Archive for the ‘Interesting Finds’ Category

Starship Home Theater (2011-3-12)

I think it is every movie loving geek to have a personal home theater at home.  A place where you can sit back and relax while watching your favourite DVD in style and comfort – at home. Well designers, Acoustic Innovations of Boca Raton, FL. exactly did that for a family living in this not […]

Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts (even for dummies!) (2011-3-11)

Sometimes the staff at my place of employment try and diagnose their own personal PC problems. Sometimes they are lucky and fix it themselves. Other times (more often than not) they bring it into our office in a terrible condition (just short of loosing data or already lost data) for us to have a “quick” […]

ASCII Art Generator (2011-3-9)

Typing xx&eHHm&HHx&eH might not look like anything initially, but put more together on a line and add a few more lines then you can end up with something that looks like this… This form of art is also know as ASCII art.  It is the art of taking normal letters, symbols and numbers and laying […]

Recycle your motherboard box (2011-3-6)

Asus recently had an interesting concept. They re-purposed the box that the motherboard comes in to also function as a computer case. ITWorld has the write up (found here): In the quest to cut down on shipping waste Taiwan’s Asus has a novel idea: What if the shipping container became the PC case? That’s the […]

Upgrading from DOS all the way to Windows 7 (2011-3-5)

If you have been around computers for a while now you may still remember DOS and Windows 3.1(1). Maybe your first computer came with Windows 95, or even Windows 98. Maybe you skipped a generation and was first introduced to Windows 2000 or XP. Well regardless I doubt there is anyone on the planet that […]

Meet Sally from Naked Password (2011-3-3)

I have already posted on how to create a PasswordCard, so when I saw a method (via Unplggd) on how to encourage people to create a more strong password when registering on a website I had to take a peek. Also the fact that the name makes most people say “huh?” was also another reason […]