XFINITY to launch Internet Data Usage Plans for ComCast. Great. I just saw this on reddit, dated Sept23. This is really scary. I just checked my meter and I use around 100g a month, but what if comcast decides, hey lets do more cost levels, say 50g, 100g, 200g. THEN what? Anyway, here is the text from xfinity themselves. BTW, notice that you can save… Read More
A Super computer DID NOT pass the Turing test, point by point reasons why. I was just as excited as everyone else when I read on a post via Reddit that a computer program called Eugene passed for the very first time! Seems a supercomputer running a program called Eugene Goostman passed the Turing test during an event at the Royal Society in London. It convinced 33 per cent… Read More
If you have not heard already, change your iphone password because of phishing hack The details are still dripping out, but it seems a hacker called ‘Oleg Pliss’ is accessing peoples iPhones by using your Apple iCloud account and invoke the ‘Find My iPhone’ service.’ Oleg will then lock your phone and charge you £55 to unlock it. There is not much you can do about it right now… Read More
Apple security hole patched. We hope This has been a rough few days for Apple. A ‘goto fail’ hole appeared in the OS that lets people defect a security server key which lets them do .. well not sure. From a quick read of the code, seems like if you can get a false handshake to work then depending on the… Read More
My Cat is addicted to Crack It did not happen over night. Back when I first got Brandi, my orange fur ball, I did what most single guys do at the time. Go to the store and buy whatever dry cat food was on sale. She was not thrilled with it, but liked it well enough. And life was good. However,… Read More
EA to offer SimCity offline mode. One of the best comments I’ve seen This is not new news, SimCity5 has had one of the worse release in recent memory. As a big SimCity fan, I was sadden that I just could not justify paying for this. I have been waiting for a good hack that will allow me to play offline, then I figured I would buy it. … Read More
Lytro camera goes on sale in the UK. Does anyone care? and at £400? I remember when the Lytro infinite focus camera came out. I was pretty excited and could not wait to get my hands on one. Then I got my hands on one. Meh. First, a little background. The Lytro camera will let you take a picture then let you change the focus AFTER the shot is… Read More
Microsoft cracks and reverses Xbox One DRM features So Microsoft reversed itself. All along they have been claiming that DRM is the soul of the system, and they reverse it in a few days. What a joke. Here is the thing, the can turn it back on again anytime they want. Also, now they claim they had to remove family and other features. … Read More
In game purchases pushed to the extreme, and should be illegal If you have not seen the video already, I have placed it at the end of this post. The game in question is Super Monster Bros by Adventure Time Pocket Free Games. This is a review from IGN, and its worth watching. What is unbelievable about this is the cost of in app purchases. Half… Read More
Wow. iOS 6.1.3 just came out and login bypass hack This is not that big of a deal, and if you are not using a SIM phone, you do not need to worry about it, but just goes to show that your phone is not completely safe. The new lock screen bug was first documented by YouTube user videosdebarraquito, who posted a video demoing the… Read More
Play SimCity 5 2013 in offline mode? The SimCity Jailbreak is only a matter of time now. Not what Maxis en-visioned. jailbreak simcity 2013 5 coming soon.… Read More
Scroogled adverts are horrible, and Microsoft is starting to see that .. or not Sigh. I just do not get Microsoft sometimes. Most of the time their commercials are ok, and now and again, they are just pointless fluff as their surface commercials. Then their latest efforts, we go to dumb bordering on insulting. {Update: According to TC, they are NOT going to end it. In fact, there is… Read More
How to hack Facebook through OAuth Well, this not good for facebook. Your worried about your privacy? Try to use all the tools to protect yourself that facebook provides? May not matter. Check this out below. In Nir Goldshlager‘ post, he outlines, almost step by step, how you can perform the same ‘hack’. Facebook claims to have fixed this, but Nir… Read More
Buying furniture online can be great, or it can really suck, like it just did Normally when I buy furniture, I do like most people, go the to store, endless number of stores, and hopefully find something that looks good, fits, and in my price range, I buy it. Well this time I decided to expand to looking online and went with Amazon. Mistake. I bought 4 chairs and table… Read More
NYT reporter responds to Elons claims that he faked poor Tesla test drive So, like any story, there seems to be 8 sides to this coin. As I just wrote about a few hours ago, Tesla’s founder and CEO Elon Musk claims that the Article written by John Broder in the New York Times claiming that the Tesla Model S was not matching claimed range and in fact… Read More
How Tesla caught the New York Times faking a test drive and why this is more then just a bad reporter story I’m already in the market to buy an electric or extended hybrid so I tend to pay attention to these story more then most people. Now, I do not exactly consider the New York Times the go to publication for news on electric cars, however, like most people, I normally accept anything I read in… Read More
Grow up Windows haters. You sound like a bunch of trolls I was around during the PC wars of the 90’s, watch people piss on Windows when XP came out, then piss on Vista (although Vista deserved it) and then 7, and now everyone is hating on Windows 8 because of “Metro”. Screw off. While I think the whole apps thing on Apps on Windows 8… Read More
10 things that iOS could pick up from Android Seriously?!! Apple is already planning on making a new iPhone? If the iPhone5 what such a crash and burn (as alot of people think), shouldn’t they be taking a a little time to improve on some of the features that the iPhones are lacking? Android OS has quite a few things that put them ahead… Read More
I gave a windows 8 app a try. And it already failed I have been using Windows 8 on my 5+ year old PC laptop for awhile now and have been happy enough with it. In fact, I always encourage anyone I know to update to Windows 8. Its worth it. The “metro” part of win8 however, has never been of much value to me. Actually, no… Read More
Want more proof Apple Maps sucks? Upgrades to iOS6 has jumped I wrote a few days after the release of iOS6 that I would not be updating because Apple maps suck and told my readers that if you use maps ALOT, like I do, do not update until they fix it… or until Google releases an app. And they did. And now people are upgrading to… Read More