Robert Bruce Thompson, co-author of Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders, appeared on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate show last week: Please Explain: How to Be an Amateur Astronomer Anyone can learn to be an amateur astronomist – even here in New York City, where you often can’t see any stars! Richard Rosenberg, President of the Amateur Astronomers […]
Doug Johnson reports on what may be the first G1G1 XO laptop to arrive: The small box included the computer, the power adaptor, 2 sheets of paper with minimal instructions, and the battery which had to be installed. The package was shipped FedEx from Libertyville IL on Dec 7 and arrived on my doorstep at […]
Justin Smith has a great collection of tips for marketing your brand, company, product, or service on Facebook: …most marketers lack a comprehensive understanding of the vast array of explicit and implicit marketing channels Facebook offers – most of which are viral. My goal here is to provide an introduction to what’s possible on Facebook […]
C. K. Sample III has posted a comprehensive HOWTO on running Ubuntu on the Asus EEE PC… a fully-functional install on a USB drive: I’ve been combing over various guides and instructions online for installing Ubuntu on the Asus Eee PC, and I ran into a few kinks along the way since I don’t have […]
Western Digital sells a number of external drives under the MyBook World Edition brand. These are network-based external storage drives that you can connect to remotely from multiple machines. Inside are a couple of drives set up in a mirrored RAID configuration, as well as an embedded computer running Linux. MakeFan: tipped us off to […]
The Leopard installer enforces the minimum requirements of 512MB RAM and a 867Mhz CPU. Under normal circumstances, if you have an older G4, you machine won’t meet both of these requirements. The RAM you can buy and upgrade. Nothing new there, but the CPU? Dylan McDermond from Low End Mac posted a hack today which […]
Nokia has released an Energy Profiler for Series 60 3rd Edition FP1 devices. The profiler will gather data on energy consumption and temperature so you can fire up the energy profile, launch that application you suspect of sucking down your battery, and see just how much power it’s eating up. This is a great little […]
