Archive for November, 2005

Today is the launch date of Nintendo’s Wi-Fi site. It has everything we need to know about Nintendo Wi-Fi like Wireless Hotspot locations, Router recommendations, and of couse the all the details on the wireless games such as Mario Kart and Tony Hawk!

Enjoy! - Devious

Unsecured WIFI to be Outlawed in NY

Nov 6th

Posted by Jamie in [...]

According to a new proposal being considered by a suburb of New York City, any business or home office with an open wireless connection but no separate server to fend off Internet attacks would be violating the law.

Hah! Can’t wait to see if this actually passes through.

Either way, Enjoy! - Devious

Google Paying for Firefox Installs

Nov 6th

Posted by Kangie in General

Google has updated their Adsense service and now pays publishers for referrals. Google now pays $1 for each Firefox download with the Google Toolbar installed.

IBM invents new type of light

Nov 6th

Posted by Jamie in [...]

IBM announced Thursday the creation of a type of light that might eventually replace the use of electricity in electronic components. Read the link for more information.

- Devious

Yahoo Maps pranks Google

Nov 6th

Posted by Jamie in General

Found this hilarious article over at Sillicon Valley Sleuth. I read it myeslf and it is absolutely hilarious. Enjoy.

Yahoo engineers apparently couldn’t help themselves. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed “The Dude’s Fish Store” at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA.

The address is better known as the headquarters for Yahoo’s competitor Google.

Yahoo claimed to have further information (screenshot here) about the store, listing hours of operation (only open in summer) and an assortment of fish, hamsters, gold fish, snakes and spiders. Languages spoken are German and Russian.

The store even has a basic website More >

Ever wonder what its like to be color blind?

Nov 6th

Posted by Jamie in [...]

While searching through Digg, I found a really cool site that can show you any website as if you were color blind.

Want to give it a try? go here: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/.

I’m not color blind, and I’ve definitely never wondered what it is, but hey, still a nifty link to check out!

Unfortunately, this is the top article on digg.com as I compose this, so it is getting a large volume of visitors. I can’t get to it, yet. Hopefully the volume of visitors will die down soon so we can all check it out.

Enjoy for now! -Devious

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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 Released

Nov 5th

Posted by Jamie in [...]

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For all of you email and thunderbird users, Mozilla.org released Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 recently.

Here’s whats new in Thunderbird 1.5 RC1:

* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved. * Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each recipient. * Spell check as you type. * Saved Search Folders can now search across multiple accounts. * Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams. * Podcasting and other RSS Improvements. * Deleting More >

Introducing the Tagging System

Nov 5th

Posted by Jamie in [...]

I’ve installed a pluggin called the Ultimate Tagging Warrior. It is a category system that can surpass the possibilities of categories. I can tag things on the fly, and organize the postings better.

This shouldn’t affect visitors to much, but it makes my job a lot easier!

If you go to the archives page, you can see all the tags, and how popular each one is. The bigger, thicker, and bolder a tag name is, the more posting it has in it. Pretty cool!

Enjoy. -Devious

Cool Google hack with Digital Cameras

Nov 5th

Posted by Kangie in General