Archive for November, 2009

Manoi Go robot break-dances its way to the top of Christmas lists worldwide

November 30, 2009

If you could actually buy one, I’d already own twelve.

As we’ve all come to accept, robots will eventually become far too clever for their own good, revolt, and throw humanity into eternal servitude. Until that point though, lets take a minute to salute our Japanese cousins who have humiliated our future [...]

Make Your Own TV Guide With FreeGuide

November 29, 2009

There are plenty online TV listing services that detail what programs are showing in your area. Then again, you probably don’t care what’s on every single channel. Create a person
alized TV guide with FreeGuide and skip The Flossing Network.

FreeGuide grabs data on only the channels you’re interested in and displays them in a list or [...]

15 Best Places for Free Stock Photos Online

November 28, 2009

I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance [...]

10 Alternatives To Mininova

November 27, 2009

After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.

With an impressive 175,820,430 visits [...]

IKEA’s Facebook campaign: FAIL

November 26, 2009

The Swedish town of Malmo is a wonderful place.
Some feel it is wonderful because it is the spiritual home of a band that was once cool, the Cardigans.
But now all committed social networkers will think Malmo is wonderful because of its IKEA. You see, the Swedish purveyor of fast-food furniture decided to open a new [...]

Office 2010 Beta……Here we go again

November 25, 2009

Get it now
Download Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta
Download Office Home and Business 2010 Beta
This post is from my personal hero Paul Thurrott’s site SuperSite for Windows, if you ever need the scoop on any MicroSoft product just have a look at his site. Paul Thurrott is also the author of Windows 7 secrets a must [...]

How To Run Google Chrome OS From A USB Drive

November 23, 2009

Just a few days ago, Google announced the release of the Chrome OS source code. Within less than 24 hours, the web was littered with disk images for running the new OS on virtual machines such as VMWare and VirtualBox. I even managed to put together my own Google Chrome OS download in [...]

How to Connect Two Computers Without a Router

November 22, 2009

Let’s assume you have two computers at home and you want to connect them together so that you can easily share an internet connection between the two machines or transfer photos, music and other files from one computer to another. How do you do this?
Connect Two Computers Directly
There are two options – you can either [...]

100 Free Audio Books You Should Have Read By Now

November 19, 2009

With so much school work to do, it may seem impossible to get any extra reading in, but luckily, there are free audio books available to help you out. Whether you need to catch up on reading that you skipped over in high school or would enjoy expanding your horizons with books you haven’t read [...]

Windows 7 tool violates GPL; Microsoft will open source it

November 17, 2009

 
After pulling the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from its servers over reports that it might violate the GNU General Public License (GPL), Microsoft has decided to go open source with the tool.
Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the online Microsoft Store indeed violates the GNU General Public License (GPL). [...]