A great article on Wired talks about mesh wireless networks and how they are helping people in secluded areas of Tibet get access to VOIP and Internet services.
The volunteers are building a low-cost wireless mesh network to provide cheap, reliable data and telephony to community organizations.
The Dharamsala Wireless Mesh is an example of “light infrastructure,” […]

CESA has released estimated figures of the development costs for all the major consoles.

PlayStation 2 - 139 million yen (US$1.19 million)
PSP - 63.1 million yen (US$541,000)
GameCube - 60.8 million yen (US$522,000)
GameBoy Advance - 40.4 million yen (US$347,000)
Nintendo DS - 39.8 million yen (US$341,000)
Xbox - 22.5 million yen (US$193,000)

Though I find it hard to believe […]

Prominent voice-actor, Tony Jay, has passed away at age 75.
He was recognized for his deep, sophisticated voice and excellent sense of humor. Some of his numerous roles include Megabyte from Reboot, Dr. Lipschitz from Rugrats, Shere Khan from the Jungle Book and Talespin, Frolo from Disney’s the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lord Dregg from […]

Nothing on video yet for now, but The CW (the network that emerged from the UPN and The WB merger which will start broadcasting this September) has released some previews of the upcoming sixth season of Smallville.
During the Season 5 finale in May this year, we were left with Clark Kent stuck in the Phantom […]

Over on BloggingPro.com there is an article up where various online CSS optimization tools were tested on popular websites to see how much they could reduce the CSS file size by, without breaking the look and feel of the site.
CSS optimizers do a variety of voodoo magic to get the end result. This includes merging […]

It looks like someone with an MSDN blog account made a mistake. Stuart Padley, a Microsoft Developer, accidentally posted something called “Working on Life Drive?” and it says that he was hand picked to join a small team to work on Windows Live Drive. Te post was quickly deleted but not before Bloglines had a […]

A new definition of a Planet has been created and will be expanding our Solar System to atleast 12 planets once we all get used to it.
The new definition reads:
A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium […]

CBS Television will soon be showing off its shows for free via the Internet. Other networks have tried to do this before, and CBS already sells downloads of shows on Apple’s iTunes as well as Google’s Video store, but in May it launched an advertising-supported online channel called “innertube” to start streaming programming created just […]

Well, it looks like Hollywood has had another brainstorm of genius-proportions, as Ace Ventura 3 is now in the works. But don’t get too excited, Ventura fans, because Jim Carrey won’t be having anything to do with this one. Instead, the early scripts will star Ace Ventura’s son as the irritating pet detective. […]

Dreamworks has leaked two new teaser images of Optimus Prime in robot mode. Just an arm and (most of) the head, really. You can view both images Right Here.
Interesting to see how the notorious flames from his vehicle mode are worked into his robot form. It’s giving me a “Megas XLR”-vibe.

In November, not only do you have the cheap Nintendo Wii to look forward to, you’ll also be able to pick up a few extra games without fearing paying anything extra for the Wii’s online gaming service (unless you want to purchase some vintage games that is, of course).
If you prefer hearing it straight […]

Lex Luthor is blogging. At least in Smallville, that is. I’ll be posting a screenshot soon (I’ll have to revisit my Season 5 downloads). Update: screenshot posted. You can check out the Project Mercury site at AOL.
Screencap of Lex Luthor’s laptop as he was emailing staff that the blog’s ready
It’s supposedly the blog that Lex […]

If you have no idea what BootCamp is, in short, it’s an application that helps you install Windows XP on partition in your Intel Mac’s harddrive, packed with all the necessary drivers. Today they released their second beta version of the program which has the current changes:

Support for the latest Intel-based Macintosh computers (I’m assuming […]

It seems like every week that passes by Samsung raises the bar in technological advances. This time, this new apparently normal Cellphone is capable of viewing TV (only in Japan) and at the same time access the normal phone functions while you’re at it.

The cute broad-eyed Japanese girl is not included with the cellphone ;)
Though […]

Usually when you buy a laptop you’re thinking more about the machine’s features, rather than the technical support you’ll get in case things go wrong with it. But being machines that you (usually) can’t open up and replace broken parts yourself, the technical assistance of the machine’s manufacturer can become your best friend, or your […]

Been on a serious Sonic the Hedgehog kick, lately. So much so that I went back and watched some of every Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon and anime out there. You can read my retrospective overview of Sonic’s various animated incarnation’s Right Here.
I don’t know if it’s the 15th Anniversary or what, but I’ve […]