Category: Technology
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Artificial intelligence – more specifically Generative AI – has arrived and is now found across many different classes of electronics. Whether it’s Microsoft Copilot inserted into every application on your PC, Google Photos offering to enhance your family photos with AI, or Siri deflecting to ChatGPT to answer a simple question, AI seems to be…
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When I was younger, I had an early introduction to the internet thanks to AOL. I found out I could use Netscape instead of AOL Desktop to get on the real internet instead of the KOL (Kids AOL) portal. Netscape didn’t stick around much longer after that, so I ended up using Firefox as my…
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Minecraft is aging. First released in mid-2009 to the public, the game quickly gained popularity through 2010 and into 2011. By gaining exposure through a then-young YouTube, Minecraft’s popularity continued to skyrocket thanks to its extensibility through mods, single-player adventure maps, Let’s Plays, and multiplayer servers each featuring a unique experience offered through a unique…
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Microsoft is finally removing Syskey encryption from Windows. This means less people will fall victim to scams from tech support scammers messing up their computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syskey
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I always find JS benchmarks between browsers, demoing how “fast” XYZ company’s browser is, but they only include a single benchmark (such as Octane). One thing I’ve noticed is many sites are beginning to use WebGL elements, and games such as Polycraft are becoming more popular. I decided to pit a few common browsers against…
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Having a more organized MATE menu is now easier
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I broke my Mac (kind of). A popular utility, Monolingual, allows you to remove unneeded languages, architectures, and input methods from your Mac OS X, which saves quite a bit of space (it saved me almost 7 GB!) on your Mac OS X install. The good part about this is that while it does reduce…
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I’ve recently encountered an issue with my Mac OS X Leopard installation that requires me to have the installer disk handy, which I do not have. Given that I do not have a Linux system ready, and I only have Windows 8.1, I will cover how to do this from Windows. This should cover just about…
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Intro Hi everyone, it’s been a while since my last post. I figured I’d talk about a project I’m currently working on, which is my attempt to make a PowerPC-based Power Mac work well in the year 2015. The specific model in question is a PowerMac G4 FW800 (Dual 1.42GHz; PowerMac3,6), and it is my main desktop. This…
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Yes, the new iPhone easily bends. This seems normal, considering it is a very thin piece of aluminum and glass, but is it really worth it to have phones so slim that they can bend in your pocket? P.S. This problem is not only present in the iPhone 6/6+, it has also been seen in…