If you need a retro computer fix without the eBay hassle, check out the selection of old Apple II and Mac computers at TopMicroUSA.com. Get an Apple IIe for $20 plus shipping. They’ve also got a selection of disk drives and cables. Of course, you may still need to hit eBay for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )SunRocket, the voip I was considering dropping local phone service for, may be having some financial problems. Maybe it was good I chickened out last week and settled on a stripped down plan from our local phone company (around $20 a month after taxes and fees are added).
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )From PC World, 100 Blogs We Love.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )OK, not from space — just going for a sensational post title. But cool nonetheless. From SFSignal.com, a list of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers with Blogs.
I notice Jerry Pournelle is listed. Some say he is the first blogger, although he dislikes the term “blog”. Pournelle has certainly been [...]
I just spent hours working on an old PC that once resided in my daughter’s room. It was badly infected with spyware and adware. Spybot took care of most of it, but I had a persistent NSIS Media infection. I finally think I beat it using a combination of manual and automatic [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Wow:
Astronomers at a Boston-area high school snapped this stunning picture of the space shuttle Atlantis docking with the International Space Station, 190 nautical miles up.
Scaled version below. Visit the above link to see a bigger picture. The detail is impressive, to say the least.
Finally, an alarm clock for us slackers:
The alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don’t wake up. Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide. Clocky is kind of like a [...]
Microsoft introduced an early beta service this week offering half a gig of online storage:
Microsoft Corp. is giving computer users up to 500 megabytes of online storage for their documents, music, photos and video.
Microsoft made an early, “beta” version of the Web-based file storage system available to 5,000 people Tuesday night in its latest effort [...]
In January of 2000, I bought my first ebook, the February edition of Analog Science Fiction and Fact ($3.50). That was from a site called Peanut Press. It’s changed hands — and names — a few times over the years. The current name is eReader.com, and it’s still an awesome place [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Will Wi-Max kill the Wi-Fi hotspot?
Wireless Internet service works great - so long as you’re in a Wi-Fi hotspot. But what if you could have wireless Internet everywhere you go, available on your laptop and cell phone, at speeds that can leave both DSL and 3G data networks in the dust?
That’s what Sprint [...]
David Pogue has the best — and funniest — review of the iPhone you’re likely to see.
I like Pogue, and I enjoyed his short-lived tv series on the Science Channel.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )A company is marketing a microwave device that extracts oil and combustible gas from waste plastic and rubber, according to NewScientist:
All that is needed, claims Global Resource Corporation (GRC), is a finely tuned microwave and – hey presto! – a mix of materials that were made from oil can be reduced back to oil and [...]
Kids and adults have been learning to program in LOGO for about four decades. My first computer was a VIC 20, and I was stuck with the built in BASIC language, but I did steal as much time as I could in the school library playing with LOGO on an Apple II.
Now that my [...]
Shaq’s Big Challenge premiered on ABC tonight. The uber-athlete takes on childhood obesity, challenging 6 morbidly obese kids to get into shape over six months. He gets off to a rough start, turning the kids loose with fitness plans and no supervision, but quickly learns that isn’t going to cut it. Next [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Get your own DIY game console kit from ThinkGeek for just $200.
Written by best-selling game development author Andre’ LaMothe, the included book is your complete guide to developing games, graphics, and media applications for the Propeller Powered Hydra Game console. The book assumes you have only basic programming experience. It covers all aspects of the [...]
14 word processors reviewed and compared by Zaine Ridling on DonationCoder.com.
I’m happy enough with various versions of Word installed on my Windows computers, including Word 2003 on my laptop. However, if I didn’t have access to Word, I would probably be using the capable and free OpenOffice.org. I’ve played with the open source [...]
Special Effects guru Adam Savage (now on Discovery Channel’s MythBusters) looks at why Blade Runner’s special effects are unsurpassed 25 years after the film was made. This is one of my favorite movies, and it has at least a little to do with the darkly futuristic cityscape that perfectly sets the film’s dystopian mood. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )I checked the 1984 book Digital Deli out of the library three or four times in the late eighties and early nineties. It was a funny and eccentric look at the emerging computer culture, and I loved reading and re-reading it. Eventually, it went missing from the library, and I had no luck [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )I may pick up a copy of How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion, just in case this guy and his friends ever gets too big for their britches.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )From Wired: “The Leonardian Library in Vinci, Tuscany, is making the Madrid Codices and the Codex Atlanticus — two collections of scientific and technical drawings — available as a free digital archive called e-Leo.” Cool resource — I guess. I don’t speak Italian, 15th century or otherwise. English translations are supposed to be on the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Imagine a world where interconnected computers could stream news and video on request, help kids with homework, deliver stock quotes, allow instant and effortless communications (including video conferencing), and where most of mankind’s collected knowledge is a few keystrokes away. OK, that’s all old news in 2007, more than a decade into the information [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Jet packs for sale from two different companies. Not quite ready for the morning commute, though. You get just 33 seconds of flight time, and prices start at $155,000.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Scientists propose a controversial new theory: black holes can never form. From New Scientist:
Tanmay Vachaspati and his colleagues at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, US, have tried to calculate what happens as a black hole is forming. Using an unusual mathematical approach called the functional Schrodinger equation, they follow a sphere of [...]
I just noticed that Max Headroom episodes (from the American series, 1987-1988) are available for free viewing on AOL’s In2TV. This black comedy was way ahead of it’s time, exploring artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and citizen journalism in prime time long before it was even on most people’s radar. And it was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )In the New York Times, a slide show displaying gamers and their online avatars. It’s an amazingly cool series of photos.
[Via BoingBoing]
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