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Earth Hour is being held tonight at 8pm. Earth Hour is the highlight of a major campaign to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to take the simple steps needed to cut their emissions on an ongoing basis. Discussion in the forums here, or here if you're in Brisbane and are keen to take a few shots with other OCAU photographers.
"Who's the best action hero and why?" Answer this in 25 words or less and you could win big in IGN's Aussie Supanova Comp. When it comes to prize packs they don't come any bigger than this one. We've got more than $8,000 worth of entertainment gear to throw at a handful of insanely lucky IGN readers.
Here's another one of those peculiar USB products... the George Foreman USB iGrill. The George Foreman USB iGrill conveniently connects to your home or office PC using USB 2.0 technology, and provides a sophisticated web-based cooking interface. Thanks Bigtosser.
Adobe have released a Beta version of their new Web-based image editor, Adobe Photoshop Express. At Photoshop Express you can quickly and easily accentuate your photos with easy-to-use options for resizing, cropping, sharpening, and more. Discussion in the forums here. Thanks Marc.
Marc also sent in this video of a remake of the Lightcycle scene from TRON using paper and stop motion animation.
Trouble is brewing between Asus and Creative over Asus' recent claim that their Xonar DX sound card supports EAX 5.0 sound effects. Creative says Asus is misleading its customers by claiming to support EAX 5.0. Asus admits that its implementation won't exactly reproduce EAX 5.0, but the company says DS3D GX produces "comparable" effects − comparable, but perhaps not genuine.
TheTechLounge have a 1TB hard drive roundup where they looked at an Hitachi Deskstar and two Seagate Barracudas. For drive testing, Windows XP SP2 with the latest patches was used. … Each test was performed in triplicate and averaged to gain the final result.
Midway and Epic Games have released an official bonus pack for UT3 which consists of three arenas: Morbias, Facing Worlds and Searchlight. These downloads, which are free to all owners of Unreal Tournament 3, mark the latest achievement in providing the gaming community with unrivaled mods and superior experiences through the most recent installment in the Unreal Tournament franchise.
At the recent CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker challenge, a security researcher hacked into Apple's new MacBook Air winning himself the machine and a US$10,000 cash prize. According to sources at the conference, Miller used an exploit against the Safari browser that ships standard with Mac OS X.
This laptop bag might come in handy when your laptop's battery is flat and there aren't any power points around. Designed by US company Voltaic Systems, the bag incorporates a single solar panel to produce 14.7W of power. This is enough to fully charge a conventional laptop computer from a full day's sunlight, thus allowing the user to unplug it from the electricity grid and power up from the sun.
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