Sunday, November 15, 2009
How many megapixels??
Have you ever snooped around a friend's photo albums on Facebook? Well, you're a liar (unless you just admitted it) for, as we all know, Facebook stalking is now the number one leisure time activity for 90% of the western world, probably costing Irish businesses €100BN a year(†).
Everywhere you go, at every party, [...]
"How do I double click on something?"
The World Wide Web, as opposed to ARPAnet, came into existence in 1991. Search engines have been there since the start. Google has been around since 1998. That's eleven years, if you've been counting.
So why do so many people still know practically nothing about searching Google?
Here is a common [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
For the nerdlingers amongst you. How much for an hour with this baby?
Wheres the on switch?
Go to Buchla.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Spot the difference
Can you get through the Great Firewall of China? I tried it earlier today.
Since I am not currently in China it's impossible for me to know for sure what is and isn't available through the InterWebs.
However I do have some Skype contacts in Western China and they report that almost everything we take [...]
Friday, September 19, 2008
I'm pretty good with computers and music. But even I can't figure out what the Hell you're supposed to make of the phase display in Adobe Audition. See the window at bottom centre.
The mysterious phase display
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Yes, it's about programming and cubicle life but it's also about life and YOU. Lyrics here. I love it.
As an exercise seemingly to show the wondrous simplicity of Microsoft Vista's speech recognition engine, this chap tries to write a simple Perl script in a text file. Things don't quite go to plan.
I shudder to think of someone using this to try to edit a Word document, review markup changes, size columns and tabs, [...]
Usually whenever ICANN (the managers of all top-level domains) announces a new frontier, the Gold Rush begins immediately.
We all remember when the .EU domain names were launched and legions of cybersquatters fell over each other to buy DUNNESSTORES.EU and BROWNTHOMAS.EU in order to sell them back to their rightful owners. In one such speculation, a [...]
