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A couple years ago we discussed Benjamin Heckendorn's modification which turned the Xbox 360 into a laptop. Now, he's completed a new, revamped design which includes a removable Xbox 360 hard drive, an internal Wi-fi module and a new button layout. It looks a lot nicer, too. He's also posted a description of how he did it.pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/05/0038229amp;from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/05/0038229"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/05/0038229amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/psBHtJfA5ZlzwoFKD-l5jtfRlbw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/psBHtJfA5ZlzwoFKD-l5jtfRlbw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/Rftdfe5vseo" height="1" width="1"/

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/windowslivephotosharing.png" width="975" height="803" style="display:block;float:none;" / One way you can use your a href="http://lifehacker.com/5101347/skydrive-upgrade-goes-live-with-25gb-of-space"25GB of free Skydrive space courtesy of Microsoft Windows Live/a is share your photos online Flickr-style at the newly-revamped Windows Live Photos site. Create albums (folders) in Windows Live Photos, set permissions on who can see your photos, comment on others' photos, and play your photos back slideshow-style. While Windows Live Photos slideshow is inferior to Flickr's full-screen option, the webapp does set itself apart from Flickr a few ways. Overall it's more customizable, with your choice of themes for your photo pages, and while it doesn't offer free-form photo tags like Flickr, you can identify particular people within a given photo (like Facebook). You'll need a Windows Live ID to sign in and try out Live Photos./p div class="related"a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/archive/2008/12/02/our-new-photos-web-service-is-live.aspx"Our new Photos web service is LIVE!/a [Windows Live Photo Video Blog via a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10113658-2.html?part=rss"CNET/a]/div br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3c1a70254bfd4b4ec126b072785fa073p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3c1a70254bfd4b4ec126b072785fa073p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=3c1a70254bfd4b4ec126b072785fa073" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=oTm1niJo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Lg1vB3b6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Qi9L128X"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Qi9L128X" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=UoE8m357"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=UoE8m357" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/AzFBiBetQaI" height="1" width="1"/

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pI'm not sure how many hours of my adolescent and teenage life I spent watching standup comedy on TV (it seemed like every channel had a standup show). But I don't think it was a waste of time, and expect to spend more hours browsing through the newly launched a href="http://www.jokes.com/" target="window"Jokes.com/a site. br / centerbr / img alt="comcentral_finnegan.jpg" src="http://blog.clickz.com/comcentral_finnegan.jpg" width="322" height="240"/centerbr / Comedy Central has revamped the site in a big way. It's not just a facelift. They literally had multiple editorial people plowing through standup video from their archives going back about 10 years, attributing metadata to countless clips, and slicing and dicing shows into individual jokes, or thematic riffs. /p pa href="http://comedians.comedycentral.com/bill-hicks/videos/bill-hicks---plastic-surgery" target="window"Watch Bill Hicks/a mocking creationism on the "A-List." Or check out a href="http://comedians.comedycentral.com/bob-odenkirk/" target="window"Bob Odenkirk/a in his early (awkward?) standup days. You might have to sit through an in-stream ad first. (Sadly, they don't have that old a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLUncbZKbs" target="window"Brian Regan bit about little league/a.) /p pOf course, there are lots of younger (and living) comedians, too. And one of 'em, a href="http://comedians.comedycentral.com/christian-finnegan/" target="window"Christian Finnegan/a, was at the launch lunch at Comedy Central HQ yesterday (pictured here in his cool 'Mats shirt). /p pSure, all that editing and metadata-ing work facilitates SEO. But there's another interesting and potentially revenue-generating outcome. The site's content -- which also includes text jokes and text versions of the video bits (yes, more SEO) -- can be readily organized according to theme. The Comedy Central folks created hundreds of tags for Jokes.com content (George W. Bush, Gross-Out, Marriage). /p pThat means they can easily generate a page dedicated to a certain theme or themes for a sponsor. Take McDonald's, which will sponsor a football-themed video section in conjunction with the Superbowl. br / /pimg src="http://feeds.clickz.com/~r/clickzblog/~4/474933536" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/" rel="tag"Etc./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag"Celebrities/a/pa href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/12/knight-rider-cu.html"img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/kitloan2_opt.jpg" //abr /br /Gang, you and I have nine more a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/knight+rider+liveblog/"Knight Rider liveblogs/a ahead of us, then it's over. NBC hasn't emofficially/em announced the show's inevitable cancellation, but you don't exactly need to be Stephen Hawking to figure this one out. After first giving the show a baffling a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/21/knight-rider-gets-picked-up-for-full-season/"full-season order/a, then announcing that it's being a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/10/knight-rider-has-issues-duh-major-revamp-planned/"completely revamped/a after ratings took a nosedive following the 1-week break it had in November, NBC suits have reconsidered the number of episodes they want to subject us to when Knight Rider returns from hiatus. The 22-episode full-season order has officially been a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/12/knight-rider-cu.html"cut back/a to 17, the last of which will air on February 25. Barring some kind of ratings miracle, Knight Rider will then join last year's NBC retread fiasco, Bionic Woman, in the Bad Decision Hall of Fame. According to the L.A. Times, Knight Rider's Wednesday 8:00 PM slot will go to a new, as-yet-unnanounced program starting March 4th. Note to NBC: this would be a good time to run the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/27/top-gear-pilot-thats-a-wrap/"Top Gear pilot/a. Just saying, you know? After all, you'll need something to replace Knight Rider next fall. As for KITT and friends, they return on New Year's Eve for their season-ending (and probably series-ending) 9-episode run. See you then. emThanks for the tip, Ben./embr /br /[Source: a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/12/knight-rider-cu.html"L.A. Times/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/knight-rider-is-toast/"Knight Rider is toast/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:57:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/12/knight-rider-cu.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/knight-rider-is-toast/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1390791/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/knight-rider-is-toast/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/aQVJ184rfAoBQXQqrdzYEF5LvP0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/aQVJ184rfAoBQXQqrdzYEF5LvP0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=ssssr5ep"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=ssssr5ep" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=YRVGMJrn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=YRVGMJrn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/eAYjf7CqGU4" height="1" width="1"/

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pBack in the early dot-com days, Jokes.com was basically a site with a bunch of laugh lines—and perhaps not surprisingly, it failed to gain much traction. Now, with comedy a much bigger fixture on the Web, Comedy Central (a division of Viacom's MTVN (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=VIA" class="ticker" title="VIA"NYSE: VIA/a) Entertainment Group) is relaunching a href="http://www.jokes.com/" title="Jokes.com"Jokes.com/a as a searchable hub for stand-up comedy. The site runs on ad revenue, but also sells tickets to Comedy Central's live stand-up events.nbsp; /p p Jokes.com features more than 5,000 video clips (dating back to performances from 1997) and 12,000 text-based jokes. Users can search by topic or comedian, sign up for an email or mobile joke of the day, and an iPhone app in the works. In the coming months, Comedy Central plans to let users upload their own jokes and clips of themselves doing standup. a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10112327-36.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20" title="CNET says"CNET says/a there are talks about future collaborations with News Corp.'s MySpace for promotions and talent contests, as well as pulling in content from fellow Viacom sites like MTV and BET. Back in June, MTVN a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mtvns-comedy-sites-atomfilms-and-atomuploads-rebrand-as-atomcom" title="unveiled a similar effort"unveiled a similar effort/a: rebranding its AtomFilms and AtomUpload properties as a href="http://www.atom.com/" title="Atom.com"Atom.com/a.nbsp; a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Comedy-CentralR-Expands-Relaunches-Jokescom/story.aspx?guid={DAF63DE3-C45F-4BD5-BF83-A52E6A66987E}" title="Release"Release/a. br / /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mtvns-comedy-sites-atomfilms-and-atomuploads-rebrand-as-atomcom/"MTVN Redux: AtomFilms And AtomUploads Rebrand As Atom.com/a/li /ul piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=emlnVh"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=emlnVh" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=y8Q0O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=y8Q0O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=f0KjO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=f0KjO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=GRfDo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=GRfDo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=BE0qO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=BE0qO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=VS08O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=VS08O" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/474112886" height="1" width="1"/

Worldwide PC growth will slow to a veritable snail's pace in 2009, according to newly revised numbers from analyst group IDC. But still, the revamped forecast for notebook PCs isn't exactly (or entirely) bleak.