Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Since the beginning, the Xbox 360 has been an extremely unreliable. Some reports indicate that up to 16.4% of them fail, while its competitors the PS3, and Wii are at 3%. Up to 60% of these failures were caused by the red ring of death. Team Xecuter has now come up [...]
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
For months now Comcast has been under scrutiny on how they ran their network and treat their customers. From their P2P throttling, to the invisible bandwidth cut off mark, there have been thousands of dissatisfied customers. Comcast, now under pressure from the FCC is being a little more open about how their [...]
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
OpenDNS was founded in 2006 and ever since then I’ve been addicted to it. Each time I’m diagnosing network issues I manually add the magic numbers for DNS. The four simple numbers are 4.2.2.1; forever embedded in to my memory. So why do I use it you ask it? For [...]
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
In a world where the government can at any time subpoena search engine data it’s growing more important for companies to think of new ways to protect their users. Ask.com, which has a history of innovation has a neat function called AskEraser. Since the most widely used search engine is currently Google, [...]
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
It’s the only PDF file you’ll ever need to open, so why download Adobe’s PDF viewer? That’s the motto the folks at samurajdata had when creating their online PDF reader.
It’s as simple as it gets. Either enter in the web address of the PDF, or upload it to their servers from your [...]