Computers In Movies: 18 Examples Of What Hollywood Gets Wrong
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.
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Google Celebrates Lunar Landings with New Google Moon App
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.
Bluetooth Sniping – Wireless Hackers Build A Bluetooth Sniper Rifle To Expose Security Flaws
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.
iTunes 4.9 Update Contains Clues About New Apple Phone
Apple just released a new version of iTunes yesterday and savvy coders have already discovered some clues about Apple's rumored phone product.
How to Hack Mac OS X Tiger’s Dashboard And Really Mess Up Your Mac
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 Podcasting
“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, …
Remix NIN Single in GarageBand
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: Cool App That Lets You Browse TV Listings On Your iPod
iPod-TV is a free application that transfers television schedules to your iPod. It's like having a TV Guide on your iPod.
BitTorrent Tutorial: How to Download Files Using A BitTorrent Client
Here's a BitTorrent tutorial that will help you install a BitTorrent client and find cool torrents from BitTorrent sites.
Protecting Your iPod: 10 Tips to Keep Your iPod Music Player Safe and Secure
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 If Your Computer Operating System Was A Beer?
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.
Bill Gates Gets A BSOD Error During His CES Keynote, Again (2005)
The BSOD error happened during Bill Gates' high-profile 2005 keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show.
A Sirius iPod Relationship
“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 …
Napster and iTunes Most Recognized Download Brands of 2004
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 …
Music Industry Lashes Out At Kazaa Trial in Australia (2004)
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 …
Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates: How The iPod Created A Microsoft vs Apple Rematch
Apple's iPod and iTunes have been a huge hit with consumers, and Microsoft is struggling to catch up, as Apple's proprietary strategy has allowed it to dominate the space.
Panic Software Retires Their Audion Application
Do you remember Audion? Way back in 1999 and before the days of iTunes, Audion was (I dare say) the best Macintosh MP3 player/encoder on the market. Napster and Audion were the Mac MP3 power-houses of their day. Ahh, the late-nineties. Back when the record companies were ready to crap their pants because of digital …
