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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
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
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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
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
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
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/Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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: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.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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/
Friday, September 05, 2008
IronKey Secure USB Flash Drive and Privacy Device
First Watch the IronKey Secure USB Flash Drive Demonstration. Then listen to the Security Now Netcast here: http://twit.tv/sn135 Then go buy it here: http://www.ironkey.com
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, June 23, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
FootFlush: Hands-Free Flushing!
FootFlush: Hands-Free Flushing!
Just what the world needed flushing by using your feet! Brilliant!
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Monday, April 14, 2008
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Thursday, March 06, 2008
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
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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.
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