Archives for October, 2006

Halloween geek style


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Well just like Christmas we now have Halloween lights synced with music. It is pretty cool though.
http://www3.uark.edu/bkst/pumpkin/
Above is a link to a computer made out of a pumpkin. It has the 2005 pumpkin and the 2006 pumpkin.
Let me know if you find other good ones around the internet.

Mineral Oil computer still works


http://oilcooled.blogspot.com/2006/10/mineral-oil-computer-out-of-storage.html
Over at oilcooled.com the mineral oil computer is still working. There is some more detail over there, including pictures and a video.

Reasons not to upgrade to Firefox 2


http://listvine.com/2006/10/25/9-reasons-not-to-upgrade-to-firefox-20/
Well I guess I’m not the only one that’s having problems with Firefox 2. I have tested it on my Windows machine and it works fine. But I think that the new IE 7 is better. On my Mac Firefox 2 is useless. Certain websites will crash it, including some of [...]

MCE meet iTunes


http://www.mcetunes.com/
Well having my iTunes music on my MCE is now possible. Using mcetunes you can sync your iTunes music with MCE. I haven’t tried this yet. I’m hoping to have it installed and tested this weekend. If others have used it let me know. I would love to hear what [...]

Firefox 2 crashes on my Mac


So I downloaded firefox 2 yesterday from Mozilla ftp servers. And since I downloaded it I have had nothing but problems. As you will note I said I downloaded it yesterday. I got the link to the FTP server from slashdot.org. So I installed it and started to use it. [...]

Sony Blu-ray Media Center


http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=3570
Trusted Reviews has a write up on the new Sony Vaio VGX-XL202 Media Center PC with Blu-ray Drive.
Sony always does good design work on their computers. This computer is no exception. It would look really good in your stereo cabinet. But it’s not just about looks, it has a ton of features [...]

Mineral oil computer site


I have started a site dedicated to oil computing. It is www.oilcooled.com. All of my new mineral oil projects will be posted there. I would like everyone that has created or will create a oil computer to logon there and talk about their projects and post pictures. I had a lot [...]

Dell’s new multimedia products


PC World Article
PC World has an article on some new Dell multimedia products.
I really like that dell is adopting Multimedia functions into their products. I feel like they are catching up to Sony and HP in the market.
One of their new products is the Dell 1200MP projector. While I think it [...]

Dell’s new multimedia products


PC World Article
PC World has an article on some new Dell multimedia products.
I really like that dell is adopting Multimedia functions into their products. I feel like they are catching up to Sony and HP in the market.
One of their new products is the Dell 1200MP projector. While I think it [...]