Microsoft employees search with Google rather than MSN

A staggering 66.7% of search traffic [originating from 98052 (Redmond, WA)] goes through Google rather than MSN�s paltry 1.27%. Where�s the in house team spirit guys?! Now I know what the MS employee next to me on the bus is using for searching the net. Google!

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DJ Scratch interface for iPod

This software created by art student lets you scratch & reverse tunes using your iPod dial interface.

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April Fools Hack - The Singing Keyboard

The concept is simple: Take the sound element from a musical greeting card and connect it to the caps lock LED on the victim's keyboard. Every time the caps lock is pressed, the music plays. This is a great sleeping prank�it might be found on the first day, or weeks from implementation. (also a great to do to people who the ABUSE cAPs LoCks KEY)

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Musicians get 4.5 cents for songs sold on iTunes

The Allman Brothers Band and Cheap Trick get 4.5 cents from Sony Music for every song they sell on iTunes?!?! Um, exactly how is Sony's "effort" earning them the lions share of this deal?

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Very Cool Web-Cam Effects

The new Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP allows you to add some very cool, live video effects to your Web-Cam output -- check out this great demonstration video.

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Real people react to Wii

Joystiq recently called people up asking for their blind opinion about the Nintendo Wii, without knowing what the product was beforehand. Not one of the respondants guessed that it was a gaming product

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Test Internet Explorer 7 Without Installing It

You can test how web pages look in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 without upgrading Internet Explorer 6.

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Nintendo Wii: Virtual Reality

Ever noticed how we've never seen what the people in the Revolution previews are swinging at?

Imagine.

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IGN asks Nintendo about the Wii

Everyone's still shocked I'm sure at Nintendo's arguably horrific name change from Nintendo Revolution to "Wii", but at least Nintendo's not being quiet and trying to explain themselves. In an interview with Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan, IGN asks the important question: WTF?

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Forget 1080p HD, Ultra HD 4320p television is demoed

NHK is showing Ultra High Definition Television at the NAB Conference. With 4,320 lines of resolution, Ultra HD has 16 times more pixels than the best HD available today.

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Ground Effect Vehicles

"the largest airplane to ever fly, called the Pelican and it would have a normal cruising altitude of only twenty feet because it uses the concept of ground effect to achieve lift."

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Nintendo Wii launching in July for $199??

Rumor has it that Nintendo isn't going to wait until November to launch the Wii. Instead it is probably going to launch in July or possibly even pull an Apple and launch at E3? Now that would be a real blue ocean strategy!

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16 GB storage on a credit card

Wallet sized credit card adapter that's 3 mm thin but stores a whole 16 GB of data.

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IE7 For XP Beta 2: Has Firefox Met Its Match?

The new public release of Internet Explorer Beta 2 is, according to Microsoft, more stable and ready to be used. But is it ready to go up against Firefox?

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Robot that "RUNS" on water!

its actually kinda cool!

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AMD: US Govt. could have saved $563M by buying AMD over Intel!

Costing tax payers in the hundred millions of dollars, is the premium worth the cost? AMD says no. In fact, AMD says that a whopping $563 million could have been saved in taxpayer dollars, had the government been brand-neutral in its purchases.

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New Batteries at Long Last

The vertically aligned nanotubes in the LEES ultracapacitor have a regular shape, and a size that is only several atomic diameters in width. The result is a significantly more effective surface area, which equates to significantly increased storage capacity.

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CBS Healthwatch on Digg and Autism Screening Test

"A Web link to an autism screening test posted recently on Digg.com, a tech news site, generated hundreds of comments from users. Many self-described computer geeks took the online test, for which a score of 16 is considered average, and a score of 32 or higher suggests autism."

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Casio Exilim EX-Z1000, 10MP In Your Pocket (Pictures)

Casio presents a pocket digital camera with one of the highest resolutions available for this type of cameras. They pack a 10.1MP sensor in a 92x22.4x58.4mm and 139g box, and other than this high resolution you also get a 2.8" screen and 3x optical zoom.

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How To Get Yahoo Mail Beta

Simple trick to try the new Yahoo Mail Beta before it's released to public. Try it its easy and worked for me

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iPod Sync Comes to Linux

Linspire Inc's Developer Duane Maxwell recently released libipod for Linux which allows you to develop programs to load ipods up with music files in the same manner as iTunes. This has worked pretty well with Ltunes which also has been released on sourceforge and will hopefully make it's way into other fine music management software for Linux.

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Read this! The internet is about to get messed up.

The Internet, as we know it, is going to change (and not for the good... think
the really bad, worst-case remember-that-Internet-thing? bad) if the gov and
Verizon, comcast, att, etc. get their way. I doubt there is any other issue that
is more important right now. Digg up.

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Philips Launches Power Management Unit PCF50626 for 3G Phones, PDAs, Etc.

This single chip Power Management Unit (PMU) from Philips Electronics was designed especially to handle the high power requirements of mobile devices' multimedia applications.

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New Far Cry 'Sequel' Screenshots! (CRYSIS)

Check out some new screens of this truly next-gen title, CRYSIS - the game looks absolutely beautiful.. shame I don't have a snowflake's chance in hell of running it. Yet.

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