Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Twitter is great thing and, thanks to Geek Hero Comic's author (go read it!), I found out about this great and simple blog that posts photos from around the world featuring "unnecessary" quotation marks! For those of you in doubt, the proper way of using quotation marks can be found here: ... Full story

I'm sure that by now you've heard all about Gmail's recent downtime, but this one's new for me. Today I logged in on my Gmail account as usual and got this weird error message. By clicking "OK" all seems fine except for a few buttons that look a bit weird, until you try to click a message and do the ... Full story

On-My.TV is a customizable online calendar with almost every single TV show currently airing in the major TV networks. This very simple online tool allows you to quickly create a user account and customize which shows appear on your monthly calendar. It also let's you know if there are any new shows added to ... Full story

The Pirate Bay foursome, founders and administrators of one of the biggest Bittorrent trackers in the world, were handed today a guilty verdict with 1 year in jail included. "The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws," the court said in a statement. "The court has ... Full story

Walker, Texas Ranger star actor and martial-arts master Chuck Norris says that the Texans want an independent state and that he's the man to run the place! After being the Texas Ranger Norris volunteered to run as Texas' first president, after discussing the possibility of the state seceding from U.S. control during a rant on CNN.com's political ... Full story

Managing a Linux System is definitely not an easy task, specially if you're not using more than a CLI (Command Line Interface). There are a lot of commands to remember and settings to change along the multiple processes running on your server. This is where Webmin comes in. After instalation it integrates itself with your server's ... Full story

As you may have noticed by now the blog recently (like 5 minutes ago) got a new face, which I hope pleases all current readers and new-comers. In addition, the new interface should provide a more useful access to the information provided here, as well as a log to the Authors' twitter accounts, which brings me to ... Full story

The team behind Google Chrome used a very specific method for tweaking it, consisting of basically three parts: Basics, Minor Tweaks and Under The Hood, and Roy Schwartz thought that could also be applied to other situations like, let's say, getting better sleep! The article can be found ... Full story

Some kids playing a LARP game were spotted on Google Maps and surprisingly enough, they're still doing it on a regular basis (at least regularly enough for two separate photos to exist)! LARP, or Live Action Role-Playing is a game where people usually wear costumes to represent fictional characters they created and take part in an agreed fantasy world. This can ... Full story

HandBrake is a media converter that takes almost any format you throw at it and outputs a file compatible with most of the popular non-regular formats (PSP, PS3, XBOX360, AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, etc). This universal-input media converter allows you to take practically any video format as a source and convert it to a wide ... Full story