Topic: COMPUTER - on August 17, 2007 at 9:31:00 PM CEST
......…Frank loves USB?
Instead of making a chicken dance around by typing in commands, this Frank's Cubicle website has you making Frank play with all his USB gear by clicking on links. It's interesting for a few minutes, especially when you see what he's been looking at with his Spyplane. Makes us wish we had a bunch of USB gadgets to play with ourselves.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 17, 2007 at 9:25:00 PM CEST
Pole positions
Men in Indonesia climb greased poles to retrieve prizes such as bicycles and rice cookers, as part of Friday's Independence Day celebrations.
Indonesia is celebrating the 62nd anniversary of its breakaway from Dutch colonial rule.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on August 17, 2007 at 9:21:00 PM CEST
The CD turns 25!
On August 17, 1982 at a factory outside Hanover, Germany the Compact Disc was born - and that means that the CD is celebrating it’s 25th birthday today! We got a nice press kit from Philips (inventors of the CD) and we’re sharing it with you guys inside.
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Topic: FUN - on August 17, 2007 at 9:10:00 PM CEST
The software awards scam
The software awards scam. I put out a new product a couple of weeks ago. This new product has so far won 16 different awards and recommendations from software download sites. Download it now from PC World!
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 17, 2007 at 9:09:00 PM CEST
Universities warned of Storm Worm attacks
Colleges and universities have come under attack by Storm Worm botnets following attempts to detect infections through vulnerability scanning, a response centre for academic networks stated last week.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 17, 2007 at 9:04:00 PM CEST
Some Skypers get reconnected, but most still offline
Some users, albeit far from a majority, are happily reporting they're now able to successfully reconnect to Skype following a problem which earlier this week floored the VoIP service.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 17, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
Google Gears
From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.
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Topic: VIDEO - on August 17, 2007 at 11:12:00 AM CEST
Illusions in your Brain
From “The Brain” episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy, here are a few neat optical illusions.
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Topic: Phone - on August 17, 2007 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Welcome to the Amazing iPhone Freak Show!
The old carnival freak show is dead and gone (or has at least moved to reality television and daytime talk shows). But in our hearts, we still long to gawk at the strange and the bizarre.
That's why iPhone culture is so entertaining. The hype around Apple's first cell phone -- sometimes generating enthusiasm bordering on insanity -- has produced some of the wackiest, nuttiest and, yes, freakiest news stories ever witnessed in the history of technology.
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Topic: FUN - on August 17, 2007 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Chipmunk swallowing a peanut!
This chipmunk managed to swallow a peanut, whole. I can’t believe its mouth is actually big enough to perform this act. Cute though!
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Topic: WEB - on August 17, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
Yahoo! Messenger! users! face! attack! by! video!
Yahoo Messenger users beware: Your mother was right when she told you not to chat with strangers. A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the widely-used chat program proves this was sound advice.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 17, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Skype Won't Comment on Major Outage
Skype is in the midst of a major outage affecting many users' ability to both log on to the network and send IMs. Beginning late yesterday, some Skypers were greeted with massive undelivered message notifications, and while some can now log in, they’re finding that the client is crashing fairly consistently.
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