Archive for December, 2005

install windows xp on your usb disk

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Ever wanted to boot windows xp from a usb disk. No? Well me neither but I can see it might be handy for those times that windows wont boot. Tom’s hardware has a nice article on how to install windows xp on your usb disk.
‘All it takes is a minor error in the Windows Registry […]

xbox

Friday, December 9th, 2005

cnet puts the xbox 360 through its paces and comes up with 10 reasons not to buy the new microsoft xbox.
The geekyinfo family just purchased a xbox and I am on the look at for good xbox games – anyone have any favorites that they would like to share?
read more here

10 weird usb drives

Friday, December 9th, 2005

‘USB drives comes in thousands of designs and colors, but these 10 are extraordinary weird. Or what do you think? Go ahead, check them out. They are weird! Promise. Hehe.’
Check these 10 very strange usb drives out – my favorite is the iduck.
check it out here

firefox upgrade problems

Friday, December 9th, 2005

I experienced the problem with my firefox extensions not working when I impulsively installed the beta version of firefox 1.5 too see what changes would be coming down the line. It is the reason I have held back from upgrading yet.
‘The arrival of Firefox 1.5, with its new extensions architecture, has thrown a few curves […]

google hacks

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Check out these google hacks.. some fun and interesting extenions to google
‘Google stimulates these projects in a limited way. The Google API allows programmers to do up to a 1000 searches a day from their own projects. Pretty neat, except for that a 1000 is not that much when a service becomes public, especially since […]

google calendar expected tomorrow

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

The rumours about the launch of google calendar are reaching fever pitch.
‘Erick Schonfeld says that the rumor is that Google will unveil the long-ago rumored Google Calendar at Tuesday’s When 2.0 conference at Stanford. I’ll be eagerly awaiting it, but I’m not sure how many people will actually use it. How many people use group […]

pez Mp3

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

How cool is this? A pez shaped mp3 player which holds 120 songs and comes complete with pez head. Just makes me think of Seinfeld really.
Via PC Magazine