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Linden Lab's Second Life has it's first millionaire. Yes, that's in real U.S. dollars folks. Anshe Chung has used various shopping malls and stores in game to amass her fortune. The friend who sent this story to me also indicated that he pays his land tiers to this individual, in Lindens of course. Link to story
Back in the graduate school days when I was broke and had lots of time, I found a hobby in visiting thrift stores to purchase old digital and analog clocks. I then took these 50 cent wonders home restored, repainted and sometimes completely modified them. A perfect example is the vintage flip number clock that sits on my bookshelf with
A revelation at a recent Electronics House Expo is making my blood boil. Apparently Microsoft has decided to once again to kick consumers to the curb in restricting your ability to use and distribute content you are paying for.
Well if Apple keeps this up they are going to start going head to head with Microsoft in the number of bug fixes. Nice to see Apple staying on top of the bugs, and also fixing a couple of potentially serious issues that have cropped up recently. [AppleInsider]
I just wanted to take this post to briefly introduce myself. I'm Brian, the latest addition to the Geek News Central team. Like most of you I am a self declared geek. I also manage to get away with being a geek for a living. I am employed full time for a university in Colorado as an instructional technology and
No not really but the linked article will make you laugh, and give you somehing to think about. In this crazy world of desperate attempts by organizations like the MPAA to control what you do with content you own. I would have not been at all surprised if this had been a real news story instead of being satire [www.bbspot.com]
As I have been ramping up production for the Videos Andy McCaskey and I will be creating at the Consumer Electronics Show I have been looking for a service that I cannot believe does not exist. With the proliferation of video sites out why is there not a service that will submit a video to multiple sites at once? Seems
In what can only be described as a stunning turn of events it appears that Russia has agreed to shutdown AllofMP3.com as of this writing the site was still up and online. I am sure that many will be disappointed if the site indeed gets shutdown. The question I have is where will it re-surface next? But I think everyone knew that the sites days were numbered. [TechCrunch]
I am pretty excited about giving away two copies of this program, if you want a chance to win a copy jump over to the link blog. Act fast the link is up only a couple of days. Disclaimer: They provided me a copy of the program as well which I already have and will be giving it away in
When I set my mom's blog up at CherieCast.com I used the standard Wordpress install for a few days without any plugins. I was able to get her RSS feed setup and once her first podcast was published I submitted the listing to iTunes. The listing came up on iTunes within 24 hours, and we were smooth sailing. About a
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