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Here’s a couple of quick listings from digg.com which I have discovered. As is the normal for a Scooter link, I will comment once I’ve read ‘em.

Google Video purchase system bypassed with GVD

Machine Beats Super Mario World (SNES) in 10:51

I have to extoll the virtues of this very cool program, which looks like it’s got enough reasons to use its free version, but enough added to possibly value it as a premium program:

Hamachi

The concept is simple … it allows you to instantly and securely take multiple computers and hook them up in a LAN format, regardless of firewalls and routers that they’re stuck behind, anywhere in the world. Typically, making a direct connection with another user to share files, images, is very hard to do, this removes all of that work.

It also allows you to play games via the LAN mode over the Internet that you typically couldn’t play that way, like older Windows games or emulators. Not to mention the ability to join, drop, and even be on multiple networks at the same time, without one being able to see the other. Awesome stuff!

It’s one of those programs that the ideas you can do with it are limitless, if you think up cool stuff to do.

There is one disadvantage: when the server goes down, so does your network, so it is reliant on a central Hamachi server to do the grunt work. It’s had some downtime, to the tune of a half hour every couple of days, but this is still in beta, so that can be forgiven. I’m sure when this goes 1.0 live, people will get a bit miffed at the downtime due to the need to use this as a business program.

I’ll have more on this shortly I’m sure, but in the meantime, I’m headed to GJ for a league meeting where I’ll be listening to iTunes … from my girlfriend’s computer in Columbus via Hamachi!