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By Frank on Jan 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment
In a bit of a shocker, Eric Schmidt announced today that he would be stepping down from his CEO role at Google. Why would someone at the helm of such a super power decide to step down? Simple, Larry and Sergei have grown up and are ready to lead Google. The company is as strong [...]
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By Frank on Jan 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
You can use Twitter for just about anything these days and thanks to an Arduino you can now schedule your coffee from Twitter. This is a simple hack and a great one if you have been wanting to play with an Arduino but felt a bit intimidated by it. The idea behind the project is [...]
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By Frank on Aug 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I’m not about to open the debate about expensive audio cables. There are definitely two camps when it comes to expensive cables; One run by Monster Cable and the other run by everyone else and these $8450 speaker cables prove which side is right! These baby’s are made of “Solid PSS Silver” and feature “Dual [...]
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By Frank on Oct 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
So I went to the Metallica concert the other night here in Toronto (it’s my 15th time seeing them live. Yes, if you are asking, I am a fan!) and decided that maybe I was having an early mid-life crisis and wanted to walk down the path of my early life as a dedicated hardcore [...]
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By Frank on Oct 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has already announced the arrival of Google’s web browser Chrome for the Mac in a couple of months, but if you can’t wait that long you can run a surprisingly stable early version of the fast browser right now. This isn’t even considered a beta yet so don’t start to cry [...]
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By Frank on Oct 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
At first glance you might think that this is a small set of steel drums or maybe just two tin cans stuck together but in reality these metal cylinders will impress you with with the sound they put out. Each cylinder has midrange drivers mounted at each end with a ribbon tweeter mounted between the [...]
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By Frank on May 15, 2009 · 23 Comments
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 [...]
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If you own an Xbox 360, PS3, or decent PC, and can appreciate top notch audio/visual production values in your video games (along with some solid gameplay and storyline), then you owe it to yourself to check out “Dead Space”, Electronic Arts’ new survival horror game. Dead Space is getting scores in the mid to [...]
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By Frank on Aug 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Make Magazine has always been an enjoyable source of fun and entertainment for all of the people who like to tinker with things, and now that they have KipKay working on all of their “Weekend Project” videocasts you know it’s going to be a fun filled weekend. Take the Streamerator, the ultimate TP machine that [...]
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By Frank on Aug 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Sony has finally officially announced it’s latest PSP model, the PSP-3000. After earlier reports leaked onto the internet earlier this week, it was bound to come from the horses mouth sooner or later. The unit will look exactly like the PSP-2000, though it will feature an improved screen that has no glare and will operate [...]
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By Frank on Aug 11, 2008 · 33 Comments
Edit: Fixes suggested in the comments have been applied to this howto We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. [...]
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By Frank on Jan 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
With absolutely now added benefit outside of the aesthetic one, the ceramic white PS3 is on it’s way to North America. According to an FCC filing that has surfaced, the white PS3 with matching controllers and a 40 GB hard drive should hit the market anytime soon. This will put a dent into the PS3 [...]
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By Frank on Jan 20, 2008 · 1 Comment
Many a times I have cursed my cell phone and provider because of the ridiculously bad reception one can get. You know what I am referring to, you’re walking in the middle of the street (okay, maybe on a sidewalk) on a bright and sunny day with no massive steel structures anywhere to be seen [...]
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By Frank on Jan 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just in case you ever need to change a flat tire in the middle of darkness, record it with night vision, and record the audio of the whole experience; then this one’s for you. The Flashlight DVR Compact by Swann gives you all that and a flashlight. You can record about 8 hours of video, [...]
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By Frank on Jan 10, 2008 · 2 Comments
Here’s an awesome hack for all of those tennis lovers. The pedal powered tennis ball launcher is built from a couple bikes and can launch tennis balls with the best of them (video after the break). “Both cleanly powered and built from 2 recycled bicycles, scrap steel and wood, leaking 5 gallon water jug and [...]
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Linux Distros That Don’t Suck
By Frank on May 15, 2009 · 23 Comments
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 [...]
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