Posted on March 31st, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Here’s the perfect gift for all those people who are too lazy to pour their own beer.
For all those couch potatoes that are just too lazy to get up and pour themselves a beer they can have this robot do it for them. After watching the video I figured I probably could have poured myself [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
It appears that Wordpress has done away with the drag and drop sidebar widget functionality and ease of use from it’s previous releases. Not a change for the better.
I just installed Wordpress version 2.5 after logging into my admin panel of Wordpress 2.3.3 stated, “Your WordPress 2.3.3 is out of date. Please update. ” [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
A recent poll at the ElectroGeek.com blog shows some startling percentages when it comes to which operating system our visitors our running. Microsoft would not be pleased.
I would like to prove a point that users are not upgrading to Windows Vista for a variety of reasons and Windows XP is still the O.S. [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
MacBook Air hacked in 2 minutes using a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari 3.1 Web browser.
Before you run out and buy a MacBook Air you may want to read about Apple’s Safari browser security woes.
According to an article posted by InformationWeek , “ Mac OS X’s reputation for security was tarnished Thursday when a team [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
And you thought the Wii was just for games.
According to published reports, the U.S. military is now using a Wii remote controller to assist in operating it’s PackBot military remote.
The PackBot, designed by iRobot,”Is light enough to be deployed by a single person, the rugged iRobot PackBot can lift up to 15 pounds (6.8 [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Creative or lazy? This guy built a robot just to run 1 ethernet cable through his air vent.
Apparently he never heard of either a fish tape or wireless ethernet. Still, I guess this qualifies for pure genious. Watch the video and you decide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p76f7YLwzY
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Posted on March 25th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Vista SP1.
According to published reports, Windows XP SP3 delivered a 10% speed increase over XP SP2 and was considerably faster than Windows Vista SP1. How much faster was XP SP3 than Vista SP1? Glad you asked. Twice as fast.
That poses as question. Why the hell would you want [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
63 rounds fired from an M16 still can’t penetrate this body armor.
Only thing is they never tried shooting the armor with a 7.62mm round that our enemies are using against us. I find that odd. You would still be better off with it than without it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abd9bpvd6zY
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Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by ElectroGeek
According to a article published this week, Apple is considering giving unlimited, free access to download all iTunes music, but there’s a catch.
Sounds to good to be true right? Free, unlimited access to the entire iTunes music library. Apple must be nuts you say. Maybe. Apple is not just going to give it away for [...]
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