Winner: iPod Nano Twiiter Contest

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 [...]

Motorola Tells Modders To Go Elsewhere

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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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 [...]

Second Gen Flip MinoHD

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 [...]

GIFAR Image Vulnerability

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 [...]

8hands: Destop Client For Social Networks

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 [...]

13 way to get your Facebook account suspended

Having your profile suspended on Facebook seems like it’s more common then it should be. Apparently if you “poke” too many people your a very bad person (not to mention slightly perverted). Check out this great article on 13 ways you can avoid having your Facebook profile suspended (or even deleted). Link: 13 Reasons your [...]

Best of the week – Aug 6 – 12

iPhone unlocked, almost (frank) Flashlight that will make you puke (frank) Daily Free File – Coconut Battery (mike) NES controller for your iPod (frank) NES on your iPhone (frank) Multi-Touch Macbook (frank) Blackjack, Save $840 a year (mubix) Facebook source code leaked (frank) Robotic Bartender (frank) Laptop battery hack (frank)

Lab with Leo: 100th Episode Party

The wacky kids in Vancouver that produce the Lab with Leo TV show are having a meet-up to celebrate their 100th Episode. If you’re local to the area you should make the trek out and meet the cast and crew of the Lab. If you are wondering, yes Leo Laporte will be there, as well [...]

Facebook source code leaked

Looks like someone has leaked out the source code for the Facebook main index page on a blog called Facebook Secrets. There are really only two possible ways that this got out into the wild. The first is that it was leaked out by a developer, or the more likely option that there just might [...]