BitPass Shuts Down
One of the original providers in the “Micropayments” sector, BitPass.com closes its doors. They have partnered with Digital River to handle unused account balances.
Archive for January 21, 2007
Anapnea - Free linux shell account/hosting on a supercomputer
Anapnea is a freely available Linux shell server, offering applications, binaries, web hosting, tunneling and many other services on a Dual Xeon, 8GB RAM box with a 100Mbit up/down connection. The service is absolutely free, no catch. Sure beats cheap hosting.
7 Reasons why touch-screens suck for a cell phone
With the announcement of the touch-screen iPhone, it looks like every cell phone makers out there are announcing their very own touch-screen cell phone. Are keypads a thing of the past? Are touch-screens really the way to go?
Long Awaited Update to Nintendo DS (NDS) Emulator No$gba v2.3b
This new version adds lots of compatibility and speed to the best NDS emulator out there!
“NDS Emulation
No$gba v2.2 contains some NDS emulation support. No$gba v2.3 contains almost full NDS emulation support including 3D. No$gba v2.3a now also contains NDS sound emulation. No$gba v2.3b couple of bug fixes and details.”
Opera 9.10 Experimental build with reporting feature
How do I missed the weekly build last Friday? The Opera Desktop team this week come with idea to study how people using Opera. The last weekly build is experimental adding feature reporting mechanism that collect information on what features user use. This including widgets, how many bookmark, reference and more but the sensitive data is excluded.
If Google Used a Black background…Would Save 3,000 Megawatts a Year!
As noted, an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.
Black Google Would Save 3,000 Megawatts a Year
An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. See what happens when you do the math on Google’s home page. Astounding.
7 Repairs and a DOA Replacement later, Apple still can’t get it right.
After 7 repairs on a Powerbook and a DOA replacement Macbook Pro, this poor guy is Mac-less yet again. Is this a random incident or does this point to a larger problem with Apple products and repairs?
Political Video Games?
“I’m not against fun. I like to play the same video games everyone else does. But I don’t believe that video games have to be fun,” Ian Bogost said. “I think they need to be given the opportunity to bother and disturb us…Games as a media form allow people to have political discourse,” said Ben Sawyer, Will we see more of this? Will anyone care?
Counting Down To the Digital Deadline
On Feb. 17, 2009, the date Congress has set for analog broadcasts to end. But on that date your favorite shows could turn to static, as over-the-air TV is reduced to a digital stream that only the right kind of set can decode.
Creators Put Politics Into Video Games
A growing number of games focus on political and social issues — one designer calls such games “playable editorial cartoons.” — packed with political messages. One he created just after liquids were banned from carryon baggage pits players as a frustrated airport screener faced with an ever-changing set of rules.
Apple soars and Intel plummets
The tech world saw quite a few ups and downs this week