“You won’t find this mythical land on a map, as Iconistan exists only at the bottom of blog posts. It’s where that little crowd of icons gathers, begging you to post a bit of news to Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us and various other social news and community sites.”
Big Blue plans to launch a virtual reality project next month, and some of its now-private islands will open to the public soon.
The November Comscore numbers show the inevitable: Fox Interactive (mostly MySpace) now has more page views than the combined Yahoo sites, taking the no. 1 spot for the first time. This was less to do with MySpace growth than with a 9% dip in overall Yahoo traffic (total Internet traffic for all sites in November dipped just 3%; Google was up 5%).
It may come as a shock to some people that tech companies are corporations
–charged first and foremost with making money. Still, it sometimes seems like it wouldn’t hurt Big Tech to treat us just a little bit better.
Hitwise stats show that searches for the Nintendo Wii overtook searches for all other gaming consoles and even overtook the perennial favourite, iPod, to become the most searched for toy in the lead up to Christmas. Check out the graph…
“That’s not Mike Tyson. Are you kidding me? Mike Tyson does not have a handlebar moustache, and he’s not white.”: What happens when you take a bunch of 10 and 11 year old kids and make them play games ranging from Mike Tyson’s Punchout and the original Legend of Zelda to Street Fighter II and Grand Theft Auto (the first one).
Our community worked so hard in creating free software - and we have succeeded. Now, what we need is free hardware, to create a system that really, really “just works”. Is it possible?
This is new, and annoying, phenomena. Youtube is being used to send spam messages, that bypass the anti-spam messages.
Today, we’re excited to be releasing the beta version of Google Patent Search, which makes it easy to search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you. Start your exploration at www.google.com/patents or visit the Advanced Patent Search page to search by criteria, including patent number, inventor, and filing date.
Projects include: a Hard Drive Speaker, Tesla Turbine, Hard Driver Domonoes, HDD Grinder, and a Hard Drive Computer Case
Connecting to a server across the internet is much more secure using SSH. There is a way that you can mount a folder on a remote server using the SSHFS service.
“Being amazed at how fantastic the HD transfer of Fellowship of the Ring looked, I decided to compare it to the transfer on the DVD. Now, the DVD transfer is among the best you can find on DVD, so this really is comparing the respective creams of the crops.”