- Why 3D movies don’t work and never will. Period.
- Poor Bullet Bill (if you’re a classic Nintendo geek, you’ll love Brawl in the Family).
- Speaking of Nintendo, here’s something I might have to try with our Wii: Install a Wii Game Loader for Easy Backups and Fast Load Times.
- If you need to do a basic layout for any type of room, this online tool is pretty nifty.
- Man, I feel old: Oregon Trail is turning 40 this year.
- Oldie, but interesting: Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared.
- Behind the scenes on the Back To The Future set.
- Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading has Finally Arrived.
- The man who started Big Picture is moving on to a new gig that will allow him to focus on it full time (he was also a web developer at Boston.com).
- Need some symbols or icons? The Noun Project has a great collection of free, public domain, icons, available in vector format.
- BoingBoing has updated their stats dump. Hopefully Andy Baio will update his fun stats page.
- How to Print Gmail on your Android or iPhone using Cloud Print.
- Handy little guide to make your own 5-in-1 Network Admin cable.
- Cryptic JavaScript at its finest.
- Some more Android links, for my reference:
- wp clock is a pretty slick looking live wallpaper.
- Speaking of Live Wallpaper, this Super Mario wallpaper is pretty sweet.
- How to factory reset your Epic (I used this when I was trying — unsucessfully — to get Nebula ROM installed).
- Here’s an interesting read on how changing the Epic file system from RFS to EXT4 will speed things up (I tried this and it didn’t work right for me, but I didn’t really have time to dig into it).
- Now that I have Froyo installed on my phone, I was able to free up a bunch of phone memory by moving apps onto the SD card.
- Now that I have Froyo, I can now have a TI-83 in my pocket.
- If you’re looking for directions on installing your own custom ROM for your Epic, this might help.
- If you need to do a clean install and restore, Titanium Backup will help a bunch.
- If you need a way to track down a lost or stolen phone before it happens and the Prey Project isn’t enough for you, Theft Aware looks pretty dang powerful.
- Things you can’t do with your iPhone: Customize it a zillion different ways.
Reading Material
Brilliant Idea That Needs To Become A Reality
It’s a USB plug that will plug in and work whether it’s upside down or not. I can’t even count how many times I’ve had to blindly plug a USB device in and get the orientation of the plug wrong. I’d say at least 75% of the time I have it upside down because I can’t usually see the plug I’m plugging into very well. This needs to become a reality sooner rather than later.
Best Action Sequence Ever?
Yes, it probably is…
Anybody know the name of the movie? It looks awesome!
Ikea Stores Are Mazes
Just in case you didn’t know that already, here’s the science to prove it.
Quick Before-Bed Time Killer
You need to escape the sewer.
Facebook Games Parody Taken To Next Level
First, there was Cow Clicker, and now its creator has announced the launch of the Cow Clicker Platform: the web-widget Cow Clicker Connect, the programmable Cow Clicker API, and three new official Cow Clicker products that implement them, the Facebook game Cow Clicker Blitz, the iPhone app Cow Clicker Moobile, and the Moogle search engine. It’s all part of cowclickification.
Google Voice Now Lets You Port Your Number
While Engadget says it’s limited beta, it’s showing up on my account and I’m tempted to jump on it. Anybody using their GV number as their full-time number have comments on pros/cons of doing this? Obviously Google’s presentations are pretty slick, but I’d like to see how normal people are using it. I’m out of contract with Sprint now, and have an Android phone, so I’m thinking this might be the perfect time to try this. About the only thing I thinking of that aren’t working 100% right now would be MMS (not critical as I don’t use it a ton) and changing outgoing caller ID on my phone calls from my cell, but I’m sure there’s a way to change that.
What Happens When You Mess With The Physics in GTA4?
This (brief naughty language warning):
It’s like Carmageddon with a modern graphics engine. Tthey need to make a version of that game that works on modern XP-era or newer PCs, as the various hacks out there are just that. I had far too much fun playing that game in college.
Any Home Theater Wizards Out There?
I’m trying to help my parents out with some home theater stuff for the house they’re building (just about finished). I’m trying to find an all-in-one receiver that will play Blu-Ray (or DVD, but preferably BD), as the built-in entertainment center area only has room for one more component (as the DirecTV DVR takes up one of the two). Now that’s not a big deal, as there are hundreds of those types of things out there, but I need one a bit more powerful and specialized: I need one that uses bare-wire speaker connectors (as he has in-wall speaker wire and I’m not using something with proprietary connectors like most of them have) and ideally has dual-zone support (as he has speaker wire running to the kitchen, deck, and bedroom as well).
Does such a beast exist? I have a thread open over on AVS Forum, but I figured I’d ask here if anybody knew of such a beast. Dual-zone support isn’t as crucial, but it sure would be nice.
Update: Made it more clear that I need one of those home-theater-in-a-box type of setups that will play the DVDs as well as power the speakers. Realized I wasn’t as clear as I could be with that. I basically need one box that will do it all. I have an Onkyo TXSR508 so I know all about multi-zone stand-alone receivers, just didn’t have a clue if a HTiB setup was capable of doing this.
Time Killer For The Day
Dang you Robert: I’ve lost many a lunch break thanks to Darkest Days. I hate you a little bit.