Happy Birthday BBS
Just a few days ago, Feb 16 to be exact, in 1978 Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched the first ever Bulletin Board System in Chicago.
Many people belive that the BBS was the predecesor to the modern internet, a crude form I will agree but a much more enjoyable form of social interaction online per [...]
Boxee Set To Roll Out A Set-Top Box
Ohh you Americans with your awesome ability to watch full episodes of TV shows via Hulu and Boxee. Us Canadians are only stuck with the ability to watch our Canadian programming in some crappy player on some crappy Canadian broadcasters website. Actually it really isn’t all that bad, but then again, you have Boxee, we [...]
Hackintosh Atom Fix In The Works
Fear not hackintosh faithful; according to Gizmodo, the hacker who is the driving force behind netbook hackintosh builds says that the kernel will be fixed for the Atom processors. “It’ll just take a few weeks.”
If you might have slipped with your netbook and upgraded to 10.6.2, you can still downgrade your kernel to get you [...]
In Case You Missed It: Week 44 Round Up
Another week another bunch of stuff that we posted. In case you missed any of it we have everything from Videogame Alarm Clocks to Secret Knock Door Openers. Enjoy.
Gadgets
A Cell Phone For GramaUSB Boobie WarmersFuel Cell ChargerBatteries For The Web 2.0 Generation
Gaming
Videogame Alarm Clocks
Hacking and Security
DIY: Star Trek Bluetooth CommunicatorTurn A Dead 360 Into A [...]
Google Voice Invites
With all of the hoopla surrounding Google Wave most people have forgotten about Google’s last hot product, Google Voice.
If you haven’t heard of Google Voice, let’s look at wikipedia ….
The service provisions a U.S. phone number, chosen by the user from available numbers in selected area codes, free of charge to each user account. Inbound [...]
Woops: 10.6.2 Doesn’t Kill Atom Support
Woops, looks like 10.6.2 won’t kill support for the Atom chip after all. All you netbook hackintosh users can now breath a sigh of relief. We reported a few days ago that the latest developer build of Leopard had support for the Atom chipset removed. None of the Apple hardware uses the Atom chip so [...]
XBMC on ARM
The most awesome guys over at the XBMC project have posted a teaser showing how far along the have come on the ARM port of their media player (Check the video after the break). You can clearly see the package boot up and even play back HD video. There looks like there is still some [...]
Install 59 Apps Quickly And Easily
With the recent release of Windows 7, many people have to slug their way through installing their applications. This can easily be a tedious and time consuming adventure. Thankfully Ninite does a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
Ninite allows you to install up to 59 different pieces of software for you, with little or [...]
Water Drops At 2000 FPS
High speed video can be so much fun. Watching something that we normally take for granted on high speed film can really be amazing. Remember the bullets that were shot at 1,000,000 fps? Normally when we see a bullet being fired it happens in the blink of an eye, but when it’s slowed down you [...]
In Case You Missed It: Week 42 Round Up
In case you missed anything this past week, we have everything from cooling with mineral oil to video editing on your iPhone. Enjoy.
Gadgets
Asus Keyboard PC
Gaming
Cool Your Xbox With Mineral OilPS3 Smashing Into A TV At 80 KMHOpen Source DS Bluetooth AdapterBlack Wii For The BritsRock Band For iPhone Now Available
Hacking and Security
Remote Control That’s Impossible [...]
Project Eagle Claw: Taking Out The Scammers
Looks like the Nigerian government is actually doing something to stop email scammers that are giving their country a bad name. Project Eagle Claw is an effort to shut down Nigerian scammers. The project has netted 18 people and shut down 800 sites.
Previously the government would use “Cyber Raids” and petitions (WTF, how do you [...]
Skype And Chrome Go Portable
The guys over at PortableApps.com have been turning out great portable apps for years now. Apps that you can easily put on a USB flash drive and run from any machine. All of the software that they offer is open source, until now that is.
PortableApps has decided to add a handful of closed source apps [...]
Microsoft’s App Lab
I’ll give Microsoft credit, when they want to be funny they are funny. The Windows Mobile Dev team released this video giving everyone a sneak peak from their super secret application development lab of the upcoming apps that will be released on the new Windows Marketplace.
I love the under-tone of poking fun at Apple’s ridiculous [...]
Windows 7: Will You Upgrade?
With Windows 7 officially released, will you be getting up early to purchase your copy?
It has been a long time coming (I really don’t count Vista as a usable operating system), a stable a somewhat decent OS from Microsoft. Let’s be honest, the form and function of the new OS from the boys at Redmond [...]
