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How to create an ISO image in Linux 2008-03-09 10:15:19 Do you ever get tired of swapping CDs or DVDs around? How about packing all those movies and music discs for that long flight? If so, why don’t you put that big honking hard drive of yours to work and simply create
copies of your media. This also saves the battery on your laptop. Spinning [...] Read more:Linux
Add a watermark in Word 2008-03-08 19:58:35 Ever spent hours working on a project, writing training documents or reports only to have your boss or a colleague claim the work was theirs. “Idiots!” We have all had this happen from time to time in our lives. Here is a little secret that will help keep your work yours and others [...]
Since when is viewing a URL hacking? 2008-03-08 02:20:41 Since today I guess. If you weren’t already aware of the uproar yet, apparently Howard Forums has been threatened with a take down notice for a post containing a publicly accessible URL. What’s in the URL that is so bad? It appears to be list of unencrypted streams used by Mobi TV on Sprint phones. [...]
LCD T V Top 5 2008-03-06 21:45:30 March 2008
About once every three days someone shows up at my desk asking which lcd t v they should buy and I figured that it was about time to compile a list of sets I would consider. One thing you need to consider besides the model is the size of the set. This is to [...]
iPhone SDK released. Next… 2008-03-06 15:11:55 Just in case you live under a rock like I do, Apple released
the iPhone
SDK today. Apparently its free but, it costs 99 dollars to publish an application. Considered yourself informed. Back to trimming my nails.
Quick highlights.
SDK released for free.
iPhone/Touch update in June.
App store.
No, you can’t buy the SIM unlock app in the store.
Finally, [...]
Asus Eee PC with Windows XP? 2008-03-06 12:29:20 Asus announced it will begin shipping it’s Eee PC laptop with Windows
XP pre-installed in place of Linux. Talk about the good chasing the bad. Don’t worry though. The Linux version isn’t going anywhere.
When Asus came out with the Eee in Japan it offered it with XP as its primary OS. The model number was [...] Read more:Asus
Ipod invention leads to more car accidents and padded everything in the blink of an eye. 2008-03-06 10:22:52 Japan’s new eyelid control for the Ipod is a new great way to make accident prone people live up to their name. (and they never needed help to begin with) Infrared sensors that you attach to your glasses or headphones detect blinking commands that change the song. Taniguchi told reuters that the [...]
Anonymous proxy? Hide yourself online. 2008-03-05 20:11:27 Ever want to go somewhere on the net where you shouldn’t be without the “man” knowing? Come on. Get your mind out of the gutter. Think of something like playing fantasy football at work. We all do it. We just don’t want the boss to know how much we do it. If this is the [...] Read more:online
MLB 2K8, first impressions… It might be, It could be, It is!!! 2008-03-05 08:32:52 Two thumbs up for a great MLB experience. 2K Sports has really put some great ideas and thought into how baseball should be played. If you don’t already know, 2K Sports has the exclusive third-party rights to produce Major League Baseball games and I am always skeptical of how good the game will [...]
Logitech diNovo Mini finally released. 2008-03-12 12:15:45 Although it is still not listed for sale on Logitech
’s site, Amazon is now shipping the Logitech diNovo Mini bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo. I’ve been waiting for this little gem since it’s announcement at CES earlier this year.
If you missed this piece of kit read on for a brief description. Read more:released
Windows XP automatic logon, another way around carpal tunnel. 2008-03-12 10:02:42 Windows XP automatic
logon is mainly for people who know what a network infrastructure is, however you rocket scientists out there can use this one at home also.
Actually, home owners of Windows XP will want to use an easier method. This is specifically for a PC that is not joined to a Domain. [...] Read more:Windows
, tunnel
68% of American suffer from Disconnect Anxiety 2008-03-12 08:59:08 Have you ever forgotten your cell phone at home? Do you own an Internet Tablet and surf the web while sitting in Sunday service. You may suffer
from Disconnect Anxiety. A study released by Solutions Research Group has concluded that 68% of American
s suffer from some level of disconnect anxiety. I [...]
Nokia N810 price drop. Oh happy days.. 2008-03-12 06:27:49 I’m having a good morning. Why you might ask? Well Nokia
has announced a price
drop on one of my favorite gadgets of all time. The Nokia 810 internet tablet. Nokia has dropped $90 off the MSRP to bring it to $389.99. Of course, you can probably find this, all in one, Linux based dream [...]
WinVNC system tray icon won’t go away no matter how many times I curse at it. 2008-03-11 15:04:08 I needed to install WinVNC on my enemy friend’s computer so I could keep tabs on his daily atrocities, (ooh, that’s my big word for the day) but of course I didn’t want him to know about it. WinVNC now compiles their program with the icon in the system tray and no way to remove [...] Read more:matter
Symantec Ghost who? A list of open source alternatives. 2008-03-11 10:49:37 Have you ever just finished something important and all of a sudden the lights dim, your PC begins to sound like the clothes washer, and then bam, your work is gone? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, right? Maybe I should have taken my watch off before sticking my hand in that running PC [...] Read more:Symantec
, Ghost
, open source
Google Earth, a better way to mapquest. 2008-03-11 10:13:15 Getting directions online is part of our everyday rituals now, so why not do it in style? GoogleEarth
lets you play god satellite and lets you zoom from seeing the whole earth to the roof of your house/apartment/underpass. You can get directions and not only will Google Earth
map it out for [...] Read more:better
A little more Asus Eee PC news 2008-03-10 20:17:32 After last weeks announcement about a Windows XP option for the Asus
Eee PC a few more details have come out. In an interview with Laptop Magazine, Jerry Shen, CEO of Asus, said that the new EeePC will be available in April and uses Intel’s 45nm ‘Diamondville’ processor, now named Atom. There will be a [...] Read more:little
Nintendo D S touchscreen untouchable? 2008-03-10 10:37:17 I was recently playing Elite Beat Agents on my Nintendo
D S and I couldn’t seem to hit the circles for the notes and was losing quite badly. After getting a little to frustrated and putting my stylus through my glass table (oops) I realized that the screen seemed to be off from where [...]
How to clean your Nintendo D S and remove plaque while your at it. 2008-03-10 10:36:51 And I thought toothbrushes were for cleaning teeth. 8 out of 10 Dentists agree that sending your D S to the Dentist will confirm that you are a few fries short of a box of crayons. (Mmmmm, a sky of fries.) Those other 2 dentists are using a little to much nitrous [...] Read more:Nintendo
, plaque
Skype 2.0 and Linux share a nanobyte frapachino together 2008-03-14 17:07:57 With Skype
2.0, video conferencing for Linux
is a go. The Windows and OS X versions with video are already out. Now you can see your mistress as she talks about her lingerie and how they barely cover her unmentionables. mmm unmentionables. Skype has also fixed some bugs and made the [...] Read more:together
N810 Price drop. My first retraction. 2008-03-14 11:21:41 It was reported across the net and repeated here that Nokia dropped the price on the N810 Internet Tablet. Apparently there was a mistake because the price is back up to $439. Darn it! If you jumped on this mistake and actually got one, I hate you. You can enjoy a 15% discount by [...]
GNOME 2.22 released 2008-03-13 15:27:41 From arstechnica… “The GNOME development community has announced the official release of version 2.22 after six months of development. GNOME is an open-source desktop environment that supplies a complete user interface and an assortment of programs for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. GNOME 2.22 will be featured in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04, [...] Read more:released
Apple Iphone 1.2.0 firmware PWNed, hacked, and beatin with an old lady’s walker 2008-03-13 14:36:42 Gotta give props to Gizmodo for covering this story so well. (it’s almost like they want to steal our traffic along with everyone else’s… nah!!) The Iphone firmware that comes with the Iphone SDK, has been hacked. Dubbed the Pwnage Project, the Dev Team made it possible for the Iphone to not only run any [...] Read more:Apple
Myth 0.21 is out. How did I miss this one? 2008-03-13 12:13:29 In my defense I haven’t been reading the MythTV mailing list in a few days. I know, I’m a slacker. For those of you that don’t know, MythTV is a an open source software Personal Video Recorder project. It lets you build a box similar to a TiVo or ReplayTV, but much more powerful - [...]
Are You a Tech Junkie? 2008-03-13 11:30:24 How many of us hear the phrase, “you are such a tech junkie?” Recently it is a phrase that I have heard quite a bit. Honestly, I take great pride in finally hitting that point in other’s eyes. It made me think “what is a tech junkie?” And are those of us who have [...] Read more:Junkie
How to kill a windows task at the command line. 2008-03-13 10:52:40 Someone here at the office just asked me how to kill a process in XP at the command
line. Presumably they wanted to kill a process in a batch file. Seeing I had to look it up myself, I thought it might be useful to you too.
If you know the name of a [...]
How to listen to Sirius online radio with Linux or OSX. 2008-03-17 11:00:50 I never thought I would actually pay for radio until a co-worker of mine signed up for Sirius
satellite radio when Howard Stern made the switch to Sirius. Now, Howard Stern I could care less about but, this gave me my first extended exposer to the music channels. Every afternoon, for weeks, I would [...] Read more:online
, Linux
Lost your reason to live? How to retrieve a password in windows. 2008-03-17 10:51:24 Recently, a friend of mine contacted me about a friend of hers, whose sister died tragically and the friend needed to access her sisters computer. Fortunately and Unfortunately, her sister kept her windows password in her head. Now her head is gone and we needed to get the password. (I’m think I’m [...]
Nintendo Wii back in stores 2008-03-17 07:31:20 So I was looking through the Sunday ads in the local paper and guess what? The Wii
was for sale at two local box stores
, Target and Walmart. Now I know what your gonna say, Yea there was an ad just like there has been for weeks but when you get to the store they actually [...] Read more:Nintendo
, Nintendo Wii
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