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VOT125 PC Mini from ViewSonic

VOT125 PC Mini from ViewSonic

Viewsonic released today their latest mini pc, the VOT125 which uses 90% less plastic that other similar mini nettops. For more information please read the press release below. Press release ViewSonic® Leads the Way to Smarter, Greener Computing with New PC Mini ViewSonic’s VOT125 PC Mini provides compact, energy saving solution for business and home [...]

Math is hard in any programming language

Math is hard in any programming language

Ever since I started to code stuff in different programming languages I thought that if I want to add 2 numbers I would use the ‘+’ operator. If I want to make a subtraction I would use the ‘-’ operator. To make a multiplication or a division I would use the ‘*’, respectively ‘/’ operator. [...]

Apple based jokes

Apple based jokes

Apple’s designs are astonishing. But you can’t really pay a lot of money on something just because it looks great, right? I mean, I have a cell phone (SonyEricsson K800i) that is 3 years old and I wouldn’t change it for the world because it has all the features that I need, it works and [...]

Sand castle wonder

Sand castle wonder

We all know that with a little free time, a little skill and technical knowledge, a man can create virtually anything. Stumbling the web for cool and interesting articles, I came across a man with a lot of free time, a lot of skill and a lot of talent and imagination. He created a sand [...]

Seagate brings ultra-thin netbook harddrives

Presenting one of the thinnest HDD’s out there. The Momentus Thin has only a 7mm thickness and is 2.5 mm thinner than it’s competitors and promises to bring even thinner netbooks. It will be available in 2 capacities, 160GB respectively 250GB, spins at 5400rpm and will have 8MB buffer. “Momentus Thin promises to help computer [...]

The story behind powerful brands

The story behind powerful brands

Adobe – came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache – It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server – thus, the name Apache Apple Computers – favorite [...]

Custom URL for CakePHP Paginator helper

Well, I finally did it! After 3 hours of trial and error I finally got my custom URL’s for the Paginator Helper. Considering the amount of time it took me to achieve my desired URL format, I’ll share my solution with you. I don’t know if it’s the best solution out there (I didn’t find [...]

nVidia Tesla supercomputer

nVidia Tesla supercomputer

A few years back I was reading about the Roadrunner supercomputer but now it seems that we can buy our own supercomputer from nVidia. Pretty weird though because I always thought that IBM or Intel will be the first to make a supercomputer for the masses. Well, nVidia did it first. Let’s see it’s specs [...]

iWeb 2.0 Laptop

iWeb 2.0 Laptop

I see a lot of websites daily. I see lot’s of gadgets, concepts, reviews, tutorials, you name it. Every once in a while I see something that I would like to own. This little laptop is just beautiful. Not too practical and fast to use (because of the folded keyboard) but very interesting. The iWeb [...]

Alertpay integration with CakePHP

Recently I implemented a payment module using Alertpay. If you searched for this kind of code you already know what Alertpay is. For those of you who don’t, Alertpay is a payment processor similar to Paypal. To implement this type of payment you must register for an account and activate the IPN option from the [...]