First of all, Woot has the Microsoft Zune 30GB Digital Media Player as their deal of the day today for $129.99 plus $5 shipping - not a bad deal. The last time they sold the Zune, they offered it for $149.99, so it's $20 bucks cheaper. That's not what this post is about though, it's about the product information to describe the Zune which is hilarious.
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Another Fun Friday is here again, and this week we're taking some help from the Ripley's Believe it or Not website where all of these pictures come from.
It seems as though there are some big fans of the Mac OS Leopard Dock that will be launching later this year with the new operating system. Well, they might be Leopard fans, but they're running Windows. :)
Picking up some batteries at the store can be quite discouraging because of the outrageously high prices that they can cost. As Lifehacker has been showing us lately things may not always be what they appear. Checkout what lies inside some of your everyday batteries:
It was just a couple of weeks ago that NBC announced that it didn't intend to renew their contract with iTunes once their current contract runs out in December. Some people thought the little argument between Apple and NBC would soon be over, and NBC shows would remain on iTunes come December. Unfortunately for iTunes users, there's no kissing and making up here.
Last night Digg launched several new changes to their site with the biggest change being new user profiles.
Google wants you to share the web sites that you come across or enjoy on the web with your friends which is why they've introduced "Shared Stuff." Using a bookmarklet that you drag up into your browser's bookmark bar, you'll be able to easily share any web page with one click.
We weren't exactly sure whether the next milestone in the Firefox 3 pre-release lifecycle was going to be an Alpha or a Beta, but we know now.
MediaDefender is a popular company who's goal is to thwart illegal file, music, and movie sharing. Their 60 employees and 2,000 servers are used to post fake files (that appear to be real) on the file sharing networks, and they can load corrupt data into the files being downloaded on the Kazaa network.
Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).
Seam carving (also known as content aware image resizing) has been the hit lately when it comes to photo editing. It all started with the presentation by Ariel Shamir who put together a nearly breathtaking demo. In it he showed how scaling images could be done without losing or distorting the important aspects of photos.
eBay is in the process of making some major changes to the look and feel of the site in hopes of bringing people back to buy and sell.
The YouTube comment system has got to be one of the worst forms of expressions that I've seen in a long time. YouTube has become a dumping ground for spammers and people who say just about anything and everything, regardless of whether it applies to the video's topic.
Microsoft has been good about keeping a tight leash on the information that's been made available for Mac Office 2008, but they've finally splurged and posted several video demonstrations of the new version in action.
Photobucket is one of the most popular photo and video sharing sites on the web, yet the process of uploading photos has always been pretty tedious because they haven't offered a bulk uploader. Until today, that is. That's right, Photobucket finally has a bulk uploader that will allow you to upload up to 100 images at a time.
You may remember an application called Yod'm that we wrote about back in March. It brought the famous 3D Linux virtual desktop manager over to the Windows side, but it was pretty rough around the edges.
So there a use for billboards after all! The fact of the matter is, billboard advertising is kind of "old-school" these days compared to the latest fad of web advertising. It's considered to be a more traditional method for advertising, but this hasn't stopped Google - King of advertising on the web, from using a billboard to promote their GOOG-411 service.
IBM has decided that it too wants to offer a free Office suite called Lotus Symphony, and after playing with it for just a short while I have to say that I'm very impressed with the route they have taken. For starters they are working off of the OpenOffice.org technology, which in its current state is leaps and bounds ahead of many Microsoft Office alternatives.
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