May 4th: Fight Street harassment

post from Techie Diva's Guide to Gadgets on 04 May 2007 09:05:00 PM. © Techie Diva's Guide to Gadgets

Hollaback NYC declares May 4th as a Day of Action against street harrassment. Do your part to fight pervs by using your phone cam as a weapon. Don't let that sicko get away with it. Watch this CurrentTV clip to...

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Jessica Simpson Explains The Internet

post from Techie Diva's Guide to Gadgets on 04 May 2007 08:21:00 PM. © Techie Diva's Guide to Gadgets

What exactly is the Internet? Webopedia says: The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long...

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Radio controlled horse racing

post from Fosfor Gadgets on 04 May 2007 06:27:00 PM. © Fosfor Gadgets

When I first read about this gadget, I thought it was quite an odd product but when I watched the short video clip I changed my mind. It’s basically a horse racing track where you and a couple of friends race around using small radio controlled horses. The $100 set comes with 1 white and [...]

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Worlds biggest vending machine

post from Fosfor Gadgets on 04 May 2007 06:00:02 PM. © Fosfor Gadgets

Japan, the mother of vending machines, gives you the world’s biggest vending machine - or I guess a better description would be to call it an automated shop. Check out the article, it’s actually quite cool. The store is UNIQLO UT.Tokyo T-shirts [tokyotimes.org]via [Wired]Copyright © 2007 Fosfor Gadgets. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use [...]

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Vistas aero sucks laptop batteries

post from Fosfor Gadgets on 04 May 2007 05:52:36 PM. © Fosfor Gadgets

According to this article the battery drain when running Vista on a laptop is because of the Aero effect. I guess most laptop makers will put out some kind of power management scheme that will give you a better balance between battery life and performance.“When Aero is turned off, battery life is equal to or [...]

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Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit
for Surround Sound

post from I4U News on 04 May 2007 04:42:55 PM. © I4U News

Guys if you have wanted to set up your home theater system but have had a hard time passing the wife approval-o-meter thanks to the need to run wires around the room for the rear speakers, I have the solution. Rocketfish (Best Buy store brand) has a univer...

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BFG Announces Water Cooled NVIDIA 8800 Ultra

post from I4U News on 04 May 2007 04:26:18 PM. © I4U News

Today BFG Technologies is announcing two models of the flagship NVIDIA 8800 Ultra graphics cards. Both the cards have the same clock speeds and specifications with the one main difference being one card comes from the factory with a water cooling block ins...

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Guitar Hero 2 marketers should hire Ben

post from Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally on 04 May 2007 01:08:25 PM. © Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally

If you don’t know Ben, or that unbelievably good 8-year-old Guitar Hero 2 player (as I like to call him), watch this video (or view his channel and watch them all):Now I’ve improved my skills since the last time I tried playing, but just watching him play gives me some kind of stomach pain. I recall [...]

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The Real life 'Mouse' Mouse

the%20mouse%20mouse.jpg Proof that some people really do have too much time on their hands.

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DRM: We don't want it, and it looks like we don't
need it either

This week's events at Digg and the wildfire response across the Internet suggest there is a huge majority not in favour of Digital Rights Management. After all, who wants to be told how and when they can play a DVD or piece of music? We've all made copies of things and though it's not technically legal it's not really wrong... right?