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Wednesday, 6-May-2009 16:32:35 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Exetel have said no to internet filtering after a trial. Linton also said he did not believe that launching a ‘clean feed' service would be a commercially viable proposition for Exetel. "I wouldn't sell it because I'd be the first person to say it probably wouldn't work," Linton said.
Harry sent word of a competition on TheAge where you can win a Core i7 Upgrade Kit. Simply add a reply on this thread and tell us in 100 word or less why do you want to upgrade to Intel Core i7. We are looking for the most creative answer.
Gigabyte have a couple of competitions related to their GOOC 2009 championship. #1 Guess the winner of GIGABYTE GO OC 2009. #2 Predict the BEST 3DMark score at the GO OC event
Panasonic are having a competition to win a TV if you buy a camera, so check it out if you're in the market. The promotion is available to anyone who picks up a LUMIX DMC-FT1 or a LUMIX DMC-TZ7 between May 1 and July 31 this year. The TV on offer is a 32-inch TH-L32X10A Viera LCD worth $1,319.
Check out this cool pretzel slot-car track project someone has made under their house. I made several terraces to make the natural slope more useful (drops over 3 metres from one side of the house to the other). Moved about 10 tons of dirt out and used 60 bags of readymix!
There's a new search engine on the way, which sounds interesting. The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards what many consider to be the internet's Holy Grail – a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.
Believe it or not, the game Myst is now available on iPhone. But don’t get too excited just yet, you’ll need some patience, Myst for the iPhone is over 700MB! And due to the way iPhones install apps, you’ll need at least 1.5GB of free space on your iDevice to successfully install.
There's some amazing scenes from Blade Runner and other movies re-created in CryENGINE 2. A group of three talented artists have put together an amazingly accurate scene from the science-fiction movie classic Blade Runner using Sandbox 2 World Editor. More here.
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