website hit counter
Old Li2-Crystals

Archive for August, 2007


 Powered by Max Banner Ads 

Mountains From Molehills

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

Sony Makes Sensible Move

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

Vista Update Coming… in 2008

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

When You Can’t Answer The Phone

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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. [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

Iphone Saga Continues

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

Got The Time?

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

The Next Internet?

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

A Look at www.handsontools.com

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

Sony’s “Sweet” Battery Development

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

Playstation 3 Video Recorder Mod

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 
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 [...]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • bodytext
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • StumbleUpon
  • Bumpzee

 Powered by Max Banner Ads