Google Maps Blog

This is an interesting blog dedicated to Google maps. Tons of maps, some interesting some not so interesting. Check it out here.

Pong Turns 34

Pong is now 34 years old!



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Article here.

Stream Almost Anything Using VLC

Here's a nice article on how VLC can be used to stream damn near anything you wanna stream.

Symantec Discontinues Sygate Firewall

Check out theInquirer article here.

Firefox 1.5

Firefox 1.5 is out. Get it here.

Classic Games - Online And Free

Just what the title says. Tons of classic games from the 1980s.

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Check them out here.

Xbox 360 - Crashing Tests

Xbox-Scene has a good article up about Xbox 360s crashing like a mofo. It can be viewed here.

On another note, a great review of the Xbox 360 (via HardOCP) can be viewed here.

I think its safe to say that unless you won your Xbox 360 (Sean - :P) that you should probably hold in buying one until the bugs are either isolated or ironed out in a subsequent release.

Ripping DVDs To Avi Files

Here's a nice guide detailing how to Rip a DVD (movie) to a 700MB .avi file.

Originally found on Digg. The original post can be viewed here. Theres some additional tools and suggestions in the comments that may be useful as well.

DownloadGoogleVideos.com

This site is pretty neat. It will allow you to search for and download Google Videos. Even more interesting is that you can add the video to your website with an easy copy and paste code box.

Nice.

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Check it out here.

500 Colors

For anyone doing web design, this is a very handy site that displays and gives values for over 500 colors.

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Check it out here.

Top 10 Hacks

DAN evolution has a nice list of the top 10 hacks of all time.

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Check out the list here.

tvtorrent.info

Lotsa tv torrents.

Game Magazine Scans From the 80s

Here's a Flickr group of Game Magazine scans from the 80s. It really amazing to see how far videa' games have come in such a relatively short time frame.



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Check it out here.

TextBook Revolution

Tons of free textbooks.

eMule And D-Link Routers

This isn't really fresh news or anything, but its new to me. I've been using a wireless D-Link router i picked up on the cheap from futureshop for a while now. The router works fine, the interface is really nice, but i kept having issues with KAD saying it was firewalled when I would use eMule.

I finally cracked tonight and decided to Google it and see why KAD kept saying it was firewalled. Within the first few results D-Link routers kept coming up. I still have my old Linksys router so I hooked it up, reconfigured my network and low and behold, KAD is now connected sans firewalled message. My eMule download speeds have shot up by about three times what they were.

I guess this is just an FYI for anyone that can't get KAD to connect properly and is using a D-Link router, the issue just might be hardware. It was in my case anyway.

EvilLyrics

I just found this on Digg and it fucking rocks.

EvilLyrics can sync itself up with Winamp (and a ton of other players) and automatically fetch lyrics for the song thats playing. I have an HSI connection and it gets the lyrics pretty much isntantaniously. You have to modify the name tag settings in Winamp (but the application can do this automatically when you install it) for it to work but godamn its worth it.

I finally know what Jello is saying. Go DK go!



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EvilLyrics homepage.

Download (I can't figure out how to get the "stable" release, so i'm linking to a beta file, but i installed it and its working fine.)