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  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: New computer

    Yes I need a new one since my current one is not that great and keeps haveing issues. Don't know that much about what's good so if anyone have any tips on what you could recomend. Also havent decided if I should buy a new comp at like elgiganten or siba or maybe datorbutiken.com not sure what...

    Started by Saga, 2008-06-17 19:49
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  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Flash exploit

    Apparently there is a Flash exploit that allows websites to steal account data from MMO games through a previous Flash version, the latest which is up at: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash Has the exploit fixed, download it and install it asap,...

    Started by snooz, 2008-05-29 17:02
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  1. R2D2 phone

    They said it, they did it—when Motorola officially unveiled the Droid 2 earlier this week, an R2-D2 version of the phone was promised, and here it is. The phone was on display at Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando. No official word about the phone's availability yet, but various reports are...

    Started by T5, 2010-08-15 08:12
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  2. New species of monkey discovered

    It's not surprising that many unseen species of animals hide out in the Amazonian jungles. The area is vast, it's terribly hard for any type of vehicle to get in there, and the canopy of leaves is so thick you can't see whats beneath. Just a few years ago they found a species of deer never seen...

    Started by T5, 2010-08-15 07:55
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  3. Klingon Opera

    You love the harsh sounds of the Klingon language. You've read Shakespeare in the original Klingon. When you die, you're going to Sto-vo-kor, because you've slain many Tribbles in battle. But you've never been able to sit back and enjoy a Klingon opera. Until now. In order to foster better...

    Started by T5, 2010-08-13 18:30
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  4. R136a1

    R136a1 may not be the sexiest name for a star, but this one more than makes up for that with enthusiasm, what with being a hypergiant and all. And not just any hypergiant—R136a1 turns out to be the heaviest star EVER found. According to CNN, Paul Crowther (a professor of astrophysics at...

    Started by T5, 2010-08-11 23:52
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  5. New Trek iTunes Application

    New Trek iTunes Application Posted by T'Bonz - 13/07/10 at 01:07 pm Fans of the classic communicator from the original series of Star Trek who own an iPhone will be pleased with a new offering from the iTunes store. A new app, released last week, replicates “the personal communication device...

    Started by T5, 2010-07-14 06:22
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  6. Pros and Cons for the iPhone

    So I just got an iPhone and I figured I'd post a small list of Pros and Cons with it.. First the Pros: App Store, it's incredible! (So good this part that it outshines everything on the Cons list total). Multi touch screen. The screen is highly responsive. GPS (It's fast and accurate).

    Started by snooz, 2010-05-30 11:58
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  7. NASA Scientist Creates First Tricorder

    Using an iPhone, sensor chip and programming, a NASA scientist creates a limited tricorder to sense trace amounts of certain gasses. Jing Li and his team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California, used a silicon-sensing chip in micro-board with sixty-four nanosectors. The...

    Started by T5, 2010-05-26 15:17
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  8. Transparent Aluminum Created

    Although not assisted by Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, scientists have been able to create transparent aluminum. As reported by Science Daily, a transparent form of aluminium was created by Oxford scientists by bombarding aluminium with the world’s most powerful soft x-ray laser. The...

    Started by T5, 2010-05-26 15:16
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  9. Evolutionary bird puzzle

    A newly discovered fossil has shed light on why a group of dinosaurs looks like birds, say scientists. Haplocheirus sollers may not be as charismatic as T. rex or as agile as a pterodactyl but it's thought to solve a long standing puzzle. Researchers believe its short arms and large claw show...

    Started by T5, 2010-02-14 11:19
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  10. Illusions In Grey

    Are square A and B the same color? They are. http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/t5universe/greyil.jpg

    Started by T5, 2009-10-18 18:27
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  11. Tetris makes you smarter

    The classic video game Tetris has challenged players for years to fit a slew of falling virtual blocks into a jigsaw puzzle of other pieces. Now a brain imaging study has shown how playing Tetris can boost brain efficiency in teen girls, as well as increase thickening in parts of the brain. ...

    Started by T5, 2009-09-02 15:21
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  12. Sea rise

    The global sea level looks set to rise far higher than forecast because of changes in the polar ice-sheets, a team of researchers has suggested. Scientists at a climate change summit in Copenhagen said earlier UN estimates were too low and that sea levels could rise by a metre or more by 2100. ...

    Started by T5, 2009-03-10 16:52
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  13. Quark

    Physicists have identified the production of the elusive single top quark, two research teams report. Previously top quarks have been observed only when produced in pairs, as when they were initially discovered 14 years ago at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Now,...

    Started by T5, 2009-03-10 16:49
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  14. New stegosaur

    Paleontologists have unearthed the fossils of a stegosaur unlike any previously discovered — one that would have had a long neck like a sauropod in addition to stegosaurs’ trademark dorsal plates and tail spikes. One early stegosaur in the genus Huayangosaurus, which first appeared in the fossil...

    Started by T5, 2009-02-27 15:25
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  15. The Power Of The Voice

    The voice can be used for many things...please tell me what you feel when you hear her sing OsQo_cXouuc&feature

    Started by T5, 2009-02-05 07:01
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  16. Sony at a loss

    TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Electronics manufacturer Sony announced Thursday that it will close out the year in the red -- the first time in 14 years that the company will report an operating loss. Sony Corp. said it expects to report an operating loss of 260 billion yen (about $2.8 to $2.9 billion)....

    Started by T5, 2009-01-22 08:44
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  17. Martian methane

    No one is suggesting that Mars has flatulent cows, but a new study shows that the Red Planet, like Earth, spews methane. Researchers say it’s possible that the gas could be generated by bacteria living beneath the Martian surface. The methane emissions, observed over three Mars years (seven...

    Started by T5, 2009-01-16 15:20
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  18. The Galactic Center

    German astronomers monitoring the motions of 28 stars at the center of the Milky Way galaxy have reported a new, more precise value for the mass of the supermassive black hole believed to lurk there. The black hole weighs the equivalent of 4.31 million suns, with an uncertainty of plus or minus...

    Started by T5, 2008-12-15 15:53
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  19. SSL & IRC

    For the Webserver SSL Info.. I run a 1024bit SSL certificate (for now, I might up it later) I also run an IRC server at irc://irc.animetime.net and it is also encrypted on port 7000 with 2048bit encryption for private chat conversations the server doesn't log chat conversations, first of all it...

    Started by snooz, 2008-08-09 23:31
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  20. Finally a new computer!

    So i finally got the cash and willpower to starve for the rest of the month, noodles anyone?, to buy a new computer, i present to you...RANKA! Asus Rampage Formula Intel X48 Socket 775 ATX Noctua NF-S12-1200 Silent Case Fan 120mm Corsair HX 620w PSU Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme Intel Core...

    Started by phryx, 2008-06-28 01:20
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  21. He's on to us

    Fellow members of the Illusi...this guy may be on to us: http://truthism.com/

    Started by T5, 2008-05-09 16:43
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  22. My new friend

    http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/t5universe/large.jpg Samsung 27" TFT SyncMaster 275T - Black (6 ms) 1920x1200@60Hz (Analog and Digital)

    Started by T5, 2008-04-23 16:09
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  23. GP2X

    http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/games/gp/gp2x1.jpg http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/games/gp/gp2x3.jpg http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/games/gp/gp2x2.jpg http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/games/gp/gp2x4.jpg The new handheld from the guys that made the GP32, the only handheld that...

    Started by snooz, 2005-10-04 10:14
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  24. Geek in love

    http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/t5universe/rmcn85l.jpg

    Started by T5, 2008-03-09 07:21
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  25. Next-next gen Cellphone

    Here are some concept renders. http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/misc/morph1.jpghttp://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/misc/morph2.jpg http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/misc/morph3.jpghttp://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/misc/morph4.jpg And a concept Youtube Video: IX-gTobCJHs Pretty nifty...

    Started by snooz, 2008-02-25 22:50
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  26. Haptic- or 3D-mouse

    http://www.haptx.com/about/index.aspx Pretty cool stuff, the company showed it off at my University, at the moment it's launched (or soon) in the states for about 200$ they said, but there's not much games that support it yet. However they're focusing on that problem at the moment. We got...

    Started by Earl Of Sweden, 2008-02-07 20:09
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  27. Holographic projection on the waterin Tokyo Bay

    Check this video out below, they projected a holographic image on top of water sprayed up from the Tokyo bay, it looks pretty damned cool, totally fit for the Geek Corner. YouTube Video

    Started by snooz, 2008-02-01 08:25
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  28. Space rock misses Mars — barely

    An asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with Mars passed the Red Planet today without incident. Astronomers first estimated that asteroid 2007 WD5 had as high as a 3.6 percent chance of striking the planet. Newer observations kept lowering the odds for the 164-foot space rock until...

    Started by T5, 2008-01-30 21:34
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  29. 011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001

    011101000110100001101001011100110010000001101001011100110010000001100001001000000111001101101001011011010111000001101100011001010010000001110100011010000111001001100101011000010110010000100000011000010110001001101111011101010111010000100000011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001001011000010...

    Started by snooz, 2008-01-24 02:47
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  30. Joost

    I tried Joost last time when it was version 0.10.3 and now the version 1.0.3 which really is 0.13.3.110597r is out and it has so many more channels to watch now, I have found at least 2 Sci-Fi channels, so many music channels that it makes your head spin, I know there is one for T5 at least and...

    Started by snooz, 2007-12-07 03:09
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  31. Deathstar...or...The Death Of A Star

    http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/t5universe/dhk.jpg Despite losing one of its most popular cameras last month, the Hubble Space Telescope is still proving its worth, capturing a new round of awe-inspiring images with its remaining camera. On Tuesday NASA released this new shot of a...

    Started by T5, 2007-10-05 17:33
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  32. Meteorite Crash Causes Mystery Illness in Peru

    http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/t5universe/m-1.jpg A meteorite that crashed in southern Peru over the weekend has caused hundreds of people to suffer headaches, nausea and respiratory problems, a health official said Tuesday. Local media have reported eyewitness accounts of a fiery...

    Started by T5, 2007-09-20 14:10
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  33. Cosmic Dust

    Scott Norris for National Geographic News September 17, 2007http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/t5universe/070917-alien-life_big.jpg A recent study suggests that dust in interstellar space can arrange itself into structures that resemble inorganic life-forms. According to a team of...

    Started by T5, 2007-09-18 17:09
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  34. T-WORKS

    In spring 2008, Warner Bros. Entertainment will launch T-Works, a brand-new broad-appeal immersive animation experience which, for the first time ever, brings together all of the key characters from the Studio's core animated properties in an expansive, rich online environment. The project was...

    Started by T5, 2007-09-09 16:20
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  35. Arithmancy - Harry Potter

    I'm eagerly waiting for the 7th and final Harry Potter book, so while waiting I frequently visit www.beyondhogwarts.com which is a great site if you're a Potter fan like yours truly. However, there's an article about "Arithmancy" there which is slightly interesting, well see for yourself: "An...

    Started by Earl Of Sweden, 2007-04-29 21:48
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  36. The coolest keyboard i've ever seen

    Look at this keyboard: This keyboard has a tiny LCD screen under each and every key on the keyboard that you can put custom layouts on. Overview: http://snooz.ws/picsdb/gadgets/keyb/keyb_001.jpg Zoom in on the program shortcut buttons: http://snooz.ws/picsdb/gadgets/keyb/keyb_002.jpg

    Started by snooz, 2005-07-18 12:22
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  37. For those of you who haven't had a BSOD in a while..

    Microsoft and SysInternals have released a freely available screensaver that mimics the BSOD :P Microsoft.com download location

    Started by snooz, 2006-11-15 09:51
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  38. Excl New Computer

    Ok, I just went to this place and had a my new computer priced out. :jumpy: Pentium: D 3.2 Meg Ram: 1GB DDR2 Hard Drive: 250GB Floppy: 1.44 Video Card: X1900CF 512MB Monitor 17" CRT Philips CD ROM: DVD +- RW Sound Card: 32 Bit

    Started by Brewer, 2006-08-29 17:38
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  39. Graphics cards to avoid..

    Anything from ATI due to the bad drivers that have a rather poor application refresh rate on Windows, if you use another OS there's not the same issue. GeForce 6600GT - HDCP chip causes issues in VMR9 rendering mode when you watch certain videos (like wmv) and when applications try and access...

    Started by snooz, 2006-10-20 04:42
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  40. DVD coming to an end?

    Seems like both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are launching this year .. the quality is going to be so much higher on these medias so DVD's will seem like VHS tapes on comparison. I could post a HDTV video sample but it'd be 100MB in size and most of your puter screens wont handle the 1920x1080 resolution...

    Started by snooz, 2006-01-05 06:50
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  41. Another weird keyboard

    Das Keyboard is a keyboard that has no signs on the keys anywhere on the keyboard, if you don't know the chars on the keyboard you probably shouldn't get one of these.. http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/misc/dkbd.jpg

    Started by snooz, 2005-08-20 17:44
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  42. If you were a superhero, which one would you be?

    Go to PowerLad´s homepage ( http://www.myspace.com/powerlad ) look for the Superhero test link, do it and post the result here: Apparently I´m Green Lantern...cool.

    Started by T5, 2006-07-06 20:03
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  43. Physics processing

    I just read some news and then watched a demo video of the new ATi cards that come with their own built in graphics processing that is said to be 9 times more powerful than the PhysX chipset, this means that you wont be needing that stuff since you can get the Havok/ATi combo card instead, however...

    Started by snooz, 2006-06-07 10:41
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  44. Robot Fights..

    There's a video on this page: http://www.robot-fan.net/spot/spot073.html Check it out, there's some Japanese fights between robots, imagine that on larger scale robots .. in wars..

    Started by snooz, 2006-04-02 08:05
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  45. XBOX 360

    Anyone know when the 360 is coming out? Just curious.

    Started by Fists of Fire, 2005-09-12 20:56
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  46. A car for brits..

    This is a real car designed for the british market .. the Suzuki LC http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/misc/suzukilc.jpg I think the pic is from the Tokyo Motor Show .. the car looks a bit Harry Potter-ish to me, and it has similar "eyes" (headlights) as Herbie :P

    Started by snooz, 2005-11-23 23:59
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  47. Finally some good use for the word Religion

    Religion Free is Engrish for Region Free.. Engrish is a whole different language than English is, but it's somwhat related like dutch and german, norwegian and danish.. and so on. http://www.animetime.net/forumfiles/misc/religionfree.jpg

    Started by snooz, 2005-11-23 23:53
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  48. For the Amiga fans..

    Seems like they're finally getting somewhere with AmigaOS 4.0 .. they've put up a website with some info about it.. It will run on a Amiga 1200 or an Amiga 4000 with PowerPC accelerator boards or on an AmigaOne system and will have the old stuff + 3D acceleration and some other goodies .. read...

    Started by snooz, 2005-11-01 21:08
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  49. PS3

    I have come to a conclution, im getting the PS3...well, if i can afford it. Speaking of which, anyone know what the price is gonna be?

    Started by Fists of Fire, 2005-09-23 00:29
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  50. Next Gen Consoles

    As you all know i recently decited to get a PS3, but I have been watching a show covering the Tokyo Game Show all day and i have seen some amazing things about the 360 and revolution. So now im thinking of venturing away from the PS3, and to the 360. Curse my not being able to make a dection and...

    Started by Fists of Fire, 2005-10-02 00:15
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