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Let Me Google That For You Passive-Aggressively Helps your Friends

If you’re a power searcher, or other people think you are, and you’re getting tired of constant requests for answers to questions that a quick Google search would provide, try Let me google that for you.

Air Out My Shorts [Must listen Podcast]

They had me a “Word Whore”… Join podshow hosts Preston Buttons & The Word Whore as they clumsily narrate their way through submitted works of Short Fiction: often painfully, always absent-mindedly and completely unincumbered by any relevent credentials…

Countdown to Conficker

We’re now less than a two days away from the scheduled activation of the latest variant of the Conficker worm and experts are still unsure if this is all a hoax or a set-up for security disaster.

HP Mini 1000 XP Edition

It may seem as if Hewlett-Packard is arriving somewhat late to the Netbook game with its Mini 1000, but the company’s business division has offered a similar system, the 2133 Mini-Note PC since the spring of this year. That model scored points with the best Netbook keyboard we’ve seen and a solid metal construction, but [...]

My Top G1 Apps [Must Have]

Here is a list of the apps that I cannot live without on my G1 android phone. Out of the box the phone is awesome, but these apps will make the phone even more awesome, if that is even possible. After using my phone for a few months, and loading it with all kinds of [...]

Sorry about that!!!

Sorry about the lack of updates as of late. I have been crazy busy and have not have time to bring you the best of the best on the net. Things look a little less crazy for me so we will see what develops in the coming months. I enjoy finding and sharing what is [...]

Pirate Bay accused does remote sysadmin from courtroom during closing arguments

Fredrik Neij, one of the PirateBay admins currently on trial in Stockholm, admitted that he was rebooting his servers from the courtroom while the lawyers were making closing arguments: “A server was down and I restarted it”, Neij tells expressen.se. He is one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay that stand accused of [...]

Google’s PowerMeter

Google announce a free web service called PowerMeter that’ll let users track energy consumption in their homes or business, provided there’s a means to upload the data. That part of the equation’s gonna be up to other companies to create compatible devices, and while no manufacturing partners have been named, we’d suspect strange bedfellow GE [...]

I need your advice on a NAS/DAS for my xbox…

So I am looking for a Network Attached Storage device to use with my xbox. The 2 I have so far considered is the DROBO and the Buffalo TeraStation Live. The plan is to have the device with next to my xbox in the entertainment center in the living room. I have to consider the [...]

Xoopit works for Gmail

Use Gmail? Get Xoopit! Upgrade Gmail to search, browse & share files, photos & videos. Use Google Search while composing mail in Gmail. Get information about people in a Gmail conversation. Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.