Evilmadscientist.com has a post on cool things to do with magnets. Some of the included tricks are taking out batteries from hard to remove places, finding studs in a wall, making a compass, and making a fridge pen.

You can usually buy magnets from any hardware store. If you do not feel like buying a magnet, simply break apart an old speaker.  Amazon also carries magnets.

Samsung Electronics has unleashed a new type of hard drive that will be able to handle tough conditions.

The Spinpoint M7 line of hard drives will be available in 250GB, 320GB, 400GB, and 500GB. Spinpoint M7 has a shock tolerance of 400 G/2ms. Measuring at 2.5 inches, the Spinpoint M7 hard drives have a new type of controller that reduces power consumption when in seek mode. The spindle speed of the hard drives are 5,400 RPM. SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies prevents the hard drive from getting too loud. No word on price yet.

[via eWeek]

Perez Hilton asked a question during the Miss USA pageant in relation to gay marriage. “I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman,” stated Miss California Carrie Prejean during the competition. This was after she said that it was good that America was open to choice. Perez Hilton was furious by this answer so he resorted to calling her all sorts of profanities on his blog.

Prejean on the other hand rigorously defended her opinion. “I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I stated an opinion that was true to myself, and that’s all I can do,” said Prejean in an interview with Billy Bush, host of Miss USA.

“It did cost me my crown,” Prejean added. “It is a very touchy subject and [Hilton] is a homosexual, and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would’ve wanted me to be more politically correct. But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything.”

Hilton initially wrote the insult and then apologized. But then he took back the apology and continued to bash on Prejean.

Funny or Die decided to weigh in on the situation by publishing a parody video of the whole situation called A Gaythering Storm. The video stars Sarah Chalke, Jason Lewis, Lynne Stewart, Alicia Silverstone, Lance Bass, Liz Feldman, Sophia Bush, Drew Droege, Mike Hitchcock, Daniele Gathier, Jay Lay, Erin Foley, George Takei, and Jane Lynch.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has joined the Fortune 100 list for the first time since 1994. Not only did they join the top 100, but it was at the respectable rank of #71. Last year the company was ranked 103 so they had jumped 32 spots.

The Fortune 500 magazine ranks the U.S. based corporations based on highest revenues adjusted after taxes. In 1994, Apple made it to the Fortune 100 when they were building computers that had PowerPC processors and was shipping out Mac OS System 7. Steve Jobs was no longer with the company and would join 5 years later.

Today the company announced their 2nd quarter fiscal quarter results and they were astonishing. Apple recorded $8.16 billion in revenue for the quarter ending March 28. This is up from $7.5 billion the year before. The company sold 2.22 million Mac computers, 11 million iPods, and 3.79 million iPhones.

“We are extremely pleased to report the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in our history,” stated Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer.

[via Apple PR]

Canadian Web Hosting is a company that sells reliable web hosting services across the country that is the home of Toronto Blue Jays and Raptors, the Montreal Expos, and the Vancouver Grizzlies. The company hosted its 10 year anniversary last year and has plans that begin at $3.95 with a $25 AdWords credit. Best of all there is a 30 day money back guarantee.

If you are programming with ASP, there are plans with ASP.net hsoting. The basic prepaid for 24 months is $12.95 per month. This is not a bad price compared to other hosting companies I’ve seen that offer similar services. At the $12.95 price, you also get 500MB storage, 10GB bandwidth, shared IP addresses, Plesk, subdomains, and parked domains. You also get 50 POP3 accounts and AWStats. Additional storage is 1,000 MB for $10/month. Ten gigabytes of additional bandwidth is $15/per month.

For those of you that are interested in dedicated hosting, it costs about $179 per month for the basic plan. Dedicated hosting has a 30 day money back guarantee with 99.9% uptime guaranteed. There are no contracts needed and there is 24×7 support.

The company ses Barracuda Networks to fight e-mail spam, donated $5,000 to the Union Gospel Mission, and even has an affiliate program.

Canadian Web Hosting’s servers are based in Harbour Center in downtown Vancouver. The company is 100% Canadian owned and operated.

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Stickers and labels are Frontier Label’s specialty. Frontier can take any user-uploaded image and make labels and stickers out of it while donating 10% of their profits to a ministry. The four bullet points that Frontier Label focuses on is making their service faster, more convenient, greater variety, and having better customer service than their rivals.

You will notice on the company’s testimonials page that many of their customers have been extremely satisfied including National Geographic Maps.

Another advantage that Frontier Label has over competitors is by asking the type of proof that you want for your custom stickers and labels. Many other companies do not offer this option. The proofs that Frontier Label offers include electronic proof and press printed proofs. Even if you are not happy with the way that your artwork appears on the proof, customer service will help you change it around.

CMC Golf Inc. utilized Frontier Label’s services by having custom bar code stickers.  Frontier was ble to print bar codes with a high readability.  It doesn’t matter if it is a UPC(a) or Code 39.  CMC Golf makes custom golf accessories such as ball bags and each of their products have some sort of personalized touch.

Island Jack is a company based in Maryland that makes bright fashion clothing.  The label above was white plastic with color printing.  Frontier Label has the capability to make labels from a wide range of colors with the exception of neon.

For information on Frontier Label’s pricing, check it out here.  The company now has over 910 sizes in stock for printing.

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One of the lawyers for The Pirate Bay team has already filed for an appeal to a decision that was made this past Friday.  The decision was that the team would be expected to sentence one year in prison and pay a fine that is worth $3.6 million in damages.  Lawyers for the other three defendants in the case are also expected to appeal.

The four members of The Pirate Bay team are Carl Lundström, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Peter Sunde.  Stefan Jevinger, one of Carl’s lawyers stated that the appeal was made to make a statement about how wrong the sentence was.

According to the written appeal, the lawyers are pointing out that the decision had not shown that Lundström knew about the main crime which was being an accessory to copyright law.  You cannot be sentenced to a crime you don’t know about states the appeal.

The appeal is expected to be heard by the court of appeals sometime in the first half of next year.  “This is a bit more complicated than your ordinary bank robbery, and therefore it will take time,” stated Wag’s lawyer Ola Salomonsson.

Until everything is sorted out, The Pirate Bay website will remain online.  For full Pulse 2.0 coverage on The Pirate Bay, check out http://pulse2.com/category/the-pirate-bay/.

Douglas Gentile, an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University has conducted a study in which the conclusion is that one out of every ten gamers show “pathological patterns of video game addiction.” This is a statistic that I think is believable.

Gentile found that through a national Harris Poll survey filled out by 1,178 eight to eighteen year olds, 8.5% of those showed signs of pathological use. “What we mean by pathological use is that something someone is doing – in this case, playing video games – is damaging to their functioning,” stated Gentile. “It’s not simply doing it a lot. It has to harm functioning in multiple ways.”

Gentile’s paper “Pathological Video Game Use among Youth 8 to 18: A National Study” will appear in the May edition of Psychological Science. Gamers that were described as pathological if they had at least six out of eleven of the symptoms described by addiction. The symptoms are comparable to those who are described as pathological gamblers.

[via TGDaily]