January 2008
25 posts
Ustream.TV Chosen to Live Stream the Republican... →
For those of you without C-SPAN, the Republican National Convention will be streamed live over the Web, and Ustream.TV has been chosen to be the official provider of live video streaming technology. (No doubt, other live streaming services such as Justin.TV,, Blog.tv, or Mogulus will be used by journalists and bloggers covering the event as well). The announcement is being made right now on...
The Pirate Bay Now Tracks 1 Million Torrents, 10... →
Today, The Pirate Bay reached another milestone, as they broke the 1 million torrents and 10 million peers barrier. The largest BitTorrent tracker just keeps growing and growing, and there is no sign that this will be put to a halt soon. read more | digg story
Click if your computer screen is dirty. →
Clean your computer screen through the internets! read more | digg story
Virgin Galactic Unveils Spaceships That’ll Take... →
Good news for rich guys with spaceman fantasies: Virgin Galactic is on track to start launching commercial space flights in 2009, and they just announced their new spaceship designs.
(Via Gizmodo.)
Google Health Coming Soon? →
Spotted by Google Blogscoped is a login page for Google Health, Google’s entry into the online health records space. At the time of writing the site isn’t allowing logins, but it does include this text:
With Google Health, you can:
* Build online health profiles that belong to you
* Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies
* Get personalized health guidance and relevant news
*...
Get a Job During a Recession [How To] →
Blogger extraordinaire and tech evangelist Robert Scoble offers a handful of excellent tips for finding work in the midst of a recession. The main takeaway: Make yourself as visible as you possibly can. Scoble suggests blogging your knowledge and finding ways to highlight your skills, whether that’s through volunteer work or by creating something that exemplifies your skills (i.e., if you’re a...
Revision3 Launches New Website →
Sweet new site has gone live, this time it actually works! read more | digg story
100yrs ago women used to go to their doctor for an... →
The history of vibrators is a strange tale that provides insights into both the history of sex toys, and cultural notions about women’s sexuality….. read more | digg story
YouTorrent: Give It A Shot Before It’s Shut Down →
YouTorrent is a fairly new BitTorrent search engine that has been getting positive reviews of late, so I gave it a shot. The premise is simple: YouTorrent is a meta-search engine that indexes torrents from other sites (such as btjunkie, The Pirate Bay), then prioritizes the results based on the number of seeds and peers each torrent has. read more | digg story
RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers” →
Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been successfully wiped from the site. read more | digg story
Turn Your $60 Router into a Super-Router with... →
Since last year there’s been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we’re taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. It does almost everything you expect, from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation, in addition to offering a simplified interface chock full of fancy charts and graphs read more | digg story
Remember the Milk →
Task manager, reminder system, personal organizer Among the slew of web-based task managers that have flooded the internet in the past couple of years, Remember the Milk stands head and shoulders above the rest: its modern interface and deep feature set make organizing your to-do’s actually fun. Here’s how to organize your life with Remember the Milk.
(via Lifehacker)
NEC has its own 2880×900 curved gaming display →
We feel sorry for poor NEC. While everyone at CES is busy buzzing about Alienware’s gorgeous curved DLP display (including us), NEC is quietly showing off its CRVD-42DWX+ display that’s more or less identical: a 2880×900 (double WXGA+) panel with a contrast ratio of 10000:1. We’re assuming they’re both built by the same ODM, Ostendo, so hopefully some healthy competition will help bring one of...
Desktop Newsreaders Now Free →
Windows and Mac OS X only: If you’ve ever considered using a desktop-based newsreader rather than online options like Google Reader, chances are you’ve run into NewsGator’s FeedDemon (Windows) or NetNewsWire (Mac). Today NewsGator has announced that both offerings are free, meaning that you can now get the speed, desktop integration, smart lists, and syncing capabilities of these awesome...
Bill Gates Just Say Windows Suck →
When asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
Gizmodo’s Bill Gates CES 2008 Interview:
Part 1 - On the difference between Microsoft and Apple
Part 2 - On his changing public image
Part 3 - What he worries about most
(Via Gizmodo.)
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes →
High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time. read more | digg story
President Bush Endorses Tuesday Night Tech →
Tuesday Night Tech Show Returns →
Tuesday Night Tech once again returns and that means it’s time for the best LIVE party on the internet! Your TNT hosts Bill ‘Dr. Soos’ Soucy and Mark H. Delfs comb through their mostly-disturbing Google Newsreader Tech Stories and bring you the best (and usually comical) stories of the week. Fire up your browser and head to our live video page and help us craft the Tuesday Night Tech Show at...
Adium Chat Improves Menu Bar Item, Corrects Your... →
Mac OS X only: Free, open source multi-client chat application Adium has released a new version rife with new and improved features. The most notable change is the Adium menu bar item, which now provides access to all of your contacts (Option-click for a contacts-only drop-down), accounts, status, and current chats. Another feature that apparently is not new but has never previously showed up in...
VoIP For iPod Touch is Here →
The Touchmods team have released version 1.0 of SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch. This hack will allow the Touch to make phone calls over its WiFi connection. Although named version 1.0, it is most certainly still a beta, and will take some special magic on your part to get things going. read more | digg story
Touch Typing at Keybr.com →
Free web app Keybr.com is a simple touch type practice tool that shows you how fast and error-free your typing is through an escalating series of exercises. Like a web-based version of previously mentioned Windows-only tools TypeFaster and RapidTyping, Keybr.com could help you make the switch to a Dvorak layout, or learn to switch from a U.S. to UK, Spanish, German, or Russian keyboard (or...
Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall →
PortForward.com is proud to offer help setting up port forwarding on your router or firewall. Many Internet users are not aware of how to configure their router or firewall in order to use applications like Peer-to-Peer file sharing (PtoP), Internet Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, and Instant Messaging such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MS Messenger.
[Link: PortForward.com]
2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without →
This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work, some are for fun, and some are useful for both. But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them. read more | digg story
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks →
When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: like searching for exact phrases in quotes like “so say we all” or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little text box. read more | digg story
You Might Be Addicted to Digg If…. →
Guilty as accused. read more | digg story