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Podcasting without really trying
A website is offering to automatically create podcasts from text-only blogs for free. Talkr has long been offering this service but previously limited it to well-known bloggers. While many companies have been releasing podcasting tools in the past months, Talkr is different, says its chief executive officer Chris Brooks in a press statement. “Those other…
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Free as in beer — really
A group of college students published under a Creative Commons license the recipe for a beer they brewed. The license allows anyone to use the recipe “for pleasure or profit.” Here’s part of the Wired article on the news: Their inspiration wasn’t just to get drunk, but to see what happens when an open-source structure…
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Pro Evolution Soccer 4 not as good as Fifa 2005
Here’s a review I wrote for Sun.Star Cebu’s Cybercafe page last year. I posted this in one of the previous versions of Leon Kilat: The Cybercafe Experiments. THE first time I played Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) 4, I was a little bit disappointed. I’ve been playing EA Sports’ Fifa franchise for months, starting with Fifa…
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Perfectly timed death
In crime news reports, you’d hear or read victims being brought to hospitals and declared “dead on arrival.” It seem such a perfectly timed death – victims dying on arrival. Of course, what is meant by the phrase is that they were declared dead by doctors when their bodies were brought to the hospital. “Dead…
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Coming soon: NerdTV
PBS will start NerdTV, its first downloadable series, on Sept. 6. The series will be broadcast exclusively over the Internet. Not only is PBS allowing downloads of the series, it is encouraging people to “copy the shows, share them with friends and even post them on their own Web sites – all legally.” NerdTV (www.pbs.org/nerdtv)…