November 12, 2007

Translation Widgets for Your Site

Both Microsoft and Google added widgets for translating your web page into another language. The feature was already available at BabelFish, but the site makes a major faux-pas by using flags to represent languages.

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Zune 80 Better Than iPod Classic? Bye Bye Monopoly!

Gizmodo summarized the first Zune 80 reviews from CNET, Wired, Dean Takahashi, PCWorld and YahooTech. Their verdicts? The cup has not yet been breeched, but Microsoft is making very solid improvements on the brand. And some think it blows away the iPod classic.

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Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire

Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees. After 5 years of kneading engineers’ backs, Ms. Brown retired, cashing in most of her stock options, which were worth millions.

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Is Google's Quantum Computer a Hoax?

A Google scientist will join a controversial demonstration of a claimed quantum computer on Monday–but scientists have their doubts.

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New bill would punish colleges, students who don't become copyright cops

Schools would be forced to police file-sharing activity on their networks and possibly offer subscriptions to music services under the proposed College Opportunity and Affordability Act. If they don't comply, their students would be cut off from all federal financial aid.

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14 Year Old BitTorrent Hacker Threatens to Sue What.cd Users

Users of OiNK-replacement What.cd, are receiving emails from what appears to be the RIAA. In it are threats that users must either stop their 'criminal acts of piracy' or have charges pressed against them. But is it the RIAA? Rival Waffles.fm? No, it's a 14 yr old script kiddie out for revenge, says What.cd

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Top 10 P2P File Sharing Softwares

List of file sharing softwares

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10 Amazing Steampunk Designs, Inventions and Mods [PICS and VIDS]

Have you ever wanted your own Steampunk guitar, scooter, computer or even treehouse? What started as a literary genre has since evolved into an art form with incredible real-life inventions, modifications and redesigns. Here is some of the best art of Steampunk, with everything from Star Trek and Star Wars spoofs to a Steampunked iPod!

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Some Maxtor Personal Storage 3200s shipped with virus

How convenient — your shiny new Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 may have came preloaded with a nasty virus right out of the box. That's right folks, you may not even need to open any suspicious emails or surf over to dodgy websites, as an undisclosed amount of drives produced by a company sub-contract manufacturer located in China were reporte

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Another Look at Wishlistr

One of the first reviews on Cn was Wishlistr. Wishlistr is a tool out of Sweden that helps you create wishlists (duh). Since we are fast approaching the holiday time, I thought it might be good to see what's new. Check out our initial review as well.

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