Friday, September 4, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Holly Madison on Surgery and How the Body Is Just a Tool

HTTP:: Holly Madison on Surgery and How the Body Is Just a Tool
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Holly Madison is gorgeous, so it’s no wonder she was Hugh Hefner’s number-one girlfriend for so many years and the one of whom people liked to believe she would be able to convince the mogul to settle down in marriage again. Of course, this glamor model did not always have the perfect sizes she has now, as she reveals in a recent interview with Life&Style the extent of her surgical interventions, as well as her belief that her body is just a tool. Good looks don’t really matter, Madison says, unless to the extent one is able to use them to get somewhere. Ironically enough, the model says that real beauty comes from the inside, which means she only had plastic surgery in order to achieve some goals that she wouldn’t have otherwise. Madison is no hypocrite, though, in that she admits she’s not prettier now that she has had work done. She’s only more famous, which is exactly what she wanted. She moved with Hugh Hefner at the mansion in 2001 and, for a girl !
who always stuffed her bra to look fuller, spending time in such close proximity of the other girls meant a serious hit to her self-confidence. In just a short while, she decided to undergo surgery. “Living with Hef brought down my self-esteem a lot. I was comparing myself to the other girls… Y...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Microsoft can keep on selling Word

HTTP:: Microsoft can keep on selling Word
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p2pnet news view | Products:- Microsoft can keep on selling Word â€" for a while, at least.nCanadian i4i successfully won an order compelling it to halt sales of the application, one of its oldest.nThe Toronto company won the permanent injunction and damages and interest totalling more than $290 million, said p2pnet.nBut the US Court of [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Kathy Griffin Reveals History of Drug Abuse and Surgery

HTTP:: Kathy Griffin Reveals History of Drug Abuse and Surgery
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Kathy Griffin, the self-titled “D-List” who just recently managed to surprise all her detractors by unveiling an almost perfect swimsuit body, admits that she wasn’t always this confident with her looks as she is now at 48. As a matter of fact, the star explains in her upcoming book, as cited by People magazine, there was a time when she tried everything to fit Hollywood’s standards, from diet pills, to starving herself, drugs and plastic surgery. Clearly, not a record to be proud of, but Griffin is, again, shamelessly exposing the Hollywood body for what it is by telling women all over the world they should never try to get their idol’s enviable silhouette by any other means than eating right and working out. Similarly, the comedienne explains, women should never let someone else tell them how they should look: beauty, just like confidence, has to come from within and we should never alter ourselves with plastic surgery, unless we know for a fact this is what w!
e want. In this sense, Griffin offers her own example, of how she got a nose job at 26 just because people told her she should. Fortunately, she knows now that no one really expects her to look in a certain way, which is how she came to embrace her looks and to love herself as she is. “What I can&rsq...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Google China exec off to pastures new

HTTP:: Google China exec off to pastures new
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p2pnet news view | Advertising:- ‘I’m going to fucking kill Google!’nSo, reportedly, swore Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer when he learned Gargoyle had induced Microsoft vp Kai-Fu Lee (right) to leave what was then Bill and the Boyz to lead an R&D center in China.nBallmer was also said by John Battelle in his Searchblog to have [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: New China online content regulations

HTTP:: New China online content regulations
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p2pnet news view Music:- More bad news for China’s Baidu search company, still suffering repercussions from the tainted milk scandal of almost exactly a year ago.n‘Any song, music video, and flash video transmitted online, through mobile or fixed-line, as well as direct links to music products.’nThat’s the definition of China’s Ministry of Culture (MoC) of [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: DoJ 1 98M IP enforcement grant

HTTP:: DoJ 1 98M IP enforcement grant
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p2pnet news view Movies | Music:- American taxpayers have once again come through handsomely for Hollywood and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music in almost exactly the same amount a jury decided Jammie Thomas-Rasset owes the Big 4 labels.nJammie, a very ordinary person with absolutely no significant financial resources, was ordered to find [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: UK Three Strikes plan under heavy fire

HTTP:: UK Three Strikes plan under heavy fire
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- “A rift has opened between music’s creators and its record labels, with a broad alliance of musicians, songwriters and producers fiercely criticising the business secretary Lord Mandelson’s plans to cut off the broadband connections of internet users who illegally download music.”nSo says The Guardian.nMandelson’s plans aren’t Mandelson’s plans, however. [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Drakan The Ancients 039 Gates Hints PS2

HTTP:: Drakan The Ancients 039 Gates Hints PS2
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Drakan: The Ancients' Gates is a videogame developed by Surreal Software Inc. and published by Sony Computer Entertainment of America. The game was only released for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and launched in January 2002.The title can be classed as a cross between role playing gaming and an adventure experience, with some medieval and fantasy elements. It is being played from a third person perspective.Drakan: The Ancients' Gates is a pretty typical role playing fantasy experience that came out at a moment when developers and publishers were interested in cashing in on a trend. There's a very old and somewhat decaying world, that of Drakan, which is depicted using the full-fledged possibilities of the PlayStation 2.There are, of course, immortal and very powerful Spirit Dragons held captive within it. There are the protagonists, which are a Dragon, called Arokh, and a very capable and female warrior, called Rynn. They need to save the aforementioned spiritual lead!
ers in order to restore the world to its former glory.Drakan: The Ancients' Gates has eight different environments that can be explored, there are 50 weapons, which the characters can use and a wide array of spells that can be employed in order to defeat the various enemies and reach the goal of the game. One of the mos...
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Pingie: HTTP:: QNAP Unveils New Line of VioStor Network Video Recorders

HTTP:: QNAP Unveils New Line of VioStor Network Video Recorders
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Taiwan-based QNAP, a leading provider of storage solutions and products, has recently announced the expansion of its line of VioStor video-surveillance systems, with the introduction of four new, high-performance desktop and rack-mounted models that have been specifically targeted at larger facilities. According to the company, the new lineup includes the rack-mounted VS-8032U-RP and VS-8024U-RP and the desktop tower VS-8032 and VS-8024. All of the aforementioned models have been built to simultaneously record video from up to 32 (for racks) and 24 (desktop) IP cameras.“The VS-8000 series is the excellent surveillance solution for the users who need a security system capable of large storage for long-term video recording and flexible integration with different IP cameras. We believe the NVR with the firmware 3.1.0 is the perfect option for them,” Peace Kuo, product manager of QNAP Security, says.The new VS-8000 series can be configured with up to eight hot-swappable har!
d drives for up to 16TB of total storage capacity, with support for high-performance RAID 0/1/5/6/5+. This provides customers with a large storage solution for video recording. In addition, QNAP claims that all four models are capable of recording from up to 8MP IP cameras, with support f...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Scores dead in Nato raid on Kunduz

HTTP:: Scores dead in Nato raid on Kunduz
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At least 60 Afghans, including civilians, have been killed in night-time assault.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Director Michael Bay Is Hitler on Set Megan Fox Says

HTTP:: Director Michael Bay Is Hitler on Set Megan Fox Says
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Megan Fox is currently promoting her upcoming horror comedy, “Jennifer’s Body,” and, consequently, she is everywhere in the media these days. The topics she agrees to open up on are varied as well, ranging from how she might suffer from schizophrenia to feminist matters and, more recently, how director Michael Bay is like Hitler on the set of a film. The gorgeous actress is featured in the latest issue of Wonderland magazine, as we also told you a short while back. The amazing ‘80s-inspired photospread also comes with a lengthy interview, in which, among others, Fox talks about what it’s like to work with Michael Bay, the director that literally invented onscreen explosions, as his fans put it jokingly. According to Megan, things could be better, since Bay has a tendency to be too controlling, which makes him like Hitler or, at best, Napoleon. “God, I really wish I could go loose on this one. He’s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous m!
ad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he’s not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he’s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Kate Gosselin Turns Down 400000 Playboy Offer

HTTP:: Kate Gosselin Turns Down 400000 Playboy Offer
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According to the latest print issue of Star magazine, Kate Gosselin might be considered the perfect playmate by her eight children, but they’re not alone in thinking that. The mag claims that none other than Hugh Hefner himself has reached out to the television personality, offering her $400,000 for a spread in his popular men’s magazine, an offer she turned down â€" story via here. Kate, it seems, was horrified at the idea that she might do the spread (which could have been as tasteful or, on the contrary, as revealing as she would have wanted) and have her children see it, that she immediately refused Hefner’s more-than-generous offer. Moreover, an unnamed tipster says for the US tab, the refusal had absolutely nothing to do with Kate’s body and the way she saw herself, since she had more than plenty of confidence in her looks, especially given that she gave birth to eight children. “Hugh sent her a letter, but Kate was totally mortified and threw it away! S!
he didn’t think it was appropriate because of the children. She’s proud of the way she looks.” the insider reveals for Star magazine. If so, this would not be the first time that Kate makes a decision with the welfare of the children in mind, like she revealed just recently while on CNN’s ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Google Domestic Trends Released for Google Finance

HTTP:: Google Domestic Trends Released for Google Finance
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Google Finance is bolstering its offering with a new product that it hopes will set it apart in the very competitive market, where Google is actually trailing by a significant margin. With the new Google Domestic Trends, the company wants to leverage its most powerful asset, search data, by using it to give insight into key economic indicators, helping interested users “predict the present.” “Google Domestic Trends tracks Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy. The changes in the search volume of a given sector on google.com may provide useful economic insight. We've created 23 indexes that track the major economic sectors, such as retail, auto and unemployment,” Hal Varian, chief economist, and Ayan Mandal, product manager, Google Finance, wrote. “For example, the Google Luxuries Index tracks queries like [jewelry], [rings], [diamond], [ring], [jewelers], [tiffany] and so forth.” The idea is pretty simple, by using the search trend data!
for various keywords, the new tool could give those interested in the respective field a new perspective and could be used to anticipate a future trend or just analyze the current one. Google Finance currently has several indexes related to business sectors or just overall economic markers. The...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Tokio Hotel Releases Video for Automatic

HTTP:: Tokio Hotel Releases Video for Automatic
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Tokio Hotel’s third studio album reaches the US this October and, understandably, the boys from the band are already preparing to take over the music scene here with their new tracks. Until that happens, though, fans here will have to make due with the video for their first single off “Humanoid,” “Automatic,” which has just been released and is making the rounds on the Internet, as AceShowbiz can confirm. The plot of the video is simple, just like the message of the song. It shows the band members driving cars and performing on a stage in the desert, while a sub-plot deals with the love story between two robots that bear a close resemblance to those that appeared in this year’s blockbuster “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” It took three days to shoot and, according to frontman Bill Kaulitz, it was no walk in the park, since they were stranded and completely torn from civilization. It was fun, nonetheless. “Shooting the ‘Automatic’ video three !
days in the desert was quite an adventure. It was in the middle of nowhere in Africa â€" no cell phone reception, no Internet, not even paved roads.” Kaulitz tells Teen Vogue, as cited by the aforementioned publication. It was all well worth it in the end, though. “But in return we g...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Proud to be a C UNIX programmer

HTTP:: Proud to be a C UNIX programmer
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p2pnet news view P2P:- In the autumn of 1984 I completed the Diploma in Computer Science at Cambridge University and started looking for my first job in the computing industry.nCambridge was a good place to be a programmer at the time. Trinity College had built its Science Park on the northern fringe of the city [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: New RIAA charge illegal Twittering

HTTP:: New RIAA charge illegal Twittering
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p2pnet news view P2P | RIAA:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA has a new spurious charge for Boston doctoral student Joel Tenenbaum »»»nnUsing Twitter in a manner likely to encourage people not to take RIAA bullshit seriously.nn“In July, a federal jury ordered Mr. Tenenbaum to pay $675,000 to record labels for [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: OPC to Bell Tell people about DPI

HTTP:: OPC to Bell Tell people about DPI
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Privacy Commissioner Janet Stoddart says it’s time for Bell Canada to tell people what’s what with DPI, deep packet inspection.n“Network managers argue that deep packet inspection is one tool among many that help them ensure networks can accommodate the varying bandwidth demands of their users” she says in a [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Apple s EULA Forbids Direct Upgrade from Tiger to OS X 10 6

HTTP:: Apple s EULA Forbids Direct Upgrade from Tiger to OS X 10 6
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It has been revealed that an Intel Mac user can directly install Snow Leopard over Tiger, as the system specs and install disc see the match and carry out the instructions. However, as surprising as this may sound to some, Apple says it’s not allowed. A little while ago, tech-columnist Walt Mossberg stated that the Snow Leopard upgrade "will work properly on [...]Tiger equipped Macs, so you can save the extra $140." The tests have been made and, yes, Walt was right. You can save the extra buck, but that doesn’t mean you should, a TUAW report suggests. Just so everyone is on the same level here, Apple intended Snow Leopard as an upgrade from OS X 10.5 Leopard. This means that, as an OS X 10.4 Tiger user, you’d have to first go through an upgrade to Leopard, and then install Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. While Leopard users have an easy task of upgrading to the latest Mac OS, Tiger users must purchase the $169 Mac Box Set, which contains three discs: Mac OS X v10.6 Snow !
Leopard, iLife ’09, and iWork ’09, according to Apple’s End User License Agreement. Why? Because Tiger users didn’t pay for the upgrade to Leopard, on which OS X 10.6 is built. An excerpt from Apple’s Snow Leopard EULA can be found below. "C. Le...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Fujitsu 039 s Esprimo Q 1500 Packs Core 2 Duo in SFF Design

HTTP:: Fujitsu 039 s Esprimo Q 1500 Packs Core 2 Duo in SFF Design
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It would appear that the PC market has been flooded with new computer systems that are based on Intel's low-power Atom processors. Most of these systems come in compact, mini form factors and are designed for business users or consumers that are looking for a rig that can provide a basic computing experience, while also saving energy and space. However, there are a couple of systems that take advantage of the same small form factor, but combing it with a higher-performance desktop processor. Such is the case with one of Fujitsu's latest releases, the Esprimo Q 1500, a desktop PC that weights in at only 1.7kg and is just 5cm tall.Unlike the majority of the systems that have recently been launched on the market, the Esprimo Q 1500 hasn't compromised on performance and has been featured with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. This choice enables users to deal with an increased computing power over Atom-based systems, but in a form factor similar to those mini PCs that use the Atom!
.In addition to the Core 2 Duo processors, the new Esprimo Q 1500 mini PC has been featured with 4GB of RAM and a high-capacity, 320GB hard drive. This should be enough to provide users with a mainstream computing experience, inside a small and quiet desktop. According to available details, th...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Pattinson and Eclipse Cast Are Not on Lockdown

HTTP:: Pattinson and Eclipse Cast Are Not on Lockdown
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“Eclipse,” the third installment in “The Twilight Saga,” is currently shooting on location in Vancouver, as fans must already know. The entire cast is assembled, including Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, so a rumor emerged that director David Slade was sick of their ramblings about and had placed them on lockdown. Not quite so, Summit says, as cited by EntertainmentWise. According to reports earlier this week, Slade was apparently sick and tired with the wild ways of the entire cast, as well as with the constant media attention that they inevitably drew to themselves. Therefore, he forbade them to leave their temporary homes to some extent by placing them on “lockdown,” so that he could concentrate on his work and get “Eclipse” done as soon as possible, word in the tabloid media had it. In other words, he told them they should return to their hotel rooms as soon as shooting was done for the day. As it turns out, this was never the c!
ase and the movie studio behind the highly successful franchise, Summit Entertainment, wants fans to know the report was entirely unfounded. “A spokesperson for Summit Entertainment told Gossip Cop ‘the idea that there is a lockdown is completely false.’” EntertainmentWise writes, ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Amazon Makes Amends for 039 1984 039 Incident

HTTP:: Amazon Makes Amends for 039 1984 039 Incident
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Amazon set the media, bloggers and many vocal users ablaze in July, when it remotely deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984, along with other e-books, which were illegally put on the company's store, from its Kindle devices. After the incident and the public outcry, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos himself apologized for the matter. By this point, most people have generally forgotten the matter, but Amazon is still trying to make amends and is offering to restore the deleted copy, along with any annotations the users may have had or give them a $30 Amazon gift certificate. “As you were one of the customers impacted by the removal of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' from your Kindle device in July of this year, we would like to offer you the option to have us re-deliver this book to your Kindle along with any annotations you made. You will not be charged for the book. If you do not wish to have us re-deliver the book to your Kindle, you can instead choose to receive an Amazon.com electronic !
gift certificate or check for $30,” an email sent to the ones affected reads. At the time, Amazon managed to raise a lot of concerns over how much control a company should have over the virtual goods it sold and what exactly ownership meant in a world where a company could take back, without your consent or even knowledge, th...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download ShareTool 1 2 9 for Mac OS X

HTTP:: Download ShareTool 1 2 9 for Mac OS X
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Yazsoft has updated ShareTool, an app that allows you to access your home network remotely. ShareTool now supports full Playback integration, has a Hi-res ShareTool icon and adds various internal and UI tweaks, according to the app’s developers. ShareTool is a useful app that lets you access all of the Bonjour services on your home network (iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, printing, and more) from anywhere in the world. Developed for Bonjour users looking to access all of their services on their home network from anywhere in the world, ShareTool includes iTunes music sharing, screen sharing, file sharing, etc. The software automatically configures routers supporting NAT-PMP or UpnP; remote services automatically appear in Finder, iTunes, and other applications; the app enables remote access for any application or service that advertises itself using Bonjour and runs over TCP/IP; all network traffic is strongly encrypted, while access to your services !
requires your Mac OS X username and password, to name a few key features of this useful piece of software. Similar to Apple’s Back To My Mac (BTMM) feature, ShareTool still poses some significant differences. For example, BTMM only works with Screen Sharing and File Sharing, whereas ShareTool also works with iTunes, iPhoto...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Heidi Montag Rehearsed 45 Hours for Horrible Miss Universe Performance

HTTP:: Heidi Montag Rehearsed 45 Hours for Horrible Miss Universe Performance
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It’s been a few days since the Miss Universe beauty pageant took place but, for some reason or another, the media is still ablaze with talk of the show, and of one performance in particular. Heidi Montag, reality television star with her sight set on becoming a pop artist, performed her latest single, “Body Language,” during the competition, in what turned out to be an epic fail, one of the most “embarrassing” and “horrible” shows of our times. Still, it was not her fault, Michael Schwandt, who choreographed this year’s edition of the pageant, tells Guanabee. The choreographer admits to working for no less than 45 hours with Montag, rehearsing the awkward routine of which many said she had come up with herself. Heidi is not a dancer, Schwandt says by means of defending herself in the media, and people should just put their hate of her aside and admit the obvious: for a non-dancer, Montag did pretty good at the Miss Universe show, better than many establish!
ed pop artists of today. “She was actually super, super nice and she was very driven on this project. She rehearsed her butt off. I think we had initially scheduled about fifteen rehearsals, which is a lot for a 2 ½ minute performance. […] We actually ended up...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Rumor Mill Radeon HD 5800 Pricing Revealed

HTTP:: Rumor Mill Radeon HD 5800 Pricing Revealed
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In the past couple of weeks, we have seen a considerable number of articles on AMD's much-anticipated, next-generation line of desktop graphics cards, presumably part of the chip maker's upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5000 series of GPUs, but, as we are approaching an alleged release date, the rumors just keep coming. According to the most recent details that have leaked on the Internet, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker plans to launch three new cards this September, all of which will be able to support Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 11 API. In addition, it appears that, for the first time, we now have the price points of the said cards. According to a recent news article on the Bright Side of News, the AMD next-generation DirectX 11 lineup will include three new cards, allegedly called Radeon 5850, 5870 and 5870X2. The naming scheme is somewhat explainable, as it will continue the company's current line of GPUs, in the HD 4000 series, providing users with an increased per!
formance and new features. What is of importance is that the article includes the launch prices of the said cards, which should give users a pretty general idea of what to expect from the chip maker. Apparently, AMD plans to launch the top-of-the-line Radeon HD500 series at prices between US$279 to US$599, with the Radeon HD 5850 and the H...
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Pingie: HTTP:: BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac Leaked and Available for Download

HTTP:: BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac Leaked and Available for Download
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As Research in Motion (RIM) is getting ready for the official release of BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac, the management tool has already been leaked to the web. “BlackBerry_Desktop_Manager_english language.dmg” is freely available for download via file-sharing sites like MegaUpload and RapidShare. The DMG file contains both the application installer, as well as a tool to uninstall BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac. RIM has recently announced that BlackBerry Desktop Software is coming to Mac in September. “With BlackBerry Desktop Software you'll be able sync your iTunes playlists and personal information like contacts, tasks and appointments,” the company states on its website. Additionally, users of the manager will be able to “install new software, games, and more. BlackBerry Desktop Software will offer the best of both worlds by allowing you to manage aspects of your BlackBerry® smartphone from your Mac,” according to RIM, which is encouraging visitors!
to sign up now and be the first to know when the piece of software is (officially) available. Confirmed by CrackBerry.com, BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac users has been leaked to the Internet. The 1.0.0 beta piece of software is prone to buggy behavior. Citing “the...
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Pingie: HTTP:: 750GB On The Go Portable Drives Available from OWC

HTTP:: 750GB On The Go Portable Drives Available from OWC
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Trying to provide users with a high-capacity storage solution that is available in a portable form factor, OWC has recently launched a new portable hard drive, part of the company's growing line of notebook drive products. The new solution has been designed to offer users as much as 750GB of on-the-go storage space, combined with a significant number of connectivity options. The new drive will be available as part of the company's Bus-powered On-The-Go Pro models, providing users with an ultraportable, high-capacity storage solution.According to the technical specifications of the new, high-capacity drives, users will be faced with 2.5-inch drives that spin at 5,200RPM, coupled with 8MB of cache. This provides for a low-power, energy-efficient storage solution that can be connected to a computer system through a number of connectivity options. The Mercury On-The-Go Pro drive is available with a triple connectivity interface, including FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0, but the d!
rive is also available in a combo FireWire 400+ USB 2.0 option, as well as a standard, simple USB 2.0 model.In addition, the drives are featured with a fanless design for the enclosures and are Bus-powered, but there's also an option for an AC adapter. To sweeten the offer, the drive is bundled with a ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Yahoo News Moves Product Development to Taiwan

HTTP:: Yahoo News Moves Product Development to Taiwan
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Yahoo is undergoing some major transformations, as it intends to shift towards more editorial content and away from search. Having sold its search business to Microsoft, Yahoo says it will focus on some core properties like its homepage. In an interesting move, though, the company is in the process of splitting several departments in its Yahoo News unit, moving the product management, engineer and UI design teams to Taiwan. As BoomTown reports, the editorial staff of Yahoo News will remain stateside, mostly at the company's offices in Santa Clara, California, but the other departments have already been moved across the Pacific. Yahoo News is the largest news site online, with over 48 million unique, monthly visitors and is an important part of the Yahoo ecosystem. While some at Yahoo went so far as to say that this wasn't a cost-cutting move, but rather one that would spur faster changes by “leveraging a global team,” it comes in a time when Yahoo is cutting costs ha!
rd with several layoffs and other measures, even closing a number of underperforming ventures. Still, many at Yahoo News are less than happy with the move and believe it would make it much harder for the unit to grow and maintain its status as the number-one online news source in the world. “We are losing m...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Mac OS X Gets DivX 7 0 1 Free Download

HTTP:: Mac OS X Gets DivX 7 0 1 Free Download
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Developed by the company with the same name, DivX for Mac provides everything you need to enjoy high-quality, digital videos on your computer. DivX 7 includes support for high-definition H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of the DivX technology. (It goes without saying, but just to be on the safe side, that) DivX enables users to play their DivX files (.divx, .avi) on a myriad of DivX-certified devices. With the release of DivX 7.0.1 for Mac OS X, the video-playback software suite now supports DivX Plus files (.mkv/H.264/AAC) and has an updated user interface (UI). DivX Codec 6.8.3 has been updated, as well, according to the release notes. The codec now offers up to 50% faster decoding on multi-core computers for a better HD Playback, as well as new, custom matrices that allow for the better fine-tuning of the encoder for specific content type, according to the developers. DivX Converter 1.3.1, included with the DivX 7 downlo!
ad, “has been updated to work on Leopard (and to work in general),” the changelog says. Sadly for PowerPC users, DivX for Mac 7 is now officially supported on Intel machines only. As such, minimum system requirements for DivX for Mac version 7.0 (and above) include Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), an Intel CPU running at 1GHz (or faster), and...
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Pingie: HTTP:: ASUS Intros N61 and N71 Laptops for Multimedia Enthusiasts

HTTP:: ASUS Intros N61 and N71 Laptops for Multimedia Enthusiasts
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Trying to update its product portfolio before the upcoming holiday shopping season, Taiwan's ASUSTeK has recently announced the introduction of the new N61 and N71 multimedia-series of laptops. Equipped with the latest hardware components on the market, the new laptops combine an exclusive ASUS SonicMaster technology with Altec Lansing speakers and SRS Premium Sound, to provide uses with a high-quality sound and multimedia experience. In addition, the new laptops have been equipped with high-quality, 16-inch and 17.3-inch, LED-backlit displays, each one boasting a 16:9 aspect ratio.Kicking off with the 16-inch ASUS N61 series, the company has announced two new models, the N61Vn and the N61Vg, with the first boasting improved components, like Intel's Core 2 Quad mobile Q9000 processor, clocked at 2GHz. The N61Vn also comes with two DDR3 1066MHz memory DIMMs, NVIDIA's GeForce GT 240M graphics card with 1GB of DDR3 VRAM, a large-capacity, high-performance, 500GB, 7200RPM hard !
drive and a Blu-ray DVD combo optical drive unit.The N71 series is basically an upgrade to the N61 series, also providing users with two new models, the N71Vn and the N71Vg. As far as the system's processor, graphics, and optical drive are concerned, the N71Vn is on par with the N61Vn. However,...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download LimeWire 5 3 2 for Mac OS X

HTTP:: Download LimeWire 5 3 2 for Mac OS X
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LimeWire X is a free, peer-to-peer (P2P), file-sharing client for Mac OS X. It uses the Java platform to locate files, as well as share files, and it is one of the few P2P, file-sharing solutions of its kind for the Mac. LimeWire is compatible with all major platforms and running over the Gnutella Network. The release notes for LimeWire 5.3.2 reveal that the piece of software now uses a different 'Upgrade to Pro' notification box. Changes from its previous version are included with this release as well. Those include: - Added prioritize files ability within a torrent. You can set the priority of which files to download first and can set which files not to download at all. - Added Friend notification when using the Facebook service with Friends. - Updated to the file information dialog box. - Fixed the Media Player. - Fixed a bug when the splash screen would cause an exception on system startup. - Fixed a bug when restoring LimeWire from the Mac tray with the splash s!
creen visible. LimeWire X is touted as being the fastest, easiest, most advanced file-sharing program of its kind. The piece of software boasts iTunes integration on both Mac and Windows, as well as a browse-host feature, which works even through firewalls. LimeWire connects to the network using GWebCac...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Get Help Oprah Tells Chris Brown

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Chris Brown is, as everyone must already know by now, finally speaking out about the February incident, when he brutally attacked then-girlfriend Rihanna and left her almost unconscious as the police were on their way. He started off with a Larry King interview, where he described the whole occurrence as still unbelievable, since it went completely against his character, and probably more sit-downs of the kind are to follow. There is one person, though, who will not have Brown on her couch anytime soon, if the latest statement is any indication in this sense. Following what Brown told the media about one of Oprah’s shows, the queen of television herself (also known as the Big O) has publicly reprimanded the singer, telling him he’d better get the help he needs fast and learn to stop mixing between business and aspects of the personal life. It all started, as TMZ says, with one of Oprah’s shows, where she took the Brown-Rihanna incident to speak against domestic vi!
olence. Brown was not happy about it and he told People magazine about that, saying that Oprah should have treated him with more respect and even friendliness, especially since he took time out to perform at one of her charities. But Oprah is not so easily intimidated. “Oprah is very appreciative that Chris Brown performed at her sc...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Intel Reportedly Planning to Put Westmere in Servers

HTTP:: Intel Reportedly Planning to Put Westmere in Servers
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading vendor of high-performance, x86-based computer processors, is reportedly planning to put its upcoming Westmere processors into single-socket, entry-level server systems. Codenamed Clarkdale, Intel's next-generation, mainstream, dual-core CPUs will be designed using the new Westmere architecture and will come with an integrated graphics core. According to the chip maker, there are plans for versions based on the aforementioned processors that will go inside single-socket servers. During a discussion of Intel's collaboration with software giant Microsoft on the much-anticipated Windows 7 operating system, the world's leading chip maker offered details on its product roadmap, which includes the much-anticipated Core i3 and Core i5 brands, for the mainstream market. “It is true that we do single-socket server and embedded derivatives on our client parts, but [there is] no announcement at this time,” George Alfs, an I!
ntel spokesperson, said, according to a recent news report by the IDG News Service. Intel's current line of Core 2 Duo chips, designed for mainstream computer systems, will be updated with the Clarkdale chips, designed to provide users with an improved performance and reduced power consumption. Thanks to the integrated gr...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download New Dropbox 0 7 15 for Mac OS X

HTTP:: Download New Dropbox 0 7 15 for Mac OS X
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Evenflow Inc., the maker of Dropbox, has issued an update to its sync & backup app, improving column view, adding a more reliable overlays/context menu integration, and fixes to a couple of Finder crashes. According to the development team behind Dropbox, column view should properly display overlays over quicklook previews. Overlays/context menu integration should appear more reliable as well. However, Evenflow urges users to report if they still don't have overlays after restarting the finder and Dropbox â€" the team is constantly striving to improve the software, whether it’s for free users, or paid account holders. For those who are not very familiar with Dropbox, it is a complete, file-sharing, backup & sync solution available in both free and paid form. The cross-platform software runs on Mac OS X versions 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard), as well as on Windows and Linux. Snow Leopard is now fully supported too. With 2GB of storage (free account) and the ap!
p installed on multiple systems, one can keep important files up-to-date, or instantly share those files with others through a simple drag-and-drop operation. 50GB plans are available for those who also use Dropbox as a secure backup solution. You can have Dropbox working for you on as many systems as you wish. Soon, the iPhone wi...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download VueScan 8 5 27 for Mac OS X

HTTP:: Download VueScan 8 5 27 for Mac OS X
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Hamrick Software has released a new version of its flagship OS X app, VueScan. The piece of software assists Mac users in producing quality scans, allowing tweaks to color balance, and more. Version 8.5.27 for Mac improves the auto strip film alignment with Nikon film scanners and fixes a Snow Leopard bug, among changes. According to the release notes, VueScan 8.5.27 fixes a problem with HP scanners on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), as well as a problem with HP DeskJet F735. In addition to the improved auto strip film alignment with Nikon film scanners mentioned above, VueScan 8.5.27 improves German language support. “VueScan 0.1 was first released in 1998 with support for a single scanner on Windows only. Within 5 years VueScan supported more than 400 scanners and after 10 years of development, VueScan now supports more than 1,200 scanners on 3 operating systems and in 40 languages, has been downloaded more than 5 million times and has been purchased by more than 170,00!
0 people worldwide,” Ed Hamrick, the creator of VueScan, said. Download the trial version of VueScan using the link below, to either try the app, or update to the latest version. The software will automatically recognize if you've already purchased it. All you need to do is install it over the old version of VueScan. Upgrad...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Alicia Silverstone on How Being a Vegan Keeps Her Young and Trim

HTTP:: Alicia Silverstone on How Being a Vegan Keeps Her Young and Trim
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The entire world knows that Alicia Silverstone, literally the hottest chick of the ‘90s, as many still refer to her thanks to her appearances in several Aerosmith videos, is a vegan. Not only has the star spoken out for PETA on countless occasions, but she also uses whatever chance she gets to draw attention to the many benefits of such a lifestyle, just like she also does in the latest issue of Health magazine. Silverstone is now preparing for the release of her book, “The Kind Diet,” in which she advocates a different approach to dieting, one that is not necessarily based on restrictions and limits, but rather on a positive attitude as regards one’s body. Becoming vegan is not only a matter of losing weight, the actress tells the publication, but also a question of feeling good in one’s skin and, perhaps most importantly for the vast majority of women, looking younger than their real age. At 32, Alicia could easily pass for someone in her twenties, and the a!
ctress credits that to her diet. Yet, she did not turn vegan because she wanted to lose weight, she explains. “I didn’t come at it, honestly, from a health point of view. I was 21 when I went vegan. And when anybody told me to be healthy, I thought people were just telling me [to lose we...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Arctic now warmest in 2000 years researchers say

HTTP:: Arctic now warmest in 2000 years researchers say
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions pushed Arctic temperatures in the last decade to the highest levels in at least 2,000 years, reversing a natural cooling trend that should have lasted four more millennia.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: p2pnet World Headlines Sept 3 2009

HTTP:: p2pnet World Headlines Sept 3 2009
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Hate-speech law violates Charter rights, tribunal rules Globe and MailnA federal law governing hate speech violates Canadians’ charter rights to freedom of expression, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled. The development could give more ammunition to those who complain that the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which refers cases to the tribunal, is engaging in [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Plus Size Model Lizzie Miller Brings Attention to the Average Woman

HTTP:: Plus Size Model Lizzie Miller Brings Attention to the Average Woman
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The September issue of Glamour magazine featured on page 194, almost suffocated by ads and fashion shots depicting stick-thin, almost breakable models, a small picture of a woman to whom every other one out there could relate. Her name is Lizzie Miller: she is a 20-year-old model who, at 1.80m, weighs about 80 kg, meaning around or less than the average American woman, and who is considered by the industry too fat to model even plus-size lines. Her case has brought attention to the average lady at last, ABC News says. The tiny photo in the women’s mag showed Miller wearing nothing but a winning smile. However, it was not her chest, her arms or her legs that caught the eye, but rather a very visible, albeit small, roll of fat on her stomach. The moment the print issue of the magazine hit newsstands, tens of women (and even some men) rushed to the magazine’s website to express their satisfaction at finally getting a real woman in the pages of a glossy magazine. This k!
ind of attention has inevitably brought back the question of whether part of today’s women’s problems are not also related to the sense of alienation they feel every time they open up a magazine, or watch TV, or simply walk around. It has also made of Miller the hottest commodity in modeling at t...
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Pingie: HTTP:: UK ISPs decry anti file sharing plan

HTTP:: UK ISPs decry anti file sharing plan
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Major UK ISPs and consumer organisations are calling for reversal of policies which have caused thousands of people in America to be penalised as accused criminals and thieves without ever having been near a court.nPut another way, they should be presumed innocent until proven guilty, say Charles Dunstone, talktalk; [...]
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