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Three Saskatchewan men charged after a YouTube video showed ducklings being shot illegally were handed hefty fines Monday, as well as a three-year ban on acquiring hunting licences.

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Popular social networking site Facebook has bought FriendFeed.com, and will be taking its entire staff aboard, the companies announced this afternoon.

“Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.

While the small 12-person team will become Facebook employees and the four founders (all ex-Google employees) will assume executive positions at the social network, where FriendFeed users will go is not as clear cut.”

“FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being,” The FriendFeed blog today says. “We’re still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team.”

Facebook already uses a number of FriendFeed’s popular features, but one of the main advantages of FriendFeed is that its feeds show up in real time, where Facebook’s status updates must be refreshed.

Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2009

Windows Media Player 12 which is included with Windows 7 allows you to easily turn your machine into a media server to stream music, movies, and pictures to other computers and devices on your home network.  Today we will show you how to set up streaming and how to use it.

Enable Streaming

To start streaming media from your Windows 7 machine you’ll need to turn it on by opening Media Player and under the Library section click on Stream then click Turn on media streaming.

Now just click the button to turn on media streaming.  Alternately you can bypass WMP and open Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Network and Sharing Center \ Media streaming options then click on the button to turn on media streaming and press OK.

Now you’ll see what devices are connected to the network and can select which computer or media device have access to the media. 

You can also customize the streaming settings by selecting what will be shared and also notice the parental ratings control.

Setup Windows Media Player

Now that we have streaming media enabled it is time to take a look at what to look for in WMP.  On another computer on the network open Windows Media Player and under Library you will see “Other Libraries” and the available libraries of Music, Video, and Pictures available for streaming.

 

This is a very cool new feature that can allow you to have one computer with a lot of disk capacity to run as your media server.  Then have computers containing less space connect and enjoy all the media they want even netbooks…Neat!

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Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane and his cousin, James M. Kane, were arrested around 5 a.m. ET Sunday, accused of assaulting a Buffalo, N.Y., taxi driver and failing to pay their fare.

A small plane and a sightseeing helicopter carrying Italian tourists collided over the Hudson River between New York City and Hoboken, N.J., on Saturday, killing all nine people aboard the two aircraft.

A new Canadian study adds to the evidence that punishing troubled teens within the juvenile-justice system exacerbates their bad behavior.

The NHL has asked a bankruptcy judge to throw out Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie’s bid to buy the Phoenix Coyotes based on the league’s overwhelming rejection of him as a potential owner.

When General Motors emerged from bankruptcy, it was freed of obligations for polluted properties that will require millions of dollars to clean up. GM’s unusual, government-engineered bankruptcy allowed the Detroit automaker to emerge as a new company — and shed billions in liabilities, including claims that governments had against GM for polluting

Yes, the rumours are true.

Theoren Fleury really does want to make a comeback in the National Hockey League.

The Flames legend confirmed to the Herald's George Johnson Friday night that he wants to give it one more shot.

“I honestly don’t give a s–t what people think of me. I don’t. People say I should get a life? Hey, worry about your own lives. This is mine. When you’ve gone through the 12 stages of Alcoholics Anoymous, you realize that you’ve got to be okay with yourself. I am.

“I’ve come to the realization that 50 per cent of the people like me, and 50 per cent don’t. Guess what, I’m hanging out with the 50 per cent who do.

“I’m a busy guy. I’m not doing this because I have nothing else in my life. I do public speaking. I work with native people. With the Dream Centre. I’m doing this partly because I didn’t go out the way I wanted to. And partly because I’ve watched this for five years and believe in my heart that there’s still a place for me.’’

 

To read the full story, check out Saturday's Herald.

Theoren Fleury will attempt a comeback to the NHL, TSN reported on its website Friday.

Cocaine played a role in the death of television pitchman Billy Mays, a Florida autopsy report says.

Sometimes we get so set in our ways that we don’t open ourselves to the potential of the new. When Jimmy Fallon took the stage of Late Night earlier this year, all that was visible was years of ruined SNL skits and a couple of movie bombs. But no one could have ever imagined that Jimmy would be able to outdo Conan O’Brien.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders will look to make an early claim for top spot in the CFL West on Friday night, while B.C. just wants to establish some momentum after a disappointing start to the season.

Unintended duplicate files can chew up a lot of disk space. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder will help you find dupes even when the file names don’t match.

By scanning and compiling the MD5 hash of of each file it scans, Auslogics Duplicate File Finder can dig through your disks and find duplicates with mismatched names. Multiple copies of music and other media, even when oddly named, will be matched up. You can filter by file size and file type. Matching can be contingent on file name, date and size, and the file hash.

If you have a favorite tool for finding duplicate files, let’s hear about it in the comments. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is freeware, Windows only.