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By Frank on Sep 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment
E-Book readers have really revolutionized the world. You can now fit a virtual library in your briefcase or purse. Let’s not forget that it has gotten most of us geeks to go outside from time to time to read thanks to their awesome e-ink displays. One of the key differences between an e-book reader and [...]
By Frank on Jan 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Congratulations to @MikeFancy on Twitter, he won the tech.nocr.at Twitter contest and a shiny new iPod nano is on it’s way to him. When we informed him that he was randomly chosen from the list of re-tweeters, he posted this to his twitter account: “I won an iPod Nano, just because I follow @technocrat_blog! A [...]
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By Frank on Jan 19, 2011 · 2 Comments
Android by it’s nature is an open source platform, a platform that is open to anyone and any changes as long as they comply with the Apache 2.0 license. So why have manufacturers like Motorola and HTC spent so much time fighting against people modding or creating their own ROMs? That might be a question [...]
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By Frank on Aug 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Now that I am finally convinced that social media is not a fad I have decided to bring tech.nocr.at into the current century. I have received many an email from readers wondering why we aren’t on Facebook or why we aren’t on Digg? I have been a big believer of twitter over the past year [...]
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By Frank on Feb 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Nintendo fans rejoice, you too will be able to cash in on the DSi LL on March 28th of this year. The fuller DSi comes at you with a larger 4.2-inch screen and a full-size pen stylus as compared to the is original brother. Nintendo has also added support for eBooks. Although you will be [...]
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By Frank on Feb 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Nintendo fans rejoice, you too will be able to cash in on the DSi LL on March 28th of this year. The fuller DSi comes at you with a larger 4.2-inch screen and a full-size pen stylus as compared to the is original brother. Nintendo has also added support for eBooks. Although you will be [...]
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By Frank on Oct 20, 2009 · 2 Comments
Barnes and Noble today officially revealed today their e-book reader, the Nook. So what does it have to offer? It measures 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches and it weighs only 11.2 ounces. It comes with two screens, a 6-inch grayscale e-in display and a 3.5-inch colour touchscreen that sits just under the main screen. [...]
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By Frank on Oct 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Flip is set to release an upgraded version of it’s MinoHD pocket camcorder just in time for the holiday season. The second gen MinoHD features a brushed metal body, double the internal memory (8GB vs 4GB), a 2-inch LCD and an HDMI connection (sorry, no cable included). The corners are now rounded giving it a [...]
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By Frank on Oct 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Pictrues and some suspected specs of the upcoming Barnes & Noble e-book reader have already started to make their way through the interwebs. The upcoming eBook (seems that’s what it will actually be called) will have a 800×600 6-inch monochrome e-ink monitor and a 480×144 colour LCD that will be used for browsing book covers [...]
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By Frank on Sep 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Got an old Macbook laying around? Why not make your very own cocktail arcade cabinet with it. Crafty hacker Frederic Sebton decided to do something with the broken Macbook he had laying around. He crammed the internals into an Ikea Ramvik sideboard and with a little finessing and hacking he came up with this great [...]
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By Frank on Sep 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A couple weeks ago we talked about Asus’s next UMPC, the N10. While we reported that the price tag would probably be somewhere in the $500 to $600 range, well, we were wrong. The beautiful looking N10 is ready for pre-order for $850, not exactly in the budget notebook realm. I’m sure it’s an awesome [...]
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By Frank on Aug 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Researchers at NGS Software have developed a method to embed malicious code into a picture. When the picture is viewed, the malicious code embed in the picture could send the attacker the credentials of the viewer. Social sites like Facebook, Myspace, or Digg are particularly at risk, but the researches say that any site which [...]
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By Frank on Jan 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just like was expected the blog-o-sphere went crazy over the Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs. Almost every blog was live-blogging the event, live-blogging the live blogs, and live blogging the live blogging of the live blogging (you get the idea). This is why I wanted to wait until all of the mass hysteria over the [...]
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By Frank on Jan 11, 2008 · 1 Comment
Social network has really changed the way we all use the Internet. Keep up with your friends, see what everyone’s up to, share a photo with you Aunt half way across the world, even find friends you haven’t been in contact with for years. The only problem is that you spend hours combing through various [...]
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Motorola Tells Modders To Go Elsewhere
By Frank on Jan 19, 2011 · 2 Comments
Android by it’s nature is an open source platform, a platform that is open to anyone and any changes as long as they comply with the Apache 2.0 license. So why have manufacturers like Motorola and HTC spent so much time fighting against people modding or creating their own ROMs? That might be a question [...]
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