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Continue reading...Adam Savage Is a Geeky God
19. August 2008
At the end of July, the H.O.P.E. (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference was held in New York. One of the featured speakers was Adam Savage, co-host of the Mythbusters. Savage talked about his geeky passion for creating and learning, and described (among other things) his personal recreation of a dodo skeleton. He also took questions from the audience.
Continue reading...Frotz for the iPhone and iPod Touch!
18. August 2008
It wasn't too long ago that I noticed a nerdcore rapper tackling the subject of text based adventure games. Now it seems that the popular software (popular amongst us text based adventure game enthusiasts that is) Frotz has been ported to an Apple App!
Continue reading...How to run a dedicated Steam server on your Ubuntu box - Countestrike style
18. August 2008
For a while now Valve through Steam have had a dedicated server for Linux from which you can launch your multiplayer fragfests. I've recently started messing about with it and I've gotten Counter Strike, Counter Strike Source and Half Life multiplayer to launch off of it. I'm still mucking about with server settings and finding statistics for it however I did not find a ton of documentation on this through Google so I decided to put up my notes here.
Continue reading...Book Review: The Way Toys Work
15. August 2008
Did you know that the inventor of the erector set won an Olympic gold medal in the pole vault in 1908? Or that the Slinky was named by thumbing through a dictionary looking for a word that sounded like the motion of a toy? Or that (despite popular belief), Furbies do not listen for new words to add to their vocabularies (and therefore should never have been banned from government property)? Neither did I, until I read The Way Toys Work:The Science Behind the Magic 8 Ball, Etch A Sketch, Boomerang, and More.
Continue reading...Archos 605 WiFi 160GB model again cheaper than normal at Amazon
12. August 2008
Today appears to be the day of deals online. Amazon.com again has the beautiful and much loved Archos 605 WiFi for about $70 off retail - that’s $328.71. We reviewed the 605 WiFi (30GB model) a while back and personally, I still love this PMP. You can also turn it into a nice DVR for recording all of your TV shows buy purchasing the DVR station, which amazon has for just $78 - $20 less than retail as well.
Continue reading...Nvidia unleashes Phsyx, CUDA on an unsuspecting public complete with new rigs and free games
12. August 2008
Nvidia today decided it was high time we all got some updates for our G8x or higher video cards. They've enabled through a new driver PhysX and CUDA support! What does this mean for you? Well first it means you should jump on over to this site and download not only the new driver, but a bunch of cool stuff for you to use with PhysX and CUDA.
Continue reading...Diceshaker - another RPG die rolling app for the iPhone or iPod Touch
11. August 2008
Diceshaker is another handy app to have if you're into rolling multiples of d8's on your iPhone or iPod Touch. It's a bit more flexible than the previous apps I've looked at in that you have more dice / multiples to choose from.
Continue reading...Ambiance for the iPhone/iPod touch
8. August 2008
In my continued quest to find interesting and useful apps from Apple’s App store I came across Ambiance. It’s a fun coincidence that the two apps I downloaded first ended up #1 (Koi Pond) and #2 at the apps store for paid apps. Both are $0.99 apps and both aren’t games. I find this trend very [...]
Continue reading...Football, Xboxes, Best Buy, mind control and pinball, all part of Friday Deals.
8. August 2008
Friday brings us a bevy of deals to choose from. Mind control devices, pinball for the Wii, Xboxes and Football. All things we love, right?
Continue reading...New Egg roll your own PC sale, games for cheap, free music and an inflatable body cavity - Thursday’s deals
7. August 2008
There’s more deals than you can shake a pointed stick at this morning! Lots of stuff to look at but the coolest is probably NewEgg’s build yourself a PC sale. Every component you’d need, you can find for cheaper than normal. Definitely worth checking out if you’re looking to upgrade or roll yourself a new [...]
Continue reading...Lifehacker Debunks Common Windows Tweaks
7. August 2008
Lifehacker points out some common optimization myths and the reasons why they don't work, including clearing Windows prefetch data, registry optimization, and memory cleaners.
Continue reading...Google Announces Indexing Appliance for Enterprises
6. August 2008
Imagine fully indexing every document ever written for your business - up to 10 million - with the help of just one little box. That's exactly what Google aims to do with its latest invention. Read more about it in Google's Official Blog.
Continue reading...Lego Star Wars Sale. Four words I love to see.
6. August 2008
Those fine brick-heads at Lego are letting some of their Star Wars toys go for cheap. Among them are the Imperial Star Destroyer and the Death Star II - both of which normally retail for $270 going for $199.There are other's available as well - see them all here. Get your sorting area cleared out and your kitchen table reserved for the next few weeks and start building.
Continue reading...How to delete stuck folders and files from your trash in Ubuntu
5. August 2008
Every now and again, I’ll find myself with some files sitting around in my trash that I can’t delete. This can be particularily problematic when I’ve got several gigs worth of stale ISOs sitting there giving me an error like Error removing file: Permission denied I like computers but I’m not a big fan of when they [...]
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