Soccer Dad on Apr 13 2009 | Filed under: Technology
60 Minutes had a report yesterday about the Army’s efforts to create artificial arms for amputees. Prosthetics, until now, haven’t changed since they were first invented. Now efforts are being made to tie the artificial limbs into the users nervous system and give them greater utility. 60 Minutes focuses on the efforts of Dean Kamen [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Dec 15 2008 | Filed under: Alternate Lifestyles, Culture Watch, Technology
The word desperate comes to mind. It’s too bad Le Trung couldn’t find the perfect girl, but if he’s such a smart man he should know that the perfect girl does not exist … nor does the perfect man, or the perfect robot. Oh my. (Fox, via ATS)
A Canadian man, apparently [...]
Terry Trippany on Sep 08 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Technology
Update: Another aspect that makes Firefox counterproductive and sometimes worthless is its tendency to consume 100% CPU at a whim. This product acts like garbage from the old days. I don’t know how many times I have had to kill Firefox because it spins CPU on XP but I can easily estimate that it happens [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Apr 10 2008 | Filed under: Technology, The War on Terror
The headline is “New Weapon In War On Terror - Hand-held Lie Detector”, but I could think of many other uses for this device. We could use them on political candidates to see it they are telling the truth or lying. Or maybe spouses could use them on each other. How about teachers using them [...]
Terry Trippany on Apr 08 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Technology, Webloggin Tech Tips
The developer of the Image Manager Plugin has retrofitted it to fix the 2.5 compatibility issue. It should be ready by end of week. This is great news as the plugin is excellent.
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Nov 02 2007 | Filed under: Technology
United 93, instead of becoming a weapon in terrorists’ hands that would have struck at America’s heart, become a symbol of heroism and resistance. And the reason that happened was because of the cell phone. Passengers on board the flight were able to gain information and assess risk thanks to the information they [...]
Terry Trippany on Aug 27 2007 | Filed under: Technology, U.S. News
Your nice new Gateway Computer, long the hallmark of U.S. based computing will follow the IBM Thinkpad and transfer ownership to a foreign company. Acer, a Taiwanese company will purchase Gateway for $710 million pending approval by U.S. regulators.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million [...]
Terry Trippany on Jun 14 2007 | Filed under: Linkfest, Technology
The FBI announced the results of a massive initiative to shut down botherders who take over unsuspecting personal computers and servers for use in various hacking activities such as ID theft, phishing and spamming.
Terry Trippany on May 30 2007 | Filed under: Technology, Webloggin Tech Tips
I owe this tip to the awesome Lifehacker website that covers computer based technology for the ultimate computer geeks (me).
You can restrict Google image searches to images of faces by adding the following &imgtype=face to the end of the search string.
Suppose you want to search for pictures of Paris. You go to google images and [...]
