Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Well, it was up until last month, when AOL killed the last remaining bits of it. It’s apparently been around since 1969.
I remember getting on there when I used to babysit for my neighbors, who had a computer and a Compuserve account, and playing around on there and thinking it was the coolest thing on earth. My have things changed.
There’s likely to be a new iPhone announced this next week. If you’re having a hard time keeping track of all the various rumors (from all the various sources) concerning the new phone, The Green Room has it all in a nice, cited, graphical form.
And no, we still don’t have the iPhone here officially.
Before everybody had high speed, we geeks connected to the ‘net with modems. Usually we connected with the 56kbps variety (my first modem was a 2400baud, but that was just for community BBSs). You could never try (nor would you want) to browse the modern web on a 300 baud modem — unless you’re this guy:
They’ll charge you $580 when your computer doesn’t need fixing.
…when LiveZilla will give you most of the same features for free? I’m mostly book marking this one for my reference, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who has thought about something like this.
My Windows Mobile phone gets pretty warm when running CPU intensive apps. I can only imagine what it would do if you were running a server from it.
…but it won’t kill Google, but it might make a good compliment to it as yet another tool for information junkies.
Any old-school NES gamer will know all about the Konami code. Contra and Gradius were both a pain in the butt without the code. Apparently there are a bunch of sites that have easter eggs if you use the Konami Code on the site, and now there’s an easy way to add the cheat code to your site.
…but when actually tested, it’s really clunky. Nevermind that it only works on certain Intel CPUs that support Intel VT-x (no idea if Microsoft will implement support for AMD-V).