Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Forget the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon now we have a game that puts te internets graetest resource to work: Six Degrees of Wikipedia. All you have to do is choose two topics that you want to calculate the degrees of separation of links between the topics on Wikipedia and the algorithm does the [...]

 

Apple Store Sydney – Photo!

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Photo Credit: RoboBoogie Apple fans who have been patiently waiting since February last year yesterday got a glimpse of their future second home when this giant banner went up on Apple’s flagship Sydney store at 77 King Street which according to SMH is expected to open at 6pm on Thursday, June 19 and is rumoured [...]

 

Your mobile phone allows shops to secretly track you

Monday, May 19th, 2008

A UK shopping centre is using the signal from its customer’s mobile phones to monitor people in the building. The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they walked around. – via Times Online This uber level of [...]

 

George W Bush hasn’t used email in 8 years

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Mr. Bush stopped e-mailing when he entered the White House, citing security worries, and the Oval Office does not have a computer in it. via NY Times It seems unimaginable that anyone could exist in a level of power like the US Presidency without at least some information flow coming from the web and its [...]

 

Dial your mobile like the ye olden times

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Here is something for the buyers of the upcoming Australian release of the iPhone. You can go back to the ye olden times of a rotary dial when making a call. Ummm…it looks kind of cool but would have to be freaking annoying as it would be much slower than just pressing the numbers on [...]

 

Macbook, thin enough

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Parody of the Macbook Air advertisement

 

Your own “Minority Report” computer interface

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Remember when Tom Cruise was using his hands to control the the user interface of his computer in the Minority Report? ‘Twas fan-freaking-fantastic! Well, now you can have something similar at home: Microsoft has an enticing alternative to the Surface called the TouchWall—a rear-projection system constructed from just a few hundred dollars worth of readily [...]

 

Filter out the crap comments on The Youtube

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Users of the Firefox web browser can now install a filter which eliminates Youtube comments that contain Excessive punctuation!!!????, spelling mistakes, lack of capital letters to begin a sentence and ALL CAPS. Nice. Now, can we get a filter for every www irritation? Kthxbye. (found via The Stumblng Tumblr)

 

iPhone finally coming to Australia

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

It seemed like it would never happen. But the unimaginable has occurred, the “Jesus Phone”, Apple’s iPhone is finally coming to Australia. Yay! Vodafone has announced that they’ll be selling the iPhone in Australia later this year. Thankfully Apple will be adopting a more open strategy for selling the iPhone than they did when it [...]

 

IronKey: Self Destructing USB Drive

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

This is pretty Get Smart if you ask us which is why we like it. A military grade encrypted thumb drive that will self destruct if an incorrect password is entered 10 times. Full details at the IronKey site https://www.ironkey.com (found via Think Geek)