Archive for January, 2009

Superbowl Sunday with 3D

Share It’s Super Bowl Sunday in 2 days! Who are you rooting for? The Cardinals? The Steelers? If you want a great review, hit up Dave’s post on Sparty and Friends. But we are here today to talk about 3D glasses. That’s right, remember those red and blue glasses that let you see...
January 30th, 2009 | TV | Read More

Ooooooh! Everybody come look at what I did!

Share Are you like me – in love with the Mac OS but completely unwilling to shell out $2500+ on a new MacBook? Well, you might remember back in June when we brought you the exciting news of the “Hackintosh Netbook”, or as it has come to be known in some circles, the MacBook Nano. Well, after one...
January 29th, 2009 | Apple, How To..., PCs, Rumors | Read More

Cox cable living up to their name: Testing new "Time Sensitive" Bandwidth Throttling

Share Hard to believe it’s been over half a year since Comcast announced their Protocol-agnostic throttling method, and nearly half since they set a hard cap at 250GB/Month, eh? There’s at least one TNMS Employee that’s surprised he (and his 2 roommates none the less) hasn’t hit...
January 28th, 2009 | Announcements, The Internet | Read More

Mo' Trojans Mo' Problems

Share You may remember awhile back when I wrote about how nobody’s perfect.  Well the theme continues, as AppleInsider lets us know of two new trojan viruses making their way to Macs around the world. Thankfully, the trojans are being spread via pirated software, so all of our law-abiding readers...
January 27th, 2009 | PCs, Randomness | Read More

Weekend Recap – How good are “Liquidation Deals”?

Share So, you’re thinking about buying that new camcorder, television, Blu-Ray player or computer? And let me guess – you’re planning to go hit your local Circuit City to grab a “deal” on their going out of business sale? Hang on a second there partner. Don’t run to your nearest Circuit City...
January 26th, 2009 | Online Shopping, Weekend Recap | Read More

Light Graffiti Part 2

Share As you saw 2 weeks ago, light graffiti is a very powerful yet stylish form of photography and art. Here, you can use your imagination on spatial light creations. Today, I’ll go through my step by steps on how to get started. What do you need? dtsv.dtse_post_864_permalink...
January 23rd, 2009 | Randomness | Read More

Technology in the news

Share There are a couple of interesting news stories floating around the web the past few days that I wanted to touch on. Both involve well publicized events and the effect technology has had on them. dtsv.dtse_post_894_permalink = 'http://kurteng.com/2009/01/technology-in-the-news/'; dtsv.dtse_post_894_title...
January 22nd, 2009 | Cell Phones, Digital Cameras, TV, The Internet | Read More

Small Motor Advances Health Microtech

Share Yahoo! Health has clued me in to a prototype motor being worked on by a team of people smarter than us that’s the width of a couple of human hairs.  Their goal is to incorporate little microbots which will navigate the human bloodstream using the motor, allowing for ridiculously non-invasive...
January 21st, 2009 | Randomness | Read More

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150 Review

Share I had received a request for more information on my new point and shoot digital camera, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150 which I find to be increasingly awesome the more and more I use it. If you are someone who is a hobby photographer, chances are you’ll have a digital SLR (dSLR) camera as...
January 16th, 2009 | Digital Cameras | Read More