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Archive | October, 2007
Instant Jailbreak for iPhone & iPod Touch
Grant Gochnauer sends in some kick-ass news that the Jailbreak hacking team has released pretty much a 1-click installer for Jailbreak. NOTE: Jailbreak installs onto your iPhone and iPod Touch, adding Installer.app and unlocking the devices disk access. This allows you to install any 3rd party app you want. This may or may not be important [...]
Continue reading...How Evolution Really Works
25. October 2007
This is a fairly compelling, scientific look at why evolution is a fact using simple computational examples. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeTssvexa9s The video basically states that in an environment with finite resources, predators will push the organisms to evolve. While the first 8mins or so explain how the process works (using simple “organisms” represented by 8 bits) by placing organisms [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Forcing Desktop Search on Users
25. October 2007
This is hilarious… and goes into the “Microsoft refuses to every do anything competent” file. The Register is reporting that Microsoft is actually forcing desktop search on everyone using the Automatic Update auto-install feature. That means if you had Desktop Search turned off, because it blows and slows down your computer, don’t worry… Microsoft will force [...]
Continue reading...GIMP 2.4 Released
25. October 2007
Chris Hunkele sent this in yesterday, it looks like everyone’s favorite Photoshop clone, GIMP, finally released it’s 2.4 version after years of development from the 2.2 stream. This is a pretty huge release as the team has been working on some major rewritten aspects to GIMP for a long time, and now they have finally made [...]
Continue reading...Gigapan Motorized Panoramic Camera Mount
24. October 2007
John Hering just sent in news about CMU’s Global Connection Project, Gigapan, finally got out of it’s research phase and is entering the beta commercial phase for photographers willing to participate. The Gigapan is described to do what you’d expect it to: The Gigapan imager (pictured) can capture incredibly high-resolution panoramic images with a standard consumer digital [...]
Continue reading...The Onion News Casts
24. October 2007
For the folks that have known about this for a while mea-culpa, but The Onion has insanely high production quality for these fake news casts they put together regularly that are just flat out hilarious. For someone not in the know, it would be possible to think you were watching a real news show like Fox [...]
Continue reading...Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) Linux Support
24. October 2007
How cool is this… Phoronix is reporting that Epic’s Linux/Mac guy, Ryan Gordon, has confirmed that there will infact be a Linux client for Unreal Tournament 3 at launch. It won’t be on the media in the box, but it can be downloaded from their site for free and you just pop the Windows version [...]
Continue reading...India: Monkey Battle Royale
23. October 2007
If you read this blog regularly, you may have caught our story from a few months back about the Kenyan village that was overrun by vervet monkeys who attacked and harassed the inhabitants but couldn’t be attacked themselves because it was against Kenyan law? Well now a loyal reader has sent in a story of even [...]
Continue reading...Gmail Adding IMAP Support
23. October 2007
Holy mother-bitches… Chris Hunkele just sent in the scoop that it looks like Gmail is finally adding IMAP support. Something I’m almost certain they’ve had sitting in the wings for more than a year now, but with the release of gPhone looming, my guess this begins the beta of IMAP support while will eventually be [...]
Continue reading...Insanely Huge Crabs Scare Me
23. October 2007
Brian Fernandes just sent this in, and it sent shivers up my spine… apparently “Coconut Crabs” or “Robber Crabs” are of the crab breed “Fuckus Hugeous”. The coconut crab is able to crack coconuts with it’s claws and eat the inside. Knowing that these things are insanely huge AND have pincers that could crack your skull open, [...]
Continue reading...Updating Drivers Can Cause Vista Deactivation
23. October 2007
Laurence Hartje just sent along an awesome post from James Bannan over at APC Mag. I’ll give you a hint what it’s about: Microsoft is fucking retarded. Give it a read: Just over a month ago I swapped over the graphics card on my Vista Ultimate box. There were some new DirectX 10-based titles out and I [...]
Continue reading...Southern California Fires: Largest Evac Since Katrina
23. October 2007
(Live Map Link) For the folks that this caught completely off-guard (like myself), there are fires raging out of control in California right now so wide-spread and sweeping that 300k (yes 300,000) people were evacuated as early as 6am PST this morning with possibly 100k+ more to follow. The Big Picture blog has a lot of information [...]
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