Remember when I wrote about this?
Well this morning I got an email that I have 10 days to download the Speed Download 5 for free. It seems that Yazsoft and Machiest have buried the hatchet, and not into each other for once.
Congratulations goes to Yazsoft who finally did the right thing. So if you bought [...]

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It’s not a ‘virus’, it’s art. It causes you Macs icons and menu bar to have gravity linked to the MacBook Pro’s motion sensor. Video is below:
In the beginning were harmless computer viruses. Viruses born out of the wit of early computer adopters, viruses whose sole purpose was to surprise and amuse. A non-destructive form [...]

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CR gets OK readership, over 2.5k unique hits a day, serving almost 5000 pages (using wp-cache) which amounts to 200MB bandwidth a day and 33k hits. So what OS and browsers statistics can I pull from these figures? It breaks down like this:
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 259428 78.4 %
Macintosh 55468 16.7 %
Unknown 10909 3.2 %
Linux 4172 1.2 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 466 0.1 %
Symbian OS 71 0 %
BSD 45 0 %
Sun [...]

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A classic via the joyoftech.com

Sadly a lot of these resonate with me. Oh boy …

Tags: geek, humour, picture

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A game about balancing weights, a geek game if ever one existed.
Try it, it’s hit and miss at first but as time goes on you start to get much better and it becomes addictive.
Mass Attack

Tags: art, game, geek

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I’ve seen his work before, in Flight 2 I think it was, and here’s his website. His art is just wonderful, the flash website sucks though. Ah well, worth it for the artwork, just check this out:

Isn’t that picture good? Damn it, wish I could be that good. Oh well :)
Link

Tags: art, blog, robot, sci-fi

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I purchased the last pack of applications from the Macheist people, and I was burned by the Speed Download 4 (SD4) fiasco. TUAW has a good write up on it, but more exists.
the SD5 update was pushed down via the automatic updating system [built in to SD4 and switched on by default-CR], apparently catching [...]

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The UK can still be a pretty place to be, when you are outside of the towns and cities. The Telegraph is running a competition right now for your ‘favourite British Landscape’.
I voted for the Snowdon Picture, I’ve always liked Snowdon and been to it many times, climbing it once.

Link

Tags: art, britian, landscape, photo

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