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As you are reading this, your blog or website might be down. I’ve never met a Webmaster who hasn’t had their site go down for some reason or another. Staff or friends usually catch it right away but it would be nice to have someone keeping a close eye on your server’s uptime all the …
This swimming pool looks a lot like a giant Sony PSP. The PSP may be a little on the larger size, but it's not visible by satellite... is it?
Ever notice how different computers in movies are from real life? Movie computers are always more powerful, faster and can do anything in a matter of seconds.
To commemorate the anniversary of the first lunar landing, Google has taken Google Maps and Google Earth offshore a few million miles. Google Moon lets you browse and zoom in on the 6 Apollo landing sites.
Hackers have a new way to hack wirelessly your mobile phone via your Bluetooth connection. The technique is called "Bluetooth sniping" and only requires a custom Bluetooth antenna to gain access to your data.
Apple just released a new version of iTunes yesterday and savvy coders have already discovered some clues about Apple's rumored phone product.
If you are using Safari on Tiger, thanks to the magic of widget autoinstall, combined with the meta tag, widgets can be installed automatically in your dashboard. WARNING: The link below will install a widget onto your computer exposing the vulnerability of Tiger!! DO SO ONLY IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DELETE WIDGETS THROUGH LIBRARY …
“Sirius Satellite Radio is latching onto the podcasting phenomenon, launching a show later this month that will feature a daily selection of the increasingly popular do-it-yourself audio programs.” [Via wired.com] Siriusly!! The news of the podcasting move sent Sirius stocks up 5% and more over, gives credibility to a media that is up and coming, …
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has posted the band’s new single, “The Hand That Feeds,” as a free download for Apple’s GarageBand application. The song, which weighs in at a hefty 70MB, features multiple tracks that you can easily tweak. “For quite some time I’ve been interested in the idea of allowing you the …
iPod-TV is a free application that transfers television schedules to your iPod. It's like having a TV Guide on your iPod.
Here's a BitTorrent tutorial that will help you install a BitTorrent client and find cool torrents from BitTorrent sites.
To keep your iPod and its contents safe and sound, it is important to keep the firmware and software up-to-date, use a surge protector when charging, back up your files and music, defrag your iPod hard drive, buy a protective case, avoid extreme conditions, maintain battery life, clean the iPod, install anti-virus software, and reformat the iPod.
What's your computer and beer of choice? What if you were to combine them and pretend that your beer was a computer operating system. Here's your Beer OS.
The BSOD error happened during Bill Gates' high-profile 2005 keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show.
“Rumors are circulating that during Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld on January 11, Apple will announce that it has signed a deal with one of the satellite radio companies, Sirius, to market iPods that can receive and record that company’s satellite broadcasts.” [Via orbitcast.com] iPod with Satellite Radio! Although a combination of technologies would be …
The new findings boasted that brand maturity is something of non-relevance. Simply because over 79% age 12 and older knew of Napster or have even used the legal downloading music service. More than half knew of or used Apple’s iTunes Music Store, another brand strong identifier in the still youthful digital music market. This goes …
Oh no! Looks like the sh*t has hit Kazaa. According to Tony Bannon, an attorney for the music industry at the Kazaa trial currently taking place in Australia, “Kazaa is an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of a magnitude never before seen.” Bannon made this statement during Monday’s start of the Australian trial …
