fast food usb drives: i can has cheeseburger and fries with that

Now we’ve certainly seen our share of odd food-themed USB drives here at technabob, but it seems that there’s an entire cottage industry in China dedicated to creating a never-ending supply of even weirder flash memory devices, seemingly just so we can write about them.

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These fast food USB drives come in two flavors: cheeseburger and french fry. The french fry drive stores 4GB of files, and tastes better with salt and ketchup and sells for $19.99 (USD). The 8GB cheeseburger memory is already loaded with all of the toppings you’d want on a burger and sells for $29.99.

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At this point, they’re not offering any Chicken McNugget, Filet ‘O Fish or McRib drives, but I figure it’s only a matter of time before they do.

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How to Make Your Internet Run Faster :

Slow Internet can make anyone frustrated and annoyed, especially if you want to do your work or check your emails. The Internet has become such a big part of our lives that it's imperative we have a fast connection... but if yours is running slow, there's luckily an easy trick to make it faster.

The problem with the Internet is that so many people simply blame the provider for a slow connection. Although this is a common problem, there's also another side to the story which could set your connection free if you fix it. Although many people blame the providers, your computer could actually be the cause of a slow connection. More specifically, a part of your computer called the 'registry' could be causing your slow Internet connection, meaning that in order to speed up your web; you just need to be able to fix the problems in the registry.The registry is basically a big database of settings and system files, which your computer relies on to work. Everything from your latest emails to your homepage is stored in this database, and when you visit a website, its images and contents are also stored in there too. Because Windows has been designed to store as many Internet files as possible in the "cache" so it can load them up quicker when you next go on them, the speed at which pages load is generally determined by how many files are saved on your computer.

The problem with most computers is that most of the time, the temporary Internet files inside this database actually become corrupt or damaged, making them incredibly difficult for your computer to read. This makes your PC slow down as it tries to read them, slowing down your Internet speed as a result. The more corrupt files that are in your registry means the slower your Internet will run, and with many computers having 1,000's of these damaged files, it's actually one of the biggest causes of a slow connection.

To fix this problem and speed up your Internet dramatically, you just need to use a tool called a "registry cleaner" These tools have been specifically designed to go through the registry and fix all the bad and corrupted files that are in there. Because the temporary Internet files are kept in here too, it means that all the corrupt Internet files will be cleaned out, allowing your computer to smoothly and quickly read any Internet page at the optimum speed possible.
Using a registry cleaner to speed up your Internet speed is one of the easiest and most effective ways to do it.

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Zune HD is competitive in price against ipod.

August 14, 2009 , Microsoft announced the availability of the Zune HD on September 15th. The Zune HD is also competitively priced. Coming in at $219.99 for the 16GB base model (Compared to Apple’s 16GB at $299), and $289.99 for the 32GB (Apples 32GB at $399). In all matter of opinion, the Zune HD looks absolutely extravagant.The key point Microsoft is hitting with the Zune HD is gaming. NVIDIA’s Tegra offers a great amount of power, in a very small area. The Zune HD runs off of the Tegra 600 series, and is the first device to be sold with it. The Tegra 600 series buffs huge support for many features, such as a 12MP camera , and smooth high definition media playback.The new Zunes will also be able to play downloadable videos. And with the use of optional docking stations, they'll even be able to play HDTV-format videos on a TV set.
Lastly, the players, which will have touch screens, will also be Wi-Fi equipped for Web browsing and downloading audio and video.

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How To Put Videos on ipods,psp,3g mobile,mp4player

Source:http://www.pspvideo9.com/
Now, you can enjoy Videos For YourIPod,psp,3g mobiles and so on!!PSP Video
9 is a free PSP video converter that converts video files of your choice,
YouTube videos, movies and DVD's so you can play them and enjoy on your
PSP and ipods. The software can convert all types of video files (avi,
divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube, etc.) into the proper
video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that play on the PSP. It is available for
Windows and Mac.

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Yahoo Comes Full Circle With Retreat From Search

Source:http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=8207337
by jano
Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider — hearkening back to a conclusion the company's co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s.The latest shift in direction will put rival Microsoft Corp. in control of the search results and the ads that appear alongside search results on Yahoo's highly trafficked Web site, assuming the proposed partnership is approved by antitrust regulators in the United States and Europe.The 10-year deal announced Wednesday blows up a search expansion undertaken under Yahoo's former chief executive, Terry Semel, who resigned under shareholder pressure two years ago. The repudiation of Semel's strategy returns Yahoo to a philosophy embraced by co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo in the company's early days.

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Microsoft’s sweet Yahoo deal to take on Google !!!

Source:http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6736245.ece
By Jano
Not long after Carol Bartz took over at Yahoo in January she dropped the “F Bomb”. Explaining what was wrong at Yahoo, the tough-talking executive said there were “a lot of people running around telling engineers what to do but nobody is f*****g doing anything”.If anything, that endeared Bartz to potential critics. After years of bloodless management, here was a woman fired up to get Yahoo moving again.She arrived as the floundering internet giant was showing co-founder Jerry Yang the door. Shareholders were furious that Yahoo had rebuffed a $33-a-share offer from Microsoft and today the shares are worth less than half that.It had lost its way defending against the software giant and was falling ever further behind Google. Bartz was going to give Yahoo “some friggin’ breathing room” so it could “kick some butt”. Seven months later it’s Bartz’s butt that is getting the kicking. She is accused of selling off Yahoo’s crown jewel for a song.Microsoft finally reached a deal with Yahoo last week to, in effect, take over its search business. It will make Microsoft’s Bing search service Yahoo’s search engine, handing the Windows software giant almost 30% of the search market and is the end of an era in internet search, reducing the field to two key players: Microsoft and arch enemy Google.Microsoft will pay Yahoo 88% of the search revenue generated from its sites in the first five years of the agreement, the companies said. But for Yahoo, once the leader in online search, it is the end of the road.

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Google sill in love with Youtube

Source:http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/31/google-still-loves....By Jano
The video-sharing site loses money and has failed to attract quality studio programming. So why does Google continue to pump money into it?YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley (left) and product manager Salar Kamangar YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley (left) and product manager Salar Kamangar You would think Google’s executive triumvirate — CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page — would be worried about YouTube. Almost three years after they forked over $1.65 billion in stock to acquire the video-sharing site, YouTube last year delivered only an estimated $240 million in revenue and is deeply in the red.YouTube is the largest video platform in the world. Users upload 20 hours of video to it each minute, at tremendous cost to Google (GOOG). The company doesn’t break out YouTube’s expenses, but analysts believe it spends tens of millions of dollars each month just on network capacity to host all those videos.And, oh, what videos! Four years after its inception YouTube remains a repository for “long tail” content that appeals to niche audiences: clips of cats on skateboards, babies laughing, and kids lip-synching. (There are occasional mass-audience moments, like the clip of Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent, viewed 71 million times.) Gallery: See YouTube’s greatest hits But despite Google’s repeated efforts, YouTube has failed to create an environment for professional video content, where many advertisers are clamoring to put their money right now.Instead, Google’s executives have watched rival Hulu, a joint venture of GE’s NBC, News Corp.’s Fox, and now Disney’s ABC, catapult to success among consumers and advertisers alike. With its sharp media player and an interface that feels comfortingly like traditional television, Hulu has become the second-most-watched video site (after YouTube) since it launched in March 2008 and began hosting episodes of Saturday Night Live and The Office. YouTube’s attempt to capitalize on professional content? A tab on the site marked “Shows” that is home to programs like Bewitched. Really.

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Mozilla Firefox Hits 1 Billion Downloads

Source:http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Mozilla-Firefox-Hits-by Jano
Mozilla Firefox, the open-source challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, passed the 1-billion download mark on July 31, with a Web site and Twitter feed marking the occasion. Although Firefox has managed to seize an increasing percentage of the consumer market since its original rollout in 2002, its gains have been somewhat slower in the enterprise, where a variety of factors have kept Internet Explorer as the browser of choice for many IT administrators.Mozilla's Firefox browser hit 1 billion downloads on July 31, with the open-source foundation using the occasion to trumpet itself as a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.On August 3, Mozilla plans to launch a Web site to mark the achievement; details of the site content are under wraps, but the foundation plans on highlighting "how global and diverse our community has become," according to a posting on a corporate site. Mozilla also set up an account on Twitter counting towards that 1-billion mark.Resource Library:Navigating The Recession For Competitive Advantage With IBM's Dynamic Warehousin Stripping Complexity from SMB IT: Virtualization Does It Data in Action: Effective data management for smarter outcomes Integrating SharePoint with Lotus Notes: Drive SharePoint Adoption While Managin At the moment Firefox hit that milestone, the browser was being downloaded some 24 times per second.Since its original release in 2002, Firefox has slowly managed to gain market-share in the consumer market. A report by research firm StatCounter in early July found that the various versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer held 54.4 percent market share, down from 65.8 percent in March 2009, while the next-to-newest version of Firefox, 3.0, held a 27.6 percent market share.

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