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Build your own Cantenna – directional WiFi on a budget

Sometimes your location doesn't cooperate with wireless signals. Walls and other obstacles conspire against you. You can fight back with Icrontic's guide to building a cantenna! Add comment

Make a USB flash drive bootable

Icrontic's Rob Hallock shows us how to make a bootable USB flash drive. Add comment

KDE opens to Apple and Microsoft alike

Active porting of KDE has opened its offerings to both Windows and Mac. Add comment

Patriot Viper 4GB DDR2-800

Patriot's Viper 4GB DDR2-800 kit is pretty quick for a 4GB setup. Add comment

Scraping the bottom of the barrel

Here's a peak at the Radeon HD 3450, HD 3470 & HD 3650 graphics cards. Add comment

MSI Radeon HD 3870 X2 OC

The MSI Radeon HD 3870 X2 OC gets some sweet benchmark action. Add comment

AT&T considering Internet filtering

AT&T is likening their ability to filter the internet to the moral obligation of reporting someone stealing a DVD from the store. Add comment

MPAA: oops, our bad

The MPAA has been throwing out statistics and accusations regarding piracy for ages. Now the truth has been revealed: The MPAA is full of s.. likes to lie. Gizmodo reports that the MPAA has been claiming that a massive 44% of all illegal movie downloading was done by college students. However, their statistic is a […] Add comment

Afghanistan Lays down the Law

Using a printer in Afghanistan might just get you the death sentence. Add comment

1,000 Human Lifetimes spent on Google Earth

Apparently 1,000 Lifetimes have been spent looking at Google Earth Add comment

VideoTrace makes 3D modeling easy

By using a video of any object, VideoTrace offers an intuitive interface for creating 3D models of the type used in video games. The software also allows for easy manipulation of existing video for rapid production of special effects. Add comment

More tasty hints of Valve's upcoming TF2 makeover

Looks like I'll be playing TF2 24/8 - yeah, I said 8. Add comment

Nice alt-codes sheet

I'm replacing my current sequentially organized one with this catagoricaly organized one. Add comment

IE8 to demand meta-tag to render in full compliance

IE8 has three distinct render modes. Two that render like IE7, and the third a fully CSS-compliant mode that requires the web developer to specify a meta tag. Add comment

HTML5 working draft appears

For the first time in a decade, the aging HTML standard is getting a fresh face-lift. Add comment

Confronting AT&T

Boing Boing journalist confronts AT&T's filtering plans on a Internet talk show they sponsor. Hey, don't look now, it's the media being responsible! Add comment

EA to offer dowloadable games

EA will start a new chapter in its product offerings with Battlefield Heroes, a free, downloadable PC game. While details aren't yet widely available, the game will not cost anything to play the "full" version, but improvements to the game will come at a cost. Think: "Free game, pay for the expansion packs" via Mashable Add comment

Pics by (rather than of) kitties.

Anyone can be a photographer in today's digital age. Even a cat. Add comment

Canada IP lobbyists push for ISP liability

As Canada goes through the growing pains of handling intellectual property rights, just as the US did in 2000 and is still attempting to wrangle, evil things are on the horizon. IP lobbyists in ye olde frozen north are pushing for the ISPs to be responsible for the actions of their users. Add comment

Microsoft brings Windows 7 release forward?

Word on the street has it that the successor to the ill-fated Vista, Windows 7, has had its release date pushed forward from 2010 to 2009. Add comment

3M announces micro projector

Thumb-sized projector engine will do 40-inch VGA picture. Add comment