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

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RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009:

Video: ‘V for Vendetta’ Director Goes Ninja
Kodak Zi8 Wallops Flip With 1080p, Image Stabilizer and SD Slot [Camcorders]
Xbox Live dashboard update preview invites begin rolling out
Palm Pre headed to Verizon next year
LG has first THX-Certified LCD HDTV
Agency Mulls Curbs on Cybersquatters
Pascal Finette: Mozilla Labs Design Challenges – What we’ve learned so far…
AOL revenue slides 24 percent in 2nd quarter
Intuit and open source: Tastes great, less filling?
T-Mobile to sell HTC Touch Pro2 in August
Oops, @MarissaMayer Deletes Sensitive Tweet That Can Still Be Found
AP’s rights management DRM explained
Psystar hires Jammie’s lawyers in fight with Apple
Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key
Pirate Bay acquisition is likely dead
Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130
Online video keeps growing with help of broadband, mobile
Barnes and Noble to offer complimentary WiFi
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook
Brilliant but Doomed Technology
Intel: Windows 7 will deploy faster than Vista
Unboxing the $1,195 URC MX-5000 remote
Steam Achievements
Motorola Morrisson with T-Mobile 3G and UMA hits the FCC
I’m 90% sure the “Apple iTablet rumor” is an elaborate hoax by Apple to get Dell to waste money building a competing device
How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars

RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 28th, 2009:

The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App [Apple]
Labels hope Apple’s ‘Cocktail’ will boost album sales
MySpace Overtakes Evite On The Event Planning Totem Pole
LEGO Unboxing
Travel Back in Time
V-Screen turns PSP games 3D
ATI’s $1,800 2GB FirePro V8750 GPU introduced and reviewed
Microsoft sponsors Firefox!
Free Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate Rover
Movie studios sue The Pirate Bay
Unix Turns 40
Samsung’s debut e-book reader arrives
Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too
AT&T dual USB and iPhone car charger – $15
Acer and ASUS reportedly freeze netbook releases until 2010
microsoft’s settlement proposal
Red Hat: ‘We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux’
Like Chrome, Should Firefox Put Tabs on Top?
New Scientist: ‘Humans Prefer Cockiness to Expertise’
Electric-car maker Coda gains high-powered investors
Order Your DIY Flying Trike Today!
Robot gets an iPhone 3Gs for a brain
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment
Mozilla Security: URL bar spoofing vulnerability
Netgear and OpenDNS to block porn from the cloud
Viliv X70 preorders delayed, should ship out on August 11
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Alternative to Bottled Water
Toshiba’s inaugural 3.5-inch external HDD is exactly what you think it is
EU Vista, XP users will also get to vote IE off the island
Yahoo and Microsoft to start ad partnership, says source

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Acer, activation, Apple, Asus, ATI, Barnes, Bay, BIND, Camcorders, car, Chrome, Cloud, Cockiness, Coda, Cracked, Cybersquatters, Dead, Dell, Design, DIY, DoS, DRM, e-book, Electric car, EU, FCC, Firefox, FirePro, Google, gpu, HDTV, hoax, HTC, Image, Intel, Intuit, iPhone, iTablet, Kodak, LCD, Lego, Lenovo, LG, Linux, Mars, Matrix, Microsoft, Mobile, Money, Motorola, Mozilla, MySpace, Nasa, Netbook, Netgear, OEM, OpenDNS, Palm, Pascal, Pirate, Pirate Bay, porn, pre, PSP, Psystar, RED, robot, Rover, Scientist, SD, Security, Source, Spirit, Steam, surface, T-Mobile, THX Certified, tweet, Twitter, UMA, UNIX, URC, URL, usb, V-Screen, Verizon, video, Viliv, Vista, vulnerability, Wallops, Wifi, WIndows, Worth, X70, Xbox, XP, yahoo

Many of you will remembmer the E3 2003 announcement of Half-Life 2… the release date that got missed. Anyway here is the video from that presentation. Even tho we have had the source engine and many additions to it and new episodes of HL2 it is still fun to look at

Download the video @ Half-Life 2 E3 2003 Presentation – High Res

Tags: 2003, Demo, E3, Half-Life: 2, High, Presentation, Res, Valve, video

A long weekend where celebrating the US’s independence went a bit longer then expected however I am back… Now here is…

The RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 7th, 2009:

RIAA Fears Thomas Keeps On File Sharing, Despite $2 Million Verdict
Sony unveils two new 1080p Handycams
Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 review
De-clutter your digital life with Microsoft and organizing expert
PSP2 to have Xbox-like graphic capabilities?
TwittaRound Twitter Reality Augmentation Looks Amazing, Even If It Is a Horrible Idea [Twitter]
Ingenious DIY iPhone flash
Piecing together NASA’s Ares I rocket
Um, that ain’t no Zune…
Dell Taiwan makes another costly pricing mistake
Microsoft issues patent promise, dispels Mono legal concerns
Mobile Phone Keyboards
Google Apps Leaves the Beta Label Behind
10.5: Disable CPU chirp in OS X 10.5
News: Mix: White 3GS shortage, patent lawsuit, iPod mini mod, 3GS music video
New Demo Format Coming Soon to TF2
Acer’s 11.6-inch Aspire Timeline 1810T: a netbook we can finally embrace?
Firefox stability to get a boost with multiprocess browsing
VLC, the Internet’s Favorite Media Player, Hits Version 1.0 [Media]
LG teases next-generation Chocolate for August unveiling
Finally, A Decent Website To Browse Android Apps: AndroLib
Sony Vaio W netbook now official in US, coming August for $499
OpenStreetMap and Geolocation
What The Hell Happened To The Free Version Of Google Apps?
ABC content lands on Hulu
Google still the king, even with Yahoo Search Pad
Photo Gallery: Low-Tech Computers From Prehistory to Today
Stylish Bike Computer Is Anything But Nerdy

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

PS: nothing important happened on the weekend anyway, the bloggers must have been celebrating too!

Tags: Android, Apple, Asus, Beta, Firefox, Gmail, iPhone, Mac, Microsoft, Mobile, Mozilla, Twitter, video, Windows 7, Youtube

The RSS Digest for Friday, June 12th, 2009:

Father of the cell phone
Why Smart Grids Could Be Slow to Beat Web 2.0
Gaming hardware, software sees slump in May
Atom N270 / N280-based netbooks may be stuck at Windows XP
Windows 7 to push up netbook prices
Windows 7 UAC code-injection vulnerability: video demonstration, source code released
Why Mozilla could beat IE in a European ground war
Twitter profile hack pwns Mormons
Palm Pixie is real, but may never materialize
Lenovo G530 for $379
Opera to ‘reinvent the web’ in four days
Apple readies new retail store design in Arizona
An end to the endless cycle?
How To Seize a Laptop And Make It Stick
Casio Exilim EX-H10 shoots 1,000 images on single charge
Blu-ray Managed Copy Full-Res Backups Are Only Good in Theory [Blu-Ray]
Safari 4: 11 Million Downloads in 3 Days
When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong
Dell and Samsung placing orders for 11.6-inch netbook screens?
The World’s Smallest DV Camera Could Reveal World’s Largest Scandal [Video]
Major UK ISP: video streaming’s “free ride” is over
iPhone owners are superior beings, says survey
Let’s Play… Spot The MacBook Pro!
US hardware sales collapse in May
DriveSavers offers hard drive failure simulator for iPhone
SDXC set to blow your mind next year, with 64GB capacity out of the gate
Psystar: We’ll gladly pay you tomorrow for 581 copies of Leopard today
Recreating Tesla’s Wireless Power Experiments [Tesla]
Bring Back MST3K!
Twitpocalypse Not Now: Crisis Averted
Running Custom Firmware on the Palm Pre Is Rather Easy [Palm Pre]
Bio-ammonia Plans Proceeding

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Apple, Atom, Backup, Biotech, Blu-ray, camera, Casio, cell, Dell, DV, firmware, flash, Hard Drive, Hardware, IBM, IE, Intel, iPhone, ISP, Laptop, LCD, Lenovo, Leopard, Macbook, MacBook Pro, memory, Mormons, Mozilla, MST3k, Netbook, Opera, Palm, Phone, police, pre, Psystar, Safari, Samsung, Scandal, SD, Simulator, Smart Grids, Streaming, tax, Tesla, Twitter, UAC, Vaporware, video, Web 2.0, Windows 7, Windows XP, Wireless Power