Maximum PC and Game Central have built two very competent and cost effective machines.
The machines have the ability to play most popular games, and the benchmark that is Crysis, at a respectable 40fps. Continue reading ‘The $500 Gaming PC – is it really possible?’
The Pwn2Own competition is one that challenges people in the internet security business to find exploitable vulnerabilities.
The only browser left standing after the first day of the competition was Google’s Chrome browser which only recently came out of its beta phase. Many account Chrome’s success to the fact that every tab in the browser is sandboxed and so cannot interact with other tabs and other system processes.
Safari was fell victim to Charlie Miller within seconds of the competition starting. Firefox and IE fell later in the day.
Check out the indepth article at Arstechnica here.
I found this on Lifehacker and just felt I had to share.
This is the use of the file syncing software Dropbox to sync torrent files from the machine you are on to a remote machine where you want to download the torrent.
This is all assuming you have Dropbox on both computers and you have a torrent downloading software which allows you to monitor a folder for active torrents (such as uTorrent and Transmission). You can also upload torrent files from the Dropbox web interface from a computer where you can’t install Dropbox.
Check out the story on lifehacker here.
Not yet, anyway. Busy, but everyone here at PJ knows that.
So since I last posted, a new year has come and it’s already pretty much the middle of February already! It’s amazing how fast time flies when you’re having fun, and how all your free time gets eaten up in different ways than you were expecting. As a result, I’ve had very little time to get out and do any meaningful photography in the past month or so, and likewise I’ve had little time to do much more reading on the subject.
I’m making a concerted effort to get back to it as best I can, and with the weather starting to get warmer and sunnier, I imagine it’ll be a bit easier to find the willpower to go outside and capture the light.
I was reading around this morning on some of my usual haunts and found a funny list of Photography Truths on another WordPress blog.
There are a few upcoming PC games that have lately caught my attention and are definitely worth discussing. Continue reading ’5 upcoming PC games that excite me.’
The clever people at Cnet.com have figured out how to make your iPod sync from two iTunes libraries.
Follow the link to watch the video tutorial.
Foxmarks is by far the easiest book mark synchronization utility out there.
Foxmarks is an Add-on for Firefox, IE7 and Safari and actively syncs your bookmarks to a personal online database. Continue reading ‘Foxmarks – The best bookark sync add-on’
It could happen, and quite soon.
The internet is buzzing with the news that Steve Jobs will not be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Macworld event. This change comes just 3 weeks before the event is scheduled to take place. This Macworld exhibition will also be Apple’s last appearance as an exhibitor.
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