Encryption on windows
There already was an article about encryption of your files on Arsgeek. That one was geared towards Linux, but Windows chaps can, too, encrypt their files for added security.
Continue reading...Dinosaur sightings
Friday, October 12, 2007
Personal computers, these days, are an uncommon item you can see in many households around the richer parts of the planet. This commonness seems to be principally caused by the fact that the personal computer is now quite easy to understand and use. At first, personal computers were often big and clunky. You can see [...]
Continue reading...What would I do with infinite bandwidth?
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Today I stumbled upon an essay about infinite bandwidth while checking my feeds. Then I wondered what would happen if it was indeed possible to have an infinite amount of data going to and from my computer in a single instant. Here’s what the essay has to say about it: So, in my mind infinite [...]
Continue reading...Color Cop, color picking tool
Monday, October 8, 2007
Ever needed to know what was a certain color wherever on your screen? Many applications already exists to let you know the color of a certain pixel on the screen, but everyone has their favorite one. Mine is Color Cop. The application itself is well-done and has lived through ages. Jay Prall first released it in [...]
Continue reading...The Flo control project
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Some guy created a device to stop his cat from bringing dead animals home. Here’s what the cat does: [The cat] has an habit of catching various animals, dragging them inside through the cat door and letting them loose so they can be chased for hours. Disgusting. To control the opening of the cat door, he uses [...]
Continue reading...1984 Arcade - The most awesomest place ever on earth
Friday, October 5, 2007
While reading my feeds, I saw a new release of hak.5, a monthly vidcast mainly for geeks and the likes. This month’s vidcast is shorter than the usual, but I love to think of it as the best one they made. They were at the 1984 Arcade. This place is a vintage Arcade parlour in Missouri. [...]
Continue reading...Thinkgeek.com’s new 8-bit Tie available!
Thursday, October 4, 2007
This year’s April fools Thinkgeek.com, a web shop thought for the geeks, released some crazy items which were not to be taken seriously. Sadly, one product was actually wanted by many many persons, the 8-bit tie! This description alone sells the product, Here it is from the product page: A few of us monkeys at ThinkGeek [...]
Continue reading...Quick links: Some Rube Goldberg machines
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Here is a quick article from hackedgadgets.com which features a good Rube Goldberg machines video collection. Rube Goldberg machines are ridiculous contraptions made to do a simple task in one of the most convoluted way possible. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about those machines: A Rube Goldberg machine is an exceedingly complex apparatus that [...]
Continue reading...On ads in videogames
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Ads are becoming more pervasives these days. They’re everywhere and continues to infiltrate our lives. I recently bought a game, Trackmania United, and it has in-game ads that are downloaded from their servers. The ads are local, I’m seeing ads from sympatico, a Canadian ISP. I’m wondering currently if it should be considered a [[clean thing]] [...]
Continue reading...Sharing music tastes
Friday, September 28, 2007
In my last article, I said that musikCube had support for Last.fm through a plugin. You might be wondering what is Last.fm, even if you jumped quickly to their frontpage.Last.fm is, to quote them: A service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to [...]
Continue reading...Open source spotlight: musikCube
Monday, September 24, 2007
This is a new segment I would like to introduce to you all. I will try to comment on something open source related as often as possible, without boring your minds. I will mainly present the programs I use personally, but it could also be about the latest development in the open source community. Everyone likes [...]
Continue reading...SamuelDr: A background story.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Being interested in becoming an editor here at arsgeek.com, I thought it would be interesting to at least explain a little who I am, what I like and why I write about things I write about. First of all, I’m a French-speaking Canadian from Québec. This might explain why my blog is in french and why [...]
Continue reading...Desktop tower defense 1.5
Friday, June 22, 2007
A new version of desktop tower defense has been released! Should I categorize this under Zombies category? There’s a great deal of chances some will become after reading this! Anyway, have fun here and good luck!
Continue reading...Amazing “Resonance Effect†Demonstration
Monday, October 23, 2006
Quoted from the TechEBlog: The Resonance Effect is basically “the tendency of an acoustic system to absorb more energy when the frequency of its oscillations matches the system’s natural frequency of vibration (its resonant frequency) than it does at other frequencies.†Videos after the jump. Well, it really looks cool, that’s why I thought it belonged here. See [...]
Continue reading...Backuping: Send a (tar) backup over ssh
Monday, October 23, 2006
Two days ago, arsgeek kindly showed us how to backup with rsync over ssh (here). Sure, it’s a great way to backup your files on a central file server, but what if you want to backup the entire machine? Moreover, what if I want to backup an entire machine over the internet? The best way I found [...]
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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