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iPhone use at work brings happiness
Corporate iPhone use has an unexpected side effect: happier employees. At least, that’s the conclusions drawn by a new report from Forrester Research, as reported by The Apple Blog. Corporate users have been enjoying the iPhone as a communication device, allowing them to stay in touch with their company’s home base both via E-mail and voice. [...]
Continue reading...A Jacket That Lets You ‘Feel’ A Movie
19. March 2009
Imagine watching Halloween (one of my fav horror films), and as Jamie sits in the closet waiting for Myers you feel a large jolt in your chest when Michael ends up busting through the closet. That's the kind of feeling that Philips Electronics wants to bring consumers with their latest invention.
Continue reading...The History Of Star Wars Video Games
5. February 2009
Star Wars has ruled the entertainment galaxy for what seems like forever. Since I've been alive, Star Wars has always been around in some shape or form. Whether it's books, bed sheets, holiday musicals it seems like Star Wars will always be a part of my life. Nothing has really come close to capturing the magic of the original trilogy, but one form of media that has come close is in video games.
Continue reading...The Simpsons Take on Mapple, and Steve Mobs
1. December 2008
In case you missed it, last night’s episode of The Simpons saw Matt Groening’s own brand of satire brought upon the Apple community… um, I mean… Mapple community.
Continue reading...Security For Nuthin’ and Your Anti-Malware for Free
19. November 2008
Microsoft announced that it is going to begin offering a new consumer security product focused on "core anti-malware protection." The product has the code name "Morrow", and it is scheduled for release in the second half of next year.
Continue reading...Is His CPU a Neural Net Processor?
13. November 2008
Well, here we go. How long until Judgment Day? They're making real robots to look like humans in what is obviously going to bring to mind images involving a certain "electronic murderer". Luckily these robots aren't killing people...yet.
Continue reading...Have a Digital Holiday
12. November 2008
A trip to Wal-Mart will really bring the home the fact that the holidays are on the way. It may be a couple weeks until Thanksgiving, but Christmas accessories are aplenty.
Continue reading...Broadband as a Utility?
11. November 2008
More people are using broadband than ever before. More people are downloading movies and music than ever before. More people are watching streaming video than ever before. More providers are offering this stuff than ever before. More companies are going to cloud computing than ever before. More companies are using these cloud computing services than ever before. Wait a second. You already knew all of that? No, it's not exactly breaking news, but the potential for disaster created by all of this is often overlooked.
Continue reading...Early (Before) Holiday Deals on Electronics
23. October 2008
As the economy progresses on its downward spiral (hopefully to soon recover), and with the holidays quickly approaching, there are some great deals already available. Stores don't want to hold onto an excess of products, so the goal this year is get it gone. For some of them you have to be a haggling/negotiating type of person, others you can walk in and find great deals, and some you simply visit your favorite website and find the perfect price for what you want...
Continue reading...Hackers, Hacking, Hacks
7. October 2008
The art of hacking in a technological world is generally a negative thing. To hack into something, usually means a breach in security and some form of data altered. However, hacking, and being particularly skilled at it, can pay off – if the skills are used appropriately.
Continue reading...How to get package info (including version and dependancies) on just about anything in Ubuntu
25. September 2008
Do you know how to find out what version of SSH is running on your Ubuntu box? How about what version of apt? Would you like to see what certain packages depend on to run? Or find the MD5 hash for already installed packages?
Continue reading...Lost an Outlook Express Identity password? Here’s how to recover the email
24. September 2008
Recently I had to help out a friend who, for various reasons had two Outlook Express identities on his XP machine. He had recently changed the password to his ‘important' identity and couldn't for the life of him remember what it was. No password, no access, no important emails. That's when I got called. Here's how to recover the mail from an Identity that you can't log in to.
Continue reading...Ubuntu Rdesktop vulnerability - pretty easy fix
19. September 2008
Just noticed that there was a vulnerability found with rdesktop in Ubuntu (and probably other systems as well). For 99% of the people, running a software update or typing the following will fix it
Continue reading...Enjoy today as the world could end tomorrow - LHC goes online on the 10th!
9. September 2008
I'm with those big fancy science types when they say they're generally fairly certian that no Earth and/or Universe destroying forces will be generated when the LHC goes online in less than 24 hours. I mean, these folks are usually right, right?
Continue reading...How EA and Spore are causing piracy, the DasmX86Dll issues, removing SecuRom and some great DRM free alternatives
9. September 2008
Speaking of SecuRom - I'm not quite sure why software companies continue to insist that DRM of this type (or any type) is worth it. I wonder how much money EA stuck into this? The game was available on the torrents before it's official launch and yet here's EA and far to many other companies shoveling money down the DRM hole. And it's doubly a problem because of their refusal to see this as an issue. If the game sells well, EA says "See! DRM isn't that big a deal, people don't care and we're still selling games." If the game's sales are hurt by DRM they fall back on "Pirates are killing our bottom line!" Seriously? Games will get pirated, sure. But you're much more likely to sell copies if they're not crippled in the first place by software that does nothing to stop the pirates and everything to annoy legitimate users.
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