Have you ever grown tired of the typical ;) :) :( smileys?
Well I have, a bit. Though I use and find practical most of them, if you ever visit japanese forums you’ll notice a wide variety of nice japanese smileys which, even though use more characters, are more appealing, in the sense that you don’t […]

Y.A.i.N.W. means of course Yet Another iPod Nano Wannabe.
This DAP will have sizes from 512MB to 2GB and will play Mp3, WAV, OGG and ASF files (so it’s already losing for not having AAC support).
Another difference is that the screen appears to be a monochromatic OLED instead of the Nano’s full color screen.

There have been […]

So much for roller hockey at the Googleplex!
Most would think that working at Google is every tech geek’s dream. Well, it’s probably just hype. Of course there are the excellent benefits and work set-up such as free gourmet lunches, Google stock, and being able to work on your pet projects 20% of the time. Still, […]

A few weeks ago, Slashdot czar CmdrTaco, aka Rob Malda, decided that he wanted to give the information dinosaur known as Slashdot a face lift. He set up a very specific set of guidelines for what he wanted, which resulted in more of a reskin rather than a redesign.
He has announced the winner and will […]

CNET has launched AllYouCanUpload, a free image hosting site that doesn’t require registration. Sites like PhotoBukcet have been wildly popular for those that want to include images in comments on sites that get lots of traffic (like Fark.com), but don’t want that traffic to be the downfall of their server.
Allyoucanupload.com is an online space where […]

Though Nintendo hasn’t stepped out and said it officially, many Japanese retailers are now taking pre-orders for big N’s latest console for 18.000 Yen, which is around $160.
So basically, at the time of release, you can buy a PS3, or buy a Nintendo Wii and an XBox 360 for nearly the same price. Hopefully this […]

It seems that the creators of the alleged Modchip shown yesterday have stepped up and showed a different picture of the modchip that actually has it placed inside the PSP. They have also released a ‘Press Release’ text, announcing all of it’s features:
The U.P. (Undiluted Platinum) is a flash replacement system for the PSP™ which […]

Yesterday evening the wife and I had to run over to the neighborhood grocery store for some necessities. I found myself low on cash, so I thought about paying with plastic instead of running across the street to withdraw from the ATM.
By plastic, I don’t mean credit cards. I detest those things as they only […]

Though I have not been with FG since it’s creation, this marks the first “third millenia” article on FG.
As a writer, I hope you enjoyed these last articles. Even though there are probably more famous classic articles, and we had our ups and downs, I think that our quality level is rising again, and our […]

It can’t get any better than this. Remember when I previously blogged that the CIA was reading up on the blogosphere looking for possible leads? Here’s the real deal–a spy gone into the business of blogging.
I recently stumbled upon this blog by Richard Tomlinson, formerly a covert operative of the MI6 (the British equivalent […]

Has Wikipedia signed its own death sentence?
If you’ve always thought that Wikipedia was this great bastion of Web 2.0-edness, with ideas of the site being the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, you’ve probably thought wrong all this time. While I’ve always had an inkling that Wikipedia was probably not what it markets itself to be, […]

First of all, this is a rumor. There are no confirmed dates, or sources. Only one of the news’ sources claims that is is true. Many speculate on it being a fake, accompanied by a Photoshop’ed picture. I’ll let you be the judge of that.
The speculated chip will allow users to have two different firmwares […]

Digg, Flickr, Reddit, Meebo, Odeo. What do they all have in common? Well, aside from their being part of all this “Web 2.0″ hype (AJAXy-websites, community-driven/oriented content, etc.), they have weird names that seem nonsensical at first glance. Of course at second glance, their names are still nonsensical as they were the first time you […]

A brave programmer has taken up the task of trying to create the very first PSP MMO, actually, the very first MMO for portable consoles I believe.
His work is very green still, but it will be set in outer space and apparently you’ll fly around different systems in order to accomplish different objectives, though nothing […]

Go, go, gadget widgets!
This must be what Inspector Gadget would say if he had Yahoo! Widgets–formerly known as Konfabulator–installed on his system. But, alas! It’s Google that uses the term “gadgets” to call its, err, widgets, with its own collection of applets called Google Gadgets, part of the Google Desktop Search.
Somewhat confusing, eh?
You’re probably aware […]

Samsung has just released in Japan the very first Nand Flash laptop/origami devices. While the space is pretty limited at the time (the drive’s capacity is only 32GB), it does come with many positive points to them.
Those being, the complete silence, in which the machines operate, and the write and read speeds of them. Not […]