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By Frank on Dec 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Another year is almost behind us and thanks to our dedicated and loyal readers our 3rd successful year bringing you the latest in gadgets, gaming, technology and the bizarre. We have brought the monkeys in (by monkeys we mean a crafty worded perl script) and have compiled the the most viewed posts here on tech.nocr.at. [...]
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By Frank on Aug 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
PCSP – the PSP emulator for Windows just got an update to 0.3.0. Although most games don’t work properly yet it’s a step in the right direction. The latest upgrade brings an overhaul to the graphic engine which now renders textures better and speeds gameplay. Some of the major changes include: Plenty fixes on GE [...]
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By Frank on Oct 31, 2009 · 1 Comment
You knew it was bound to happen. With the iPhone already having apps to control everything from your iTunes to a remote computer you knew that someone would come up with an app to control a car. The Spirit of Berlin team have developed an iPhone app that remotely controls a minivan. They developed the [...]
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By Frank on Oct 27, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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By Frank on Oct 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I was blown away when I first saw this video. This robot hands moves so quickly that they had to slow the play speed of the video just so you can make out what the robot is actually doing. This is just more proof that someone somewhere is building SkyNet and these robots will be [...]
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By Frank on Oct 11, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’m not a big gun fan but watching a bullet is some metal at 1,000,000 frames per second slowed down to 30 frames per second is quite amazing. To put in perspective how fast the camera was that created this video lets do some math. Video is typically shot at 30 frames per second. This [...]
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By Frank on Oct 6, 2009 · 44 Comments
Following Linux Distros That Don’t Suck from earlier this year here is a comprehensive list of, you guessed it, more Linux Distros that don’t suck. Some of these are more obscure lesser known distros that are quite powerful and very useful. Some of these come from personal use some of them came from the great [...]
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By Frank on Oct 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
There have been many “Clocks” built out of old hard drives, but this one has to take the cake. Ian Smith this super cool clock from an old hard drive he had laying around. By using some tri-colour LEDs, a PIC microcontroller, and some simple vision techniques he has built something that not only functions [...]
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By Frank on Oct 19, 2008 · 2 Comments
Sometimes you just don’t have your phone handy when you are waiting for an important call, even if the call is from Bill Gates or Larry Page as depicted in the video above. This guy has the perfect solution. He was looking for a way to get his iPhone to come to him when it [...]
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By Frank on Sep 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The crafty open source developers at Codeweavers have beaten Google to the punch and release Mac OS X and Linux native versions of Google’s Chrome browser. Before you start to jump for joy, this is more a proof of concept that and actual production run browser. The developers don’t recommend that you run their port [...]
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By Frank on Sep 9, 2008 · 1 Comment
Now that the “Let’s Rock” even has come and gone, let’s take a look at what Apple has brought into our laps. HD TV Shows Right off the bat Steve announced the arrival of HD TV shows to the iTunes store. The shows will cost you $2.99 a pop (instead of the $1.99 you pay [...]
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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 Jun 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment
After all of the rumours (what else is new) the 3G iPhone is finally here. Hits the shelves on July 11th (in Canada too!) $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB Black, with a white 16GB model GPS In a clear action of trying to play catch up to Google, Apple also announced a suite of [...]
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By Frank on Feb 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The latest release for Mac’s latest OS, Leopard, is now available. The Update fixes a whole slew of bugs and quirks which have been plaguing the OS. After installing 10.5.2 it’s also recommended that users install the 48.9 megabyte Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 to fix some other issues that will speed up you system. While [...]
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By Frank on Feb 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Here is just what everyone needs, a useless USB toy to take up hours and hours of your time. I’ll give it credit, it’s a lot of fun. The USB boxer adds some fun to it’s on screen game. Punches are controlled on the keyboard while the boxer throws his best at the speed ball. [...]
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Top 10 Of 2010
By Frank on Dec 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Another year is almost behind us and thanks to our dedicated and loyal readers our 3rd successful year bringing you the latest in gadgets, gaming, technology and the bizarre. We have brought the monkeys in (by monkeys we mean a crafty worded perl script) and have compiled the the most viewed posts here on tech.nocr.at. [...]
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