Here’s a cool web service that allows you to get up to 20 free email, file share, and do collaborative calendaring for small to medium international businesses.

Free Web-based email, calendaring, and file sharing for new and growing businesses. Each account supports up to 20 users with email at jane@yourcompany.com addresses.

Here’s a cool howto on bypassing firewalls. It can also be very helpful those
of you trying to make an ethernet application since firewalls are existent
almost everywhere now. Even your basic router at your home does have
minimal firewall capabilities.

This week, we will digg a little bit deeper into firewalls, internet, and security hacks.

This guide discusses a way an employee or student can securely access the Internet while at work or school, and also get around some common firewall restrictions that prevent you from using most networked programs. My definition of “securely” means that there should be no mean by which your employer can know which websites you have visited or are currently visiting, and can not view or decipher the content of those sites (without actually standing over your shoulder.)

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With all the outrageous PS3s and Wiis being sold on ebay, here’s a little
apple II that sells at an outrageous price.

Talking about some Apple computers that can be programmed in BASIC,
check out Comfile CUBLOC embedded computers, which can run at 20Mhz,
run 320×240 LCDs, and at 30 times smaller size of an Apple computer.

Well, it’s not the best comparison, but we did not expect a stamp sized chips
with capability of Apple computers 20 years ago.

It’s amazing what technology can do over the years. We, at zedomax.com,
forecast a second Dot-Com boom coming soon, which should consist of
some nice web sites and also backed up by wide array of embedded devices.
Well, I do have my first computer, a 386SX 40Mhz IBM compatible around.
Will that sell as well too? Leave your thoughts at the comments.
I do miss the old days, when internet was still under government testing and
a 2400 bps modem would log you into your local BBS.

That was the real beginning of Zedomax. We sold some cable-descrambler
HOWTOs over the Prodigy network for 10 bucks and tried all kinds of pyramid
scams before giving up.

I always thought Prodigy would be the one to last. Well it turns out AOL got
bigger than imaginable. They must have gone on the internet wagon a little
earlier.

I remembed the first day I got a computer when I was 9 years old and played
the cool 3D tetris game. Strange that game is not easy to find these days.
Oh, I forgot to add that I did erase command.com the first day of my 386,
which taught me a valuable lesson about DOS. Denial of Service when you
mess with command.com… The next day I took it to the Taiwanese computer
sellers at their Silicon Valley office and they were able to reinstall DOS for me.

A reader pointed us to this interesting auction of an original Apple II+ that sold for $1,414.87 on eBay. For that price, you could get yourself a nice high-end laptop or a few PS3s. Auction page.

The Apple II was eventually superseded by the Apple II Plus, which included the Applesoft BASIC programming languages in ROM. This Microsoft-authored dialect of BASIC, which was previously available as an upgrade, supported floating-point arithmetic (though it ran at a noticeably slower speed than Steve Wozniak’s Integer BASIC) and became the standard BASIC dialect on the Apple II series

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Phew, finally we are on holiday vacation.  But the show must go on.
I am at my girlfriend’s brother’s apartment in SF having some nice drinks and well, here’s
a nice little machine gun you can make for your Christmas and New Years vacation.

So you’ve seen the Giant Python K’NEX coaster, now check out this incredible machine gun, capable of shooting “30 Ft. at 10 shots per second, with 40 bullets on its chain.”

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This is nice except I probably wouldn’t wait this long for a beer to open, just hack it with my lighter in less than a second.
If there was a robot that could use a lighter to open a beer cap, I’d be very amazed. Regardless, we give 2 thumbs up for getting
the robot drunk.

Ok, so the first model wasn’t exactly “perfect” or amazing, this new version makes good of all previous shortcomings.

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Wow, check this out gixer 1000 versus a Westfield XTR4!
Too bad they don’t have a drag test…

In this Fifth Gear segment, Vicki pits a Suzuki GSX-R1000 up against the Westfield XTR4. Which one comes out on top?

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Yes, someone evidently is controlling their entire house with a wii controller. Nice!

The true mastermind here is the WACI NX control server that sets everything up, and the entire Wii interface can be emulated with a Nokia 770, as shown. The amount of convergence, and the merit of using the Wiimote as a remote controller, is very clever

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Wow, check out the realism of playing Wii at the theaters!

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Wow, here’s a cool video of the TAILDEVIL, which can make your skateboard lighten up for the New Years!

You can ignore the part about Jessica Simpson’s nipple thingee…