the mini Blog

Tech news is always a bit dry on the weekend so I found something a little off topic, but still interesting. These are not tricks, but rather things you can do…

If your throat tickles, scratch your ear
Clear your stuffed nose!
Cure your toothache without opening your mouth!
Breathe underwater!
(For an extra 10 seconds than you’re normally used [...]

Screenshot from GAME UK Website
So I went and browsed the Internet for the most popular sites that would sell the 360 and had information about the stock. Unsuprisingly all of these, including Amazon, GAME, Gamestation and Dabs.com, have said that they cannot guarantee delivery before Christmas and they expect deliveries for consoles ordered now to [...]

As you can see from the above screenshot I just made HMV in the UK cannot guarantee pre-xmas deliveries of the Xbox 360. This is annoying, and they even say that if you didn’t order before September 7th (that is just as school began - over 2 months ago) won’t get their 360 until 2006. [...]

From the people who brought you Smash My iPod they now bring you SmashMyXbox.com. People have donated money from all corners of the world to see the latest Xbox 360 getting smashed in front of people. They have photos and a video on their page showing how they went out and waited to get [...]

This is a really cool clock. It simulates pong, the left side being the hours and the right side being the minutes. Every minute the right side wins and every hour the left side wins. It goes on for 24 hours and then restarts. If only it could also display the date, but then you [...]

I love the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It was and still is one of my favourite movies and when I saw this I had to watch the trailer. Sadly it’s quite low quality but if you zoom in you can just about seen what is happening. It looks really exciting, but it looks [...]

It looks like that CNN has made a mistake. They previously posted an article, which had an interview with the main man of Sony, Howard Stringer. It now appears that CNN has revoked this article. The article came from FORTUNE editor Peter Lewis and was published on the CNN Money website. It linked to a [...]

Mac Desktop for Thursday 24th November 2005.

IO Data, a Japanese company, has released information that some models in their ‘HDP-U’ line have ‘picked up’ the “W32/Tompai-A” trojan.
What might be even worse is how IO Data Device handled the problem; they didn’t release the serial numbers of infected drives until some 14 hours after the announcement of the infection. We realize that [...]

On Tom’s Hardware Guide they have a good guide on introducing you to all the cables that are inside and outside your computer as well as general video cables you would use in your TV.
Every computer system, whether a desktop PC or a notebook, includes a bunch of connectors, both inside and out. Can you recognize [...]