August 2007
72 posts
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WorldCon 2007
I need to learn Japanese, pronto. (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
Commitment
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Stylish video game table/coffee table
Surface Tension makes stylish arcade-table/coffee-tables. These are a cross between a designer piece of furniture and the Pac Man table at your local pizza joint, circa 1987. Comes with MAME so it plays all the games, along with Windows XP so it is susceptible to all the virii and exploits (I recommend wiping it and installing Ubuntu and MAME). It also serves as a wireless iTunes repeater, and...
Shopping Teams
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www.NerdyMcGeek.com
Have you registered your little you’s domain name yet? Seems other parents have, a few even before they legally named their children.
..Newborn Bennett Pankow joined his four older siblings in getting his own Internet moniker. In fact, before naming his child, Mark Pankow checked to make sure “BennettPankow.com” hadn’t already been claimed.
“One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the...
Creepy: Binoculars in Plush Stuffed Toys
Every time I look at that picture, I’m just verrrrrrry creeped out. No word on pricing.
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Fix those Aluminium Keyboard woes
Filed under: Peripherals, How-tos
A few days ago, Scott mentioned that some people (myself included) had been experiencing issues with the F3 and F4 keys. Re-installation of the Keyboard Update 1.1 made no difference, and my F3 and F4 keys remained sadly nonfunctional on Apple’s slim-line keyboard. Until this evening, that is, when yours truly received an email detailing a way that, in the...
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Ubuntu Goes Gutsy Gibbon
Popular Linux creator Ubuntu has entered alpha on their next release “Gutsy Gibbon.” Although it is an alpha and should not be rolled out on a production machine there are some neat features such as creating dual monitors with can be resolution dependent and a virtual PDF printer and overhauled printer support.
I’m an advocate of alternative operating systems and think that Ubuntu...
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Guess What? They Just Walked In.
Speaking of Palm CEO Ed Colligan, now’s a good time to recall his comments from last November, regarding the prospects of Apple’s then-only-rumored entry into the mobile phone market:
Colligan laughed off the idea that any company — including the
wildly popular Apple Computer — could easily win customers in the
finicky smart-phone sector.
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years...
17-Year-Old Unlocks iPhone
17-year-old George Hotz unlocked his iPhone so it could work on T-Mobile’s network:
The hack, which Hotz posted Thursday to his blog, is complicated
and requires skill with both soldering and software. It takes
about two hours to perform.
The teen estimates he spent 500 hours developing his technique,
sometimes working until 9 am and then waking the next day at 4 pm
to resume...
Anyone For Sliced Pork Uterus?
Anyone for some sliced pork uterus? If that doesn’t take your fancy, how about some scolded pork intestine, beef aorta or the mysterious ‘meat’. [via] (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
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As If Junior High Wasn’t Going to Be Hard Enough...
This is further proof that we should be spending less time monitoring nannies and more time monitoring Mommies and Daddies. They should have just named him “Horse Dick”. That’s what people will call him anyway. Plus it’s less words to fit on his Ident-A-Kid card.
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SuprNova is Back!
It’s hard to believe that after being shutdown for 3-years SuprNova is back up again. Thanks to the Pirate Bay I’ve since been reunited with this long lost friend, who has even been spruced up a bit since I had used it last!
SuprNova is making it easy for first-time BitTorrent users by implementing a Java Applet that lets you directly download the files without installing a program. It’s using...
Putting the ‘S’ Back Into SSH
Dave Dribin:
Yeah, okay, you can now get into remote machines without typing a password, but so can someone else if they get access to your account. Leaving your private key unprotected without a passphrase is like not having a PIN on your ATM card. It’s just asking for trouble.
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“At about 7 am my wife awoke. She had been playing tennis and wasn’t aware...”
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Automate Adding Bookmarks to del.icio.us
I use del.icio.us to store all of my infrequently used bookmarks, but I’ve found that browsing by tag just isn’t very efficient for me. I always use a full text search through my bookmarks to find what I’m looking for, so what I’m really looking for is a single-click save solution similar to the star button on the Flock browser.
Greasemonkey comes to the rescue with the...
Warning! Gmail users beware, fake upgrade emails
Important FYI update for any Gmail users. If you receive the following email in your Gmail account, do not follow the embedded link. With the recent announcement of Google paid Google storage upgrades, the following phishing emails will undoubtedly become more and more the norm.
Dear Gmail customer
From now if you need more than 2 GB of space use this invitation and upgrade your account to...
August 21, 2007
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Watch12 Volt Battery Hack! You’ll Be Surprised… Video (via Metacafe)
Belkin N1 Vision, the wireless router is "cool"...
Remember the old days when wireless networks were few and far between? Since then, we have come a long way with commercial & personal networks overlapping and blanketing neighborhoods and city blocks. Although performance, reliability, and security have improved, hardware is still bulky, unattractive, and generally “unfriendly”. Wireless hardware is the type of device that is...
Firefox 3 Smooth Tab Scrolling
The latest nightly build of Firefox 3 has a nice new feature that the eye-candy lovers out there will like. In Firefox when you open too many tabs they overflow and scrollers on each end of the Tab Bar appear. That way you can navigate between all of your tabs without having them shrink down to the size of a pea.
Firefox 3 is looking to spruce that feature up a bit my animating the scrolling...
The Galapagos Post Office
Not sure what you can do with this story, but here you go:
On a deserted beach on a small island near the equator, there’s a barrel and some ziploc bags. This post office has been here for more than a hundred years. It was built by whalers who needed a way to get letters home to England. The idea was that the last stop you would make on your way home was to the post office. You’d...
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Google Introduces Shared Storage
Google has always offered the option to purchase additional storage for your Picasa account, however, now that purchased storage is for more than just your Picasa account. Google has started a new shared storage program in which your paid storage can be used across other Google services. For now, the only two options are Gmail and Picasa, but I’m sure Google intends to add additional services to...
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The New iMac’s Price-Drop
The-ish.com specs out a new 24-inch iMac with 2 GB of RAM, and find that it’s $699 cheaper than one of the previous iMacs priced on Monday:
What a difference a day makes. That’s hardly a “$200″ difference. That is actually a $699 difference.
I see what they meant by lower-margin product transition.
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How to get hei…
I was just about to search for how to get height of browser window, when Google suggested something much more worthy of my time: (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
Star Wars Boogie by Nervy Apparel
They just call it Boogie, but hey, it would have been a good one on the top ten star wars t-shirt post. I’m almost positive someone is going to email me saying “enough with teh star wars already” Anyway Nervy Apparel are new to me but they sent me some samples and the prints are great quality and the t-shirts are the de facto AA jersey cotton. They’ve got lots of non-starwars designs of course...