Waiterless Restaurant Opens in Germany, Sommeliers Worried
Comments OffSo, you’re in Nuremberg looking for something to do. You feel hungry, but going to a normal restaurant with bossy waiting staff isn’t your cup of tea. Where could you possibly go? How about somewhere without the aforementioned waiters? A self-service restaurant that isn’t a buffet such as ‘s Baggers, where the food gets served [...]
Google Street View – Some Highlights
As we all know, when Google launched Google Maps and Google Earth, the next few weeks then became filled by eagle eyed people finding random bits of joy, just by chance. Google launches Street View, and there’s no exception to the rule. Laudon Tech has already compiled a long list of random yet wonderful things [...]
VirtueDesktops + Macbook = Smackbook
Comments OffLadies and Gentlemen, we now have a productive excuse to hit our computers. The Macbook has a weird motion sensor inside it, supposedly for detecting a fall and bracing the moving parts for impact. VirtueDesktops uses and abuses this feature, allowing you to change the virtual desktop you’re using without having to select some tiny [...]
New Toy? Defile It!
Comments Offif you are the owner of a new gadget, you usually end up doing the new gadget owner things, treating it like royalty, cleaning it after every speck of dust touches it. Your need to keep it pristine and as close to “just opened freshness” as possible makes it impossible to actually use the product [...]
Review of the Mio C310S Portable Car GPS
The first idea of buying a portable in car GPS came to me after a few visits to Los Angeles for E3, with such a massive city I needed a GPS to navigate around. I would often pay about $5 USD to rent a GPS from Hertz; it just seemed like money wasted. So I waited for a GPS that got decent reviews to go on sale. Last week the Mio C310 SX (Called Mio C310x in the United States) had the price slashed by $100 to $250 CAD.
Tidy Your PC’s Internals. Do It Now.
Inspired by the John Chow Cable Folding Craziness, and prodded a bit by the BSOD and “Won’t Boot” scare from last night, I decided to tidy my own PC’s internals. I hadn’t done it in a while, and it gives me a chance to check all the connections to the drives, just in case moving [...]
John Chow’s Cable Folding Evilness
Comments OffAre you like me: A sad and lonely individual that has high computer temperatures and a mess of cables inside disrupting the airflow? Too cheap to buy round IDE cables to make things cooler? Why not do what John Chow does with his own computers: Cable Folding. He folds the cables like some sort of [...]
