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Entries for June, 2006

Top 11 game controllers:

The list:
11. The Zapper (NES)
10. Dreamcast
9. Wavebird
8. SNES
7. Atari 2600 Joystick
6. Nintendo 64
5. Wii Remote
4. Xbox Controller S
3. Dual Shock (PSX)
2. Mouse and keyboard
1. NES
I like the N64 controller, it was great, no controller since has had a z trigger, it was perfect for goldeneye, made it feel like a gun, almost, and, personally, i [...]

Dead hard drive case mod

 
Most of them are old, 2gb and under hard disks, put together to make a pc case.
I have to say, i like the idea, but, it’s gotta be sooooo heavy!
source (Hacked Gadgets)

Try this on a Windows computer

Honestly, the video speaks for itself. See it right here:
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/BxdK-bZQ698"][/gv]
I seriously can’t see any laptop running windows, even with 2 gigs of RAM, switching between programs that quickly without some kind of lag.
And we all know that kind of lag…the kind where all you see is the border of whatever application it is until [...]

BLACKMAIL!

Blackmail, extortion, its all the same right, using something to get something else (mostly money) from some person/company.
Well, now the art of extortion has gone Web 2.0!  Extortr allows you to annomysly blackmail someone.  The service is simple, you upload a picture or video of a person, and their email address.  Said person gets a [...]

2nd most expensive computer ever

The Japanese government has a 400 million dollar super computer.  It took 5 years to build, and
This 640 processor node supercomputer was benchmarked with Linpack with a result of 35.86 TFlop/s. The total memory of this one is 10 TB (TeraBytes) and each processor contains 8 vector processors running at 500MHz with 16GB of shared [...]

Google Government

Google released the custom homepage Google U.S. Government Search the other day.  It’s more for government empoyees so they can better find the information they’re looking for that’s on many different government sites.
No word yet on weather or not you’ll be able to search transcripts of your telephone calls courtesy of the NSA.

Supersafe USBs

Pretec Electronics Corp is begining manufracture of new USB memory sticks with sizes ranging from 32mb-2gb that are fireproof, waterproof, and bullet proof.
Here’s the ONLY reason i can think of why you would need this.
You plug your new super safe USB memory stick into the back of your computer.  You sit down, and start typing [...]

Any fuel you want

Along with gasoline and diesel, the one-of-a-kind station — part of a dealership near busy Interstate 15 — offers a full range of clean-burning alternative fuels from ethanol to propane to BioWillie, a brand of biodiesel made from soybeans and promoted by country music legend Willie Nelson.
Have an “exotic” car that doesnt run on ordinary [...]

What a meteorite would look like (CGI)

Source (TechEBlog) Pretty good cg animation of what a meteor impact would look like, i guess the only thing we really have to go by to see if it’s correct is go watch Deep Impact but Argameddon is so much better, i mean, sure Morgen Freeman is a damn good actor, and i will [...]

Google Google Google!

Google has been busy in the week since i’ve been gone.
Released a few things, found a few things, made up a few things.
First off was Google Spreadsheet. (i mentioned that earlier) And i’ve since played around with it, and it works so far, it was easy to import a file, and its easy to use [...]

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