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Tablet PCs vs. Smart Display
Windows Powered Smart Display: Home Page: Here's something that I haven't understood until now: what I think is a Tablet PC, may just be a Smart Display. Tablet PCs are complete machines processor, RAM, hard drive, etc. A PC with a Smart Display, just has a remote monitor. All ...
Published: July 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Smart Car Wins Cannonball Run
BRABUS smart fortwo wins latest Cannonball Run: What is the state of the automotive industry when a Smart Car wins the Cannonball Run? Amazingly, despite all of the high-power entrants into this year s race, a smart fortwo managed to take the victory after traveling some 3,000 miles. The machine was ...
Published: August 9, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 978
Smart Power Strip
Cool Tool: Smart Power Strip: A very cool idea for a power strip. You plug your PC into the main socket, and then plug your printer, scanner, monitor etc into the other sockets. When you turn off your computer, the smart unit shuts the power off to the other sockets. ...
Published: January 11, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 973
Smart Car vs. Ferrari
Here's the start of a good story: So one day, this Smart Car drag races a Ferrari... Think you know the ending? Think again. This may be the freakiest thing I've ever seen.
Published: November 29, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 966
Smart Screen
Gates gets serious about spam, security: This is new. Sounds Bayesian. Google News had no mention of it prior to seven hours ago. Gates also said both technology and legal efforts may help curb spam, the unsolicited e-mails that clog inboxes and create headaches for Information Technology departments. He said ...
Published: November 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 948
Smart and Gets Things Done
Joel Spolksy has a reputation for hiring great people. He made a movie about his intern program, in fact, which cultivates the best of the best. He s distilled all of this hard-won knowledge in a new book, which is titled for his theory of good programmers: Smart and Gets Things ...
Published: June 21, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 924
Smart Car Review
All cars great and small: Very positive review of the upcoming Smart car. I so want one. Sixty miles per gallon. Mine was a convertible, done up in a crisp silver metallic. Inside, the car is surprisingly roomy and, true to its name, cleverly designed. The passenger seat is set ...
Published: July 29, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 923
PayTeck Smart Box
High-tech 'repo man' keeps car payments coming: This seems like a really great solution to keep people honest about their car payments. A new gizmo is upping the odds that even the most hard-knock customer will come up with the car payment. Hooked into the ignition system, the gadget comes ...
Published: November 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 896
On Second Thought, Not All That Smart
I posted a while ago on what a clever concept I thought the Smart car was. But there's a downside I failed to consider: I got woke up this morning at 6:30 by a phone call from my neighbor telling me that my smartie was laying on it's side in ...
Published: May 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 885
SmartBot: Not that Smart, It Turns Out
FTC files case against spyware companies: The proprietor of this operation is none other than Sanford Wallace, the original "King of Spam' (and, before that, the "King of Junk Faxes"). The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed the first case in the country against software companies accused of infecting computers ...
Published: October 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 835
But How Do You Shake The Machine If It Gets Stuck?
An offshoot of Mercedes, Smart GMBH is developing what might be the anti-Mercedes: a tiny, plastic-bodied car designed (mostly) for urban commutes. Wired has an article describing the company, the vehicle, and their designs on the US market. Abigail's Smart Fortwo, which she has been tooling around Washington, DC, as ...
Published: October 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 806
School of the Future
Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system: Microsoft helped the Philadelphia school system modernize in a pilot program. Students -- who are called "learners" -- use smart cards to register attendance, open their digital lockers and track calories they consume. They carry laptops, not books, and the entire campus has ...
Published: September 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 794
Wi-Fi Digital Camera
Fuji recently unveiled a prototype of a digital camera with Wi-Fi capability built in. The interesting part of this story is that the camera they displayed is the exact style of the one I own. It features a compact flash and a smart media slot. If Wi-Fi is not actuaully ...
Published: July 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 781
Robo-Buoys
Seafaring the Smart Way: Yes, folks, if you're short of friends, you can call a buoy. Or you can just go here and see the data in real-time. "Maine mariners can use their cell phones to dial up one of a dozen 'smart buoys' in the Gulf of Maine to ...
Published: November 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 774
Do Yourself a Favor and Stop Learning
I'm about to admit something odd, and perhaps career-threatening: I'm sick of learning. There, I said it, and I feel better. It's true: learning about new technologies and new ways of doing things is something that plays on an addiction of mine and of many other geeks, I'm sure. We ...
Published: September 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 738
My Shoes Have A Computer Brain
It knows the difference between gravel and dirt. [...] It knows you're not as tired as you think Who knew that shoes were this smart? For $250, I don't think I will ever find out.
Published: September 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 736
A Thought on Radar Detectors
I got to thinking about radar detectors the other day. I've owned a couple, but as a rule, they sucked. I remember once that I was on my way across town, and it went off 14 times in the five minute trip. The next day, on the interstate, I drove ...
Published: February 27, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 722
"Robots now walk like men"
Humans are getting too dang smart: Scientists at Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Holland's Delft University of Technology have made robots that closely resemble human beings. They are robots but they walk like us. "Never create what you can't control".
Published: February 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 721
Programmers Are Idiots
So I'm out here in Boston (home of the Free Speech Zone) at a seminar on distributed enterprise application development. The instructor is Pinku Surana, who certainly seems to know his stuff. I found this interesting article in his blog, where he argues that programmers are idiots, and I have ...
Published: August 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 707
Microsoft at Fault for Tablet PC Floundering?
Microsoft blamed for Tablet PC steep sales decline "This is another classic case of IT firms thinking they know what technology people will like, and failing to take off the blinkers. Canalys said that sales represent a fraction of notebook sales, and claims Microsoft and its hardware partners need to ...
Published: July 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 698
Google Toolbar and SmartTags
Google Toolbar 3 Released: The new version of the Google toolbar is out, and it has what could become a controversial feature. With this feature enabled, certain unlinked web page information will turn to links automatically. The kind of text triggering this will be US addresses, Package Tracking Numbers, ISBNs, ...
Published: February 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
Height and Width Arguments in IMG Tags
Height and Width challenged: Adam Kalsey has some interesting thoughts about height and width arguments in images. >Could someone tell me why height and width attributes are needed for images? Non-graphic browsers don’t use them, and graphic browsers should be smart enough to figure out the size on their own. ...
Published: August 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
.Net the Future of Client Apps?
.NET Will Rock Your World: Don Park is a smart guy, and I tend to take his predictions seriously. "People will get the clue when .NET 2.0 is released and they will be rocked when .NET 3.0 is unleashed. People talk about IE standing still and emergence of rich clients ...
Published: July 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Dick Tracy, Your Watch is Ready
SPOT-light on Microsoft's "SPOT" wristwatches: "SPOT" stands for "Smart Personal Object Technology." It's a Microsoft thing that has found its first manifestation in a line of Fossil watches. SPOT wristwatches offer advanced features such as automatic time adjustment based on location, customizable watch faces, and access to continually updated content ...
Published: December 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 691
SunnComm Backs Off Lawsuit
SunnComm won't sue grad student: Smart move. This was going to be a public relations nightmare for SunnComm. "In an abrupt reversal, SunnComm Technologies said Friday that it would not sue a Princeton University graduate student who had published a paper that describes how to bypass CD copy protection technology ...
Published: October 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 687
The Floppy is Dead
CNN is proclaiming the death of the floppy drive. If you ask me the floppy has been dead for some time now. Once it became easy to email attachments I all but forgot they even existed. I think the deciding factor for most people was probably the widespread use of ...
Published: September 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 687
News Aggregator in Mozilla
NewsMonster: This is very well-done a news aggregator built into Mozilla. It installs beautifully (completely within the browser), and seems to work like a charm. I'm still hooked on NewsGator, but the channels installed with NewsMonster by default are interesting enough that I'll keep it installed just for fun. ...
Published: June 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 684
i-am-a-dummy
Here's a command line switch for MySQL that's both funny and pretty handy: --i-am-a-dummy Synonym for option --safe-updates, -U. Yes, there is a MySQL switch called "i-am-a-dummy". It's an alias of another switch, which provides more information: --safe-updates Only allow UPDATE and DELETE that uses keys. Now, that's handy. This ...
Published: October 20, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 680
Sun-set?
Wired 11.07: McNealy's Last Stand: A fascinating, albeit long, article about the fate of Sun. "...the story reduces down to this: McNealy spent the second half of the 1990s monomaniacally obsessed with everything having to do with Microsoft, from its monopoly-like practices to the general unreliability of the Windows operating ...
Published: June 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 677
No Ordinary Microwave Oven
In reading one of my favorite magazines, This Old House, I came across the BEYOND MICROWAVE OVEN from Salton. What sets this microwave apart is that you can scan the UPC code on whatever you want to prepare and it knows how to cook it. It is preprogrammed with over ...
Published: December 9, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 676
How to Redirect a Web Page
How to redirect a web page, the smart way: This page shows you about a dozen different ways to redirect a page using a 301 status. I concur. I changed the URL scheme on this site last year, and redirected 4,000 pages using 301 and watched Google update its index ...
Published: June 19, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
Router-induced SPAM
Hardware maker Belkin has sunk to new lows in marketing strategies; a firmware upgrade on its wireless routers adds the ability for the router to grab a random HTTP connection every eight hours and redirect it an ad for Belkin's parental control option. The Register has an article on it, ...
Published: November 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 670
Why We Like to Write Frameworks
I ll get to your application in a minute - First, we need to build the framework: Probably the best description I ve read explaining why programmers love to write frameworks. I [ ] have encountered the common mindset of falling from application mode into framework mode. I find it s common with really ...
Published: July 14, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 668
TurboRisk
Mario Ferreri's Personal Web Pages: Here's a fun, simple, lightweight implementation of the boardgame Risk. Very nicely done, and very free. TurboRisk plays the classic "World Domination Risk" game, where you are battling to conquer the world. The main features include...Support for both human or computer driven players, up to ...
Published: October 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 668
An Ink Price War Looms
Kodak plans to sell inkjet printers with cheaper ink: This could be the start of something good. Kodak's ink will sell for about $25 when the printers hit stores in March. That's far less than the $60 to $80 it typically costs for replacement ink for photo printers. [...] Manufacturers ...
Published: February 6, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 667
Winer Predicts the Assimilation of RSS
Scripting News: Dave Winer, creator of RSS, is immersed in a continuing battle over the blogging standard and the Echo project. I still can't figure the whole dispute out, but Winer is apparently upset that people are trying to re-write RSS...or something. I don't know, but Winer is a smart, ...
Published: June 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
SpinRite, DOS Attacks, and Steve Gibson
SpinRite: This is a disk protection utility. "....any weak and failing areas within the region are located and removed from use while none of the drive's original data is being stored there. Only after the region has been made absolutely safe, will the drive's original data be restored to that ...
Published: August 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Holiday Inn Chicago: Friend to the Geek
I'm writing this from the lobby of the Holiday Inn Chicago City Centre on Ohio Street, which is a very geek-friendly hotel. Broadband is available in every room for $9.95 for the duration of your stay. And it's a true T-1 line; extremely fast. The lobby has free wireless throughout. ...
Published: June 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Gates Says He Can Beat Spam
Gates reveals his 'magic solution' to spam: Just imagine if he actually did it and become "The Man Who Solved the Spam Problem." The world would herald the savior. That's enough to give Apple die-hards a shiver. The battle to rid the world's in-boxes of spam has got itself a ...
Published: January 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 659
Customizable Routes in Google Maps
One of the things about Google Maps that I never cared for was that the route it gives you when you ask directions isn t always the route I want to go. So I d usually use it along with a couple of other resources to plan a trip. I just discovered ...
Published: August 11, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 658
Automatic Number Plate Recognition
London Congestion Charge : This is an interesting Wikipedia article about the "congestion charge" levied on vehicles entering the busiest zone in Central London. Apparently traffic was so bad here, that they charge people $9 US for a day pass to drive in it. Those sneaky Brits are too smart ...
Published: March 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
The RFID Future
Depending on who you ask, RFID is either the best thing to ever happen to retailers, the worst thing to ever happen to privacy, or both. Wired's Josh McHugh has written a great article that takes an in-depth look at the ramifications of RFID, beginning with a visit to the ...
Published: July 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Meet Fatal1ty
The New Player in Pro Sports: An interesting article about professional video gamer Johnathan Wendel, who goes by the name "Fatal1ty" and just won the $150,000 CPL tournament (this article was written prior to the tournament). He's not a couch potato, it turns out: Wendel is first and foremost an ...
Published: November 25, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Content Management as a Practice
Four years ago, when announcing that the long sought-after title for his profession that of interaction architect had finally been found, Bruce Tognazzini started off his post with: This is the most important column I have ever written. Now, as much as I love hyperbole, I m not going ...
Published: August 15, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
The Hidden Gem of MT3
David Raynes: SubCategories 1.2: There was much complaining when Movable Type 3.0 came out that there wasn't anything new in it. To a large extent, the complainers were right there was very little new functionality...on the surface. The real gem of MT3, it turns out, is the new plug-in ...
Published: June 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
Web Calendar Recommendation?
Much like my selfish use of this space to ask for a GMail invite, I'm now asking for a software recommendation. I'm building a Web site for our local Christian school, and we need a Web calendar. I'm not going to roll my own, so we're looking for open-source or ...
Published: September 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
Ink Refillers Get Serious
If you've ever used a refurbished or third party ink jet printer catridge, you may have been disappointed with the results. But Forbes reports that some companies are hoping to turn that around and make the ink-jet refilling business a major threat to the printer companies. In the lab, which ...
Published: August 4, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Metal Storm
Metal Storm Limited has put together an all new ballistic weapon technology that eliminates most mechanical action from weapons, replacing it with electronic triggering mechanisms that can lead to all kinds of unique solutions. Metal Storm's technology provides a means whereby objects, such as bullets that have been tightly grouped ...
Published: September 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Spolsky's Link Fu
I love reading Joel Spolsky. The guy is so smart it makes your eyes water sometimes. I just read his five-part series on The Road to FogBugz 4.0. It was actually just so-so for Spolsky, but that's still really good for anyone else. What's great about this stuff is the ...
Published: April 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
Ooh...This is awkward...
SCO has extended its campaign to squeeze blood from a Linux server to Linux users this week by suing Autozone for its use of the OS. The best part? The court they're filing the suit in will manage the case using Linux. However, the defence may take heart that the ...
Published: March 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Bullet Trains
Japan's maglev train sets record: CNN had a story on Headline News about maglev trains and it got the geek in me all excited. They mentioned this one. The experimental three-car maglev was carrying passengers when it set the world's top speed for a train, clocking at 581 kph (361 ...
Published: January 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Joel Don't Like No Java
The Perils of JavaSchools: Spolsky goes ballistic on Java and the dumbing down of computer science instruction in colleges. If you don't deal with pointers and functional recurison, then don't even think about working at Fog Creek. As an employer, I've seen that the 100% Java schools have started churning ...
Published: December 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo is the uber-geek on TechTV's "Call for Help." He also runs Lockergnome, which is a general geek portal. One part of this is Gnometomes.com, where Chris sells little ebooks about various subjects for between $5 and $9. He has hundreds of them out there, from "The Do's and ...
Published: May 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
Why Mac Ads Suck
Apple's mean-spirited ad campaign.: Yeah, totally. My problem with these ads begins with the casting. As the Mac character, Justin Long (who was in the forgettable movie Dodgeball and the forgettabler TV show Ed) is just the sort of unshaven, hoodie-wearing, hands-in-pockets hipster we've always imagined when picturing a Mac ...
Published: June 20, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
JotForm
JotForm: This is a somewhat insane JavaScript form builder. You drag and drop elements in your browser to build a Web form -- somewhat like the various IDEs. Each element has properties, etc. It's in beta right now, so details are thin, but apparently you can have them host the ...
Published: February 18, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
MySQL Kicks Puppies And Steals From The Elderly
Chu Yeow rounds up a couple of sites that have a bone to pick with MySQL. They outline a couple of them that I didn t know about that sound like real scalability problems, like: Making changes to a table definition causes a temporary copy of the table to be created. ...
Published: September 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 634
Jill's Next Record
Jill s Next Record!: Jill Sobule (of I Kissed a Girl fame the 1995 version) wanted to release a new record, but she was broke. So she asked her fans to fund it, on this Web site. She needed $75K, and ended up with a touch over $82K. I have ...
Published: June 11, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
410 Gone
HTTP Error 410: Gone: I found this page today when searching for a refresher on the 410 status code. It means gone. Forever. Not just not found right now, but forever more. Gone, baby. We should use status code 410 more. As far as I can tell, it’s the forgotten ...
Published: April 30, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 618
_vti...Very Terrible Idea?
Vermeer Technologies Gives Birth To FrontPage: Joe's mention of "FrontPage crap" in his Cygwin post got me remembering the joy of having "_vti" directories scattered across my hard drive when working with the unabashed sucking that was early versions of FrontPage. (I was issued FrontPage 1.1 on five floppies by ...
Published: September 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 612
Windows Home Server
Windows Home Server: I must have totally missed this. It was announced in January. Introducing Windows Home Server, a new way to simplify how you keep and share your family s photos, videos, and music. This smart hub lives in your home and connects all the important people in your life ...
Published: August 30, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 611
Star Wars Revelations
I'm late to this party, but let me say that Star Wars Revelations is an awfully cool little film. For those that haven't seen it, it's a Star Wars fan film, produced by someone who's name is not George. Given that the real Star Wars films have budgets the size ...
Published: January 22, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 611
Fabian Pascal is Smarter Than Me
The legendary Fabian Pascal showed up yesterday to tell us all that we were stupid over in the relational data model post. Specifically, his comment was: None of you know the relational model, which is why you think current products are relational, which they are not. This whole thread is ...
Published: September 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 609
Kill the Installers
I'd like to make an appeal to all the developers in the world for software that doesn't install. Just give me an executable. Bundle everything up into that, or perhaps have a handful of DLLs in the same folder as the program. I get the program, I stick it in ...
Published: September 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 603
Movable Type 3.2 Plugins
Six Apart ProNet - Plugin Directory - Built for 3.2: If you're on the latest version of Movable Type, take a browse of the plugins built to take advantage of the new API hooks in that version. There's some really great stuff here: Ajaxify Ajaxify is a set of plugins ...
Published: November 22, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 599
Spiders are Stupid
I've been monitoring the 404s on this site. I changed our URL pattern a while back, so I have a page that catches all the 404 and resolves the old pattern against the new one, then redirects. Anything that doesn't resolve gets logged and I have an RSS feed where ...
Published: November 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 597
Yahoo! Answers and The Art of Asking Good Questions
I spent some time over at Yahoo! Answers today. I had a question (it's here, if anyone else wants to chime in). I believe in giving back, so I spent 20 minutes or so trying to answer some other peoples' questions as well. After this experience, I'm prepared to say ...
Published: March 10, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 588
Reminder: Encryption is Falling Apart
I started writing something that needed a password store today, and stopped myself short as I got all prepped up to store the passwords as a one-way MD5 hash. As we've reported earlier, MD5 isn't all it's cracked up to be these days. There's no direct 'crack' of the MD5 ...
Published: September 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 574
Making Your Fields Do Their Own Dirty Work
At one point or another, all content management systems (CMS) come down to some kind of datatype. You have to be able to set a field to a string, or an integer, or whatever, and then enforce and manage that piece of data. The idea is that you take these ...
Published: August 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 490
Interview with Josh Clark
Admit it: whenever some group like 37 Signals or Six Apart comes out with a new software product, you secretly think, "I could of done that." How many of us developers thing we could build something just as good if we only put in the time? I do. Yes, I ...
Published: March 2, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 410
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