While there’s no question that the iPhone experience can be greatly improved by a few choice accessories — a cool speaker dock and a snazzy case, for example — there are companies out there that have taken the concept to the extreme. Here we take a light-hearted look at some totally unnecessary iPhone accessories that [...]
Archive for March, 2011
iPhone Accessories You Won’t Want
Posted: March 29, 2011 in Apple, General, In The News, iPhoneTags: Accessories, Apple, iPhone, iPhone Accessories
What Type Of Gamer Are You?
Posted: March 25, 2011 in All Teched UP!, Downloads, gaming, Geek StuffTags: beta, Downloads, gaming
There are three types of gamers in this world the casual gamer, the serious gamer and the dedicated gamer. The casual gamer – Sees a game trailer on the net or sees a great looking front cover on the shelf of the gaming store and thinks ‘That looks ok, I’ll have a go at that’. [...]
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
Posted: March 23, 2011 in DownloadsTags: Downloads, top 10
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Season of the Witch’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘TRON: Legacy’. ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’ completes the top three. Ranking (last week) Movie Rating / Trailer 1 (5) Season of the Witch 5.5 / trailer 2 (1) TRON: Legacy [...]
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Back in the days of friends and bad hair cuts
Posted: March 19, 2011 in free stuff, Geek Stuff, In The NewsTags: Apple, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Steve Job
Now I saw this classic picture and I thought I needed to share it, maybe not for the reasons you think. Now I agree this picture IS a classic picture of a true union of brilliant brains, however I must point out that these hair cuts must not be allowed to become popular again.
Just as you were getting comfortable with Windows 7, it looks like Windows 8 is coming in the next two years. In a post celebrating the one-year anniversary of Windows 7 — the fastest selling OS in history — Microsoft’s Dutch Web site briefly mentioned the construction and release of its successor: “Microsoft is [...]
Top VoIP Apps
Posted: March 14, 2011 in Audio, free stuff, fun, Geek Stuff, General, streamingTags: Free, Google Voice, Mumble, skype, Ventrilo, VoIP
The applications below may do more than just allow you to voice chat—many also allow you to call telephone numbers or video chat. We are evaluating these apps based on their user friendliness and quality of audio. On to our contenders! Fring The only exclusively mobile app on our list, Fring is a cross-platform app [...]
Microsoft to Launch IE9 on March 14
Posted: March 13, 2011 in IE, In The News, Microsoft, WindowsTags: IE9, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
On the heels of its push to dissuade users from using Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft has announced the launch date of Internet Explorer 9. In a blog post, Ryan Gavin, Microsoft senior director of Internet Explorer business and marketing, said the next version of the company’s Web browser will be officially released Monday, March 14, [...]
Looks Like It’s War Again!
Posted: March 11, 2011 in Anonymous, Geek Stuff, Hacking, In The NewsTags: Anonymous, in the news
Anonymous declares war on Louis Vuitton.
WizMouse is a free and lightweight Windows application that enables a simple but effective trick: the ability to scroll the contents of a window that is under your mouse cursor without shifting the focus to that window. It may not seem like much, at first glance, but the ability to scroll a window without having [...]
System Restore and Grayware – How To
Posted: March 5, 2011 in antivirus, How to...., WindowsTags: greyware, How to...., System restore
A friend of mine the other day installed some nasty piece of grayware that seemed to take over her machine, after she dropped off her laptop and I cleaned it all up for her I thought I’d post this article to help others in removing grayware with System restore. From Microsoft’s site under Using Windows [...]
