DIY Hacked USB Thumb Drive!

For those of you who need a real USB Thumb drive, this might not be the right picture but for those of you who want to have some fun, just go and grab an old harddrive, USB ports, and couple USB Flash Drives for a real good Thumb Drive laughs.

This ordinary looking hard drive when plugged into a USB port will mount 4 USB thumbdrives onto your computer. Cool idea to make some use of some old computer parts. It would have been cool if the drive would spin up when one of the drives were being accessed.

via hackedgadgets, DIY Page

It’s not that often that a manufacturer takes things literally and makes a USB “Thumb” Flash Drive, but you are glad that they did.

Features:

via geekalerts, Product Page

Google Chrome Tips and Hacks Re-cap #2!

Remember our last post on the re-cap of latest Google Chrome Tips and Hacks from our new Google Chrome TIps and Hacks blog?

Well, here’s a couple more for your hacking pleasures:

List of Google Chrome Forums - Yes, there’s ton of Google Chrome Forums, don’t ask me why.

Google Chrome does DNS-prefetching - Google Chrome is FAST as far as fetching from DNS servers.

Chrome Hack - How to download Youtube videos in Chrome! - Here’s a simply bookmarklet for downloading YouTube videos in Chrome browser in FLV format.

XChrome Version 5 Chrome Theme Switcher - Here’s the latest and best of custom-hacked Chrome Theme Switchers.

More Google Chrome Security Flaws - The Google Chrome by itself is already pretty secure so long as you don’t wonder off into porn XXX sites but here’s a security flaw that might affect those perverted users.

Google Chrome Logo gone crazy - Yes, can we stop talking about the logo now?

Essential Chrome CSS Hacks - Here’s some info on Chrome and CSS.

How to open Chrome from Firefox - Here’s a Firefox plugin to open webpages in Chrome from Firefox.

Google Chrome Anonymizer - Here’s how to get by Google’s Client ID for ultimate anonymity

Google Chrome Proxy - Of course, here’s a great way to surf the web anonymously using a simple proxy.

More FREE Google Chrome Theme Downloads - Yey, more themes the better!

Wow, that was a lot more information than I ever thought was posted at the Google Chrome Tips and Hacks Blog.

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UPDATE on Google Chrome Tips Hacks Blog Posts:

Recap of Google Chome Tips Hacks Blog #1

Recap of Google Chrome Tips Hacks Blog #2

Recap of Google Chrome Tips Hacks Blog #3

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Here’s an interesting video of how Apple solved the copy and paste mystery 15 years ago.  Anyone have an old Mac to try this on?

via bb

Instead of using their $300 million on customer services/refunds for wrongly-installed Vistas on brand new laptops/PCs, Microsoft is trying to copy Apple Genius strategy by having 155 Microsoft Vista experts roam around your local BestBuy and CircuitCity.

As someone who had a horrible experience at BestBuy trying to return a digital camera, (which BestBuy didn’t let me return it for whatever reason so I now have TWO identical digital cameras) I will be officially boycotting BestBuy and CircuitCity stores for the duration of this Microsoft stint.

Even without Microsoft, I have a hard time getting around the retail stores without sales people annoying me with their “Can I help you find anything” questions.

Call me bitter but Microsoft deserves it after I bought a new HP desktop PC last year and of course it came with a Vista that wouldn’t work with any of my printers, mouse, pretty much all my USB devices.

Now, Microsoft should be paying me at least $25/hour during the time I formatted my PC using a special Linux Boot CD (because harddrive gets junked when you install Vista, you need to partition it and get rid of the root Vista thingee) and installed a fresh copy of Windows XP, which took me a total of 5 hours.

Now that’s $25 x 5 = $125 + Cost of Vista = about $500.

There, what Microsoft needed to do in order to survive and turn people like me into fans is about $500 for all my troubles and $500 for every PC/laptop I buy that come with Vista.

My next operating system will definitely hang around Ubuntu or another Linux system, but definitely Microsoft needs to realize for the good of human kind that their new Vista sucks so much even with their new $300 million marketing.  (Marketing...not product features or upgrades that Microsoft is spending money on)

Here’s to Bill Gates or whoever is in charge of Microsoft:

“Please stop re-selling consumers an outdated, poorly designed operating system.  No matter what marketing tatics you employ, I will do my best to let everyone else know that Vista has not changed (Yes, your mojave marketing had a reverse effect on me) , it’s the worst operating system I have ever used in my life.  We are smarter than you think.  Just having a new Vista  Period. (and there’s goes my middle finger too.)”

Interesting facts:

There’s 525,000 search results about “Vista Sucks” on Google today.  (Probably more as we go on)

Now you can carry your laptop and a pillow at the same time with the Laptop Bag Pillow, seriously designed for power nappers everywhere.

The Napbook is a laptopcase which also happens to be a comfortable cushion. It is designed for students and commercial people of 105 Reykjavík. Whether it be a class at LHÍ, a lengthy business meeting in Borgartún or just the odd journey home the Napbook should come in handy for the restless. It is sewn by a 105 Reykjavík local sewing room and it is available at the Apple store around the corner.

via gearlive, Design Page

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Remember Microsoft hired Seinfeld to do advertising for their new $300 Million campaign?

Here’s the new Bill Gates and Seinfeld TV commercial which I did get to see yesterday for the first time and looks like bunch of people uploaded it to Youtube.

First look tells me that this ad really sucks in comparison to Apple.  There’s not enough “juice” going on to even understand what they are advertising.  (Good advertising should be funny even with the sound off, try watching this ad without sound, it’s BORING!)

Bill Gates will have to do a lot better than this.  It would be cool if he was skydiving or somethin’ with Jerry Seinfeld and then Bill Gates gets squashed by Seinfeld on landing.

Here’s a funny design for a doorbell, an Enter Key Doorbell straight off a regular keyboard. (or is it a MAC?)

Created by Li Jianye, this doorbell takes its inspiration from one of the most famous keyboard keys ever - “Enter”.

via ubergizmo, Design Page

Here’s a cool motion sensing interface that might be even better than Multi-touch technology.  The NaviSense interface uses ultrasonic to detect motion and no touching is required by the user.

NaviSense is a software and hardware provider for sensory based embedded signal processing solutions. NaviSense has developed a suite of proprietary software and hardware technologies with tech savvy appeal. The patent pending solutions provide a value-added customer driven benefit. The technologies are complementary to existing platforms and can be integrated within embedded products, computer systems, communication devices, multimedia components, and notebook PCs.

Our solutions result in a more casual and enjoyable experience for interfacing with computer processing systems. The technologies increase the efficiency and easiness by which multimedia users can interact with email, computer applications, computer games, search engines, and data entry systems.