Top 10 disappointing technologies

[img_assist|nid=342|title=Angry Eating Keyboard|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=100|height=67]Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company’s marketing department actually believes it. PC authority has a nice article about the top 10 disappointing technologies. I love the picture with the article.
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/145271,top-10-disappointing-technologies.aspx

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company’s marketing department actually believes it. PC authority has a nice article about the top 10 disappointing technologies. I love the picture with the article.
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/145271,top-10-disappointing-technologies.aspx

From Voodoo to GeForce: The Awesome History of 3D Graphics

It’s pretty amazing when you think about how far graphics technology has come. To help you do that, we’re going to take a look back at every major GPU release since the infancy of 3D graphics. Join us as we travel back in time and relive releases like 3dfx’s Voodoo3 and S3’s ViRGE lineup. This is one nostalgiac ride you don’t want to miss! http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/graphics_extravaganza_ultimate_gpu_retrospective
I can remember having many of these cards growing up gaming.

It’s pretty amazing when you think about how far graphics technology has come. To help you do that, we’re going to take a look back at every major GPU release since the infancy of 3D graphics. Join us as we travel back in time and relive releases like 3dfx’s Voodoo3 and S3’s ViRGE lineup. This is one nostalgiac ride you don’t want to miss! http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/graphics_extravaganza_ultimate_gpu_retrospective
I can remember having many of these cards growing up gaming.

Ten beautiful computers

BoingBoing has a nice gadgets entry of ten beautiful computers. I personally like the old Mac Classic better then the Mac G4 cube. This article has some very nice pictures of some very beautiful computers. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/05/14/beauties.html

BoingBoing has a nice gadgets entry of ten beautiful computers. I personally like the old Mac Classic better then the Mac G4 cube. This article has some very nice pictures of some very beautiful computers. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/05/14/beauties.html

Check out my mini city.

This is a french web browsers “game,” it is not much of a game. I just started my own city about a week ago. You can create your own city by going to: http://mentone12345.myminicity.com/ and clicking on Build My City. Please visit my mini city daily (http://mentone12345.myminicity.com/). I get more inhabitants each time you visit helping to make my city grow. I now have industry, please visit http://mentone12345.myminicity.com/ind to help me grow my industry.

This is a french web browsers “game,” it is not much of a game. I just started my own city about a week ago. You can create your own city by going to: http://mentone12345.myminicity.com/ and clicking on Build My City. Please visit my mini city daily (http://mentone12345.myminicity.com/). I get more inhabitants each time you visit helping to make my city grow. I now have industry, please visit http://mentone12345.myminicity.com/ind to help me grow my industry.

Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained

MaximumPC has a nice article that explains the Blue Screen Of Death(BSOD). If you have ever wanted to know more about why you get them and how to resolve the BSOD here is the article for you. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/blue_screen_survival_guide

MaximumPC has a nice article that explains the Blue Screen Of Death(BSOD). If you have ever wanted to know more about why you get them and how to resolve the BSOD here is the article for you. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/blue_screen_survival_guide

The Twittering Toilet

Since I just joined twitter not too long ago, there has been tremendous amounts of news and a huge following of twitters and tweets. It seems that everyone is tweeting. Today I found out that even toilets are twittering. Check out this toilet that tweets every time it is flushed: http://aculei.net/~shardy/hacklabtoilet/ Flush Flush Flush. Enjoy!

Since I just joined twitter not too long ago, there has been tremendous amounts of news and a huge following of twitters and tweets. It seems that everyone is tweeting. Today I found out that even toilets are twittering. Check out this toilet that tweets every time it is flushed: http://aculei.net/~shardy/hacklabtoilet/ Flush Flush Flush. Enjoy!

New programming language: lolcode

Programming the LOL way.
All LOLCats, LOL, ALL CAPS.

HAI! This site provides community documentation of the emergent LOLCODE language. It was the creator’s original hope that the examples could grow in a way that is both internally consistent and suggest a real, feasible computing language.

Here is the HAI WORLD example:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE “HAI WORLD!”
KTHXBYE

To learn more about lolcode visit this site: http://lolcode.com/

Programming the LOL way.
All LOLCats, LOL, ALL CAPS.

HAI! This site provides community documentation of the emergent LOLCODE language. It was the creator’s original hope that the examples could grow in a way that is both internally consistent and suggest a real, feasible computing language.

Here is the HAI WORLD example:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE “HAI WORLD!”
KTHXBYE

To learn more about lolcode visit this site: http://lolcode.com/

Toucan backup software

I just found this nice back up utility that will do the type of backups that I need on my home workstation. http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan/
I created a nice little batch file that I can run anytime I want to run a backup or I could use windows scheduler and have it run at a certain time each night. Here is the batch script: In Toucan I created a sync called Downloads and saved it. In the batch file I put:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Toucan\Toucan.exe” Downloads
pause

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Toucan\Toucan.exe” = the path where you installed Toucan.
Downloads = Name of sync file you made.

I saved the file as backupDownloads.bat and run it when I download new software.

I just found this nice back up utility that will do the type of backups that I need on my home workstation. http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan/

I created a nice little batch file that I can run anytime I want to run a backup or I could use windows scheduler and have it run at a certain time each night. Here is the batch script: In Toucan I created a sync called Downloads and saved it. In the batch file I put:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Toucan\Toucan.exe” Downloads
pause

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Toucan\Toucan.exe” = the path where you installed Toucan.
Downloads = Name of sync file you made.

I saved the file as backupDownloads.bat and run it when I download new software.