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How to listen to Sirius online with your Nokia N800 N810 internet tablet. 2008-04-13 12:20:26 I’ve had a subscription to sirius satellite radio for the last four months and I can’t say enough good things about it. The best thing about it, besides the lack of commercial interruptions and music selection, is that with the online
streaming, you don’t really need to purchase a sirius radio as long as you [...] Read more:Sirius
, Nokia
Free utilites to help you remove spyware and malware. 2008-04-15 13:16:25 Almost daily I am asked how to remove spyware or malware from an infected windows system so, I thought I would compile a list of the free utilities I use to perform that task. That way I could point those poor souls here instead of spending thirty minutes explaining all the options.
These programs can help [...]
Mazdaspeed 3, The road is my playground! 2008-04-15 10:32:30 Well not just yet, sadly. After the test drive of a brand new 2008 Mazdaspeed 3 GT, I just couldn’t say no. Well I said no a few times to get the price to where I wanted it, but I am very happy with the end result. 24K + tax (my mom [...] Read more:playground
DID YOU FILE YOUR TAXES!!! 2008-04-15 08:49:28 This has noting to do with anything but is just a friendly reminder to our readers. Today is the day that Uncle Sam rapes us for more money or, in some cases, gives that short term loan back. On the up side, a lot of us will be getting something back in a [...]
Linux manual for morons. 2008-04-14 15:38:51 Verity Stob has written a pretty amusing guide for switching to Linux
over at the Register. Check it out for a quick laugh.
My favorite part:
Editors
By decree of the state of California, there must be at least 17 text editors installed into each copy of Linux. Some are GUI based, but most run in consoles. Some [...] Read more:manual
, morons
New TomTom 930 review. 2008-04-14 12:11:05 I bought a TomTom
720 for every member of my family for the holidays this year and have received nothing but positive review
s. I kept the TomTom 920 for myself. I know, kind of sneaky. Anyway, that is why I am interested in any upcoming TomTom upgrades so, when I came across this, I decided [...]
Naruto for the PS3… Game or Anime? 2008-04-16 13:01:01 Check out this great preview of what Naruto
: Ultimate Ninja Storm will look like on the PS3. Besides Gran Turismo this game makes me want to get the Playstation 3 also! I thought I was watching the anime and not a game. Hopefully the gameplay will coincide with the graphics. [...] Read more:Anime
307 days until end of Analog Broadcast 2008-04-16 09:33:58 D-day is approaching rapidly. No, not that D-day, that already happened, this one is Digital Day. At the time of this article being written, there are 307 days left until analog TV broadcasts cease and the only thing left is digital over-the-air broadcasts. So you have an old 19 inch tube analog television [...] Read more:Analog
, Broadcast
A file manager written in PHP. 2008-04-17 06:33:17 If you want to talk about great PHP scripts then you need to check out phpXplorer.
From the website:
phpXplorer is an open source file management system written
in PHP. It enables you to work on a remote file system through a web browser. By default it has got dialogs for editing HTML, PHP, image, Apache, compressed [...] Read more:manager
Fastest hard drive… Western Digital’s VelociRaptor. 2008-04-21 11:17:45 Well, fastest hard drive
that isn’t SCSI anyway. WesternDigital
has taken their Raptor hard drive which is a 10,000 RPM drive and cleaned out the cob webs and added some synthetic turning fluid. Now called the VelociRaptor, with a maximum capacity of 300 gigabytes, the drive is smaller, weighing in at 2.5 [...] Read more:Western Digital
How to setup Clonezilla on Linux (Ubuntu). Quick start guide. 2008-04-20 15:51:21 Replace Symantec Ghost Enterprise with Clonezilla.
Since posting my article listing the open source alternatives to Symantec Ghost Enterprise, I have received a lot of questions related to installing and configuring Clonezilla, so I thought it would be a good idea to post a “quick start guide” for installing Clonezilla.
The following applies to setting up a [...] Read more:setup
, Linux
, Ubuntu
, Quick
Intel announces price cut of up to 50% on desktop parts. 2008-04-22 13:04:14 Intel has tweaked its processor price
list, cutting up to 50 per cent off what it charges for desktop CPUs.
The big reduction came to the 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q6700, which now costs $266, down from $530. The 2.4GHz Q6600 is also cheaper now: down 16 per cent to $224. For those of you not [...] Read more:Intel
, Intel announces
DIY SSD hard dive. 2008-04-23 08:13:43 There is a new Century Compact Flash to SATA adatper coming out May 1st. We have all seen these before but, what makes this one unqiue, is its support for three SD cards. That’s up to 96GB of RAID 0/5 love for half of what the current crop of 64 GB drives are going for. [...]
Is Windows 2008 Server the savior for the Windows faithful? 2008-04-23 06:53:30 Ever since the release of Windows
2008 Server I have been hearing the buzz about it being a better Windows XP replacement then Windows Vista. During the first month after its release I attributed this buzz to the normal hype surrounding every release of a new version of Windows and, as is my habit, I [...] Read more:savior
XBOX 360 Rockband gets unplugged 2008-04-24 10:54:30 Finally its here, Harmonix has released a wireless guitar for Rockband. I don’t know about you but one of the nice things about the XBOX 360 is the wireless controllers. No cable mess, girlfriends complaining about you leaving your toys all over the family room and changing the devices that are plugged into your xbox [...] Read more:unplugged
Ubuntu Hardy Heron Available Today 2008-04-24 10:00:02 Ubuntu 8.04 HardyHeron
is available today for mass consumption. Fire up your favorite bit torrent client and get to work. What are you waiting for.
Get It Now Read more:Ubuntu
, Today
MythTv Remote on your N800/N810 2008-04-25 10:22:44 Lirc being a pain? Does your favorite universal remote NOT work with your new myth box. Mythetomer is a remote control application for your N800 or N810 to control your MythTv. Mythetomer uses your WLAN or Bluetooth to make a connection to your Myth Frontend for full control. No cables, no hours of configuring key [...] Read more:Remote
Full MythTv Frontend on the N810 2008-04-28 16:17:28 Yes folks we have all dreamed of it and it may soon be reality. There is a semi-functional Mythtv Frontend in alpha built for the Nokia Internet Tablet. With MythTv moving towards QT4 someone has ported the frontend over to OS 2008. It is not completely functional as of now but it looks to be [...]
GTA IV First impressions. 2008-04-29 19:26:09 Well GTA IV is a hit!
Better graphics, a much improved navigation system, and a lot more vulgar language.
The graphics.
You probably already got a good taste of the graphics from all the pre-release screenshots released all over the web but, let me tell you, they live up to the hype. This version of Grand Theft Auto [...] Read more:First
Driving school… is it for you? 2008-05-01 11:00:09 Turned the key to the on position and hit the button to start her up. As she breathed fire into my veins, the engine sounded like it was suffering while we waited in the pit stop. As the pace car led us down the stretch, she purred into motion. Slowly around the [...] Read more:Driving
Hava Platinum HD 2008-05-06 12:05:25 Hava HD is a Ethernet device for streaming your TV signal across your network to your PC. Don’t have a TV in your kitchen, drop your laptop on the counter and fire up your Hava Player. The software gives you full motion video and audio along with a software based remote control to control your [...] Read more:Platinum
Hava Player Nokia N800/810 Beta 2008-05-12 15:30:05 The Beta release of the Hava Nokia
N800/810 software is out and it is GOOD. On May 8th, Monsoon released their TV streaming software for the N800/810 to a group of beta testers for further testing. The results from the group appear to be good. I got my hands on this software as part of [...]
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