Cool New Hardware
Yahoo Phishing Email
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008I have just received information about a Yahoo phishing email that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment.
Yahoo will NEVER ask you for your password in an email. Infact I do not think they are allowed to EVER ask for it.
DONT reply to the email with your password, otherwise you might get your [...]
Plenio VXA-3000 GPS Navigator
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Overview
The Plenio VXA-3000 GPS is a GPS unit with a built-in media player and includes a number of multimedia functions such as picture viewing, as well as playing videos, games, and music.
Product Features
The VXA-3000 boasts most of the same features as the top end systems currently on the market, but also has an extra large [...]
Asus to launch desktop Eee PC
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Asus is expanding its low-budget Eee PC range with three new models. The first machine to be launched by the Taiwanese manufacturer will be the E-DT, a desktop PC.Set to be released later this spring, it will initially run on Intel’s Celeron processors, but will move to Intel’s new Shelton platform towards the end of [...]
Making money with Online gaming
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Electronic Arts have announced that they will give away a free version of their popular title called Battlefield!
The whole idea behind this is that they will make money via advertising and also from gamers buying weapons and other virtual items. The idea of giving away free games seems to be quite new, but the [...]
Forget Ringtones, Horntones are here!
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Groovy Gadgets for Gearheads
Source: http://canadafreepress.com
By Jim Bray
Horntones. I don’t know if it’s the greatest gadget for the car since the turbocharger – or the worst example of a company chasing profits at the expense of public good. One thing I do know is that it made me laugh so hard when I [...]
Sony’s TransferJet or Wireless USB? What is your pick?
Friday, January 18th, 2008Well, Sony has decided to throw a spanner in the works with the news of their new TransferJet technology which allows you to transfer data wirelessly across devices. But wait a second… isnt that the same thing that Wireless USB is supposed to do?
And what is the point of bringing out a completely new [...]
EEE PC Touch Screen
Thursday, January 10th, 2008We have seen some really neat stuff in terms of Hacks and Mods to the EEE PC, but I think this by far has to be one of the coolest!
The Touch Screen Hack seems quite easy to implement, and also very cheap! (Approximately $60 from Ebay). Here is an Ebay Auction for a 7″ Touch [...]
Start your engines with your cellphone
Monday, January 7th, 2008Start your car with your cellphone? Why?
AS company called Autopage has come out with an interesting new technology. Some of it very practical, and other features not so…
Apparently with their new Autopage C3, you can be sitting in another country enjoying your holiday, and call up your car back home, and just for [...]
Transfer video without a PC
Monday, January 7th, 2008The 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas starts on Jan 7 2008.
I missed out on this event by a few weeks, maybe I should have delayed my trip by two weeks…
Not being from this part of the world makes it hard to keep track of what is on at certain times of the [...]
The New Asus EEE PC
Saturday, January 5th, 2008The Asus EEE PC is a new generation laptop, that is ultra small and ultra light.
It comes with linux operating system (but is fully Win XP Compatible), and comes with a choice of 2GB, 4GB or 8GB solid state drives.
With certain hacks, you can increase the amount of Solid State memory quite easily. But remember [...]