Gaming consoles these days are down right powerful machines. I’ve read stories about people running Playstation3 Cluster Farms and other fun projects. This is a funny story I came across about a University using an X-Box for a web server. The website is down because someone removed the X-Box
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Adding a Little Color to Your Inbox
Gmail has gotten colorful Looks like Google decided to add a little color to their GMail product. Very nice addition, I do something similar using Mail Act-On and MailTags on my Mac.
Leopard Features
OK, I am by no means an expert with OSX, especially the new Leopard. I also know there have been a lot of new features added with this latest release of OSX so I could have very easily missed this one but when I stumbled onto it I thought it was really pretty cool. If [...]
Yahoo Mail now has integrated Chat
This is what Google does with their Gmail (email) and Google Talk (chat) products. When you log into Gmail, you have access to your Google Talk buddy list and can start chatting with them right there in the web browser. It’s been known to be convenient at times. Well it looks like you can now [...]
Getting Things Done (GTD)
I am always trying new mechanisms to help manage my extremely hectic life. There is an entire GTD world out there with application designed to help you manage task, email, and life in general. I’ve used a lot of them, from stand alone clients for Windows, Linux and Mac to web based, and maybe one [...]
What's buzzing
I’ve seen this happen a couple of times and I still think its cool. What seemed like a sudden and random act a bunch of bees decided to all meet at the same time on the same tree branch. I’ve had it explained to me that what is actually happening is that a Queen Bee, [...]
Google Desktop for Mac
Looks like those guys at Google have done it again and have released Google Desktop for Mac Now I look into this a little, haven’t actually installed it, but it looks like it comes up very short to the Windows counterpart Google Desktop for Windows. At this stage Google Desktop for Mac looks more like [...]
Burning up the charts, Geek Rap
OK, this one is going to be strictly for my geek friends, I doubt anyone else will appreciate this. This is some geek rap. This guy is rapping about Unix commands.
Pole-Dancing ….. for the children
From the “Are you flipping serious” department, can you believe a company called Tesco tried to market and sale the “Peekaboo pole-dancing kit” to children. Seriously, someone at that company actually thought this was a good idea. Get this, apparently one of the slogans was “unleash the sex kitten inside”. I’m not sure if someone [...]
New Things from Apple
Apple’s yearly Expo over the last couple of years has turned into a week long rock concert type of atmosphere and this year is no exception. Macworld Expo is up and running and already in a full sprint with some great announcements. The iPhone (that’s right after much speculation and Cisco’s own release of an [...]
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