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iMacs freeze for no apparent reason
2007-10-04 16:54:00 As time passes by, more and more users reported that Apple ’s new iMacs suffer from a nasty bug that locks everything, making the system unusable, until the owner reboots it. Quoting the customers, the bug doesn’t actually stop and freeze the system. Everything is functional, but the computer is impossible to control by the user. Here are ... More About: Reason , Freeze , Parent , Pare
KDE 4.0 to be launched within the Googleplex
2007-10-04 16:30:00 Between January 17 and January 19, the KDE community will hold a releasing event for KDE 4.0 inside the Google HQ (Mountain View, CA). This event’s main purpose is meant to spread the word about the newest KDE release and its impact on the Free Desktop applications. This looks like an informative and productive event altogether, ... More About: Linux , Launched , Googleplex , Eple , The Go
Flat Panel Monitor Advantages
2007-09-22 02:39:00 There are two main types of computer monitors, the old, but extremely reliable CRT monitor and the newer flat panel monitors. If you have been computer shopping, you will immediately notice that the older monitors have all, but disappeared. You might be saying what gives? Well, for most computer users the flat ... More About: Hardware , Panel , Monitor , Flat , Advanta
Google, 10 years old, is now the heart of the Internet
2007-09-15 09:23:00 An interesting Yahoo article explains why Google is now considered the heart of the Internet and the electronic center of human knowledge. In these 10 years of life, Google has indexed billions of web pages, images, books and even videos from all over the Internet. This is definitely a must read. In the past years Google has ... More About: Heart , Years , The Internet
AT&T got owned - iPhone unlocking madness
2007-09-15 09:17:00 Uh, boss? There are some guys here… I’m not sure you really wanna know what they’re doing… Image Source More About: Apple , Iphone , Owned , Madness , Unlocking
Product Spotlight: Celluon Laserkey CL800BT
2007-09-14 23:58:00 Ever wonder what it would be like typing without a keyboard. Check out the Celluon Laserkey CL800BT which offers a look into the future of desk space saving and convienient typing. How it works is the mini tower that is the size of a large PDA projects a laser keyboard onto the surface in front ... More About: Gadgets , Product , Spotlight
Top 10 Wikipedia tricks
2007-09-13 16:55:00 Another one of LifeHacker’s top 10 lists was published yesterday. To see those in detail, check out the source and click on each link. Store the Wikipedia on your iPod with Encyclopodia Search as You Type with WikiWax Search Wikipedia with Your Cell Phone Embed Wikipedia into Your Media Player and Instant Map Wikipedia Articles with WikiMindMap See Who’s Editing What ... More About: Internet , Tricks
Golden external HDD
2007-09-13 15:44:00 If you are tired of your plain old looking external HDD, you might like the following gadget. It’s a nice looking golden case, with a nice HDD inside. Comes in a package with LaCie backup software and works under Windows 2000/XP and even MacOS X. It connects to your PC via a USB 2.0 cable, ... More About: Hardware , External , Golden
Alienware 4TB media server
2007-09-12 08:46:00 Alienware released their media server platform as a response to Sony’s Home Entertainment Server . But unlike Sony who offers a meager 500GB of storage, Alienware gives you 4TB to store your favorite movies, songs, etc. And not only that but the HD Media Server offers a HDMI output, Dolby Digital 7.1 preamplified output, wireless connection with ... More About: Hardware , Alienware
Analyst reveals top 100 Digg users
2007-09-11 00:06:00 Not a very long time ago, Digg removed the top 100 users from its interface, due some left-in-the-dark corruption issues (people were trying to buy the top users’ action of submitting stories so that they’d get dugg faster). Using a small trick, one of the regular users launched this page in order to keep an unofficial ... More About: Internet , Users , Analyst , Anal
Wikipedia (the English version) hits 2,000,000 articles
2007-09-10 23:54:00 According to Wikimedia Inc, the English version of the very popular online encyclopedia passed the 2,000,000 articles mark today. The English-language Wikipedia currently contains 2,000,853 articles. This number excludes redirects, discussion pages, image description pages, user profile pages, templates, help pages, portals, articles without links to other articles, and pages for Wikipedia administration. Including these, they ... More About: Internet , Articles , Hits
Apple sold 1 million iPhones
2007-09-10 23:37:00 74 days ago, Apple released iPhone, a revolutionary little gadget-like device that was to keep the front page of tech blogs for days to follow. Today, the very same Apple sold the 1,000,000th phone. Therefore, the predictions turned out to be true, as they passed the milestone before the end of September as presumed. In the ... More About: Gadgets , Million , Sold
Change Your Password
2007-09-10 18:40:00 It’s Monday morning and it’s time for a gentle reminder from the Tech FAQ staff. Now would be a great time to change your passwords on all of the important systems that you access. Even if you haven’t noticed someone else using your account, it’s a good policy to change your passwords frequently. If you need help changing ... More About: Change , Password , Chang , Chan
Free Microsoft Word Viewer
2007-09-10 18:21:00 If you’re one of the few humans on the planet lucky enough not to have a copy of Microsoft Word on their PC, you can occasionally find yourself in a bit of a bind when someone sends you a document which was created with Microsoft Word. Luckily, this is one of the rare times when Microsoft ... More About: Software , Free , Viewer
The New PSP available this month.
2007-09-07 21:09:00 Sony has come out with a sleeker and lighter version of its portable video gaming system PSP. Dubbed to PSP 2000 the hand held console is 19% thinner and 33% lighter that the previous version. Some of the other changes on the PSP is the the UMB slot or the place where you insert the game ... More About: Month , Available , Mont
iPhone Complaints
2007-08-29 10:39:00 WordTracker is a useful tool for webmasters. WordTracker tells you what searchers are looking for on the web. Occasionally, WordTracker will surprise you with an insight into something interesting going on in the world. Here’s a WordTracker result I just found: Search Term Number of Searches iphone 9,423 iPhone Complaints 3,321 Apple iPhone 1,149 What this tells us is that “iPhone Complaints” is ... More About: Gadgets , Iphone
Get shocked with Bioshock.
2007-08-24 21:45:00 Get ready for an incredible ride. This first person shooter game is one the best crafted games out there. Find yourself in the city of Rapture with music and mood set in the 40’s and 50’s filled with advanced robots and gadgets that one could imagine during its time. Along with incredible details put into ... More About: BioShock
Product Spotlight: Magellan CrossoverGPS.
2007-08-14 07:36:00 Here is GPS product that takes you everwhere. With the new pocket sized Magellan CrossoverGPS you can navigate the toughest trails, traffic and oceans. Coming in at 8.5 oz. or 9.4 oz if you get the Sport Guard? attachment and just 3.4″ by 4.3″ by 1.1″ the Magellan CrossoverGPS is very light and fits in one hand. With built-in ... More About: Gadgets , Product , Spotlight , Prod
MySpace Security Vulnerability
2007-08-10 18:51:00 There are vulnerabilities in Social Networking sites like Myspace .com where online criminals can easily take advantage and extract personal information. These password protected sites are highly monitored by hackers and vulnerabilities constitute a potentially bigger problem later on. The “Zero Day” flaw, discover by Rick Deacon a 21 year old networking administrator from Beachwood, Ohio, ... More About: Security , Vulnerability
How to Levitate ? Seriously!
2007-08-08 14:21:00 Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr. Thomas Philbin at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland published a startling discovery in the August edition of New Journal of Physics. The two physicists have managed to reverse the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect a physical force which occurs between objects which are very close together. The ... More About: Seriously
Search Engines Threaten Your Privacy and Freedom
2007-08-08 04:24:00 If you’re an active search engine user (and most especially Google, whereby accepting Google’s cookie); you should consider the ramifications - good and otherwise. The purpose of this article is to give you the straight info you need to make an informed decision. Furthermore, this article will provide you with several solutions to protect yourself and ... More About: Freedom , Internet , Search Engines , Search , Privacy
Linux Games
2007-08-02 08:03:00 The Linux Gamers’ Game List is a very useful list of games which run under Linux. The list has 371 entries at the current time, including both free and commercial software. Best of all, the page is part of the Linux Gamers FAQ and the editors clearly state “We reserve the right to refuse to list games ... More About: Games , X Games , Ames
MIT Courses Online
2007-08-01 17:15:00 The MIT OpenCourseWare project is one of the greatest things on the Internet, but not one of the most well known. OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a project which published real MIT course materials online. Anyone from anywhere in the world can download these course materials and benefit from them. You don’t get course credit or access to ... More About: Online
StumbleUpon Exchange
2007-08-01 03:44:00 My friend Luke has just unveiled a new web site called StumbleUpon Exchange . If you’re not familiar with StumbleUpon, it’s a toolbar for your web browser that allows you to rate web sites and to also view web sites which other StumbleUpon members have rated. As a visitor, StumbleUpon can provide you with almost endless amusement as ... More About: Stumbleupon , Chang , Chan , Bleu
Cheap Computers
2007-07-24 18:17:00 Data Evolutions is currently running a sale on their decTOP miniature PC. The devices are now on sale for $99. The little PC’s measure 5.5 x 8.5 x 2.5″ and weigh only three pounds. Inside that tiny case is everything you need in a basic computer, including a 366Mhz AMD Geode GX500 processor, a ... More About: Computers , Cheap
Free Long Distance
2007-07-23 14:27:00 Ooma is a startup Internet telephony (VoIP) firm with an interesting offer. They are selling a $399 Linux-based telephone. That may seem like a lot of money for a phone, until you learn that the phone provides free long-distance throughout the United States. Ooma is able to do this by using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture for ... More About: Free , Long , Long Distance
Improving LAMP
2007-07-23 13:32:00 LAMP is an acronym which defines the current “state of the market” for best practice web architecture. However, LAMP can not be considered the “state of the art” and can be improved upon. The four components of LAMP are: Linux Apache MySQL PHP Linux Linux has come a long way in the last decade, but it is not the ... More About: Lamp , Ving , Improv
Open Source Windows
2007-07-23 12:31:00 ReactOS is an open-source replacement for Microsoft Windows . ReactOS is designed to be 100% compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, including the ability to natively execute programs and device drivers designed to run under WinXP. Simply put, ReactOS is Windows, but it’s free and open-source. ReactOS isn’t a Unix-based system like FreeBSD or Linux. It’s not an emulator ... More About: Open Source , Open , Source
Remove DRM ? With a GUI
2007-07-20 12:46:00 FairUseW4M v1.3fix-2 has just been released. This release of FairUseW4M offers users a full GUI (Graphical User Interface) to remove “protection” from media which have been crippled by Microsoft’s DRM solution. The v1.3fix-2 release provides support for Microsoft’s MS DRM IBX components up to version 11.0.6000.6324. To remove DRM from your files, you first use the`mirakagi` ...
Harry Potter Ending ? Corrected
More articles from this author:2007-07-20 11:28:00 In Secret Harry Potter Ending Revealed, we told you the story of “Gabriel”, a young hacker who claimed to have breached IT security at Bloomsbury and stolen the yet-to-be-released ending of the Harry Potter series. As it turns out, the ending which Gabriel published was not what appeared in the final manuscript. The real question is this: ... More About: Rect 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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