Tired of all the respectable tech hacks (i.e. John C. Dvorak & Co.) making their typical end-of-year predictions we've decided to make nine predictions for 2009 from a users perspective. For starters we feel that Sun Microsystems is toast...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting
TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
Top 10 Biggest Bogus Tech Rumors of 2008
2008 may have been a down year for the economy, but it was a banner year for unfounded tech rumors. Here's a look back at the biggest bogus tech rumors of 2008.
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10 embarrassing moments in tech
Technology is sometimes a complex concept, such that it can lead to some embarrassing moments.Whether it's an infamous presentation that went awry, a product that shipped long before it should, or just a goofy marketing gaffe, these low points in tech serve as a good reminder: make sure your stuff works.
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Digg: New Twitter feeds!
Digg announces new Twitter feeds across several Digg topics, so you can get popular stories delivered right to Twitter. This provides another way to customize the types of stories you receive from Digg.
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PETA One-Ups Burger King, Releases Gore-Scented Body Spray
After last week’s flame-broiled blatant marketing ploy by Burger King, PETA has come up with their own: a meat-scented perfume that smells like rotting flesh.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Scientists discover new forest, species on Google Earth
Conservationists have found a host of new species after discovering uncharted new territory on the internet map Google Earth.
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
YouTube Unveils Unique View Counts
YouTube has just released a new feature for its analytics platform that allows content owners to see how many unique visitors are watching their videos.
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Burger King issues cease & desist through Twitter
User whoppervirgins should stop using that name. But the best part? "What is your motivation by the way?"
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The 15 Richest Fictional Characters According to Forbes
From crime fighters to crime lords, our annual listing of fiction's wealthiest is as diverse as its honorees' money-making ventures. This year's selections include a duck, a fairy thief and an oil tycoon from the Ozarks.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
34 Basic Tutorials To Get Started With Digital Photography
"Here’s a compilation of the best photography tips and tutorials found on the web. Starting with basics to make your first purchase, all the way to the inner workings of your camera."
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Hilarious Poker Ad - A Straight Flush Beats Four Queens
Cool Hand Poker offers a very unique lesson in poker hand rankings - a straight flush beats the stuffing out of four queens. If you want to win, know your hands, play at Cool Hand Online Poker.
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Blurred Out: 51 Things You Can't See on Google Maps
For all of the places that Google Maps allows you to see, there are plenty of places that are off-limits. Whether it's due to government restrictions, personal-privacy lawsuits or mistakes, Google Maps has slapped a "Prohibited" sign on the following 51 places.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The A to Z of 2008's Great Ideas
For the eighth year in a row, we have compiled an alphabetical digest of ideas, from A to Z that helped make the previous 12 months, for better or worse, what they were.
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The Top 10 Scandals of 2008
This was a particularly tumultuous year. A scandalous list of the individuals that notably contributed to the cultural maelstrom of 2008.
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NY Times' NSA Whistleblower Reveals Himself
It's been three years since The New York Times first broke the news of the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, based on information provided by an anonymous source.
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Officer Who Shoved Bicyclist Indicted Using YouTube Footage
The police officer who seemingly randomly picked a bicyclist out of a critical mass crowd to tackle has been indicted for falsifying records and could also soon be charged with misdemeanor assault.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Man sprays 'toilet-papering' teens with urine
WILLMAR, Minn. – A 50-year-old man who told authorities he was fed up with teens toilet-papering his house decided to defend his property — with a squirt gun filled with urine
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McCain Campaign Sells $20 Info-Loaded Blackberry to Reporter
Private information at bargain prices. It was a high-tech flub at the McCain-Palin campaign headquarters in Arlington when Fox 5’s Investigative Reporter Tisha Thompson bought a Blackberry device containing confidential campaign information. It started with a snippet we read that The McCain-Palin campaign was selling it's equipment at a discount.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis: The Bailout
Here is a visual guide to understanding how the bailout is funded and a couple of financial experts’ take on how it could be funded.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Google Announces 2008 Year-end Zeitgeist
As the year comes to a close, it's time to look at the big events, memorable moments and emerging trends that captivated us in 2008.
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'Dark Knight' Score is Now Officially Oscar Eligible
"The Dark Knight"The executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' music branch has reversed a decision on the original score from "The Dark Knight" and deemed it eligible for an Oscar in the best original score category. The branch initially ruled Nov. 10 that there were too many composers involved in the score.
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So My Dentist Sent Me This Innocent Email... Oh Wait
Well, actually the email wasn't sent to me, but this is funny regardless. Though, I can't say I blame him.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
A Gallery of 35 Humorous Halo 3 Screenshots
I love Halo 3 for many reasons, but one that flies under the radar most times is the ability to take screenshots incredibly easily. Hardly any games these days have that feature, and if they did, I’d be able to make hilarious galleries like this one for all of them.
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50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have
The highest echelon of geeks will be able to do everything in this list, and this is by no means a full categorization of the complete geek skillset – only what we consider to be the most indispensable abilities
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Monday, December 8, 2008
QVC Scam - Blogger is being sued for complaining!
Blogger Donn Edwards blogged about how he was scammed to attend a timeshare sales pitch and are now being sued by Quality Vacation Club for "loss of income". Here is a collection of blog posts regarding this issue.
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
"I Made A Fake Facebook And Had 100 Friends In 4 Days"
Facebook is by far one of the top social networking sites on the Internet, with millions of users, but how secure is it? Or rather how security conscious are the people that use it?
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Awesome Old Lady Goes Berserk Firing Guns in an Xbox Ad
Looks to be an audition for one of the early Xbox 360 commercials (the banned one with everyone play shooting each other). The old lady can't quite grasp the concept of shooting an imaginary gun...
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Kevin Rose's Top 10 Gifts For Geeks
It's that time of year, all of us are looking for great gift ideas. Here is my top ten gifts for geeks - happy holidays!
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Digg Bans Company That Blatantly Sells Diggs
Digg has sent a cease and desist to the company behind USocial.net, the website pictured above. Should we be surprised? The site is publicly advertising its service that lets you buy votes in mass quantity on Digg, Stumbleupon, and Propeller.
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Surgeon Does Amputation With Instructions Texted by Friend
A British surgeon has told how he performed a shocking amputation on a teenage boy in the Congo following instructions texted to him by a friend. "I had never done this operation before but I knew a colleague in London who had so I texted him. He sent me two very long text messages back explaining how to do the operation step by step."
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Teacher Sells Ads On Tests To Cover Printing Costs
Left to fend for himself after budget cuts, His tests cost over $500 a year to print, but this year he only got $316, one calculus teacher resorted to selling ads on quizzes and tests to cover his printing costs. $10 for quizzes, $20 for tests, and $30 for a final.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
The Simpsons mocks (m)Apple
Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening's long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery -- a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store...
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