Now since BestBuy and Netflix have announced that they will support Blu-ray as the High Def DVD format, Walmart has jumped on the bandwagon and announced they will no longer stock HD-DVD players in its stores. “Its a one two punch too the head, Blu-ray is beating the thin metallic coating off of HD-DVD. […]
Something good just got better (I hope). Firefox is in their final stages of their version 3 web browser and needs beta testers (geeks that like to help fix really cool broken things.) Get beta here I hope their new browser will not only show me the web in all it’s […]
Best buy announced it has chosen to go the way of Blu-Ray. Best Buy will now recommend to its consumers the Blu-Ray format opposed to the HD-DVD products. The best buy chain of stores will continue to carry both formats but believe that Sonys format will emerge the victor in the war. […]
Lets start this post out with a big SIGH. OK, now that’s out of the way, Microsoft has now bought Danger Inc. who manufactures the wildly popular Sidekick mobile phone sold by T-mobile. I have to say that a few years ago I bought a sidekick and thought it was a really cool […]
Lets face it. Some of us are just more visual then others. For example, no matter how many times I write long articles explaining how to do something for my mother she just can’t seem to understand it. Wouldn’t it just be easier to show her? Enter freesceencast.com. Freescreencast.com allows you to quickly and easily […]
Sun has snapped up another open source company. In this case it is innotek. Innotek, not to be confused with the company of the same name in office space, is behind Virtual Box. Virtual Box is the open source competitor to VMware and my second favorite VM suite. Here’s hoping they get to keep their […]
Hot or not, the website where the vain among us post our pictures to let other people vote for our hotness has been acquired by a Canadian firm for a reported 20 million dollars. Now that’s hot. Hopefully some day the I’ll be able to post a similar headline about packratstudios.com. Something along the lines […]
Just when Apple thought they had covered all their back doors, Geohot (teen hacker by night, genius pimple popper by day) found a small hatch big enough for everyone to fit through with a little work. (is it me or does that sound a bit gross?) Apple’s latest firmware 1.1.3 locked down several […]
Get it while it’s hot! Apple just released the long awaited 10.5.2 update to OSX. Tons of fixes are included.
Updates were made to:
Active Directory
Airport
Back to my Mac
Dashboard
Dock
Desktop
iCal
iChat
iSync
Finder
Mail
Networking
Preview
Printing
RAW image
Safari
Login and Setup
Time Machine
And a bunch of other things. The download weighs in a 180 MB so plan to spend a few mins. The baby can be […]
So I never was a huge fan of the movie Minority Report, but I did like that cube that Tom Cruise used to fondle before he became obsessed and addicted to Scientology. Now, you too can find out who is going to almost kill who next. (what did I say?) All you […]