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Microsoft Tries its Hand at Design…and Hiding the Elephant
A lot of eyebrows were raised in the web design and development community when Microsoft announced that they were diving head first into the web development market with a new program package designed to be in direct competition with Adobe’s (formerly Macromedia) Flash platform. In conjunction (though somewhat delayed) with the release of Windows Vista…
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ESA seeks volunteers to go to Mars (not actually Mars)
The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for volunteers to go to Mars Russia for an experiment in social behaviour. Basically they want to lock a group of 6 people in a research facility for 500 days (the duration of a real Mars mission), shut them off from the outside world and see what happens to…
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Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000 (cuz 6999 just isn’t enough)
I remember way back when Microsoft released their first ergonomic keyboard. It looked weird and my computer nerd brothers proudly proclaimed that noone with any skills would ever use these things. And then my mom bought one for her home office. Needless to say we were all sold on the concept once we got past…
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Video Review: Sony Vaio UX Micro Computer
We tested the first UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) from Sony – the Sony Vaio UX Mobile Computer – a few months ago. The 1.6lb Vista powered computer comes fully equipped with an Intel Centrino Duo processor, 40gb harddrive, Blue Tooth, Wi-Fi and touch screen not to mention a docking station and a slide out keyboard.…
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Diablo: The Movie – Movie Lovers World Wide Consider Suicide
As if the whole concept of shooter-games-turned-movies wasn’t already proven beyond any doubt to be the single dumbest idea in movie making history Legendary Pictures – currently producing the much anticipated World of Warcraft movie – has announced that they’ll be wasting even more money trying to make movie crap out of nothing by putting…
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Slurpr – Hack every wireless network around (and go directly to jail)
If you live in an apartment building or in a city you’ve probably noticed that when you turn on your laptop there are multiple wireless networks available – some of them encrypted, some of them locked and some of them wide open. If so you’ve probably also wondered what would happen if someone hacked all…
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OMFGWTFBBQ – What the @#$@ß happened to the site?!?!!!?
So you noticed? I hope you did. Welcome to the new and massively improved AndNowYouKnow. When we started we based the site on the impressive Content Management System Joomla! (yes, the name is Joomla! with an exclamation point). Unfortunately it turned out that running a gadget blog like this one using Joomla! was a bit…
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LapJacks – Toshiba wants their stickies on your laptop
No matter how fancy your laptop is it’s probably pretty dull to look at when it’s closed. And that’s too bad. All that prime real estate wasted on dull grey and maybe a small logo. Some people have figured out that the back of their laptop screen can be used to display say a company…
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The Abduction Lamp – Fuel your paranoia
Ever wake up with a distinct feeling you’ve been probed by an alien? Ever dreamed of a weird cone shaped ray of light coming down from the skies to lift you up to a flying saucer filled with hot alien women? Ever felt like you are being watched? Constantly? If you say yes to the…
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Watch Akash on Breakfast Television Monday June 4th
Watch Akash on Citytv Vancouver’s Breakfast Television with Simi Sara and Dave Gerry Monday June 4th at 9:15am and 9:35am channel 13 . He will be covering the latest and greatest in gadgets and technology for the summer.