How To: Delete Duplicate iCal Events
Don’t you hate it when a crazy sync happen between your iPhone, iPod, Entourage, Blackberry, and iDisk. Next thing you know you have every appointment in your iCal 6 times. John Maisey offers a neat utility that will go through your iCal and delete duplicate events in your iCal. Available in Tiger and Leopard flavour, [...]
GSM Phone Line Interceptor
This tri-band phone and room interceptor is capable of monitoring just about any landline call, regardless of whether they are incoming or outgoing and transmitting conversations to your location via GSM. It is smart enough to detect voices in a room automatically, using its extremely sensitive microphone to transmit the ongoing conversation. The internal [...]
Jam Sessions – Mini Amp For Your DS
Think Guitar Hero for the DS. Ubisoft takes a serious leap with Jam Sessions for the Nintendo DS. The game is basically a guitar simulator, and while you can play along with whatever the game is jamming, the serious fun comes from the improvisational aspects of the game: You can pretty much play [...]
Best of the week – Aug 13 -19
Nmap 127.0.0.1 : Flash Style (Rob)
Vista powered Super Nintendo (Frank)
Free File: HTTP File Server (Rob)
Fully mechanical Pong – No TV (Frank)
Free File: Emergent Task Timer (Mike)
Emgeton Mini One – Windows powered iPhone Clone (Frank)
Hack your remote control (Frank)
Free File: PC Decrapifier (Mike)
WhiteDust Gone? (Rob)
Unlocked iPhones available in Hong Kong (Frank)
It’s time to Evolve (Rob)
Apple’s collapsible connection patent
Apple is expected to introduce a widescreen ultra-portable laptop in the coming months. A new design patent has revealed that it may contain a c collapsible connection receptacle on the back to house all of the I/O ports.
Under the design proposal, the ports maintain their original form whether the connection system is in an [...]
Are you secure: Secunia to the rescue
Secunia.com has been a great resource of vulnerability and virus information over the years for Black, Grey, and White hat hackers alike. Recently they released a BETA project that looks promising and could be the first step into a “package manager” for Windows. In there own words:
A new addition to the Secunia Software Inspector series, [...]
AppleTV USB Hack
Two days after Apple TV Hacks published the much sought-after USB hard drive hack for the Apple TV, the site is making a call for help to polish the modification. For now, the hack isn’t for the faint of heart – it requires some mucking around at the command line, not to mention an Intel [...]
Urine Powered Batteries
I’m all for finding better ways to protect our environment. I recycle, I proper dispose of dangerous chemicals, and I make sure that all of my used batteries are properly disposed, but this one has to take the cake. The NoPoPo batteries are actually powered by urine. Apparently a single urine powered AA battery can [...]
Phillips Prestigo Tablet Remote: One remote to rule them all
If you ever lose this remote control, something is serious wrong with you. The Phillips Prestigo is about the size of three normal remotes smashed together, almost a throw back to the click wire remotes of the late 70’s and early 80’s.
The massive tablet-sized remote offers a bunch of physical instead of those wimpy soft [...]
Yoggie Pico Firewall
We all know how necessary it is to have some form of virus or spyware protection on our computers, we also know how great a hit they can be to processor performance when we are stuck using a slow laptop. The Yoggie Pico offloads those security requirements to a small USB dongle that serves as [...]
New iPhone Killer? Motorola ROKR E8 and E7 Leaked
I must say, this phone does look quite slick. The picture above is the new Motorola ROKR E8, it’s basically a thin bar shaped handset with a JAVA/Linux based interface. It is rumoured to have 2GB of integrated memory and a microSD memory card slot for expandability. With a 2-megapixel camera, touch sensitive keys, mini [...]
Worlds Smallest 1080p Camcorder – Sanyo DMX-HD1000
It’s amazing how quickly technology moves, I remember not to long ago lunging a massive JVC camcorder that recorded stuff on VHS tapes, now Sanyo has introduced the worlds smallest 1080p camcorder, the DMX-HD1000. Recording video at 1080p at 60 fps it is using the magic of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoding to make it all happen, [...]
Robotic Bartender
Now this is what I call tre cool. The MyFountain is a computerized bartending machine that sits on top of your bar and can automatically dispense booze, mixed drinks, soft drinks, beer, and wine with the press of a virtual button ala iPhone.
The virtual bartender comes preloaded with a library of mixed drinks or you [...]
Mirror Mirror on the wall
Mirror Media has been making Mirrors that double as TVs for a while now – these products are dubbed the MirrorTV. And now they’ve taken their MirrorTV and combined it with a built-in computer to create a MirrorMedia computer- a magical mirror with a PC inside for using Microsoft Office, watching videos, surfing the web [...]
Blackjack! Save $840 a year.
Blackjack! The Samsung Blackjack is an awesome phone but when I tried to connect it to my computer on the road like I did with my old Razr, I hit a brick wall. So, what was wrong? After 45 minutes of hold time, you’d be surprised what I was told. Cingular “The new AT&T”, we’ll [...]
