For $45, a Digital Camera With Frills. Up to now, inexpensive digital cameras have generally been stripped of special features like display screens, meaning the photographer had no way to see what sort of image had been captured until the picture was downloaded to a PC. Now the cost-conscious user can point, shoot and review with the Argus DC-1730, the first under-$50 digital camera with a liquid crystal display. By Chris Larson. [New York Times: Technology]

 

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No timetable set for Sun-Microsoft product interoperability. Sun CEO Scott McNealy said his company will gain from its settlement with Microsoft, and he has some clear product interoperability goals. But no timetable has been set. [Computerworld News]

 

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Sony's EyeToy wins more plaudits. Catch up with the latest news from the world of video gaming. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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Games make for awkward films. Film-makers have a patchy record in transferring games to the cinema screen, says BBCi's Daniel Etherington. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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RSS tutorial for ASP.Net developers. [Scripting News]

 

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Gigablast is a fast search engine. It's not using the same ranking algorithm as Google. At first I thought it was, but some of my standard searches show radically different results. Overall I really like it. It's designed to make transitioning from Google as painless as possible. And it compares favorably to Google in clutter. Google is going down the same path that Altavista went down, adding lots of doo-dads and paid distractions that take you away from the search results. [Scripting News]

 

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What is jpeg?  eWEEK: JPEG Hits New Patent-Infringement Snag. Patent infringement issues surrounding the JPEG image standard resurfaced on Thursday after a small software vendor filed lawsuits against 31 companies ranging from Adobe Systems Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. to IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. [Tomalak's Realm]

 

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The Onion Sells More Laughs. For the price of a $30 cup of coffee, The Onion will offer readers a subscription version of its site with more content and no ads. But don't worry, the rest of the satire site remains unchanged. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]

 

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