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Watch out for EBAY SCAMS! Any “private” auction should raise big red flags! Positive feedback could be bogus if all is from private auctions..

by Admin on Jan.28, 2010, under Tech and Gadgets

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I myself, will generally not purchase anything but HARDWARE from ebay. Even with hardware you have to be careful of scammers, but they use different methods. For now I just wanted to warn people that when they see 99% positive feedback on a seller, they should make sure to check his feedback and if the majority of the feedback is all from PRIVATE auctions, I think it should raise red flags as to the legitimacy of that seller. Why the need for such secrecy unless they’re selling porn or something like that. Of course I’m not implying they are, I’m just saying if they’re not selling something sensitive, why would they need to “hide” what item they sold to get that feedback. Perhaps they sold a bunch of penny or free items to bogus buyers just to get their feedback way up to catch and prey on a few clueless victims. (You still need to be weary of accounts that have been hijacked which might have a perfect record but a hacker and scammer through phishing or other methods hijacked the account. So just learn to protect yourselves, and don’t be greedy or you’ll deserve it when you get screwed, if it sounds too good to be true, then it’s likely a scammer, waiting, for, you!

Are you tempted to BUY something on EBAY but want reassurance that its legit? Send the link over for analysis!

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The game is on, Obama’s looking for a team-mate to take on Masachusetts Miracle Scott Brown and his daughter in a two on two Basketball game!

by Admin on Jan.20, 2010, under Local News, The Beginning

Scott Brown wins big , new Massachusetts Senator after Ted kennedy beats Democrat Martha Coakley
The Herald heralds “He Did It!”. Against all odds conservative Scott Brown has defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in the blue state of Massachusetts to take over Ted Kennedy’s senate seat.
An email was going around with this “Expect a Miracle” video predicting Scott Brown’s victory:

Here’s a (continue reading…)

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The liberals are suckers for good looks! Conservative Scott Brown crowned in Massachusetts!

by Admin on Jan.20, 2010, under Local News, The Beginning

Father and Daughter - Brown Family - New Massachusetts Senator
Bring on the beautiful people! Its liberals’ kryptonite!

See, how could anyone resist?

Seriously though, there could actually be a lot of truth to this. Think about it, would Sarah Palin have made it as far as she did without her looks? Of course she had some bad luck with 30 Rock’s Tina Fey look-alike arch-enemy and the entire liberal world conspiring against her day and night. ( lacking much experience didn’t help either..) But now here we have it again, GQ model Scott Brown (yes he really (continue reading…)

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Vray for Blender, blender 3D photorealistic fast renderer

by Admin on Jan.16, 2010, under Virtual 3D World

One of the fastest (if not ‘the’ fastest) 3D renderers in the world, V-Ray for free open source Blender 3D brings the power and speed of V-Ray Raytracing to one of the most powerful modeling and 3d animation systems available.
V-Ray for Blender is currently in
development

What happens when you combine the world’s most powerful rendering engine
with the world’s most beloved open source 3D content creation suite? You get V-Ray
for Blender! Artists around the world are salivating at the mere thought
of taking their Blender scenes to the next level with the worlds fastest
photo-realistic rendering system.

Developer: Andrey M. Izrantsev
(aka bdancer)

V-Ray for Blender - Sample Render 1
Image by Bertrand Benoit

V-Ray for Blender - Sample Render 2
Image by Bertrand Benoit

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Qwest for the most realistic renderer, photorealistic 3D renders

by Admin on Jan.16, 2010, under Virtual 3D World

I will be adding various worthy 3d images, artistic yet photo realistic (ie lighting textures etc)….. for now here’s some nice stuff from good ‘ol PovRay (I’ll be adding some from finalrender, fryrenderer, and others not sure if to same page yet..) :

The images presented on this page show a selection of the types of art that can be
created using POV-Ray.

Pebbles
by Jonathan Hunt

This POV-Ray picture of a beach of pebbles was generated entirely using POV code. No modelers were used at all. The image features radiosity and focal blur to give it that realistic feel, and took 4.5 days to render on an Athlon 5600+.

Boreal
by Norbert Kern

Study in atmospheric media and in different ways of “planting” using the trace command.

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Indigo photorealistic 3d physics renderer for Blender

by Admin on Jan.15, 2010, under Virtual 3D World

Indigo photorealistic 3d scene renderingAnother great 3D render system similar to V-Ray is Indigo, which is ahead of Vray in its support for Blender.

Word.

A recent shot I did. Finally got my ass into gear to start making proper accessories and things such as books, glasses, etc.

There are 3 exposures in this image from the same rendering; woohoo for camera tonemapping!

Blender 2.49a, Indigo 2.2.9
Roughly 30 hours of rendering, though at 2400×2400. I used light portals but am not sure if that actually helped or not.

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More Pat Robertson lunatic rants and ramblings? Haiti Voodoo nation and killer earthquake connection?

by Admin on Jan.14, 2010, under Local News

Haiti big earthquake 50,000 deadHaiti is undoubtedly the poorest and most desperate nation in our hemisphere. Many people literally eat mud to survive. It may be surprising for some to think of such misery existing not to far off the US coast. (South of florida, Haiti is on an Island right below Cuba, it shares the Island with the Dominican Republic nation.)

News outlets are buzzing with “Pat Robertson Blames Earthquake on Pact Haitians Made with Satan”. What is (continue reading…)

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Minority Report and 3D holographic style displays coming soon…

by Admin on Jan.11, 2010, under Tech and Gadgets

OLED see through display
It seems technology is catching up to providing some of the tech we’ve seen in movies. At CES 2010, Samsun showed off their new notebook’s display showcasing the world’s first and largest transparent OLED prototype which is supposedly 40-percent transparent.

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New iphone and Google Nexus competition the LG GW 990 5-inch screen HD smartphone

by Admin on Jan.11, 2010, under Google Voice, Linux Unix Stuff, Tech and Gadgets

Intel LG GW990 HD 5inch At CES 2010 Intel unveiled the x86 Moorestown Smartphone running Linux based Moblin OS and sporting two cameras, one in front for video conferencing and one in the back.

DELL is aso introducing their own pda/smartphone with a 5-inch WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen, 3G, Bluetooth, a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, a microSD slot and a 1,300mAh battery, powered by Android 2.0.

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New FireFox version release adds new features

by Admin on Jan.11, 2010, under Linux Unix Stuff, Tech and Gadgets

HTML5 new firefox 3.6 featuresSome of the new features in Firefox 3.6:

Improved browser startup time, overall more robust, JavaScript performance increase.
Can run scripts asynchronously speeding up page loads.
Support for new DOM, CSS, and HTML5 ,File API support etc.
Quick one click browser skin/style changes.
Native video supporting full screen and poster frames.
WOOF font format support.

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