October 2007
Map: Availability of Marijuana Across the U.S. →
Locations that have and don’t have Marijuana across the U.S.
September 2007
twistmac: why does my Das keyboard mess up the extra buttons on my mouse? (via Twitter / twistmac)
Apple, Jobs, AT&T sued over iPhone price cut,... →
It was bound to happen: Apple Inc., along with its chief executive and exclusive U.S. iPhone wireless partner AT&T, have been hit with a new lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who charges the trio with a variety of offenses stemming from the recent iPhone price cut. She’s seeking damages in the amount of $1 million, punitive damages in the amount
It's Time to Stop Porting Shit to the Wii →
Right now, the Wii is being treated like the retarded cousin who gets all the ugly hand-me-downs from the good-looking children. I’m talking to you publishers and developers. The Wii is sick and tired of eating the regurgitated contents of other consoles’ games. You need to stop pissing on the Wii and treat it with a little more respect.
PIX PLZ
(via Silent Rapper The Blog)
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Beta released! →
The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.10 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features.
Plans for new "iPhone competitor" from Sony... →
Looks like Sony Ericsson has a lot of plans for the future. Just a while ago we found Sony Ericsson programmable touchscreen keypad patent and now Sony Ericsson patents sliding touchscreen phone. In my opinion this shows that Sony Ericsson is working really hard to bring out something that can really compete with Apple’s iPhone.
twistmac: The new Dashboard Confessional album is awesome. (via Twitter / twistmac)
8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries →
They say “knowledge is power,” but “they” seem to forget that most of our knowledge is devoted to subjects that are completely useless and retarded. On Wikipedia, even the most obscure topics get propped up on enormous blocks of text. Here are the most depressing - and somewhat frightening - examples.
IBM Model M
Okay so I might as well have another post on here. This time I shall talk about my awesome IBM model M keyboard. I love this thing, it’s built very solid and I can type forever on it without having an problems at all (which says a lot since it was built back in 1990). I got it for $20 off Ebay which isn’t too bad I think. I like the mechanical key switches in it, they make for a much better typing...
Create iPhone Ringtones That Dont Sound Horrible →
An easy to follow tutorial that produces custom ringtones that won’t overpower the crummy speaker on the iPhone.
This just in: The Revision3 Gazette to be... →
“We’ve heard you, we’ve thought about it, and now we’re shifting gears. Starting tomorrow, The Revision3 Gazette will be available to all members, all the time! So with tomorrow’s release and every Wednesday afterward (including our 3 archived episodes), The Gazette will be totally, absolutely, 100% free. FREE! NO MONEY DOWN!” - Sarah Lane
News Site Digg Adds Filtering Options →
As the news-recommendation site Digg grows in usage and content, its developers are adding features to help users filter what they might want to read.
Judge quashes RIAA subpoenas in campus... →
In a first, a federal judge in Florida has quashed two RIAA subpoenas against students on technical grounds. Ars talks to the attorney who won the (temporary) victory.
Apple updates iLife '08 apps, iMovie gains new... →
Apple Inc. on Wednesday afternoon posted to its website software updates for nearly all of its iLife ‘08 applications, the most significant of which adds a handful of more powerful editing features to much criticized iMovie overhaul.
KDE4 theme based on Oxygen style,the new Baghira... →
And it is called Bespin : http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Bespin?content=63928.Already the highest rated KDE4 style on kde-look.IMHO this is the most polished OSX style theme i have seen.
Apple blocks access to 1425x1425 album art; breaks... →
“It appears Apple has blocked this again :( Querying the store still works, but if you try to download the art (no matter jpg or TIF) you get an error. This for the same albums that worked an hour or two ago. Thanks a lot Apple!” Well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Apple's Mac Sales Are Surging →
Seen the recent AAPL surge? Don’t thank the iPhone, thank the Mac.
Amazon's MP3s Still DRM Free →
Amazon.com’s new MP3 store watermarks its MP3s, but only with information stating where the songs were purchased, not who did the purchasing, according to the online uberstore. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this issue has inspired me to ramble about the stupidity of the whole idea of watermarking tracks with identifying info.
Apple developing OS X minitablet →
AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has a project underway to develop a minitablet computer based on the OS X operating system it has developed for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The site is calling it “the return of the Newton,” referring to the much-maligned but cult-favorite PDA that Apple sold in the mid-1990s.
Awesome Ubuntu/Linux Apps you might not know about... →
Version 2 of my blog post that contains a list of little known linux apps that you might not know about with screenshots.
New Digg Spamming Technique: Shout = Spam →
With the new Digg Interface they obviously tried to make it easier to interact with friends and to send messages, ahem, shouts, I mean SPAM messages to other users.Or is it just me that has been receiving tons of Shouts like the following: Hi, what do you think of think? http://digg.com/story_some_spammer_wants_me_to_digg
Top 10 Ways to Put Your Remote Server to Good Use →
An always-on server can come in all kinds of handy for running automated tasks, syncing your data, remote controlling downloads and acting as a proxy. Lot of us have access to a remote computer, but most of us probably aren’t getting everything we can out of it. Check out our top 10 ways to put your remote server to best use
The Pirate Bay Details Charges Against Media... →
Last week, The Pirate Bay announced that it filed charges against against some of the key players in the entertainment industry for corrupting and sabotaging their BitTorrent tracker. We asked Brokep, one of The Pirate Bay founders to give us some more background information on this counterattack that will, once again, embarrass the e. industry.
Gateway apes the aluminum iMac: meet the Gateway... →
PC maker Gateway today fired a salvo at Apple with a new all-in-one home desktop that bears strong design similarities with the recently introduced aluminum iMac. Called simply the One, it has a metal shell, a black front, and scads of Bluetooth and 802.11 wireless. Sound familiar? Gateway claims it’s not a copy… right.
Up Next for Apple: Newton Multi-Touch PDA →
Apple plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old fan favorite based on the company’s new mutli-touch technology, AppleInsider has learned.
70 HD channels launched till October... →
…and a hundred by the end of the year. That is what DIRECTV promises. They just added 21 channels in HD format to their lineup and will be extending it even more.
Think you know Web2.0? OK? but can you predict... →
TechCrunch article about a Web2.0 competition running at PlaytheDay.com. There is also a digg question: At 4pm on Sunday 14th October, how many diggs will the most popular news item on digg.com received? a. Less that 75 b. 75-99 B c. 100-125 d. More than 125 What do you think?
DirecTV launches 21 new HD channels →
“The first of DIRECTV’s new HD channels have arrived: We’ve just added 21 new HD channels to our lineup. And there’s plenty more to come. In October, you’ll have over 70 of your favorite channels in HD — and up to 100 by the end of the year.”
Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP →
iPod touch jhacker “Martyn” obtained a broken iPod touch, and was planning to dive in and download every bit of code on it in the increasingly complicated effort to put 3rd party applications on the iPod touch. He didn’t plan to release the code to the public, but he did plan to upload the code to a secured area of his site.
Correct Demonoid Information →
Quotes from the Demonoid IRC channel providing recent information about Demonoid being offline.
Apple (AAPL) Hits 52 Week High →
Closing today at over $153.00 Apple has hit it’s 52 week high - all for no reason. Performing at over 74.8% year to date could the next stop be $200?
Are You Seeing this New Kind of Blog Spam? →
Have you noticed a new weird kind of spam, without URLs or anything to sell, hitting your blog? This article takes a stab at explaining what it’s all about.
Leopard In Release Cantidate Cycle →
With only two known issues remaining, MacRumors sources are indicating that Leopard is in the release candidate stage of development. Release Candidates are typically chosen amongst builds that have no known major issues and little to no known minor issues.
Let Apple know that you want 3rd party apps! →
iPhone users that like the 3rd party applications that are being developed have to communicate their unhappiness with Apple, otherwise they will continue on this course. If users flood them with requests to work with the community, they will have to.
100Mbps Symmetrical: $48.50 - Did we mention you... →
HK residents can now get a whopping 100Mbps fiber optic connection for a mere $48.50 a month. And that’s the entry-level package.
Switching Made Super-Easy: Installing Debian Etch... →
Debian-Installer Loader is a Debian Etch installer for Windows which adds an entry to the boot menu that allows you to start the Debian installation. Unlike the Ubuntu installation with Wubi, real Debian partitions are created during the installation. In the end, you have a dual-boot system (Windows/Debian).
If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure... →
Describes and provides code for handling images and image attribution in a consistent manner. COde is both Javascript and CSS.
Linux to Finally Kill Windows in Europe? →
In the future, Linux might very well have a fighting chance on European soil, against Windows.
Torvalds 'Feeling Happy' About Next Linux Release →
It’s almost out the door.
The 7 Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions →
An insider’s look at the top distros, revealing both their strengths and their weaknesses.
twistmac: I subscribe to too many podcasts. (via Twitter / twistmac)
Hey World, I've got Halo 3 already! →
It was in the store with the Halo 3 edition of the 360, so I bought them both. Here’s just a really quick write-up on my first impressions of the game (one word: beautiful)
USB 3.0 coming, will increase transfer speeds... →
USB 3.0 improves upon its successors by adding fiber-optic cable inside alongside the copper wiring, greatly increasing the speeds.
OS X Dashboard Widgets running on iPhone (with... →
Copy /System/Library/WidgetResources over to your iPhone, install your OS X widgets into /var/root/Library/Widgets and run Widgets.app. “The Weather, ESPN and Calendar widgets are some of the best; the Flight Tracker, Dictionary and Phone Book are among the worst” in compatibility
Five Reasons to Buy Logic Studio →
Following suit with Final Cut Studio, Apple today announced Logic Studio—an update not only to their Logic Pro application, but a bundle of applications and workflows that tie into each other. Here’s five reasons Logic Studio rocks.
Back in Black. (And Aluminum.) →
Caitlyn Imburgo of Macteens gives an excellent analysis of Apple’s gorgeous new iMac.