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Gmail - Right Side Chat & Labels
Google Labs added a couple of new features to Gmail that will be very handy for widescreen owners: Right side chat Right side labels Click on the little green icon at the top to see a list of available labs you can enable. .
Continue reading...Olympus 1030SW Waterproof Camera Review
Friday, September 19, 2008
Introduction Over the past few years I have burned through a couple of digital cameras, demolishing them to a pile of plastic and circuitry because of my active and outdoor lifestyle. I was ecstatic when I came across this camera, and picked it up on Amazon for a trip to Hawaii. This is a compact frame [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Coming Sooner Than We Thought?
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
InternetNews is reporting that next version of Windows (codenamed Vienna) might be coming as early as June of 2009. This had been in the pipeline before XP was released, but what comes as a surprise is this would be almost a year sooner, cutting into the anticipated life cycle of Vista. The information comes from [...]
Continue reading...iPhone Sync Issues
Monday, September 15, 2008
Our friend Grant has been complaining for a couple of weeks on how long it takes to sync his iPhone, and the newly released update 2.1 offers no help. It seems as though many people are having the same problem. But this takes the cake….. for Brandon Lusk it takes 8 hours! Seriously Apple? And Apple, [...]
Continue reading...Alone in the Dark Review
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Summary: [6 out of 10] Alone in the Dark is a collection of excellent ideas, none of them quite polished to completion and all put together in a relatively ho-hum story resulting in a rough-edged title that can sometimes be a lot of fun to play and sometimes drive you mad. Overview This is a action survival game [...]
Continue reading...Introduction to drop.io
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Drop.io (Drop-E-Oh), is a web based file sharing service. One of the greatest features is the fact that you don’t need to register to use the sites 100mb service. Some other highlights: Option for password protecting it You can choose the drop name You can add to the drop via email, text, mms, fax or voice mail via [...]
Continue reading...Still Alive!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
If your as big of a fan of Portal as we are, you all know what the “Still alive” song is. This week it was announced that the song will be available for Rock Bank. Well at the Game Developers Conference on Friday, Jonathan Coulton performed a live demo.
Continue reading...Review: SpinRite 6.0
Sunday, February 24, 2008
A friend this week had her laptop give her the dreaded blue screen every time she booted. After a trip to the Theif Geek Squad who told her if would be $1500+ to recover the data from the drive, I gave SpinRite a try first. I booted to the disk and ran a [...]
Continue reading...Olympic Blogging… Or Not
Sunday, February 24, 2008
With the August Olympics being held in Bejing this year, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has given the go ahead for the first time ever for the athletes the blog about their experiences. Sounds great right? Well a long as you follow some rules: No photos No audio No video Entries are clearly posted as personal or journal-style Thank for [...]
Continue reading...Xbox HD-DVD On The Cheep
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Ars Technica is reporting that an M$ mole has given them some inside knowledge. The soon to be obsolete HD-DVD add-on of for the Xbox is dropping from $119.99 to $49.99. You may ask why buy now? Well, if you couple the price drop with the fact that you can get 5 free HD-DVD’s [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Mediacenter Plug-in
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Anthony Park has released on open beta plug-in, that allows you to utilize your Netflix “Watch it Now” functionality on your Media Center PC. The plug-in is still in beta and still a little buggy, but to be able to cruise movies, shows and concerts with your remote on watch a movie on demand is [...]
Continue reading...Acrocrap, POSbat?
Thursday, February 21, 2008
So your cruising the internets, up pops that annoying ”Do you want to update acrobat now?” box. After clicking yes 500 times, you finally get your resource hogging, bloated, holier-than-thou PDF reader running again…. for the 5th time this month. On the heels of the latest news of the zoneback acrobat trojan causing havok on [...]
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Friday, September 19, 2008
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