Category: Science & Geeks
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12 monochrome laser printers
12 monochrome laser printers compared by Tom’s Hardware. These are not the printers that grab all media attention, but a mere B&W laser printer can reduce significantly your printing budget and they come at really low prices.
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Acer: After Gateway, why not Packard Bell?
Acer, the Taiwanese PC company that so many people don’t know (because they tend to sell a lot of OEM computers under the name of more well-known brands) has been reaching 3rd rank in the PC makers by buying US PC maker/seller Gateway. They seem to be looking into a possible buy of Packard Bell…
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How to visit freely some paying web sites
This is really not complicated, many web sites (even subscription-based) want to be indexed by Google. To this end, they recognize the Google spider and give it priviliged access rights. Why not try to disguise yourself as the most well known search engine of the world? Simple: Modify your browser identification string? Simple, but not…
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FEAR Perseus Mandate, the expansion pack video
After F.E.A.R., the First Person Shooter (FPS) PC game that impressed (because of its playability as much as because of the then-overblown hardware requirements), here comes an expansion pack (F.E.A.R. – Perseus Mandate) that will allow you to explore the same dark universe, to experience the same acceleration effects, and to fight many opponents. Sierra…
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Periodic table of the Internet
Chemists and physicists are all very well aware of the importance of classifying atoms in the periodic table of elements. Internet users may discover that the presentation of the main web sites through another kind of periodic table would be useful. Seen on WellingtonGrey
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YouTube starts ads, TubeStop stops ads
Google announced, soon after its buying of YouTube, that it wouold add some advertisment on the amateur video web site. This is now what they did. But it did not leave the software developers insensitive: TubeStop is a FireFox plug-in that hides or closes that ads in YouTube to keep the same pleasure without the…
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Microsoft WGA servers are down
Those servers are central to validate the “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” service. In plain words, they provide the verification that you are really a registered user authorized by Microsoft. But these servers are currently down (some kind of network failure?) and Microsoft forecast about two days before going back to a normal situation. This simply means…
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Watches, watch madness
Do you love watches? Are you a geek? You should love these surprising watches. WebTime Series Elite is displaying time by the alignment of the colored polygons and the vertical scale: Shinshoku prefers to use a colored light code: Seiko’s e-Ink is more a prototype using flexible electronic ink or electronic paper to display time.…
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Bioshock is having real DRM problems
We have been speaking a lot about Bioshock the newest First Person Shooter (FPS) PC video game from Second Take. We expected a very nice game in a complex environment with varied adversaries and game tactics. But we did not expected the most poweful adversary: The Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection against copy. TwitchGuru video…