There is a rather sensational story on the Drudge Report at this moment about an apparent disgruntled network engineer who granted himself god rights on a network, then locked out everyone else’s administrative rights. He then went to jail rather than divulge his password. It’s the equivalent of locking the door and swallowing the key. […]
Yep, you read that right. A robotic sheep that will mow your lawn while you lie down in the sun sipping a delicious strawberry daiquiri. The sheep, named Mower, has been designed by Osman Khan, a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon’s, with Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” in mind. The […]
The folks from RadioHead just released a new video for their latest song “House of Cards.” The thing that makes this video so special is that no cameras or lights we used to film it. Instead, the producing team used two 3D technologies to capture motion and images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics […]
Apple freaks and PC nerds behold! The Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs flash game puts you in control of one of your two heroes in a fight to the death that will only leave one standing. And the best of all? They’re using light sabers to bash each others over the head! Enjoy!
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] InformationWeek is reporting that Mozilla is already preparing Firefox 3.1 for release in the New Year and Firefox 4 is apparently already being discussed. This despite Firefox 3 only being released less than a few weeks ago. Take that Internet Explorer! When it comes to discussing features, the big […]
At least that’s what they want to make us believe with this picture posted Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Since then, the photo has been published in numerous online and offline publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, MSNBC, Yahoo! News and countless others. But it seems […]
Yep folks, one of my favorite movies of all times, Batman Begins, has just been released on Blu-Ray. Up to now, the title was only available on HD-DVD, but fortunately, some people with a head on their shoulders decided that it would be a good idea to release it on a non-dying HD format. He’s […]
By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
For a search engine company, Google has today made a very strange move by starting up a Sims-type virtual reality website where you can set up your own avatars and virtual reality environments for chatting to other people online. No prizes for guessing what I’ve been doing for the past several hours – yep, pushing a bed up two flights of stairs.
I was initially dismissive of Lively and I scoffed at Google’s attempts to imitate “The Sims” and “Second Life” but in the end curiosity got the better of me (as it always does) and I downloaded it to have a look. After trying it out, I have to admit it does have potential and it does have the fun factor but I am still scratching my head wondering why Google of all companies chose to make this. What does Lively have to do with search?
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Now this is something interesting that I might end up using quite a lot. gAttach is a program which kind of rewires the “Mail Recipient” right-click option in Windows Explorer so that, instead of Outlook opening, the selected file goes to Gmail instead. It says on the site that […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Despite having a name that sounds like baby vomit, Plurk is a Twitter-like micro-blogging service that is gaining more and more fans by the day. But one of the things really holding it back was the lack of a desktop client. Twitter has many including my personal favourite, TWhirl, […]