Wow, it looks as though the Hop-On disposable phone may really be coming to the market in force soon, since it has just been reported that Intel has agreed to supply chips for the new model. Are these things really going to be viable, I ask? As yet I have not seen any in use, but since they’re predominantly for the US market that might not be so surprising. Each phone holds 60 minutes of prepaid call time and can…
YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS This virus works on the honor system: If you’re running a variant of Unix or Linux, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random. [via Raelity Bytes] Is this what’s known as an Open Source attack?
OK here, according to FHM.com, are the 100 best online games. A fabulous selection of things with which to waste time. Enjoy! [Via Metafilter.com]]
So here on the one hand is the benevolent story of Nissan Motor company’s Carwings product – a soft female voiced persona which is now being offered as an optional extra in certain Japanese vehicles. The persona does things like read out email and the weather and offer directions to nearby amenities, there to help out the poor struggling driver make sense of the chaotic roadways. What it most certainly does not do is read out the rather unpleasant story…
A compilation of provocative and rather funny animated cartoons from the hands of Mark Fiore, political ‘toonist from San Francisco. Don’t go here unless you enjoy being challenged by some rather pointedly observed opinions. In other words if you’re easily offended, this is probably not the site for you!
There are some instances when an ordinary email message simply won’t cut it. Times when you need to say it right, say it Geek. So here – for those poor unfortunates for whom l337 sp34k is an essential part of life – is l337 Mail. Yep, just rush along to this site, enter in your email message as normal, press send and it will be encoded into this mysterious and sophisticated (!) language and sent off to impress your friends…
OK, so you’ve got the Linux car number plate, the fancy modded PC case, the automatic pizza warmer, what next? Well how about the ultimate Geek jacket – the Scott eVest? This little beauty sports 17 hidden pockets – to hold your GPS system, keyboard and other essential bits and pieces – plus a personal area network system to let you hook up all your Geeky toys. It even has collar loops to hold those all important ear pieces next…
IESpell is a free Internet Explorer extension that lets you spell check the text you enter into forms and text boxes on a Web page from within the browser itself. It’s one of those little browser toolbar add-on buttons which sounds useful, but will probably only come into its own if you spend a lot of time entering in data online. But what the hey, it’s free.
The Ferret first reported rumours about a new Matrox video graphics card on the 12th March and now it looks as though the launch is imminent – on the 14th in fact. Of course the Internet has got there ahead of time and already details have leaked out to enthusiast hardware sites. The best – if quite techy – report is here on Digit-Life.com where the company’s new Parhelia 512 video chip is dissected at length, along with a detailed…
To round off the Windows theme today, a quick mention of a set of Chris Pirillo tips, which show just how useful his work can be. Here he points out a few of the hidden programs which are buried inside Windows XP, including a rather neat self-extracting executable creator and even the old Windows media player (which means that I don’t have to fire up the bloated new version every time I want to listen to or watch something).
So there you are surfing away happily and suddenly you come across a site which you just know is dead interesting, only it’s in an indecipherable language. Fear not, citizens, simply ensure that you have installed the Microcontent News Weblog Translator (powered by Google tm). This cool little tool – or rather bookmarklet – installs to your IE browser links bar so that you simply surf to the site you want and click on the link to activate the Google…
X-Setup from Xtec is a mega Windows customiser utility, with which you can alter just about every part of your Windows installation. It’s free for home use and will let you customise over 750 different Windows settings, including Internet Explorer, Office and things like network settings. A very cool utility indeed, although you may want to be careful with some it’s more powerful tweaking abilities. Works with all current Windows versions.
Celestia is an absolutely fab space exploration proglet – or 3D space simulator as they call it – which lets you zoom around the universe as though you were in your very own Starship Enterprise. Of course you won’t be able to blow anything or anyone up or anything like that, but still and all the views of Pluto and assorted planets are stunningly done. And it’s free.
I’m not a Mac person, but this ‘ere OmniWeb certainly looks like a nice browser to be going on with. It appears to have a load of nice features and looks, of course, absolutely gorgeous. Check it out, Apple folks.
A short tale. I was at a press party the other night, and working the room taking snaps of the attendees was a professional photographer. In his hands was a rather splendid looking Nikon D1x digital camera. Naturally curiosity got the better of me – even though I’m a Ferret and not a cat – and I asked him what he thought of his toy. His words should send a chill down the 35mm film camera industry. “I love it,…
