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April 2005

163 posts

Happy Tiger Day!

Today at 6pm, Tiger will officially be unveiled. Also, Apple has opened up its new OS X Downloads page. It includes Widgets created by one of my favorite companies, Panic (the Transmit widget) and the Delicious Mini Library Shelf (by Delicious Monster Software).

Southpaw Mouse

RadTech Bt-510 Bluetooth mouse autoswaps buttons for lefties Being left-handed, I appreciate the effort put into this by Radtech. However, after years upon years of living in a right-handed society, I've adapted to the traditional mouse in the PC environment, and a one-button mouse for my Mac at home. But thanks for trying!

Geek News Central #60 2005-04-29

Very late show tonight and I am off to the doctor to find out what the heck is wrong with me. Three weeks and I still have not beat this chest cold. Meanwhile I have a real treat for you at the end with some local Hawaiian music that you will not hear anyplace else, GNC-2005-04-29.mp3 GNC-2005-04-29.wma GNC-2005-04-29.ogg GNC-2005-04-29.torrent [ADV

Deep Impact on track to smack a Comet

The picture relayed back from Deep Impact is only one pixel but the view is going to get pretty amazing in the next couple of months. The 23,000 mph collision should be interesting as well. [Wired]

Microsoft takes a page out of the Apple Playbook

Cease and desist notices have went out and sites are being asked to take down longhorn screen shots. Come on Microsoft don't be so sensitive. We all know they product is far from finished do you think some screen shots are really going to be that harmful after all your getting your tails beat pretty bad in the OS department

How much PC power is it going to take to run Longhorn

Every indication early on was that people were going to need power horses to run the OS. But that may actually not be the case, but it still sounds like the OS will be a boon for the memory and dual processor market. I will probably early adopt one machine to play with the OS. Obviously to get wide consumer

Watch how you type Google!

Seems someone has registered the domain goog*le.com (i replaced the K with the *) because I do not want you going to this site. It is full of spyware and Trojans and if your a IE user it could end up being a very bad day. Amazes me the lengths people will go to try and infect computers so they

Walmart will sell you a custome CD

I have a thing about Walmart and it isn't necessarily positive but we will save that for another article. Walmart is offering a service now were you can order a custom CD. Obviously they have had the download service but this is an interesting twist. I wonder if the CD's that are burned by Walmart are truly CD quality. May

Geek Fun

Ok have 5 minutes to waste [Press Me]

Dirt Devil on Mars

We have all seen them on earth well now you can see one on Mars courtesy of our little rovers. [NASA]

iPodder.org is it still an Open Directory

I have been working very closely with the team at Techpodcasts.com and we have been making a lot of progress lately. But we have run into several stumbling blocks that has us concerned. 1. Ipodder.org is supposed to be a open directory and such is not supposed to be biased and allow equal listings. The Techpodcasts.com site has a Mini

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