Just the other day I told a friend of mine that the iPod Mini was almost perfect. I told him that I really love the small size, its clear sound, and how much music it could hold. I, however, had two requests to make it even better… #1) I wanted it smaller… #2) I wanted…
Everyone wants city-wide wireless, but it just ain’t happening yet :) Somewhere, somebody has to get paid. Until then, we must depend on innovative inventors such as John Geraci to bring us free wireless. Geraci, inventor of Neighbornode, came up with a genius idea of sharing his Wi-Fi Internet with others while also promoting ‘community’….
Popular Science has an interesting article about the future of cars – specifically touching on two major areas of advancement & a few sprinkles of other technologies. The main focus is on Hydrogen Fuel and Carbon-Fiber Bodies. If you can get past the futuristic meandering at the beginning, the rest has interesting insight as to…
With all the excitement of Apple’s OS X moving to the PC, its no wonder that the super brainiacs of the world would ‘jump’ the process by making OS X run on a standard x86 PC now. Don’t believe it? Check out this article and pay particular attention to the updates at the top. It…
AMD continues to press their campaign against Intel. In addition to the lawsuit filed, AMD has launched a website devoted to telling their side of the story. This website is an innovative approach to ‘getting the word out’ about AMD and their match-up to Intel. They believe their chips are superior (especially when considering price),…
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is back in the spot-light. This time, it’s not the violent nature of the game – now it’s the sexually explicit nature of the game. The New York Times published an article stating: With some code written by Patrick Wildenborg, a 36-year-old Dutch techie, and a few friends, some scenes…
Today is Opera’s 10th birthday, and to celebrate they are offering free registration codes!
A List Apart has a great discussion of PDF accessbility that includes a great summary of what PDF is and isn’t, and when it should and should not be used.
A rather nasty bug in Windows has a rather unfortunate result: What started like a nice and quiet day ended with the potential for lots of nasty surprises. A reader alerted us to a vulnerability note published by Secunia that on first sight did not appear to be overly scary. Once we started to play…
Some interesting theorizing on Google’s step towards embracing XMPP/Jabber — perhaps as a stepping stone towards a Skype purchase?
