Archive for September 11th, 2006
Monday, September 11th, 2006
Reality Perfumes
Apparently, celebrity perfume is the new reality television.
From Bathing in eau de celebrity
But the financial base note of celebrity perfumes is not to be sniffed at: they boast the fastest-growing share of the $2.9 billion fragrance market, with celebrity-endorsed scents representing 23 per cent of the top 100 women’s fragrances in the US last year […]
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
Tips for MacIntel PowerUsers
This is worth keeping an eye on when it gets updated: MacRumors: an exploration of some of the as-yet unrealized potential of the currently shipping “Macintel” platform. and in the next week, a power users board is being launched just in time for my new MacPro! yay!
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
Amazon unveils Unbox - new itunes-esque service
I’ve always loved amazon (despite the evil 1-click patent). Hope this works out for them. Of course it’s all copy protected etc but you can’t really expected otherwise in this day and age.
PC World - Amazon Opens Video Download Store
Amazon.com unveiled the Unbox Video Store yesterday, a direct rival to Apple’s iTunes 24-7 video store, […]
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
When will it end? Quad-Core by the end of the year
Just when you though it was the right time for an upgrade:
bit-tech.net | Don’t Upgrade Now; Quad-Core is coming soon
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
Freaky Normal Models
Size-eight women make freak appearance on runway
Designer Leesa Fogarty, of MaraJoara swimwear, was responsible for such a repulsive runway faux pas that Vogue Australia swiftly deleted all photographic evidence from their Web site. Fogarty’s dreadful offense? She scrapped typical skeletal fashion models for fleshier everyday Aussies in her runway show during Australian Fashion Week and, […]
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
7 years for software piracy
Man gets 7 years for software piracy | CNET News.com
Nathan Peterson, 27, of Los Angeles, sold copyrighted software at a huge discount on his site, iBackups.net, prosecutors said. The FBI began investigating the site in 2003 and shut it down in February 2005. U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III on Friday ordered Peterson to […]
