Archive for the ‘interesting’ Category

Circuit City starts new DVD rip service

Friday, August 4th, 2006

This is one that I'll have to keep an eye on. Circuit City started ripping DVD's for people for their portable media players. $10 for one DVD and $30 for 5 DVD's. Yes it's incredibly easy for a lot of us to rip our own DVD's for ...

How to destroy your data!

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Don't let people steal your identity! I did a little write up on how to wipe all the data off your hard disks before selling/tossing them. Hope it helps somebody out there!

2nd Spyware lawsuit against Microsoft

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Again for WGA. It's pretty fun if you ask me. Before it was updated, WGA "phoned home" to Microsoft servers once a day, delivering information about a user's computer and operating system. This daily communication was not disclosed when WGA was installed and fits the definition of spyware offered by at ...

Another $5 idea? Youtube competition…

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

So this could be another one of those "why didn't I think of that" or it could just be another good idea, but it didn't work out. eefoof.com has been born and their slogan is "Make it. Post it. Profit." Basically if you create multimedia content such as video, audio ...

Bittorrent signs deal with Warner Bros.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

To be honest, I'm suprised it took this long but Bittorrent, INC signed a deal with Warner Bros to deliver legal movie and television content.? I just hope there is sort of a discount or kickback since they'd be using our bandwidth to deliver their products! Either way, it's nice ...

Conclusion to the stolen sidekick

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Well... the police arrested the teen who stole the sidekick... That link is to the story on the NY Times page. This whole ordeal was pretty interesting but I'm glad it's over. Maybe now Evan can go back to doing.. uh whatever he was before? http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

How NOT to steal a SideKick II

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

An interesting collection of detective work going on trying to recover a friends stolen SideKick II. Chances of them actually getting it back are really slim, but the humiliation the thieves have and will go through won't be worth the cost of that phone! Oddly enough, I had a pager ...

Internet is like reading the newspaper, talking on the phone..

Monday, April 24th, 2006

A judge ruled today that only a reprimand was in order for an employee websurfing while at work. He stated: In his decision, Spooner wrote: "It should be observed that the Internet has become the modern equivalent of a telephone or a daily newspaper, providing a combination of communication and ...

Remote Desktop via SSH

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

I wrote up a little page on connecting to your home network via SSH for things like Remote Desktop, VNC, proxying etc. Enjoy!

Not enough time in the day?

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

I think we all can agree there isn't enough time in the day to do half of what we'd like to do. This article gives some tips on how to squeeze an extra 12 hours into your 24 hour day! Ultimately, I wish we could freeze time to ...