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Submission + - iTunes' opening it doors to indie film producers?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01, 2007 @09:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: After ten months of negotiations (read: pestering), Apple has agreed to sell downloads of the 'indie' snowboarding film, That, through the company's iTunes video download store. This is the first time that Apple has accepted content that doesn't come from an established or major distributor; essentially cutting out the 'middleman', so that a small video producer can sell their content directly through iTunes. So does this mean that iTunes is ready to embrace the long tail, and help small independent filmmakers monetize their content?

Submission + - Online addict dies after 7 day marathon session

Submitted by

watomb

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @09:06AM

watomb writes: ""BEIJING: An obese 26-year-old man in northeastern China died after a "marathon" online gaming session over the Lunar New Year holiday, state media said on Wednesday.

The 150-kg man from Jinzhou, in Liaoning province, collapsed on Saturday, the last day of the holiday, after spending "almost all" of the seven-day break playing online games, the China Daily said, citing his parents."
http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.as p?artid=94845"

Submission + - Wil Wheaton reviews Linux audio players

Submitted by ForeverFaithless on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:44AM

ForeverFaithless writes: Wil Wheaton has reviewed several popular audio players on Linux, including XMMS, Amarok, and Banshee. Wil comes to the conclusion that Amarok is his favorite of the bunch, stating "I have never loved a music player as much as I love Amarok, and I've never had as much fun flipping through my library and learning more about my favorite artists."

Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok? 250

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 01, 2007 @06:26AM from the sweet-and-sour-channel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective? This is exactly how North Otago's newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down."

Submission + - How to turn your iPod mini into a flash based iPod

Submitted by

mistermark

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @05:23AM

mistermark writes: "In this little proof-of-concept I was eager to try out if I could swap the Microdrive inside an iPod mini for a Compact Flash-card. These cards are getting bigger and cheaper by the day so my idea was, if this works out, we have a great way of extending the life of this little MP3-player..."

Submission + - The Pirate Bay to stay in Sweden

Submitted by paulraps on Thursday February 22, 2007 @02:15PM

paulraps writes: The Pirate Bay has ditched plans to buy its own nation so as to avoid international copyright laws. One of the founders says that the operation is now less vulnerable to police raids in Sweden now that it has spread its servers around different locations. Amusingly, they may still buy an island, but for more modest reasons: "We have 20,000 to 25,000 dollars to spend. Really we just want somewhere we can name The Pirate Bay, so we can look on Google Maps and find ourselves there," said Tobias Andersson, who, despite running the most poopular site in Scandinavia, still works as an electrician.

Submission + - Man spends year tracking down source of wallpaper

Submitted by rbh on Thursday February 22, 2007 @02:10PM

rbh writes: A man spent a year trying to track down the photo shoot location of a Windows XP wallpaper depicting a leafy lane in autumn. Why didn't he just Google it? http://www.thestar.com/News/article/184493

Submission + - Data center electric bills skyrocket

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @02:45PM

coondoggie writes: "That's one serious electric bill. U.S. data centers consumed the equivalent of the power generated by five 1,000-kilowatt power plants in 2005 — or about 1.2% of the country's electricity consumption — resulting in total utility bills amounting to $2.7 billion. In 2005, total data center electricity consumption in the U.S., including servers, cooling and auxiliary equipment, was approximately 45 billion kWh, with total data center power and electricity consumption for the world estimated to cost $7.2 billion annually. The report, issued today also examines the growth in electricity demands since the year 2000, concluding no surprisingly that in about seven years energy use has doubled. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1155 4"

Submission + - Female Gamers have More Sex

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15, 2007 @01:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: A Belgian research firm found that girls who never play computer games have less sex than girls who do play games on their PC or gaming consoles. Breeze says the girls who do play games have sex 4.3 times a week, while the girls who never play games only go to bed 3.2 times a week.

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