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RSS Digest #104

RSS Digest for Thursday, July 9th, 2009:

Rumor: Windows 7 Family Pack Will Offer Three Licenses for $137 [Windows 7]
How Much Computer Memory Does Windows Need?
Facebook, MySpace: A race/class divide?
Apple Pushes Snow Leopard Build 10A402 to Developers
HP Mini 110 netbook gets 1366 x 768 display option
VMware’s CEO says x86 is junk silicon, not good for mobile
Quicken for Mac lives—and is coming in February of 2010
Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot Walks Runs on His Hands, Smashes Aibos to Bits [Robots
OCZ's Sabre OLED gaming keyboard now shipping, priced at $135
Review: Yamaha PDX-30 Portable Player Dock for iPhone
US Seeks Volunteers To Review Broadband Grant Applications
Report: demand for Macs, iPhones on the rise
Netflix to stream movies to Sony Bravia TVs - BusinessWeek
Will the stars align for space-based solar power?
The problem with Qik and the App Store: will Apple gamble away the iPhone’s coolest-ever killer app?
Sprint Will Pay Ericsson $5B to Run Its Network
Starbucks offers free ice cream through Facebook
When It Comes to Links, Color Matters
Review: iASUS Concepts 500K Series Headset for iPhone
Sony PlayStation3 – 80 GB – $ 339 shipped
Coding Q+A
Intel and Qualcomm Are Dueling With Dollars
Review: Wellcomm iConnplus Case With Battery for iPhone 3G
Sony Bravia Connected HDTVs Finally Land Netflix Streaming [Sony]
Twittruth Tells The Truth About How You Really Use Twitter
How Would It Be to Live on the Moon [Space]
Student HP Ad Shows Beautiful Alternate Universe Where Printers Are Fast, Predictable, Musical [Advertising]

- The Constently late, Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #99 and the big #100 – Last Combo till September, I hope!

RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 1st, 2009:

NASA patches Endeavour’s leaky plumbing
Child porn found on an iPhone application
Yahtzee woolgathers on and around The Sims 3
The One Day Particle Editor
Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available
Scientists find a black hole that’s “just right”
As Mozilla ‘upgrades the Web,’ Microsoft must upgrade its pace
Toshiba launching the TG01 next week in London
ATM vendor gets security talk pulled from conferences
Xbox 360 Repair Guide
Weak PS3 sales: Now the Taiwanese government sponsors Sony
Bing’s first month produces small share gain
Get ready to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2.
How to Achieve Revenue
Gmail adds drag and drop
Happy Canada Day & Ch’town Tweet-Up
Bing takes a little more market share from Google
Finally, a MacBook Pro for Ninjas!
Gmail labels get higher placement, drag-and-drop
iPhoto update fixes crash, MBA firmware for new batteries
Bringing Moore’s Law to the Data Storage Market
iPhone 3GS TV Ads
GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested
3D TV will won’t go primetime in 2011
Microsoft resorts to vomit to market IE 8
Mimo Pivoting 7-Inch USB Display Now Available at Think Geek [Displays]
Happy DTS 7.1 Day, California
Is Twitter freaking out over ‘tweet’ trademark?
News: Apple posts iPhone OS 3.1, SDK 3.1 beta
Chicago ‘burb ditches red light cameras, no safety advantage
Windows 7 Beta automatic shutdowns begin today, RC users safe until March 1st
Is There More to Life than Gnomedex?

RSS Digest for Tuesday June 30th, 2009:

Starcraft lessons from a “100 percent full-blooded Korean”
PlayStation emulator hits the Palm Pre
John Slater: An Upgraded Mozilla.com for an Upgraded Firefox
Chocolate Covered Grasshoppers
Google fixes Outlook plugin for Google Apps
Where Have All the Platforms Gone?
RIAA triumphs in Usenet copyright case
Gnomedex 2009 for $99?!
The Original Ethernet Cable and Cable Diagrams [Retromodo]
Clipstart 1.1
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of “Free”
Health Officials To Military: Ban Smoking
The Pirate Bay adds ‘user deletion’
Apple’s 3D Modeler Opening Could Be Your Dream Job [Apple]
Ubuntu: A feasible Oracle hedge against Windows
The Alienware OptX AW2210 21.5-inch LCD monitor – Hadoken!
Verizon says house shoppers crave high-fiber Internet diet
Firefox add-ons: Which work in 3.5?
New Firefox, Nero now available
Yahoo to build data center near Buffalo
ASUS rolls out RT-N16 wireless router
Arcade on wheels? Yes, please
Metaplace virtual worlds now blog-embeddable
Photos: NASA’s science, tech showcase
Comcast Bringing Metropolitan WiMAX To Subscribers
G.S.M. Palm Pre spotted in Vietnam
The Pirate Bay tracker to shut down
War is childish hell: Ars tries to review Battlefield Heroes
Ricoh jumps from copiers to the cloud
Three Startups That Want to Deliver a Fat Mobile Pipe
Sanyo’s Eneloop lamp heals your ecological soul

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Good bye 3D Realms

Sadly the news is true The maker of Duke Nukem 3D,Commander Keen, and many other cool games has been shut down. Yep sadly 3D Realms is no more… It was confirmed officaly on their site after slight downtime the post was released along with a group shot.

Grab all the gems you can from the site before it is taken off line for ever.  Anyway Here are all the games they released as freeware over the years… These and whats left on the site will be all thats left of them :(

  • Kroz – Our first ever game, a text adventure game
    By Scott Miller download
  • Arctic Adventure – a CGA based scroller game
    By George Broussard - download
  • Dark Ages – an EGA based scroller game
    By Todd Replogle - download
  • Monuments of Mars – a CGA based scroller
    By Todd Replogle - download
  • Pharaoh’s Tomb – a CGA based scroller game
    By George Broussad - download
  • Beyond the Titanic – Text based Infocom style adventure game
    By Scott Miller - download
  • Supernova – Text based Infocom style adventure game
    By Scott Miller - download
  • Word Whiz – A text based trivia game
    From Scott Miller - download

Just in case those links go dead here is a backup download that contains all of them…

We will miss them but it was bound to happen eventually with all that dedication to Duke Nukem Forever ever since 1997.

RSS Weekly Digest – #4

Here are my news picks for the week…

Sorry for them being late but i had a busy start of week.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The story of the PlayStation
SlingPlayer for iPhone getting closer to release?
Apple may hear Verizon now
Google makes their own Digg, lets users pop stories
Will Oracle kill MySQL? Who cares?
Skype Cuts Prices On SkypeOut Service
Qualcomm, Broadcom reach $891 million settlement
Essential Tips to Get the Best from iTunes
Virus begins to attack PCs
First Android Netbook will cost $250?
Flip Video Ultra HD makes its unofficial debut, gets unboxed
Apple loses patent suit, will have to pay $19M
NVIDIA’s GT300 specs outed — is this the cGPU we’ve been waiting for?
FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats
Windows 7 – Gold – As Early as July?
Download Wall-E for just $62,000 Now!
Billionth iPhone App is a Freebie!
Review – Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac, Dual Review
Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan) [Browser War]

Saturday, April 25th, 2009yep

Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options
German book publishers want Rapidshare blocked
Former AOL Exec Mike Jones To Become No. 2 At MySpace
Video: Recording analog audio to a floppy disk
New Snow Leopard beta build includes screen recording capabilities, a certain je ne sais quoi
Windows 7 reveals XP mode AKA the IT guy’s wet dream
21 Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures
Samsung plays catch-up with 32GB P3
Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1′s Best Surprise New Features
Conficker virus begins to attack computers
Somniloquy external networking card lets PCS “sleep talk” essential connectivity functions
Microsoft training video reveals older prototype of Windows 7 “superbar”
Bugs Aside – Ubuntu 9.04 Is Pretty Slick

Friday, April 24th, 2009

It’s official: Windows 7 Release candidate available for download May 5th
No, This Dancing Building’s Bricks Are Not Falling Like Tetris [Art]
Hollywood attacks RealDVD in court
Model 2+ production seen as “unlikely,” says OQO exec
Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
Analysis: App Store now $1 million a day business, cloud mobile apps the next big thing
Windows 7 RC build 7100 leaked
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update
Microsoft axes Live Search Product Upload
Apple Loses Patent Lawsuit from Opti Inc on “Predictive Snooping”
Internet Explorer 8 Security
Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper
Microsoft Surface First-Run Experience
Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic “awesomeness”
Android-Based G1 Phone Sells One Million Units
News: Bump is billionth app downloaded, 13-year-old wins prizes

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Apple Questioned Again About a Mac Netbook
Jaunty Jackalope hops onto scene with GNOME 2.26, new features
Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries
iPhone OS devices continue to dominate mobile traffic

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

iSuppli: Kindle 2 costs twice as much to buy as it does to make
Apple iPhone & iPod Touch sales pass 37 million
Steve Riley on Windows 7 Security
Apple with “No Plans” to Change AT&T iPhone Exclusivity and Other Notes
Pixelpipe adds drag-and-drop uploading to Firefox
Make your own solid state drive with a CF card
Second Life gives users ability to filter Mature, X-rated content
Apple WWDC rumors: MacBook speed bumps, pro application upgrades (but where’s the netbook?)
Congress wants new probe into P2P file-sharing snafus
The EagleTec USB Nano flash drive: it doesn’t get much smaller
Panasonic makes school runs more cinematic with its in-dash Blu-ray player
OLPC waves goodbye to AMD for new XO laptop, adopts VIA chip
Face recognition comes to Flickr
MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and Pro Apps to See Updates at WWDC?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

iTunes Price Hikes Hurt Some Track Rankings
Amazon Video on Demand goes high definition
Apple preparing to release new Snow Leopard beta build
From Mingebag To Gmod Activist
DiggBar Changes Live Today
Why Time Capsule Is Doomed to Suck
Rumor smash: Windows 7 will keep 6.1 versioning
Sony Pictures is on YouTube, Hulu, but not Joost anymore
Nvidia gives developers OpenCL driver and SDK support
Bluetooth “high speed” technology becomes official with 3.0 spec
GamePark Wiz app store coming this summer
VMware’s Cloud OS Is Compelling, But Closed
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API
Windows 7 Starter Edition Only Runs 3 Applications at Once
End to End Trust and Windows 7
The iPhone app that ran the Boston Marathon
Xbox 360 ‘Game Of The Year’ bundle ships in May
A Peek Inside Windows 8: Coming in 2011 [Windows 8]
LEGO Rock Band officially announced, coming just in time for the holidays
Study: Illegal music downloaders buy 10 times as much legal music as non-illegal downloaders
Google links students, projects in Summer of Code
Windows 7 could change our perception of PCs
More Details of iPhone OS 3.0 ‘Voice Control’ Emerge
Gmail can now suggest recipients for you
AT&T plans to double its 3G network capacity
Google serves up brace of slightly skewed search tools
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone. What’s the deal?
Video: Sharp’s Mebius LCD trackpad
Fujitsu’s 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook looks good, positively average
OLED displays coming to half of all mobile phones in the next five years

Monday, April 20th, 2009

PSP firmware updated to v5.50
The ESA are fans of Pirate Bay decision
Jonathan DiCarlo: Do We Still Need Bookmarks?
Apple Launches Movie Downloads in German iTunes Store
Windows 7 security enhancements
Blu-ray in every home? Backers aim for $99 players
Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open Any Doors for Android or Linux
ISP Download Caps Not Dead, But Ought to Be
Windows 7 Security: Helping Enable the Mobile Workforce
Google tweaks Chrome with new tabs management features
Windows 7: A New Approach to Securing Today’s Enterprise
Skype coming to the DSi?
$400 Xbox 360 Elite Games of the Year bundle with Halo 3 and Fable 2 gets official
Tweetie for Mac now available
MSI intros the touchscreen Wind Top all-in-one US mod
Adobe brings Flash to the TV screen
Atempo Digital Archive Adds Full Mac OS X Support
The Pirate Bay loads cannon with official appeal
Play Garry’s Mod before you die!
Windows 7 Starter Edition headed for a netbook near you
Engadget’s take on the new mophie Juice Pack Air
Toshiba 10-inch Dynabook UX’s got talent
More Apple Netbook Rumors Pinpoint Foxconn as Manufacturer
Next Generation iPhone to Support HD Video and Apple TV-Like Behavior?
Oracle reels in Sun Microsystems with $7.4bn buy

RSS Digest Combo – #58,#59,#60

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

Friday, February 27th 2009

Microsoft’s Child ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Only Works With Little Girls Apparently [I'm A PC]
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)
Psion responds to “netbook” challengers, says it does so still sell the NetBook Pro
Preview: Boxee social media center for Windows
Google: ‘New Code’ Crashed Gmail, Sorry, Won’t Happen Again
Acer “Hornet”: Wii-like PC game platform
Camino 2.0 beta 2 for Mac now available
Run BASIC
LG denies plasma TV withdraw claims
Inside the Recompute Cardboard PC [Greener Gadgets]
World of Warcraft: ‘the crack cocaine of the computer world’
Sega Dreamcast + iMac = iCast
10 ways to make Chrome as good as Firefox
Google Street View integrates user images
Apple cracks down on emoji apps
Microsoft to remove need for QuickTime in Windows 7
Microsoft’s Business Model
USB cable with inline card reader
Australian Censorship Scheme Gets Blocked By Opposition Leaders [Australia]
A Little Peak at Changes Coming with the Windows 7 RC

Thursday, February 26th 2009

Safari 4: Eye Candy or Seriously Useful?
Microsoft talks open-source love amid TomTom Linux ‘war’
New Adobe AIR Marketplace
Apple Removes Old Non-Customer Reviews from App Store
IE8 for Windows 7 beta in ‘reliability update’
Apple and Psystar finally agree—to keep trade secrets secret
My Safari 1.0 Review From January 2003 (Not Mine but the author of the blogs review)
Windows 7 to get 2,000 bug fixes pointed out by testers
LEGO employees hand out tiny versions of themselves as business cards
Apple laptop ignites marketing department
Quebec ISP To Terminate Subscribers Over Copyright
Acer’s Ion-based Hornet nettop leaked in presentation slides?
Acclaim developer claims PSP 2 will be without UMD
There’s the Grammatic Way and the SEO Way
New Yahoo CEO ushers out CFO in executive shake-up
Practicality of Multi-Touch and an Early PowerBook Multi-Touch Keyboard Design
Apple Prepping OS X 10.5.7 Update
Amazon Kindle 2 review
Video: Windows CE and Android running simultaneously on a Nokia N800
Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers
Get the Vista Service Pack 2 Release Candidate Next Week [Vista Sp2]
New Google dashboard provides downtime information
The Future of Google Chrome
Anyone Using Yahoo Briefcase?
Windows 7 – How WGA Will Work
Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad?
PSP 2 is ready and UMD-less, claims Earthworm Jim developer
More hidden preferences for Safari 4 Beta
Purported Specs Surface for Slimline 10″ Acer Aspire One [NetBooks]
Jobs Coming Back to Apple in June

Wednesday, February 25th 2009

Nokia’s Brave New Strategy: Laptops
Windows 7 shipping this Fall… according to Compal, anyway
Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever? [Design]
New slimline Acer Aspire One slimline pics, alleged specs leak
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users
Quake Live May Spark Gaming Industry Shake-up
Microsoft files patent lawsuit against TomTom over Linux-based GPS systems
Leaked Snow Leopard screenshots and video show new Stacks, install options
I Love Downloadable Media, But It Makes For a Crappy Gift [Editorial]
Warning: Google Talk Phishing Scam On the Loose
id pushing hard for Quake Live on the Mac
Kindle 2: Disassemble? No disassemble!
Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC
Ballmer Confirms Skinny Version of Windows 7 for Netbooks [Windows 7]
Apple’s App Store success hasn’t stopped prices tumbling
Panasonic’s latest Toughbook 30 unboxing and hands-on
Will You Be Moving to Safari?
New, Stealthy Conficker B++ Worm Discovered
Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects
Real worm breaks man’s computer, sick of software worms getting all the glory
Adobe patches Flash vulnerabilities for three platforms
Google explains cause of latest Gmail outage
ZumoDrive Launches Public Beta
Apple TV 2.3.1 updated totally borks the Boxee add-on
Intel launches shapely new CPUs for slim new laptops
Sony shows off its latest fuel cells and cola-powered batteries
Syba debuts RCG RC-VIS62002 pocket projector
OmniWeb Mac Browser Finally Released For Free [Browsers]
Intel also sues Psion over ‘netbook’ trademark, general stupidity
Happy Birthday Steve Jobs

RSS Digest – #53

Here are the links for: Thursday, February 19th 2009…

The New Internet Games in Windows 7
Test Updates for Windows 7 Beta Users
Intel SSDs May Suffer From Irreparable Fragmentation Slowdowns [Ssd]
Video: Nintendo DSi trailer for the US
DSi gets European release date
Paid apps appear in Android Market
Microsoft to sell red Xbox 360
Live Blog: DICE 2009 Keynote – Gabe Newell, Valve Software – G4tv.com
Mirror’s Edge DLC arrives without those pesky armed guards
Why Is There a Snow Leopard On Microsoft’s Live Search? [Just Asking]
“Still Alive,” bedroom electropop style
Next-gen Mac Mini spied in the wild?
Sprint removes data tethering from Palm Pre feature list?
Sneak peek of Toshiba’s TG01 prototype
Rogue Anti-Malware Pushes Fake PCMag Review
Prince of Persia, Shaun White Snowboarding heading to Mac
Apple discontinues 20-inch Cinema display, rumors ensue
Internet Explorer 8′s Incompatability List Is Really Sad [Internet Exploder]
Gmail Labs: Ten Gmail Labs Features You Should Enable
Dell challenges Psion’s ‘netbook’ trademark
Sprint Nextel loses $1.6 billion in Q4
The Price is Right, Hell’s Kitchen Mac games released
Stantum’s mind-blowing multitouch interface on video!
Pirate Bay co-founder asks people to stop hacking anti-piracy websites
New Bluetooth standards to bring speed, energy efficiency
Lenovo planning to use Ion for larger netbooks?
Access Linux Platform 3.0 live, in person, and oh-so-full of widgets
11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives For Designers
Official: Costly Nintendo DSi out in UK before US
Beta Version of Asus T91 Tablet Netbook Gets Touched All Over [Asus T91]
Sunbelt Software – Show Stoppers 2009
NVIDIA Responds To Intel Suit