Virtual machine users rejoice!! No longer do you have to use one virtual machine tool at work and another at home. Now VMWare has released a version of its free VMWare player that actually allows creation of virtual machines. Some may recall that I previously posted about Virtual Box–Sun’s open source tool that you could [...]
For many years its been common internet knowledge that you don’t open email messages from people you don’t know. It’s also understood that you don’t click on popup ads. Unfortunately, now malware coders are making their ads look like legitimate virus warnings so unsuspecting users think that they are really infected with some virus and [...]
Like a true geek, I’ve been dying to program my iPhone since I got it but I was hindered by one major obstacle: I don’t own a Mac computer of any kind. The SDK and all of the cool tools are only available on OSX and I only own a PC. Yes, I know that [...]
My first year in college I was faced with one of those career-altering decisions: TI or Hp? I had managed to get through high school with an older model TI programmable calculator but the final in my circuits course required doing complex matrices. I tried to program the algorithm into my calculator but it just [...]
If you have a Windows Mobile based cell phone you can now convert it into a laptop. Celio Corp is selling a product called Redfly that is basically a laptop shell that runs off of the cell phone itself. It comes in a 7″ version and an 8″ version and for now it only supports [...]
The worm has definitely turned for you,man.
- Willem Defoe to Charle Sheen in Platoon
If you remember that movie you’ll recall that bit of dialogue takes place after Charlie’s character samples a joint for the first time. That’s a bit how I feel right now. No, I haven’t been smoking pot!!! But I have sucumbed to [...]
Yes, I know that sounds like an oxymoron but you’ve got to check out this site to see what I’m talking about. This guy actually takes a new Dell monitor and makes it look like part of some antique furniture. He also has a keyboard that has the rounded keys like an old-style typewriter. Pretty [...]
This just in about a team of researchers at MIT who developed a cool new guitar that can give you different sounds in the same body. This is actually not the first time someone has tried to get more sounds out of a guitar. Some years ago Line 6 began selling the Variax, a guitar [...]
I just saw this over on PLDesingLine about how Windows Mobile powered phones will be able to backup their info on a website called My Phone. Well I’m here to tell you that I can already do that. You may recall that I recently bought a mobile phone with Windows Mobile installed on it. Well [...]
In my last post I showed you my new Windows Mobile phone. Not content to just own and use the phone, I went straight to the Windows Mobile Developer Center where I began researching how to develop applications for my new phone. Here I found a whole list of links on how to get started [...]
