by Kevin Smith I really mean it when I say that Twitter got me my job. About a year and a half ago, I started to realize that my job dissatisfaction was rapidly rising. I was joining the ranks of people who read Dilbert for the empathy more than the humor. Several months of combing job boards, sendi...

Noteworthy Net-Worthies: Best description of the Troubled Assets Relief Program yet — “an unaccountable secretive national hedge fund which buys lousy assets at inflated prices from banks mismanaged for personal profit by multi-millionaires, and makes non-consensual capital calls on unin...

One of the ideas I've been excited about from the moment I saw it suggested is the idea of computers as drones. As cloud computing gets more recognition as the smarter way to work then the idea of computers as drones will really begin to take hold.Drones will essentially be shells of computers with ...

Have you ever tried to explain BitTorrent to someone who has no clue about P2P? It’s challenging, isn’t it? Things that most of us take for granted really make no sense to users that aren’t all that tech-savvy. Don’t believe me? Just go to a site like Yahoo Answers - and be a...

For sale is a HP Color LaserJet 2605 DN printer that I bought for an ailing business two years ago and barely used. When it was in use, it pumped out brochures, pre-addressed envelopes, business cards, etc on a variety of stationary, and did so without trouble or hassle. It can print on a wide varie...

Recently refurbished iBook G4 14" w/ Custom Keyboard Modification (Silver+Graphite, because plain white is boring) - 1.2GHz G4 Processor 1.25GB RAM 80GB Hard Drive (*NEW* w/Western Digital manufacturer warranty!) CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive AirPort Extreme WiFi 802.11g Wireless Card Apple 45W Power Adapte...

Macgames.org has launched an arcade-style tennis game for Mac, Smashing Tennis. The game is designed with a 2D environment and claims to offer realistic physics for simulation of ball flight trajectories, while sound effects are recorded from actual tennis matches. Smashing Tennis features several c...

It’s not all Flash based memory in the world of new storage devices. Traditional HDD’s still have some life in their platters and Seagate and AMD have teamed up to give good old Serial ATA (SATA) HDD’s a speed bump with the first public demonstration of next-generation high-speed data transfer...

Coming-of-age Filter: My world is coming crashing down. Is this a sign? Should I just soldier on? How? Trying to be a rock-em sock-em robot and get back on the horse. Details inside. So, last week was up there among the worst weeks of my life. After having some seriously frustrating days at school (...

Sam Raimi is no stranger to those of us here at FSR headquarters. We’ve been fans since he first unleashed the gore-laced pratfalls of Evil Dead II upon an unsuspecting populace, although we show our love for his work in different ways…. Fure for example has seventeen different worn (but...