Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

 > M$?  = M$?

There are a lot of Apple fans out there these days, but even more Microsoft fans out there. I don’t use any Microsoft products aside from the Xbox 360, but I can understand where it would be better in some situations to have a Windows PC over a Mac. But what really bothers me, [...]

How 3D Works

Recently I had a friend tell me he had never seen a movie in 3D. I thought everyone had seen a 3D movie, never the less, he hadn’t. But then he asked me how 3D works. As much as I tried to explain it, I really didn’t do that good of a job. [...]

History of the Domain Name

It’s surprising to see the first domain names were registered back in 1985. I would have thought that domains came into being no later than 1990 because Tim Burnes Lee – the father of the World Wide Web – invented the web only in the early 1990s. Even more surprising that the first [...]

Final Fantasy XIII Special Edition Xbox

Microsoft plans to release a special addition Console when Final Fantasy XIII hits shelves this march.

Facebook’s Project Titan: Webmail

Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer.
Facebook messaging has been the bane of users’ existence for years. My first [...]

ARM Powered LEGO/Nokia 4×4x4 Rubik’s Cube Solver

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I don’t know if this should speak for itself or not. All I can say is 1. AWESOME! 2. Props for using a 4×4×4 instead of a 3×3×3.

Apple iPad

It’s been announced! The brand new apple iPad. With a 9.7-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology, displaying at 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi), who wouldn’t want one?

Attacks Silence Social Media

* Twitter site has service outage
* Company attributes outage to denial-of-service attack
* Some Facebook users have trouble logging in (Adds Google, LiveJournal background, comments)
[via Reuters.com]

Apple event countdown brings new rumors

Apple just had its best quarter ever, but much of the public focus on the company is concentrated on something else: whatever it is Apple plans to announce at a press event Wednesday.
With almost $40 billion accumulated in cash, revenue topping $3 billion, and almost 9 million iPhones sold in the last three months of [...]

I Destroyed the Nazis

Nuff said.
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