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Places You Must Visit – Geek Edition
This new book highlights the top 128 places any certified geek should visit-
“The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive by John Graham-Cumming takes a journey through the places where inventions and discoveries were made. Visit the world’s largest science museum in Munich or see Leonardo da Vinci’s last home in France.
For [...]
Hulu is Scaling Back and It Could Hurt Them with Users
Frank Rose of Wired Magazine Online has some thoughts on it too – he wrote a great article about Hulu pulling some older episodes of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” after feeling pressure from the powers that be, also known as the people who control the cash.
Read the whole article here: Hulu, a Victim of [...]
Nathaniel’s Handy Tip of the Day
To those of us that live in the future and use Vista, (yes, I’m an optimist!) I wanted to share some of the Sidebar Gadgets that I have found the most useful since the time of release. I recently went through an update check on them all so they should be current. [...]
Nathaniel’s Find of the Day
If you have a Windows Mobile device, chances are you are less than happy with the mobile browsing experience that IE gives you. It’s pretty bad – there is no Flash Player, pictures take forever to upload (if you can see them at all), and did I mention how sl-ow it is? Well fret [...]
Nathaniel’s Find of the Day
I was tooling around this weekend trying to find a media center that can play Divx, Xvid, H.264, .MKV, etc video files and I finally found a winner. Windows Media Center does not like any of these formats, though Divx and Xvid will be available with Windows 7 edition.
The XBMC Media Center [...]
Opinion: New Windows Ads – Confusing or Genius?
Even though the Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld ads were almost immediately deemed confusing, ineffective and worse yet – unfunny, it appears they did manage to at least get people’s attention. However, the new hot rumor running rampant on the internet is that Seinfeld was fired and Microsoft is now panicking to push out their [...]
Embed System Info with Samurize
Samurize is a robust and versatile utility you can use to embed information on your desktop. You can have everything from a stylized clock to RAM to CPU statistics, an embedded text file to controls for your media player of choice.
The program creates .INI files which are used as configuration, displaying your chosen information on [...]
Google Chrome Review
Guys like me who use ‘multiple browsers’ as tools throughout any given work day start to salivate when a new browser is available to the general public – and especially from a provider like Google. I ‘googled’ all over and could not find the download on Tuesday. I was able to get it [...]