Archive for: August 18, 2008

Filed under: Gaming
A Wii Wheel for racing? Fine. A club attachment for golfing. Eh, okay. InterAction Laboratories’ Wii Sqweeze? Puh-lease. Recently “demonstrated” by CEO Greg Merril, that goofball peripheral possesses a pair of rubber handles which “allow for shoulder abduction and adduction.” Rep…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Peripherals, WirelessLook out, cable pundits, your next must-have gadget has arrived. Kensington’s Wireless USB Docking Station is pretty straightforward — you simply plug in up to five USB devices along with your external monitor in order to access all of those gizmos sans cabling fro…

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Gadgets

Yahoo’s Digg-a-like Buzz is opening up to the world tonight. Until now, while anyone could see stories that had been Buzzed and vote them up or down, only about 400 publishers could contribute new urls to the service.

A Yahoo spokesperson confirmed that it was always Yahoo’s intention to open …

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Filed under: Cellphones, Wearables
Just as wallets leave impressions in rear pockets, cellphones can do the same for pockets in the front. One Aram Bartholl has decided to start a collection of battle-tested jeans that “show traces of mobile tech development in society.” We’ve no view whether he’s p…

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If you liked Ping.fm you’ve got to check out Pixelpipe. It’s a service that’s been designed for lazy (yet ambitious) folks who want to send photos, videos, and audio clips to multiple services with just one upload.

Like Ping.fm and Hey!Spread all you have to do is plug in your credentials at each…

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Defraggler is a free file defragmentation tool from Piriform the company that brought you CCleaner and Recuva It differs from other defrag tools on the market by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to without having to process the whole drive Simply run it select the file and defragment in seconds No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool
And remember like all Piriform products Defraggler is completely free for both corporate and individual use
nbsp Changes in v1 02 085 Final
Improved progress indicator accuracy
Added checks for freespace
Various GUI and usability improvements
Fixed UI issues with large DPI settings
Fixed 64 bit compatibility issue that would ignore some files
Improved drive map defragged files are now always marked as blue
Added background update checking
Fixed minor bug in progress indicator for chkdsk
Minor bug fixes nbsp

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsHold your horses, vaquero. Let’s not blow that all out of proportion here. While it’s no secret that a assured amount of Vista purchasers are utilizing that “downgrade to XP” option to its fullest extent, a small (and let us stress “small”) collection of goods suggests …

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Free music mixtape service Muxtape has temporarily been shut down due to pressure from the Recording Industry organization of America (RIAA). There’s not much more info about downtime besides a small note on the front page of Muxtape.com saying that “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period …

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Glam Media has continued its universal expansion, appointing former DoubleClick and Excite executive Yukihiro Yamamura as CEO of its Glam Japan division. Glam Japan hasn’t actually launched yet, but is slated to go habitable later that year.

Yamamura had been head of DoubleClick Japan previously, a…

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GoboLinux is a distribution which sports a different file system structure than ‘ordinary’ Linux distributions. In order to remain compatible with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, symbolic urls are used to map the GoboLinux tree to standard UNIX directories. A post in the GoboLinux forums suggeste…

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Details are slim at the moment, but one thing’s for certain: Dell customers affected (or not affected… yet) by those wonky NVIDIA GPUs will have their warranties extended by 12-months to compensate. The 1-year “limited guarantee enhancement” will add coverage for that issue to everyone who rec…

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Gaming

Pictured above, Hurricane Isabel.

With Tropical Storm Fay (which might become a hurricane by the time you read this) churning near Key West, I thought (and by "I," I mean Carol Mangis, my editor) it might be a good time to let you know where you can get the best hurricane/tropical storm/cyclone/typhoon data. I'm a meteorologist. These are sites I use.

There are hurricane basins scattered around the world. Each has a different favored season depending on climatology. This sea surface temperature animation pinpoints them pretty well. Here in the United States our most likely time for tropical storms is late spring through late summer--though they can happen year-round. We get them on both coasts, though the Pacific storms usually stay away from the U.S. mainland.

The tropical weather brain trust works at the National Hurricane Center, which on the organizational chart is part of the National Weather Service, which is part of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, which is part of the Commerce Department. Wow--I wonder if there's any bureaucracy there? That being said, these are really bright people who understand their task. I sometimes question the specific numbers they post--never their intentions or dedication.

Because we have a general idea where hurricanes form and the conditions necessary for formation, forecasters keep a close eye on those regions. In the beginning it's mainly done by remote sensing--starting with satellites. The Hurricane Center uses both geostationary satellites and low Earth orbiters like QuickScat. Just to show you how intricate hurricane formation is, here's a satellite animation ...