Google/NASA partnership approaching lift-off
The team has planned a press conference for 11 am today at NASA Ames Research Center, at Moffett Field, to discuss details about their cooperation under a Space Act Agreement.
Archive for December 18, 2006
GameCube Zelda Outshines Wii Version
In-depth Review. Game Crush says that the GCN version of Zelda is better than the Wii version.
Nintendo spends $160 making each Wii
“In a report published by Japanese business weekly the Toyo Keizai [...] the most expensive component inside the Wii is the DVD drive, which, the paper estimates, costs $31. Next comes ATI’s ‘Hollywood’ graphics chip, at $29.60. The IBM-designed and made CPU, ‘Broadway’, costs $13, the report reckons.”
Infamous spammer using Blogger to Spam the SE’s
Last year, this rather infamous spam artist was successful in getting millions of pages indexed at Google. Around the forums and blogosphere, this little spam went down in history as a slam again all the SE’s, but especially Google.
Sub domains of the blogspot domain, are being used as cloaked redirects to this spam search results.
Screenshot of new Final Fantasy XIII character!
As the title says, we
’ve managed to get our hands on a screenshot of the Final Fantasy XIII male protagonist that appeared riding the motorcycle in the Jump Festa 2007 trailer. It’s not the best quality image but at least we can make out his facial features and upper character design. For screenshot follow the link! 
How do I spell Firefox? How do I abbreviate it?
Firefox is spelled F-i-r-e-f-o-x - only the first letter capitalized (i.e. not FireFox, not Foxfire, FoxFire or whatever else a number of folk seem to think it to be called.) The preferred abbreviation is “Fx” or “fx”.
Wiimote Working With Playstation 3
A Japanese group has made a Linux driver that recognizes the Wiimote.
Did Gizmodo trick us all with the Monday iPhone release date?
Yes and no. It was an obvious con to get hits, but there is an element of truth in what he said. There is an iPhone being released today. A VoiP phone called iPhone, but it’s not from Apple.
P2P content delivery solutions provider Oversi closed $6 million round
P2P content delivery solutions provider Oversi has closed a $6 million round of financing from Carmel Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Lab-One Innovations and TempoPark Fund.
Oversi will use this funding to hire over 20 Internet technology professionals in order to accelerate the time-to-market of its new P2P-based solutions.
There are more Linux distros than Linux software!
Do you know what is the biggest problem with open-source software? Well, check out this site, it has more Linux distros than Linux software out there. That’s what happens when you let the programmers run wild. If Linux succeeds, we will have even more distros than now. It shows that open-source will never work, it will create a mess!!!
How Can You Get Free Microsoft adCenter Credits?
This offer is sweet! If you have not yet signed up for Microsoft adCenter
… now is the time, and they are giving you $100 of there money to get you started. Click here to receive the code and happy paid searching.
How to convert .flac files to .mp3 using OS X
If you’ve got some FLAC files from your Linux box or one of your “peers” and now you want to convert them to .mp3, this tutorial will walk you through the steps to do just that using OS X.