Olympic Torrents More Popular Than Ever August 20, 2008
This week, close to two million people have downloaded the Olympics opening ceremony, which makes it the most pirated TV-show of the week - again. The International Olympic Committee is not too happy about it, and they are urging the Swedish government to take on The Pirate Bay.

20 Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers [PICS] August 20, 2008
Often when we think of commercial design work, we imagine 3 color logos and simple illustrations… but not all commercial work is so plain. Here are 20 commercial designers who create stunningly colorful work.

NimbleX 2008 "The New Wave of Linux" is Speedy But Flawed August 20, 2008
NimbleX, a Slackware-based distribution, advertises itself as "the new wave of Linux." However, what is appealing in NimbleX -- its speed and small footprint and the resulting selection of alternative software choices -- will likely strike veteran GNU/Linux users as being very old school. By contrast, its limitations -- too little attention

Open Virtual Machine Tools with Ubuntu Hardy August 20, 2008
Getting a working vmtools installation into a freshly upgraded Ubuntu 8.04 is a simple matter of rebuilding the right modules against the newer kernel and rolling them up into a tarball.

Gmail Superstars and Quick Links Make a Killer To-Do List August 20, 2008
"Now reader Alex McRoberts details how he uses the two excellent features to turn his Gmail account into a killer to-do list manager. Here's how he did it..."

Hack Your Wii for Homebrew Apps and DVD Playback August 20, 2008
Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken reason, the Nintendo Wii doesn't support DVD playback—until last week, that is, when a homebrew hacker released a tool that enables DVD playback on your Wii.

Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others August 19, 2008
It's been tough lately for companies like Red Hat and Novell that bet their business on open source. Here's a look at the haves and the have-nots

How I Stole Someone's Identity Using the Internet August 19, 2008
A little digging on social networks, blogs and Internet search engines lets you put together information about people like pieces of a puzzle—And it's not a pretty picture for security or privacy. I decided to conduct an experiment to see how vulnerable people's accounts are to mining the Web for information.

Apple's Secret "Back to My Mac" Push behind IPv6 August 19, 2008
The Internet is running out of addresses.To get around this problem and a host of others not addressed in the existing Internet Protocol (IPv4),a new revision has been in development for years,called IPv6.Apple has a few tricks up its sleeve for pushing IPv6 adoption,and many Mac users are already chin deep in the technology without even knowing it

Classic Apple Macintosh Commercial - "Internet" August 19, 2008

Stats Suggest Curious Trends In iPhone 3G Launch

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