Monthly Archives: November 2005

Xbox 360 Disassembled

Those crazy guys over at anandtech got their hands on one of the bundled Xbox 360s and naturally did what any curious technie would do, they tore it apart. Much to our delight they documented the entire thing. Definitely worth a look, they have some interesting stuff underneath that casing. Inside Microsoft’s Xbox 360

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Dungeons & Dragons Online

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stress Test, is now available for download, if your a fileplanet subscriber. Fileplanet subscribers who sign up for the Stress Test Event will be able to download a special client that will give them three days of access to a DDO Stress Test Event server during the week from Monday, November [...]

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Google offers Web Analysis Tools for free

Google is offering webmasters full-featured, powerful analytics package from Urchin to determine how many people are visiting their sites, to view the source of referrals to your site and what they’re clicking on. In March, Google acquired Urchin Software and promptly lowered the monthly cost of the company’s hosted Web analytics service, Urchin On Demand, [...]

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World Of Warcraft 10-Day Trial

With over 4 million players online, World of Warcraft has made gaming history. Now you can experience the intensity of Blizzard’s “massively epic” role-playing game for 10 days – absolutely free. Its being offered at File Planet currently, so grab yourself a copy. I play on the Sargeras realm, stop by and say hello.

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TeaChef

This months contest to cook with tea is up again. This months featured tea to use in cooking Rooibos, so head on over get your free sample and submit some recipes!

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Google Adsense

Well, you might have noticed I sold out and put some ads on the ol’ blog. I figured I might as well get paid for all this great content I report on…har har. Anyway I am now earning around $2/day on my better days. Its like getting free money! If you have a blog it [...]

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Silkroad Online

Silkroad Online is a new, free, MMORPG set in ancient china. The screenshots look very promising, and from the videos it seems to play similar to Lineage 2. The game will remain free forever and will rely on players purchasing upgrades and items in game with real cash. Its an intresting business model and it [...]

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Sony DRM – Rootkit

Freedom-to-Tinker has posted a good overview of the mess that Sony/BMG has gotten themselves into with their new Music CD DRM (Digital Rights Management) software. The sofware installed (if you can find it) hides the DRM program from operating system and prevents users from uninstalling it. In case you haven’t already disabled Autorun, now might [...]

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King Kong Trailer

Am amazing trailer for the new peter jackson film. I highly suggest checking it out, the previous teaser did not do the movie justice.

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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.3

An official set of release notes accompanying the update says fixes are included for: # AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services # AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access # Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support # disc recording when creating and burning media # .Mac sync services # Spotlight indexing [...]

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