RealDVD, the DRM-laden, DVD-copying commercial software from the folks who brought you RealPlayer, has been taken out of commission by Hollywood studios. Luckily you already know how to rip full DVDs to your hard drive for free without the nasty DRM, so you should be just fine. [via]
Apparently there’s a major financial meltdown of tech stocks happening that’s going to crush the US economy. Or something. I don’t know, I’m not daytrader, In fact, I only buy the stocks listed by default on my iPhone because I don’t know how to add new symbols. But the <a href=”issue is apparently important enough for Microsoft to weigh in. Well today’s featured commenter, macbeach, has managed to notice a peculiar pattern:
The world is topsey turvey when Michael Moore, Ron Paul, and the majority of Republicans in congress agree on anything (that we should not do a bail-out).
So the question is, what exactly are the rest of you smoking?
In any event, as Ron Paul said after the vote, nothing prevents the Federal Reserve from just pumping as much money as they want into the banking system (diluting the value of the dollar). This is mostly a bit of Pelosi left-coast showmanship.
California: Please send some intelligent people to Congress for a change. We’ve seen the current crop for what they are.
Most Lifehacker readers think the U.S. President’s ability to use a computer is important, and Barack Obama’s campaign is counting on that fact in a new ad that points out McCain admitted he doesn’t know how to use a computer or send an email. Hopefully Obama has some good systems in place for handling email overload on his BlackBerry.
Motorola has come out with a phone, the Cliq, targeted at a specific market and utilizing the power of Google’s Android platform. It is the first of a family of new Motorola phones, where the Cliq stands at the patronymic fore. As far as features go, Cliq is doing all right. The phone is complete [...]
For Microsoft Outlook users unfamiliar with Xobni, pay attention. The venture-backed company’s first piece of software, not even two years old, is a powerful advancement for e-mail organization, Outlook style. Wednesday, the new version of the tool is available, Xobni1.8 which provides additional power. In addition, the previously free plugin is offering an advanced version, [...]
Ever since June of last year there has been talks of Verizon and Alltel merging, but now it is official. Verizon wireless has now become the largest mobile carrier with over 83 million subscribers. Alltel will continue to run under the Alltel name until a complete merger of the two brands later this year. Now [...]
Pioneer has released a statement saying they have developed a Super Multi-Layered Disc that will play using current Blu-ray players. The disc consists of 16 layers that can hold 25GB of data each, which totals a 400GB Disc. They plan on having a read-only disc available by 2010, a rewritable by 2012, and a 1TB [...]
One of the biggest reasons most Windows users are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is Adblock Plus.
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