Posted by Digg on 21st April 2006
After angering authors last fall with a wide-ranging book-copying project, Google may now be alienating some visual artists as well by allegedly reproducing famous works in drawings on the search giant’s home page.
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Posted by Digg on 19th April 2006
Widespread performance improvements have been made to the Yahoo! Mail Beta. As well, they’re nearing full public beta.
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Posted by Digg on 14th April 2006
When you finish this article, you will have an unbeatable update system. Even mergemaster will work faster. You will have an update system in which a machine update/upgrade will take less than 10 minutes.
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Posted by Digg on 13th April 2006
The aging Marine One helicopter fleet is finally due to retire. Meet its successor. After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3 Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic, $6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, starting this summer.
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Posted by Digg on 13th April 2006
Google said it has adopted the Chinese-language brand name ‘GUGE’ for its Chinese operations.
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Posted by Digg on 13th April 2006
Interesting article about the EU plan to land a rover on the moon. Possible experiments include planting a tulip, spiders, and robot insects.
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Posted by Digg on 12th April 2006
Google starts a quest inspired by Da Vinci Code (the movie) and offers more than ten thousand (!) prizes. The puzzles will be publish daily on Google Personalized Homepage. “Beginning on April 17th you will embark on a quest that requires skill, intellect, and perseverance. For 24 days, you will encounter unique challenges.”
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Posted by Digg on 12th April 2006
This person built a very handy flashlight out of an old TicTac mint box. It consists of an empty TicTac box (duh!), three batteries (that fits perfect), a small switch, a resistor and a bright LED.
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Posted by Digg on 12th April 2006
Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations.
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Posted by microdude on 11th April 2006
The patch for PC has finally been released and was availabe for download early this morning. I was looking on my xfire when I saw the server status say: Call of Duty 1.2. I was amazed. We were first told that the patch would be released in early 2006 at the end of 2005. This patch was long over due. You want the real review? Well here it is!
I got a quick download, its a very small patch @ 33MB. Install went fine and flawless to say the least. I then loaded up Call of Duty 2 and noticed the small amount of servers ( under 200). Then error number one occurs… I join a server. When the connection process started, I though it was going to be quick like it had been before. 15 seconds later, im still staring at my black connection screen. I finally get into the game and started playing the first new map. MP_Rhine is a quite decent sized map, offering great gameplay for both SD and CTF. My exprience on SD was quite like all other SD maps. Great hidding spots, sniper holes, and secret ways. The one thing about Rhine is the amount of buildings it has. They provide many different travel ways and hiding spots. The bomb locations are ideal in the street areas. Overall, a pretty decent well built map. The second map, MP_Harbor was a remake of the original map for Call of Duty 1. What was added? They improved several areas of this map, including Ramp Room & Top Police. They also have added a new indoor area right by russian spawn. This little area is great in CTF (Capture the Flag) as it provides a different way to get the flag back and to hide with the enemies flag. I also noticed the amount of detail they have put into this map. Maxed out on Direct X9, you could see every crack in each building, the light reflections, and we can’t forget about the snow. It looks very realistic and this map is great.
Overall, the patch seems to be so good so far. Punkbuster was also added in this patch, which will hopefully cut down the amount of hackers present in Call of Duty 2. At this time, there are still very few servers to play on, less than 500. You may have to wait to find a server, but its well worth it!
Links to Download
Activision
Fileplanet
3d Gamers
Fileshack
FileFront
Gamershell
GameZone
WorthPlaying
AusGamers
ActionTrip
GameDaily
FPSadmin.com
Strategy Informer
Xfire
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