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The reign of the original Xbox has been over for a while now. I haven’t played an actual game on this old console for months, I use it only as a DVD player. I plan on getting an Xbox 360 Elite relatively soon; so the question is, what to do with this older hardware? The solution came to me from the Xbox Media Center Project. Since I will no longer need it as primary hardware, I might as well see whats inside and try to “hack” the box without killing it. (Read the article)

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Recently at the Google Blog, they posted about a new feature on the Google Trends site. The feature shows recent “hot trend” searches at any given time (filtering out searches for adult content and MySpace). I hadn’t been to Google Trends in a while and forgot how much fun it could be. (Read the article)

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Earlier I had posted my delight in finding a resource for a Joost invite. Here is a follow up post that will cover my first impressions, a few problems I have run into, and some fixes you will probably need to know for a working installation. (Read the article)

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Now that Joost is revving up for major release, they have flooded the beta testers with 1000 invites each. This has helped open up the gates for less “connected” people like myself and through a series of blogs I was able to secure one.

Later I plan to post about my first impressions. Also look for a future post accepting email addresses for invites, should I get a stack of invites to send out myself. If you need one now, it shouldn’t be too hard to find other people sharing their accounts.

Other awesome news:

• Digg decides to fight the power
• News Corp. offers unsolicited $5 Billion bid for Dow Jones 

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