Archive for November 20, 2006

Microsoft’s Zune is Definately No iPod

The new Zune digital-media player may be an all-Microsoft production, but it feels like it came from two companies.

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Pirated Vista May be Useless

Microsoft says supposedly pirated copies of its new Vista computer operating system “will be of limited value” to those who use them.

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Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours

Written in a plain and clear format, this book is designed to help you learn the C programming language as quickly as possible.

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A closer look at AMD’s CPU/GPU Fusion

From one perspective, the idea of putting CPU and GPU hardware on the same piece of silicon might seem like a novel idea from nowhere, but the industry has been moving in this direction for some time.

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A closer look at AMD’s CPU/GPU Fusion

From one perspective, the idea of putting CPU and GPU hardware on the same piece of silicon might seem like a novel idea from nowhere, but the industry has been moving in this direction for some time.

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XBOX 360 vs. Playstation 3 - A Game Developer’s Perspective

We all have our favourites, whether it’s based on a game franchise or blind brand loyalty. But this senior game developer shares his thoughts on which console is the better buy today. This offers a unique perspective, and the answer may surprize you!

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Video: Burning Menus with Beryl

The menus appear to burn in and out. Very cool effect.

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Cool Free CSS Tab Designer

A software that generates cool looking Cross Browser CSS Tabs

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Novell puts MS code in OOo, calls it VBA support so Ballmer is ‘correct’

Correcting MS’ statements in retrospect, Novell has started adding MS code in their open source projects. Isn’t that a Trojan horse? All users of Novell products will eventually, legitimately be compelled to pay royalties to MS. VBA support was already being shipped with Ubuntu and Fedora, but not as a copy of MS code, why not just improve this one

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Playstation 3 & The Ladies of eBay

I noticed women of ebay posing provocatively — presumably to boost sales. How did this come about? In an effort to limit fraudulent listings, ebay is requiring PS3 and Wii sellers to photographs of receipts, user names, and consoles… So a few entrepreneurs must have recalled their Advertising 101 ’sex sells’ lesson. I took tons of screen grabs!

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