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Meet iGuy


iGuy is your iPod’s new best friend! He provides protection and fun for you and your iPod. Pose his arms- sit him down in the dock, and trust that his rubberized body and screen protector will keep your iPod safe.

If only I had a 4G iPod.

Filed under: Apple

Google Portal Banned From Slashdot

I have been using the Google “Portal” for a few days and I think I like it. I can see my Gmail account, see what the weather is like outside my window-less office,and even check out some of the latest news from Wired and Slashdo…wait a minute. What is this?

Apparently, Google has been hitting the […]

Filed under: News

Shopping Lists For Your iPod

iShop is a shopping list for your iPod. Created by David Tedesco, the iShop lets you build a shopping list from pre-set items that you normally shop for.
To use iShop, Simply download the file below and unzip it. Inside, you’ll find a folder that contains over 300 “blank” mp3’s (they contain no audio data and […]

Filed under: Apple

Abusing Amazon Images

Nat Gertler, quite the enterprising fellow, has cracked the Amazon.com image code. In his article, he breaks down the makeup of the image source path from adding discount tags to rotating the image to placing text on top of the image.

Filed under: Entertainment

Grafolicious: Tracking del.icio.us bookmarks

Grafolicious is a new del.icio.us tool that tracks the evolution of a del.icio.us bookmark.

The tool is the product of its author’s free time over a couple months. Not bad, I say.

Filed under: Resources

You can’t really be a geek until you strap computer monitors to your head. Let geeks.com help.

Filed under: Gadgets

Netscape 8 Causes Problems For IE

Not sure how many in the FG nation use IE on a regular basis, much less to browse XML files, but the folks over at the IEBlog have confirmed an issue that was being reported after installing Netscape 8.
Apparently, if you try to browse to an XML file, such as an RSS feed for an […]

Filed under: General

Using Your iPod With Winamp

Have an iPod and use Windows? Hate having to run iTunes on your Windows machine? Will Fisher has been working on a plugin for WinAmp that claims to make it better than iTunes for managing iPods on Windows.
In addition to letting you use WinAmp to manage your music collection and sync it to your iPod, […]

Filed under: Open Source

MySQL Cheat Sheet

Mr. I Love Jack Daniels has done it again and created another wonderful cheat sheet this time for MySQL.

The MySQL cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing useful information about MySQL. It includes a list of the available functions in MySQL, as well as data types. It also includes […]

Filed under: Programming

Shadow Dexterous Hand

The Shadow Robot Company has created the world’s most advanced Dexterous Hand. It’s driven by a block of air muscles mounted behind the hand on the “forearm”. Pneumatic valves and initial control software are provided.
The joints of the hand are driven by an opposing pair of muscles, permitting variable compliance at the joint.

Filed under: Gadgets

Nokia Announces Linux-based Net Appliance

The Nokia 770 is an Internet tablet running Debian Linux on a 4.13″ diagonal screen with a resolution of 800×480.
It appears to work much like a Palm or Tablet PC, with no keyboard and a stylus input device. It supports 802.11b and Bluetooth, using either to connect to the Internet (using a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone […]

Filed under: Gadgets

They Rule: Connecting Corporations

Ever wonder how companies are connected? Then you might want to check out They Rule which maps relationships between corporate board members. It also includes data for some colleges and universities. It’s basically Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon for the corporate world. A partial map of the tech industry:

It should be noted […]

Filed under: Resources

A Condensed History of Everything

Why do people take the time to compose such things? I’m not sure, but I did find it rather humorous. Admittedly, though it’s brief, I spaced out around the 1850s.

245,000,000 years ago, thanks to a gamma ray burst originating in our galaxy’s core, the Permian mass extinction takes place, wiping out something like 96% […]

Filed under: Entertainment

Dell $750 Bargain Happens Again

Dell is at it again. $750 off select Inspiron units, but is limited to the first 15,000 orders so get on it.
The mad dash starts this morning at 9AM ET (8AM CT, 6AM PT). You’ve got to act fast because Dell has only allocated 15,000 units to this deal, and believe it or not, they’ll
easily […]

Filed under: News

The Prime Number Shitting Bear

Umm, watch this bear shit prime numbers. Great for any young person to learn about prime numbers. Stats include:

Prime now
Prime count
Prime density
Uptime

Make sure not to blink though, this bear shits fast.
via Bombast

Filed under: Resources

Life with a ‘Slug’

Mark Boulton has gotten his Linksys NSLU2 all setup and has setup what I have been meaning to setup for the past decade: a suitable home storage system.
To start things off I suggest you checkout getting geekier by the minute which has some good commentary on the Linksys device.
Maybe I will go get this PC […]

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