Category: Social issues

  • Palm goes Vista

    Palm goes Vista

    Actually, Palm users were waiting for the release of a Vista-compatible version of the Palm desktop software (companion to the Palm PDA). Here it comes now under the cute name of version 6.2. Download from Palm web site.

  • Crysis – Patch v1.1

    The Crysis game just received its first major patch. It brings a number of little improvements and some big performance improvements, too. Link to Crysis Mod.

  • Amazing images of Earth seen from space

    Amazing images of Earth seen from space

    Source: 11 phenomenal images of earth.

  • Free software shooters, for Linux

    If you are a gamer (as in video games), if you like the challenge of confronting other players in FPS shootouts, if you are using GNU/Linux, you will be interested to find the comparison brought by LinuX-gamers.net: Comparison of Free Software Shooters with: Sauerbraten OpenArena Alien Arena Nexuiz World of Padman Tremulous War§ow

  • Make Windows XP look like Vista

    Make Windows XP look like Vista

    You do not want to sell your first-born child to buy Windows Vista, but you’d like to be able to brag about your having all the bells and whistles of Vista. Just keep Windows XP and install the Vista Transformation Pack 8, your PC will look a little like this:

  • Chinese prefer business to sex

    We already knew that Englishmen prefer porn to sex. Now, this is the turn of Chinese to fail getting interested in one of the human activities we thought was really attractive This is the conclusion of one comparison study from Google. They observe that their Chinese search engine is used for terms like names of…

  • Top 10 file software (Windows)

    List of the best file-oriented utilities for Windows: Restoration Double-Killer / Easy Duplicate Finder TeraCopy WinMerge Foldershare / SyncToy DriveImage XML (already presented here w few weeks ago) WinDirStat Xplorer² SyncBack TrueCrypt According to LifeHacker.

  • Japanese bug fights

    See those monstruous bugs fight each other in front of Japanese cameras. 20+ fights in a row. Amazing combinations. INTRODUCTION A lot more here after:

  • Sony joins the DRM-free crowd

    It was about time! I had previously wrote here that Sony was now the last major music company not having announced any plan to offer its music catalog in MP3 format without DRM (without digital rights protection). This is about to change. Sony, like the other disc producers/distributors, finally figured it out: Consumers are actually…