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Daily Quote:
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car. |
Wallet made from a computer keyboard
In all likelihood there is a keyboard within a few feet of you. Inside that Read More... |
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The QuickTime Alternative
QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt, .3gp and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. Read More... |
20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank
From Dosh Dosh: Read about ways for webmasters to increase their alexa ranking and why (or why not) this can be useful Read More... |
20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank
From Dosh Dosh: Read about ways for webmasters to increase their alexa ranking and why (or why not) this can be useful Read More... |
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Opening a Document as Read-Only in Windows Explorer
Subscriber John Jordan asked how it was possible to open a Word document from the Windows Explorer in a manner similar to the Open Read-Only option that appears in Word's Open dialog box. Such an option is not available when right-clicking on a document in Windows Explorer. Read More... |
Science-Related Places in Second Life
By: Yan Feng: Interested in list of places to visit for science things in SecondLife. Checkout this list of places to visit your inner geek in sl. Read More... |
Building a techie church
What if you had an unlimited budget and were assigned to upgrade your church with the latest tech advancedments, What would you do. The geeks and god podcast challenged us to think about it, and that's what we did. Read More... |
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Funny Church Stuff
Let your 'inner geek light' shine. I recently started listening to the geeks and god podcast. They put out a request for people to suggest what technology they would recommend for a church. Here are some of my ideas on this topic. Read More... |
Cool harddisk management with Drobo
This is a really cool (if geeky) video of a hotswappable RAID system. Watch as this guy changes disks around while watching movies and copying files. Read More... |
Is the toner in Laser printers a health risk?
From: CNET News. Here's an interesting article that suggests you might want to be careful around your laser printer Read More... |
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The Basics Of DSL Internet Service
By: Mark Woodcock The days of unreliable Internet connections, impatiently waiting for web pages to load, and waiting hours to download something from the Internet are quickly becoming obsolete. Dial-up Internet, which used to be the standard for those seeking Internet access, is rapidly being replaced by faster, more reliable Internet access technologies. One of those technologies, DSL Internet service, is one of the most popular and affordable options for the home Internet customer. There are things to be aware of though, if you are considering using DSL for your Internet access. Read More... |
Widgetizing the web with WidgetBox
Here are some easy to use, cool, and best of all FREE tools you can use on your facebook or blog. Read More... |
Browser Bookmarlets
Bookmarkets (aka favelets) are awesome little tools you can add to your browser. I love using them. They are small pieces of code that you add to your links toolbar. Here are some examples Read More... |
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Video comparing iPhone to Microsoft Surface
Here's an awesomelly funny video parady from CollegeHumor.com selling the new Microsoft Surface product. "It's not an iPhone. It's a Big A** Table. Take that Apple." Read More... |
Is this the future of Technology (Really?)
This video is an except from the movie "Freedom to Facism" by Aaron Russo. You can watch the full movie (about 1.5hrs) from Google Video or buy it on DVD at this website. This video (and others like it). Often get me thinking about our technology, and where it is headed. We currently live in a world where are informaion flows everywhere. Some of this information is actual money ($). Credit and Debit cards are accepted through wireless devices. Money is literally floating above you in radio like waves. Information (personal or not) is being constantly collected and in some cases centrally distributed. What does all this mean to us as a society? Is this a blessing or a curse? It is often promoted that technology will make or lives simplier, easier and give us more free time..but has this really happened? Imagine what life would be like if all the information "floating out there in cyberspace" was made centrally available to anyone and everyone. People are volenteering for this ! Would you? Sound like a pretty picture? Read More... |
Pando Sending Large files by email
In my old life as a System Administrator, one of the problems I frequenly encountered was email messages bouncing around and failing to be delivered. This was usually because of folks trying to email huge attachments around. I recently across this program called Pando which makes sending large files a breeze. Read More... |
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What do you do when your computer breaks?
I'm still getting used to not being the go to person whenever a computer breaks down. I remember the days well, and how reliant we are on these little pieces of silicon. Rumor has it that NASA spent millions of dollars trying to invent a pen that could write upside down to be used in Space. Though in Russia they had a much cheaper and easier solution..they used a pencil I found this funny cartoon and wanted to share it. Read More... |
15 Online Tools That You Will Come To Love As A Tech | EmergingTechs.com
This is a really nice list of several great online tech tools. Especially BugMeNot and 10 Minute mail for quick sign ups to online stuff without having to worry about spam. Read More... |
Help Bella win a $25,000 Scholarship from LeapFrog
Here is a cute video I recieved from a collegue. Leapfrog Enterprises is holding a contest in the US. $25,000 to the video that gets the most votes of their child enjoying Leapfrog toys. Please check out the video, and give it a vote and help Bella win some of her education. (Which can be very $ive in the US) Read More... |
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Universal USB Harddrive Adaptor
I often find myself with old hard drives lying around, or sometimes friends ask me to copy stuff from their old hard drive. The problem is sometimes, it's a laptop hard drive, sometimes is an 'old fashioned' IDE and of course today there are SATA drives. With this little universal USB adapter I an easliy attach to any device I need quickly and easily, get the information I want and then put it back in my computer toolbox Read More... |
Star Wars Asciimation With Sound
From Bullfrog117. Imagine all the work that must have went into making this star wars ascii video. I might not have that much spare time on my hands but the geek in me appreciates whoever did ! Read More... |
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
Here's a great video from CommonCraft to understand the basics of social bookmarking. Although he talks about del.iciou.us. You can also use ArticleSwap.biz to submit your articles and bookmarking links, and automatically have your submissions sent to several other social bookmarking locations Read More... |
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The future of Keyboards
Sci-Fi? Nope it's real. A virtual keyboard you can take wherever you go. Just take it out and turn it on. Like typing in thin air. It must feel odd not getting any feedback from typing the letters, but it would be a cool gadget to have either way. Read More... |
Top 12 Random Website Bordom List
Ever have one of those moments when you sitting in front of your browser, wondering what to do next. Here's a list of 12 random page viewers you can bookmark or add to you home page. Get a different [interesting?] page every time. Read More... |
FlashBack: 10 MB Hard Disk for $3398
Deal of the Day: You can get a 10MB Hard Drive (wow!) for the new low price of $3398! Order yours today before this incredible deal runs out! (My how times have changed :). Read More... |
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The secret to blending your IT infrastructure together
This maybe just for network administrators. I know I can surely relate to being asked to make all kinds of wierd (and often ancient) computer networking protocols,databases and operating systems all talk together smoothly. Well the folks at BlendTech have done it again, watch this awesome demonstration video gaurteened to get all of your IT Infrastructure operating smoothly. Read More... |
How social are you?
"The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few..or the one" - Spock (Star Trek II) Do you consider yourself a social person? Today we have social networking tools, blogging, instant messaging, emails, cell phones. Everyone no matter where in the world is literally a click away. We are social beings, we enjoy the comfort of others. But what does it mean to be 'social'. Is it simply being friendly?. Does he/she with the most friends on facebook win?..I don't think so. Consider the case of my aunt Mary, who is using attempting to raise $5,000 to fight cancer. Here we have, I believe, what it truly means to be social. It is the power of society, to use social networking, and related tools to spread a message, a message to help others, to understand that we live within a complex structure of people. People, who are just as deserving as you or I, but, who have been dealt a different set of cards in life. When we take time to consider the needs of others, yes that is a start to being social..and when we take action to help others, to help society. When we realize that we are all individuals interdependent upon one another..the world we live within, and the creatures we live with...it is only then that we can truly consider our selves "social". So my challenge is this, instead of trying to have more friends then your neighbor on facebook, or more people in your 'group'. Take a lesson from my aunt, find a way to use the technology we have today to help fulfill the needs of the many. Please give, we are all social beings, in a social world, and thus the benefits of giving will return to you tenfold. - The law of Tenfold return Spread the Message -> Join Mary's facebook group Read More... |
Protect Your Wi-Fi Connection
Many people don’t know how easy it is for people to connect to their wifi and steal their internet and bandwidth. Why sharing your home internet with everyone that is near your house if you don’t want them to? Now, don't get me wrong, it is nice to want to be able to share your Wifi, or perhaps you and a few of your neighbours want to get together and share your high speed bill. Wifi can be an excellent way to makes this happen. But even in this case, it might not be advisible to just let anyone come in, snoop your traffic, steal your information and move on. This is the risk you present yourself with if you are not using proper Wifi security. Well it is quite easy to prevent this from happening and this article from TheComputerMaster walks you through the necessary steps. The basic idea is you define a wirless key using a security known as WPA-PSK. Then only give the key to those you trust to access your machine. Choose a long key to prevent brute force attacks. Don't think you are safe using the old, outdated WAP security, or trying to configure mac address filtering. Neither of these give you any real security. Always go WPA-PSK as a minimum for your WiFi needs. Read More... |
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FOXNews.com - Scientists Say Invisibility Cloak Now Possible - Science News | Science
From the page: "WASHINGTON â€" Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects. The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science." Read More... |
Hidden Video Courses in Math, Science, and Engineering
DataWrangling.com has put together an awesome collection of university level free coursewhere from all around the web. So if you are looking to brush up on your ecomonics, engineering, or physics, this is the article to check out. Unlike, other sites, all of these videos are free [while available]. Many of which seem to go over my head, but nonetheless, if you are looking for online training and have the right discipline you may find these very usefull. Read More... |
Password Safe
How many user name and password combinations to you have to keep track of? Password Safe is a nice small utility for windows that lets you easily store and save common password information. Keep all your passwords safe, in one encrypted file and master password. Some users at companies are forced to change there password every 30 or 45 days, so this will help keep all your passwords organized. Plus the autotype feature can automatically enter your credentials for you..and best of all it's completely free. So if your tight on security (or your organization). This might be the perfect tool for you. Read More... |
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Mobile phone tracking
This is a bit scarry. Most cell phones today have built in GPS tracking. This is for E911 services. If you are lost with your cell phone, search and rescue can find you. SunSite satellite has GPS tracking software that allows you to find the location of any phone in the world that is equiped with a GPS reciever. Just enter your number and wham. Should this really be allowed? Give it a try and see what happens :-) Read More... |
Going GaGa over JaJah
The other day while listening to one of my favorite podcasts, they happened to mention a service called JaJah so I decided to check it out. JaJah is a long distance service provider that offers cheap calling ll around the world. Plus, calls are free between JaJah users up to 150 minutes per week! Calls are usually made using Voice over IP or (VOIP) technology, but in a differnt way then other services such as Skype or Vonage. With Skype, calls are made through your computer, and not through your normal phone. Vonage calls do use a normal phone, but you need to buy a special adapter and sign-up for their monthly service plan. JaJah calls work simply by logging into the JaJah website, and entering the number you want to dial. The system then calls your local phone (or cell phone!), and then calls your long distance number and connects the 2 phones together. I don't have to stay on the JaJah site. Once connected, the call does not use my internet connection so I can shut down my computer and still continue my call Plus I can use my JaJah account anywhere. So let's say I'm travelling and in a hotel I can call home from my JaJah account and give the local number of the hotel. Sometimes, I want to be able to make a long distance call from my cell, but cell company long distance charges are crazy!. So I can use JaJah on my cell as well. So currently, I'm paying about $0.03/minute to make long distance calls, but I can make these calls free if others are also using JaJah. So why not sign-up and try a few calls and maybe tell a few friends so that everyone can benefit. One word of caution though calls are only free to other JaJah users that have been iniated on the JaJah website. If you start the call from your cell phone it still costs money, but it's stil really cheap. Also be careful if you are roaming with your cell phone, as the cell phone company may charge your extra $ in addition to JahJah. So there are a few times, like cell phone roaming, where it might still be a good idea to just use a long distance pay card, but your can't beat free calling with no extra equipment or plans right? Read More... |
Real Time Satellite Tracking
Here's an interesting site if your into Satellites. It appears to track in real time various satellites and positions them on a google map. You can actually see the little satellite icon moving across the earth. I'm not sure how there getting the data to do this, but you can check several items over the earth including the international space station. So next time you see one of those fast moving stars in the sky, you can check this site out and see which satellite is passing over your area. Read More... |
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Bored? - Try StumbleUpon
So I've never been a big fan of all these toolbars you add your your browsers, I recently blogged about the Alexa toolbar, and now I'm about to blog about StumbleUpon. It's Weird, I know The StumbleUpon toolbar is very interesting. You sign up for an account, and download the toolbar for firefox or IE. It adds a "Stubmle" button. As you press it you are taken to (initally) random websites. However as you rank each site, it seems to keep track of your preferences and starts sending you to more pesonalized sites. Plus you can add your own intersting sites as well which is then shared with others. Definitly something worth trying, if you just don't know where to go on the Web. If you add it, please add me to your friends. I'm TheStumbleKing.stumbleupon.com Happy Stumbling Read More... |
Privnote - send notes that will self-destruct after being read
Here is an interesting idea. Every watch Mission Impossible..This note will self destruct in 10 seconds? Want to send self destructing notes to others over the web. It's a pretty simple concept, go to the site and enter your note, it will give you back a link to send to your friend (one time only). When they view it, it will be destroyed and will be unreadable by anyone else. Maybe not *perfect* security but I think it's an interesting idea. Read More... |
The Website is down
So here's the story. A few geeky guys created this video and a cool website to go with it. www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html It is a sales guy and web guy and it is hilarious. The irony being that the site itself looks like it is down already ! So I'm posting the Youtube version for people who have missed it. Hope you enjoy it ! Read More... |
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Internet from old days
Here is a great CBC news video from early back in the days when the internet was just in its beginning. A great bit of nostalgia. I remember my first experiance with the internet. I wrote a report about emoticons in school, before that it was all bulliten board systems (BBS). I once did an interview myself for a class report as well. I can't wait until my kids are older and I can say things like, "Back in my day, we were excited to have 14.4k modems" Read More... |
Top 5 iPhone 3G Killers
Digigeek presents the devices, that we think, can dethrone the iPhone to become the king of smartphones. All these phones have all the regular features like calling, messaging, email, high speed web browsing etc, so we won't be elaborating much on those points. Read More... |
Tech Support | Got Funny
Here's a funny tech support message regarding some guy installing "Wife 1.0" I found it amusing, hope you will aw well: From The Page: Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activities, such as Poker Night 10.3, Football 5.0, Going To The Pub 7.5, and Softball 3.6 I can't seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my other favorite applications. I'm thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0 , but the uninstall doesn't work on Wife 1.0. Please help! Thanks, Troubled User..... (Don't miss the reply ->) Read More... |
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Network Magic - Set up and Manage Your Home Network with One Easy Application
Network Magic is a free tool from Pure Networks (they also have a paid Pro version for as little as $40) This software allows you to quickly and easily configure multiple computers on a home or small biz network to share files and printers in minutes. Network Magic takes most (if not all) of the hassle of setting up your own secure network and even allows you to connect your windows PC to mac machines. The free version has no limitations, however if you get the Pro version you also get a network monitor, remote access to your files and folders, and 6 months of online backup for up to 8 machines of your choice. Read More... |
Please Drive Thru - The Daily WTF
Here are some great pics of error messages by various machines. Pretty funny Read More... |
ThinkHost | CMS TestDrive
ThinkHost offers green web hosting powered by renewable wind and solar energy, over a world-class outsourced network. Your carbon neutral account with us offers you top-level technology, while at the same time supporting a more earth-friendly future. Read More... |
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Media Wiki | CMS TestDrive
MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and other projects. It's designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow. Read More... |
My Customer Service Experience
From the page: "My experiences with a particular well known computer company and the customer service I received. My Story: It was a crisp day in March, as I walked into my office that morning. I was very excited because we were receiving a new HP desktop replacement laptop for our project manager. " Read More... |
10 Best Uses for RFID Tags
Here are 10 intereesting (and maybe unconvential) uses for RFID chips from Wired Magazine Read More... |
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Life Updates - SMS and X10 - Aug 15, 2008
2008. We all get a stomach flu It's a Tuesday! We get some landscaping work done. I talk about X10 lights and SMS email to phone. http://www.bwebcentral.com/emailfwd.php Read More... |
