Saturday, December 27, 2008

Merri Kurisumasu: Chimp in Japan Gets Popcorn Machine for Xmas, Freaks Out

AAaaaaaaaahhh!

One Year-Old Baby Knows More About Gaming Than You!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon


I am looking forward to having a geek as a late night show host... Conan and Jay have moved to an earlier time slot... Good on you NBC! Visit Jimmy's site: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - December 9 Video Blog - Day 2! - Video - NBC.com

Sunday, November 09, 2008

The 50 Skills Every Geek Should Have

1. Install a hard drive in a laptop 2. Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes 3. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone 4. Jailbreak an iPhone 5. Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable 6. Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers 7. Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken) 8. Calibrate an HDTV without the manual 9. Use a DSLR in full manual mode 10. Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbour's Wi-Fi 11. Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board 12. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point 13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console 14. Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat 15. Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo 16. Abstain from buying extended warranties 17. Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories 18. Fix your parents' computer over the phone without looking at a computer 19. Enter the Konami code 20. Comment on Gizmodo from your phone 21. Type quickly using T9 texting 22. Program a universal remote 23. Contribute code to the Linux kernel 24. Hide porn from your significant other 25. Avoid DRM on everything 26. Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it 27. Watch TV shows on the internet for free 28. Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube 29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator 30. Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry 31. Hackintosh your PC 32. Download pre-release movies from Usenet 33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games 34. Get around web content filters on public computers 35. Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password 36. Securely erase your data so it can't be recovered 37. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network 38. Build a fighting robot 39. Write your own Firefox plugins 40. Navigate and reorganise the files on your computer in DOS 41. Get something on the front page of Digg 42. Get through to executive customer service 43. Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s 44. Rip a DVD to DivX 45. Build your own computer from parts 46. Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one 47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it 48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system 49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS 50. Talk about things that aren't tech related For the source and more on the list, please take the time to visit: Gizmodo Australia

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Gmail's New Features

They include:
A forgotten attachment detector
Advanced IMAP controls
Canned responses to save and send common replies automatically
Learn more by following the link:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Monday, November 03, 2008

Time Names Top 50 Inventions of 2008

Time Top 50 Inventions 2008 1. The Retail DNA Test 2. The Tesla Roadster 3. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter 4. Hulu.com 5. The Large Hadron Collider 6. The Global Seed Vault 7. The Chevy Volt 8. Bullets That Shoot Bullets 9. The Orbital Internet 10. The World's Fastest Computer 11. Green Crude 12. Housing Funds 13. The Memristor 14. The Bionic Hand 15. The Direct-to-Web Supervillain Musical 16. The Dynamic Tower 17. The Mobile, Dexterous, Social Robot 18. The New Mars Rover 19. Montreal's Public Bike System 20. The Everything Game 21. The Synthetic Organism 22. The Shadowless Skyscraper 23. The Branded Candidate 24. Bionic Contacts 25. Thin-Film Solar Panels 26. The Speedo LZR Racer 27. Bubble Photography 28. The Invisibility Cloak 29. The 46th Mersenne Prime 30. The Internet of Things 31. Einstein's Fridge 32. Facebook for Spies 33. Biochemical Energy Harvester 34. Made-in-Transit Packaging 35. Airborne Wind Power 36. The New Ping-Pong Serve 37. Smog-Eating Cement 38. The Baseball Instant Replay 39. Enhanced Fingerprints 40. The Seven New Deadly Sins 41. The Peraves MonoTracer 42. Disenvoweling 43. High-Tech Running Shoes 44. Sunscreen for Plants 45. The Short Refinance 46. Aptera Electric Car 47. Google's Floating Data Center 48. The Time Eater Clock 49. Sound-Enhanced Food 50. A Camera for the Blind Time Names Top 50 Inventions of 2008 - Gizmodo Australia

Robot Dancing to Mumbo No. 5

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Google Arabic Ta3reeb!

Don't have an arabic keyboard? then use this tool to type in Arabic: Google Arabic Transliteration Here is some text I typed in: elbarnamej hatha 3ajeeb And this was the outputted result: البرنامج هذا عجيب It does translation on the fly! Word by word :) I love it!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

yDubai.com A New Website about Why you should visit, stay, work and shop in Dubai.

The new website contains information about Dubai e-government services, links to Dubai attractions, videos and tourism information. Check it out :)

http://www.ydubai.com/

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Haven't You Heard?!

Family Guy BIRD IS THE WORD! - Watch more funny videos here

Surfin' Bird As featured in The Family Guy cartoon. It was originally sung by The Trashmen in 1963. It was also featured in the Movie Full Metal Jacket (1987).

Like it? Then download the Family Guy version of the ringtone to your mobile phone from here:

by audiko.net — ringtones.

Download the iPhone ringtone here. Download mp3 ringtone here.

Saturday, October 04, 2008

SanDiskUltra® Cruzer® Titanium™ Plus USB Flash Drive


A mouthful! I know... But I think it is a good idea :) It offers an automatic and seamless online back up option with device password protection and hardware AES encryption so you can easily access your files on the device or online. See the demo here. Or visit the officila website for more information: SanDisk | Products | USB Flash Drives | SanDiskUltra® Cruzer® Titanium™ Plus USB Flash Drive.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Chrome Vulnerabilities

If you are a sucker for new technologies, then you already know about Google's chrome. What you might not know that it is already vulnerable to attacks such as the carpet bombing attack. Get more information from the links below: Chrome - Vulnerabilities on First Day http://aviv.raffon.net/

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Painting with Paintballs

A Demonstration by Mythbusters to compare current geneneration CPUs versus GPUs when it comes to graphics cards in Nvidia's NVISION show.

Monday, February 18, 2008

You Gotta Love Max From Info Support :)

This guy hacks outdoors just for fun! Here's an example: He is hacking an LCD screen at a trainstation using a Nokia N95 :) Visit http://www.infosupport.nl/Max for more videos!

Redux People Discovery

Redux, Inc. is a new company that is launching a social networking website with an edge. It was designed in Berkley University. It asks the user a bunch of questions and then connects them to people they might be interested in based on their answers. The website predicts events and people for you so you don't have to! Click below for a demo: http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2008/124727.html

Saturday, January 26, 2008

السعودية تصدر قانونا جديدا لمكافحة جرائم المعلوماتية

أصدرت وزارة الداخلية السعودية اليوم قانونا جديدا لمكافحة جرائم المعلوماتية التي تشمل التهديد والإبتزاز والتشهير بالآخرين في مواقع الإنترنت وانشاء مواقع الإنترنت الإرهابية. النظام الجديد يشمل 16 مادة تتضمن عقوبات صارمة ضد مرتكبي هذه الجرائم تتراوح بين سنة و10 سنوات سجنا وغرامات مالية تصل الى خمسة ملايين ريال سعودي. For More details visit the link below: السعودية تصدر السعودية تصدر قانونا جديدا لمكافحة جرائم المعلوماتية

Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs

Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs A 10-part framework you can use to wow your own audience as Jobs did in this year's MacWorld Conference.