Original PS1 commercial

Quite a clever commercial for the PS1 in EU, when they were using the slogan 'Do Not Underestimate The Power Of The PlayStation.'
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Photos From The Vloggies Video Blog Awards Ceremony

Photos from last night's Vloggies, a video blog awards event in San Francisco produced by PodTech and hosted by Irina Slutsky and Daniel McVicar. Top honors went to the amazing Alive In Baghdad video blog.
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Tracking Traffic Jams With Cell Phones

kaufmanmoore writes,
"Companies and governments are looking to alternatives to expensive radars and road sensors to track traffic jams. Two Atlanta-based companies are aiming to use data from wireless carriers to mark how fast phones are moving and overlaying that with maps to calculate traffic conditions. One of the companies, AirStage, has already partnered with Sprint-Nextel and the Georgia DOT to cover Atlanta's notorious traffic. The plans raise obvious privacy concerns over the usage of the data of your cell phone's location and the accuracy of this data."
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Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications. Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the issuing of the most complete articulation yet of what exactly Web 2.0 is, something which the industry has frequently struggled with.

Written primarily by John Musser (of the terrific Programmable Web site) along with support from Tim O'Reilly and the O'Reilly Radar Team, the new 100 page report — titled Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices — was published late last week and is available immediately. As most readers here know, O'Reilly Media originally introduced the term in 2004 and followed it up in 2005 with a widely read seminal five page essay that attempted to describe the successful design patterns and business models emerging on the Web today. This new report, probably not given as much fanfare as the original essay due to it being a commercial report, is significant improvement on the articulation of Web 2.0 in a number of ways.
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100 Oldest Domain Names

A list of the 100 oldest dot-com domain names. With the oldest one dating back to March of 1985!
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In-Game Unreal Tournament 2007 footage!

While the graphics updates are no surprise, apparently by the footage they're will be some interesting new addtions such as hoverboards (racing) "War of the Worlds" style walkers and tanks the size of goddanm buildings!
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The Full "Hacking Democracy" HBO Special on Voting Machines

Watch via Google Video.
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N64 Goldeneye 007 Level Editor!

I don't know about you, but I think Goldeneye 007 has to be the best multiplayer game of all time. Now we can re-live the enjoyment with brand new maps and missions. Edit both single and multiplayer maps, as well as create new objectives. Check the site for in-depth possibilities.
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GoogleTorrents.com ... search for torrents using google

A new torrent search engine using Google's Custom Search Engine.
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How to Hack a Tiger Admin Account

Here is exactly how to hack a Tiger Admin account and not get caught. Have fun.
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How To Compile A Kernel - The Ubuntu Way

Each distribution has some specific tools to build a custom kernel from the sources. This article is about compiling a kernel on Ubuntu systems. It describes how to build a custom kernel using the latest unmodified kernel sources from www.kernel.org (vanilla kernel) so that you are independent from the kernels supplied by your distribution.
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WOW on three screens, this is Amazing!

World of Warcraft being played across three screens the panorama is truly astounding.
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Hands-On with 'The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess' - Kotaku

I play Twilight Princess for about nine hours total, but due to press embargoes, I can only talk about the first four or so. Nintendo claims testers took 70 hours to play through the game. This article isn't about plotline or character development. I relay the experience of playing and answer all those questions of Wiimote mechanics.
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Gizmodo: Hands on with the Nintendo Wii

"I spent 2 days this week at Nintendo of America headquarters playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Nintendo Wii."
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Republican Fires Employee For Confirming that He Violated Ethics Rules

A reporter uncovered documents showing that Republican Congressman Tim Murphy (R - PA) violated Congressional ethics rules by having members of his Congressional staff work on his re-election campaign. A member of Murphy's staff was questioned by a reporter and confirmed his ethics breaches. Murphy reacted by firing the employee.
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Using the Digg API in PHP

Tutorial on using the unreleased Digg API to retrieve and display stories from Digg, using PHP. Includes example code and explanations. Bring on the third-party apps!
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Google Pledges Annual Donation to Samba

The Samba Team is delighted to announce that Google has committed to providing the Samba project with an annual donation of US $20,000.00.
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EA predicts Sony will miss PS3 year-end shipment numbers

If you haven't managed to procure a good, solid pre-order yet from a credible retailer, you just might want to take a good hard look at those unboxing pics we shared last night, 'cause it could very well be as close as you're getting to a PlayStation 3 in 2006.
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Hacking the Free "La Fonera" Wireless Router

wertarbyte writes:
"FON is still giving away their wireless routers for free in Germany and Austria until Wednesday — under the premise that the devices will be connected and used as FON access points. The router, called 'La Fonera,' is a variant of OpenWRT, but locked down to prevent modification, including a signed firmware image to prevent the upload of new software. It is, however, possible to get shell access by connecting to a serial port present on the circuit board. And now two students from Germany have discovered vulnerabilities in the CGI scripts used to configure the device, and successfully activated an SSH daemon on the device by exploiting them, giving owners a root shell on their router. They also provide a detailed description of the procedure and 'ready-to-use' perl scripts to open up your router."
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NHL replaces NBA on Google Video

Although there has been no official word from either party, people have started talking about the NBA removing their videos from Google Video. This happened on or around the same time the NHL decided to put current and historic games online free for two weeks.
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Daylight Savings Extended for 2007

DST extended for 2007 to save energy. Adding this extra time will shave 3 billion killowatt hours off of the United States' power bill.
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Customizing your Mac OS X experience

Comprehensive write-up on how to customize your Mac OS X experience. Themes, apps, menubar apps you may never heard of.
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Nano-optical switches to restore sight?

Californian researchers are now using light to control biological nanomolecules and proteins. They think it can help them to develop treatments for eye diseases, such as the loss of the light detectors in the retina which is a major cause of blindness. So they envision to put some of their nano-photoswitches in the cells of the retina, 'restoring light sensitivity in people with degenerative blindness such as macular degeneration.' It will be a long time before this comes out of the lab, but...
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Woz highlights celebration of Apple's history

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--If there's one machine that more than other shaped the future of the computer business, it almost surely is the Apple I.

And what do you get when you bring together four of the team,--including Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak--behind that groundbreaking computer? A lovefest.

That's what was on display Saturday at the Computer History Museum here as several hundred longtime Silicon Valley veterans and youngsters alike showed up for a panel discussion called "Apple in the Garage" celebrating Apple's 30th anniversary.
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Blue Man Group show has a text message for you

reporter's notebook: SAN JOSE, Calif.--I'm sitting front and center of an arena here that's crammed with 10,000 screaming Blue Man Group fans and were witnessing an odd dichotomy: The show we're watching is both a celebration and a repudiation of technology.

This is "How to be a Megastar," Blue Man Group's second touring rock 'n' roll show and one that is based on its previous tour in 2003. This is a show where fans are not only permitted to use their cell phones to snap pictures of the performance, they're actually encouraged to do so.
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Change UK copyright to legalize iPods

The Institute for Public Policy Research, a UK think tank, has released a report on the deplorable state of British copyright law, where it is still illegal to rip your CDs and put them on your iPod. Britain is seriously considering extending the term of copyright on sound recordings by 45 years, to a whopping 95 years -- and not just for new recordings, but retroactively. Nearly all the 50-year-old sound recordings ever made are out of print. Locking them away for 45 more years creates the very real possibility that every known copy of these recordings will expire before their copyright does. Adding another 45 years to these old records can't possibly provide an incentive to make new recordings -- Elvis Presley isn't going back into the studio, not even if you gave him a million years' worth of copyright.
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BenQ Unveils Vista-Approved LCD Monitors

BenQ unveiled some new flat-panel monitors Thursday that have been qualified to work with Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system.

Two of the monitors, due out in early December, have received Microsoft's Works with Windows Vista logo. A third, due out by the end of this month, is expected to be awarded Windows Vista Premium Certification, BenQ said.
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IPTV/VoD: The world that's on its way

Industry comment: One of the most common questions operators and analysts are asked is whether IPTV will happen, and if it does, whether if will deliver its promise.

The answer is probably not one you'd expect. It already has happened, and is already delivering. IP and internet technologies may not turn up on our doorstep or down our aerial socket tomorrow morning, but the key point to remember is that in 20 years it will be the dominant method of broadcasting.

The secret is in seeing the bigger picture. Rupert Murdoch infamously declared recently that market entrants need to operate in the mass market or in niche segments, or else they would be someone’s lunch in the middle ground.
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New Mac "virus" is proof of concept that hysteria sells anti-virus software

Mary E Tyler rants about the media coverage the new Mac virus OSX.Macarena has been getting. It's as though the entire world has come to a stand still. THERES ANOTHER MAC VIRUS! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
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Hands On: Apple iPod Shuffle

No question about it: Apple's new iPod Shuffle is minuscule: It's smaller than a matchbook, slimmer than a microcassette, and light enough that you could clip it on your shirt and not even stretch the fabric. In my first hands-on experience with the updated Shuffle, I found it a worthy player for the price--provided that you'll be happy with limited controls and capacity.
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10 Very Useful Mac OS X Utilities

A nice list of 10 useful Mac OS X Utilities, including short descriptions and links to download.
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Optimizing your Mac's work space

"Yes, I have seen people using all the screen space in their 17-inch MacBook Pro just for browsing or worse: just for Word. There ’s no way these apps require that kind of space for using them."
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New Zero-Day Vulnerability In Windows

Jimmy T writes: "Microsoft and Secunia are warning about the discovery of a new 'Zero-day' vulnerability affecting all Microsoft based operating systems except Windows 2003. Both companies states that the vulnerability is currently being exploited by malicious websites. One attack vector is through Internet Explorer 6/7 — so be aware where you surf to."
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Wikipedia and Plagiarism

Spo22a writes: "Daniel Brandt found the examples of suspected plagiarism at Wikipedia using a program he created to run a few sentences from about 12,000 articles against Google Inc.'s search engine. He removed matches in which another site appeared to be copying from Wikipedia, rather than the other way around, and examples in which material is in the public domain and was properly attributed. Brandt ended with a list of 142 articles, which he brought to Wikipedia's attention. . . . ."They present it as an encyclopedia," Brandt said Friday. "They go around claiming it's almost as good as Britannica. They are trying to be mainstream respectable.""
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Samsung Elec Sees Possible LCD Shortage in 2007

SEOUL (Reuters)—Samsung Electronics said the global LCD market would be difficult in the first half of 2007 due to seasonal factors, but predicted strong growth in demand and even a possible shortage in the second half.

"The first quarter is likely to be a little difficult, but afterwards, an increase in demand should mean we will not experience too many difficulties," Lee Sang-wan, president of Samsung's LCD business, said during a press conference on Friday at the company's sprawling Tangjeong complex about 100 kms south of Seoul.

"Actually, there is even the possibility of a shortage in the second half," he said in his remarks, which were embargoed until Sunday. He did not elaborate.
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DropSend For Sale: Flock Is Looking

DropSend, a file sharing application that is similar to the king of the space, YouSendIt, announced itself for sale today. The creator, Carson Systems, says that the site is profitable and growing, but that they don’t have enough time to focus on the service.

In a follow up post a few hours later Ryan Carson wrote that a number of people were already interested in buying the product, including Flock. I wonder how Flock feels about this disclosure.
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Checking Out Weebly’s Ajax Site Creator

I have to give credit to Weebly, which is turning into one of the best simple site creation tools on the Internet. When we first heard about them a couple of months ago all I saw was another buggy Ajax website creator. What we really wanted to see was something better than the existing tools - Google Page Creator, Sitekreator and Synthasite.

We’ve taken another look over the last few days, and Weebly has come a long way in those two months.
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Which Smartphone is For You?

The CrunchGear team published a very detailed comparison of the major Smartphone choices to help first time buyers make the right choice. This is the first of many product comparison research posts that the team is working on.
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South Korea pushes mobile speeds

South Korea is well known as a nation of broadband addicts and soon the speeds people enjoy at home will be available while they are out and about.

In Seoul a technology with the formidable name of High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is behind this boost to wireless speeds. It piggybacks on the 3G cellular networks, but HDSPA has been especially tweaked to give speeds which are about three to four times faster than regular 3G.

In South Korea it is in much wider use than most other places, and consequently it is one of the first places in the world where people are actually beginning to use it.

But the Koreans do not rest on their laurels, they have other technologies in their sights for high-speed mobile broadband.
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Is Google’s multi-billion dollar free ride over?

It is a $144 billion (market cap) irony that a media company which derives all of its revenues from selling ads against others’ content garners headlines for weighing compensation to content owners for the right to exploit their content.
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