Nowadays you can stuff a flashdrive into anything, plastic, metal, rubber duckies, bowling balls, chicken feet..... wait a minute, what?! Thats right, you can be the proud owner of a chickenfoot usb flash drive. Here are ten weird usb flashdrives:
http://devicedaily.com/gadgets/10-weird-usb-drives.html
Here are some of my favorites:
Tape:
Sushi:
and Chickenfoot:
Gizmodo has a great chart showing the process that it seems that Apple follows when deciding to reject or accept an app.
Available here:
http://gizmodo.com/5051273/how-apple-picks-which-apps-make-it-to-the-app-store
Admit it, of all of Windows Vista's new features, the one that you found least useful and exciting was UAC. UAC requests permission for many actions that require administrator privileges, even if you are logged in as admin. While it might stop you from making a bad choice, it is so annoying that users often develop the reflex of hitting continue whenever a UAC box comes up.
(A UAC box, courtesy of Wikipedia)
Often times, users just end up disabling UAC rather than allowing it to pester them while they try to work. Smart UAC Replacement is an attempt to fix this.
(Image from Brothersoft.com)
Smart UAC replacement can remember your choices for a particular program, and after a while the UAC boxes become far and few between. It can also determine some actions without user input, trap harmful processes using a malware database, and monitors for rootkits. Any rules created for allowing or denying actions of a program can be edited in text files stored in the root of your system drive. Smart UAC Replacement is available here. Once installed, it will disable regular UAC, and take its place.
Computers are never wrong, except when we tell them to be. Gizmodo caught this great error, almost 10000f below zero!
http://gizmodo.com/5049421/computer-weather-error-shows-why-houston-is-in-extra-trouble
Well, now that I have you portal fans reading, its safe to tell you that this is actually about real cake. iPhone cake.
This was created by Nick Bilton and Danielle Bilton for a cupcake decorating championship. Details here.
IBM has jumped past Intel, and says that they have solved the problem of scaling chips down to 22nm. Intel currently has plans to go to 32nm in 2009, and 22nm in 2011. If this is true it means that manufacturers have another two years to figure out how to make 16nm chips based on Intel’s tick-tock cycle.
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/123142,ibm-unveils-technology-for-22nm-chips.aspx
Google recently found an old 2001 database, and worked with the internet archive to make the links point to the Internet Archive pages from back then. The net effect, you can google like its 2001!
