Recently, the internet giant handed out to researchers, the serach terms that over 650,000 of its subcribers used, in what was apparently an “innocent attempt to reach out to the academic community with research tools”.
Whilst the terms could not be linked to specific individuals, they could have contained personally identifiable information. This has upset many [...]
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WoW: Cataclysm – Guild Leveling and Talents
Hi everyone, Following up from my post on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm being announced, I thought I’d expand on some of the new guild features. In this post, I’ll specifically be touching on the subject of Guild Leveling and Talent Points. Guilds will level up similar to the way players... (more...)
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Ulduar: Flame Leviathan Easy Mode.
Since the release of Ulduar back in World of Warcraft patch 3.1, I’ve come across a lot of people, both in Guilds, and in PUGS, that don’t know you can activate Flame Leviathan in “Easy Mode” (that is, starting it so you don’t need to destroy all the towers to disable them). These... (more...)
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm announced!
Blizzard have announced their next exciting World of Warcraft expansion pack – “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm” packed full of exciting new content! From new zones, to new raid encounters, to reworks of the classic zones, including Flying in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms and a full... (more...)
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Burger King “Mens Fragrance”
Fast food chain Burger King has released a men’s fragrance with a scent of meat. The fragrance, called “Flame” is described by the company as “the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat” The fragrance is on sale in New York for $3.99 (£2.65) or is available... (more...)
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Youtube moves to widescreen!
Youtube recently announced they would be changing the size and aspect ratio of the standard video player on their site. We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in... (more...)
AOL apologise after handing out search data
On August - 8 - 2006
Categories: General
Photos transformed into 3D model
On August - 1 - 2006
Technology that transforms digital images into 3D models will be unveiled at a conference on Thursday.
Microsoft’s Photosynth takes collections of images, analyses them for similarities, and then displays them in a reconstructed 3D space.
The system, to be previewed at a computer graphics meeting in Boston, will allow users to walk or fly through a scene [...]
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Microsoft to charge for Office2007 beta
On July - 30 - 2006
To the suprise of many, starting on 2nd August 2006 at 6pm (PDT), Microsoft will be charging users $1.50 (£0.80) per download of Office2007.
This move apparently came round after the Office beta was alot more popular than expected, and with 3million downloads, that was five hundred percent more than Microsoft thought it would be.
Existing users [...]
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StuffPlug 3 Exclusive!
On July - 14 - 2006
Update: Stuffplug has now been released an is available here!
Yes that’s right! A techthisout.net exclusive preview of the newest pre-beta build of StuffPlug3, the very popular (now stand-alone!) add-on for Windows Live Messenger (which from now on will be reffered to as WLM).
It installed easily and quickly, but the installer isn’t the final one that [...]
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News
On July - 13 - 2006
Comments now have to be approved by an Administrator, so don’t worry if your comment doesn’t appear immediatly, it will be approved within 24 hours.
Categories: News
PlusNet wipes 700gb of customer emails.
On July - 12 - 2006
Quoted from Plus.Net:
This major incident occurred as a result of human error during work to resolve timeouts when collecting mails, which we reported via service status last week:
http://usertools.plus.net/status/archive/1152295291.htm
As of Sunday morning, things had progressed well, and we were on track to solve the issues with mail timeouts, which had started to occur following our move [...]
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Due to a family bereavement, I will not be posting for a week or so.
Categories: News
YouOS
On July - 8 - 2006
Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get more bizzare, out comes: the first ever online operating system.
I decided to give it a go, first using a guest account, and then signing up to a members account. If you create your own personal account, anything you save whilst logged in, will still be there when [...]
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Flash drives herald end of the hard disk
On July - 4 - 2006
Several manufacturers are showing large capacity hard drives based on Flash memory technology at the Computex trade show in Taipei.
The drives are lighter, less power-hungry and far more durable than traditional hard disk drives based on a rotating magnetic platter.The largest on display were PQI’s 64GB drives, and another company has a 32GB drive.
The PQI [...]
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Computer chip shatters speed records
On July - 4 - 2006
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — A super-cooled computer chip has shattered speed records for silicon-based electronics, but don’t expect your PC to hum along at 500 gigahertz anytime soon.
The chip only ran at the high speed when it was cooled to 451 degrees below zero — just 8 degrees above absolute zero, the coldest temperature possible [...]
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