All Geek All The Time
One of the things I’m going to be missing at Maker Faire is this Big Mess of Wires (BMOW), which is a totally hand built CPU. Steve Chamberlin designed and built a custom 8-bit CPU from dozens of simple logic chips primarily using basic 7400-series logic. No 6502, Z-80, etc. After that he added on [...]
Well the smart folks over at GE are getting closer to being able to use Holograms as a storage medium. While theoretical holographic storage has been around for quite some time the technical problems have keep it off the road map. The GE boys and girls however, have had a breakthrough.
The challenge has been to [...]
To help protect it’s users, search giant Google routinely flag potently dangerous sites with the warning, “This site may harm your computer.” in it’s search results. Normally everything work just fine and only the really bad sites get this warning added to the link. But this morning something went very wrong and all Google [...]
So one of the last purchases I made before I froze all unessary spending was to pick up a copy of Delicious Monsters, Delicious Library 2. Not only does DL2 keep track of books but also movies, video games, you iTunes Library and more. You can also create shelves where you can sort your items. [...]
Well since Apple didn’t announce a Mac Netback at Macworld. I might just have to make my own. There is quite a community supporting putting OS-X on the Msi Wind. And now Gregory Cohen has gotten OS-X to install and run on a eeePC his blog has details about the hack and tip and [...]
In kind of a shocking announcement Microsoft has announce that starting Friday that a free Beta of the new Windows 7 will be available to the public. Other then the public beta the rest of the announcement sound like the same old Microsoft song and dance, this would be the “best version of Windows ever”. [...]
Well it seem that none of the rumors were true about the MacWorld Keynote. There was no iPhone Nano, no new Mac Mini, no Mac Network Storage, no Mac Netbook. What we did get was a new iLife and iWork, a new 17in MacBook Pro with (thank god) a non glossy screen, but you will [...]
