August 27, 2008
DIY - How to Build Your Own HDTV Antenna and use Direct TV Satellite as Mount!
DIY - How to Build Your Own HDTV Antenna and use Direct TV Satellite as Mount! Don’t get the wrong idea here. The idea is to use an existing Direct TV Satellite as a mount for the HDTV antenna. This does awfully better than anything you can buy and probably get really good reception with this method. I got my Tv converter Box (with the Go ... More
August 26, 2008
DIY Homebrewed Wii App - Wii Physics!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This homebrewed Wii App called Wii Physics is similar to Microsoft’s Physics Illustrator and will let you test out your ideas before applying them in real life. Wii Physics is a clever little homebrew app. You use the Wiimote to rotate, size and place obj ... More
August 22, 2008
Microsoft Ultimate Office for $59.95 and We Think It’s Garbage!
Microsoft Ultimate Office is supposedly being sold for $59.95 for a limited time only. We think this is just another horrible act by Microsoft to make money off their outdated software before everyone starts realizing that most of Microsoft’s software can be now replicated by Google Docs or other free software. But if you do need MS Office, ... More
August 19, 2008
iPhone Nike+ Interface Leaked!
Here’s some leaked pics of what the Nike+ would look like working with the iPhone. You do have to admit iPhone is useless for fast internet browsing on the go but it may proved to be a very good tool for running around like crazy and graphing out how you ran. the biggest improvement over the old Nike system may be Google Maps support: We ... More
August 15, 2008
RoofRay lets you calculate your home’s Solar Power potential!
RoofRay is a site that let’s you calculate your home’s solar power potential using the power of GoogleMaps. It’s very interesting as the site will caculate the solar power potential based on the roof area and the slope of the roof. It’s probably pretty accurate as most data is using direct satellite images off GoogleMaps. T ... More
August 8, 2008
Google Hack - Get Olympic Scores/Schedule on Google!
Google is providing some live scores and schedules if you type, “xxx olympics”, where “xxx” is the name of your sport. Try this for soccer Search Engine Land noticed that Google now shows a onebox* for certain Olympics-related queries, like tennis olympics or taekwondo olympics. This seems to work in the US and China but no ... More
August 5, 2008
Some Cool Hacks for GMail, GoogleDocs, and more!
Lifehacker has a new post that features some cool hacks for GMail, GoogleDocs, and some other hacks you can’t miss. Are you using Google Spreadsheets as your web-based spreadsheet editor alternative to desktop programs like Excel? If you do, give the “magic” auto-completions a try. To understand what this does, enter “Super ... More
August 4, 2008
Original Google Storage Server Made with Legos!
It’d be hard to believe but yes, Sergey Brin and Larry Page made their first 40GB Google Storage Server with lego casing. Perhaps they might have been great lego-designers if they didn’t come up with Google. The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded ... More
July 27, 2008
MySQL HACK - MySQL Performance Tuning
If you are a webmaster and you run a dedicated server, you might want to watch this video and learn some insights into MySQL performance tuning. Jay Pipes, MySQL employee and co-author Pro MySQL, gave a great presentation to Google employees which covers a number of techniques for tuning performance on MySQL. His examples include debugging and an ... More
July 11, 2008
iPhone 3G Review
Well, iPhone 3G is out officially as of today at 8AM at all the Apple stores in the States. There’s already bunch of videos and reviews but we won’t bore you with what useless technology 3G does for you. Here’s some links of iPhone 3G reviews all over the web if you really need to know: iPhone 3G Review at CNET iPhone 3G Review a ... More
July 3, 2008
Google Talk for the iPhone
Google Talk is now available for the iPhone without any modifications other than pointing your Safari browser to www.google.com/talk. There are some differences from using Google Talk on your computer. For instance, in order to receive instant messages with Google Talk on your iPhone, the application needs to be open in your Safari browser. When y ... More
GoogleMaps working on Voice Search with Blackberries
Google is working on voice search functions with their GoogleMaps on Blackberries. Now, this is really old news as I have covered Microsoft’s TellMe service which does exact same thing for more Blackberries except using Microsoft’s LIVE search and LIVE maps. Now, in the long run, I would predict Google win this voice-search race sinc ... More
July 1, 2008
Google Media Server bridges the gap between Google and your TV!
Google has just announced their new Google Media Server, which supposedly bridges the gap between Google and your TV or any UPnP devices such as PS3. It looks like a great way to organize your media files in your PC, especially if you are displaying them to your TV or simply want to access them from your PS3, XBOX, whatever. Google Media Server is ... More
June 30, 2008
How to Geo-Map your Movies!
With Seero, I guess you can even geo-map your movies. It’s interesting as this movie is based on San Francisco streets and I know where they shot it. It’d be way cool if all new movies came out with a PiP screen of Google Maps showing the location. (maybe one day when Google starts buying theaters…) I’m a huge fan of &# ... More
June 24, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Book using Google Docs!
I’ve been thinking of writing several books lately and I came by this great guide on making a book using Google Docs over at Hackszine. Currently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing the book (tentatively titled) Google Office Hacks by O’Reilly using Google Docs. I wanted to outline the process we came up with, and ... More
June 22, 2008
Trackstick for Google Earth Tracking your Travels!
Check out Trackstick if you are interested in automatically logging your travels so you can view them later on Google Earth! It works anywhere on the planet. Traveled locations can be shown via a red line that is traced on satellite photos and 3D terrain using the latest mapping technologies from Google™ Earth. Trackstick continuously records it ... More
June 12, 2008
Google’s Co-Founder Sergey Brin invests in Future Space Flights!
Yey, let’s see if Sergey can take himself to space soon with his $5 Million investment. A new investor is likely to occupy one of the two available seats on Space Adventures’ 2011 flight: Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. He made a $5 million investment in the company that will serve as a deposit on a future flight. Space Adventures pla ... More
June 10, 2008
GeoQuake brings you GoogleMaps Driving Game!
Now, you can drive on GoogleMaps or fly on GoogleEarth. It’s really fun, I think there’s a potential for dozens of games and money to made off these types of apps. The first, taking advantage of Google Maps’ new ability to work with Flash applications, lets you drive a car, bus, or truck around Google Maps. It won’t bat an ... More
June 9, 2008
Roadrunner Supercomputer - The Fastest $133 Million computer in the World!
I’ve always been fond of supercomputers and I even did a college final project on supercomputers. (That’s 10 years ago..) Here’s Roadrunner Supercomputer, based out of Los Alamos National Laboratory, supposedly a lot faster than the now-runner-up BlueGene from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, California. Damn, I wish ... More
June 8, 2008
DIY - How to Install a Rain Tank and Re-use Rain water!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Here’s a really simply way to re-use your rain gutter water for feeding your plants. Why didn’t I think of this before? Rain tanks collect and store rain water, and they’re a viable green alternative for lawn maintenance since landscaping represents a huge drain on water resources ... More
June 6, 2008
Larry and Sergey AND The Google Party Jet - The Googleplane!
Hey, I want a party jet too! Keeping tabs on Google (GOOG) founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin got a lot easier when they bought an old Qantas 767 for about $15 million and converted it into their private party plane. Hobbyists tag their photos with info like airplane make and model, registration number, date, location, etc., and upload them to s ... More