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I actually thought I was addicted to Video Games, but then I woke up one morning and started to install Drupal. Now my addiction has moved to playing around with Drupal and Blogging. 🙁

AMA to Vote on Whether or Not Video Game/Internet Addiction is a Real Medical Condition –

The American Medical Association is taking steps to classify Internet and video game addiction as an actual medical condition. A vote is scheduled next week where members will decide whether or not to officially apply the “addiction” label. Bah, addictions are good for people. They help build character, at least the fun ones do.

In all seriousness, how many stories have we seen about some guy essentially giving up his real life to exclusively live a Second Life or to level up his Blood Elf until he passes out? Sure, this article points out that public scares like “they’re listening to too much rock music” or “rap encourages and celebrates the thug lifestyle” are common in American history, but video game and Internet addiction certainly seems to exist, at least anecdotally.

AMA to vote on “internet/video-game addiction” as medical condition [South Florida Sun-Sentinel via Drudge]

[CrunchGear]

This really sucks. When I use Debin I have to install the flash player for FireFox from a different source you get all your other applications within Debian. This is done by modifying the apt-get configuration file. Other Distribution’s you have to download the linux plugin from Adobe and install it manually.

Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated –

A free Flash viewer is one of the last major gaps in GNU/Linux desktop functionality, so last week’s news that Gnash, the free Flash player, had reached the stage where it could play YouTube and Lulu.tv videos seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was.

[Linux.com]

I remember first hearing about flock. I actually got a version of it when it was just skinned to look different than FireFox. I didn’t expect the project to get this far. Give it a wirl, looks to be promising.

Flock 0.9 lands gracefully –

The Flock project has been building a "social Web browser" since 2005. The upcoming Flock 0.9 release adds new blogging features, integrates media streams into the browser, and includes an overhaul of the Flock bookmark system. It’s not perfect yet, but Flock 0.9 is a big leap forward.

[Linux.com]

Webroot Spy Sweeper 5.5.1 Build 3354 – Spy Sweeper safeguards your identity and restores system performance through fast, smart and powerful anti-spyware protection. Spy Sweeper protects against all types of spyware, including system monitors, Trojan horses, and other threats like CoolWebSearch, Look2Me, and more. Spy Sweeper’s advanced removal engine deletes the toughest spyware programs – even removing mutated or “rootkit” spies, some of the nastiest next-generation spyware threats – which are specifically designed to avoid detection and removal. This removal technology saves time and effort by eliminating these vicious threats in one sweep – requiring no need for multiple reboots. As soon as it’s installed, Spy Sweeper with AntiVirus offers 360 degrees of protection against spyware and viruses and is now compatible with Windows Vista.

Product features include:

* Detect and disinfect viruses, spyware, Trojans and worms at the point of infection to keep your PC safe
* Your PC can be completely cleaned and disinfected in just a couple of mouse clicks – it’s that easy.
* Protect your PC and your Internet activities without any cumbersome configuration using Spy Sweeper with AntiVirus software.

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[NeoWin-Software]

Error'd: More Like Didgeridon't! –

If you were tasked with building a time zone synching application, you could probably do it in less than 1MB. Maybe you Linux guys could write it in one line of Perl (or at least brag about having the ability to write it in one line of Perl). Hell, maybe you’d just use the built-in synching functionality in your favorite OS. Anyhow, I can’t imagine the crazy Western Australian rules for calculating time that make this software baloon to 4GB.

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[The Daily WTF]

I love this site, because if you’ve ever heard of an internet fad, raid or drama or some phrase that wasn’t on urban dictionary then this site was the place to look. It contains one of my favorite words “lulz” Lulz Definition You can spend a lot of time on this site, it has lots of information and articles on internet fads. Check it out.

I still think that the PS3 will come back to haunt us all. Although I’m not a console gamer, but rather strictly a PC Gamer I have always loved the PS titles I played at my friends house. But I have see the graphics for the Xbox 360 and they look just amazing. Wait for the new GTA and THPS to see if the PS3 will rise from the grave it has been placed into by the console community.

Sony's back: shifting from "recovery to profitable growth" — 380 new PS3 games –

Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras, Displays, Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Laptops, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Howard Stringer — Sony Corp’s CEO and man with the plan — just exited stage-left from Sony’s annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo. To say that the 6,000 attendees were skeptical of said plan would be an understatement given a year of fiscal losses, job cuts, PS3 under-performance (with an eventual Kutaragi dismissal), and an embarrassing and dangerous recall of some 10 million batteries among other missteps. Still, Howard stood strong, assuring investors that Sony has made the swtich from “recovery to profitable growth” and will be a “dominant company” in the digital age. So what’s the plan?

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

[EnGadget]

Do you like Slim Mp3 Players? Well this DAP is what you want in your pocket while rocking out at the bus stop waiting to catch a ride to work.

Technonia announces Slimline DAP –

Filed under: Portable Audio

While we’re pretty sure the world doesn’t need too many more thin, black MP3 players, Korean manufacturer Technonia thinks otherwise. The company has announced a rather MPIO-ish portable audio player — the 7.5mm thick Slimline. This little guy does pretty much everything you’d expect from something in its class, and really, truly nothing you wouldn’t. Those things include playing MP3 and WMV files, tuning in FM radio, and displaying your images on its 1.5-inch OLED screen. 1GB unit on sale by the end of the month in Korea for 90,000KRW (or about $97US).

[Thanks, Doom]

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

[EnGadget]

This application suite is quite the AIO (All in One). I have used eGroupware, and was a joy. I was trying to find more projects to create in it than actually using it to manage them. This is defiantly an application you want to check out and play around with.

OfficeSpot.Net Collaboration Server Preview 2 (Default branch) – The OfficeSpot.Net Collaboration Server is a one-stop solution for all your groupware needs. It is based on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and is preloaded with eGroupWare, Postfix, OpenLDAP, MySQL, DBMail, Spamassasin, and ClamAV.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release contains updated versions of eGroupWare (1.4), DBMail (latest stable SVN revision), and ClamAV (0.90.3). The installation process was streamlined and the online documentation was updated.

[FreshMeat]

This looks to be a brilliant application that allows you to managing you accounting very easily. As a small time contractor, this is the ideal application.

PHP Accounts 0.5.1 (Default branch) – PHP Accounts is a simple and easy to use Web-based client and accounts application of particular use to freelancers or consultants. As well as basic management of clients, income, and outgoings, features include Generation of PDF invoices, recording timesheets, CSV export, an invoice wizard for quickly generating client invoices, and automatic email reminders to clients for unpaid invoices.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
some changes have been added to increase compatibility with more environments. PHP 5 support was tested (slightly).

[FreshMeat]