Archive for January, 2008
YouTorrent: Give It A Shot Before It’s Shut Down
YouTorrent is a fairly new BitTorrent search engine that has been getting positive reviews of late, so I gave it a shot. The premise is simple: YouTorrent is a meta-search engine that indexes torrents from other sites (such as btjunkie, The Pirate Bay), then prioritizes the results based on the number of seeds and peers [...]
RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”
Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been successfully wiped from the site.read more | digg story
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Turn Your $60 Router into a Super-Router with Tomato
Since last year there’s been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we’re taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. It does almost everything you expect, from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation, in addition to offering a simplified interface chock full of fancy charts [...]
Remember the Milk
Task manager, reminder system, personal organizer
Among the slew of web-based task managers that have flooded the internet in the past couple of years, Remember the Milk stands head and shoulders above the rest: its modern interface and deep feature set make organizing your to-do’s actually fun. Here’s how to organize your life with Remember the [...]
Desktop Newsreaders Now Free
Windows and Mac OS X only: If you’ve ever considered using a desktop-based newsreader rather than online options like Google Reader, chances are you’ve run into NewsGator’s FeedDemon (Windows) or NetNewsWire (Mac). Today NewsGator has announced that both offerings are free, meaning that you can now get the speed, desktop integration, smart lists, and syncing [...]
Bill Gates Just Say Windows Suck
When asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
Gizmodo’s Bill Gates CES 2008 Interview:
Part 1 - On the difference between Microsoft and Apple
Part 2 - On his changing [...]
NEC has its own 2880×900 curved gaming display
We feel sorry for poor NEC. While everyone at CES is busy buzzing about Alienware’s gorgeous curved DLP display (including us), NEC is quietly showing off its CRVD-42DWX+ display that’s more or less identical: a 2880×900 (double WXGA+) panel with a contrast ratio of 10000:1. We’re assuming they’re both built by the same ODM, Ostendo, [...]
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.read more | digg story
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