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RSS Digest #109-#112 Roll-up Extravaganza

I have been very very busy for the last few days including personal stuff to work out. So here is the RSS Roll-up Extravaganza.

NetNewsWire beta beginning of transition to Google Reader (Updated)
Let them eat cake: Fat Princess is a delight
Robert Kaiser: Progress on XULRunner-based Mandelbrot app
Holiday season will see big changes in laptops
Homegrown CBHD discs outsell Blu-ray by 3-1 margin in China
Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions
Calendar: How to Save Sunbird
Man, the U.S. had a crazy cyberwar plan against Iraq (that it didn’t execute)
The Robot Uprising Will Begin With a Game of Catch [Robots]
Big Talk from MS: WinMo 6.5 is Gonna Trump the iPhone’s Web Browsing
Downloaders Beware: Lawmakers say Downloading Music or Files Could be Are Costly and Unsafe
Mining Social Networks for Clues
Google Maps accused of unfair competition in France
Using software updates to spread malware
Google Adds More Options To Image Search
Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
Complex Medical Test Made From Paper and Tape for Three Cents | Wired Science | Wired.com
Nike Basketball Trainer Ganon Baker shows 23 Ways To Destroy Your Defender: New style iPhone app!
How to Make an Electronic Display With Paper and Mood-Ring Ink | Wired Science | Wired.com
AT&T responds to FCC letter re: Google Voice mobile iPhone App
Snow Leopard Now Available for Pre-Order [Snow Leopard]
Whitman leads in cash for Calif. governor race
Nope, don’t expect to see an Apple e-book store
RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More?
Week in Microsoft: Pirates crack Windows 7, Redmond counters
In cloud computing, data is not electricity
20 years of computer lessons on 1 page
Celebrity Mac Chick Sighting: Rose McGowan
Shape Services Brings Skype To The Palm Pre
Original Futurama cast returning to the show!!!
Researchers offer tools for eavesdropping and video hijacking
BlackBerry App World v1.1 Available Today
Price of the PS3 has come down 70 percent… what? No, not for you, silly
Cultured Code
MySpace Mail: Not bad, but not a killer app
Manually-Powered Wind-up Light Is Perfect For Bed Time [Light]
Windows 7 Family Pack Pricing Confirmed at $149 [Windows 7]
Adobe updates Acrobat, Reader with security improvements
The Chinese iPhone surfaces
My Kindle ate my homework: lawsuit filed over 1984 deletion
I Quit The iPhone by Michael Arrington
Does Verizon Stand to Benefit From the FCC’s Probe?
Over 1 billion served: Firefox passes download milestone
Steve Ballmer on Apple and PC Pricing
Happy System Admin Day!
PS2 is outselling PS3 and PSP
Seth Godin at the Business of Software Conference
SplashID – A Second Look
Apple claims iPhone jailbreaking leads to compromised security and shorter battery life
Review: Verizon MiFi 2200
The Pirate Bay ordered to shut down in the Netherlands
Coconut! Headphones!
Sony sees huge loss, Nintendo profits fall, Apple noted as competition
Mozilla IT: Mozilla Scheduled Downtime – 07/30/2009, 8pm – 10pm PDT
Google Goes Back to School to Secure the Future of Its Apps
McAfee acquiring MX Logic, delivers solid outlook
Record every moment of your boring life
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
Pac-Man oven mitts keep hands cool. Might eat your cookies though.
CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny
Apple unceremoniously discontinues Shake pro VFX app
Logitech release 7 new webcams
Apple Not Exhibiting at CES 2010
Top 10 iPhone annoyances — and how to fix them
Facebook and Google Android app getting closer
Skype Prime won’t make global phone sex operators rich
Unauthorized charges getting WoW accounts suspended
DIY Vortex cannon
Samsung announces 8500 series of backlit LCD HDTVs
Psystar finally announces legal team for fight against Apple
T-Mobile ETF escape may be on the horizon for some with 9/1/09 fee changes
Rename open files
Hands-on: Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio
Who wants to win a 2-year old, lime green iPhone?!?!
Google vs. Bing. vs. Yahoo: Fight!
Windows 7 tours gets animated Silverlight browser

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

PS: Digests resume as normal by midnight tonight… KtecK Standard Time

RSS Digest #105

RSS Digest for Sunday, July 26th, 2009:

Cylons, Watchmen and Zombies Take Comic-Con 2009
FiiO PS1110 Walkbox portable speaker says ‘buy more’
iPhone 3G refurb selling for $49
EU Windows 7 to have multiple browser options?
Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem
Getting Comfortable With People Who Make You Uncomfortable
Shane Caraveo: Adobe/Mozilla partnership
Social Media Updates for 2009-07-26
ASUS Eee PC 1004DN lands in Taiwan, gives the netbook a serious identity crisis
Technology and the megachurch
OEMs Pick Up Windows 7 RTM Code in Redmond
Gaming on the Throne: Review of Squash the Street for iPhone
Dell Studio 14z hits the review bench, disc drive stays behind with few regrets
Windows 7 will give boost to PC hardware
XPize masks Windows XP UI quirks with a fresh coat of paint, Sevenize to come
Panasonic TC-P54V10 Reviewed: Worthy Successor to Pioneer Kuro [HDTV]
Hacker Group L0pht Making a Comeback
Two-way Search
Ascii Art for Sunday
Weird science benefits from the placebo effect
How to Read Your Favorite RSS Feeds On an iPhone
I’m a Mac, and I Prevent Spontaneous Cephalopod Attacks [Comics]
Astronauts in home stretch of marathon mission
Disheveled Celebrity Mac Chick Sighting: Sarah Silverman
Trophy Cupcakes for My Birthday
Reprogrammed Skin Cells Turned Into Baby Mice
Palm Pre at Best Buy for $99 – Update
Android team member says Donut isn’t 2.0, doesn’t have multitouch
How to build a desktop WYSIWYG editor with WebKit and HTML 5

-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

RSS Digest #87 – Twitter Chess, Win7 Starter no OEM Branding, and other great stuff…

RSS Digest for Thursay, June 18th, 2009:

OEMs, partners can’t brand Windows 7 Starter either
Panasonic releases 85-inch plasma display
Safa rolls out accelerometer-equipped G3 PMP
Google invests $2.6M in startup tied to Brin
Pre-order Halo 3: ODST and get Sgt. Johnson later
Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty
What’s the Best Hard Drive Enclosure to Buy?
Bluetooth enabled dress lights-up for incoming calls
A facelift for Facebook in-boxes, but is it enough?
Smaller reactor design for fusion may work in a “pinch”
Wired on the Race for Netflix’s Million-Dollar Prize
Super Talent’s MasterDrive SX SSDs would go great with an old MacBook Pro
Google revs up smart charging for plug-ins
Big Opportunities for Semiconductors in LED Lighting: Report
GPS Device + Web Access = Never Get Lost Again
People are still using Bing.com a few weeks later
LG-NComputing promise: 11 users, 1 PC
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Application ID
new firefox logos
TweetDeck Update Adds Multi-Column iPhone Client, Account Sync
Rock-on with some concrete speakers
The Young Entrepreneur Stereotype Bites the Dust
Motorola’s Endeavor HX1 Bluetooth headset packs ‘true’ bone conduction technology, modicum of style
Trick for enabling MMS on the iPhone – UPDATE
Tenenbaum P2P circus: judge’s “indulgence is at an end”
How to Play Chess on Twitter
Microsoft beating Mozilla…in open-source licensing
Windows 7 licensing situation a “disaster” for businesses?
StarForce DRM making a comeback?
Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #81 – OLED kills DLP, Lycos Coming Back… WHY?, and Mac Attacks

RSS Digest for Thursday, June 11th, 2009:

Data Protection Makes Identifying Online Pirates a Nightmare
Scientists Discover Superconducting Material That’s Just Two Atoms Thick [Future Tech]
Researchers ditch DLP, develop OLED panel-based mini projector
Sharp’s remote controlled LED light-bulbs generate seven-shades of smart
US brain-plug interface gets live human trials
Security holes poked in Chinese compulsory PC filter plan
Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran?
Microsoft’s Free Antivirus Software – Will You Use It?
Samsung goes official on the WB1000/TL320 digicam
Over 50,000 Palm Pres Sold, Over 150,000 Pre Applications Downloaded
Epson to mass-produce world’s first HTPS-TFT panel
New AMD Neo Athlon / Turion chips emerge in HP Pavilion dv2z
Lycos To Relaunch Search Services In Europe, For Whatever Reason
‘Bionic ear’ can detect Wi-Fi, FM,GPS signals simultaneously
Does the Wii Provide A “Watered-Down” Game Experience?
Product News – OWC Announces DDR3 1066MHz RAM Upgrades for New MacBook Pro Models
Apple already testing 10.5.8 update to Mac OS X Leopard
Scientists Create Form of Pre-Life
Nobody Recognizes The Chrome Icon, So Google Wants You To Make A Video About It
Periodic table adding new element
How to modify RSS
How to Install Windows 7 from a Flash Drive
Windows 7 build 7229 leaked
Microsoft plays recession card with Novell
Opera lashes out over Microsoft’s browser removal
Six-Core Nehalem Processors Might Arrive This Year [Processors]
Two new Mac attacks surface
RedEye turns iPhone into universal remote control
Psystar Owes Apple $75k For Some Reason [Psystar]
AMD plans ‘Congo’ chipset for a future world of thin-and-lights, dodging netbooks for now
Doom Comes to the iPhone
Handlebar-mounted bike mp3 player sounds dumb but it’s totally not
Shuttle Endeavour set for grueling station mission
Twitter Starts Verifying Accounts Without Actually Verifying Them
DRM licensing group presses on with plan to plug analog hole

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast