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Swarmcast Recieves Major Funding for P2P Digital Cinema Distribution
P2P company, ‘Swarmcast’ has received $5 million in funding to evolve a secure and fast system to pass on very high definition (upto 250GB) Hollywood movies to digital cinemas. With all the uproar about BitTorrent Inc lately, the deal that Swarmcast made has remained relatively unnoticed. Swarmcast actually made-up the concept of ’swarming downloads’, which is also [...] [SHOW]

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Recieve of the Day: Firefox 3.0 Alpha (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Windows, Mac and Linux: Sneak a peek at the next major release of Firefox, code-named Gran Paradiso. It promises some fairly full-bodied architectural changes, many of which are intended to make web apps identical from their desktop counterparts. Says PC World:

Gran Paradiso features better support for a number of graphics standards, such as the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) language and the Canvas specification. It also supports the Cairo graphics library, which aims to make Web pages look the same whether they are being printed or viewed on a Windows PC, a Macintosh, or a small-screen device.

The alpha doesn´t look too different from Firefox 2.0, which shipped less than two months ago. The only immediately detectable change is its souped-up navigation icons.

Indeed, only the most hardcore Firefox users will want to discommode with this release, which is definitely targeted to developers. And because it´s an alpha, you should exercise caution in installing it on your basal machine. Even so, it´s always fun to peek nether the hood of your favorite browser, if only to see how next year´s model is shaping up. The alpha release of Firefox 3.0 is free and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. — Rick Broida

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XGameStation hacking rig

Brian picked up one of our XGameStation kits and took´er out for a spin...

This is an stock-take of everything you need to do XGameStation hacking on the go. I´ve put notes in the depict but here´s a list, too:

• XGameStation Pico
• Parallax SX-Key programmer
• KeySpan USB/Serial Adapter
• USB-powered video capture device (don´t get the one I´m using... it´s ancient)
• Fx Video Capture (DScaler doesn´t work under Vista, but it would be my beginning choice)
• SX-Key IDE (I use 3.0 because 3.3 claimed there was an error in the racer demo code)
• 9v power source. You really want the wall-wart, because programming the SX28 is kind of rough on the battery.

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