Cory posted a great timeline of the events surrounding Sony’s rootkit. This has been incredible to watch unfold. Every single day something new and more embarassing for Sony has been reported. If you don’t know about it, or have had trouble following it, check out the timeline at boingboing.
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PCworld just posted their picks for the top 100 products of 2005. Seems odd since 2005 isn’t over. I’m sure Microsoft isn’t too Mozilla Firefox“>happy about that.. Oh well.
I made a quick list of the things I use/own that made the list. I have a few things that i think should have made it, […]

Well it only took a couple of days, but thanks to the crack released last week, it has enabled a true downgrader to exist.
Its not a hacked 2.0, but I’ll take it. I’ll trade the silly browser for homebrew any day!!

I finally took some time to watch Robert Cringley’s new series, NerdTV, and it was great. His first guest was Andy Hertzfeld, key member of the original Macintosh team. Its a simple show, just the right mix of history and commentary. Andy’s anecdotes are just precious history already, and will forever be folklore. With guests […]

So earlier this summer I finally broke down and got a PSP. The coverage on all the hacking sites was just killing me, I had to get my hands on this killer device. So I went down to Gamestop and traded in a TON of old DVDs and got one.
The first thing I noticed was […]

While checking some of my trackbacks from my Flickr plugin post, I came across this commentary. Its a great commentary on the openness of products and what it means directly to consumers.
But what’s most significant here is the power of an open versus a closed platform.
It can take at least 3-4 years for […]

And by officially, I mean, hackable by the common man, not firmware tracers. But THANK YOU to those firmware hardware gurus! We can now build USB cables and use software to talk to our CVS one time use camcorders.
Pull off your 20 minutes worth of 320×240 XVID encoded video and show the world. I […]

Well Apple finally jumped on the bandwagon. This morning they finally released Mighty Mouse, a mouse with a scroll wheel ball, right click (you can’t see it but its there), and extra buttons. One thing that I’m happy about is that they included programmable side buttons. I am a bit addicted to my forward/back buttons […]