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Saturday, August 26, 2006

While Half Life 2, Brothers in Arms, and Metal Gear Solid 4 will no doubt be amazing, it seems the folks at Sony have brewed up something even more worthwhile for their upcoming Playstation 3: curing cancer. Spare time from the Playstation’s mammoth cell processor will be used to help calculate protein folding patters which [...]

A Novel Solution to Two Nagging Problems

Thursday, August 3, 2006

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Problem Number One: Computer companies trying to give away all kinds of free junk that you don’t want. Problem Number Two: Lack of furniture. Novel Solution: The Mousepad Couch. Now if only he could use AOL CDs to reflect some light into that dismal little office…

Move Over Minority Report

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

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Microsoft is the new owner of the world’s most badass looking software. And theirs is even real. It’s called Photosynth: a web-based software package which can stitch your pictures together into 3d environment without any necessary input but the pictures themselves. Sure, there’s already software available that makes those rotatable panorama thingies from a picture [...]

Wares (without the z)

Monday, July 31, 2006

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There’s shareware and freeware, donationware and abandonware, spyware, ad-ware, but now … Pricelessware? Yes, apparently, the folks over at alt.comp.freeware have put together a list of very best of the best freeware applications. Check it out, you might just find something useful.

Windows L337?

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

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It appears the fellas at Microsoft actually did include some slightly-more-than-basic command line functionality in Windows. Especially useful is the list of environmental variables.

Driver

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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Double Driver is a lovely utility called double driver which allows you to backup all the drivers on a computer into a single directory. drop the 20 megs of data to a flash drive or burn them to a cd and voila! peace of mind. at least until you spill coffee on your laptop dock [...]

…what kind of “services?”

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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Dead-Eye has a phenomenal guide to help you tweak your system by disabling services that start up with your copy of BloatwareXP. Also handy as a reference guide when you just want to figure out what THIS svchost.exe is doing.

Overheard

Thursday, July 20, 2006

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The Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, New York. Long renowned for the shining lights of broadway, the best pizza this side of Rome and now remarkably funny overheard conversations. Take a look, you’ll be amazed at what it didn’t take sit-com writers to come up with.

Wal-Mart: Decidedly Not Cool

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

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Apparently Wal-Mart, having conquered the bulk Cheeto and low-end everything market figures the next logical step is to try its hand at social networking on the web by launching its very own whitewashed MySpace ripoff. The website features four videos about kids who I guess we’re supposed to assume are real talking about their lives [...]

Computers: Lazy

Monday, July 17, 2006

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Sometimes I find myself doing the same thing over and over on a computer. Like resizing hundres of scattered images or renaming dozens of MP3s at a time. Then there are more complex tasks. Download new versions of install files, rename them to something legible, compile an updated ISO, burn a new DVD. Again and [...]

Radeon 9500 Just Doesn’t Cut It?

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

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Then mod it into a 9700. Apparently all you’ve got to do is resolder one connection and voila! Instant upgrade. Blasted fat cats. Holding back on the people…

Unattended Windows DVD

Thursday, July 6, 2006

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Check out the Unattended Windows Guide from the jolly folks at MSFN.org. The guide will tell you how to do everything it takes to install a windows and pretty much any application you could want with absolutely no user input required. You put in a DVD and it does all the rest, down to even switching you to a classic start menu if you'd like.

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