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Steve Jobs Taking A Medical LOA

The almighty Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, is taking an unexpected Medial leave of absence from the company he co-founded. In an email sent out to all Apple employees today Jobs said … Team, At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my [...]

DIY: Snail Mail Notifier

How did we ever live without push notifications? Email, SMS, IM; we get notified each time one of them is updated. What about our old analog world? Make Magazine show’s us just how we can get push notifications for an older form of mail, snail mail. This awesome project uses an Arduino to trigger a [...]

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Social Media & tech.nocr.at

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 [...]

Exchange To Google Apps

Microsoft slaves rejoice, you can now migrate your entire company’s database of contact, emails and calendars from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The tool, which is a small download from Google, works with both Exchange 2003 and 2007. You do need to be a Google Apps Premier or Education Edition customer, but other than that [...]

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 [...]

Build A Real Working Tricorder, Sort Of

No self respecting trekkie would ever be caught dead without his or her tricorder. So if your that much a trekkie or have no friends and find that people of the opposite sex are repulsed by your presence, why not kill sometime and build yourself a real working tricorder? The words “Real” and “Working” are [...]

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 [...]

Linux Distros That Don’t Suck

I, much like every other hardcore geek on the face of the earth, have multiple linux based distro iso’s laying around. Some of them are for testing and some of them contain tools that I use on a daily basis. I have had many people email me about the best distro out there. The only [...]

Prevent Druken Emails With Mail Googles

Google Labs has introduced a new feature that might help you prevent that email you want to send when you really shouldn’t be typing. Mail Googles will ask you to preform some basic math questions before you can send an email. By default it is set for late nights and weekends, the time you are [...]

Is The Apple TV Being Replaced?

The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting on an email they received about the possibility of the Apple TV being replaced later this month. The email states that resellers should remove all Apple TV displays and destroy them (I hope it’s just the literature and not the Apple TV’s) by September 30th at 5 PM. The [...]

Portable Apps For Your Mac

For the longest time we have seen portable apps for Windows. You know; the kind of applications you can drag onto a USB stick and have them run directly from the stick and never, and I mean ever, have to install anything on any machine that you may run them on. Now with U3 technology [...]

OS X 10.5.5 Available Now

Apple today released the 10.5.5 update to their Leopard OS. The update contains a long list of fixes for the core OS as well as app fixes like iCal, Mail, MobileMe, and Time Machine. Here’s a list of what’s included: General Includes recent Apple security updates. Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, [...]

Meet The Peek

Meet the Peek, a $100 device that will deliver you your email anywhere you can get cell coverage for $20/month. Think of it as a poorman’s Blackberry. This looks like the perfect device to pick up for some fun hacking projects. OS – Peekux CPU – CPU is an embedded 104Mhz ARM7 that is part [...]

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