Geeks rule the world! While everyone knows about Bill Gates, there are a lot of other very smart, very RICH people in other countries. Check out this list. Hah, bet they had the last laugh at their high school reunion.

I almost became an Asus Eee PC owner last week.
While most of my friends are warming up with their month-old Eee PCs, with some even having named their “new friends” with monikers (such as “pinkee”, “slime”, “hood” and “keys”), I almost… almost took home one.
I wasn’t quite sold-out with the chicklet-sized keys.  Somehow, my fingers […]

I somehow managed to miss one of the most elaborate April’s Fools I’ve ever seen on the internet. A very well made (though slightly rough-around-the-edges) trailer for Legend of Zelda the movie. 

If they had gone the extra mile to remove some of the less polished scenes, like the ones with Ganondorf for instance, I could […]

An interesting article emerged today about some of the features that Google lost, or had to drop, over the years. While the tendency back then was to see more and more applications and projects emerging, not all of them worked out.

One of the smallest, but most beloved projects, was Google X, a small homage to […]

A classic from the archives…..
A man by the name of Fabricio Zuardi has created an easy way to play MP3s on a site using a simple flash interface and Actionscript 2. His invention is called the XSPF Web Music Player, and what it does is it reads in a XSPF file to play the […]

One thing that I know many people forget is to backup their work, and it really makes me frustrated. Even us geeks sometimes forget, and that is just unthinkable. Geeks are Sexy has a great post up about backing up your computer.

Aside from malware/spyware and viruses, the biggest trouble with most home computers can probably […]

Esquire has a really cool post up entitled, Six Ideas That Will Change the World, and in it they talk about some interesting technologies and sociological changes that could quickly change the world we live in.
From the article:
Internet censorship is the book burning of the modern age, denying as much as a third of the […]

So I have this sneaking suspicion that while technology is currently intertwined with my career, and is one of the things I enjoy the most, it is destroying the society I live in.
Time
If you work on computers, you might have noticed that sometimes a whole day can pass in what feels like a few hours, […]

Although iTunes can be usually found on most computers, the former music player heavyweight, Winamp, is aiming to regain a bit of it’s user share back, with their latest version of Winamp which marks the departure from it’s segmented interface, and makes way for a darker and more unified interface.
Besides having a completely new skin […]

I haven’t used Blingo(referral link) in a while. Chalk it up to switching laptops, forgetting to add the search tool to my browser, yadda yadda yadda.
Well, I got back from a long Memorial Day weekend and had an e-mail notifying me that one of my “friends” had won a prize, which means that I won […]

I found this thanks to one of the Bloggy Network blogs, LifeSpy, it is a list of computer skills that are dying or have died off. For me, this list really comes close to home, as my cousin recently finished learning Cobol, a computer language still used by the health system here in Canada.

Cobol
Non-relational DBMS
Non-IP […]

Techdirt has recently written a very informative article that exemplifies how the MPAA distorts, or simply makes up new numbers, or rates, of piracy, depending on how convenient it is for them.
the MPAA kept claiming (without any evidence) that Canada was a hotbed of this activity — accounting for approximately 50% of camcorded movies. […]

According to a recent study by the American communications company Motorola, 45% of all European broadband users watch, at least, some television online. The survey was conducted in some of the most important European countries: UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.
One thing it did not ask the participants, was the method they used to acquire, […]

A funny video showed up on Digg’s front page today, and, apparently, the result of the very debated battle between the two media formats has already been decided. And after seeing this video you’ll realize why.
(Do keep in mind that this is meant to be funny, and not some sort of spark to ignite another […]

Although this isn’t anything new it is something that deserves attention, or at least proper recognition. Nintendo have been with us since the beginning (or at least the beginning of mainstream gaming), but although we don’t notice it, most of our current controllers have evolved from Nintendo’s own Snes pad.
Sega tried to do something different, […]

Adobe recently released all new versions of their programs. And the designer community should be happy, at least those that use Macs, because the new version is Universal, which means it will work both on PowerPC G4 and Pentium processors (although I’m guessing that if you can afford to purchase Photoshop, you’ll already have a […]