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South Korea is still the fastest Internet country on the planet, Microsoft software still has a big bullseye painted on it by hackers and password theft continues to be all the rage in the nether regions of the Web.

Many of the findings from Akamai’s State of the Internet Report for January-March 2008 shouldn’t come as a surprise to most technology watchers. But you might be scratching your head to learn that according to the web hosting company, Delaware is the state with the fastest Internet connections and Washington state - home to Microsoft and Amazon - is the slowest state, with the most connections at speeds of 256 kbps or slower. 

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Sick and tired of looking at those poor quality thumbnails in Windows?  Who says you can’t enhance them?  Follow the tutorial in the video above and you’ll be on your way to better quality thumbnails.  All it takes is adding a few DWORD values to your registry.  NOTE: If you’re not confident with screwing with your registry, or don’t know what a registry is, then you probably shouldn’t be doing this.

Via [TechEBlog]

I caught a quick glimpse of a few Wii hacks on G4’s “Attack of the Show” and just had to post links to a few of the videos. In the process, I naturally found a few others. Hackers have already turned the WiiMote into a:

• WiiTar (a motion sensitive musical controller through a PC)


• Vibrator (via GayGamer.net and SlashDong, of course created by crashing the Wii browser)—NSFW hack


• Wireless PC Mouse (A joystick emulation application - GlovePIE - uses the bluetooth in the WiiMote to control the mouse cursor in Windows XP)


• Wireless Mac Mouse


• RC car controller


• The Uber Controller (Controls home electronics through the WACI NX server emulated through a Nokia 770)

The silliest Wii related hack of all, even though it doesn’t really involve the WiiMote, is that someone actually made their Target Wii gift card blink to music. Looks like they had to hardwire it, but still pretty crafty.

Site [phl] Site [ZedoMax] Site [GayGamer.net] Site [GearFuse] Also [Engadget] And [Joystiq]

Why would you fork out $19 bucks for the Apple iPod AV Cable when you don’t have to?  We were looking around for cheaper solutions for getting video over to you TV and came across an article on O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter.com.  By following simple steps, you can get any AV cable (with yellow/red/white outputs) to work with your iPod.  Read on to find out how.

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