Monthly Archives: January 2006
KDE 4 Screenshots
Planet Diaz Index – KDE 4 Screenshots One of the benefits of using Linux is choice. For desktops for example, there are numerous choices, varying greatly in feature set and style. So far I’ve always been using Gnome but after finding these screenshots of the new version of KDE (4) that’s in development may make […]
Clusty the Clustering Engine
Clusty the Clustering Engine Google has been in the news a lot recently, both being accused of producing mediocre, constantly beta, products (see Google Video), and folding to pressure by governments. While they’re fighting the US government to not release search results, they are complying with censorship rules imposed by the Chinese government. Whether you […]
Newsvine – Get in the Private Beta
Newsvine – Get Smarter Here Newsvine is essentially a social news website. But it’s different from other sites like Digg in that it actually involves news that you would read in the newspaper or see on the evening news. The service is still in a closed beta but here’s a quote from its welcome page: […]
Weather
Yes, another commercial. It’s just kinda funny to watch. The ending is not what you would expect…
Need Glasses?
Another great commercial. It seems to stem from Germany. Sometimes I am very proud of my heritage 😉
The Scanner Photography Project
Building homemade digital cameras from low-end flatbed scanners This is pretty damn cool. This guy has built a digital camera out of an old, low-end flatbed scanner. The resulting images can have some really interesting distortions, especially when the image is taken of moving objects. We all know how slowly the scanner moves across its […]
Witness Protection
Most TV commercials suck (especially those feminine hygiene ones), but there are some pretty clever and/or funny ones. I’ve decided to post some from time to time. Here’s the first:
2006 Dodge Charger
My current car payments run out in 3 years. If I can afford it then, this will definitely be my new car: The 2006 Dodge Charger [bubbleshare http://bubbleshare.com/album/11049]
2GB Swiss Army Knife
Swissbit bumps their knives to 2GB – Engadget Now this is a cool swiss knife. I want one. Probably pretty expensive though and just another one of those things that ends up in my nightstand drawer and then keeps me from opening it when it gets stuck behind the ledge and that really pisses me […]
Metawishlist Firefox Extension
Last year I designed a Firefox extension for Metawishlist.com. Recently I found out that some of its functionality was broken and now that it’s fixed, I’ve decided to post it here. This post will now serve as the homepage for this extension. All future releases and updates will link to this post.