaces with the UPS system and turns their tracking data into an RSS feed. It also works with USPS. Worth a bookmark!

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Monday, November 21, 2005

Awesome Free Flight Sim

This is frickin awesome! Forget about X-plane and MS Flight Sim: FlightGear is a free flight simulator project. It is being developed through the gracious contributions of source code and spare time by many talented people from around the globe. That means FREE, people!
Version 0.9.9 is out now!

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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Keep Track of TV Torrents with TVTAD

"TVTAD is an RSS feed reader with support for unlimited feeds. It will automatically download newly released TV episodes that have been added to your favorites." It's free and It works with any BitTorrent client (like uTorrent).

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Saturday, November 12, 2005

How To Use AJAX

AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is very hot in the growing universe of Web development. While this new technology offers some great capabilities. This covers XML parsing and error handling.

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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Sony sued by State of California over DRM Root Kit

Well, Sony is on the hot plate now, sued by the state of California for having the DRM Root Kit. It seems that it violates several California laws. If this goes through, they may not be able to sell these CD's in California at all.

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First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted

Sony-BMG's rootkit DRM technology which masks files whose filenames start with "$sys$", has been taken advantage of. A newly-discovered variant of of the Breplibot Trojan is using the mask to hide the file "$sys$drv.exe" in the Windows system directory.

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Sony's Rootkit Saga continues.

Mark Russinovich talks about Sony not wanting you to uninstall there software. Great read

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Saturday, November 05, 2005

Fix your mom's computer with UltraVNC

If your mom is on Windows XP and having a computer problem, UltraVNC is an amazingly simple way to remotely administer her PC and fix problems while she is still logged-in. Check out this guide with screenshots.

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Thursday, November 03, 2005

FAA Flight Data + Little Creativity = Amazing Visualizations. (Gotta see!)

The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.

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