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The above website will allow you to decode hidden meanings behind your apple product - model, name and even date of manuf. can be determined by entering the serial number at the site.

Boing Boing: Anti-copying malware installs itself with dozens of games
Starforce are acting in what I believe an evil manner. For one they are silently (or manufacturers of games) installing their “copy protection” software onto PC’s - this software is not perfect and goes against its mandate to protect the software from being copied. There is [...]

Choosing a laptop can be a pain in the backside. I have been doing research on various models for several weeks now and have concluded that the laptop that closest suits my needs is a Toshiba Tecra S3 the S2 is very similar to the S3, but has a 15.4″ widescreen LCD. I think the [...]

eBay.au: Apple iPod 40GB - Incl. Dock, Protective Case (item 5833740805 end time 30-Nov-05 11:18:33 AEDST)
I’m selling my iPod on eBay to fund various little side projects. This fine 40GB 3rd Generation model is brand new from warrantee repair. I expect that it will give the new owner much muscial happiness. You could be this [...]

Videora iPod Converter - iPod Video Converter
Need a method to convert various formats into a compatible version for the Video iPod? I am currently testing the above product. Looks like it works.
UPDATE: This has not been update/convert WMV to MP4. Nero Recode 2 however is able to convert it from WMV -> Nero Digital Format [...]

While reading my atomic magazine which arrived earlier in the week (which happens to have as its main feature set articles on Windows Vista/Longhorn there was a coverage of the Intel Developer Forum going into details about up and coming chipsets specifically the i945 express chipset which features onboard graphics compatible with the Vistas Windows [...]

I accidentally stumbled across this site that has a fancy calculator that helps you calculate the required power supply for your system.
Personally I would always add 50W to the result that this calculator gives just for the sake of safety and expansion (you might want to add a DVD drive or extra HDD to your [...]

Looks like the little boy of the x86 world is going to take it to the school yard bully.
Have you ever tried to get machines with the AMD processor out of Dell? Notice how the number of AMD machines offered by large OEM’s is pitifully small? Well its due to intel and its special way [...]

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Got to love reporters that dont quote their sources.
The original content was written by someone on a comedy/fake/spoof news site and quickly propogated itself over the internet on other news sites (where the original article was referenced).
Looks like a newspaper now has a red face and will hopefully in future check [...]

The Register is running a piece that indicates that Sony-BMG and EMI will begin rolling out copy protected Compact Discs (Music) to unsuspecting customers. *YAY* (not)
What these companies need to understand is that people don’t really want to steal music - they want music to be accessible and easy to use - thus the massive [...]