Death by Caffeine is exactly what it sounds like. You pick the caffeinated beverage, it gives you an estimate on how many it will take to end your sad little existence.
"It would take 120.63 cups of Brewed Coffee to put you down."
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Less than a week after the Sweeds raided their servers under US pressure, The Pirate Bay is back and serving torrents! The servers are now in the Netherlands. I expect this is just the biginning of the war. This should get very interesting.
And in true TPB fashion they have posted some interesting stats:
Just some stats...
... here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix:
Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days
Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days
.. yawn.
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Beauty and Chaos is a really cool web-based white-board of sorts. At any given time you can just start drawing, as the 20 or so other connected people do the same. Of course you get idiots scribbling over your art or drawing offensive pictures, but just refresh and everything begins anew.
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We just added a new feature to CapsGetPeeled. At the bottom of every post is a "Bookmark This" link. Clicking it will take you straight to Socializer which in turn will let you post the link straight to your favorite social bookmarking site. So start Digging and del.icio.us...um..ing? Well you get the idea.
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Macrovision has a long history of being evil toward consumers in the name of copy-protection. Their half-assed attempts at DRM have always had flaws and rather than come up with something better they have decided to go after the little guys.
VersionTracker.com is reporting that Macrovision is demanding they stop linking to MacTheRipper.
"We have been contacted by Macrovision, who claims this violates their property and are threatening to sue us if we don't remove the links to it. We are checking with our legal advisors to find out what our options are. -VersionTracker Editors"
The best way to get your copy of MacTheRipper at the moment is via BitTorrent.
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After years and years of refusing, Los Angeles based KROQ has finally started streaming their content online. But as always, the still managed to screw it up. Not only is the stream based in Windows Media and super low quality (54 kbps), but the site is so badly designed it does not work on anything except windows. After trying the site in every browser I could (Safari, Shiira, Opera, Firefox, ect. ect.) I gave up and found the stream's url in the source.
"http://kroq-live.wm.llnwd.net/kroq_live"
UPDATE - 2/22/05
Looks like they have changed URL's:
"http://bdcast-infinity-kroq-fm.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_infinity_kroq-fm"
Drop that URL into Windows Media Player for mac and you too can hear The Kevin & Bean Show.
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Some webmasters have googlebombed both the word failure and the phrase miserable failure so that the first result on google is the White House Biography of George W. Bush.
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RnSkSoftronics has released a Mac OS X loader to put homebrew software on your Sony PSP 1.50.
"Simply click the plus button and select an EBOOT.PBP file to add that file to your Game Library.HomebrewPSP Converter will save your new, ready to go files in well labeld folders (Application Support)...just press the "Transfer to PSP" button to copy to your mounted PSP and enjoy!"
Anyone found good deals on 512mb Memory Stick Pro Duo's?
-CGP fo Life-
It's not on their homepage yet, but Griffin Technologies new iFill is my new favorite Mac OS X application. Want lots of new music on your iPod, that gets refreshed every day? Looking for an easy way to fill that extra gig or two on your iPod? Then give iFill a try.
"iFill streams mp3 files from thousands of free radio stations directly to your iPod. You can choose several stations at once and select from many different genres. And since iFill goes directly to your iPod, it won't clutter up your hard drive with extra files."
Pick your favorite streaming radio stations, plug in your iPod and go to sleep, when you awake you've got loads of new entertainment. They've got my $20.
-CGP fo Life-
Unxmaal pointed out this very cool Moss Graffiti. Grow your own biodegradable urban art.
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Well, Besk one's house got robbed last week, fucking bastards cleaned up and got away with the following booty:
Brand NEW PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0Ghz, 1.5GB Ram, 2x 250GB Hard Drives SN# YM4384H1QPM
Apple 20' Cinema Display (ADC) SN# YM4384H1QPM
Canon Digital Elph S230 SN# 8185A001 [AA]
Philips Pronto Pro TSU 7000 SN# PL1A0428006201
Apple iBook G3 500Mhz, 512MB Ram, 10GB Hard Drive (bought used, no SN handy)
Apple iBook G3 600Mhz 256MB Ram, 20GB Hard Drive (with broken screen hinges)
Evolution MK-426 MIDI Controller
Lilliput 7" Touchscreen (see car-puter thread)
250GB Firewire Drive (my backup HD)
200GB Western Digital ATA Hard Drive
My Friends Sony Camcorder
so Help a fellow cap peeling brother out, and be on the lookout some sucker ass punk selling said items cheap on e-bay or craigslist - If I ever find out who did this, I'll probably be in jail for splattering their insides all over the place I find them, but hopefully the cops find them first.
And a note to everyone - GET RENTERS INSURANCE! it's cheap and will save your ass - as I'm finding out, not having it really sucks sweaty monkey balls...
The worst part about the whole deal is the 6 years of data that's now gone :(
And it's not like I didn't have a backup in case my internal drives died - the bastards stole my BACKUP DRIVES TOO! - a good case for always having an off-site backup of your important data!
Yup, just saw the killer news over at BoingBoing.net that the EFF just fought for your right to do whatever the hell you want with the TV you get over your publicly owned airwaves!
So those fat cat network bitches, that wanted to control the way you watch and interact with your television just got the beatdown of the year put on their asses!
Time to fire up those network TiVo's 2006 is gonna be a TV Sharing-Parrrrrrrty!
What do you when your iPod hard drive takes a dump??? If your anything like this guy, then you hand build an ATA cable to connect a 3.5" hard drive to your iPod. Definitely not for the solder-unfriendly, but having a 250gb iPod on my desk would be damn cool.
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This swedish guy found a use for the cheese-grater front of the G5 tower. His site is in swedish, but here's a translation.
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The pioneer of "Gonzo Journalism" Hunter S. Thompson killed himself yesterday
"Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's officials said. He was 67. Thompson's wife, Anita, had gone out before the shooting and was not home at the time. His son, Juan, found the body.
Thompson "took his life with a gunshot to the head," the wife and son said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News. The statement asked for privacy for Thompson's family and, using the Latin term for Earth, added, "He stomped terra.""
A twisted brilliant mind has been lost.
"Hey look over there, there's two women fucking a polar bear"
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I have always been disappointed with the lack of good visual plug-in's for iTunes. Sure there's G-Force, but compared to WinAmp and some of the other Windows MP3 players we dont have squat. Thats why I was ecstatic to find JewelCase. JewelCase renders a spinning 3D CD jewelcase of whatever your listening to. If the song has album art, it is used as the cover and altered for the back cover.
And JewelCase renders a track listing of all the other songs on the album (that you have, and have properly tagged) on the back.
"JewelCase is a plug-in that turns iTunes into a visual jukebox, displaying each song in a virtual CD jewel case, complete with album cover art, artist and album information... It's just like viewing real CDs in your collection!"
Simple, elegant, and free. Just like your mom.
-CGP fo Life-
Remember when I wrote about the ZoomQuilt and said how it would make a perfect Mac OS X screensaver? Well the guys at Nullriver must read this blog, because they made one (link goes to VersionTracker page).
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Happy Holidays from everyone here at CapsGetPeeled. We're off to a small tropical country where hookers are legal and the liquor flows freely. You know, a traditional christmas.
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More proof that people will sell anything on ebay (or at least try to).
For just $10k you can own the University of Iowa's Scoreboard and Jumbotron. If you win this auction you better invite our staff over for Superbowl!
-CGP fo Life-
It's probably been around forever, but it's new to me, so check out this video of a Dodge Viper GTS trying it's best to fly. You have to watch this video to believe what happens so I wont even bother trying to explain. Plus I'm really really lazy.
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Remember Bikes Against Bush? The guy with the WiFi/Bluetooth anti-bush graffiti bike. He was planning on sparaying anti-Bush messages all over New York in chalk during the Republcan National Convention. He has been arrested, his bike has been confiscated, and he could face a $10,000 fine and a year in prison. Even though the graffiti is chalk based, he has been charged with "criminal mischief and criminal possession of graffiti instruments".
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Gadgetmadness has a link to directions to make your own hoverboard. It can reach a vertical lift of 5 cm, as long as the rider weighs less than 95kg. As you can tell by the picture, it's not exactly like in Back to the Future II, but it still seems pretty cool.
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Do you ever miss playing classic mac games like Lemmings, Prince of Persia, or Monkey Island? Then you should check out The Macintosh Garden. Home to tons of macintosh abandonware games.
"Welcome to the Macintosh Garden, a site devoted to preserving Macintosh abandonware games.
Abandonware is commercial software that has been discontinued by the publisher and are not sold or supported anymore. If you are the publisher of a certain game on this site, and wish that it is removed, please email me and I will remove the game.
The interest for abandonware is increasing everyday. One reason is that the emulators keep getting better and there are quite a few great emulators that runs the MacOS. Another reason is that people realize that all these new "cool" 3D games already have been made. And usually the original is more fun to play. :)"
It's been up for a few years and just keeps getting bigger, and you have to love the great Mac OS 7.5.3 interface for the website.
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Seth MacFarlane (creator of the Family Guy) has announced his new show American Dad. According to MilkandCookies.com:
"American Dad from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, is the animated story of Stan Smith (MacFarlane), who works for the CIA and is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity.
Stan will go to extremes to protect his beloved America from harm as evidenced by the terror-alert color code on his fridge, and his frequent knee-jerk reaction of shooting holes in the toaster whenever the toast pops up."
Although there is nothing on the site yet, there is a downloadable pilot that is unfortunately in Windows media.
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Still looking for a way to keep the bigger kids on your block from kicking your ass? Mow them down with a Jet Powered Go-Kart. It goes 100Km/H but no working brakes.
"This is also not the kind of gokart you can run up and down the road outside your house -- the neighbors would probably kill you and the cops would turn up in no-time.
It's getting a bit old and tired now, the engine has been welded back together quite a few times and is currently in need of further repairs (that I will make before selling). Odds are that you'll have to weld it up some more after a bit of running but that's simple enough if you've got half a clue or a mate with a MIG or TIG welder."
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Here's the good ol' red, white, and blue (found at Erotic LA) in honor of this 4th of July weekend. There probably wont be any post's over the weekend as the CGP staff will be busy attempting to consume all of the alcohol in the Los Angeles area, and blowing things up with highly illegal fireworks.
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This public toilet is made entirely of privacy glass. Totally clear from the inside but opaque from the outside. According to BoingBoing it's located in Sweden. As if public toilets were not already scary places. That would be so fun to have sex in one of these, as long as it was recently cleaned.
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Break out the ecstasy and spanish fly, Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen are 18 as of this weekend. The frog twins have not eaten a thing for about 2 years, and are worth more money than everyone you know combined times 10. This picture was their senior yearbook picture that I stole from Defamer. Which one will be in playboy first? Which one will do rehab first? The future looks so bright.
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Ray Charles died today at 11:35am. He was 73 and died of liver problems that can probably be blamed on his years of herion abuse.
The "Genius of Soul" died right here on the westside, just like 90% of celebrities.
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BoingBoing points out The Top 25 Weirdest Things found on Amazon.com.
From live lobsters to chocolate covered pork rinds, and my absolute favorite: Owl Puke.
Too bad half the list is sea monkeys, and a couple items are standard items for gardening.
-CGP fo Life-
Don't want your your favorite porn site to know your surfing from inside NASA? Trying to keep the feds from knowing you grow your own medicine?
Then AnoniSurf is the answer you've been looking for!
"AnoniSurf has arrived for MacOS X. No longer a front-end to Anonymizer, AnoniSurf uses a script by James Marshall called CGIProxy. It filters out ads, masks your IP address, and prevents you from unwanted hack attempts while surfing the web. Please read the disclaimer before using the software! v1.2 adds a server database, server crawler, cleaner interface, smaller file size, software update feature, and an online PHP framework created by Patrick Paul."
FGSoft.net has contacted me and asked me to remind you that they do not condone illegal use of their software, and they are not legally liable for any misuse.
CapsGetPeeled.com however encourages you to participate in victimless crime, senseless mayhem, and total anarchy (just dont use this app to do it).
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I've been using Gumby since last year but completely forgot to post about it! This app does EVERYTHING!
"Gumby is a multipurpose application for manipulating, fixing and converting files found on the net. Over the years, many tools have appeared to handle such files, unfortunately the majority have been PC-based, thus leaving Mac users in the dust. Gumby tried to rectify this situation by providing roughly 20 programs into a single application.
VCD Jelly: Extracts an mpeg-1 film from a file.
SVCD Jelly: Same thing as above but for Mpeg-2 files.
SVCD Fixer: Fixes SVCD's so they work on some players.
Binchunker: Converts a binary file (.bin) to an ISO.
SFV Checker: Performs checksum verification on files.
PS2 Patcher: Patches PS2 images (CD or DVD) for the Japanese swap trick.
PPF Patcher: Applies PPF patches to images.
MPEG Cutter: Cuts or trims MPEG documents.
Unrar Extractor: Extracts files from RAR documents.
PAR Checker: Fixes RAR documents using parity files (PAR).
PS2 PAL: Converts PAL PS2 games so they run on NTSC TV sets.
GI to ISO: Converts Primo DVD images to standard ISO.
S/VCD Builder: Creates VCD or SVCD images from mpeg documents.
MPEG Fixer: Demuxes, Remuxes, Fixes and Repairs MPEG files.
Batch Processor: Automates multiples functions to work with 1 click."
All the CGP staff use this app daily, and according to the site a major update is coming.
-CGP fo Life-
This excellent MacOSXHints.com article explains in detail how to use your firewire equipped mac to record HDTV signals at full resolution for free. All that is needed is a HDTV cable box with FireWire (Since April 1st the FCC requires your Cable company to offer you one), a mac with firewire, NinjaMonkey, and tons of hard drive space. The only downsides are some HDTV signals are encrypted (unplayable), the files can only be played back in VLC, and video at 1920x1080 and 1280x720 (1080i and 720p) takes up huge amounts of drive space.
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Unxmaal.com points out the Rasterbator. A very very cool website that takes any image you give it and makes it HUGE, and rasterizes the image into various sized dots. The resulting image is broken up into pages and downloadable as a pdf file. Then you can print the hundreds of pages out when you get to work the next day. I love the smell of hot toner in the morning.
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Lik-Sang is now selling the GBA Time Machine, an adapter that lets you play Famicon games on your Gameboy Advance! The Famicon was the Japanese version of the NES, and with a cheap adapter you can use this with your american NES games. With the new NES styled (pictured above) GBA it's a perfect match.
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MacNN is reporting that Mark/Space has announced The Missing Sync for the Tapwave Zodiac! The Zodiac is a palm based portable gaming device made by ex-Apple and ex-Palm employees. It's got a huge screen, good graphics and sound, bluetooth, SD slot, force feedback, and can run any Palm OS application. But, and this is a fairly big but, absolutly zero mac support. No palm or iSync. Tapwaves retail games, movies, and mp3's cannot be installed from a mac. You can however send normal Palm .prc files via bluetooth to the device. For $40, The MissingSync should do all of this and even transfer your highscores from the Zodiac to Tapwave's website. I love my Zodiac, maybe now that I can use it as a PDA I will love it more.
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Please dont ask me why, but this guy has figured out how to install Linux 2.2.16 on the original Apple Airport Basetstation (graphite). I cant possibly think of a use, but the author says:
"Having a linux router obviously offers a huge amount of flexibility. Just an example: my ISP quite often drops my connection - I let 'init' take care of respawning pppoEd which in turn runs the right scripts to send me an email to work with the new IP address as soon as the new connection is up. Also, the status of the ppp link is monitored by the leftmost red LED. "
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Todays edition of CapsGetPeeled has been brought to you by Microsoft Word.
Write letterz n shit, yo.
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In what is absolutely the most important news of all time, Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Family Guy, has announced that The Family Guy is returning to television with new episodes!!!!!!!!!!!!
"MacFarlane told IGN.com that he plans to begin production on new installments in April, but is unsure about whether the episodes will first air on Fox, which originally broadcast the series from 1999-2002, or the Cartoon Network, which has aired the show in repeats since April 2003.
"Cartoon Network will be involved regardless," MacFarlane told IGN.com. "Whether it goes there permanently or winds up on Fox first and then Cartoon Network remains to be seen. So, at the very least it will be on Cartoon Network, which is great, because at the end of the day, that's where we built our biggest fan base. So I'm happy either way."
Hell Yeah! Too bad they wont start till 2005.
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Moshdaddy showed us this. In city's where it snows a lot, local news stations announce business and school closures to help employees and students from trudging out in the snow.
News 14 in North Carolina took it a step further and made a web interface that let anyone who registered submit said closure information and didn't bother to read any of them before sending the messages out over live TV.
Some UNC Students found out and halarity ensued
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For sale: One used US Navy F/A-18a Hornet Fighter Jet. This jet can fly 1,400 mph, can climb over 30,000ft, and turn any Afghani cave into a nice crater with ease. As part of the Blue Angels, it is also a collector's item. Originally this plane cost our government $28 million each, but thanks to the magic of ebay, it can be your for $2 million in parts or $9 million assembled. The seller recently got a visit from the FBI who apparently wanted a ride to the liquor store but forgot to bring jet fuel.
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Last.fm is a really cool personalized music streaming service that my explanations can't do justice so here is the blurb from their site:
"Last.fm creates a radio station unique to each listener. Stations are not limited by programming schedules or musical genres, but are compiled by a profiling and recommendation system which compares your musical taste with other listeners.
Last.fm Radio tries to do three things for you: Firstly the Last.fm system learns about your musical taste by remembering which songs you listen to and which you skip. Last.fm then uses this knowledge and tries to play you more songs you'll like, too. If you become a fairly regular Last.fm listener, the system should know you well enough to be able to predict new songs you like."
Sign up and start listening biatch.
-CGP fo Life-
MacMerc has discovered a way to cheat in the Pepsi/iTunes store promotion.
From their site:
"The secret is the angle. I've found it to be 25Ί, but that's really no use when you're out in the field. Just tilt it until it seems about that, and look up towards it (hold it above your head). With luck, you should be able to see under the cap."
I cannot try this since I cannot find the promo bottles anywhere in Los Angeles, but if it works let us know!
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E! Online is reporting that Fox is in the early stages of making a Simpsons movie.
"Fox's feature-film animation division is "in the very early stages of developing an idea for the movie," exec Chris Meledandri said in Wednesday's Daily Variety"
Could this be the end of the Simpsons 15 year run? The only movie based on a TV show that didn't completely suck ass was South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut. The article mentions that the Simpson's staff feels the same way and some have even joked that the Simpsons movie is "gonna suck pretty hard.".
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Don't have room in your pockets for both your cell phone and your gat? Then digital convergence has evovled enough to benifit you too. Introducing the Cell Phone Gun. According to this Time.com article the weapons are made in Croatia and fire 4 .22-cal. bullets in rapid succession simply by pressing number buttons on the phones face. Now you can pull a drive-by and check in on your baby's mama at the same time.
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