August 31, 2006 by Brad.

The Entertaible (worst name ever?) combines traditional social tabletop gaming with multiplayer computer gaming by turning the gameboard into a touch-sensitive, object position-tracking display. Players will be able to play using traditional boardgame pieces and dice on dynamic playing fields or changing levels — and maybe even a dungeon?

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

The question hardcore gamers willing to spend $700-$1100 on graphics cards have wanted to know. Which is the ultimate ultra-high-resolution (e.g. 2560×1600) dual-GPU setup: SLI or Crossfire?

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

When do we stop… How much space do we really need on a thumb drive?

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

“here’s a roundup of some gear that’ll turn your hotspot into a data blast zone”

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

More of what is possible when you use touchscreen + XGL on Linux!

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

Here it is, the release that we’ve been working hard to get pushed. Immortus is a huge improvement over the 0.5 release. We’ve finally got a really solid system with some of the most intuitive features you’ll ever use in a publishing system. The big addition for Mephisto 0.6 is the slick Asset Management feature.

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

“Digg has reached the 500,000th registered user mark! We continue to grow at a phenomenal rate and we owe it to all 500,000+ of you for digging GREAT stories. As of 2:30pm PST digg has 511,136 registered users”

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

This page describes how to build a USB-keyboard in the form-factor of an old C64 breadbox. Actually, with little modification it can be used for any kind of keyboard, since the source code is available, and all that needs to be done is to modify the key-to-scancode mapping.

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

Pieced together information by “scraping” YouTube for data. The videos take up 45 terabytes of storage â?? about 5,000 home computersâ?? worth. The words “dance,” “love,” “music” and “girl” are all exceedingly popular in video titles, etc.

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August 31, 2006 by Brad.

Until now, to install Linux on a notebook, the user had to purchase a laptop with Microsoft installed, uninstall it, and then install the preferred Linux distribution. One of the things Lenovo’s laptops offers via its OS-less HDs is mainstream users a chance to get Linux desktops without having to pay Microsoft.

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