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18 Pulp Fiction Characters Forever Pixel Immortalized
They have become a cult phenomenon, and they keep appearing at least once a week nowadays. I am of course talking about the pixelized movie characters that take us back to the 8-bit era when Commodore 64 and its peers founded the gaming landscape that we're used to today. I remember starting up a ga ...
Fascinating: The Fake Plastic Crowds You See In Movies
If you are James Cameron and have hundreds of millions of dollars budgeted to make a film, then you'd probably use real people (extras) or fancy computer generated imagery to create a crowd for a scene, right? But what about all the movies that don't have that kind of budget? Have you ever wondered ...
Hasselblad Camera: The Working Downloadable Version
If you consider yourself to be a photographer, and if you are even remotely interested in the ins and outs of different cameras, you should really know what Hasselblad is all about. It's of course the world's most sought after camera. The price tag for an old one is unbelievably high, yet the awesom ...
Geek Heaven: The Map of the Internet
I remember back in the days when I didn't have a computer at home with Internet access. My first ISP was Mindspring, and to this day, I still have my first Mindspring email address. I pay extra each month just to keep it. I'm a sucker for anything retro and nostalgic, including email addresses.
I ...
The Truth About Grandmas, Grandpas & Technology
You know I love grandmas and grandpas. I write about them a lot. The older generation has a lot of love and wisdom to share with us. We just have to take time out of our schedules to stop and listen. A while back I wrote about the oldest Facebook member alive, and of course, she was the cutest littl ...
Smart Bookrest Hopes To Bridge Digital And Printed Media
A lot of people have complained about the way that we're seeing printed media move online and become digital media. Every year there are hundreds of printed magazines that convert their publishing onto the web in order to save money and to speed up the publishing process. The blogging sensation has ...
Get Your Geek On: The Circuit Board Coffee Table
This coffee table is completely geektastic on so many levels. We've seen circuit board coffee tables before, like this one Richard wrote about called the Motherboard Coffee Table; however, we've never seen one quite like this.
This table gets the ultimate geek award because the computer parts are ...
Jumboard: Turns Your Baby Into An Internet Guru
Isn't it wonderful how the Internet just keeps spreading knowledge to everyone? The sheer amount of information you can find on the billions of useful websites around the Internet is just unprecedented. This has become a catapult for the digitization of youngsters around the world, and small childre ...
Pointing Stick: The IBM Approach To A Mouse In 1990
Do you ever wonder why we all started using a mouse rather than any other way of interacting with the user interface on the screen? Well, as you might have suspected, the mouse wasn't always the logical step, and it was more of a stepping stone towards something that could be more time saving and ea ...
Multitasking And User Interface As Explained In 1982
It's quite funny how we don't reflect on the interface pretty much all of us are using on today's computers anymore. We're more focused on what has to be done during the day rather than marveling over the fact that we can actually do all that by multitasking. User interface and multitasking are word ...
10 Signs That You Need A Social Media Detox
I think anyone who is into social media would agree with me that things are moving faster and faster. Whatever it is that we have to do, it has to be easy, fast, and it will hopefully increase our influence on the Internet. All the people who are stuck in their Lazy-Boy (La-Z-Boy) chair trying to ju ...
A Fantastically Creepy Steampunk Mouse Design
Wow, I love this! It's like science fiction meets Freddy Krueger meets Dr. Evil. It's Hannibal Lecter meets Mr. Hyde. Ok, maybe I should stop telling you what it's like, and just show it to you.
Peter Balch, a designer from Scotland, created this spooky looking steampunk mouse hack from wood and ...
WTF: Bikini Woman Freaks Out At Burger King
People are freaking crazy. There, I said it. No really, they are. No wonder I stay in my house on my computer surfing the Internet all day, it's the only safe place to be. Oh, you think hanging out on the Internet is dangerous? Um... have you been to Burger King lately?
I don't know why I love wr ...
Future Internet Cafe: Your Privacy Apparently Goes Transparent
All the fuss about new cell phones, new laptops and new gadgets in general has made us block out the very world we're living in. I mean, we're looking too hard at what's being released to consumers to accessorize our every day chores. And at the same time, we're missing out what's being done to our ...
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Working From Home: Facts vs. Fiction [Infographic]
I work from home, and I have for so long that I don't know what it would be like to drive to an office each day. Most of my friends; however, still do that morning and afternoon commute to and from their job. Whenever we talk about our workdays with each other, there seems to be a disconnect. I noti ...