Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Water-powered car

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

With the cost of gasoline being what it is, shouldn’t a water-powered car be on the front page of every news source?

“I get 100 miles to the ounce on water. I can run any water, distilled water, drinking water, tap water,” said Brown.
The self-proclaimed inventor said he has almost done the job and has fixed [...]

Microsoft keeps spending millions of dollars just to fight Linux

Friday, May 16th, 2008

For those of you who don’t believe that Linux is making an impact on the PC market, you obviously haven’t been watching the actions of Microsoft. Every time a country announces they will switch their government computers to Linux, Microsoft is there literally begging them reconsider (by begging, I mean showering them with incentives). [...]

Weather.com Broken?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

The other day I noticed that my weather widgets on my Nokia n800 and my KDE desktop at my library no longer work. As far as I know, they all connected to weather.com. So, did they do something to their site to call all these weather widgets to break? I’m sure the [...]

Random Uses for Your Nokia Internet Tablet

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Ever since I purchased my Nokia n800 last year, it has become an integral part of my life, much to the chagrin of my wife. It is described by its creators as an “internet tablet.” Along with the n800, some of you might have its predecessor the Nokia 770 or its heir apparent, [...]

Cinematography

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I’ve been producing a DVD for a school that will be closing at the end of the year, and it is interesting how easy it is to manipulate footage. I’m trying not to do that, of course, but I can see how it would be easy to turn a short quote from someone into [...]

Why Vuze Sucks

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

In my attempts to find a decent replacement for Stage6 (no, Veoh is not cutting it), I decided to give Azureus’ Vuze another look. They do have some good content, and the idea of being able to download them legally using P2P file sharing is appealing. But I can sum up why most [...]

Goodbye Stage6

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

It has not been a good week for video formats.  First HD-DVD, now Divx.  No, the divx format will still be around, but the best thing they ever offered, in my opinion, Stage6, will be gone at the end of the month (and it’s the shortest month of the year!).
It was a video-sharing website that [...]

Revisiting KDE4

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

A series of unfortunate events gave me a golden opportunity revisit KDE 4. My previous post regarding it was not a shining one. There were serious limitations with Plasma, and Konqueror was, at least on Kubuntu Gutsy, unusable.
I had two hard drives in my computer, an older 80GB one with the operating [...]

Goodbye HD-DVD

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I saw the writing on the wall nearly a year ago, while so many continued dishing out money for extremely expensive HD-DVD players and DVDs.  Have people learned nothing from these types of “format wars” of the past?  Hello?  VHS vs. Betamax?  What did you expect?  Now, nearly a million people around the world are [...]

Linux PC’s minding their G’s and E’s

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Looking to ditch Windows and jump into the Linux world but afraid to try installing it yourself?  Looking for an ultra-portable laptop that happens to be extremely small and cute?  Perhaps you’re in the market for an EeePC from ASUS.

That’s “Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play” in case you were wondering.
And if [...]