Cali Fuel Depot Has All Kinds of Stuff for Burninating
This is a pretty cool idea. Mike Lewis, owner of the Pearson Ford Fuel Depot, has started selling all sorts of bio-fuels for considerably less than the dead dinosaur kind. They even have BioWillie, the fuel made from Willie Nelson’s bowl scrapings. With offerings like compressed natural gas and E85, Lewis feels like he’s basically…
How To Get Phone Messages on Your iPod
The trick with this how-to is to transmit VOIP voicemail messages to an email account and then sync those MP3s to your iPod. Why you would ever want to do this… maybe because you get SO MANY VOICEMAIL MESSAGES YOU CAN”T STAND IT, but that’s pretty rare. Anyway, MacMerc has full instructions, so do what…
Asus All-Water-Cooled/All-Dancing Motherboard
Asus showed off its next-gen motherboards at Computex, including a fully-watercooled model as well as an unusual model with built-in LCD for on-the-fly diagnostics. Once the machine boots, the LCD displays the time (???). They’ve also changed around their ports to make room for the display and make things generally easier to unplug on the…
ezVision Video iWear From ezGear
For $400 you can simulate a 50″ widescreen TV in the form of glasses that very much resemble those worn by Geordi LaForge. The ezVision Video iWear is compatible with the iPod with Video as well as any other video source that has video outputs. Its powered by a Lithium ion battery that should last…
UMPCs Suck Hard
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that the UMPC is just a baby tablet and, like the tablet, will soon end up smeared in blood in an ER rather than smeared with peanut butter on your coffee table. The folks at the Inquirer headed out to Computex and tried out a few UMPCs and found that…
More Hacked Xbox 360 Firmware Expected Soon
It was only a few weeks ago that we brought you news of hackers (in the “searching for knowledge” sense) finding their way into the Xbox 360’s Samsung optical drive. Now it seems that that very same hacker is poised to release a similar firmware hack for the Hitachi optical drive for the Xbox 360.…