Tech News January 18, 2010

January 18, 2010

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Gaming Freeware

LinCity-NG (download . . .)
LinCity-NG is a city simulation game. It is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game. In the game, you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.

Facts of the Day

Wild boars can be repelled by playing Britney Spears’s song “Oops!…I did it again” at them. (qi.com)

Quote of the Day

“I’m rich, freakin’ rich. It’s crazy.” Britney Spears

Free iTunes Music

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Tech & Science News

Expensive App
BarMax is a great tool, but cost 1K, almost regected by Apple because of high price. But if you want to study for the Bar exam, this is the app for you. (read more . . .)

Apple vs Nokia
Apple doesn’t want the US to import Nokia Phones, so that Apple can retain the illusion of Apple technology even though Nokia codes and touch screen has the patent. (read more . . .)

Monkey Writes Sports
Death of sports writers, apparently a monkey can do it better and cheaper. (read more . . .)

Sports Photography Changed, Forever
A camera that captures images at some 6 million frames per second. (read more . . .)

United States Internet Flaccid
No longer the the youthful internet. Without expanding, building infrastructure and national broadband/wifi the United States internet is slowing down. Capitalism Fail. The US needs the internet boost equivalent to viagra. (read more . . .)

Never TMI
From the The Magnavox Odyssey to the Wii, the complete collection. (read more . . .)

Doomed or Not Doomed
Spring forward to death or fall back to just a skin wound? Imaginary clock surfaces and scares all nursing home residents and baby boomers while everyone else thinks it is a promotion for a re-screening of “Watchman“. (read more . . .)

Microsoft Needs a “Don’t Be Evil” Mission Statement
Microsoft’s IE Exploit Used to Launch Chinese Attacks on Google. (read more . . .)

Chrome Zero
Is this like Coke Zero? ChromeOS Zero, a small build designed for speed and aesthetics. (read more . . .)

I Prefer Procrastination
If you like to be be a little more organized, 18 online apps to keep your productive. Or at the very least on the computer for a very long time. (read more . . .)

Spotify Ban
Spotify, a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs at 9.99 ‘ a month, is banned from Oxford University. (read more . . .)

10″ AMOLED Apple tablet, Might Not Be Worth Much
Do you really want or need this? (read more . . .)

Windows SP1
Details, we want details (read more . . .)

Show Your True Facebook
“any Facebook employee could log into any member account with a single master password” (read more . . .)

Someone Has Too Much Free Time

Comment Clash

Comment ClashLets not lie, who else’s weekend is exactly like this? (article/picture . . .)

“I see no alcohol.” (comments . . .)

Paid Subscription Tech Magazines

Funny Commercial

Website Pick

Gameduell Inc.Second Spin (link . . .)

Products on the SecondSpin.com site come from three sources: the internet, the retail stores and from brokers around the country. This gives SecondSpin.com a much wider variety of music & movies than other used sites. Strict quality control keeps the defect rate to less than 1%, so everything is 100% guaranteed.

Web 2.o Application

Gameduell Inc.BaseKit (link . . .)
Stop coding, start designing – create a website the BaseKit way. The website builder and integrated website CMS for web designers. Import your Photoshop files and have full control over your designs. BaseKit automatically slices and dices your designs into standards-compliant HTML and CSS – in seconds.

Dynamic web 2.0 features to your website without having to write any code. BaseKit website builder lets you create a website with simple point, click, drag and drop.

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