Company out of KZ mich does cheap iPod repair
Is your iPod dead? A victim of a bad battery? Or showing that telltale “sad Mac” icon? Or some other mystery ailment that prevents you from accessing your music on the go? Don’t trash it. Kalamazoo-based Rapid Repair may be able to save it. If not, they can at least keep it out of a [...]
AIbert Einstein, is a physicist
. With all of our recent technological advancements, we’ve collected our greatest minds for the ultimate goal, allowing our god complex to dictate over our honed morality twisting it into ungodly reason. Without government restrictions, a scientific task force in a South Korean lab has executed their reprehensible agenda, and spawned the abominable cybernetic organism [...]
It’s official: Microsoft’s concerned about GNU/Linux
Without fanfare (as expected), Microsoft filed its 10-K form to the Security and Exchange Commission. In it, however, we find that Microsoft bemoans the fact that their “business model,” well, might tend to suck in comparison to the open source business model. Not only that — and maybe you should sit down for this — [...]
It’s a small world after all
Imagine a machine so small that it is imperceptible to the human eye. Imagine working machines no bigger than a grain of pollen. Imagine thousands of these machines batch fabricated on a single piece of silicon, for just a few pennies each. Imagine a world where gravity and inertia are no longer important, but atomic [...]
Pirate Bay to Hollywood: Open your Own Torrent Site
Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij from The Pirate Bay recently did a video interview which resulted in some great quotes. One such quote comes from Fredrik, he suggests that the movie and music industry should set up their own torrent site, and monetize it through advertisements. “We would be out of business.” he added. Dayrobber, [...]
FCC Hearing: Comcast Uses Hacker Techniques
Today is an important day for network neutrality, as the FCC’s Broadband Network management hearing has been discussing Comcast’s attempt to slow down BitTorrent traffic. One of the panelists said Comcast uses “hacker techniques” to manage their network. When we first reported that Comcast was actively disconnecting BitTorrent seeds, we never expected that it would [...]
RIAA says your sister sells rock
I just uploaded this video today, so I wont be surprised if some powers that be take it down before too long. If so I’ll find something besides youtube. look at that fat fucker. This is a leaked official RIAA training video produced with the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors why they should [...]
HD3 vs. 5.5 Terapixel duck
Hasselblad aims high with their latest D-SLR, the H3D II which shoots at a disgusting 39-megapixels. This hot piece comes with a 3-inch display, 48x36mm CCD sensor, and a $36,739 price-tag. Pocket change. It’s due for a drop in price considering titans, Penchan just release their secret weapon, their 5.5 terapixel camera. Yes thats 5.5trillian [...]
The Pirate Bay Facing Lawsuit Next week
Here is a translation I made of part of a Swedish article that can be found here. After a lengthy 20 month long investigation the time has come for the lawsuit to be filed against the men behind the biggest Bittorrent-tracker in the world, The Pirate Bay. The coming week prosecutor Håkan Roswall at the [...]
MPAA officially admits mistakes in piracy study
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to [...]
iRing, wtf
With a stylish design and wireless Bluetooth connectivity with your iPod and iPhone, the iRing allows you to control playback and volume on any of your Apple media devices. iRing features a bright OLED status display with touch-sensitive function strip, and a rechargeable battery life of up to 2 days. Conveniently recharge your iRing using [...]
Apple’s Future; Braun’s Past
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product [...]
Epuron – An interesting commercial.
Touching, makes you kind of want to give him a hug. That reminds me, spoke Manson on the phone yesterday, said he’s be touring soon, and Twiggy’s with the band again, great news. This has inspired me, you’ll see how soon. share/save
Axiotron Modbook.
Axiotron, Inc., together with distribution partner Other World Computing, is drawing huge crowds at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco this week, as attendees flock to take its new Mac OS X-based “ModBook” tablet computer for a test run. …Each ModBook starts off as a MacBook Core 2 Duo but undergoes a surgical operation where [...]
Breaking: Apple Insider Leaks Ultra-Portable Details
What you see above is simple mock-up from Wired artists. An Apple insider told Wired today that the company’s new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen, tapering at [...]
These rabbits have been sent to destroy Sarah Conner
Researchers at the University of Washington managed to embed an electronic circuit and LEDs directly into contact lenses, which seemed to look good on rabbit eyes. Though the circuit is not functional and the lights don’t light up, the development shows that future applications like direct video to the eye may indeed be possible. The [...]
Big Old Deceitful and expensive phone company
Remember October’s news of Comcast throttling Bit Torrent traffic? The debacle not only created a firestorm of bad press for the nation’s largest cable provider but also re-ignited the nationwide debate about Net Neutrality. We had numerous signs that Comcast was inhibiting our use of this legal and legitimate file transfer protocol, but to have [...]
For Your Enjoyment
Download Leopard for PC: OSX86 10.4.11 (requires and intel processor) If you havent already: Download OS XLeopard Torrents I hack your iPhone for shits n giggles. on another note. totally righteous: share/save
Quicklook
How possible is it for me to provide simple, digestible and interesting disclosures about my findings on a daily basis, from my mac, without them being maccentric? would’ve posted this three days ago, but i’ve been uninterested. Found a collection of QuickLook Plug-ins, ranging from the content preview of zip files, to medical images and [...]
