Tag archive for ‘internet’
Hey, What About This Mac?
Something that I’ve been working on with a couple friends is a website called About This Mac, found at www.aboutthismac.com. The three of us are Mac nerds who get the odd *cough* Mac related question from friends/family. We thought we might as well put the answers we’re giving out there on the internet [...]
Tagged as aboutthismac, CTRL-ALT-DELETE, email attachments, friends family, internet, knowledge, mac, mac world, macbook, Nerds, switching to mac + Categorized as Technology/Apple, Technology/Blog, Nerds/Blogging, Life/Family, Life/Friends, Nerds
Get Firefox 3 Today
Firefox 3 is now available. If you go download it today from one of the links below, you could be helping to set a Guinness World record. The main website, http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ is down and probably getting hammered pretty hard today.
Mac OS X: link
Linux: link
Windows: link
Tagged as browser, firefox, internet, record, Technology + Categorized as Nerds
Cognitive Surplus
Via Boingboing.net. I’m just going to basically repost it as my brain isn’t quite functioning yet this morning:
Clay Shirky’s posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave on “cognitive surplus” — the idea that automation gave us an enormous amount of free time to think and cogitate, and that sitcoms and other light [...]
Tagged as internet, time, TV, wikipedia + Categorized as Nerds
Speed Test
Internet speed testing in my world.
Updated 10/27/2008:
Now with Shaw Extreme High Speed at Home:
Download - 4550kb/s
Upload - 483 kb/s
From Work:
Download - 6486 kb/s
Upload - 1707 kb/s
From Home:
Download: 1,418kb/s
Upload: 312kb/s
Updated
From Australia:
Download: 216kb/s
Upload: 52kb/s
What’s your internet speed?
Tagged as internet, rate, speed + Categorized as Nerds
SocialThing Invite
I don’t recall posting this here, but I’ve got one SocialThing invite to give out. Leave a comment with an email address and I’ll send it your way.
If you’re not sure what this is (hi mom), just ignore and move on.
Tagged as internet, invite, social + Categorized as Nerds
Gabe & Max
How to get the dreamlife of your dreams using the internet. If you didn’t understand the internet before, this video will help you get your head wrapped around it:
Direct link
Tagged as humor, internet, youtube + Categorized as Life/Funnies, Multimedia/Video, Nerds/Web Gems