Category Archives: Tech
Will Palm survive?
After Palm announced terrible quartery results, the press is doubting their survival as a company. This is a shame, because in today’s smartphone world, it seems to me that Palm’s WebOS/Pre is the best product in the market after the … Continue reading
Supercomputer on your lap.
In 1996, IBM’s ASCI Red was the top ranked supercomputer in the world. It was the first one that could do 1 Teraflop. A Teraflop means 1000000000000 floating point (think fractional math) operations per second. It was used to simulate … Continue reading
Live from CES
For the first time, The MKX® has sent a correspondent to the huge Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Roaming the show floor right as this is published, we have gadget connoisseur Pepe Correa. He has sent us some fantastic … Continue reading
Real world Flubber prototype
I post this just because it’s cool. iRobot’s Soft Morphing Blob ‘Bot Takes Its First Steps
Browser comparison
Safari 4 just came out of beta. I gave it a try at my work computer (a Windows XP machine) just to go back to Chrome shortly after. Now I’m back with Safari. The main reason? Text rendering. See, in … Continue reading
Disaster strikes
I started having computer problems a few days ago. They coincidentally started right after I applied the Mac OS X 10.5.7 update. So I blamed that and decided to deal with it whenever I get a chance. The symptoms: my … Continue reading
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Tagged backup, crash, data, disaster, harddrive, iphoto, itunes, Music, party, photos, timemachine
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The War Against Spam III
Check out the lovely SMS message I got the other day: This is worse than email spam: Most people in the U.S. are charged per SMS message received. Welcome to the era of spaSMS. I don’t know what I can … Continue reading
Slingbox
For a totally unrelated reason I spoke on the phone this morning with <name witheld>. The subject of the Champions League Final came up: Chelsea vs. Manchester United. He mentioned he would not be able to watch it but that … Continue reading
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Excel 2008 Easter Egg
I stubled upon this in MS Excel’s built-in help. Looks like the MS people are using Shakespeare-like language… unfortunately I’m either too dumb or too foreign (or both) to fully appreciate the hillariousness and the clever acute humor of the … Continue reading
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Steve Ballmer’s laptop
Good choice. What laptop does Steve Ballmer use for his presentations? Right… Originally uploaded by Paint.It.Black. Microsoft Keynote in Louvain Originally uploaded by Choubistar.
