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Most of the time I find myself addicted to Digg. I spent hours together on digg, analyzing the stories that hit the front page regularly, users whose stories hit the FP more often, so on and so forth. These tools help me to make my digg experience better and also look beneath the stories that are submitted to digg. Let me get direct to the list:

SocialBlade:

Created by a digg user, this shows you the stories that have hit the Digg frontpage, the number of diggs… Continue Reading»

The LCD panel in the new 20″ iMacs is going to be 18bit color panel as opposed to the previous in generationwhich had 24bit color panel. Support for this includes the Kodawarisan take-apart photos which appear to show the panel as a LG PHILIPS LM201WE3… Continue Reading»

This is the Dell’s new XPS M1730 laptop released by Notebook Italiana.As you might see from the image, it is not the best laptop, atleast if in terms of slimness but 17-inch screen, Core 2 Extreme X7800 chip, GeForce 8700M, do make it a good buy… Continue Reading»

Looks like Ford’s pricing the Sync extensible automotive media platform right in line with most other DAP / Bluetooth integration solutions: Dearborn announced today that the system will be a $395 option on new Focus, Edge, and Lincoln MKX vehicles starting this fall. Ford also said that Sync will be coming to nine other vehicles by 2008, but honestly, we’re not going to be satisfied on the carputer tip until we get Turbo Boost and a sweeping red scanner light… Continue Reading»

For those of you who’ve recently placed a Dell laptop order only to find yourself high and dry on shipment, rest assured you’re not alone — not by a long shot. Of course, there have been problems with shipment on the XPS M1330 for some time — problems so severe that a thread on NotebookReview’s forum concerning delays for the laptop has had over 9,000 replies to date (a record for the site), but apparently that’s not the only system affected. It would seem that customers who’ve placed orders for… Continue Reading»

Somehow, a twelve-year-old child has been given the opportunity to take the OLPC XO for a test drive, and we’ve got the blow-by-blow for you.Read full story at Engadget

A judge has ruled that a trial against Microsoft can proceed to decide whether they misled people with their “Vista Capable” advertising campaign. Two PC buyers have started a class action, and are arguing that they bought machines that weren’t capable of running Aero, even though they were marked as “Vista Capable.” Microsoft is arguing that Vista can run on slower machines, albeit with some of the eye candy turned off, and that this was explained in their campaign.In any case, we’ll probably not get to see… Continue Reading»