An Laptop, camera, and a motorized curtain = Privacy?

It’s automation taken to the absurd? Or is it? Niklas Roy (Berlin, Germany) has an old storefront with a big window facing towards the street. He’s installed a small but small smart curtain, in the shop window. Take an laptop, and camera and hook them into the motorized curtain, and there’s a small but smart […]

Prediction Time, Missing Sync for Windows System 7 Phone?

Microsoft has been making alot of noise lately about how they will be supplying software to allow Windows System 7 System Phones will support Macintosh Syncing.  Well, I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but Microsoft has promised quite a bit in the past, and rarely delivers everything they promise. Microsoft […]

Steam Updates….

A New Steam update has hit the streets, included in it is full support for the Apple Snow Leopard Graphics update…  So, hopefully a nice burst in video speed… A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select “Check for Steam Client Updates…”. […]

When being Smart isn’t Enough… (Hard drive failure)

We grow up, being taught that right is right, and wrong is wrong. That there is only the correct answer, and the wrong answer, and nothing in between. So, is it a suprise that our testing tools are design to indicate that something is “healthly” or “failing”? Or “Good” or “Bad”? History S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitor, Analysis, […]

Backup? Why I want to forward…

Someone stole John Boldt’s laptop out of the trunk of his car. Nothing really newsworthy about that. But according to a CTV Calgary article, that laptop contained the University of Calgary grad student’s nearly-completed master’s thesis, as well as his research and notes. “It’s so many years of my life just thrown away,” Boldt told CTV. “The computer can be replaced. It’s […]

Death of the Doctor Clips

First, Clyde and folks stumble upon trouble… (Like the olde days, eh?) “When the Doctor is declared dead, old companions Sarah Jane and Jo Grant meet for the very first time, and join forces to discover the truth. As an interstellar conspiracy gathers around UNIT HQ, Clyde finds that he holds the fate of the […]