2007 October

Starting this Thursday, Wal-Mart is going to start selling a computer for only $198. This will be the gPC. It has 1.5GHz VIA C7-D processor, 512 RAM, and an 80 GB hard drive. For the OS, it is running gOS (a version of Ubuntu 7.10). There is [...]

Tom Servo, Crow, and Gypsy are back along with Joel. Mystery Science Theater 3000 is back. It will now be called Cinematic Titanic. Our favorite movie reviewers will be checking out 12 new movies. These will be released once per month starting in December. You [...]

You can now access your Windows desktop from your Mac. Microsoft just released Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta 2). This Beta will work until March 31, 2008. It will support printing, widescreen, and multiple sessions.

Info About Remote Connect for OS X
Download Remote Connect for OS X

[tags]remote [...]

[tags]archive, time, travel[/tags]
 Do you ever wish you had a time machine?   Do you want to look up something on the internet, that we removed years ago?   Then give Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine a try.   You will once again see all of those out of style websites again.  
Link: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

[tags]Western Digital, seagate, maxtor, external, hard drive, harddrive, usb, firewire, esata[/tags]
Here is a great deal on a Western Digital 1TB Essential Edition External Hard Drive.   This drive had USB, firewire, and eSATA.   All this for $279.99 @ Circuit City.
Link: Western Digital 1TB Essential Edition External Hard Drive

Are you still waiting for your DVD to burn on your computer? Need something faster? We always do. Then check out the Samsung SH-S203N Super-WriteMaster DVD Writer. This is an internal SATA DVD±R DL drive that can write at 20X. It’s the fastest DVD in the [...]

[tags]password, security, safety, encryption[/tags]
How secure is your password?   You may just be suprised to see how easily it can be guessed.   Check out this site to see how long it would take to guess any password.   Don’t worry, you never have to type it in.  
Link: Password Recovery Speeds

More communities are looking at municipal Wi-Fi, even though it has not been widely adopted. One of the major concerns I have are k12 schools that are in these areas. Schools are required by law to provide filtering of the internet. Major funds like Erate can be lost without [...]

[tags]seagate, western digitial, hard drive, harddrive, hybrid, flash, memory[/tags]
We are starting to see a few different Hybrid Hard Drives on the market today.   So what is a Hybrid Hard Drive?   Simply stated it is a traditional hard drive that has up to 1 GB flash drive connected to it.   Information is written and stored on [...]

[tags]microsoft, hack, hacking, security, virus, antivirus, spyware, antispyware[/tags]
Microsoft is unable to stop hackers.   IdentityBlog.com, a site by Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s chief architect of identity and access, was hacked and defaced sometime over last weekend.   IdentityBlog.com is used to discuss privacy, access and security issues.   Way to go Microsoft.  

Today, Apple has announced that it has sold over 2 million copies of OS X Leopard. I find this quite impressive. Apple has some of the greatest marking campaigns going on. It knows how to get tons of press coverage. All of this is creating record sales. Congratulations, Apple.
Link: OS X Leopard 2 Million Sales [...]

I got home from work yesterday, and my Leopard Upgrade DVD was in the mailbox. I was able to qualify for the $9.95 upgrade option since I bough my MacBook earlier this month (October). Since it was the upgrade DVD, I pretty much had to do an upgrade instead of the [...]

[tags]apple, macintosh, mac, imac, macbook, mac book, leopard, tiger, osx, os x, blue screen, bsod[/tags]
Apple has listed it’s response and two different solutions to the Blue Screen Error users are getting when updating to Leopard.   Make sure you do this if you are not doing a clean install.
Link: Apples Blue Screen Response & Solution

Are you always updating your electronics? Do you have your outdated (but not useless) junk laying around? You can now trade in your old equipment to Costco. Costco will issue you a gift card that you can use to buy new equipment that will probably be outdated next month. Just go to its Trade-in Program [...]

[tags]circuit city, hd, dvd, blue ray, blueray, hddvd, hd dvd, toshiba, sony, rca, pioneer[/tags]
Circuit City is now selling the Toshiba HDA2 High Definition HD DVD for only $197.99.   This includes 5 free HD DVD movies by mail.  
Link: Toshiba HDA2 @ Circuit City

[tags]streaming, video, ustream, camera, news, reporting, orlando, florida[/tags]
I just found a new stream on ustream.tv that follows news around Orlando Florida from the eyes of a news cameraman.   He is using a dash mounted dv camera, and getting leads from the police scanner and his cell phone.   Follow the action.
Link: Dash-Cam-Stringer-Video

18 year old English apple fan Nick Haley loves his iPod Touch. He ended up making a YouTube.com video about it synced to the song, “Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex” by CSS. Apple saw this video and contacted Nick Haley over email. They flew him to Los Angeles to help produce a commercial based on [...]

[tags]google, webpage, web page, site[/tags]
Here is a great article i read on USA Today about successes with Google advertising on your webpages.  
Link: “Gray Googlers’ Strike Gold”

[tags]Chris, Pirillo, lockergnome, halloween, costume, mask[/tags]
Last night Chris Pirillo was giving his top 5 Tech Halloween Costumes.   He failed to mention one more mask.   That is the Chris Pirillo Lockergnome Halloween Mask.   Download and make yours today.
Link: Chris Pirillo Lockergnome Mask

I was just going through a catalog of mine, and saw a product that I have never seen before. It is a USB thumb drive that will let you partition a section of it that will be devoted to increase your RAM. They say it will speed up your computer (at [...]