A Cell Phone For Grama
With the massive amount of multi-function “smart” phones out there people tend to loose the focus of what cell phones actually are; phones. My mother couldn’t care less if her phone plays mp3′s or if it’s got a twitter client. All she wants is a phone and a super easy one to boot. As she [...]
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 [...]
Skype And Chrome Go Portable
The guys over at PortableApps.com have been turning out great portable apps for years now. Apps that you can easily put on a USB flash drive and run from any machine. All of the software that they offer is open source, until now that is. PortableApps has decided to add a handful of closed source [...]
Hack A Master Lock
We all remember those Masterlock pad locks we had in high school. Some of us even remember trying to figure out how to get the combination for them. Some people would try everything from listening carefully to clicks right to pulling hard on it while spinning the tumbler hoping to feel a click. Now mathematically [...]
WoW Now 11 Million Strong (and still growing)…
For all you under-rock-dwellers out there, a brief explanation of the phenomenon that is World Of Warcraft. It’s made by Blizzard. It’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s been parodied on SouthPark. It’s a big deal, if for nothing else than the cash-cow it’s created for Activision Blizzard. Well, World Of Warcraft has now [...]
Is Your Printer Spying On You?
Seems that all of those forensic based TV shows were right all along, police can track the make, model, and serial number of a printer just by looking at a piece of paper that came from that printer. Scary stuff. Good to know that the guys at the EFF are actually trying to do something [...]
Save A Genius Playlist
One of the neat new features in iTunes 8 is the “Genius” playlist builder. Basically, it creates playlists from the songs in your library or from the iTunes store. What’s the big deal with that you ask? Well, it does this based on a track you select from your library. So, in short, you pick [...]
Design An OS for $20-$100
I’m not one for ridiculously funny things, but this ad that I spotted on Get A Coder has got to be one of the most pathetically funny requests I have ever seen. I need someone to program me a new OS (Operasting System) that looks different than Ms Windows XP etc. but has the same [...]
DVD::RIP – Rippin Linux Style
There is a ton of software available for both Windows and OS X that allow you to rip and encode DVD’s, but what about Linux? A few months back I did a segment on the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show on just that, DVD rippers for Linux. (Video after the break) DVD::RIP is a [...]
Rebooting Linux Magically
If you have ever had a filesystem fail on you in Linux then you are quite aware of that “bottom of the pit” feeling you get in your stomach, especially if you are remote to the server and have no physical access to it. What to do if the system can’t load the reboot or [...]
11 WordPress Plugins For Professional Bloggers
In a world filled with enough plugins to make your head spin, it can be quite frustrating looking for that right plugin to do that job your after. Most bloggers have spent countless hours sifting through google or wordpress.org looking for a plugin to do something they are after but just can’t come up with [...]
Run Linux Apps In Windows
If your a Linux geek but are stuck using Windows for your day to day job this might just be the perfect compromise. While you can run Linux within Windows using a number of virtualization products, andLinux takes it one step further and installs Linux on top of Windows, allowing the two to exist with [...]
FeedJournal: RSS Feeds Like A Newspaper
Not one who cares about the convenience of RSS feeds? Do you really not care about the amount of trees that are saved just by using RSS? Then FeedJournal is just right for you. FeedJournal is a new service that allows you to create a newspaper like pdf from your RSS feeds. The layout looks [...]
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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