Insanityville

Here are all the posts written in 2010 May.

LaCie sure offers great products like this suggestively named key shaped USB drive, or this new, also suggestively named, Rugged Safe external Hard Drive. You’ll notice right away the thumbprint scanner that ads extra security to the device. Pretty nice feature if you ask me. Now, a little on the specs as stated on the [...]

Browsing the web I came across the photos the FCC made when they checked the iPad in the review process. The gallery can be viewed here. [Source]

I haven’t seen in a while a concept anything that is truly different than other mass production products. The Gridlock Concept wrist watch from Tokyoflash looks like it comes straight from a Star Trek movie. You’d think that it’s difficult to read but you’d be wrong.  The trick to it is that the hours are [...]

It seems that the USB port escapes the multimedia device case and moves to the wall socket. This is the U-Socket from FastMac and it will be ready for shipping in October. You’ll be able to purchase one for about $20. The original design that was supposed to be priced at $10 had to be [...]

Based on the image above, a lot of jokes were made around the Internet. I found a few of them online and I grouped them into a little gallery. You will find a template to create your own joke based on this image or can send me links to other jokes like this to extend [...]

This is an update on my unbootable laptop. For the initial repair operation you can read here: Ubuntu saved me once again. It seems that my fix using the Ubuntu was just temporary Today when I arrived from work, started my laptop but surprise, it didn’t boot again. It entered the recover console again. I [...]

Today at Google I/O, Google had the coolest giveaway yet by gaving everyone present their latest Android phone, the Evo 4G. But that’s not all. Nobody guessed that the phone wasn’t the only thing that Google was giving away. On their way out, everyone received one sample of Google’s latest project: Google Socks. Now they [...]

Well, maybe that’s what I get get for trying to play Prince of persia – The two Thrones without the original CD and without installing the crack I installed it using an image of the game taken from a tracker but somehow forgot to overwrite the original files with the cracked files. I restarted at [...]

Is this a real OS? Is this insanity? Caught in a niche buy, No escape from the GUI. Open your eyes, look into your files and see, Bill’s just a rich boy, he needs no sympathy, Because it’s sloppy code, full of bloat, really crap, really slow, Any way to sell ‘dows doesn’t really matter [...]

I don’t want to be malicious but it’s kinda true. Daily I must struggle with the shortcomings of Internet Explorer so the message above is very well intended. So, please, don’t use Internet Explorer for your day to day browsing needs. Use it strictly to download a better browser.