Hot or not, the website where the vain among us post our pictures to let other people vote for our hotness has been acquired by a Canadian firm for a reported 20 million dollars. Now that’s hot. Hopefully some day the I’ll be able to post a similar headline about packratstudios.com. Something along the lines [...]

Just when Apple thought they had covered all their back doors, Geohot (teen hacker by night, genius pimple popper by day) found a small hatch big enough for everyone to fit through with a little work. (is it me or does that sound a bit gross?) Apple’s latest firmware 1.1.3 locked down several [...]

Get it while it’s hot! Apple just released the long awaited 10.5.2 update to OSX. Tons of fixes are included.
Updates were made to:

Active Directory
Airport
Back to my Mac
Dashboard
Dock
Desktop
iCal
iChat
iSync
Finder
Mail
Networking
Preview
Printing
RAW image
Safari
Login and Setup
Time Machine

And a bunch of other things. The download weighs in a 180 MB so plan to spend a few mins. The baby can be [...]

So I never was a huge fan of the movie Minority Report, but I did like that cube that Tom Cruise used to fondle before he became obsessed and addicted to Scientology. Now, you too can find out who is going to almost kill who next. (what did I say?) All you [...]

Netflix has reportedly chosen to stop renting HD-DVD disc. Hear the hammer? That is the final nail in the coffin for the format no one really knew. Hopefully we can now call an end to the format war and move on. Thank God. I was starting to get a headache. Now we can move on [...]

Bluetooth was born approximately ten years ago and came out of its binary shell in 2000. Since then it has grown like a healthy symbiote should, attaching itself to many unsuspecting spidermen gadgets to make life more interesting and rewarding. But now it is starting to grow out of it’s 270 billion inch [...]

I found this useful script for backing up MySQL on zedomax.com.
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Ars-Technica is reporting that a recent patent filling by Apple points to widgets being developed for the Apple TV. I sure hope this is the case. When the Apple TV was first released I read all the reviews that reported that it missed the mark so I didn’t actually pay attention until it was hacked [...]

N800 I hate smart phone web browsers. They never seem to work with the one web page I need. Plus the screens are so small as to be almost unreadable. That is where the Nokia N800 internet tablet enters the picture. The N800 features a crisp 800×480 display and the Firefox web browser we all know and love. It was designed from the beginning to complement your cell phone. Below I will explain how to couple your N800 with your bluetooth phone so you have full internet access when you are out of range of a wifi hot spot, all without having to pay for a data plan from your cell phone provider.

Can’t remember what you had for dinner last night? Want to make sure your soon to be ex-wife isn’t trying to slowly kill you by putting rat pellets in your morning coffee? (those white floaty things were so not marshmallows. she will get hers!!) The University of Washington has developed [...]