Just Another Gadget Blog

Internet Explorer has allot of problems which is creating groups of people going anti-ie. Webmasters also hate the browser for its backwards compatabilities. Google has joined this as they are going to stop Application support for the browser.  An email from GOOGLE.

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

What do you thick about this move by GOOGLE? pleese comment.

Everybody loves to spend at Ikea ‘affordable solutions for better living’. Try buying a server rack though, you don’t have a chance. Try going to you local highstreet computer shop, even there it’s quite hard to buy one, of the shelf.

Now, the creative guys at LackRack shows you how you can modify the Lack table into a server rack for only £4.99 and yes only available from Ikea. It can hold a lamp, cup of tea and now a rack server.

If you work in a commercial setting then, naturally, you’ll have commercial server racks. Commercial racks are both overkill in build and price for a home user or a small office with only a few rack devices, this clever hack is a great fit.

The Lack tables are just the right size for a Network switch or rack server to fit in between the legs. All you have to do is screw one on. Over at the wiki of eth0, they have a tutorial for converting your Lack table into a LackRack. Check out the link for more information and additional photos. LackRack – WikiEth0

This is a quite a great compilation. It tells you the basics of marketting, how to and not to… Watch Below.

Planning before helps in saving time. if you pan something it would take less time to actually do the work. Lets say without planning the job could take 30 minutes but if you plan it would take 10 minutes. Great, but why doesn’t everyone do it? People don’t know about it. They think planning would take longer.

From my life experiences, my teacher drags on about planning an essay in an exam, then writing. Teachers say allot of things and this tip works. Read this article by Harvard Business Review.

Tell us if you plan before you do a job in the comments section below

I never saw this day come when the PS3 would have been hacked. Just cant wait for the clever people to make some HomeBrew Applications for it. More power to the people. With its high specs, what endless capabilities are there.

As we have herd “geohot” has successfully hacked the PS3 to have full read and write access, bypassing the Hypervisor.

“Geohot” explains on his blog how he’s located a critical portion of the memory to attack. By allocating it, pointing a whole bunch of code at those addresses, then deallocating it he causes many calls to invalid addresses. At the same time as those invalid calls he “glitches” the memory bus using a button on his FPGA board to hold it low for 40ns. This trips up the hypervisor security and somehow allows read/write access to that section of memory.

A video showing all of this below. (more…)

If you have Microsoft Silverlight, Watch the video below.

If you find your powerpoint presentations as being booring, no wow factor, that can change as Microsoft has released a collection of PowerPoint slide sets that show how you can push the envelope in slide design and get away from boring slides.

There directory deos not just have cool colors, amazing anamations and shemes but also tell you how each of them were created.

If you see a set in the collection that you’d like to not only use but learn how to make, download it and check out the attached notes—they’ll detail the creation process slide by slide like an elaborate tutorial.

Have a favorite tool or trick for spicing up your presentations? Let’s hear about it in the comments

Why Cant The Internet Be a Place For Gadgets?

These are ideas for websites i strolled across a few days ago. I thought i should share them with you.  The are all the modern gadgets that could evolve into huge websites. Why don’t you try making one of these websites.

U-hated

Social networking site which allows you to add your enemies, ex-girlfriends, companies, bands you hate, teams you hate to you profile.. The idea is that we find out who the most hated people are on the net and they get shamed with frontpage status..

Blank Website

I create a completely blank website with no content, no links, nothing on it. I then order reviews and pay for linkbacks to it and see how people react and if they accept/reject the review requests.. thus, i’ll find out who’s a money grabber and who actually cares about their readers, who they link to etc..

Super Teddy

I buy a teddy, then post him to someone in a different country. That person then posts the teddy to another person in another country and so on.. all the time, the teddy is pictured at famous landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Statue of Liberty etc.. and the pictures and blog entries (more…)