The World's Smallest Computer

This little thing was developed at the University of Michigan to help glaucoma patients. "The newest system wakes every 15 minutes to take measurements and consumes an average of 5.3 nanowatts.  To...

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Google Chrome Automatic Updates

     This is just one of the features I love about just one of the many great products Google offers to the public free of charge. Google's browser, Chrome, features automatic installation...

Apple event March 2nd 2011 - iPad 2?

yep, more than likely. Gizmodo brought to our attention that Apple released news of an event they are hosting on March 2nd. As you can see formt he picture below. We are pretty damn sure the iPad 2 will...

Cisco's ASR 9000

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Update on the new Facebook photo viewer

Was just stoppin by Lifehacker a second ago and they brought to attention that you can get rid of that blasted new photo viewer that i dislike simply by refreshing the page. Works like a charm. Average User tip of the day: Use the quicker keyboard shortcuts "Ctrl+R" or "F5" to refresh the pa...

Trackpad "Gestures" for your Ubuntu Linux machine!

How-To geek featured an article showing us Linux fans how to take advantage of one of the few things I think Apple got right. Gestures. I NEED a scroll bar. I can't be bothered to click and drag the side...

Google Earth Building Maker!

Like Google Earth? Wish there was more 3D? Google is now allowing users to create and submit #D designs of buildings. If it is up to there standards of what the building really looks like, they will...

New Facebook picture view

Well, Facebook continues to make layout changes to keep it's user's short attention span. The latest of these features, of which I noticed yesterday, is a new "pop-out" photo viewer. It's not pop-out...

Death To Humans Venn Diagram

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Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Today Windows announced that Windows 7 and Server 2008 Service Pack 1 will be available to the public on February 22md. If you happen to be a TechNet or MSDN subscriber OR a volume licence customer, you'll be able to get your hands on it on the 16th. This SP will include 2 new virtualization features for Server '08 and Remote FX and Dynamic Memory for W7 which you can read all about on the Windows Server Team blog page. Can't wait to test out some of these new features. Let us know what you think! W7...

USB Mouse only working in Safe Mode

Had this problem on an employees windows machine a while back and just ran into it myself. While I'm not sure what caused it in the first place. I can tell you how to fix it. It is as easy as finding and reinstalling the chipset drivers for your computer's specific Make and Model ( ie: Dell - Vostro or Acer - Power 2000). So reboot your computer and keep hitting F8 while it's booting to get into safe mode, your mouse should be functional ins afe mode and allow you to find the correct drivers and...

Repair a flash drive that isnt displaying full capacity

For whatever reason, your 4GB flash drive is only showing that it is a 1 GB drive. Well this just won't do. In my case it is because I want to test chromium out, so I created a bootable flash drive with...

Apple iHand

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Convert .MOV files to .AVI

So you need to convert your .mov files into a .avi file, eh? Well Pazera Free Mov to AVI converter 1.2 will do just that. You can grab this free software HERE Add your files via button near the top...

LG asking that the Playstation 3 be banned from import to United States.

According to LG electronics, Sony's PlayStation 3 BluRay players violates several of LG's patents. A private law firm posted a PDF to their blog (The ITC 337) HERE. Of course this followed a complaint...

Google Art Project Q&A

As you may have noticed, I bumped the Google Art Project that was released last week. Now you can read a little Q&A with the executive Vice-President of Schematic, the company that collaborated with Google to complete this Project. Read the full article here: The Art of Making the Google Art Project "I was awestruck by the idea itself, which the Googlers with whom we collaborated on the project had invented. It was a project that really reflects the full potential of what the Web can achieve,...

Use Error298 as your personal FREE tech support!

As I am always looking for new content for the blog, I thought it would be a good idea to ask you readers to send me your generic and/or complex tech support questions. If you need help with connectivity issues, how to do something within Microsoft office suite or really anything related to computers, just send me an email at Err298@Gmail.com. Once I have an answer for you, I'll post it up here. Have a good one! -Be...

Lifehacker changed their website layout

I saw a little while back that IO9 had changed their site's template and didn't really like it too much. Now I wake up this morning to see that Lifehacker has followed suit. I liked that old layout better...

This cracks me up.

Hey, I'm cool with biking, but I do see this all the time....

Turn your Caps Lock button into a "Search" button.

So you know those highly sought after Google CR-48 notebooks being distributed to and tested by lucky recipients? Well if you do, you probably heard that they axed the Caps Lock key because, well how often do you use the Caps Lock key? ( unless you have a point to prove to that asshole on your message board). Here is how to follow suit and turn your Caps Lock key into a "Search" button like Google did with their beta-notebook. ( This will open chrome for you, if not open already, open a new tab...

Chibuntu

Not that it is called Chibuntu, but you can now get your very own Chinese Ubuntu from there website ( www.ubuntu.com) I don't know about you but I like Ubuntu Linux. It's great! Now if i could only...

We have run out of IPs! No more internet...

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has handed out it's last batches of IPv4 addresses. ( the #s that look like this : 192.168.1.0) This doesn't mean that we will have to take...

Snowmageddon!

It's friday and How-To Geek wants you to battle Frosty the Snowman's evil snowman army to get your mind ready for your weekend break from thinking. Play Snowmageddon here. And don't forget to check...

Microsoft offering a *SNEAK PEAK* of new homepage

oooOOOOOoooo, fancy Microsoft... whatever. Nothing special looking to me. But there it is.Now you know, you can't un-know ...

Change the VLAN of a port on a Cisco Switch

Recently I had to hook up a new network printer in our organization. To do this i had to configure the port on the switch to be on our printer VLAN. I decided this could be useful to something trying to accomplish something similar. For this I will assume that you know the IP address of your Cisco switch. To change the VLAN of a particular port on your switch: Open a command prompt The fastest way to do this is to hit the "Windows Key + R" ( this will open up your "Run" prompt) and type "CMD"....

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Google TiSP: Free wireless internet in your home!

Google is at it again! Offering a new FREE in-home wireless access system! TiSP in-home wireless broadband is:Free, fast and highly reliable Easy to install -- takes just minutes Vacuum-sealed to prevent...

A little closer to invisibilty.

Researchers at MIT and the University of Birmingham have altered calcite, a crystal form of calcium carbonate usually found in seashells to make small objects ( such as a paperclip) invisible. While it is currently only in a 2D stage, they have their theories on how 3-dimensional cloaking will work. Read the story here :http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-02/using-special-crystals-researchers-achieve-true-invisibility-visual-spectrum and here is the paper cl...

Google Art Project

I just happened upon this cool little project Google has been working on Called the Google Art Project. It brings Google's "Street Map" view inside famous museums around the world. take a virtual tour around the museums or just view the art being displayed there via slideshow...