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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Good show Danni

He may of lost but from what I heard on 6PR he did make some great moves, Anthony was suck a prick either in talking to Danni. Hope to grab the fottage tomorrow, I doubt a rematch but I hope to see Danni back in the game.

Sony Lost the plot.

A reporter from PC Mag, while snooping around at VAIO press event and saw "Blu-Ray Video" yet on ejecting the disc found normal DVD-R written on in Sharpies.

Not only does this ask the question is Blu-Ray even existent? But why is Sony supporting pirating of movies?

Sony is going down down down hill.

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Noob of the Week!

The winner of the Noob of the Week award is BBC for proving to the viewers that anyone can be an expert on Apple.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

It is here! :: Introducing Macbook

Finally after weeks of speculation posts, leaked pages Apple have delivered the most anticipated product! The Intel Core Duo powered MacBook, 13-inch screen and iSight! At $1800 Australian it is a bargain! I consider purchasing one down the track. Also available in Black!

I hope XP runs on this!

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Saturday, May 13, 2006

Widget blogging.

Here I am blogging with this cool little desktop Widget for the Yahoo Widget engine, maybe with this I will be blogging a lot more. http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=36585

Dumb Virus: "O RLY?" Virus Is On The Loose

"It tries to print the famous owl picture to network printers, RLY, it does."

The saddest attempt from a so called Virus writer who obviouly just learnt vB. This virus is just like a batch script that attempts to print to 40 different definied printer paths, so basically it only affects one organisation that it was written for. Wow some smart coder, its called looking through the Registry you tool.

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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Finally a good looking Myspace: First screenshots of AIM Pages, the "Myspace killer"

TechCrunch reveals a large screenshot from AIM Pages, AOL's upcoming social networking service. User pages will reside at aim.com/[username].

This is very smart, it looks good and has a great AJAX feel to it nothing like the MySpace pages. It shows your buddies and marks them if they on or offline with blogging, pictures, bookmarks, bio and liked stories. Plus it will pull your favourite audio from AOL Music.

I don't think it will catch on with the average teenager who likes to chuck any random HTML embed (and therefore make their content unqiue) onto the page but it could attract some users looking a space to express themselves simply and all in one place, with everything there.

I am hoping though they will offer a large range of customisations like CSS, HTML, images and maybe even some professional themes?

This is a revolution of social network with delicious, flickr, blogger and space technoloy chucked into one. I will join AOL just for this!

Another Web 2.0 bandwidth hog on its way!

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Monday, May 08, 2006

Valleywag: Journalism student claims MySpace success due to spammers

Looks like the "oh great" MySpace is not what is cracked up to be, nor was it created by "Tom" but by some people who were paid large amounts of cash to produce a product and make it sell. Funded by spammers and ex-cons: Tom and Chris were just poster boys for MySpace. Interesting read.

Sounds too good to be true, if they were being paid why did MySpace have so many exploits?

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Sunday, May 07, 2006

The wireless Xbox zombie controller hack

"Control your xbox controller mechanically with this cool mod." Wow, what a mess of cables. This mod allows you to control the Xbox controller from anything such as DS or PSP or a web browser. It uses a Linux box which sends/recieves signals via SSH from a cleverly scripted VB app.

Why you would want to this I am not sure, but a great use of Linux working in harmony.

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Friday, May 05, 2006

Musical ends, proper school begins.

Well it is all over, sadly, that is the Musical. 5 great shows from Sunday to Thursday, with late nights. Lighting was great fun to operate and the cast and crew were all pretty fun. It was all pretty tiring also with many late nights rigging or packing up late.

Can't wait till next year, hopefully with Moving Heads! But for this year the UVs and Hazer were cool.