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2007-08-26 :: mark // General + Hardware
Racist MP3 player

I don’t have one, but this company does. Holy crap. Thanks to FSJ for showing us this. And for relevance, check out the top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs, and this post with a few more. Great Sunday reading. Update: Seems TrekStore has had a change of heart. Via Gizmodo, the VP of TrekStor writes: [...]

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Core77.com is my new favorite read. Thanks to them, I’m seeing the CagninaDesign Tempo external wireless Trash Can. Deleted files get transferred wirelessly to the can. The can, of course, has physical cues to tell you how full it is. Very cool. I’d just hate to see someone delete a giant 5GB ISO or something [...]

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Just an update: geohot got on NPR, of all places, this evening. Wow. That mainstream enough for you?

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2007-08-24 :: mark // Hardware
iPhone software unlock!

Okay, I don’t know why I keep posting this crap about the iPhone. I promised myself (and others) that I wouldn’t get caught up in the hype. Heck, I don’t even have an iPhone. But here I am, second day in a row, posting about the damn Jesus phone. Oh well. Anyways, some nameless folks [...]

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What happens when you “salvage” hundreds of Itanium processors in a massive supercomputer CPU upgrade? Naturally, you make a desk. And props to the kids who hardware unlocked the iPhone. No Turbosim here, just honest-to-goodness hardware hacking. I especially love the real core of the hack — step 7. Love it. Honestly. How would life [...]

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