Archive for the 'computer geekery' Category

Jan 06 2009

Onion Takes the Piss Out of Apple

On the day of MacWorld announcements, the Onion releases this video.
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

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Dec 22 2008

LaCie Hard Drive Failure – Poor Product, Poor Customer Service

Recently I had a LaCie Quadra 500GB External Hard Drive fail (500GB LaCie d2 HD QUADRA 7200RPM 16MB – 301110U). One might expect that the hard drive would stop working, but low and behold it’s the internal power and controller card – likely with a value of less than $20. The drive is only 2 [...]

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Dec 16 2008

Ocarina – Blow Your iPhone, Create Music

Published by superfunkomatic under computer geekery

This is one of the coolest things i’ve seen for the iPhone. Blow lightly into the microphone and use the touchscreen to create notes of music.
Apparently this small developer has had 400,000 downloads at a buck a pop in the first month since its release.
Smule – Ocarina
Video example – Led Zepplin’s – Stairway to Heaven

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Sep 01 2008

My ilove with the iphone

Published by superfunkomatic under computer geekery

Well, I finally jumped ship from telus’ cellphone service. After almost ten years I’ve been wooed away by,you guessed it, the apple iPhone.
This is one of the coolest devices for remote communication on the market.
It’s a great cellphone but also really useful for weather,gps navigation and social networking/chat. I’ve had those functions on [...]

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Oct 31 2007

holy frickin’ updates batman

Published by superfunkomatic under computer geekery

well, being that i’m an early adopter, i decided last night to install the latest and greatest macintosh OS – 10.5 leopard. pretty slick, no problems with the install. then…
what the frick? now the websites don’t work, blogs don’t work, forums don’t work. the new operating system broke my webserver.
i freaked out, tried editing the [...]

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