Archive for January, 2007
No more WoW item selling in eBay
Well it’s been a while since we posted about games, so here is a bit of news for the online WoW game fans, probably sad however. eBay will soon be disallowing virtual game items selling on their site to avoid possible legal actions from companies such as Blizzard. eBay is saying that this is for [...]
Pocket size ink-free printer…
I found about this article from LifeHacker, always a great source for news. A pocket sized ink-free printer is being presented in the Technology Conference Demo ‘07 in California by Zink. The printer has a camera with it to take pictures, and uses heat to print photos without requiring ink. Quite an achievement. I already [...]
How to burn video files to playable DVD
This is a nice article from LifeHacker on how to burn almost any video file type onto a playable DVD using the DVD Flick Open Source. Enjoy.
Intel & IBM new chips, the secret revealed…
The Register have revealed her the mystery behind the shocking same time announcement by Intel & IBM about their new chips. As it seems Intel was ahead of IBM, and leakage from the press went to IBM, and they wanted to spoil the Intel show with a counter attack. Read the whole story here for [...]
MySQL To Go Public
The open source widely adapted database MySQL is about to go public, told the MySQL CEO Martin Mickos to the Computer Business Review. With just below 10,000 paying customers, MySQL plans to join the other few public open source vendors, like Red Hat, Linux, and Caldera. MySQL is well popular and in favor among web [...]
Google Desktop Quick Search Box Missing
Google Desktop is one of most amazing things Google have ever came up with. Incredibly fast indexing to all my files, emails, and web history, at a very low memory trade off as well. After using it for a while, I almost never use Windows search, which started to crash every time I run it, [...]
Kuwait takes on VoIP
In the world of developing countries, invention is a foreign word, and technologies are only acquired from the western countries instead. This becomes hard to swallow for many, but we can live with it. The problem gets bigger when they become selective on what is a useful technology and what is a harmful one. Few [...]