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How To Put Google Ion into Recovery Mode
Introduction This document will cover both how to get your Google Ion into Recovery Mode as well as a few other clarifications to HTC’s Google Ion device instructions for installing Android 1.6 that caused me pain during this process. If you are like me and have an Android device, more specifically the Google Ion Android developer device from [...]
Continue reading...How to Remove reycross.com WordPress Malware
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
It seems that a new WordPress malware hijack is making the rounds and we got hit. Google just issued me a “this site contains malware” warning for my sites, after some quick investigation it looks like the hijack has attached a malicious <iframe> block to the end of every HTML and PHP page in the [...]
Continue reading...I’m a Closet Artist… Apparently
Thursday, August 27, 2009
I’ve always identified myself as a “scientific person”. I have a Computer Science degree (virtual high-five to Laurence Hartje), I’ve been obsessed with computers and technical gadgetry since I was 10 (virtual high-five to Grant Gochnauer) and I glommed onto software development at the age of 12 and have loved it ever since. I pretty [...]
Continue reading...Google Traffic on Surface Streets Not Perfect
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Late for work? Just zoom-in! As Chris Hunkele points out, Google has launched traffic information for surface streets (no longer just interstates), but it’s not perfect just yet. Chris tells us: … it’s a little buggy, look at the east west curvy street (greenway), when zoomed in the traffic is fine, when zoomed out it’s red, you [...]
Continue reading...PS3 May Win… Years From Now with 3D and Motion Control
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were first announced, we aren’t ashamed to say that we were avid fans of the PS3 platform… much more so than the self-aborting Xbox 360. It was a much higher build quality, the technical achievement of the Cell Processor was ridiculously complex and therefore impressive, it played Blu-ray [...]
Continue reading...CryEngine 3 PS3 Tech Demo
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
This is more of an aside, but Crytek’s Cevat Yerli shows off a demonstration of the upcoming (September ‘09 release) CryEngine 3 and I’m floored. The enhancements that Crytek have gotten into CryEngine 3 are nothing short of amazing, specifically on the PS3. Cevat explains that over the years they have had two R&D engine teams [...]
Continue reading...Custom Diesel-Electric Honda Insight – 100mpg
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Red Light Racing (site currently down) has a story about two mechanics in Maryland that did a custom modification to a standard Honda Insight hybrid gasoline-electric car by replacing the gasoline motor with a diesel motor. Out of the box the default Honda Insight is rated at 40mpg city, 43mpg highway. During an 1,800-mile road trip [...]
Continue reading...Apple iPhone Texas Hold’Em
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Poker apps quickly became one of the most popular genres when Apple release the iPhone and App Store, and for good reason. Not only do millions of people around the world love to play poker, but it’s a great fit for the iPhone in general, as it lets people enjoy the game of poker no [...]
Continue reading...Take Google Search 2.0 for a Spin
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
In an attempt to compete with the oncoming shit-house that is Microsoft’s Bing, Facebook’s real-time Search and everyone else generally wanting a piece of the Google pie, Google has pulled version 2 of Google Search out of the garage for some beta test runs while they tighten the screws over the coming months. You can give [...]
Continue reading...G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Screenshots
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
In preparation for the movie release of G.I. Joe, here’s some screenshots fresh off the EA-presses for the movie tie-in-game. I’m not clawing at my wallet at the moment: If you missed it, here’s the E3 announcement trailer… did EA spend an entire 5 months on this game? I think if they had just re-skinned Fight [...]
Continue reading...Xbox 360 Broken, but Original Nintendo Still Working
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Marc Chung just sent this one in, got a kick out of it:
Continue reading...HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that form [...]
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