Archive for February, 2009
There is an interesting article today on wired.com about iphone sales in Japan being so bad that they are now giving the iphone away for free. It seems there is a few reasons for this including the data plan is really bad and a cultural difference. Its no secret the Japans technology is far more [ READ MORE ]
I have been following the Pirate Bay trial on Slashdot and it has been an entertaining read. By Day 3 half of the charges have already been dropped leaving lesser charges of linking to copywrited material. It raises many moral and legal issues as well as the technical aspects of how Torrents work. The Pirate [ READ MORE ]
I havent been downloading wallpaper like I used to several years ago but am thinking I should go scouring for some new sources. One of my favorite digital art sources is shadowness.com in particular the work done by 7shadows. Links to his work are here. People are always asking where I get my wallpapers from [ READ MORE ]
A bit of nostalgia from the classic 1995 movie “Hackers”. Starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie this was one of the most entertaining cyberpunk movies of all time. From the digitally crafted shots of the Gibsons file system to the techno lingo it was a blast to watch and still is today. If you [ READ MORE ]
One of the biggest features of the PS3 at least for me is the ability to share your media library to the PS3 and display it on your TV in full HD quality! How do you do this ? Well in my case my media files, music, photos and movies are stored on my linux [ READ MORE ]
Most of us have heard of Internet radio, podcasting and shoutcast. These are all methods of streaming audio and video from a central server to various clients. At work a lot of people listen to shoutcast radio streams because it is convenient. Well I grew tired of listening to the same shoutcast stations and wanted [ READ MORE ]
I have always had a passion for customizing my desktops whether it was hacking Windows XP to show custom boot screens or lately being addicted to Linux Open GL Beryl desktops. After deciding I wanted a more performance orientated experience i have decide to use Fluxbox a fork of the old Blackbox window manager for [ READ MORE ]
I am embarking on my first blog experience today. I registered the domain daivdblizard.com at godaddy for 0.99 cents and opened an account at wordpress. Was origionally going to host through wordpress but decided to host it myself on one of my Linux servers. The promo code that I used for godaddy is LOVE99 which [ READ MORE ]