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Several wind-up flashlights have made the rounds, usually they are kind of a pain to charge up, but they make a good spare flashlight. Plus, you can rely on them more since their batteries aren’t exactly going to die off.
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In February of 2005, a Miami man sued Bank of America for not adequately protecting him against a $90,000 fraudulent wire transfer to the Parex Bank in Latvia. Joe Lopez was the first online user to sue his financial institution for not protecting his assets from a computer hacker.
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Windows 7 is getting a good amount of press, and I mean good press. It seems that people are looking forward to the next Windows incarnation and the app demo’d above shows off just what the system will be able to do. The multi-touch comes via a 3rd-party app running pre-beta N-Trig drivers on a pre-beta Windows 7 build.
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Facebook has been rumored to be building a PayPal-like micro payment platform for months now, but News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace might beat them to the punch.
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MySpace has already beaten Facebook to the digital music business and tried to take a bite out of Apple's hold on that market, but could the social network soon develop its own iPod killer?
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Barack Obama, soon to become the 44th President of the U.S.A., is many things: a statesman, a lawyer, an author, and an orator. It is also our opinion at GeekDad that, even without knowing him personally, we have enough evidence to demonstrate that he is a big geek.
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Record labels, hammered by ever plummeting CD sales, see a ray of sunshine in the recent minor renaissance in vinyl records whose sales and production continue to steadily expand. The reason for this 33 1/3 RPM nostalgia? The feeding of a demand from a growing minority of audio geeks who have been bitching about the cold sound of digital reproduction since the first compact disc was released.
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FourTrack (iTunes link) is the work of Sonoma Wire Works, makers of the desktop recording software RiffWorks, and The Retronyms, makers of Recorder, the top-selling (single-track) recording software in the App Store.
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The two 3D models you see above are made from office paper. The one on the right cost $1 in parts to produce. The one on the left, just 37¢. They were spat out by a new 3D printer called the Matrix, from British company Mcor.
