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SourceForge vs. Freshmeat
2008-12-30 17:43:00 SourceForge and Freshmeat are both great web sites for finding obscure open source software packages. Both are very old and authoritative web sites; Freshmeat was started in March of 1998 and SourceForge came along in August of 1999. SourceForge has a larger database of projects to search, which is a major advantage. SourceForge also has a better ... More About: Sourceforge
Fastest Web Browser: Google Chrome
2008-12-21 02:07:00 Evil Science has just published Internet Explorer vs Firefox vs Opera vs Chrome vs Safari, which contains the results of an extensive competitive speed test between five popular web browsers. The author is an Opera user who discovered that his favorite browser has slipped to the #2 spot for performance. The author rates each browser in nine ... More About: Google , Browser , Web Browser
New Webmaster Forum
2008-12-13 14:10:00 Have you ever been interested in how a web site like The Tech FAQ gets built and promoted? Now you have an opportunity to find out. The creator of The Tech FAQ has recently started a forum for webmasters where he shares the knowledge he gained while building and promoting this web site. If you have an ... More About: Webmaster , Forum
Ubuntu Security Tools
2008-12-07 03:54:00 Bootable Linux distributions are quite popular right now. Just by booting from a DVD or other media, they allow you to possess a dedicated security auditing or forensics workstation. Usually though, I don’t want to reboot just to use a different set of applications. I want all of my applications available to me all ... More About: Security , Tools , Ubuntu
Terrorists Go Hi-Tech
2008-12-04 15:54:00 The Washington Post printed a story about the Islamist terrorists who recently went on a murder spree in Mumbai India, with an interesting technological twist. The bad guys used technology heavily: They trained using satellite images and video footage of their targets They used GPS navigation equipment on the boat they hijacked to get to Mumbai They used high-resolution ... More About: Tech , Hi Tech , Terrorists
How to Dry a Cell Phone That?s Come in Contact with Water
2008-12-04 13:45:00 If you’ve dropped your cell phone in water, or just gotten it wet, then you’ll want to make sure you follow a series of steps to ensure it will continue to operate. Remove the phone from the water source If you are able to quickly remove the phone from the water, then you’re likely to be able ... More About: Phone , Cell Phone , Cell , Contact , Water
The Best Christmas Gift for a Techie
2008-12-04 13:38:00 It’s Christmas shopping season again and I have a recommendation for the best gift to buy your favorite techie. Heart diseases is the number one cause of death in the United States. Diseases of the heart cause 28.5% of all U.S. deaths, even more deaths than cancer. Many of these early deaths are preventable with little ... More About: Techie , Gift
New Cellular Phones
2008-11-27 17:13:00 Our editors have just posted the latest reviews of new cellular phones. The new cellular phones reviewed include: Blackberry Pearl Flip 8220 Blackberry Storm HTC G1 HTC Touch 3G HTC Touch Diamond CDMA HTC Touch HD HTC Touch Pro CDMA HTC Touch Viva Huawei M328 Kyocera Cyclops K312 LG AX-155 LG KF900 LG Lotus LX600 LG Rhythm AX585 LG VX5500 LG Xenon Morpheus Aura Morpheus i576 Morpheus i775 Morpheus Krave ZN4 Morpheus ACTV w450 Morpheus Q-11 Morpheus Rapture vu30 Morpheus ... More About: Phones , Cellular
SHIFT, CAPSLOCK, and CONTROL keys stop working in Ubuntu
2008-11-26 07:58:00 About once a week, my <SHIFT>, <CAPSLOCK>, and <CONTROL> keys stop working. This is an Ubuntu issue, not a hardware issue. This issue has been recurring through several point releases of Ubuntu. I was rebooting every time this issue occurred; that was a serious annoyance. Now, however, I have a much better fix. ... More About: Stop , Control , Keys , Working
Best Gaming CPU
2008-11-23 17:13:00 AMD CPU’s have great 64-bit performance and excellent multitasking performance. Intel CPU’s, however, are far and away the leading processors for playing computer games. The folks at Tom’s Hardware publish frequently updated CPU performance charts. They use five different computer games for their CPU metrics: Prey Quake IV Supreme Commander Unreal Tournament 2004 Warhammer: Mark of Chaos Intel processors currently own ... More About: Gaming
EASEUS Partition Manager
2008-10-18 10:06:00 Partitioning the hard drive is not a task which would be performed on a daily basis. It is commonly executed on procurement of a new hard drive. Some consider it a very risky and intricate process but with EASEUS Partition Manager , your outlook will change. EASEUS Partition Manager (EASEUS PM) is a disk partition management tool, ... More About: Partition
Yahoo Fails to Stop E-Mail Spam
2008-10-06 01:46:00 I’ve been getting spammed repetitively from one Yahoo email subscriber who uses multiple Yahoo email accounts. This spamming has been going on for quite some time. I’ve been blocking this idiot, but that is not very satisfying. I don’t want this idiot using up my bandwidth or the CPU cycles necessary to block his ... More About: Mail , Spam , E-Mail , Stop
Welcome Back Cox Communications!
2008-10-06 01:40:00 Customers of Cox Communications have been unable to browse The Tech FAQ for the last several weeks due to a technical misunderstanding inside Cox’s Internet abuse department. Cox claimed that an attack on their webmail servers originated from our .109 IP address. This is quite an amusing claim, as no traffic is allowed to originate ... More About: Back
SolarWinds Real-time NetFlow Analyzer
2008-09-29 23:34:00 SolarWinds Real -time NetFlow Analyzer is a traffic analysis tool that is designed to analyze the data that passes through your network connection in a 60 minute frame. It shows any request from each and every layer of the OSI model. This is very useful in order to analyze how your bandwidth resources are utilized. The NetFlow ... More About: Time , Real Time
Six LED Rechargeable Cap Light
2008-09-21 09:47:00 Cap lights are among the most essential tools for outdoor activities. It is the perfect tool for lighting up an area when both hands are busy with tools, hunting gear, and fishing poles among other outdoor equipment. Cap lights are also ideal for hiking, camping, and night fishing. The Six LED Rechargeable Cap Light is a ...
NOAA Emergency Weather Radios
2008-09-21 09:32:00 Every family should have an NOAA emergency weather radio as part of their home emergency kit. An NOAA weather radio (NWR) is designed to receive regular NWR weather broadcasts, warnings, forecasts, and other hazard information 24 hours a day from a nearby National Weather Service office (NWS). American Red Cross Microlink FR150 The American Red Cross Microlink ... More About: Emergency
Nokia E71 ? The iPhone Killer
2008-08-08 10:42:00 The folks at Dial-a-Phone have just released a sneak-peak of the new Nokia E71 — and it looks like a serious iPhone killer. The E71 has everything the iPhone offers — and a full QWERTY keyboard to boot! The E71 is a quad-band handset with support for 3G, HSDPA, GPRS, GPS, EDGE and Wi-Fi connectivity. ... More About: Iphone , Killer
Free Criminal Records
2008-07-25 01:14:00 CriminalSearches.com is currently offering completely free criminal record checks online. The search covers all fifty states. They have a truly excellent Advanced Search feature which lets you limit your search results by address, city, date of birth, or age range. On the negative side, the database is far from complete. I looked up eight people ... More About: Free , Criminal , Records , Criminal Records
JVC DLA-RS2 Home Theater Projector
2008-07-18 09:35:00 The JVC DLA-RS2 home theater projector works by utilizing a technology called Direct drive Image Light Amplifier (D-ILA). It is a reflective type of Liquid Crystal Display that provides advanced amount of light. With this technology, light travels through the layer of the LCD to a mirror. Afterwards, it is reflected back to the viewer. ... More About: Theater , Home , Home Theater , Projector
FOMA SH706i Symbian OS
2008-07-13 05:10:00 NTT DoCoMo released its new FOMA SH706i handset with the Symbian OS. This new handset will begin shipping in Japan today and it looks like it works just in Japan. More About: Mobiles
Seagate HDD 1.5TB
2008-07-12 04:43:00 Seagate introduces the 1.5TB HD for notebooks and desktops. The desktop-class hard drive iscalled the Barracuda 7200.11. The specs show that the 3.5-inch drive is made up of four 375GB platters and has a 7,200-rpm rotational speed. It has a 3Gb/second SATA interface, or 1.5Gb/second using Native Command Queuing (NCQ). Apparently the new 1.5TB drive ... More About: Seagate
M-Audio Ultimate Ears - iPhone Headphones
2008-07-12 04:40:00 The original iPhone earphones were bad and the ones coming with the iPhone 3G are expected to be of the type. M-Audio Japan has announced the Ultimate Ears. They are a pair of ultra light aluminium earphones and has sound insulation of 26dB, frequency of 20Hz - 16kHz, Input sensitivity of 115dB/mW, and impedance of ... More About: Iphone , Headphones , M-Audio
iPhone Fanboy T-Shirts
2008-07-12 04:35:00 A lot of iPhone fans have gone home after waiting for an eternity to get their hands on the iPhone 3G. Some unlucky souls only managed to get the white one but whatever, you got one right? These t-shirt’s are meant for the true fans of the iPhone available in all sizes including a baby ... More About: Iphone , Shirts , T-Shirts , Fanboy , T shirts
Backpack Bike
2008-07-12 04:31:00 Ever wondered about having a bike that you can take anywhere? I mean, just about anywhere! Well, this is for you. It’s meant for those elevators, steps and heavy traffic roads where a bulky bike is going to be a hinderance. This bike is made of strong plastic to reduce the weight of the bike. More About: Backpack , Bike
Xbox 360 - Having prices slashed
2008-07-11 18:44:00 The Xbox is reducing its price to $299. Thats a $100 less than the PlayStation 3’s 40GB version. Eariler, during the release of Halo 3, they reduced it from $399 to $349. More About: Xbox 360 , Prices
Kodak Zi6
2008-07-11 18:26:00 Kodak released the new Zi6 for the people so that they can have a HD camcorder to record daily life happenings. It’s simple to use, light and its high quality More About: Audio , Photography , Kodak , Cameras
Stop Unbuntu Beeping
2008-06-05 08:29:00 Ubuntu is a great desktop OS. But, in it’s default configuration, it is really annoying. It beeps constantly. You can turn off the system beep by removing the kernel module for the PC speaker. will@voyager:~$ sudo modprobe -r pcspkr To make this change permanent, add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: blacklist pcspkr Enjoy your new peaceful Ubuntu experience. ... More About: Stop
Where can I buy a Wii fit?
2008-06-03 18:27:00 Online stores have become favorite places for online shoppers looking for the best deal for their money. The sheer number of these stores, with more than a few of them having dubious practices, the need to be sure of the store?s reliability cannot be ignored. If you are looking for Nintendo?s latest ?miracle? machine, the ... More About: Games
ISP’s Caught Blocking BitTorrent
2008-06-02 20:05:00 Recent reports have shown that some BitTorrent users were being blocked by their own Internet Service Providers. It was found that the blocking in the US was primarily being done by two cable service companies, Comcast and Cox. Blocked users in Singapore were on the StarHub network. Recent studies by students at the Mac Planck Institute of Software Systems have reached conclusive results. The students of the Institute conducted a test called Glasnost. The test results show that most of the people in the US are being blocked by the two companies. The test results also showed minimal blocking from 10 other service providers. The study shows that 491 out of 788 Comcast users and 82 out of 151 Cox users cannot use BitTorrent. 26 out of 45 people on Singapore’s StarHub cannot access BitTorrent. The companies have released statements saying that they only restricted BitTorrent access in cases where the bandwidth was being congested. However, the test shown that the blocking was being en... More About: Caught , Bittorrent
Apple Poster Boy John Mayer Switches Sides Again
More articles from this author:2008-06-02 19:50:00 Grammy award-winning artist John Mayer gets first dibs on Macintosh products. He received his MacBook Pro ahead of everyone else. He plays at keynote talks held by Apple . But his latest blog post reveals that he is using a Blackberry phone instead of his old iPhone. John Mayer is a self-proclaimed techie geek. He has a professed addiction to the latest gadgets. His penchant for technology extends to his professional life, particularly when his recent tour was sponsored by Research in Motion (RIM). Research in Motion is the company behind the original smart phone Blackberry. Rumors flew in cyberspace after reports came in that the singer was not using a Blackberry phone during the RIM sponsored tour. Sightings showed John Mayer using an iPhone instead of a Blackberry model. It seemed that Mayer’s loyalties lay with Steve Jobs Apple, Inc. He received a MacBook Air ahead of its release date. Pictures of his own unit were put up on his website as soon as he got it. Now, more new pictu... More About: Sides , Poster 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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