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Microsoft was very very quiet on this one. This will be their second release after purchasing Giant software earlier last year.

Build 613 provides better documentation about unwanted software, fixes bugs that make it difficult to read alert messages and reduces the likelihood that its Winsock LSP removal mechanism will trigger unintended network disruptions.

download it here.

Yup, I’m not kidding. They even have different categories. I think it’s great. PodCasts or something similar to PodCasting is the future of news or talk radio and it’s about time someone recognize these talented individuals.

Visit and vote on your favorite PodCast Here

Ever search and search and search and find you never get the results you were looking for? Behold the answer to all Google searching: Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)

Late into the game, Yahoo just recently opened up their DIY blogging site for everyone to try out. Although still in beta, it’s still pretty stable.. I won’t be switching anytime soon but it’s nice to see a mainstream anchor like Yahoo going that direction.

You can signup here

Friday, at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced platform level support for Really Simple Syndication (RSS) in Longhorn. This is suppose to drive many of the new feature-sets available in the upcoming Longhorn flagship OS for Microsoft.. We’ll see.

Longhorn will provide a common RSS feed list across all applications, common RSS data store for applications to access downloaded content, and an RSS platform sync engine. Subscribing to an RSS feed from within Internet Explorer 7.0 will be similar to adding a Web site to “Favorites.” An icon placed in a toolbar will illuminate when feeds have been updated with new content.

A South Korean baseball team Doosan Bears’ pitcher Park myung-hwan was caught earlier this week using cabbage as a cooling agent under his baseball cap. Apparently he had been using this cooling vegetable since last summer.

The Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) took action stating:

“We had to act because imagine if it happened in the World Series. If something drops out of the pitcher’s cap, it could put the batter off. Does the umpire call strike or ball?”

Park’s response: “I’m sensitive to the heat and my wife recommended I put frozen cabbage leaves under my cap to cool my head..”

More..

The past couple of days I’ve been looking for a decent spell checker for WordPress. Every spell checker I find uses the PHP Pspell() function which requires the Aspell librarys installed on your server… Well, since my hosting provider doesn’t allow compiling I’m unable to install the libs required for this very useful feature.

Does anyone know of a decent spell checker that doesn’t make use of PSpell() ?

This is just hillarious. Microsoft has crafted a website for parents to address child safety: “Understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them”. I can just see lil johnny coming home from school and telling mom that he pwns her and she has no ski11Z haha. I’ve included some of the more funny bits below:

Key points for interpreting leetspeek

•	Numbers are often used as letters. The term “leet” could be written as “1337,” with “1″ replacing the letter L, “3″ posing as a backwards letter E, and “7″ resembling the letter T. Others include “8″ replacing the letter B, “9″ used as a G, “0″ (zero) in lieu of O, and so on.
•	Non-alphabet characters can be used to replace the letters they resemble. For example, “5″ or even “$” can replace the letter S. Applying this style, the word “leetspeek” can be written as “133t5p33k” or even “!337$p34k,” with “4″ replacing the letter A.
•	Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using “Z” for a final letter S, and “X” for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer “5×1llz” (skills).
•	Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Some leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar, or drop vowels from words (such as converting very to “vry”).
•	Mistakes are often left uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (typos) such as “teh” instead of the are left uncorrected or sometimes adopted to replace the correct spelling.
•	Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For example, using slashes to create “/\/\” can substitute for the letter M, and two pipes combined with a hyphen to form “|-|” is often used in place of the letter H. Thus, the word ham could be written as “|-|4/\/\.”
•	The suffix “0rz” is often appended to words for emphasis or to make them plural. For example, “h4xx0rz,” “sk1llz0rz,” and “pwnz0rz,” are plural or emphasized versions (or both) of hacks, skills, and owns.

David Breyer was asking me the other day about the new Unreal Engine 3. For those who don’t know, Epic Games, developers of the Unreal series, gave a demonstration of their Unreal 3 game engine at the past E3 convention in LA earlier this year. The new updated engine will be used in their new game Unreal 2007 due out probably late 2009….

A guy on IRC had posted some amazing looking screenshots that looked, well.. Unreal! Searching through my history, I managed to find them:

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E3 trailer

Oh, and if you have the skillz, Epic is now hiring.

This makes complete sense. Since the form-factor of a USB drive is about the same size as a pocket knife and you’re going to be carrying around the USB drive in your pocket anyways, may as well combine the two.

Buy it here

SWISSMEMORY TM USB Victorinox
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It is the first time that an original Swiss Army Knife has been equipped with a USB Memory. It comes new also in a retroALOX style. The SWISSMEMORY TM USB Victorinox is a trendy accessory, a perfect gift and business tool. The small all-rounder integrates numerous useful tools and is available in two versions: one with a stainless steel knife, scissors, a file and a screw driver and the other without these tools, to carry when travelling on planes. Both versions include a pressurized pen and a red LED. The new 1GB Version includes a white LED.
The SWISSMEMORY TM USB Victorinox is available with a memory capacity of 64, 128, 256, 512MB or 1GB.
It is also possible to detach the USB part, a patented technology.