Topic: MUSIK - on June 5, 2007 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
1,683 guitarists play 'Smoke on Water'
More than 1,680 guitar players turned out, tuned up and took part in what organizers say was a world record rendition of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" - a song that was the first many of them ever learned.
Some came from as far away as California and Germany on Sunday to take part in a Kansas City radio station's effort to break a Guinness world record for the most people playing the same song simultaneously. The record had been 1,323 people playing the same song in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994.
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Topic: Phone - on June 5, 2007 at 1:15:00 PM CEST
Brits Drop 850,000 Phones Down the Toilet - Each Year
If you've ever found yourself trying to fish your mobile out of the toilet, you're not alone. A staggering 855,000 handsets are flushed away every year in the UK - that's roughly £342 million we're 'loo'sing. Research by SimplySwitch, the price comparison and switching service, found 4.5m handsets are lost or damaged every year.
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Topic: FUN - on June 5, 2007 at 12:21:00 PM CEST
The product we all have been waiting for...
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Topic: NEWS - on June 5, 2007 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Platform International Animation Festival
I’m looking forward to this one. The Platform International Animation Festival is gearing up to be a rather interesting event, set to take place later on this month, from June 25-30 in Portland, Oregon.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 5, 2007 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
Sony price cut for Blu-ray player
Sony has cut $100 (£50) off the price of its new next-generation DVD player as it tries to get ahead in the market.
The BDP-S300 now costs $499 - half what the firm's first Blu-ray player cost at its launch six months ago.
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Topic: Free - on June 5, 2007 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?
I've been using Adobe products for years, and own several older versions of the products from their Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat Pro, and Dreamweaver. I'd like to teach some graphic design and web production skills to my coworkers in the marketing department, and realize that most of them can't afford $2500 to buy Adobe's premium suite and, frankly, shouldn't need to because there should be competitive products on the market. But I can't seem to locate software for graphic design and printing that outputs CMYK files that printing companies will accept. And I'm not familiar with any products that are better than FrontPage yet still easy to use for Web design. Any suggestions? Our company is notoriously frugal and would certainly entertain the idea of using open source products if we could implement them in a way that doesn't infringe upon our Microsoft-centric hegemony / daily work tasks in XP.
Photoshop -> Gimp [gimp.org]
Illustrator -> Inkscape [inkscape.org]
InDesign -> Scribus [scribus.net]
Web Design -> Kompozer [kompozer.net]
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Topic: WEB - on June 5, 2007 at 11:21:00 AM CEST
Firefox 3 Feature Preview
Firefox Alpha 5 arrived last Friday, bringing with it the first look at Places, the new bookmark management system. But the Firefox team has a number of additional UI tweaks up their sleeve and some of them look quite slick.
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Topic: WEB - on June 5, 2007 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
Flaws galore in IE and Firefox
Polish security researcher Michal Zalewski, known for his seemingly unending stream of browser vulnerability discoveries, has struck again. This time he's reported four flaws that are sure to get the attention of bug squashers in both Microsoft and Mozilla camps.
theregister.co.uk Full Disclosure: Assorted browser vulnerabilities
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