The top five web browsers, tested and ranked by Tom’s Hardware. The major browsers are all pretty good now, but I’m currently a disciple of Chrome (with Opera a close second). Whichever you use, make sure your using the latest release (especially important with IE).
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PopSci has partnered with Google to offer the magazine’s entire 137-year archive for free online.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online game is in open beta, and it’s a lot of fun. The graphics are good (especially for a browser based game), it’s not a huge download, and the course selection is pretty amazing – Pebble Beach, St. Andrews, Sawgrass, etc. It’s designed to be a multi-player [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )As a former Apple II enthusiast (owned an Apple IIc and Apple IIgs in the late 80s), I think it’s awesome that there’s still a fan community out there developing for the platform. Engadget posted about a new Apple II digital music synthesizer.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Macmillan is forcing Amazon to go along with their e-book price fixing scheme. Price fixing is usually illegal in this country, but there are often loopholes and exceptions to laws. I guess calling booksellers ‘agents’ who don’t get to set their own prices and receive a fixed commision is a pretty good one. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Is vegetarianism dead? Maybe not, but it doesn’t seem as trendy and popular as it did a few years ago.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )From Digital Spy, hands-on with the upcoming ‘Star Trek Online’ MMO game.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Finally, proof from the AP that playing Grand Theft Auto will lead to a life of crime…or possibly vice-versa:
Sheriff’s deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the “Grand Theft Auto” video game, and they later charged him with just that.
Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango arrested 30-year-old [...]
Via Wired’s Autotopia blog, buy a fully functional SU-27 ‘Flanker’ Soviet fighter jet for the low low price of $5 million. Finally get revenge on Maverick and Goose.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Steam powered flight! From the YouTube description:
A Travel Air 2000 biplane made the world’s first piloted flight under steam power over Oakland, California, on 12 April 1933. The strangest feature of the flight was its relative silence; spectators on the ground could hear the pilot when he called to them from mid-air. The aircraft, piloted [...]
A very cool sea slug – it produces chlorophyll and can live indefinitely on only sunlight.
A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It’s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.
The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they’ve eaten. With [...]
NY Times: Claimed calorie counts often wrong:
Anyone who counts calories by using the figures on menus in fast-food restaurants or on the packages of frozen meals may want to count again. When researchers tested the food served in 29 chain restaurants and 10 frozen meals sold in supermarkets, they found that their calorie content averaged [...]
Seasons 1 – 5 of Lost are available on Hulu. I lost interest halfway through season 1, but maybe it’s time for a second look.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Via Lifehacker, a comprehensive overview of the differences between 64 bit and 32 bit Windows.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Midseason TV 2010: January premieres and notable returns.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Seriously?
James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
Researchers may be close to understanding why bright light worsens migraine headache pain.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This agreement will encourage piracy more than it will protect Warner’s lagging DVD sales. Hopefully, it will at least open up more movies to streaming.
Warner Bros. has signed a new agreement that will bring the studio’s new releases to Netflix in DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming form—a month after the original DVD release.
[via Ars Technica]
Via ReadWriteWeb, robot reporters:
One hour ago, three emergency vehicles responded to a report of an unconscious person at the world headquarters of Nike Inc. in Portland, Oregon. How do I know? An automated form-pumping robot from startup company Nozzl Media told me.
Nozzl Media today unveiled a demonstration of its first product, a widget intended for [...]
Most Wii owners may already know this, but there are plenty of free game sites online that are Wii compatible. We’ve been playing lots of fun (and free!) games with the Wii’s web browser (Internet Channel). The best game site we’ve found so far is WiiPlayable, which is nicely formatted for the Wii’s browser. My [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Via jkOnTheRun:
God Mode is easy to set up too, just do this:
Create a new folder anywhere.
Rename the folder by pasting this name exactly as it appears (copy it first):
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Opening the GodMode folder reveals over 280 links (I counted 283) to tweak and change almost every imaginable system setting.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Revealed, the secret of the golden ratio.
The golden ratio describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and a half times its width. Also known as the golden section, golden mean and divine proportion, among other names, it has intrigued mathematicians and artists alike for centuries. The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction [...]
Color-changing contact lenses will monitor glucose-level changes for diabetics.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )If you like Bejeweled, you’ll probably like Big Kahuna Reef, a free game download from Amazon.com. I put this on my wife’s new laptop, and she really enjoys it. Of course, this is the same woman that keeps my old Treo 650 in her purse just to play Bejeweled on (and an occasional game of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Just because Giveaway of the Day offers a new free software title every day doesn’t mean you have to install it. Please, only install software you will use, and be aware of which applications are running in the background. Stop laptop abuse now!
I spent my lunch hour today cleaning up a co-worker’s Acer Aspire One netbook [...]
The New York Times wants Amazon to tax you.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Undy Bomber and “whole-body imagers”.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dave Barry’s year in review: 2009
To be sure, it was a year that saw plenty of bad news. But in almost every instance, there was offsetting good news:
BAD NEWS: The economy remained critically weak, with rising unemployment, a severely depressed real-estate market, the near-collapse of the domestic automobile industry and the steep decline of the [...]
What do we call the last decade? I vote for the ‘naughties‘ It’s an awesome name for a decade – but hasn’t shown any sign of catching on despite more than ten years of effort. The lame-by-comparison 00’s seems to be gaining traction. But how do you say that? The oh-ohs?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The scientific search for extraterrestrial life is still going strong.
The instruments, the initial phase of the planned 350-dish Allen Telescope Array, are designed to systematically scan the skies for radio signals sent by advanced civilizations from distant star systems and planets. Fifty years after it began — and 18 years since Congress voted to strip [...]
