the mini Blog

I don’t know what a typical college campus is like. Everything I’ve experienced at Georgia Tech is apparently not normal for a university lacking “tech” in the title. I’ve compiled a few things I’ve noticed around school for your enjoyment on this slow news day. Here we go. You’d be surprised at how much I’m [...]

It looks like we won’t be seeing much of the PS3 at this year’s E3. People have been speculating from the beginning that Sony will be tying the console down, and not letting us see much, pretty much how the PSP was debuted. SPOnG has heard information from numerous sources, developers and third-part manufacturers, that [...]

Most of you will have at least one friend who is obsessed with the web stats program. That may very well be me. If you want to have some fun with said friend, read on.
It turns out that someone had copied the source code of my Google Maps housing project and was hosting it on [...]

This is amazing! This PowerBook has been absolutely battered, and guess what? It still works; with an external screen connected via DVI and a keyboard and mouse you can use it nearly like normal. The Airport also works! I wonder what actually happened to it to get it to this state, but this just shows [...]

For only $8.50 you can get your very own MP3 player. With a 5 hour battery life from a single AAA battery it certainly is a good deal, that is of course without an SD card. It can accept upto a 1GB SD card, so if you are straooed for cash and just want a [...]

Images have been aired on the Internet by Xbox360galaxy.com, who got their hands on a 360 Camera flier. It lists a lot of interesting specs including “gesture recognition”. The full spec is listed below.

USB 2.0 bus-powered device
Smooth, near DV quality video up to VGA 640×480 at 30 FPS
High def images: still photos up to SVGA [...]

It seems to be that the DS Lite will be arriving to America in May. This is according to EGM (American gaming magazine) anyway. This is a scanned image of the current issue from the magazine which states that the DS Lite will be landing in the US in May. “They do not give [...]

Ever since Apple came out with their Boot Camp yesterday, more and more news of it has been posted. All sorts of things so I thought I’d make a collection of links to the various bits and pieces!

Installation of Boot Camp Flickr Set
Installation of Boot Camp Video
Short Review of Boot Camp on a 20-inch iMac [...]

Apple has released their own solution to installing Windows on an Intel Mac - Boot Camp. Apple’s complete solution, though still in beta, provides owners of Intel Macs to easily partition their hard drive and install Windows XP SP2 (Home and Pro) with a cool GUI for changing bootup drive. When booting hold down the [...]

Apple has released another update to Tiger, 10.4.6, for PowerPC based Macs and Intel Macs. The PPC version weighs in at 45.3MB and contains the following fixes:
- login and authentication in a variety of network environments
- file access and byte range locking with AFP file sharing
- network access when using proxy server automatic configuration files
- [...]