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 [...]
iPhone HTC GB Mutant
What do you get when you mash together a fake white iPhone 4, and HTC Aria and an old Game Boy? You get this cool yet useless mashup. Hacker Goteking hollowed out and old Game Boy and dropped in his Aria. Wait, now it looks like he also has a fake white iPhone in there [...]
VuQube Portable Dish
If you are a true satellite TV junkie and absolutely must have it everywhere you go then the VuQube is for you. I must warn you, it isn’t cheap. This isn’t like you average folding dish that move RV and truckers use, this unit provides you with a signal even while your moving. The unit [...]
Samsung Galaxy S Unlock
Users of the Samsung Galaxy S will be glad to hear that unlocking the unit is now easier than ever (alright, there are a lot of steps, but it’s easy to follow) and best of all, the unlock codes are right on the phone. This currently works on the the TMobile Vibrant and AT&T Captivate [...]
Boost USB Port Voltage
Most larger gadgets that recharge via USB require at least 10 watts of power like Apple’s iPad. The iXP1-500 dongle claims it will allow devices to recharge from underpowered USB ports. I’m not quite sure how they accomplish this for $5, but I assume it must have some sort of capacitor inside that stores juice [...]
Verizon and Google: Bed Mates
Earlier today Google and Verizon issued a joint policy statement surrounding net neutrality or what they refer to as a “Policy Proposal for an Open Internet”. I can’t even begin to lay out how wrong this is. <rant on> First, what the hell Google? Were you not one of the champions of an open a [...]
Water Drops At 2000 FPS
High speed video can be so much fun. Watching something that we normally take for granted on high speed film can really be amazing. Remember the bullets that were shot at 1,000,000 fps? Normally when we see a bullet being fired it happens in the blink of an eye, but when it’s slowed down you [...]
Cool Your Xbox With Mineral Oil
You really have to be playing your Xbox non-stop to generate enough heat to justify submerging your Xbox motherboard into a non-conductive fluid such as mineral oil which B-rad used. Besides the two obvious things that should never ever be submerged, the hard drive and dvd drive, every other component that was housed inside the [...]
Pedal Powered USB
Most people who own gadgets that are USB powered have a billion different charging cables. A USB cable to use with your computer, a few wall warts to change your stuff at home or at the office, a car USB charger, hell, some of us even have battery powered altoid tins to charge our iPod’s [...]
Super Tiny Keyboard
This super tiny keyboard would be perfect for iPhone users if the iPhone actually had a USB port. Maybe someone could come up with a Apple 30-pin connector to USB adapter so that some of us could actually be productive on our iPhones. Enough with my rant, on to the product. The “Super Tiny Keyboard” [...]
DVD On A Wii
Wii fanboys rejoice, you can now watch DVD’s on your Wii with some Homebrew software developed by a crafty hacker named Erant. The homebew software allows the Wii to read DVD’s and come bundled with a media player program that let’s you play DVD movies as well as view video files stored on an SD [...]
Howto: Improve Skype Quality
Ever run into bad sound quality while using Skype? Well, you might want to try the following if other reasons like blocked ports or p2p background processes aren’t to blame. Delete the shared.xml file which contains host cache information which is nothing more than a list of Skype super-nodes and host pairs that are needed [...]
Pens That Make Their Way Back
Do you hate it when someone comes by and asks to borrow your pen only to never have it come back? I have a drawer full of cheap bic pens for that exact reason. I can guarantee that when you lend this pen out it will make it’s way back. Instead of shocking someone of [...]
Pick-Up Line Generator
Fear not fellow geeks your pick-up tool is here. The Pick Up Line Generator has 40 of the worlds most effective pick-up lines for you to either get slapped or love. You’ll be surprised how many women laugh at pick-up lines which is a great ice-breaker for a real conversation (I mean the weather, current [...]
Xbox Live Lawsuit Worth Pennies
Remember the class action lawsuit we talked about a few days ago that claimed over $5 million in damages for all for all Xbox Live downtime? Gaming Steve did some math and figured out that for a $50 a year Gold service membership, one day of outage is worth approximately $0.14. Tally that up to [...]
