Archive for August, 2005

Apple rumors heating up

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

September 7 is the big date according to Apple. The possible new products are:

Ipod Phone, possibly from Cingular according to the Wall Street Journal
Color Flash based Ipod Mini
Video Ipod

If they only launch the Ipod Phone from Motorola it will be an anti-climax, since it will hardly be hotter than the red hot Sony Ericsson W800. […]

WinFS beta released to developers

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

The long overdue new file system for windows, Winfs, has finally been released to developers on MSDN. It will still not be a part of Windows Vista.
Winfs and its precursor OFS (Object File System) have been listed as one the most long lasting vaporware in the computer business.

Tricky direction to Mensa New York

Monday, August 29th, 2005

As most of you know Mensa is not for everyone. In order to get the instructions on Google Maps you have to solve a puzzle.

German human overclocking

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

The excellent editors at Toms Hardware Guide have conducted a little experiment with human overclocking.

Mio A701, Windows Mobile 5 with GPS

Friday, August 26th, 2005

The register has an exclusive about a yet-to-be released PDA phone from Mio called the A701. It is based on Windows Mobile 5 and has a GPS reciever built-in.

Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 1 download link

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Here is a link to a site that lets you download Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 1. Requirements are legitimate copy of Windows XP.

My image puzzle hack

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

I have made a little image puzzle hack. It is pretty easy to use. Move around the pieces until the puzzle is solved. What is pretty neat is that you can choose which images you play with. Just enter a valid image url with an image that is at least 400×400 pixels (it does not […]

PSP 2.0 browser strengths and weaknesses

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

I managed to install the PSP 2.0 firmware yesterday. The installation was pretty easy. Using the browser is not that easy.
There are a couple of things that make the PSP a bad surfing machine.

The lack of stylus (or mouse). I was not able to center the page in the browser in the screen […]