Technology

Tuesday, December 12. 2006

BFG Watercooled edition 8800 GTX - I want it, I want it

The Nvidia 8800 GPUs have been getting rave reviews... on top of that BFG has a custom watercooled edition
of this card for a paltry $800.

Buying it at ZipZoomFly (one of the places along with NewEgg where I buy most of my computer stuff).

Boy do I want one of these! It would go so nicely with my Reservator V2 setup.

Here's the Guru 3D review of the base card.
It's a gaming card... check out the gamespot review.

-Bob

in Technology at 22:00

Wednesday, November 15. 2006

Make Money Making Mobile Movies

Check out Melodeo's new mobile offering - MoboFLIX. You can submit mobile videos and make money.

Webware has a good review of the offering, calling it "YouTube with a paycheck". That's a good description,
but misses the mobile element, as MoboFLIX supports both video creation and download from the phone.

"MoboFlix Pays Creators Based on Popularity of Their Video Content"
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=184679

-Bob

in Technology at 16:58

Tuesday, November 7. 2006

Alexa continues to make things worse

Alexa's already questionable traffic rankings now have two more strikes against them.

1) A9 no longer has a toolbar (or gives the Amazon discount (this news is a bit older))
2) The Alexa toolbar isn't supported on Firefox 2!

You can get a third party tool bar (which purports to report usage back to Alexa) here:
ttp://www.quirk.biz/download-searchstatus

How many early adopters of hot new web sites use Firefox, I wonder? A disproportionate number, certainly.

-Bob

in Technology at 08:46

Saturday, October 7. 2006

NTP Time Pool

While doing some rework on the bobsplanet server (due in part to a cracker attack. Ugh.)
I stumbled across the NTP time pool. It's quite a nice service for those of you running
your own servers wanting a reliable pool of time servers to syncronize your server
with.... check it out.

http://www.pool.ntp.org/

-Bob

in Technology at 23:26