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Blackberry and Linksys

// August 9th, 2010 // 8 Comments » // tech

I’ve had some trouble getting my blackberry to work with linksys routers. After reading a couple of posts on different forums, I found this solution which should work with any linksys. Changing these settings should allow you to connect to the blackberry server without connecting to a mobile network, you’ll get access to your email, bb messenger, etc. This is useful when you’re roaming and don’t want to be charged for data usage.

Change the wireless settings on your router to the following:

DTIM: 2 (1-255)
Fragment Threshold : 2304 (256-2346)
RTS Threshold : 2304 (0-2347)
Beacon Interval : 50 (20-1024 ms)

I used to think that having a UMA connection meant I could make long distance calls as if I was in Canada, but it turns out I need to get another service to make my UMA work while roaming.

Apple fanboy fruit!

// December 5th, 2008 // 12 Comments » // humor, tech

This guy loved apple so much he decided to put stickers on apples in a farm, and this was the result

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Get your DNA analysed for $399

// November 23rd, 2008 // 12 Comments » // tech

The winner of Time Magazine’s best inventions of 2008 is “The Retail DNA Test”. There is a company named 23 and me. They analyze your DNA and send you the information they get from it. This information includes more than 90 traits and conditions which include:

- Where you come from. I registered to get access to their demo, and it turns out they show you where your ancestors lived 500 years ago.
- What your food preferences are. Like what you can’t taste.
- Your athletic ability.
- Compare yourself to any of your friends and find out if you are related. I wonder if that is how they found out Chaney and Obama are cousins?
- What your personal characteristics are.
- Health status, they have a page were they show you your Disease Risks. They also tell you how resistant you are to AIDS, or Malaria.

The Way this works is that they will send you a packet with a tube that you have to fill with saliva. After that you send them back the package and wait for your username and password in the mail. Then after you login you get to see your test results, and believe me they are really long.

This is just amazing Technology, and 23andme have been around for a while, but they used to charge 1000 Dollars and now they only charge $399.

This is a video given at Google explaining the whole concept. BTW the Co-founder of 23andme is the wife of Google’s co-founder Sergey.

No More PC Magazine!

// November 20th, 2008 // 13 Comments » // tech

Ziff Davis announced today that they will stop publishing the printed version of PC Magazine. Their last edition will come out on January 2009, be sure to get it for its the last.

Here is a picture of their first issue 1982, notice that the price was only 3 bucks…

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Gears Of War 2

// November 10th, 2008 // 7 Comments » // tech

Gears of War 2 was just released with 2.1 Million units sold making it the third highest first day sales right after GTA4 and Halo3. Seeing how great video games have become, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the first video game ever made! In 1958 Dr. William Higinbotham created Tennis for Two, so check it out.

source Gizmodo

CitySpace, Simply Incredible

// August 13th, 2008 // 8 Comments » // tech, website

A very impressive 3D virtual world called City Space will be launched soon from LiveSpace. They released a video of the city, but it was taken down for some reason. The amazing part of this, and what makes it different from SecondLife, is that the game is rendered by the server’s side, so it would run smoothly on weak computers. This server side rendering engine is called OTOY.

TechCrunch released a copy of the video so here it is…

note: The Livespace domain whois lists brad greenspan’s name (MySpace co-founder)

Best Product Review Ever!!

// August 12th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // humor, tech

I have seen funny product reviews on amazon, but none as funny as this one! This guy is reviewing Ubuntu, so check it out. Click on the image for a bigger version…

Jungle Jail

// April 1st, 2008 // 4 Comments » // humor, tech

Jungle Jail is a funny and well done 3d animation film, and i think it was done for a course project at del Ecole Superieure des Metiers Artistiques…

Old Microsoft Windows 1.0 ad

// March 31st, 2008 // 15 Comments » // humor, tech

Ok, This is a veryyy old Windows ad, and the ad was presented by microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer (He took over Microsoft after Bill Gates)…

Adobe Photoshop Express – Free…

// March 28th, 2008 // 8 Comments » // tech, website

The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop on Thursday launched a basic version available for free online.

Photoshop Express will be completely Web-based so consumers can use it with any type of computer, operating system and browser. And, once they register, users can get to their accounts from different computers.

source [Wall Street Journal]

I tried it and it seems pretty cool for a web-based photo editor. They basically give you about 6 filters to choose from, and you could also scale, rotate, or crop an image.