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Is Your Cell Phone a Deceptacon?
2007-09-07 02:01:00 I don’t think I’ve seen a cooler cell phone mod…ever. Someone modded their Moto Rokr to actually transform into a robot and then back into a phone. As if that wasn’t cool enough, the thing still works. Can you feel the geek lust in the air? [via Geekologie] More About: Computers , Phone , Communication , Cell Phone , Cell
AuctionAds is Trying to Explode and Take You With Them
2007-09-07 01:35:00 AuctionAds told us yesterday that they were increasing their commissions from 2% to 5%, which is enough to entice people to join, I’m sure. Today, they announced that they are giving $25 earnings to any new signup. Not only that, but existing users who hadn’t earned a commission from them yet, too. ... More About: Explode
Ipod Touch - Iphone Minus the Phone, and Damn Sexy!
2007-09-05 21:34:00 I MUST have one. OK… Sure… Apple just took their iPhone , slimmed it down, and took out the phone. Seriously, I think it’s yet another brilliant move by Apple. This is a huge step forward for the already-near-perfect ipod. Engadget says: The new iPod Touch is out, complete with touchscreen, Coverflow and all the ... More About: Computers , Iphone , Ipod , Sexy
I?ll Send You a Postcard from Space in 2010!
2007-09-05 15:40:00 I was just telling people this weekend that I WILL go to space in my lifetime, even if I’m 90 and the trip will kill me. Fortunately, I’ll be able to go a lot sooner. While I don’t have the $100,000 or $200,000 companies are per-booking for, I’m sure I’ll be able to ... More About: Space , Send , Postcard
Nobody is as cool as Joel Adams and Tim Brom.
2007-09-04 16:07:00 Right now, nobody is as cool as Joel Adams and Tim Brom, who designed and built a 26.25 gigaflop supercomputer from scratch. For only $2,500 (about $1,250 today), they built what they’re calling Microwulf, based on four microATX motherboards, each with a dual core CPU and 2GB of RAM. The motherboards all communicate ... More About: Computers , Cool , Nobody
Motorola Q Contest Modified
2007-08-31 16:23:00 1,000 entries required to complete the contest? Yes, ThePrizeBlog.com, that is just stupid, isn’t it? Sometimes we make mistakes and being new to this contest action, I’ve obviously made one there. Thanks to ThePrizeBlog.com for pointing it out to me, I’ve changed the contest to have NO requirement on how many entries ... More About: Contest , Computers , Motorola , Communication , Motorola Q
Easy Image Carving for the Web
2007-08-31 01:31:00 Last week, TechCrunch posted a video showing some really cool developing technology in the image resizing arena. There was a lot of oohing and ahhing. This week, they followed up to point out an online demo that a reader named Patrick Swieskowski sent them. Although it’s obviously just in it’s beginning stages, he’s got ... More About: Computers , Image , Easy
Contests Make a Good Alternative to Ads?
2007-08-30 08:00:00 I love online contests. I’ve been naturally lucky in so many online, starting with a brief case I won from CDNow.com in 1995 or 1996. When I decided to throw a Win My Motorola Q Smartphone contest, I began to think about some of the contests I had participated in years ago. ... More About: Computers , Contests , Alternative , Make , Good
Motorola Q Smartphone Contest Extended
2007-08-30 07:33:00 Because of the slow start (and a possible schedule conflict), I have decided to extend the Motorola Q Smartphone contest to October 1st. More About: Contest , Computers , Motorola Q
Samsung P2 : Slim, Smart, Sexy
2007-08-29 14:49:00 With all the buzz bout the iPhone, some competition is sneaking out, barely noticed. One of those phones is the Samsung P2. It plays MP3s, reads ebooks, has a 3.0 inch touchscreen, Bluetooth, video player, and FM tuner. The P2 phone also includes a variety of 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB memory cards. ... More About: Computers , Communication , Smart , Sexy
Google Web Tool Kit Leaves Beta
2007-08-29 00:53:00 We’re very pleased to tell you that the Googl e Web Tool kit (GWT) is no longer in beta as of today’s release of GWT 1.4. For Java developers who have used GWT to create high-end web applications over the last year, this may not seem all that surprising. But if you haven’t yet heard the story ... More About: Software , Beta
Star Wars Holographs on Their Way [VIDEO]
2007-08-29 00:41:00 Admit it or not, you’ve been waiting patiently, just like me, for the holographic images displayed in Star Wars to become a reality. The wait has just gotten shorter, my friends. The display consists of a high-speed video projector, a spinning mirror covered by a holographic diffuser, and FPGA circuitry to decode specially rendered DVI ... More About: Video , Computers
Acer to buy Gateway
2007-08-27 19:18:00 NYT: TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million in a deal that will push the Taiwanese company past China’s Lenovo Group as the world’s third largest vendor of personal computers. Acer said Monday it is offering to buy Gateway for $1.90 per share in a deal expected ... More About: Computers
Peta.com : ?PETA, YOUR ONE STOP FUR SHOP?
2007-08-27 10:52:00 According to Archive.org, Peta .com didn’t always promote the “ethical treatment of animals”. In fact, on December 21, 1996, Peta.com read (in part): We have just been informed that Bambi was not killed by Godzilla. Bambi was actually removed from the forest by a member of the group EARTHFIRST and sold to a lab run by ... More About: Computers , Communication , Shop , Stop
Clippy Kicks Shuffle?s Ass. Who Will Win?
2007-08-26 01:47:00 Every time Apple comes out with a new (or revised) product, a few jump to the challenge of trying to defeat the giant. Since the birth of the original iPod, we’ve seen plenty of would-be David’s easily brushed aside by Goliath. Could this time be different? Although Apple has a strong foothold ... More About: Music , Shuffle , Kicks , Kick
TubeCast: Merging YouTube with How We Watch TV
2007-08-26 01:17:00 TubeCast.tv bills itself as a “not-for-profit web experiment”. It seems greatness often comes from one or two guys with a vision and some creative talent. When you get to the opening page, you’re told to “turn on, tune in, chill out”. OK. I can live with that. Below the slogan is an ... More About: Youtube , Watch , Computers , Merging
Finally! Unbrick Your PSP
2007-08-24 08:27:00 When I had a Sony PSP, I was jumping on just about every mod and hack. I wanted to push it to its limits. The only thing I feared was the dreadful possibility that one of my hacks would “brick” the device, leaving it unusable. Eventually, I sold it because I just ... More About: Finally , Fina , Ally
Coming to iPhone: Your Blog
2007-08-24 07:33:00 A relatively new site, FeedM8, makes it quick and easy to get your RSS feed in front of people on the go. With more and more people getting online with their phones (especially with the success of the iPhone), there’s no reason your blog shouldn’t be available via a mobile feed. I came ... More About: Software , Computers , Communication , Iphone , Blog
Awesome $800,000 Computer Chip Desk
2007-08-24 05:41:00 Matt Tovey felt inspired and made an awesome desk from CPUs discarded after some upgrades. The list price for these things was $800,000 in 2006 and they were reportedly still working before their heat sinks were removed. More About: Computers , Computer , Awesome , Desk , Chip
Guilty! Punishment: Switch to Windows
2007-08-24 05:20:00 We all know that you should face the consequences of your crimes (if you get caught), but is this out of line? From TorrentFreak: Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that wasn?t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which ... More About: Software , Computers , Switch , Punishment
Digg Typo Brings Surprise Traffic
2007-08-22 23:07:00 Last Friday, Digg user loconet posted Why Firefox is Blocked, linking to whyfirefoxisblocked.com and it was dugg up to 5,419 diggs. Monday, someone named jtwyrrpirate posted whyisfirefoxblocked.com hacked = awesome and THAT story got 5,741 diggs. What’s the problem? The URL is wrong. Instead of posting a hack, jtwyrrpirate posted about ... More About: Computers , Communication , Traffic , Typo
Win My Motorolla Q Smartphone!
2007-08-22 00:08:00 There’s three easy steps to win my Motorolla Q Smartphone : 1. Link to this post with the picture below from your blog. 2. Comment on this post with the URL where the link exists. 3. Subscribe to my feed. A winner will be selected and announced on September 21, 2007. * I must have at least close to 1,000 comments ... More About: Computers
India Launches $2,400 Car - World?s Cheapest
2007-08-21 07:49:00 I read something about this a couple months ago during an extremely boring flight, and I guess its time has come. Gizmodo announces (and there’s an official press release, too) the new super-cheap car from Tata Motors. Rolling off the line for only $2,400, they promise to increase India ’s per capita car owners. What ... More About: World , Automotive
Jooce WebOS. Forget the laptop.
2007-08-21 01:29:00 One of the big pains about having multiple computers or having just one but leaving it at home is the lack of access we have to our files. Many companies have entered into this market space with products like PCAnywhere and the like, but what about when you know have web access on a ... More About: Software , Computers , Laptop , Forge
Enlightenment (1998) -vs- Vista (2007)
2007-08-21 00:25:00 Today, I happened across a page I made in 1998 detailing some things I was doing with Enlightenment , a windows manager for X11. Looking back it seems I was having a lot more fun with Enlightenment back then than I am with Vista , now. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I’m ... More About: Software , Computers
HypoSurface - The screen that moves
2007-08-19 21:39:00 HypoSurface is a movable display system. Essentially, the display is split into tons of panels that are moved according to a pre-set program (or possible interaction with various sources). From the HypoSurface site: HypoSurface is the World’s first display system where the screen surface physically moves! Information and form are linked to give ... More About: Screen , Computers , Moves , Cree
Feed the ego (and the SEO, too)
2007-08-19 10:03:00 Once in a while someone comes along with a novel idea and I feel compelled to dig in and play around. While skimming The Thinking Blog tonight, I stumbled across the article, New Era in Social Networing about a relatively new site called Peopleized. About Peopleized, The Thinking Blog says: Peopleized is a social networking thinking website which ... More About: Communication , Feed
5 Steps to building web gold
2007-08-15 08:31:00 These days, it seems like anyone with the right idea and the drive to make it happen can become a billionaire in about the time it takes most of us to get a promotion. The good news is that you don’t have to come up with the next YouTube or MySpace to make some ... More About: Software , Building , Computers , Gold , Steps
LED Fan makes cool air and art
2007-06-06 18:04:00 This is one of the cooler things I’ve seen come from ThinkGeek in a while. This LED Art Fan has 42 LEDs mounted on the fan blades and has 5 MB of memory to hold up to 128 individual frames. ThinkGeek says, “The LED Art fan works with Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and requires ... More About: Cool
Iphone date announced
More articles from this author:2007-06-06 01:48:00 Apple and AT&T ran a series of three new iPhone ads Sunday night, each ending with the Apple and AT&T logos and the caption “Coming June 29.” The three ads, entitled, “How To,” “Never Been an iPod,” and “Calamari” started appearing on the East Coast around 7 p.m. on Sunday during CBS’s 60 Minutes. They can ... More About: Computers , Communication , Iphone , Anno 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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