Archive for 'Cool Tech'
Fuck You Rogers Update
The link to ruinediphone.com, aka fuckyourogers.com,
has been attracting a lot of attention with close to 30,000 angry citizens signing the online petition expressing their outrage over the usurious Rogers/Fido voice and data plans for the iPhone in Canada.
While it is doubtful the delivery of the petition on July 11 will actually result in Ted Rogers […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Cool Tech, Free Speech, Net Neutrality, The Big Picture, Censorship, Internet, Dickheads, Blind Greed, Lies, Law, Business, Money, Advertising, Canada.
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Fuck You Rogers
Fuck You Rogers.
No - that isn’t me on my usual tirade; it’s an actual website where people have been signing on to a petition and statement of intent that says simply: “We love the iPhone but Rogers is fucked in the head.”
Check it out.
Sign your name.
Tell Ted Rogers - and Steve Jobs - that […]
Posted: June 29th, 2008 under Cool Tech, Internet, Business, Canada, Corruption, Future.
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Earth And Moon - From Mars
When I saw this photo the hair on the back of my neck went up.
Click on it for a closer view - it’s just stunning.
The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
There are obvious comparisons to the famed Earth Rise photos made by […]
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Beginnings, Cool Tech, Culture, Society, Ooo - that's neat!, Metaphor, The Big Picture, Science, Art, Travel, peace, Future.
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Slingbox For The iPhone - Final Stake In Heart Of TV Industry?
Gizmodo has a post about an upcoming release of a Slingbox app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Go the Gizmodo post to watch a video of it in action - it’s pretty fucking cool.
For those of you unfamiliar with Slingbox (and their other related products) it is essentially a way of connecting you with […]
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Beginnings, Cool Tech, Old Media, Culture, Television, Ooo - that's neat!, Endings, Metaphor, Free Speech, The Big Picture, The Small Picture, Internet, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Business, Advertising, Future.
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More Than Just A Phone - iPhone Piano Video
I was saying it for months before the damned thing was ever released into the real world and now, with the next iteration of the iPhone looming on the horizon, I found this nifty video over at the MAKE blog. It showcases an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Piano.
Sweet.
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And then there’s […]
Posted: June 7th, 2008 under Odds & Sods, Cool Tech, Ooo - that's neat!, Music, Art, Future.
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Surf Your Worlds With Hacked Wii Balance Board
Found this over on Gizmodo and thought it to be trés cool. It’s two German students at a centre for studies in artificial intelligence who have hacked the Wii balance board so they can literally surf through Google Earth and Second Life.
Just as Johnny Lee hacks the Wii to create cutting edge tech that […]
Posted: May 28th, 2008 under Odds & Sods, Beginnings, Cool Tech, Culture, Ooo - that's neat!, The Big Picture, Internet, Web 3.0, Short Videos, Art, Second Life, Games, Future.
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Web 3.0 - Where We Are Going
The buzz phrase Web 2.0 has become a tired axiom in the attempts of the geek community to redefine itself after the first internet bubble burst. The term bubble itself has become an over-tired expression of unbridled human greed and folly. Most everyone now agrees that Web 2.0 is not much more than […]
Posted: May 9th, 2008 under Beginnings, Cool Tech, Copyfight, Culture, Society, Personal, Ooo - that's neat!, Metaphor, Free Speech, Net Neutrality, The Big Picture, Science, Internet, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Short Videos, Art, Procrastination, DMCA, Future.
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Test Your ISP For Bit Torrent Throttling
As reported on TorrentFreak, there is a new and easy on-line test for you to test your ISP to see if it engages in the practice of throttling your Bit Torrent traffic.
The test is provided by The Max Plank Institute For Software Systems.
Major ISPs like ComCast, Bell Canada and Rogers have been lying less than […]
Posted: May 7th, 2008 under Beginnings, Cool Tech, Ooo - that's neat!, Free Speech, Net Neutrality, The Big Picture, Science, Censorship, Internet, Dickheads, Lies, Web 3.0, Future.
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Cause Caller
I’ve been reading about Cause Caller on various BoingBoing posts but haven’t dug deeper into the story to see what it could do - until today. It’s freakin’ awesome!Talk about the emerging power of social media via the internet.
What is Cause Caller?
It’s a web-based VoIP application combined with a wiki of causes […]
Posted: May 2nd, 2008 under Cool Tech, Politics, Ooo - that's neat!, Free Speech, The Big Picture, Internet, Web 3.0, Short Videos, Advertising.
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Blaise Aguera y Arcas: TED Talk Photosynth demo
I love the TED Talks and I just stumbled over this one at Violet Blue’s web site and was utterly gobsmacked by where all these technological innovations are leading us. Terrific eye candy, to be sure, but it will also lead the way in new ways of seeing, thinking and speaking to each other […]
Posted: April 21st, 2008 under Beginnings, Cool Tech, Culture, Society, Ooo - that's neat!, Metaphor, The Big Picture, The Small Picture, Science, Internet, Holy Crap, Web 3.0, Short Videos, Art, Future.
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