In case you were hiding under a rock yesterday, there have been rumors that Google will release an Ebay-killer called Google Base. After the news got out about Google Base, Google took it offline: http://base.google.com. You can see screenshots here. One screenshot reads:

Post your items on Google.
Google Base is Google’s database into which you can […]

In the Tokyo subway system you might find a wall filled with Apple iPod Nano’s. No, not real ones, but plastic cutouts that you can remove from the wall and take with you. They are the actual size of the Nano, and are made with a sturdy plastic.

Much to my suprise, I later realised that […]

I don’t know about you, but I can think of about a hundred thousand different things I would rather spend $100,000 on rather than a virtual space station, but in Project Entropia there is at least one person that would rather the virtual space station.
A virtual space resort being built in the online role-playing game, […]

Have you reached the limit of the amount of people you can have on your MSN Messenger list? Neither have I, but it seems someone must have, or Microsoft thought that it would be a good marketing gimmic, as they have increased the amount of buddies you can have on you list to 600.
I don’t […]

Have you ever been in a library, or other location and had to deal with people turning on their computer or laptop and listening to the Windows start up sound?
Well what if you took that a bit further, would anyone care?
Check out this Quicktime Video and see what happened.
www.prangstgrup.com/startupsound/

In countless Wal-Marts across the country, there are XBox 360 demo machines, giving consumers a first look at Microsoft’s next generation of gaming. Apparently, they have all been switched off for the time being. Why you ask?
There is a bug (imagine that) in the software that is causing interference with Wal-Mart’s wireless product scanners.
Microsoft has […]

According to this C|NET article, IBM has begun production on a custom chip that was designed in partnership with Microsoft to power the XBox 360 Consoles.
IBM said the chip features a customized version of IBM’s 64-bit PowerPC core. The chip includes three of these cores, each with two simultaneous threads and clock speeds greater than […]

It seemed to be one of the last places to finally get access to an iTunes store, but that is not the case anymore. Apple has officially launched the iTunes Australia store.
By UK standards, the songs are cheap: AUD1.69 per track, equivalent to 72p a song. Videos are priced at AUD3.39 (£1.44), while “most” albums […]

My blog is worth $326,868.66.How much is your blog worth?

I saw this on Evil Genius Chronicles, and I had to try it out for Forever Geek. It uses the dollar per link value from the recent AOL / Weblogs Inc deal, and runs it through Technocrati.
I know the value is not perfect, or […]

The last few days have been kind of hectic in terms of 2.0 PSP Eboot loaders, since there are new releases coming out every new couple of days or less.
They still haven’t been able to get things running in kernel mode but still this latest release now enables you to use some really great emulators […]

Just what every Gundam fan ever wanted, a Gundam themed Razor!

This will go very nicely next to your son’s Doraemon toothbrush holder, but, unfortunately, this special stand will only have 1000 units. If you happen to get your hands on one it will probably fetch a nice price on eBay with all those die-hard anime […]

Anandtech has an article up benchmarking the 7200.9 a 500 Gigabyte SATA hard drive with 3.0Gbps transfer rate and a 16mb buffer.
Oddly enough the 7200.9 with native command queuing (NCQ) did only slightly better in real world tests, while doing worse in many benchmark tests.
Seagate’s 500GB 7200.9 performed exceptionally well in the game level loading […]

NASA reported this week, that the Hubble Space Telescope may have found minerals that can be converted to oxygen on the moon.

NASA / ESA / AFP / GETTY
It is the moon’s small mass and low gravity that prevents it from keeping hold of even a tenuously thin atmosphere. But oxygen needn’t exist only in gaseous […]

Along with P2P, pornography, and games, blogs are beginning to be banned at workplaces. Wired interviewed a man who works at one of these workplaces, and he says that the corporate firewall now blocks any URLs with the word “blog” in it. The workplace also blocks ranges of IP addresses that are all known to […]

Let’s face it. Hollywood gets a lot of things wrong. The one thing they seem to never do right are computers. Annoyances.org has compiled a list of some of the more blatant errors. A few of my favorites.

The most relevant information is displayed in a separate windows right in the middle of the screen, but […]

Well it looks like people are really getting up in arms about the whole “too easy to scratch” issue with the iPod nano, as they have gone as far as creating a class action law suit against Apple.
Not only do they want to be reimbursed for their purchase, but they also want an unspecified amount […]