PROBABLY THE MOST significant product of 2007 has just been released to little or no fanfare, AnyDVD HD. What it does is to rip out the DRM infection from HD-DVDs so you can watch them in accordance with your rights.
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Monday, February 19, 2007
AnyDVD HD released
Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On Linux
This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system into a VMware virtual machine with VMware Converter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server. Vmware Converter comes in handy if you want to switch to a Linux desktop, but feel the need to run your old Windows desktop from time to time.
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Surprise! Mall Shooter Didn't Own Video Games
The 18 year old mall shooter from last week has been shown to have no motives regarding video games, despite what Jack Thompson would like you to believe. "Detectives as of Friday had found no evidence that violent video games may have influenced Talovic. In fact, Talovic did not even own a computer or a video-game system."
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Five Things You Can Do With Your NES Other Then Playing Games
Your old NES system can be used for much more than just playing games. Examples include turning it into an alarm clock, DVD player, and more
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Blender 2.43 released, with new website
Blender is an open source tool for 3D-modeling, rigging, animation, fluid and object simulation and rendering. All of that and some more, in under 15MB. Check out their website and this great piece of software.
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HOWTO: Install and Boot OS X On a Flash Drive
This is a resubmission of a story I posted back in November that didn't get much notice. Step-by-step tutorial on how to install and boot Mac OS X from a flash drive. Requirements: 30-45 minutes, Pacifist, a 1GB flash drive or larger, and an OS X Install disc.
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How I Hacked Your LinkSys Router Which You Probably Bought at Best Buy
In a world where we all shop at the same stores and buy the same wireless equipment it is very easy to unintentionally hijack someone
’s wireless connection. Here's how this guy did it - by accident....
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Apple, Jobs played hard ball with carriers
Apple's entry into cell phone market will not only revolutionize the handset market, but is also changing the way mobile carriers to do business. A new Wall Street Journal report claims that Apple has forced AT
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How Identity Thieves Clone Your Credit Cards
This is why you should always pay cash when eating out. A waitress uses a special device to extract data from the credit card
’s magnetic strip — includes name, address, etc. It only takes minutes to prep, and seconds to steal.
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Beware the HDMI Cable scam
I recently aqcuired an HDTV and PS3. The PS3 doesn
’t come with an HDMI cable, so I went searching the internets and Best Buy for the best cable. Monster Cable seems to have the most hype. There are a few other cable manufacturers as well. I was about shell out $100+ for a cable until I read this…
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Retailers *CONFIRM* new Xbox 360 model on the way! Date and price inside!
You can
’t keep a good rumor down. Just weeks after Microsoft stamped down talk that an HDMI-enabled Xbox 360, codenamed Zephyr, was in the works, the rumors are back. Retailers have confirmed that the new SKU is in their systems, set for a May 1 release for $479.99. In addition to the new video interface, the system would also pack a 120 GB HDD....
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SNES Outselling PS3 on Amazon.com!
"It appears that everyone's old video game flame known as the SNES is outselling Sony's Playstation 3 on Amazon.com." Put that in your pipe and smoke it Sony! :)
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The Getting Things Done phenomenon – Top 5 sites plus resources
In the last few months, the GTD (Getting Things Done) phenomenon has exploded across the net, and there are now plenty of tools, and apps that help people do exactly what they're looking for! So I've decided to list off a bunch of tools, that some people may like to play around with. Here are my top 5 GTD web sites plus some other resources.
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One World, One Region. Flash just about any DVD Drive to be Region Free
"We believe region coding to be an unnecessary annoyance, which interferes with the legitimate use of technology. If content suppliers wish to fight piracy they need to make the content available in the form the consumer wants, and at a price that reflects the actual cost. We strongly believe that piracy is immoral, but so too is greed"
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The cost of leaving your PC on
"Between my server and my Windows Media Center home theater PC, I have at least two PCs on all the time at home. Have you ever wondered how much it's costing you to leave a computer on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?"
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'Bionic' eye implants could help restore sight to the blind
US researches have been given permission to implant a prototype 'bionic' eye in 50 to 75 patients, which could help restore their sight. "What we are trying to do is take real-time images from a camera and convert them into tiny electrical pulses that would jump-start the otherwise blind eye and allow patients to see."
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Wikipedia Breaks Into U.S. Top 10 Sites
"Wikimedia Foundation Inc.'s popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks Inc. Wikipedia sites ranked ninth with 42.9 million unique visitors last month, ahead of the sites from The New York Times (number 10), Apple Inc...."
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
SanDisk introduces 32GB Flash-based notebook drive
The hard drive is a critical component of every modern computer system. It loads and stores practically everything about the computer, from the OS to all the programs to every data bit and document. Yet the hard drive is based on a mechanical spinning disk system that is ultimately prone to failure, usually due to the stress of heat and motion.
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HOW TO - Ubuntu + MythTV = Free Tivo and an EASY Setup
For the past 4 days I've tried setting up KnoppMyth, Freevo, and MythDora on my Asus Digimatrix. Nothing worked, either wouldnt install correctly, or I would get a black screen instead of the channel I was watching. I finally give the handy dandy Ubuntu a whirl, and it works FIRST try, right out of the box!
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Online Sex Offender Map
Parents can use this tool not only to check their neighborhood, but those of ex-spouses, the child’s friends, school and daycare areas. Some areas will also allow you to view additional details of the sex offenders.
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