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Flickr upsets it’s “old school” members


Flickr, which is arguably the most popular photo sharing site around recently announced that from March 15th onwards, all users will need to use a Yahoo! ID in order to login to their Flickr accounts thus putting the final strike on the merger between itself and Yahoo!
As if that wasn’t bad enough, they now decided [...]

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Despite Microsoft’s efforts to alienate it’s customers, it seems that they somehow left a loophole open that allows users to use an upgrade edition Windows Vista as full retail copy. The catch? You have to install Vista twice.

Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD and start the setup program.
When prompted to enter your product key, [...]

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Woman OBSESSED with the Ninja Turtles

This woman has re-defined obsession for me. I like the Ninja Turtles…hell, I’ve sat through Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation so my daughter could see the girl turtle…but this…this is BEYOND unhealthy…

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When the Second Generation iPod Shuffle was announced, one of the things that disappointed people about it was that it didn’t come with the new and improved headphones of the original iPod, or even the Nano’s.
Thankfully, the newly released colored Shuffles do come with these new headphones, but the question is, how do you distinguish [...]

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Nikon Update the D40 and D80’s firmware

Nikon, one of the most popular digital camera manufacturers recently released new firmware versions for the newcomer D40 DSLR and it’s older sibling, the D80.
The D40 update contains a range of new features and fixes including issues with flash exposure and Auto ISO, the D80 update includes fixes for a retouching mode crash and improvements [...]

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Vista Upgrade invalidates your Windows XP key

As if the Vista Upgrade version wasn’t bad enough already, compared to previous Windows Upgrades, now a blogger named (or known as) Blair is reporting that the Windows XP will become invalid which then prevents you from ever using Windows XP again.
Here’s a quote from Microsoft’s Vista EULA:
13. UPGRADES. To use upgrade software, you must [...]

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AVD-HARA your headphone’s best friend

How many times have you had to unwind your headphone cables? Yeah, I lost count too… I know that some headphones come with special cases, but those are usually big and cumbersome. Thankfully the clever designers at Elecom have made what I believe to be one of the best solutions I have ever seen for [...]

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Motorola MAXX Ve in the wild

Yes folks, Motorola is releasing yet another RAZR evil-twin with a 2 Megapixel camera with Autofocus, MP3 controls on the outside and the usual sexiness that the RAZR oozes.

This model will apparently be a Verison exclusive in the States and I doubt it will leave the country, at least in this variation. Although it’s no [...]

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iPod Shuffle – now in colors

The iPod has always been about style and music, but usually you have to pick between one of the two. But now, Apple has made your choice easier (or should I say harder?) by introducing brand new colors for it’s very popular screen’less iPod, the Shuffle.

Besides taking new colors, the new Shuffle also comes with [...]

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Buy yourself the complete NES collection

If you’re a die-hard fan of Nintendo and the golden 8-bit era, then you might be interested to hear that someone is selling a NES complete with almost every single game ever made for it! Behold the wonder that is the NES collection:

The clever seller of this collection apparently bought many of these through eBay [...]

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If you are planning on buying an upgrade version of Windows Vista tomorrow then you should first realize that if you buy an upgrade version, it will require an already installed version of Windows 2000 or XP to proceed.
Although the installation does allow users to backup the already installed Operative System to then make a [...]

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16 Port USB 2.0 Hub

This product’s description is short and simple. It has 16 USB 2.0 ports, allows you to hook it up to 2 different PCs and switch between them like a keyboard/mouse switch.

While it may not earn any prizes for design, it would certainly make my life a lot easier. Good luck in finding an “American” or [...]

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Luxeed the LED-configurable keyboard

A Korean company called Luxiium are now selling what is one of the best looking keyboards I have ever seen (sorry Apple and Logitech).

This keyboard features fully configurable color LED-backlit-keys. Which means you can set different color patterns for your keyboard depending on the program you’re using, to distinguish better which keys are shortcuts and [...]

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If you were hoping in buying that new Burning Crusade epic sword on eBay this weekend then think again.
I spoke today with a media representative for the company, who confirmed that eBay is now delisting all auctions for ‘virtual artifacts’ from the site. This includes currency, items, and accounts/characters; not even the ‘neopoints’ used in [...]

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According to DriveSentry, a security vendor, half of the currently distributed “cracked” versions of Windows are in fact malware.
Users who fall for the scam can end up with some pretty nasty problems, according to Lynch. DriveSentry researchers have found malicious key-logging software and spyware on about half of the downloads it has examined recently, he [...]

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Nintendo News Channel goes live

I you have an wifi-connected Wii, then you probably woke up yesterday and saw it shinning it’s disk tray as if it was trying to tell you something. Well, now the Wii has plenty of things to say to you every day, because it’s promised News Channel has finally been released.
If you’ve used the Wii’s [...]

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