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1000 Comments and Counting
2007-09-20 22:17:00 In our first six months of existence teckh.com has amassed a total of close to 1000 comments. Many of the comments were related to the Joost invites we filled a few months back when the service launched in invite-only mode. We are actually in the high 900’s and closing in on 1000. In honor of this, the 1000th ... More About: Comments , Counting
Ventus by Karl Schroeder Free Download
2007-09-18 16:32:00 Karl Schroeder’s book Ventus has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license and is free to download. From Amazon: Jordan Mason of the planet Ventus comes from a long line of stoneworkers, and he has a clear understanding of his place in his world. He is subservient to the aristocracy, who in turn bow to the ... More About: Books , Download , Free
X-Men: Ronin Not A Bad Read
2007-09-18 16:21:00 X-Men: Ronin was a 5 issue series based in Marvel’s Mangaverse - The series depicts an alternate Marvel universe (and possibly a splinter version of said universe) in which the characters are drawn and portrayed in a Manga-like style. (wikipedia) The art and the story were pretty good, good enough to keep me reading all the ... More About: Comic , Read
Turn Your Old Xbox Into A Top Notch Media Center
2007-09-14 22:16:00 Lifehacker has put together a guide to quickly modding your Xbox and adding Xbox Media Center Why do you want an Xbox Media Center ? Because underneath your television there’s a powerful little black computer gathering dust ever since you finished Halo 2, and it’s got a sizable hard drive, fast processor, and most importantly, an ethernet port ... More About: Technology , Entertainment
iPhone Ringtones for FREE (GUI Edition)
2007-09-13 17:17:00 Since Apple decided to charge $0.99 to create an iphone ringtone from an already purchased $0.99 track, of course it was going to be hacked. Who wants to pay $1.98 for a ringtone? An early hack popped up and a subsequent release of itunes promptly fixed the hole. A secondary exploit was discovered ... More About: Shopping , Technology , Mobile , Iphone
NBC Releases Pilot Episodes On Amazon Free
2007-09-12 00:58:00 NBC has released the pilot episodes of four new TV shows for free through Amazon ’s Unbox. The shows are scheduled to air on TV in a couple of weeks but you can watch them now on your computer. The shows include Bionic Woman, Chuck, Journey Man and Life. If you remember NBC announced that they ... More About: Entertainment , Free , Episodes , Pilot
Frank Miller?s Ronin
2007-09-10 23:54:00 Ronin is a 6 issue limited series comic written by Frank Miller (of Sin City and 300 fame). Ronin is about a samurai whose soul becomes trapped inside a sword. The soul of his enemy is also trapped in the sword until a scientist finds the sword many years later. The scientist shoots a laser at ... More About: Comic , Ronin
D-Link Giveaway Reminder
2007-09-08 21:09:00 Anyone out there looking for a new top of the line router and card? Look no further than the great duo we here at Teckh.com are giving away. D-Link was nice enough to provide us with the hardware that we are now passing on to one of our lucky readers. Head on over to ... More About: D-Link , Reminder , Remi
Automatically Download ipfilter.dat
2007-09-07 20:07:00 Some of our readers requested a way to have the ipfilter.dat file for uTorrent download automatically. Below is a script that you will need to copy into notepad, edit the save location to match your ipfilter.dat location, then save it as a .vbs file. If you want you can just run the file you save ... More About: Technology , Download , Hack , Ally
Charge Your USB Devices Through The Planes Audio Jack
2007-09-07 15:31:00 This is a very cool gadget from a company called Inflight Power. The device plugs into the audio adapter of the plane and turns the power from the audio jack into power to keep your USB devices charged. This is a great device, if you are on the plane for a long time the batteries ... More About: Technology , Audio , Devices , Charge , Gizmos
PeerGuardian 2 RC1 Beta With Vista Support
2007-09-06 17:07:00 PeerGuardian 2 RC1 has been availble for a few months now and though some users have had problems with it, others have been able to run it successfully with a few tweaks here and there. Download the application yourself and test it out. If you have problems help the developers out and post it to ... More About: Software , Security , Vista , Beta , Support
Your Hard Drive Will Have Its Own CPU
2007-09-04 23:34:00 A new hybrid hard drive is in the works called the Mcell. This hybrid drive uses 1GB of DDR2 RAM instead of flash memory as the cache. There will be an onboard CPU that will manage the data According to DTS, the additional memory combined with its I/O management chip drastically improves hard drive transfer speeds: ... More About: Hardware , Technology , Drive , Hard , Hard Drive
Original Command and Conquer Now Freeware
2007-09-03 23:06:00 One of the best games in the universe has been freed from the grasp of EA and given back to the people that made it a success. Command and Conquer is now available from EA as freeware. They are offering the files in ISO format so you can burninate the images with your favorite burninator. ... More About: Technology , Gaming , Original , Freeware
Windows Vista SP1 - One Stop Detail Shop
2007-08-31 15:22:00 I’m rolling up as many of the current Vista SP1 news that is sprawled across the world wide web in this one super post. This is the one post to rule them all. The first service pack for Vista is a major one, it will either make or break the operating system. There are performance, ... More About: Software , Windows , Windows Vista , Shop
Google, Microsoft Are Defending Fair Use
2007-08-31 02:37:00 Google and Microsoft make up part of an association called the Computer & Communications Industry Association that is tired of the NFL, MLB and others telling us that we can’t even talk about a game without their permission. The FTC needs to put the entertainment industry in their place. Earlier this month, the Computer & ... More About: Google , Technology , Fair , Googl
Apple Opens Up TV Downloads In UK
2007-08-30 00:00:00 Apple is now allowing users from the UK to download US TV shows through iTunes the shows will cost £1.89 per episode which is about $3.80 US. In US we pay $1.99 for the same TV show, why should it be any different for our friends in the UK? Unfortunately I don’t think the entertainment ... More About: Entertainment , Downloads , Apple
If You Can?t Win It - Get It Free After Rebate
2007-08-28 03:42:00 If you haven’t commented on the D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router And Xtreme N Card Giveaway yet - do it now before you miss your chance to win a great router. If you aren’t a winner though the next best thing is Free After Rebate , if the company providing the rebate is reliable. Over at ... More About: Deal
15 Websites For Wasting Time
2007-08-28 01:27:00 If you’re in the mood to waste some time online, check out the list Freelance Switch put together. 1. MyGame Create your own games and play them with just a photo and some free time 2. Fuzzwich Make hilarious cartoons with Fuzzwich?s video making machine. Complete with music, backgrounds and actors? 3. Strip Generator Similar to Fuzzwich, strip generator gives ... More About: Technology , Time , Websites
Amazing Image Resizing
2007-08-27 23:11:00 Hopefully it’s just a matter of time before we see this in a commercial application. iPhoto would be nice but more likely photoshop. Pretty cool technology. Share This More About: Software , Technology , Amazing , Image
Targeted Advertising on Facebook
2007-08-23 16:42:00 Some Facebook users have had concerns and/or complaints about the direction the social networking system has decided to take more than once during its rather short history. First, some users were upset when Facebook opened their accounts beyond the original college-student crowd to the public at large. Then there was a outcry from some when ... More About: Advertising , Web 2 , Vert
Borrow Wifi Get Arrested
2007-08-23 03:32:00 A London man was arrested for borrowing someone’s unprotected open wifi. Two Police Community Support officers spotted the man sitting outside a house enjoying the wifi booty. This seemed ’suspicious’ to the officers so they arrested him. Unfortunately any particular details are slim. It doesn’t say if the owner of the borrowed wifi connection cared that ... More About: Technology , Arrested , Legal , Wifi , Borrow
Suprnova.org Back Online
2007-08-22 01:55:00 If you’re new to the interweb you probably don’t know about Suprnova.org but if you’ve been around for awhile you know all about it. Suprnova was the best torrent search engine, then in 2004 it shut down because of pressure from copyright holders. Suprnova then turned and donated the site to The Pirate Bay and ... More About: Technology , Online , Back
Message from Skype
2007-08-21 21:40:00 In relation to the previously reported Skype outage, I received the following mail communication from them today. Seems they are extending my subscription by seven days. I suppose it’s better than nothing. Hello Kevin You may or may not know but last week Skype wasn’t available for a couple of days. There were a ... More About: Software , Message , Mess
D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router And Xtreme N Card
2007-08-20 21:58:00 D-Link sent us one of their Xtreme N routers from their Premium line of products. One of our lucky readers will be getting this top of the line router along with an Xtreme N notebook adapter. The router is model number DIR-655 and the card is model number DWA-652. To win these fine products all ... More About: Hardware , Technology , Card
Skype Outage
2007-08-19 16:33:00 Unless you have been hiding under a rock this week, I am sure you have heard about Skype ’s “outage”. The service was down for over 30 hours. eBay purchased Skype for a wopping $2.6 billion dollars back in late 2005, which makes me wonder where they were throughout this entire debacle? I don’t recall the ... More About: Software , Technology , Outage
Star Trek Parody Comic ElfTrek
2007-08-17 16:29:00 To try and complete a few of the collections I started, I got myself a box full of comics, some I needed and some I didn’t. In the “I didn’t” pile was ElfTrek , a 2 issue Star Trek Parody . The synopsis of Elftrek is as follows: The crew of The Corporation ship Big Surprise are bored ... More About: Comic
Clean Your Crap 2.0 Style
2007-08-16 23:11:00 CClean er (Crap Cleaner) has announced version 2.0. The beta is available for download now. CCleaner is probably the best tool at cleaning the crap from your computer. I use it all the time and highly recommend you check it out. With the new version comes the following new features: Complete rebuild in C++ With the requirements for ... More About: Software , Style
Twitter + Jaiku = Twitku
2007-08-16 20:32:00 New web app Twitku lets you monitor and post to both your Twitter and Jaiku accounts simultaneously. Twitku displays your Twitter and Jaiku friend or public updates side-by-side, and you can even rearrange windows to give one or the other first-place preference on your screen. Another window lets you enter your own updates and post ... More About: Web 2
Warhammer 40k: Damnation Crusade Review
2007-08-14 20:49:00 Boom-Studios has started publishing a handful of different Warhammer 40k comics. Damnation Crusade was a 6 issue mini-series. There are two other Warhammer series they are working on Blood and Thunder and Forge of War. Warhammer 40k started out as a board game in 1987 and is now a huge franchise. There is a large ... More About: Comic , Review
Five Tech Myths Busted
More articles from this author:2007-08-14 17:58:00 Extreme Tech gathered together a few common tech myths and went to work researching and debunking these myths. Unfortunately they didn’t use the Mythbuster testing methods of blowing things up but they did a good job. Games for Windows Live: Must Pay Micro$oft $$$ It is true that Games for Windows Live is a premium service, and ... More About: Technology , Myths , Busted , Five 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
