Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Hootenanny Hootie

Calibrate your HDTV [NY Times]

Building a 8 gig quad core
server for $900 [
duartes.org]

IBM's water cooled supercomputer
(w/ video) [
The Inquirer]

DVD rental kiosk Redbox is warning
its customers about a credit card
skimming scam in 3 of its kiosks
[
Hacking NetFlix]

Is Microsoft going to open its own
retail shops?? [
Fudzilla]

A new malware report say boot sector
viruses and rootkits are ready to make
a comeback [
ars technica]

14kb Javascript Super Mario [
Hacks Zine]

HP has put our a bulletin about malware
in its HP USB Floppy Drive Key device
[
Computer World]

Windows Vista More Vulnerable To

Malware Than Windows 2000
[Information Week]

Geek Squad finally gets sued
[TG Daily]

FCC will be testing its DTV transition
in Wilmington, North Carolina
[TV Week]

After you done playing GTA 4 you
can more on to a another 4 Doom 4
[Joystiq]

Hard drive recovered with 99%
of the data intact from the Space
Shuttle Columbia [Sciam]

A 25 year old UNIX bug is
finally fixed [OS News]

Top 10 Atari 7800 Games [IGN]

Hackers find a new way to hide
rootkits on your computer [PC World]

Thursday, May 01, 2008

A Day Without A Mexican 2008


Thursday, April 24, 2008

Blaugh! Is Off For Now

On my sidebar I had the comic strip
Blaugh! but I took it down because it
has not has a new comic since the
beginning part of the year so until
then I'm going to take it off until it
restarts again.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Just Nifty Or Maybe Not

Google Docs Clippy Easter Egg
[
Google Blogoscoped]

17 ways to visualize Twitter
[
Flowing Data]

Portable Rotary Phone
(Just add your SIM card)
[
SparkFun Electronics]

Sony plans some new features
for its Blu-ray format and players
[
Newsfactor]

Microsoft's 3 new resigned and

new features laptops mouses
[
Newsfactor]

The creators of Spybot Search &
Destroy have released a new plugin
that search out for rootkits
[
Heise Security]

Useful keyboard shortcuts for the
DOS Command Prompt in Windows
[
Labnol]

A story about a 4 seat robotic

taxi named robuCAB [ZDNet]

How to hook one Xbox 360 to
two TVs [Ask Metafilter]

U.S. Postal Service is starting a
pilot program to recycle small
electronics for free [Quick Online Tips]

BitTorrent programs come to the
iPhone and iTouch [Slyck]

Yahoo Buzz! - The Next Digg???
[ZDNet]

DirecTV DVR users who recorded a
PPV movies can only keep it for only
24 hours [DSL Reports]

Australian man kills himself by
an home-made suicide machine
[The Age]
(Normally I don't post things like
this but this is so bizarre)

10 life lessons from gaming [Forbes]

A video interview with Comast's senior
VP about experimenting putting
cameras inside their cable boxes
[NewTeeVee]

Wells Fargo Bank has begun
offering online safe deposit boxes
[PC World]

Top 10 real life Star Trek
inventions [Daily Cognition]

The seven dirtiest jobs in IT
[IT World]

A Canadian manufacturer makes
electric cars that can't be driven
in Canada [Canada.com]

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Big Beach Boutique

What will happen to the stopwatch
feature on the iPhone when it
hits 1,000 hours [You Tube]

A live-action version of the amine
movie classic Akira is set for
2009 [First Showing]

A story about the first Photoshop
icon [The Cocoia Blog]

Windows Vista Help: Opening the
Windows Vista box [
Microsoft
via Daring Fireball]

Palm will close all but one of
its retail stores [Mercury News]

In The No Know One Told Me This
Or Report This In The News File:
Starting the beginning of this year
you can not have loose lithium
laptop batteries inside checked baggage
when you fly [TSA via Daring Fireball]

Steven Spielberg is planning to launch
a social network about paranormal and
extraterrestrial experiences [TechCrunch]

How to install Ubuntu Linux on
a USB pen drive [Debuntu.org]

How to burn almost any video
file to a playable DVD [LifeHacker]

The Lower Manhattan Development
has pulled the plug on its webcam
of Ground Zero after only less
than a year [USA Today]

Two of the largest book publishers
in the US are dropping its DRM
format from its audio books
[NY Times]

Pionerr will stop making plasma
display panels [NY Times]

People who bought HD-DVD players at
Circuit City Stores can exchange them
for store credit only
[sfgate.com]

Flash memory cards movies
coming soon? [CNet News]

Oprah Winfrey crashes her own
website for the the first time
[Information Week]

Maxell will no longer going to
make optical media starting
the beginning of next month
[CD Freaks]

Pictures of a vintage HP equipment
collection (via MakeZine)
[Kenneth Kuhn.com]

Co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons
role-playing game has died [Wired]

How to load Hi-Res videos
from YouTube [LifeHacker]

A short How To/Guide PS3
tutorial [Tech Recipes]

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Mixing A Ghost

7 Lies You'll Hear From Salesmen
At Electronics Stores [The Consumerist]

A pic of a Ubuntu billboard on California's
101 freeway [Wildbill's Blogdom]

How Google Got Its Colorful Logo [Wired]

Personal bookmark: Pictures
of Apple's Macbook Air [Gizmodo]

Google announced that it will store
personal health records for a Cleveland
not-for-profit medical center [AP/My Way]

What do you do when its your
last day at Yahoo? You Twitter it
of course [Alley Insider]

Vista's Hidden Treasures [Compu-KISS]

An old 2004 Google Blog post about the
man behind the holiday/special day
Google logos [Google Blog]

Meet Netflix's processing robot
(w/ video) [Hacking Netflix]

Is Apple getting into the
gaming market? [EDN]

Convert Your HD DVDs
to Blu-Ray [howto.wired.com]
(Note: Because its a Wiki page the
how-to information could change)

Sony announces it new high speed
GB USB memory sticks [Forever Geek]

DVD Jon launches his first legitimate
open media beta desktop client
[CNet News]

Pictures of Microsoft's Surface
table [Microsoft-Watch]

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Back In A Very Nice Shade Of Periwinkle

Well I'll make this short and sweet. I'm
back on Dot Tech News and going to try
to make time during the week to put some
effort into this web site. So if anything else
goes wrong then I should update more soon.

Thanks For Waiting....

Three tips to protect your
WordPress installation [
Mattcutts.com]

Boing Boing + Bingo = BoingBoingBingo
[
BoingBoingBingo.net]

P2P tracker Pirate Bay has
passed 10 million users [
Slyck.com]

Petitioners try and fail to get
IBM to make OS/2 open source [
OS2World]

InfoWorld has started a
Save Window XP Petition [
InfoWorld]

A short story about a small server-farm
company that's solar powered [
CNNMoney]

Screenshots and details of Blockbuster's
new website redesign [
Hacking Netflix]

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
has announced its first major HTML
update in 10 years [
Regdeveloper.co.uk]

Microsoft has put their binary
Office code online [
Theregister.co.uk]

Bill Gates has quit using
his Facebook account [
blogs.wsj.com]

(Pic) A blue screen of death
failure failure [
Shipment Of Fail]

How to remove stains from a Macbook

(more tips in the comment section)[LifeHacker]

A homebrew port of Quake II
on the Nintendo DS [
Drunken Coders]

7 Viral Videos You Didn't
Know Were Staged [
Cracked]

Pictures of a unboxing of a
Apple //c [
flickr.com/photos/dansays]

A TiVo newbie’s nightmare [
msnbc.msn.com]

A inside look a Lenovo's superslim
ThinkPad X300 [
Business Week]

Wal-Mart is going all
Blu-ray by June [
Check Out]

Redbox will add its DVD rental kiosks
to 2,700 Wal-Mart stores [
Video Business]

Disney going to revive its House of
the Future attraction [
Newsvine/AP]

A short story about a different Xbox
color and logo that was going to launch
the Xbox plus a pic of the ultra rare
clear orange Xbox [
8 Bit Joystick]

Anti-virus software Kaspersky is
offering a free 1 year key of its software

[forums.slickdeals.net]

Ben Hack's Xbox 360 Elite
Laptop Mod [
BenHack.com]

FCC will shut down all analog cellular
phone service on Monday [
PC World]

Run Your own personal Wikipedia
from a USB stick [
Lifehacker]

Here's your first Duke Nukem
Forever link of 2008 [
Next-gen.biz]

Creator of Howard the Duck
Steve Gerber has gone to the
big pond in the sky [
Comicbook Resources]

Where Are They Now?: Dot-Com
Pioneers Edition [
Webware]

A how-to guide and pictures of how to
disassemble your Apple MacBook Air
[
ifixit]

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