Archive for August, 2007
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Here’s an interesting bit of trivia slash history. Twenty five years ago Rich Skrenta became the first person to unleash a personal computer virus. All his little bug did was copy itself onto the boot sector of a floppy disk when somebody looked at the directory. Every 50 [...]
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August 31st, 2007 | Posted in Computers, Internet, Programming, software | Comments Off
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After all the stuff that Sony’s been up to in the past, this is actually an intelligent move. They’re going to phase out and shut down their Connect music service. They’re doing this because it’s become obvious that their proprietary format isn’t going to be able to compete in [...]
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August 30th, 2007 | Posted in File Sharing | Comments Off
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Yep, that’s right. M$ is working on an update for Vista but it’s not going to be available until sometime in 2008. You might think “well, it’s already the end of august 07, 08 isn’t that far away.” In human terms that’s right, it’s not very far [...]
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August 30th, 2007 | Posted in Computers | Comments Off
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I wouldn’t have thought in this age of everybody carries at least one phone with them all the time that there would be much need for something like an answering service anymore. Yet, even when the phone is always with you, there are times when you just can’t answer. [...]
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August 29th, 2007 | Posted in Business, Phones | Comments Off
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The whole thing about unlocking Iphones has taken another turn. Apparently unable to do anything about people choosing to hack their Iphone to unlock it from AT&T, Apple & co are taking aim at anyone who might be thinking about going into business unlocking Iphones. I’d say that Apple [...]
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August 29th, 2007 | Posted in Tech, news | Comments Off
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I’ve been needing either a new watch or to get up off of my laziness and get the old one someplace where it can be looked at to see if it can be salvaged. Honestly I get the feeling that the thing has bitten the big one. Problem with [...]
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August 29th, 2007 | Posted in Misc | Comments Off
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I’ve seen something about this a while back but like this one, the other story didn’t say much about how the new network would be organized. or even what kind of basic features they’d like to see it have.
Japan to Research Internet Replacement
TOKYO (AP) - Japan plans to start [...]
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August 29th, 2007 | Posted in Internet, Privacy, Tech | Comments Off
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This site is probably the start page for lots of folks that deal in, use and / or sell tools. Not to mention the really die hard fans of Tim Allen’s “Home Improvement” series. There’s nearly every kind of tool one can imagine for just about any kind of [...]
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August 27th, 2007 | Posted in Website Review | Comments Off
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I suppose that even Sony is due for an occasional break and this new sugar based battery technology they’ve come up with might just be the ticket if it proves to be practical…
Sony Devises Earth-Friendly Battery Powered by Sugar
TOKYO — Sony has developed an environmentally-friendly prototype battery that runs [...]
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August 27th, 2007 | Posted in Tech | Comments Off
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Sony has come out with another twist on the Playstation 3 in an effort to make up for it’s apparent lack of decent games… now they’re giving it the ability to record TV programming (ala TiVO I suppose). What the article doesn’t address is will it be possible to save [...]
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August 26th, 2007 | Posted in Tech | 2 Comments