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 robot-overlords once again, [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Manoi Go robot break-dances its way to the top of Christmas lists worldwide
Posted: November 30, 2009 in General0
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the form [...]
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 [...]
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
Posted: November 17, 2009 in In The News, Windows 7After 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 [...]
