GMails Spam filters failing

GMails Spam filters failing

While Gmail managers to filter out a lot of Spam, it seems lots of blatant Spam emails are getting through the filters, despite masses of the mails getting reported as Spam.
I have notice that too. I am getting 40 - to spams a day with my gmail account. Gmail spam filters is starting to act more like hotmail!

Best 404 Page Ever

Best 404 Page Ever

it seems that this 404 page is very creative. I stumbled across it while looking at another story on digg. Error + Game = Random Fun! =P

Silicon Valley plans regional wireless network | CNET News.com

Silicon Valley plans regional wireless network | CNET News.com

A group of Silicon Valley civic and business leaders don't think the high-tech center is connected enough, so they are looking to build a regionwide wireless networks.

The Smart Valley coalition, which is made up of the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority, chipmaker Intel and a high-tech civic group called Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, said it has a plan to solicit bids from Internet providers to create a wireless high-speed data canopy to cover the region.

CBS 5: Bay City News Wire

CBS 5: Bay City News Wire

NEW COMBINED WB AND UPN NETWORK TO BE SEEN ON KBHK

The UPN and WB television networks will combine this fall into a single new network that Bay Area viewers will be able to see on KBHK, the region's current UPN station.

For viewers with an antenna, KBHK is found on channel 44. On most cable systems, KBHK is found on channel 12 but it is also found on various other channels, depending on the cable system,

Disney buys Pixar | CNET News.com

Disney buys Pixar | CNET News.com

Walt Disney announced Tuesday that it's paying $7.4 billion in stock to acquire Pixar Animation Studios--a deal that puts Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Disney's board of directors. For the venerable animation giant, the move is a significant bet on Pixar's digital approach as the successor to the pen-and-ink industry popularized by Walt Disney. The purchase is also the latest indication of a tectonic collision between technology and Hollywood

Chip prices fall at AMD | CNET News.com

Chip prices fall at AMD | CNET News.com

Advanced Micro Devices cut prices over the weekend on some dual-core desktop processors and Turion mobile processors, bringing them more in line with the prices of some Intel chips.

It's now cheaper to buy AMD's top five Athlon 64 X2 processors as well as the company's Turion ML notebook processors, if you're shopping in quantities of 1,000 processors. The Athlon 64 X2 4800+ received the biggest discount among the desktop chips, moving from $803 to $643 over the weekend. The Turion ML-44 also received a hefty cut, down to $354 on Monday from $525 last week

Big film festival focuses on small screen | CNET News.com

Big film festival focuses on small screen | CNET News.com

PARK CITY, Utah--As thousands of Sundance Film Festival-goers lined up Saturday to see independent films on the big screen, a couple hundred piled into a room to talk about the little screen.

New mobile technologies like the video iPod and cell phones with video capability have already created demand for bite-size content. But many wonder whether such devices will become conventional outlets for film distribution, and whether consumers will watch such content on a small screen

Slashdot | New RIAA/MPAA "Customary Historic Use" Plan

Slashdot | New RIAA/MPAA "Customary Historic Use" Plan

"Ars Technica is reporting that the EFF has dug up plans by the RIAA/MPAA to stifle the consumer electronics market by replacing it's "fair use" policy with something called "Customary Historic Use". This new policy would effectively keep anyone from inventing any new type of media device without the RIAA/MPAA's say-so.

Slashdot | New RIAA/MPAA "Customary Historic Use" Plan

Slashdot | New RIAA/MPAA "Customary Historic Use" Plan

"Ars Technica is reporting that the EFF has dug up plans by the RIAA/MPAA to stifle the consumer electronics market by replacing it's "fair use" policy with something called "Customary Historic Use". This new policy would effectively keep anyone from inventing any new type of media device without the RIAA/MPAA's say-so.

How to Get Great Sleep

How to Get Great Sleep

Here's an excellent, in-depth article on why we sleep, common sleep disorders, and it also has some suggestions for more restful nights. Ever heard of this insomnia?: "Your brain thinks you are awake when you are asleep.

Slashdot | 20 Years of Computer Viruses

Slashdot | 20 Years of Computer Viruses

The Register reports that twenty years ago today (19 January 1986), the first computer virus, Brain, was discovered. By modern standards, this was a minor virus, and it spread by floppy disks, which is a far cry from the network-aware worms of today. Still, though, it was the first noted virus, and we've had twenty years of pain and annoyance from it and its successors. Happy birthday, Brain, you and all your little virus friends - just know we're doing our damndest to keep you from having more."

Clear Channel switches on first multicast stations | CNET News.com

Clear Channel switches on first multicast stations | CNET News.com

Clear Channel Communications will launch on Thursday its first digital multicast channels in New York and San Francisco in an effort to modernize terrestrial radio amid rising competition with satellite radio.

By splitting the frequencies of its radio stations into high-definition (HD) niches, Clear Channel and other terrestrial radio broadcasters can reach broader audiences by providing a more varied menu of content.

In addition to the 10 multicast channels launched Thursday, the company plans to roll out multicast channels on 15 more stations in Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Los Angeles in the next five days.

Intel loses market share in own backyard | CNET News.com

Intel loses market share in own backyard | CNET News.com

Market share figures released by Current Analysis Wednesday show that Intel lost significant PC market share to AMD in U.S. retail channels in the fourth quarter.

Intel executives said Tuesday that they expected to have lost about one point of market share to AMD during a disappointing fourth quarter. That figure refers to worldwide sales of microprocessors during the quarter, an Intel spokesman confirmed. Among U.S. retail PCs, however, the results were more striking.

Intel's share of the U.S. retail PC market fell by 11 percentage points, from 64.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004 to 53.3 percent, said Sam Bhavnani, senior analyst with Current Analysis. Current Analysis' market share numbers measure U.S. retail sales only, and therefore exclude figures from Dell, which uses its Web site to sell directly to consumers. Dell, the top PC vendor in the U.S., exclusively uses Intel's processors in its PCs. (Sales by online retailers were excluded from the market share analysis as well).

Firefox 2.0 alpha due next month (Confirmed)

Firefox 2.0 alpha due next month (Confirmed)

An alpha version of Firefox 2.0 should be released as a public beta next month. Although part of the long standing roadmap for the open source browser, the timetable was confirmed by the publication of the minutes of the Mozilla.org staff meeting held earlier this month.

Share My WiFi

Share My WiFi

Sharemywifi.com connects people with WiFi to people without it! If you've got WiFi and are willing to share it - or you can can 'see' someone else's WiFi and would like to use it - Share My WiFi is for you.

Slyck News - Mininova Now One Year Old

Slyck News - Mininova Now One Year Old

This year, Mininova has earned its reputation as the cutting edge in public BitTorrent indexing sites. It now boasts a large fan base and is even rated the best BitTorrent site here on Slyck to date. The mininova's blog entry as written by Niek asks, "What was the reason for mininovas huge growth?

Slyck News - Mininova Now One Year Old

Slyck News - Mininova Now One Year Old

This year, Mininova has earned its reputation as the cutting edge in public BitTorrent indexing sites. It now boasts a large fan base and is even rated the best BitTorrent site here on Slyck to date. The mininova's blog entry as written by Niek asks, "What was the reason for mininovas huge growth?

CBS 5: NASA Set To Launch To Pluto

CBS 5: NASA Set To Launch To Pluto

spacecraft the size of a piano is set to lift off Tuesday on a nine-year journey to Pluto, the last unexplored planet in the solar system.

Scientists hope to learn more about the icy planet and its large moon, Charon, as well as two other, recently discovered moons in orbit around Pluto.

The $700 million New Horizons missionalso will study the surrounding Kuiper Belt, the mysterious zone of the solar system that is believed to hold thousands of comets and other icy objects. It could hold clues to how the planets were formed.

In reversal, Silicon Valley added jobs in '05 | CNET News.com

In reversal, Silicon Valley added jobs in '05 | CNET News.com

A report released on Sunday said the Silicon Valley region added new jobs in 2005 for the first time in four years, providing evidence that an economic resurgence is under way in the region.

While the number of new jobs--2,000--was modest, the data suggested that the "jobless" economic recovery of the last two years in Silicon Valley may be evolving into one that creates jobs as well as revenue.

Seagate cranks up notebook drives to 160GB | CNET News.com

Seagate cranks up notebook drives to 160GB | CNET News.com

Seagate, the largest hard drive manufacturer in the world, has started to ship its first drive for notebooks based around perpendicular recording techniques, a shift that increases capacity by 25 percent.

Hard drive maker starts shipping its first drive for notebooks based around perpendicular recording techniques.

Apple lays claim to iPod Hi-Fi and iPod Boombox trademarks

"Apple lays claim to iPod Hi-Fi and iPod Boombox trademarks
September Apple filed with Hong Kong's Intellectual Property peeps for the 'iPod Hi-Fi' with some people saying the Hi-Fi points to a hi-res video iPod with a larger display, while others are saying it refers to the iPod (with video) In June they filed for 'iPod Boombox,' which sounds a lot like, well, an iPod boombox
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news @ nature.com - Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye - Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.

news @ nature.com - Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye - Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.
Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. A study by researchers in Canada has shown that the snap decisions Internet users make about the quality of a web page have a lasting impact on their opinions.

WEBCAMTASTIC : Interactive WebCam Entertainment. By CRASHMEDIA.COM

WEBCAMTASTIC : Interactive WebCam Entertainment. By CRASHMEDIA.COM

This site is an experimental project aimed at collecting manipulated webcam images from people around the world. Anyone with a webcam, and Flash Player 8 can have some fun and add their images to the gallery. We're still debugging and adding features and new creative tools will be added in the coming weeks. We'd appreciate any feedback you might have. Have Fun!

Agencies probing sales of cell phone data | CNET News.com

Agencies probing sales of cell phone data | CNET News.com

Congressman Edward Markey said on Friday that federal agencies were looking into whether telephone companies were sufficiently protecting consumers' records amid concerns that Internet sites were selling cell phone call information.

Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told him the agency was investigating whether phone companies were adequately protecting consumer records. He said in a statement "the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission were coordinating efforts to combat this rising fraud."

Researcher: Early Man Was Hunted by Birds - Yahoo! News

Researcher: Early Man Was Hunted by Birds - Yahoo! News

These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared,

Jon "DVD" Lech Johansen unveils de-AACS website DeAACS.com

Jon "DVD" Lech Johansen unveils de-AACS website DeAACS.com
Jon cracked CSS (the DVD drm) and it appears he expects AACS (Advanced Access Content System) to be cracked as well. He notes, AACS does not prevent piracy, "that’s not the primary objective of any DRM system. Anyone who has read the CSS license agreement knows that the primary objective is to control the market for players.

Verizon switches off MP3 support | The Register

Verizon switches off MP3 support | The Register

Last week, US mobile firm Verizon announced a deal with Microsoft to allow subscribers to listen to music on their phones. But it has now emerged that people signing up to the new service are losing the ability to play MP3s on their phones.

The company said the decision was made to keep things simpler for users - one media player rather than two.

Windows XP on a 20mhz Computer and 32mb of ram

Windows XP on a 20mhz Computer and 32mb of ram

A German person puts Windows XP on a 20mhz computer with 32mb of ram, boots from POST to desktop in 7 minutes. Original website is in German and translated into English (hence the weird grammar). Why would anyone do this? I have no idea, but still cool to see this is actually possible

I you want to, you could to it ultra easy cheating way. you could use an under clocking program to run winxp at 20mhz It did once on my system. The second I set the under clock setting to that magic 20mhz speed, The only thing I could do was to moved my mouse around the screen, than after five minutes at this slow state, my system just freeze up than crashed to the blue screen of death.

The IMDb users have spoken Best of 2005 and the Worst of 2005.

The IMDb users have spoken, and here are the results! Thanks for voting, and be sure to check out all the poll results for the Best of 2005 and the Worst of 2005. And be sure to check out all our other coverage on the Road to the Oscars®.

The IMDb users have spoken Best of 2005 and the Worst of 2005.

The IMDb users have spoken, and here are the results! Thanks for voting, and be sure to check out all the poll results for the Best of 2005 and the Worst of 2005. And be sure to check out all our other coverage on the Road to the Oscars®.

Best of CES 2006 awards

Best of CES 2006 awards

cnet has put together a list of what they think are the best products shown at CES this year. Somehow Creative's iPod killer (read: copy) won best in show. Other than that everything looks pretty cool.

Firefox at Critical Mass?

Firefox at Critical Mass?

Firefox is very close to hitting a critical mass of 10 percent, which could mean a more rapid adoption rate," Vince Vizzaccaro, NetApplications executive vice president of marketing and strategic relationships, said in a statement.

Up to fifty .be domain names per person for FREE !

Up to fifty .be domain names per person for FREE !

This tutorial shows you where to click and what to type in if you want to take advantage of this incredible offer. Why would you need such a tutorial ? Because the page is in French ! Now it's time to think about what the hell you could do with fifty .be domain names ! I'm pretty sure you'll find something...

SOUND-OFF :: View topic - Google DRM

SOUND-OFF :: View topic - Google DRM

- Google, the company who promises to 'do no evil' has introduced their own DRM.

Finally Someone finally Annoucne an 1-terabyte HD!

Maxtor Updates External Drive Line

On Thursday, Maxtor Corp. announced a new family of Maxtor OneTouch III external drives, based on the design first incorporated by its 1-terabyte Turbo Edition in October

The Simpsons Channel | Your Source For Simpsons News

The Simpsons Channel | Your Source For Simpsons News: "Variety reports that talks have begun at 20th Century Fox TV to revive Matt Groening's animated series Futurama, which takes place in the next millennium. The studio is in early discussions to put Futurama back in production and create a limited number of episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series -- although it's too soon to tell where those episodes might end up, adds the trade. While reports of Futurama's return have been loosely discussed in the past, this is the first time we've heard word of Fox taking an interest."

Toshiba turns 90° to boost 0.85in HDDs to 10GB | The Register

Toshiba turns 90° to boost 0.85in HDDs to 10GB | The Register

Toshiba today said it has finally begun shipping its long-awaited 4GB, 3600rpm 0.85in micro hard disk drives. The company also pledged to boost the drives' capacity to 10GB courtesy of perpendicular recording techniques.

Slyck - File Sharing News and Info

Slyck - File Sharing News and Info: "MPAA demonstrating analog hole at CES - January 5 - By way of Jim Hock & Co. over at 463 Communications, the Motion Picture Association of America is apparently demonstrating the awfulness of the proverbial analog hole that recently proposed legislation is looking to cork"

Slashdot | OEM Hard Drive With Window

Slashdot | OEM Hard Drive With Window
At last, you don't need to mess around with Dremel tools and Lexan (and destroy your valuable data) to get a clear window in your hard drive. Western Digital has released the Raptor X 150GB SATA hard drive. 10,000 RPM, 4.6ms seek time, 16MB buffer, and, yes, a clear window so you can see what's going on inside. Made out of a special polycarbonate lens with an ESD-dissipative coating, the lens is designed to let case modders and their groupies see the drive platters and heads without sacrificing data integrity."

Google to showcase video-on-demand service | CNET News.com

Google to showcase video-on-demand service | CNET News.com

Google plans to sell television shows and sports programming that customers can download from its Web site, a source familiar with the deal told CNET News.com.

Users will pay an undisclosed fee to download content supplied by partners that Google has lined up. These include TV broadcasters and the National Basketball Association, according to the source, who requested anonymity.

Radio Shack Rebate Rip Off

Radio Shack Rebate Rip Off

On December 23 Radio Shack ran a web ad for a portable DVD player for -$5.01 with rebates. Later they decided not to honor one of the rebates, leaving many people unable to return a $70 player after cutting out the UPCs. One angry customer started up a web site at http://www.radioshackrebatefraud.com and seems to be getting a lot of attention.

Google to Offer TV Show Downloads and Software package at CES

Google to Offer TV Show Downloads and Software package at CES

Google plans to announce Friday that it will begin allowing consumers to buy videos from major content partners through the Google site & will also roll out a new downloadable bundle of software for consumers that could heighten Google's competition with Microsoft Corp. Watch out M$ and Apple, Google's making the first move of the year.

Nintendo sells 10mil DS's worldwide, Mario Kart sells 1mil in 7 weeks

Nintendo sells 10mil DS's worldwide, Mario Kart sells 1mil in 7 weeks

Nintendo seems to be doing pretty damn good this holiday season with selling a total of 10 million DS's worldwide. Maio Kart passes the 1 million mark in just seven weeks, and more than 550,000 unique visitors have connected globally to Nintendo's WiFi connection.

Awesome Image Converter!

Awesome Image Converter!

Convert any BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG image to a HTML, ASCII, or MATRIX image on the website itself! Fun to play with, trick out your photos, or use it as a quick tool for you photoshop lovers!

Only One Survivor in West Virginia Mine

See Folks this why you should wait for the Offical Word, Not to Rely on word of False Gods.
Only One Survivor in West Virginia Mine

TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) -- In a stunning and heartbreaking reversal, family members were told early Wednesday that 12 of 13 trapped coal miners were dead -- three hours after they began celebrating news that they were alive.

The survivor, identified by mining officials as 27-year-old Randal McCloy, was unconscious but moaning when he arrived at a hospital, the hospital said.

AMD's 'Live' to rival Intel's Viiv | CNET News.com

AMD's 'Live' to rival Intel's Viiv | CNET News.com

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based processor maker will unveil its "Live" brand at the Consumer Electronics Show, which takes place this week in Las Vegas.

The brand--whose logo will be printed on a sticker on the chassis of a desktop or notebook--will indicate that the computer in question is tuned for home entertainment. Live PCs will come with 7.1 surround sound capabilities, for instance, said Hal Speed, a marketing architect for AMD.

Classic news clips make BBC site debut | CNET News.com

Classic news clips make BBC site debut | CNET News.com

The BBC is allowing Internet users to download and edit news clips featuring some of the biggest events of the last 50 years.

U.K. cities to get blanket Wi-Fi coverage | CNET News.com

U.K. cities to get blanket Wi-Fi coverage | CNET News.com

United Kingdom has unveiled plans for citywide Wi-Fi networks that will give residents in nine cities high-speed wireless Internet access from laptops, PDAs and mobile phones.

The first phase of the project, due to be completed by March 2006, will see citywide Wi-Fi hot spots rolled out in Birmingham, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and Oxford, along with the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Camden and Islington